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Paulette Rao

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Paulette Rao is a leadership coach and trainer at major corporations around the world. As founder of True North Resources, her coaching consultancy, Paulette helps leaders enhance their own performance as well the performance of their teams while achieving organizational objectives. Paulette’s leadership coaching is informed by her 28 years of experience as a senior executive and marketing leader in corporate America. She was a Managing Director for Marsh; the world’s largest risk services firm where she ran the Mercer Northeast employee benefits division and was responsible for its P&L. She was one of only 100 female executives at Marsh. In that role, Paulette led and coached hundreds of marketing professionals to establish and develop significant relationships with their clients. As a Board Certified and Master Certified coach, Paulette works with senior executives, high potentials, and emerging leaders at Fortune 500 and smaller organizations to help them hone the skills they need to improve their performance and develop others in their organization to create positive and profitable change. While she works predominantly with senior male executives, she has gained special notoriety working with female leaders to grow their confidence, executive presence, and leadership skills.

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You Have to Go Slow to Go Fast

By Paulette Rao
December 4, 2019
in :  Best Practices
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I have been training, supervising and mentoring coaches for over a decade to hone their skills towards mastery and, for some, to gain their ICF credential. I believe that with continuous reflective practice any coach can get closer to mastery. I am also confident that I can help coaches learn how to manage their performance anxiety to allow their talent …

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A Case for Coaching the Who

By Paulette Rao
September 26, 2019
in :  Concepts of Leadership
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Many of us became coaches because we wanted to significantly impact the lives of those around us. We noticed that we were gifted at helping others reach their potential and we made the decision to devote our careers to doing so. In order to create lasting change in a client’s life, we must learn to coach the client not their …

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Navigating the ICF Credentialing Process

By Paulette Rao
November 13, 2015
in :  Training
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I can help others move through the continuum—be it gaining their first credential or advancing through to PCC or MCC

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CREATING YOUR MARKETING PARADIGM SHIFT

By Paulette Rao
June 26, 2015
in :  Best Practices
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Paradigm shift: a buzz phrase worthy of exploring. What is it? How do we create it for ourselves as a coach and/or as an entrepreneur?

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How Are You Using Your Power?

By Paulette Rao
August 29, 2011
in :  Concepts, Employee Engagement & Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Executive Presence, Life Planning, Managing Stress & Challenges, Performance, Personal & Life Coaching, Tools and Applications
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My favorite quote ever is Marianne Williamson’s “Our Deepest Fear.” “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? …

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What’s Fear Got to Do With It?

By Paulette Rao
August 25, 2011
in :  Marketing, Strategies
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Many of us think we’re being positive because we’ve created a marketing plan and we’re working it, but unbeknownst to us our subconscious thinking is running the show.

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Who Are You As A Coach?

By Paulette Rao
August 21, 2011
in :  Best Practices, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Resources, Strategies
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As a coach, you want to bring your gift out into the world. This is how you live “on purpose.”

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It’s Not What Happens to You; It’s What You Do With It

By Paulette Rao
August 15, 2011
in :  Concepts, Managing Stress & Challenges, Personal & Life Coaching
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I make choices every day as to how I’ll respond to things that happen to me. When things are not going the way I want, my default thinking tends to be either worry or avoidance of looking at ‘what is’. Both choices—yes, they are choices—rob me of an opportunity to grow. In “My Stroke of Insight”, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor …

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How Are You Using Your Power?

By Paulette Rao
August 15, 2011
in :  Marketing, Strategies
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116

My favorite quote ever is Marianne Williamson’s “Our Deepest Fear.” “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? …

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Conscious Marketing

By Paulette Rao
August 15, 2011
in :  Marketing, Strategies
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Get present to how you’re thinking, being, and doing to authentically grow your business. This article outlines the interdependent system of thinking, being, and doing that occurs in the life cycle of becoming a successful entrepreneur. You will examine the internal and external barriers that get in the way of playing full out. You will learn what it means to …

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