“Scott's guidance and coaching is phenomenal. He has patiently helped me articulate strengths, weaknesses, and objectives that I've been considering for years, but could never quite apply to professional goals. With Scott's help, I have a plan for the next stage of my professional future, and more importantly, a greater understanding of how I define ‘success’ and what that means to wherever my path leads.”

— Paul Trotter, Managing Partner

“Seminal Coaching achieved for me what no previous coaching had—I was able to get outside myself and better understand others’ experience of me as a leader and a collaborator. Through Scott’s questions and insights, I was able to re-frame how I have thought about situations, the stories I have told myself about those situations, and what I hear (and don’t hear) in what others say. We identified habits of thought that get in the way of my effectiveness and developed strategies to neutralize them. Seminal Coaching has been invaluable in unblocking my career progression and restoring my personal motivation in these difficult times of change.”

— David Burke, Director

“I highly recommend Seminal Coaching to anyone at any stage of their career for career guidance and development. Scott is a natural teacher and career coach, and his approach is very personal and tailored to your specific needs. Scott’s personalized and focused guidance, and incredibly valuable advice, were exactly what I needed to address my concerns and get myself on track for the next stage in my career. And his common sense and practical approach helped me to leverage and build on my experience without additional expensive schooling. I plan to continue to reach out to Scott whenever I have a big decision or career move for his invaluable guidance and advice.”

— Shana C. Smith, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

“I appreciated a few gifts that Scott brings to the table: consistent movement forward through small, actionable steps, tying in patterns and comments across sessions seamlessly, and an ability to help me ‘unlock’ my thinking. I am seeing more clearly in what has been the foggiest year of my life.”

— Natalie Foley, CEO

“Scott helped me see my professional blind spots—especially an inability to effectively delegate—as an obstacle which prevented me from providing the best service possible to my clients. I came to realize that working longer and harder was not necessarily as effective as working smarter. We addressed the issues together ultimately leading to a decision to reconstitute and reassign some of my practice team members to better contribute to our work product and meet our clients’ deliverables. I feel professionally and personally refreshed and rejuvenated.”

— Managing Director, Search Firm

“I came to Scott and Seminal Coaching with a pre-defined challenge that I thought needed addressing. With Scott’s keen insights and gentle prompting, he helped me realize that I had misidentified the actual internal and external factors influencing my feelings of frustration and dissatisfaction in my role. By unlocking that realization, we were able to set more realistic goals and develop strategies for addressing them appropriately, which has paid dividends in the confidence I feel in my own leadership and yielded stronger relationships with stakeholders in my work that have in turn made me a happier, more effective leader. I’m immensely grateful to Scott for holding up a mirror for me to accurately assess what I needed to progress as a professional and be a more positive advocate for my team in a season of significant change.”

— Jeffrey Mervosh, Senior Director

“Scott was instrumental in helping me frame and begin to think through a critical transition in jobs/career path as an executive. He is a gifted listener with a trusting style, and aptly synthesized many different elements of what I was expressing. In our coaching engagement, he provided useful methods for me to explore and utilize toward the broad objectives we had outlined.”

— Pragnesh Shah, C-Level Executive