Educated and fully certified as an Executive and Organizational Coach by Columbia University, Jessica Halgren uses the Columbia methodology and coaching technique as the basis for all HalgrenCoaching work. This coaching context and the collaboration with a coach who is sincerely interested in client potential, development and performance are key elements to coaching engagement success.

Executive Coaching Meetings
The agendas of the one-on-one meetings come from the clients themselves. Clients talk freely about what matters to them and what works for them in achieving their goals. The coaching process emerges from within, and the coach's role is to listen, clarify, challenge and collaborate. The beauty of an artful coaching conversation can be felt by the client.

Columbia Executive Coaching Methodology
The Columbia approach is characterized by a comprehensive, transformative, evidence-based coaching foundation rooted in science, as well as in the art of coaching itself driven by the appreciative coaching technique.

Positive Psychology
Focused on finding and nurturing strengths and talent, on engaging employees in fulfilling life and work, on learning, growing and delivering higher levels of performance - this field forms the theoretical basis for HalgrenCoaching work. Known as the "Science of Optimal Functioning", Positive Psychology's groundbreaking empirical research comes from the top research institutions in the world such as Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. Positive Psychology has fundamentally changed the way science looks at human development and performance.

Tools & Assessments
In the first phase of the coaching engagement, HalgrenCoaching clients are given the opportunity to make use of scientifically validated, thought-provoking tools and assessments (such as the MBTI or VIA Strengths). In individual feedback sessions with Jessica, clients have the opportunity to explore their talents, preferences and perspectives in an objective way. Clients use their insights as invaluable input to the Executive Coaching meetings themselves