Thank you for visiting my site.
Most likely you are here because you want to achieve more for yourself, your team, or your organization. You would like to create a lasting impact.
Those who do have an over-sized influence on the success of their companies. They are the ones who define the culture, create the vision, recognize the risks, address the challenges, motivate, and inspire, and create the space for everyone to excel and succeed.
The photo above portrays the Enduring Presence ethos: you have to push yourself beyond your current comfort level, you have to connect to the thoughts and feelings of others, you have to respond to forces – bend, but not break.
You have to flourish to build an enduring legacy.
And I would love for you to experience my unique approach to help you do so. Browse my site to get a feel for who I am and what I do.
If you like what you see, please contact me for a free consultation to see if we’re a good fit.
Warmly,
I’m a certified leadership coach. I specialize in working with early to mid-career professionals mainly in the technology sector. I help my clients move up faster, so they have more influence, make a bigger impact, and take control of their future.
What is coaching? It’s best described with examples from my practice:
The role of a coach is to help clients help themselves. The coach provides a reasoned and structured process to facilitate change, growth, and achievement. That said, coaching is as much art as science and, as such, the coach/client relationship must be vulnerable and trusting. Both coach and client must be open to unexpected outcomes.
My passion and my purpose are to help people progress along their individual paths. The client will be motivated and equipped to develop further. They will be encouraged to develop their skills and identify and remove interference to ensure an immediate and sustainable impact. The benefit to both the client and their company is powerful and profitable.
I’m a trained and certified facilitator. I specialize in creating customized workshops for cross-functional teams, mainly in the tech industry, who need to accomplish something critical “as a team.” I help my clients achieve their workshop goals through working better as a team, reaching consensus, and building commitment to continue moving forward.
Facilitation begins with the act of organizing a meeting, event, or workshop, and engaging the participants in understanding, exploring, creating, inventing solutions, or solving problems.
Facilitation goes beyond just the superficial management of meetings. It encompasses creating an environment of trust, encouraging open communication, fostering collaboration, and ensuring a commitment to achieving desired outcomes.
My approach is to meet with the workshop sponsor and any other key stakeholders. We’ll cover the objectives, required outputs, participants, and logistics. I’ll create an initial workshop agenda, including proposed approach, flow, examples of activities, and budget for your consideration. We’ll iterate two or three times, drilling down on the agenda each time until we are comprehensively prepared.
And I’ll interview participants and other stakeholders, in advance, as appropriate.
We’ll all come to the workshop with a clear plan of action, and at the same time, be flexible and creative to accommodate the dynamics of the group.
I’m a mature and experienced Active Learning trainer. I specialize in creating and delivering customized, interactive, and vibrant learning environments for cross-functional teams mainly in the tech industry. I help my clients develop the skills needed to be more effective and move up faster, the strengths required to thrive at all levels, and the attributes critical to success.
The hands-on skills you’ll learn through my Active Learning workshops will change your outlook and possibly your life!
The workshops include a unique set of topics, exercises, videos, practice, insightful coaching, and full participation – this isn’t training, this is Active Learning. We provide a safe environment for you to explore current strengths and weaknesses. The events leverage group feedback, synergy and energy. The experience is fun, energizing, and highly effective at improving both short and long-term performance.
I teach what I know. My Active Learning focuses on the human elements of leadership. The workshops are based on the following Enduring Presence Leadership Model and can include any individual or combination of elements, skills, or behaviors – based entirely on client needs and requirements.
Talk to me about training your people the most effective way and to get the most powerful results.
“I always looked forward to my conversations with Sam and always left feeling more clarity and motivation. He’s easy to talk to, has a sense of humor, but drives the discussion to focus on progress and results. Sam has helped me to be more successful and more fulfilled in my career, which has had a positive impact on my life.”
“Sam is a dedicated coach who helped me improve my public speaking and professional skills during the 12-week course. Sam gave direct, honest feedback and helped me remove barriers I did not even know I had. He’s very passionate at what he does. I would recommend his class to other young professionals like myself.”
“Sam has provided mentoring and coaching services during critical points in my career. His confidential and collaborative coaching services are ‘spot on’ and I have realized tangible benefits.”
“I’ve known Sam for more than a decade and worked as a partner on some very challenging, entangled, organizational problems. His talent has always been to listen very closely and see fresh ways to undo the knots standing in the way. When he’s in front of the room, his humor has made my job easy because he connects so well with executives and uses that rapport in facilitating conflicting and hardened points of view. He’s an incredible talent and I look forward each time I get to work with him.”
“I’ve been getting career coaching from Sam for many years now and I plan to continue. He’s thoughtful, inquisitive, and forces me to think through and rethink my goals, strategies, assumptions and decisions. I’ve gained a lot through our conversations and I highly recommend him.”
“Sam has provided mentoring, counseling and coaching at various points in my career. He treats you like a friend but doesn’t hesitate to push back and challenge your assumptions, your conclusions, or your direction. He doesn’t impose his positions, despite his long experience and deep understanding, instead he asks questions and connects dots to help drive ownership of my own issues.”
…is the sustainable, life-long set of skills which cause an instant, intense, and inspiring reaction in other people.
Presence is what allows for a connection with the thoughts, feelings, and aspirations of those around us.
Presence requires all of us: body, mind, self, and beyond self.
Presence is how we are perceived, how we are approached, and how we influence our surroundings.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
by John Quincy Adams
Sam believes his clients are capable of change and improvement with the right support. He brings a powerful positive energy by applying his talents/skills in alignment with his philosophy and purpose
He has been consulting, coaching, and managing his entire 30-plus year career. Sam founded Enduring Presence in 2018 to focus exclusively on executive coaching and leadership building.
Sam has learned from both his successes and failures as an executive in such companies as Capgemini, Ernst & Young, Hewlett Packard, and Oracle/Netsuite. He has also had the opportunity to observe other leaders in action and to help many young professionals develop the leadership skills necessary for success.
He is a trained and Certified Executive Coach through the UC Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (BECI) under the direction of Mark Rittenberg, Ed. D. Sam also holds a certification from the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Sam is also trained and certified in a number of relevant assessment and planning tools. He as a Finance degree from San Jose State University and an MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
Sam lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Jenny.
If you would like to know anything else, please contact me!
