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Move from where you are to where you want to be.

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Carolyn Taketa, J.D., ACC

Ready for Change?

  • Do you want to lead with greater calm, clarity, courage, and confidence?
    Grow your emotional intelligence—deepening self-awareness, managing emotions wisely, communicating with impact, and building the trust that strengthens every relationship.

  • Ready to move from stress to strength? From burnout to resilience?
    Create a work-life rhythm that’s sustainable and aligned with your deepest values.

  • Imagine leading joyfully with freedom from self-doubt and self-limiting narratives.
    Identify and engage your unique strengths to lead with authenticity and wholeness.

I create a safe and encouraging space for high-capacity, growth-minded leaders to work through their professional and personal life challenges. With over 30 years of diverse leadership experience as an ICF credentialed transformational coach, former pastor, and attorney, I would be honored to help you figure out your next steps with greater clarity, freedom, and joy.

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  • Carolyn brings a wealth of knowledge and leadership experience to her coaching role. She is easy to connect with and is incredibly gifted at drawing out the leader within. She asks questions that inspire strategic thinking and shared timely insights, challenges, tools and encouragements that grew me in my leadership.

    Rachel N.

  • Carolyn's coaching helped me untangle my thoughts and make connections between my ideas and emotions. She enabled me to gain insights about who I am and how my strengths can benefit the people I lead. She asks thought-provoking questions, opens up fresh perspectives about tough situations, and empowers me to formulate actionable plans to execute immediately.

    David H.

  • Carolyn listened closely as I articulated difficult experiences and guided me to become aware of patterns in my life that are helping or hindering me. She is an amazing coach who has helped me become more honest with myself and discern what I really want. This, in turn, has empowered me to pursue my goals and lead others in a healthy way.

    Joshua G.

  • Working with Carolyn was such a meaningful and empowering experience. She’s incredibly attentive and really took the time to understand my goals and what I needed at each stage. Her style is a great mix of being goal-oriented, flexible, and gently challenging in a way that helped me grow without ever feeling overwhelmed.

    Kenneth W.

  • Carolyn is an effective leadership coach with a broad base of knowledge, experience and common sense. Her guided-discovery coaching style allows leaders to apply insights they gain not only to a particular situation, but to the wide range of leadership activities. She's particularly helpful for hard-charging people like me who think they know it all.

    Doug L.

SERVICES

SERVICES

Customized 1-on-1 Coaching

The best thing you bring into your leadership is YOU!

Choose to become a more effective leader by increasing self-awareness, amplifying your strengths, identifying blind spots, overcoming self-sabotaging patterns, managing fears, and growing in joy as you become the person and leader you want to be.

Choose a 4-6 month flexible engagement with 1:1 coaching sessions, availability via texts & check-ins, and targeted resources.

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Workshops & Cohorts

Level up the leadership in your organization through in-house workshops or online cohorts. Dynamic workshops on single topics or multi-session cohorts are available for these sample topics:

  • Increasing Emotional Intelligence Skills for Leaders (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness & relational management)

  • Women Leaders: identifying your personal leadership journey, utilizing strengths, breaking through stereotypes, developing authentic leadership presence, and cultivating a sustainable, joyful work-life rhythm.

  • Communicating effectively up, down, and across the organization and leading with authenticity and confidence, aligned with your core values.

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Leadership Coaching for Organizations

Your organization can only be as strong as the people who lead and serve within it.
I help teams and leaders grow a healthy, emotionally intelligent culture, where people are engaged, trusted, and thriving.

What I offer:

  • Leadership & Personal Development Coaching: Targeted coaching for managers and executive leaders to strengthen self-awareness, effective communication, interpersonal conflict management, and performance metrics aligned with your organization’s goals.

  • 360 Leadership Insights: In-depth interviews and feedback that provide insight up, down, and across your organization, leading to clear action plans and measurable growth.

  • Transition Coaching – Support for leaders navigating personal or professional transitions with clarity and courage.

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