Fezeka (Fez) Saige
CEO and Founder of Coach2Accomplish
I specialize in coaching women that are in transition. Although not unique to women mothers have a special time when they are starting a family. Sometimes they choose to go back to work and sometimes not. This is a crucial time for taking stock and finding out what is fullfilling and meaningful. These life transitions are key because often moms get lost in raising their children and taking care of their family. They lose sight of what makes them happy, what their goals are and what their next step will be.
This is the ideal time to meet with a transition coach because when you are not forced to make an immediate choice, you can have more clarity, be more objective and see abundant alternatives.
As your coach I will help you:
>> Figure out what is important to you right now and in the future
>> Set life and professional goals
>> Set timelines for accomplishing those goals
>> Hold you accountable to those timelines
>> Encourage and support you on your journey
A little more about my me.
Growing up as the youngest of six kids toughened me up from a young age. In addition, having parents whose work ethic and dedication to education made sure at a minimum I would achieve academic success. My undergraduate was in developing business software and continued on that path at work and in post-graduate studies. I earned my MBA from St. Louis University in 2003.
Yet in all that time I had never questioned my career of choice until I had kids. In a way having triplets made some decision easy. Should I become a stay-at-home mom? Should I look at other alternatives to to a 50 hours a week, high-pressure job? Should I build a phenomenal support group of moms in similar situations as well as other key networks? Having comfortably answered yes to all these questions, I now had to really think what that next career would look like.
I have always been drawn to building strong teams, mentoring and coaching. All the Myers-Briggs and DISC personality tests indicated that I was a people person. I agreed. In a career filled with lots of technology what I had always gravitated to coaching young professionals and building strong teams. It was also what I found most rewarding. When I was faced with a situation requiring an aggressive software roll-out but was understaffed for the project, I set to work to not only ensure the technical aspects of the software were delivered, but also that our team of young, enthusiastic programmers didn’t crumble under the pressure.
In my new life position as a stay-at-home mom to triplets, I saw with frustration how my fellow stay-at-home moms had lost track of their dreams, their strengths and interests during their time at home. I also thought of myself in the corporate setting and wondered if I would have been bold enough to make the career change had I not been challenged to find an alternative.
For all the above, becoming a life and professional coach was a good fit and a natural next step.
