VBLE Coaching & Consulting
Build the inner foundation that supports your next level of influence.
Leadership & Identity Coaching for the unseen work that shapes visible leadership.
What is Coaching?
The ICF defines coaching as a transformative journey where you discover your true potential. But what does that look like in practice?Coaching is a guided conversation designed to help you see yourself, your goals, and the world around you more clearly. The aim is forward movement, supporting you in becoming the person required for the life and leadership you are stepping into.It’s not about fixing something broken. It’s about understanding yourself deeply enough to lead your life with intention and purpose.Through coaching, you examine the stories and patterns that have shaped how you think, decide, and communicate. This work helps you build steadiness under pressure and make decisions aligned with who you are and where you are going.
Leadership & Identity Coaching
Change often arrives at moments when responsibility increases and familiar ways of leading no longer hold. This work begins when leaders sense that the issue is not skill or effort, but how they are orienting themselves to authority, power, and decision-making.Leadership and identity coaching focuses on strengthening internal authority and sound judgment under pressure. Rather than offering scripts or strategies to apply, the work helps you examine how you make decisions, where you hesitate or over-function, and how your values and boundaries are shaping your leadership in practice.Over time, the focus expands from identity to influence. You learn how communication functions as power, how clarity reduces resistance, and how presence replaces over-explaining.As the work deepens, attention shifts to perception and judgment. You develop greater situational awareness, learn to distinguish signal from noise, and take responsibility for interpretation rather than hiding behind data or consensus. The outcome is not a new leadership persona, but one you trust yourself to stand in as conditions continue to change.
What Clients Experience
Every session with Val feels like a breath of fresh air—a sense of renewal and deep peace. She brings a rare combination of wisdom, kindness, and sharp insight that makes me feel both supported and challenged in the best way. Her presence is grounding, her questions are thought-provoking, and her guidance always leaves me with greater clarity and confidence.Holly F.Some gifts can't be taught—either you have them or you don't. When it comes to coaching, Val possesses that rare combination of intuition, depth, and discernment that is absolutely uncanny. She sees beyond the surface and holds up a mirror that invites deep, honest reflection.Val creates an immediate sense of safety through her kind, warm, and genuinely compassionate presence. Her coaching facilitates real breakthroughs while providing just the right amount of challenge to keep me from staying stuck in my own mental patterns.Working with Val has been transformational. I recommend her services without reservation.Dr. Jacquelyn J.
Foundations
A 12-week private coaching journey into greater clarity, presence, and authority in how you show up.
Foundations is a private coaching container designed to support the inner transitions that shape visible leadership presence.Over 8 sessions, we work together to:
Clarify identity and direction during pivotal seasons
Refine voice and communication so you speak with coherence and confidence
Strengthen emotional steadiness for better listening and decision-making
Practice presence under pressure and in real leadership moments
Sessions move between reflection and refinement, balancing inner clarity with real-world application so insight becomes embodiment.
Program Structure
8 private 75 minute sessions
12-week journey
Weeks 1-4: Weekly sessions
Weeks 5-12 Bi-weekly integration sessions
Guided reflection prompts and embodiment exercises between sessions
Foundations is For You If
You are navigating a meaningful career or leadership transition
You feel capable but internally unsettled or undefined
You want to communicate with greater authority and authenticity
You are ready to move from reflection into embodied clarity