Launch Coaching Inc.: Who Are You Becoming?
CEO and Founder of Launch Coaching Inc., Tamara Glazier brings out the best in herself by bringing out the best in you.
A trailblazer in her industry, Tamara Glazier is the CEO and Founder of Launch Coaching Inc., an elite boutique-style coaching company that leverages the inner genius of her clients. Glazier has developed a reputation as a game-changer in personal development and in her results. With 20 years of clinical experience as a therapist and executive coaching training from the Rotman School of Management and Harvard Business School, she preaches that coaching at its core is about relationships, and about committing yourself to the progress and positivity of another. In a recent interview with Dolce, Glazier says, “Coaching to me is helping others to design a process for developing themselves for the rest of their life.”
After returning to the world of academia to complete her Rotman School of Business Executive Coaching degree, working with high- performing professionals was an invigorating challenge. However, it was her training and experience with children and adolescents that took her skills to the next level in maximizing adult potential, productivity and authenticity.
“A child’s primary goal is to meet milestones and to play. Play is a child’s work. The primary goal of an adult would seem to be, by all accounts, to work. So is work an adult’s play?” says Glazier. While professional milestones seem to fade with most people after their mid-20s, adults are given provisions and guidelines and some fairly strong social norms to follow.
Most of the professionals Glazier works with are generally accomplished. The paths they have taken to their professional success vary significantly. However, Glazier challenges them to ask themselves in their quietest moments, “Who were you?” and “What did you love to do?” Better yet, “Who were you becoming before you were told who to be?”
The path that follows after answering these questions is where Glazier comes along and does what she does best. It is her expertise in this path of self-discovery or, most often, “re-discovery,” that will, in turn, allow you to live your best life. It is through her coaching that you will align with your purpose, turning what felt like brutal and meaningless hard work into passion.
“Work essentially can feel like play. We are plugged into what makes sense to our soul’s hard wiring. Passion work leads to impact, and impact leads to growth. Oftentimes, money is considered the ultimate measure of success. I would argue that dopamine is what most people are chasing,” says Glazier.
One of the most impactful questions a coach can ask a client is, “Who are YOU becoming?”
“When I ask this question, I often see the client sit back in their chair. Our discussions are filled with quotas, deadlines, outcome measures, staffing issues, work/life balance, “communication chaos” as I like to call it, and the list goes on. But who are they in this formula? Who are they becoming, how are they going to get there, and why is it important to them? Almost always, when asked who you are becoming, the word “happy” lands. Yes, other words are also shared: powerful, mature, successful leader, revered, respected, wealthy, influential, healthy, connected, seen, heard, desired, sought after. But happiness is definitely a part of their future that exists in their mind’s eye,” says Glazier.
Regardless of where you sit on the continuum of creativity and growth, Tamara Glazier helps you realize that it is the small promises to ourselves that have the biggest impact. We have the power to decide who we are becoming independent of our age or current state of being. We have the power to choose where we want to be in life. Being aware of what is possible for ourselves and who we want to become is the beginning of the meaningful work that Tamara Glazier is proud to do.
