Coaching & ConsultinG for Organizations
with certified coach and psychologist Dr. Aprilia West, PsyD, PCC, MT
Strategic Coaching for Success
In our post-pandemic, VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, it’s mission-critical to nurture and tend the factors that influence wellbeing, and performance. Whether your challenge is around workflow processes, effective teaming, leadership, change management or psychological safety, you need more than insight; you need experiential learning to rewire powerful routines that stick.
Research shows that evidence-based coaching and consulting can significantly improve performance, life and job satisfaction, meaning, engagement, as well as employee retention and stakeholder value.
As a psychologist, executive leadership and team coach organizational consultant, mediator and trainer, Dr. West uses evidence-based interventions grounded in contextual behavioral science to resource clients [at the individual, team and group level] to create cultures of wellbeing and performance. She has over 20 years of experience working with [leaders, teams and organizations to enact change at multiple levels].
Leadership, Manager, Team and Organizational Assessment
Clients need a clear baseline for their performance in order to target the changes that will help them get where they want to go. Effective data includes valid and reliable feedback targeted to your specific goals. Through a blend of self-report assessments, 360-feedback, structured individual and collateral interviews and organizational surveys Dr. West provides the data to create a clear direction for you and your team. Assessments may include the Leadership Circle Profile- or customized surveys designed for your needs.
Leadership & Management Coaching
Leaders and managers need to be more agile than ever to meet the demands of their roles in the workplace. Coaching can help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. This is true both in leading yourself or you’re already in a role leading others. Executive coaching can empower you to refine skills, enhance decision-making, and tap your full potential and lead high-value teams. Executives gain new insight into their strengths and areas for growth, and practice effective strategies for communication, conflict resolution, and strategic thinking. Executive coaching also supports the development of crucial skills such as delegation, time management, and goal setting.
Studies show that coaching can lead to significant gains in workplace effectiveness.
Enhanced Leadership Skills: Leaders who engage in coaching often develop stronger leadership qualities, such as better decision-making, increased emotional intelligence, and improved communication skills.
Increased Job Satisfaction: Coaching can lead to higher levels of job satisfaction by helping individuals align their personal values with their professional roles and by providing support in overcoming career challenges.
Better Goal Achievement: Coaches assist clients in clarifying their goals and creating actionable plans, which significantly boosts the likelihood of achieving both personal and professional objectives.
Enhanced Wellbeing: Coaching can improve overall wellbeing by addressing work-life balance, reducing stress, and fostering a psychologically flexible mindset, which contributes to better mental and emotional health.
Higher ROI: Organizations investing in coaching often see a return on investment through increased employee engagement, reduced turnover, and improved organizational performance. Through assessment, consultation and thought partnership, Dr. West helps leaders develop the skills that empower everyone to meet the demands of high-value performance at every level.
Team Coaching
Effective team coaching fosters collaboration, enhances communication, and aligns the group to drive collective success. It’s essential for maintaining productive relationships and getting results. Through a process of assessment and facilitations, team coaching can identify and leverage each member’s strengths, resolve conflicts constructively, and build a unified vision. It also cultivates a culture of trust and accountability, improving overall performance and morale. Common areas of focus include: identifying blind spots, facilitating strategic conversations, expanding creativity, creating more workable processes, resolving long-standing conflicts, giving and receiving feedback and increasing psychological safety.
Executive & Team Trainings
Evolving together means learning together. Whether you need help improving emotional intelligence, psychological safety, giving and receiving feedback, effective teaming, longstanding management bottlenecks, organizational culture, communication challenges, Dr. West’s high-impact learning experiences can help improve performance.
All trainings are customized for specific needs or challenges. Past trainings have included Emotional Fitness, Emotional Fitness for Leaders, the Art of Feedback, Wellbeing at Work, Psychological Flexibility: a portal to creativity, diversity and effectiveness, and High-Value Teaming.
Organizational Consulting
Sometimes companies need expert counsel from a seasoned professional ranging from hiring practices, change management decisions, employee engagement challenges and facilitating wellbeing and high performance.
As a psychologist and coach, Dr. West brings a deep understanding of human behavior, which is crucial for identifying and addressing underlying issues affecting wellbeing, productivity and workplace dynamics. She has 20+ years experience in facilitating effective collaboration, enhancing communication and engagement and fostering effective work cultures. By applying evidence-based principles, Dr. West provides insight into motivation, stress management, and leadership development and makes recommendations for creating a more engaged and resilient workforce in a supportive and creative environment.
Facilitation & Mediation
As a trainer, facilitator and certified mediator Dr. West is skilled at bringing people together around common goals, creating agreement and working through sticking points. Whether you’re struggling with a longstanding conflict among coworkers, a team with rigid, unhelpful dynamics or finding the best possible compromise to end unworkable relationships with good will, Dr. West is adept at managing conflict and achieving the best possible outcomes for all parties involved. By addressing conflict head on you’ll be able to resolve differences, boost morale, improve collaboration and drive success across your organization.
Keynote Speaking
Dr. West brings her expertise of a coach and psychologist at the intersection of mindset and action to deliver an impactful, transformative speeches that stick with you long after they’re over. Customized for your organization, team or select audience, she offers a unique perspective that combines practical strategies for personal and professional growth with deep psychological insights into motivation, resilience, and psychological flexibility and elite performance. With a dynamic approach rooted in behavioral science, her high-impact keynotes equip the audience with actionable tools and inspire lasting change.
Past speaking engagements include Emotional Fitness for Leaders, Effective Leadership starts with Self-Leadership, Psychologically Safe Teams are Psychologically Flexible Teams, the Art of Flexible Selfing and action.
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About Dr. Aprilia West
Dr. Aprilia West is a psychologist, executive coach, trainer, author, advocacy campaign strategist, and digital health consultant. She has 20+ years of experience working with founders, leaders, creatives, teams, and organizations spanning U.S. Congress, tech, entertainment, Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofit advocacy campaigns.
Her extensive experience as a psychologist, executive coach, trainer, author, advocacy campaign strategist, and digital health consultant give her a niche understanding of human behavior and how to facilitate wellbeing, peak performance, and prosocial behavior change.
Dr. West's interest in human behavior and choice-making led her to study emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility, resilience and positive psychology. She went on to develop the construct of emotion efficacy— the ability and belief your ability to harness emotional experience, shift your mindset and take action aligned with your values. She explains, “emotion efficacy is what you’d get if emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility and resilience had a love child.”Dr. West designed the Emotion Efficacy Therapy protocol as part of her doctoral studies, as well as the related assessment, the Emotion Efficacy Scale-2 (EES2). She has since developed and expanded the emotion efficacy tools and trainings, including authoring the self-help book, What You Feel Is Not All There Is. She is also co-author of the clinician's guide to Emotion Efficacy Therapy.
Dr. West is known internationally as an expert in the application of behavioral science and conducts professional trainings for coaches and clinicians around the world.
