Caroline
Van Sickle
Culture & People Strategist | Business Consultant ​
Business is all about relationships.
Unless we are putting people & relationships before all else, the
business will suffer.
As an executive coach and business consultant, I am dedicated to developing the people & teams running organizations that significantly impact their community & the world.​​
Prioritize the People.
​Beneath the balance sheets, bottom lines, and all the tools and data dashboards, business is, at its core, deeply human and personal. When we embrace the human connections that drive business, we often discover more meaningful and collaborative ways to achieve our goals, creating outcomes that benefit everyone involved.
PURPOSE + PEOPLE = POTENTIAL
PURPOSE
Clarify your "why?"
(Brand strategy & culture)
PEOPLE
Attract & develop
your people
(Clients and employees)
POTENTIAL
Align purpose with people (Collaborate better, achieve greater potential)
If a company operates from a greater purpose, it will develop greatness in its people.
Brand Strategy
Your company is an extension of your values, mission, and vision. I help you hone your brand strategy (who you are), so you can attract your people (clients and employees), so you can achieve your goals.
"I wouldn't be nearly as effective in serving my clients without personal experience both in the corporate world and as an entrepreneur."
If we
knew better,
we'd do better.
My business coach used to say, "If we knew better, we'd do better." Most of us don't intentionally make mistakes, wreak havoc, or squelch the light and creativity in our employees and colleagues. Instead, we fail to look up from what we repeatedly do to ask the right questions, "What's not working here?", "What is working?", "What can I do better?" and "What am I contributing to both the problem and the solution?"
In our work, first and foremost, we learn that humility and self-compassion go hand in hand. With a sense of humor, we normalize the human experience and cultivate self-mastery individually while contributing to higher-functioning organizations collectively.
HOW I WORK WITH COMPANIES
I serve entrepreneurs, small- medium sized companies, non-profits and academic institutions on ways to align your team with your core values, mission, vision, and purpose. This alignment is critical to professional and personal integrity and therefore foundational to a healthy organizational infrastructure and culture.
Alignment of mission, vision, core values and purpose with hiring, business ops, and functional business decisions.
Continuous learning & development at every step & at every level; integration of an on-going stack & build learning infrastructure.
Creating and maintaining a strong culture in a hybrid work environment; offering flexibility with a solid cultural core.
Consistent leadership assessment, inventory, and professional development; customized assessments of the team, company, & individuals
"YESTERDAY I WAS CLEVER, SO I WANTED TO CHANGE THE WORLD. TODAY I AM WISE, SO I AM CHANGING MYSELF."
-RUMI
Compassionate Service
The greatest gift I can offer is compassion. Compassion goes beyond empathy. While empathy is about feeling with someone, sharing in their emotions, compassion involves not only understanding another's suffering but also wanting to actively support their well-being and uplift them. When we approach challenges with self-agency—the ability to take ownership of our thoughts, emotions, actions, and the outcomes we create—we elevate the entire playing field. Self-agency empowers us to take responsibility for our internal strength and positively influence others. On the other hand, when we relinquish our power by blaming others or using force to reclaim what we’ve given away, we undermine the potential of our organizations. Power drives meaningful change, whereas force generates resistance and keeps us stuck. In order to successfully navigate turbulent times and life's ongoing uncertainties, we must learn to distinguish between what is within our control and what is not. This discernment is essential and, like any skill, can be learned and refined over time.
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I HELP INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS DEEPEN THEIR AWARENESS & OVERCOME SUBCONSCIOUS DRIVERS THAT INHIBIT THEIR POTENTIAL.
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One of my priorities is to help businesses, teams, and individuals understand themselves and their brains through neuroscience, cultural conditioning awareness, motives and core values, and personal inventory. I help my clients interpret how the brain works, how it is programmed, and how the brain and body work together to optimize executive and creative function. I am trained in brainspotting as a modality to remove invisible obstacles and unleash creative and relational potential.
SERVICES
THE BIG PICTURE
We have every opportunity to create the world we want to see. It all starts by changing within, and everything "out there" changes. To change our outer world, we must first change our inner world.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
COACHING CREDENTIALS & CERTIFICATIONS
