When I came home from Japan in November 2020, I found myself in the most challenging transition of my life so far. Up until then, I followed a very straightforward path, and suddenly I was back at what felt like the very beginning of my journey. After months of struggling on my own during the pandemic, I learned about Kristy’s coaching services through the JET Program alumnae network. I scheduled a Breakthrough Session that December and decided to officially invest in myself and hire Kristy as my coach a few months later. Initially, I felt my resistance to the mindset exercises. Still, Kristy graced me with patience and helped me grow comfortable with opening up to working on my inner critic and mindset.

She helped me rearrange my priorities - after years of putting my academics and career ahead of everything else - and I realized how important it was to work on myself and my headspace. This coaching program was incredibly beneficial to me and this ongoing journey that I decided to extend. Kristy made herself available throughout our months together to establish routines, offer support during all the rough patches of the job search process, and celebrate my successes. Kristy showed me how to utilize my resources through networking on LinkedIn and helped to expand my connections. She encouraged me to apply for a position at a dream company I categorized far outside my reach. I was convinced it would remain that way, but I’m proud to say I’m starting there in Jan 2022 after about a year working of together! I’m confident Kristy’s programs will benefit anyone going through a career transition or who wants guidance through a mindset shift. I would highly recommend her to anyone who needs assistance navigating through any obstacles in their career path!

I went to Kristy at a crossroads in my life. I was in my second year of law school and was trying to figure out what I wanted to do afterwards. I felt the pressure of finding the “right path” and making sure I had set myself up for success. I lacked confidence in my abilities and just felt stuck. Kristy was a miracle worker. She helped me take a step back, acknowledge my own self-worth, and help me find a new path forward. Kristy has the innate ability to read people and situations and ask the right questions to get to the heart of a matter. As an Asian American woman, it was so comforting to have a coach who could understand the cultural and societal pressures I was experiencing. I’ve never met someone who has the observational abilities and natural skills that Kristy has. I highly recommend her as a coach for anyone who is going through a transition, looking to advance in their career, or just needs some support in finding a new path.

Kristy was my first coach, and the experience of working with her was beyond my expectations.

It’s very common that we start a new year full of new goals, ideas, and projects, but along the way, they slowly get pushed away due to day-to-day happenings of life.

This year, I wanted to make sure that I would keep consistency and control of each of my new projects.

Kristy did not just support me with finding ways to handle my personal projects while keeping my full-time job, but she also took me to this deep-dive into myself, where I could see my own personality and past experiences with a new perspective, which made me feel more confident than ever about where I want to be in the future.

Whether you’re looking for career advice or ways to improve your lifestyle in general, working with a coach will definitely be a worthy investment.

Working with Kristy as my coach was meditational and comforting. If you occupy an executive or managerial role in an organization you should consider her service.

As you move up the ladder in any organization, there'll be only very few people you can talk to about your internal dialogues, and you don't want to be too selfish when hanging around with these few important people in your life. So it's very helpful to have the chance to talk to a pro like Kristy, just about your own "stuff". She is a patient but skillfully active listener, asking great questions and follow-up questions that help you realize the core issue or put things into a broader context, which then helps to find cues about how to approach or solve those issues.

If legends like Michael Jordan or Roger Federer (and other world-class executives) had or have mental coaches, it shows that everybody could need a coach. Because the way to improve is to get feedback, and having a professional personal sounding board like Kristy is a great way to get objective, valuable feedback.

Highly recommendable.

I had the pleasure of receiving Kristy’s one-on-one 90-min. coaching session. During the session, she was professional, friendly and personable, actively listening to my story and concerns and guiding me through my own thought processes. In the short amount of time, I took away concrete actionable items to work on toward my goals and felt confident in what I needed to do to achieve them. Kristy is genuinely invested in her clients and works together with them to figure out what they want to accomplish while also being culturally aware of their backgrounds.

I would highly recommend her to anyone who needs assistance navigating through any obstacles in their career path!

After our first session I could tell right away that Kristy was a great coach and has found her calling in helping people navigate their career journey and transition to new opportunities in both Japan and the US.

Her knowledge of the recruiting space, the overall career landscape and the professional network that she can leverage in Japan really set her in her own class as a coach and mentor. I'd definitely recommend working with her!

While multiple techniques exist, I believe coaching is essentially a subtle mix between listening and sharing: take and give. As a coach, the more you give, the more trust you generate, and the more the coaching exercise is likely to be fruitful. So was my experience with Kristy. In Japan, more than anywhere else I've lived, I'm pressed to fit into a mould, to behave diligently jus like anyone in the crowd. Kristy reminded me that I must let my inner voice speaking and resist the pressure in order to maintain my identity, what makes me who I truly am. The outcome of our short coaching session was as honest as it was insightful and encouraging.