Using my Experience, I’ll Support you and your Business Partner to have a more Effective, Successful, and Synergistic Partnership.
About Me
Hi! I’m Sunny, a business partnership coach.
I work as a couples counselor, organization development consultant, and an executive coach for partnership teams.
I help growth-oriented co-founders and business partners navigate transitions, overcome challenges, and reach higher levels of individual, interpersonal, and organizational performance through business partner relationship coaching.
Solving Problems, Improving Communication
After more than 30 years of work in the fields of individual counseling and coaching, couples’ counseling and organizational development, I’ve developed a signature framework and methodology to boost the performance, synergy, innovation, and results of mission-based partnership teams.
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If you and your business partner are growth focused and purpose driven, I would love nothing more than to help you:
- Communicate effectively
- Identify and address blocks and patterns that are
limiting your growth and potential - Address and redesign any roles, policies, and
processes that are interfering with optimal
performance - Catalyze creative problem-solving and collaboration
to build business partnership alignment - Incorporate practices that cultivate high
performance, harmony, and innovation
How I Help Cofounders and Business Partners
My training allows me to offer models, tools, and processes that powerfully address structural and organizational challenges, as well as relationship dynamics and individual capacity issues as a business partner consultant.
I tailor my approach to my clients, starting with a thorough assessment. Once we have the full picture, we’ll create a roadmap to establish your individual and leadership development with partnership work and by setting business goals.
How I Help
- Provide evaluation, assessment, and diagnosis
- Clarify roles, organization structure, and decision-making processes
- Strengthen communication skills to reduce partnership issues and challenges
- Support streamlining, prioritizing, and systems improvement
- Build alignment and agreements regarding strategy, operations, implementation
- Support leadership development and healthy organizational culture
- Boost personal, interpersonal, and organizational performance
- Enhance interpersonal dynamics, collaboration, and synergy
My Training and Experience
Professional Experience:
30 years facilitating individuals, partnerships, and organizations, including
- 20 years of working with business partners and co-founders
- 5 years as a Collaboration Specialist an organization development consulting firm that specializes in group decision-making
- 5 years facilitating Interpersonal Dynamics, the most popular elective at the Stanford’s Graduate School of Business
- 15 years as couple and individual therapist
My unique combination of training allows me to bring models, tools, and processes that powerfully address both the organizational issues as well as the relationship dynamics.
What I Believe
- Collaborate or bust. Solving the most difficult problems and transforming the most significant systems require the wisdom, perspectives, innovation, kills and resources of way more than us alone.
- Intentional design. Embrace authenticity by living true to our own integrity and inner compass.
- Mistakes and errors can and should be harvested for the deep wisdom they offer growth-oriented leaders. They sharpen perceptions, clarify values, and reveal helpful directions.
- Leverage strength, values, and vision. Let’s start by amplifying the unique gifts of each individual. By using these gifts as a resource, we can more positively impact the world through our work.
- Proactively address issues to save time, money, and distress.
- Being attuned to the holistic and systems view can save massive time and energy.
Fun Facts
For those who like to know about the person behind the role:
- I’m an INT/FP on Myers Briggs (balance of thinking and feeling). My top Gallup strengths are Strategic, Connectedness, Achievement, Intellection, and Relator.
- I have enjoyed dancing West Coast Swing for over a decade, following and eventually leading as well.
- I support organizations that enable changemakers and budding entrepreneurs around the world as we navigate the polycrisis of our interconnected world. I donate a portion of my profits to the following nonprofits: Opportunity International https://opportunity.org and Women's World Banking https://www.womensworldbanking.org and Global Good Fund https://globalgoodfund.org
- Personal and professional growth devotee. I believe we’re here to grow and contribute to our fullest. So I’m almost always in a program or training for my development.
I am called to Kauai - Hanalei. I am so taken by the generative and healing energy of the island, being immersed in the abundance and beauty of such a unique place. I now offer retreats and am happy to arrange individual intensives on Kauai.
Want to Explore the Possibilities?
Whether you’re struggling to identify or address the barriers blocking your potential, wanting to navigate a big transition ahead, or feeling out of alignment with yourself, your business partner, or the business itself, together we’ll work on business partnership alignment and help you get to that next level.