Coaching
Offering both Individual and Group options for developing and living your most deeply meaningful and fulfilling life
Holding up a culturally sensitive mirror to help you decide where you stand and how you want to show up in the world
Customized inspirational, strategic, and tactical keynote, workshop, webinar, training, and event speaking with supporting materials.
Hi, I’m Jonathan
— Transformational life coach, Consultant, and Speaker.
I am an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC), hold a Professional Fellowship at the Institute of Coaching, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and I’m trained in Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology Coaching, Somatic Coaching, Clear Beliefs Coaching, and Group Coaching. My doctoral work in Psychological Anthropology gave me a particular lens for understanding how we construct identity, perform our roles, and, most importantly, how we find our way back to something more authentic beneath it all.
My coaching practice, Steps Along The Way, works with accomplished professionals who’ve built successful lives by almost any conventional measure and yet feel a persistent sense that something essential is missing. These aren’t people who haven’t worked hard enough. They’re people who’ve worked extraordinarily hard, often for decades, in the service of goals that made sense at the time. What they need isn’t more achievement. It’s a different relationship with themselves.
The work we do together draws on decades of research in positive psychology, somatic awareness, emotional intelligence, and anthropology. What this means in practice: we don’t just talk about change. We work with the whole person—thought, feeling, and body—because that’s where lasting transformation actually happens.
Following 20+ years as an award-winning cultural anthropology professor and author, I have seen that how we show up is the key to living deeply meaningful and fulfilling lives, and I now work as a transformational life coach to be a catalyst for precisely such transformations.
As a coach, consultant, and speaker, I draw on decades of experience working with diverse audiences and am trained in Emotional Intelligence, Group Coaching, Positive Psychology Coaching, Clear Beliefs Coaching, and Body-oriented Coaching. Overlapping my coaching and academic work in powerful and unexpected ways, I am also passionate about and have worked as a photographer and partnered dance instructor, now primarily focusing on Brazilian zouk.
Bringing all of this together, I am passionate about supporting clients and audiences in transcending external accomplishments as measures of success to live truly aligned, rewarding, and meaningful lives.
