Stonewave Leadership offers professional coaching, leadership development programs, consulting, and facilitation services customized specifically to your personal and organizational needs.
Each of us already has most of what we need to grow, develop, and flourish. So why aren’t we flourishing all the time? Often, we are not attuned to our conditioned tendencies and get into a habit of simply making it through the day while juggling the demands of work, family, and life. In the meantime, we long for something more and wonder “is this all there is?” Working with a professional coach creates a trusted and objective space to rediscover and reclaim the capacity to grow and be present; to more meaningfully connect to ourselves, others, and the natural flow of living with intention.
Leader pipelines depend on the intentional development of emerging and mid-level leaders and their ability to embody and sustain a generative leadership practice. As an
ICF-accredited coach, also with a certification in
Presence-Based® Coaching, Lori draws on different streams and ways of knowing including adult development, embodiment, neuroscience, mindfulness, and presence. Assessments and 360 interviews can further inform each individual leader’s coaching development plan. Team and group coaching are also available.
Offering a diverse range of expertise, our consulting approach is inquiry-based, inclusive, and generative, always keeping the long-term vision of the organization at eye-level. Areas of expertise include:
We bring a wide, yet focused and objective perspective. We emphasize participative dialogue, ongoing conversations, and transparency, actively listening for what is being said and what is not being said. As is true for many organizations and leaders, it proves challenging to see our blind spots and the boundaries of our perspective while immersed in an organization. Having
consultants
as allies and partners can be especially
life-giving to change efforts and to building community.
Free up your creative and active energy by engaging with a facilitator for your next
retreat, leadership meeting, or strategic planning effort. In addition to cooperative planning, agenda and tone setting, and facilitation, we provide follow-up executive summaries and reports with
clear recommendations, next actions, and ways of measuring efforts. We’ll also be clear about what is needed in the organization’s environment for successful implementation and sustainability.
Encouraging, engaging and energetic – this describes Lori perfectly! I couldn’t ask for a better coach to support and empower me on my path.
– Annie
Associate Manager, Non-Profit Organization
Dr. Pyle was the unanimous choice of our faculty and staff when we embarked on a planning process in 2020. Lori encouraged and made space for each member of the process to feel heard, understood, and valued. By keeping us motivated, organized and on task, she helped us reach consensus on our goals in a positive atmosphere as well as generate some ideas for implementation in the future. I consistently recommend her to clients seeking a leadership and planning consultant.
- Margaret Sloan, Ph.D.
Director, School of Strategic Leadership Studies, James Madison University
Over the years I’d artificially removed my professional self from my personal self. Lori encouraged me to pay special attention to how the concepts and skills we were working on together made me feel, bringing my whole self into the process. While I normally would have shied away from this type of professional development, Lori made this an amazing process with just the right amount of “stretchy” discomfort balanced by joyful recognition of progress. I highly recommend coaching with Lori! She is amazingly insightful and easy to connect with…if ever anyone was made to be a coach it is Lori!
- Cindy
Higher Education Profesional
Request an initial 30-minute conversation so we can learn more about each other.