Testimonials
Nancy has always been able to inspire the best in others. She knows how to ask the right questions and get to the heart of any issue. I trust her guidance and perspective and I have depended on her as a friend and colleague for over 20 years. As a producer she and I have created material of which I am extremely proud because Nancy is a talented, creative and dedicated journalist.
Ideally suited to her new career, Nancy is an excellent coach and I treasure her for her loyalty, intuition and inimitable wisdom.
Katie Couric
Katie Couric Media
There are things I do each week because they are so much fun. And there are things I do because they are so productive, so helpful to me in attaining my goals. But talking to Nancy is virtually the only thing on both lists!
Randy Cohen
Professor, Harvard Business School
For 10 years, Nancy and I have been raising a blended family together with our husbands and five children. I cannot think of anyone with whom I’d rather share this partnership. Nancy has become a de facto “step sister” for me, and I lean on her for all facets of working through interpersonal dynamics. She is a natural coach and just the person you can trust and depend upon for her raw intelligence, candor and caring nature.
Clara Bingham
Journalist
I have known Nancy for 30 years. When my wife wrote the book, “Re-Feathering the Empty Nest: Life After the Children Leave”, Nancy gave her a special brand of guidance, and using her remarkable networking skills, supported my wife, resulting in her appearing on national television. When my son sought career advice, Nancy stepped up with inspiring suggestions and connections leading him to top of the line people. As CEO of my own company, and having run several successful businesses before, I would absolutely recommend Nancy as a coach to any executive or friend. I have a keen sense that she will bring to Steiner Coaching Solutions the level of excellence she produces in all facets of her life.
Jeffry Aronsson
Aronsson Group LLC
My late husband, journalist Peter W. Kaplan, loved Nancy and described her as a “life giver.” She is that, and more. For years she’s been my friend and, I realize now, informal life coach. She’s brilliant and insightful, both tough and compassionate, on the subject of parenting. She’s the person I call when I’m feeling uncertain of my path as a mother, and in the last 6 years, as an existentially single mother. And in the last 15 months, as I’ve totally changed careers, she’s been the person I call to help me talk through the process. She’s a gifted life coach.
Lisa Chase
Writer / Restaurateur
Nancy and I were in the same professional coach training program during which, at one point, she was my peer coach. She is a sincere, inquisitive, and discerning coach who genuinely wants to help others. I’d also add that the coach training she has completed is one of the most rigorous and comprehensive in the industry. If you’re looking for a coach to help you take things to the next level, I’d suggest Nancy’s services.
Anuj Sharma
Executive Coach
I’ve known Nancy for 25 years, as a fellow parent and close friend. She and I have raised our children together in the same community, where we both went through becoming divorced, re-marrying, and creating our respective blended families. Throughout this difficult – but ultimately rewarding – time, Nancy was a coach for me, and helped me to realize my own strengths along my path. I always look forward to our time together, because I can rely on her example as a parent, step parent, sister and friend. She is exactly the sort of person for whom coaching is a perfect and natural fit.
Page Vincent Gosnell
Educator
After some serious upheaval, Nancy Steiner’s incisive mind, warmth of personality, and skilled coaching helped me start a whole new chapter. She is gifted. You’ll be glad you did.
Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy & Company
I have been working with Nancy for a year now, and she has dramatically helped me from a personal and professional perspective. From a personal perspective, she has provided me with concrete tools and exercises to keep me on track mentally. From a professional perspective, she has armed me with negotiation and writing tactics that have helped me scale my business. I cannot recommend Nancy enough, and would be happy to speak with anyone directly to provide more information about my experience.
Jamie Mittelman
Working with Nancy Steiner is fantastic. Nancy is supportive and on point at all times. She can balance what is important and push my career forward with pinpointed questions. Nancy is always looking out for and strengthening my weak points. She has worked on my organization and direction, moving me out of the mud at crucial points in my career. Her producing experiences and knowledge are helpful. She always brings an upbeat positive attitude to our meetings. Nancy is an excellent coach, and I recommend her to any of my colleagues.
Joshua Teicher
Giant Post Productions
What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a powerful process that helps people tap into being the best they can be. It’s about the “aha!” moment, and is predicated on the belief of “Don’t believe anything that limits you.” As your coach I will help you see new perspectives as you integrate your inner purpose and passion with your outer goals and tasks to create extraordinary results. You will learn how to let go of habits and attitudes that can hold you back and instead, find solutions by discovering, anchoring and maximizing your strengths. At every step, I will support you as you embark on a powerful path to conquer your unrealized potential and personal success. By the time you finish your coaching experience, you will be far better positioned to face your future with optimism and strength.
QUESTIONS ALONG THE WAY
Coaching contends that you can turn your life around at any point. Each moment describes who you are and gives you the opportunity to decide if that’s who you want to be. Poet William Ernest Henley got it right when he wrote, “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul”. Henley knew that you are your own best guide to move yourself forward. Coaching is all about getting you there – to a place where you discover you can create the changes, have the insights and light the fire to let you live the life you choose. Through a series of questions I will ask you, you will think and feel your way to who you want to be.
YOUR TOPICS
The best way for our coaching sessions to be successful is for you to have a topic at hand, each time we speak. I will then coach you through your topic. At the onset of our coaching relationship, I will guide you to create a vision for your work – a foundation built upon goals that enable you to explore what is most important to you. I will aim to keep you centered on and accountable to yourself, and let you know if you wander off course so that you can hold your focus. Coaching creates a context for decision making where you will consider what is most important to you.
FORWARD SHIFTS
Coaching is all about getting you to where you want to be. It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not. We will explore who you are today – your values, your interests, any facet of your life you want to consider. We will dig around a bit to discover why and how you want to move forward, and shift your life into new directions of confidence, competence and creativity. Coaching is fun, it’s exciting, and it aims to arm you with greater self-awareness and an enlightened future.
YOUR SAFETY ZONE
Every coaching-client relationship is different, corresponding to the different goals of my clients. That said, all of my clients will find a safe and confidential space to talk about any of your coaching topics. As we begin, we will design an alliance that will establish ground rules to help us work most effectively. Over time, we will adjust and re-jigger how things are going based precisely on your needs, and what you think is best for you.
Why Coaching?
Professionals and non-professionals of every sort work with coaches to create sustainable, meaningful success. I will support your quest – no matter how large or small – and lead you to find unforeseen clarity and the courage to move forward.
THE NUMBERS
According to a Manchester Consulting Group study of 100 executives, “coaching resulted in a return on investment of almost six times the coaching cost as well as a 77% improvement in relationships, 67% improvement in teamwork, 61% improvement in job satisfaction and 48% improvement in quality.” It used to be common thinking that coaching was for those who couldn’t make it. But it no longer is that way. The editor of the Harvard Business School’s Management Update writes, “whereas coaching was once viewed as a tool to help underperformance, today it is becoming much more widely used in supporting top producers.”
LIFTING THE FOG
When you feel like you are in an emotional quagmire, a mental fog, and/or your thinking is simply blocked, it’s hard to see what’s right in front of you. Coaching clears the air and lets in the light so you can see straight ahead, seize opportunities, and make better decisions than ever before.
FOSTERING RELATIONSHIPS
Whether focused on a personal or professional project, you will find that your relationships in all areas of your life are happier and healthier as manifested by your coaching process. A more positive outlook and a deepened understanding of human nature are both intrinsic benefits of your coaching work.
KNOWING WHAT COMES FIRST
When you feel pulled in too many directions, coaching will help you prioritize and organize what is most important, and what your next series of steps can be. You will learn how to keep tabs on yourself, hold yourself accountable to your goals, and, as a result, feel the unfettered joy of knowing you did it yourself – you got yourself to where and who you want to be.
What Coaching Isn’t
It is important at the outset for you to know what you can and cannot expect from our work together.
● Coaching does not aim to analyze your behavior. A therapist is more likely to take you down that road.
● Coaching does not treat mental disorders or offer any medicinal guidance.
● Therapists like to look in the rear view mirror or your past, to help you know yourself today. Coaches like to look in the front windshield, so you can know where you are headed. Coaches focus on you controlling your present moment – right now – along with your future.
● A therapist will work with you on “why” you are where you are, whereas a coach will want to help you figure out “how” you want to move forward.
● In therapy, you go to where it can be uncomfortable. In coaching, if you don’t want to go some place, then we don’t go there. You control the agenda, not me.
● A consultant will have an agenda and some possible answers to bring the client. In coaching, you set the agenda and I simply take your lead.
●Both consultants and therapists are hired as experts in certain aspects of life. As your coach, I accept that you are the expert on your life and have untapped answers and resources within yourself that they will help you find.
How Does Coaching Work?
Maybe you want to change and/or advance your career, but are not exactly sure how to do that. Maybe you are at an age of shifting your balance between work and family. Or, perhaps on a purely personal level, you are in the midst of a new relationship… or breaking up an old one… or getting married… or divorced… or blending two families. Maybe you want to do some work in your immediate family. In fact, maybe you are about to enter a whole new phase of life. I am here to tell you, that whatever it is, professional or personal, coaching will help you carve your own path with your needs and goals held firmly in place.
MOVING FORWARD
Coaching is a solution based process that asks “What’s next?” rather than “What was” or “What is”. You will discover solutions that best empower and encourage you. It’s my hope to help you realize your goals so that you will illuminate, direct and energize your life moving forward.
The Client/Coach Set Up
I offer phone and online video coaching services for clients worldwide. If a team of professionals based in a single location seeks my services, I am able to coach on location. In the case of the individual client, each week we will speak for 45 minutes. Additionally, you may feel free to contact me between sessions either by text or email. I offer packages of 12 sessions, lasting three months, which can be used once, or renewed for as many times as you choose. Generally, coaching relationships do not last as long therapy relationships, and are at the minimum length of three months.
COMPLIMENTARY PRELIMINARY SESSION
I am happy to set up a complimentary preliminary session with you to see if coaching is a good fit for you. During that time I will coach you for 20 minutes, and leave ten minutes at the end of our session to address questions and concerns. This way we can determine our chemistry together and by the end of our session you will have, at the very least, a concrete takeaway to integrate into your life.
THE FIRST SESSION
Our first session will be an extended version of a normal session, lasting between an hour an 90 minutes. We will design our working alliance as you are introduced to coaching terminology. We will establish your priorities and goals, and I will introduce you to some tools that I hope will be useful long past our work together. If you are not sure what you’d like to work on first, we will use specific coaching strategies designed to help you get there. We will also ensure that all of our logistics in terms of scheduling and billing are outlined through a coaching agreement, which comes in the form of a “welcome packet” and serves as our contract to ensure all ethical guidelines and professional standards are in place.
About Me
I’m Nancy Steiner, and I come to coaching by way of my career as a journalist and as a wife, mother and stepmother of a blended family with five children.
Since I began coaching, I have worked with a wonderfully broad
range of individual clients. Additionally, I am a mentor/coach at The Harvard
Business School, where I help student entrepreneurs. I am also coaching a group
of women ages 60-plus seeking comfort
and joy through a safe and supportive
place.
For 38 years, I focused on producing documentary films and non-fiction network television. It has always been my desire to tell stories that offer a deepened understanding of the human condition. I have travelled to all corners of the globe, where I have been able to meet a remarkably broad spectrum of people – from world leaders and powerful change-makers who are well known, to the unknown and powerless individuals with equally remarkable lives. I have produced profiles about civil rights activists and organizers, performing and visual artists, writers, politicians – essentially, people whose lives offer stories from which others can benefit.
I have travelled to corners of the world that are its most glitzy and most primitive. Meeting and getting to know people, hearing their voices and sharing them with audiences has been the great professional joy of my life. It is from that jumping off point that Steiner Coaching Solutions is launched, as I aim to help you discover how you want to unfold, shape and live your story.
By way of more specific background, I have been a producer whose work has appeared on NBC, CBS, CNN, HBO, BRAVO and PBS. I have created and produced several one-off films and multi-part series. I have produced 52 short pieces for the Council on Foreign Relations about global diplomacy shown in over 100 countries. Most recently, I created and directed a film for a Fortune 500 company that depicts the incredible success of seven generations of one family’s business. It was during the onset of the film’s production that I became fascinated with the idea of becoming an executive / life coach.
Once I did my due diligence about what coaching can be, I decided to jump in hard and fast by enrolling as a student in IPEC – an internationally recognized, gold standard bearer in the wide world of coaching. It is amazing to me how coaching integrates the skills I have gleaned as a journalist with the practice of coaching. Both fields are based in an individual’s intrinsic curiosity and compassion for people of every sort. Both fields are about giving back in the way that you can, whether that means producing a cutting edge series about cancer or coaching you to new heights of heartfelt achievement.
My family consists of my husband and five children – three of whom are stepchildren, all of whom I adore. My divorce was unusually amicable, and my ex-husband and I, who have known each other since high school, remain lifelong, committed friends. My husband’s ex-wife and I are also devoted friends (I know – it’s very rare – but it’s true), so there is no acrimony within either of our divorces. To the contrary, our family is successfully blended, and, because of that, and the work we have all done to respect and love one another, I am confident in my capacity to coach issues of blending families, childhood and teen issues, as well as topics within marriages and divorce.
I am a graduate of Hampshire College and live with my family in Westchester County, New York and Tenants Harbor, Maine.