Reveal your potential with Executive, HR & Professional Coaching Services

Achieve your goals and find new ways to foster effective leadership.

My leadership coaching process centers on achieving organizational goals and outcomes by addressing pain points and fostering effective leadership. As your coach, I believe that the answer you’re seeking is within. The coaching process is designed to get it out.

Explore and reflect upon new ideas with a confidential and experienced partner.

Our coaching relationship is a unique partnership, allowing you to think aloud and explore your priorities. Reframing issues can renew focus and momentum, while our conversations help uncover new ideas and approaches.

Find a new perspective with the help of a leadership coach drawing on years of experience and training.

Considering issues from different perspectives can reveal new possibilities and solutions. As a leader, you’re trained for quick thinking and action. Coaching with a leadership professional allows you to slow down, understand core issues, and find better solutions.

Take the time you need to take steps towards a transformation of your leadership and your approach to motivating your team.

During our time together, you have the space, freedom, and confidentiality to express whatever comes to mind and those thoughts stay between us. Coaching turns ideas into action, guiding you forward and benefiting both you and your organization through better performance and creative strategies.

Coaching Services

  • Leading is about seeing and nurturing potential in others so your business can thrive. Leaders succeed when they select, grow, and motivate their team by strengthening relationships. Effective leadership now requires values-based outcomes to engage and retain employees. Rapid, ongoing change demands different leadership approaches. Developing your coaching skills can bring out the best in your team, fostering energy, innovation, and dedication. By cultivating developmental conversations through active listening and bringing curiosity to ask the right questions, you nurture a learning culture. Schedule a consultation today to get started.

  • As an HR professional, you need someone who understands the nature of the work that you do, including the challenges and frustrations that you face. Someone who understands both what you do for your organization and who you are as a professional. Someone who can guide you to explore new ideas and approaches, and effectively manage transitions.

    As an HR leader with significant experience working with small businesses, not-for-profits, educational institutions and other social enterprises, I understand the complexities that HR professionals navigate to support their organizations. Coaching provides you with an individual focus on your current and future priorities and your professional growth and development. Whether you have specific career development goals or would benefit from talking through an issue that you’re dealing with, I can support you.

  • Professional growth has many meanings: pursuing career goals, preparing for transitions, exploring new opportunities, or seeking fulfilling work. Coaching boosts your career development by providing you with personalized guidance, helping you to identify and achieve goals with enhanced perspectives and skills. Together, we'll explore new methods to tackle current challenges and seize new opportunities.

    Coaching also promotes a growth mindset, encouraging you to learn from mistakes and embrace new challenges. This builds confidence, resilience, and adaptability - so essential in today's fast-paced work environment. By developing these qualities, you'll navigate your career more effectively, unlocking your potential and accelerating advancement.

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Client Experiences

  • Nicole helps me to focus not just on what I want to accomplish, but also why it’s important to me. Through our coaching discussions, she gives me the opportunity to vocalize what I feel but don’t always say.

    — B. L. (Coaching Client) —

  • During multiple hours of one-to-one coaching with her, she provided practical guidance that honored my Co-Executive Director and me, as well as our organization’s mission and values.

    Nicole was so knowledgeable about a variety of HR best practices. She not only pointed us to additional resources to keep us up to date in Human Resources standards and best practices, she has personally continued to be a source of feedback and information. Her passion for supporting nonprofits and executives as well as her lightness, positivity, and down to earth sense of humor made the entire coaching experience exceptional!

    — Read to Succeed —

  • Saying the thoughts that I have in my head and heart enables me to name the specific issues; it helps to get it out. It’s eye opening how much comes out through the thought partnership, peeling back the layers helps me to see that what I start with is often not what I end with.

    — W. F. (Coaching Client) —

  • Nicole was an absolute pleasure to work with!

    She is incredibly knowledgeable and has the ability to break down difficult subject matter and transmit it in an understandable way. Nicole has many resources that she shares freely and she supports you as you navigate the sometimes challenging world of Human Resources.

    — Asheville City Schools Foundation —

  • I had the pleasure of working with Nicole Norian on developing a staff handbook for our nonprofit organization, and it was an outstanding experience. Her expertise and dedication were evident throughout the entire months-long process.

    She not only crafted a comprehensive and clear handbook but also tailored it perfectly to our organization's needs. Her professionalism and efficiency made the entire collaboration smooth and enjoyable. I highly recommend Chrysalis HR Consulting for any HR-related projects; Nicole is truly exceptional!

    — WNC Communities —

THE CHRYSALIS HR PHILOSOPHY

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

— JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE —