empowering you to navigate your professional life WITH PRESENCE AND PURPOSE

executive coaching & consultng

Smiling woman (Chelsea Thaxter) with brown hair wearing a gray sweater and a gold necklace outdoors.

Hi, I’m Chelsea Thaxter.

As an executive coach, workshop facilitator and professional development consultant, I empower people and teams to navigate their professional lives with presence and purpose.

Earlier in my career, I practiced law and led professional development at a law firm. As a corporate lawyer, I served as outside general counsel to startup and emerging growth technology companies and advised the venture capital firms that invest in them. As a professional development leader, I built firm-wide programming and initiatives focused on attorney onboarding and integration, training, mentoring, staffing, performance management, retention, career development and diversity & inclusion. In these roles, I guided clients and attorneys through critical stages of the development of their businesses and careers.

In addition to my training and certification as a coach with the Co-Active Training Institute, I am an Accredited iEQ9 Enneagram Practitioner. I also draw upon my experience as a lawyer, a leader, an athlete, a parent, a partner, a meditator and most importantly, a life-long learner.  I love learning about habitsmeditation and psychology, the cosmos, the consciousness of animals and the experiences of other humans through reading memoirs. I am an also a hospice volunteer and trained as an end-of-life doula.

services

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    Coaching

    Executive coaching for lawyers, for other professionals, and for teams.

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    enneagram

    For individuals, teams or in a workshop setting.

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    Workshops

    Offering workshops on professional development topics.

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    Consulting

    Available for consulting on professional development initiatives.

  • In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

    Albert Camus

  • I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

    Emily Dickinson

  • There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

    Octavia E. Butler

  • One of our greatest freedoms is how we react to things.

    Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

  • You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Our own life has to be our message.

    Thich Nhat Hanh

  • You have always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.

    Glinda the Good Witch, The Wizard of Oz