Empowering people with transformative coaching and training

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As a leader, I need someone to talk through tough situations with and help me inspire and develop my team members”

Both new and seasoned leaders hit roadblocks. We’ve designed and taught leadership courses for decades. We’ve also coached and mentored countless leaders of all levels, and can help you develop the servant leadership skills that are proven to be effective.

“Bridget has been an awesome partner to our UX teams at Google for over 5 years. Her incredible skills and wise advice have helped our leaders deal with all sorts of tough challenges, including managing leaders, prioritization, overcoming imposter syndrome, and maximizing impact. Her dedication, expertise, and commitment have significantly impacted our teams and leaders. We’re incredibly grateful for her partnership and all the positive changes she’s brought about. Thanks a million, Bridget!”

Mark Norris
Head of UX Programs and Operations, Google Play

 

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I want to be better prepared, more confident, more impactful, and less stressed out about public speaking.”

Work with Bridget or one of our other expert coaches to become a more confident, eloquent, dynamic, influential, and polished speaker. Bridget is a retired university speech professor, a TEDx speaker, and TEDx speaker coach.

“Bridget is an amazing speaker, coach and educator. I had the honor of having her coach me for my first TEDx talk and it was a success, largely due to her guidance. Her joyful spirit makes it easy to digest her wisdom and constructive feedback. If you are looking to improve your speaking skills, you should certainly have Bridget on your team. As a person who has a speech impediment, I knew I needed to work with the best. Bridget was the best and I am forever grateful for her diligence.”

Genein Letford, M.Ed.
Intercultural Creativity® Keynote Speaker, Best Selling Author, TEDx Speaker

 

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I’m stuck. I have ideas about changes I want to make, but nothing seems to work. I need help finding the right path and sticking to it.”

Work with us to uncover the root cause of what’s holding you back and determine how to reach your goals. We’ll provide the accountability you need to stay the course. Some of the areas we help clients experience dramatic results in are career growth, managing stress, building a meditation practice, weight loss, repairing relationships, finding more peace and joy, and much more.

“Bridget’s coaching sparked a complete shift in my thinking and actions, leading to much greater efficiency and joy in my work.”

Melissa Kwak, MD
Family Physician

“Thanks to Bridget’s powerful coaching, losing weight has been easy, enjoyable, and profoundly eye-opening.”

Shelly Hickman
Middle School Teacher

 

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We have high performers, but their public speaking skills could use improvement.”

Your organization can’t afford the costs of mediocre presentations. Whether they’re closing sales or energizing direct reports with an inspiring vision, sharpening public speaking skills is critical for your team members. We teach participants how to wow any audience with a dynamic delivery, stellar organization, and compelling content.

“Thank you for the time and effort in sharing your knowledge and experience in the Powerful Presentations workshop. You were passionate and showed genuine interest in our growth. This was one of the best training classes I’ve had in my career and the feedback we received during the workshop was invaluable.”

Syed Shah
Project Manager, PMP, LEED AP, Rudolph and Sletten General Contractors

 

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Our team members sometimes clash because of different values and working styles.”

Bring us in for a lively, eye-opening True Colors workshop. Your team will become more cohesive, collaborative, and productive. Knowing everyone’s True Colors© personality types prevents conflict and increases synergy, innovation, rapport, and belonging. This fun, enlightening tool is a great way to open up a rich conversation about how to better leverage every team member’s unique strengths.

“Bridget generously dedicated 2 days to conducting strategic planning and a team building session using True Colors for our staff. Our team of 40 well-educated, highly motivated people would rather be on task instead of attending another meeting. However, Bridget captured their attention with True Colors. It was a surprisingly effective way to help us learn more about each other. We expect the positive effects of True Colors to benefit the organization for some time to come.”

Janis Spire
Former CEO, The Alliance for Children’s Rights

 
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We’re not sure what our training needs are, but we know we need professional development.”

No problem! We’ll ask the right questions to determine what type of training is needed and develop a highly-impactful tailored experience to meet your most pressing needs. In decades of expert design and facilitation of training, retreats, and offsites, we’ve customized programs on countless topics including leadership, managing change, increasing influence, DEI, conflict resolution, growth mindset, mindfulness meditation, emotional intelligence, and much more.

“Bridget delivered one of our key leadership development programs, designed to improve both tactical and strategic management and leadership skills, at Mattel for years. In addition to that, she has developed and delivered several customized programs targeted at enhancing communication skills. She consistently receives extremely high marks on workshop evaluations, but more importantly we often hear directly from managers that their employees actually apply the skills and concepts they learn in her workshops.”

Ann Adams
Leadership Consultant, Development Dimensions International, Former Director, Management Development, Mattel, Inc.

 

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Our team:
30+ years of
experience

Bridget Sampson
Founder and CEO

Todd Parker
Coach

Gina Covarrubias
Coach

Dr. Erin M. Baker
Coach

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 Troi-Jeanette Phillips
Coach

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Testimonials

Executive Coaching

“Bridget has been coaching me for the last 5 years from frontline manager to breaking into executive ranks. Her concise yet socratic approach helps me pinpoint skills to focus on with tactical strategies and frameworks to leverage. I love working with Bridget and have recommended her to countless colleagues looking to level up their leadeship.”

Kathleen Ko

Senior Director, Roblox

Offsite Design & Facilitation

“Bridget Sampson is easily one of the best communication and management consultants I’ve worked with. We used her to run a team-wide offsite designed to improve collaboration, communication and the general effectiveness of our group. She did an incredible job and the offsite was a huge success. I found Bridget very easy to work with, extremely professional, and tremendously knowledgeable and experienced in her areas of expertise. She’s smart, confident, communicates and presents incredibly well, and a joy to work with. I would hire her again in a heartbeat.”

Dan Greene
CEO, Lucid Advisors, Former Director, New Products and Solutions, Google, Inc.

Custom Retreat Design & Facilitation

“Thank you, Bridget, so very much for the excellent retreat design and facilitation for our senior staff. You kept everyone’s attention the entire time with interesting and relevant content presented in a variety of captivating modalities.”

Donna S. Nadel, J.D.
Executive Director, Wilshire Boulevard Temple 

Professional Communication Coaching

 

“My company brought Bridget on as a coach to help me work with others, both clients and co-workers,  more efficiently and effectively. It was ‘pitched’ to me as what felt like a punishment, so I wasn’t really looking forward to it. After our first meeting, I was hooked! I often find worksheets and online quizzes to be a miss with me. The information isn’t relevant, and it doesn’t seem to stick. What Bridget brought to me was particular to me and it all helped immensely. Learning about yourself at that deep of a level can be scary. Nobody wants to hear where they fall short. Bridget’s honesty and knowledge of each and every situation helped me to rise above, own my negatives, and begin a new way of working. I will never go back to my old ways. I cannot thank her enough for her patience and dedication to bettering me as a leader and an employee.”

Ali Stone
Senior Brand Consultant, Nadel

Training Design & Facilitation for Managers

“Bridget Sampson and Todd Parker have played a critical role in working with our team members transitioning from front line roles to supervisor staff. Year after year they have provided informative, fun, and relevant curriculum that serves as the foundation of our management training program. They are also excellent at creating an environment that allows seasoned managers to be transparent about the skills they need to work on to embrace our servant leadership culture. We love working with Sampson Coaching and Consulting.”

Samantha Zehngut
Chief Operations Officer, Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. 

Leadership Coaching, Life Coaching, and Team Building

“Bridget and I have been working together over the past 5 years, in both a team and individual setting. Bridget has helped me through some specific and particularly challenging situations in my work and personal life, but more importantly, she provided me with a number of tools and techniques that I find myself applying everyday. In this sense, she has enabled me to better help myself as challenges arise. Our work around Growth Mindset, correcting negative thoughts, and self-coaching continue to be invaluable to my day-to-day life.

Bridget is a uniquely empathetic individual, but also honest and direct. She has a kind and gentle way of guiding people towards hard truths that are sometimes difficult to see, much less face. I am very grateful for our work together, and highly recommend Bridget to anyone looking for coaching in both team and individual settings.”

Daniel
People Manager, Google