Welcome to our website, thanks for considering us and your curiosity about me! I’m Angela J Lopez, M.Ed. and I’m a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), credentialed through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
I specialize in partnering with people who are ready to live a happier, more fulfilled life and leaders who are becoming intentional and conscious in their leadership. I’m also a certified Leadership Circle Profile practitioner and if you are leading groups of any size and want to know how others experience your leadership, this transformational 360 assessment will reveal that to you and can serve as the foundation of an improved trajectory for your leadership journey.
2019 was a year of change for me. Until then, I had lived many areas of my life in default mode, asleep and allowing others to direct me on my career path and settling for unhealthy relationships, including my relationships with myself and the Divine. During that year, I started to realize how unhappy I was in my career. I became willing to look more closely at my marriage and understand its dysfunction. This was just the beginning and it took time and a lot of courage (although it didn’t feel like I was being courageous then) for me to free myself from that career, turn away from and then end that dysfunctional marriage and start to question what I really wanted and needed. Thankfully during that time I found 3 things I hadn’t had before: a spiritual home; a partner who loves me, values me and truly wants what is in my highest and best interest; professional coaching.
In 2021, a mutual friend reconnected me with Victor McGuire, who was a vice principal at my high school. Victor had just founded a nonprofit organization called Coaching for Everyone and had a program starting with a mission to empower BIPOC individuals through coaching, including helping us get certified as professional coaches. I was able to experience professional coaching myself and quickly realized that I had found my calling. I was fortunate to become a fellow in the inaugural cohort and started my journey to become a professional coach in April of that year. My life has not stopped improving since! It has not been easy, but I am awake and the decisions I make are conscious choices, so my life continues to improve. I am so grateful!!
Since then I’ve had the privilege to coach a wide variety of people and leaders who want to enhance performance while creating meaningful impact in their own lives and within the organizations and communities they serve. They’ve been folks from start-ups, small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofits from a variety of industries, district level leaders in school districts and universities. I've also worked with leaders of Employee Resource Groups, also known as Affinity Groups, to improve group effectiveness and support group leaders with career mobility and professional development. I’m comfortable navigating both technical and nontechnical environments and enjoy coaching individual contributors, rising leaders and established executives alike. I also have experience with program management and DEIBA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility) and support leaders who are ready to create more inclusive and innovative workplaces.
I intentionally partner with clients so they can become more mindful and increase their self awareness, which increases their influence and for leaders, results in increased engagement from their teams. Think of it as a pebble dropping into a still pond and creating ripples that extend outward to the shore in ever increasing circles, YOU are the pebble. What kind of pebble are you and what kind of ripples are you sending out?
My coaching and leadership philosophy is deeply rooted in the belief that we all have the power to create desirable and sustainable change in our lives and to become ever improving versions of ourselves. My goal as a coach is to help my clients gain clarity, explore and find solutions aligned to their values, stay true to their purpose and maximize their potential through ongoing transformational change. The most effective people and the best leaders live and lead consciously with their whole selves utilizing both creative intelligence and leadership capacity to create work environments where everyone can thrive and do their best work.
3 words that describe my coaching style are: Empathic, Gently and humbly direct, Insightful.
A book I’m currently reading is “You are the Happiness You Seek” by Rupert Spira.
A book that speaks to who I am as a coach is "Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Revised and Updated)" by Liz Wiseman.
I’m most grateful for: the gifts, wonder and awe that each new day brings.
My proudest accomplishments are realizing and living into my purpose. My meaningful relationships. Pursuing my passion in coaching, leadership, DEIBA, and mindfulness.
Potential clients and partners often ask about my client list and where they can find me. I’ve entered into strategic partnerships with organizations who are values aligned. I coach for and/or have listings with: Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), International Coaching Federation (ICF), BetterUp, The Institute for Integrative Intelligence, Community Foundation for Monterey County LEAD Institute, Aginci, and Terawatt.
