Inaugural Blog (aka "Hello World!")

"Hello World!" This is what computer scientists usually start with the test output of their first (typically work-in-progress) program code. Similarly, as a former computer scientist (now a relationship/leadership coach for high-tech professionals and digital nomads), I welcome you to my maiden leap as a contributing blogger of my own website, without even knowing whether the parachute will open successfully or not.

My focus will surround topics of my specialty in coaching (whether for couples or for individual leaders), or personal topics of relevant interest to the 21st century, such as philosophy for living, psychology, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, or ethics in the world of AI.

Today I start with the fundamental question, "Why be a Coach?".

For many years, while I was sacrificing my skills and time in a multinational enterprise software firm in Silicon Valley, I always felt moved by the power of the question "For what?", because it helped me to get out of the realm of unconsciousness and blind obedience, to another one that is more observant and questioning. This way, I avoided taking for granted what happened to me every day, or what others asked or expected of me.

Turns out, to be able to accompany our clients as a coach, requires that prior, consistent self-work, of becoming aware of what I think, believe, say and do to myself, ask serious questions to myself, and listen actively with kindness...to myself. Without all that prior work to reach a level of consciousness a little higher than the average population, how can a coach accompany clients to where they want to go, in a challenging but kind way, without any judgment?

Before discovering the transformative and almost magical world of coaching, I did not know what my legacy would be, at least for this incarnation of my life, in this very complicated century since the dot-com bust, 9/11 and social inequality. Transcendentally, I knew I was going to offer some kind of assistance, consulting, or teaching to the next generation. In fact, when I was laid off after almost a quarter of a century in my role at the multinational, I edited my LinkedIn profile with a vague mission similar to that raw idea.

As I honed my coaching skills, learning from other coaches and mentors who lived 12 or 20 years perfecting their own crafts, full of humility and without greed for fame, affluence or power, with a philosophical and divine belief that the world can change for the better, one client and one mind at a time, I finally recognized my own answer to the question "Why be a Coach?".

My readers already know that the answers to many philosophical questions are not unitary, but are based on the experience lived by each of us, the personal decisions made along one's own chosen path (Dharma), and the effects that these causes have on us (Karma).

That's why our coaching is non-directive. We fully trust in each client's resources and abilities to find his or her own individual path. And that is why, like the philosophy of antiquity such as that which Helena Blavatsky (founder of the Theosophical Society in the 19th century) brought to the Western world, available to be truly understood only by the "initiated", coaching brings a personal space to ask questions and explore answers that only those "initiated" enough to wanting better changes and advances in their lives, but do not (yet) know how.

Therefore, I humbly invite you for an opportunity to be accompanied and listened by a professional coach, whether you are a high-tech professional, a digital nomad, or a team leader, looking for a "next chapter" in your life, to build better and lasting relationships, or to become a true leader worthy of having courageous followers.

I conclude my blog by commenting that apparently the parachute I was wearing opened without incident. ;)