“When I first met Steve, I felt like we had an instant connection, and I knew I wanted to work with him. We both had backgrounds in athletics and with him being around the same age as me, I felt as if we were similar in a lot of ways – we are both creating our dream businesses on our own! With Steve’s help I was able to gain clarity in so many different areas of my life. Most noteworthy, helping me come up with my own personal niche in the coaching industry. I would not have been able to come up and follow through with this without Steve’s help. Steve’s easy-going sessions with powerful questions has helped me come up with a lot of insights in my own personal life and leverage a lot of my own “pain points” that I wouldn’t be able to do without Steve looking over my shoulders. I really enjoy Steve’s work because it is a healthy blend of expert coaching and education.

Steve is very knowledgeable and has greatly skyrocketed my growth with insights of his own in areas that I may have been a little unclear in. I have gotten massive value from working with Steve, most importantly I have really gotten a handle on my clarity and overall focus on what is important in my life. I highly recommend Strive For More® to anyone who is in a place where they feel their path is unclear, Steve will help you find the way. Working with Steve has and continues to be a pleasure, as I vouch for his coaching to anyone who is looking to improve their life.”

“I Found tremendous value in working with Steve. Before we started, I felt that I was stuck in a place where I didn’t understand how to move my business forward. I had what were not really problems, but some significant challenges that I was facing. Through this process I found that having somebody to be accountable to, somebody to talk to who will listen with undivided attention is very rare. Because Steve’s goals were to do nothing but help me. I found a very comforting sounding board where I could bounce ideas off him and not fear judgment ridicule or cause nervousness or uncertainty like if I were to talk to friend’s family members or staff. I was able to gain insight on my inner thoughts perceived by another human being in an unbiased fashion which is priceless. Through my process with Steve I have gained strength more confidence and achieved all the goals that we set forth at the beginning of the program. If you are in a place where you’re good at what you do, but may be having trouble moving forward or taking it to the next level. I highly recommend working with Steve on creating a tangible plan for progress.”

“The coaching sessions with Steve were beneficial from the very beginning. He is a wonderful listener, able to stay on point and pull out areas of focus to discuss in future sessions. During successive sessions those ‘parking lot’ areas were top of the list to get us started.

His manner, style of conversation, and ability to offer real-life supporting documents and information were extremely valuable in confirming what my thoughts and concerns were in management.

The knowledge and experience he exhibited during our sessions covered a broad range of management issues, re-assuring in that regardless of where our conversations went, he was able to confidently provide guidance to me.

I was able to implement, almost immediately, the guidance and advice provided during these sessions and that was one of the most valuable outcomes of our meetings. I would recommend Steve as a coach for anyone just getting into management.”

“I had never worked with a personal coach before Steven, and it was such a good experience. As a new manager, I was struggling with ways to connect with my team. Steven helped me analyze the situation and identify my goals and vision for the group. He gave me ideas that I could implement right away, which boosted my confidence about taking on this new role. Steven’s approach was personalized and focused. Each session was helpful and structured to make the most of our time together. Steven provided helpful exercises and meaningful written material to support me. I found him to be intelligent, thoughtful and positive. I highly recommend him as a coach.”

“Steven proved to me that you can teach an old dog new tricks. When I started working with him, I was barely able to run a half mile. He helped create a personalized plan to assist me in reaching my goal to run 5k, a training program individually suited to my schedule and needs and it worked amazingly! He was incredibly supportive in helping me reach this goal and encouraged me along the way. It was helpful to talk about the plan with him, to check in with him after runs, and to have his encouragement, reinforcement, and push. He is extremely knowledgeable and experienced, and excellent at imparting the information he has, open to discussion and aware of the individual needs that I had. I would definitely recommend him to anyone.”

“Right from the start, Steve and I hit it off. Perhaps it was our commonality in previous federal government service or our hearts for athletics, but it quickly became obvious to me that Steve was the Coach who I wanted to work with.

Our Coaching relationship couldn’t have happened at a better time, as I was transitioning into a very new position wrought with challenging interfaces with other organization leaders whose voices carried a lot of weight. Steve helped me navigate through my desire to stand my ground during immediate challenges to my efforts, while also treading lightly enough to ensure positive relationships could blossom. Steve helped keep me focused during some tough situations.

Fortunately, Steve was my Coach when I received the results from a 360-degree assessment of my leadership. Steve helped me analyze the results and develop a plan to improve upon 1-2 key attributes. He ensured that I took time to celebrate the positive results and didn’t jump straight to process improvements in the areas identified for improvement. A good Coach understands the importance of encouragement.

Finally, I would note that Steve was always flexible in response to my schedule, agreeing to meet in person or by phone, as the situation most warranted. I was completely satisfied with Steve Nathenson as my executive Coach.“