Nicki Michaels

Professional Certified Coach
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach

Coaching Women in Transition
from Coast to Coast and Beyond...

Featured Life Coach on
Fitness Magazine's 2006 Panel of Experts
for the You Can Do It! Challenge
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My Professional Background

My career began at Human Potential Research, Inc. where I was trained to help clients understand the timing and nature of change in their lives. I often worked with individuals in the midst of major life transition who were facing a wide range of personal, spiritual and professional challenges. After 18 months, I started my own consulting practice.

For six years I taught courses on the spiritual nature of personal and social change as a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Antioch University West. I have lectured at national conferences about personal and spiritual development and life transitions. Since beginning my career as a Personal Change Consultant in 1974, I have worked with over 2000 clients worldwide focusing mainly on women in transition.

About My Coach Training

I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), credentialed by the International Coach Federation, and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), trained by The Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, CA. And I am an Authorized Life Blueprint Facilitator.

I have coached close to 100 clients, and logged over 1400 professional coaching hours. My clients are located throughout North America, in Europe and the Far East.

Learn more about my coach training.

My Community Service

• Current Board Member and Web Liaison for the San Francisco chapter of the International Coach Federation
• Volunteer Coach for C.E.O. Women, an organization whose mission is to create economic opportunity for Bay Area low-income immigrant and refugee women through teaching entrepreneurship, English and communications skills, so they can establish successful livelihoods.
• Mentor for the Professional Empowerment Program (PEP) of the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR)
• Board member (4 years) and Board Chair (1 year) of Resourceful Women, an organization that educated women about conscious investing, donating, and spending of their money
• Community Boards Mediator, helping San Franciscans resolve neighborhood conflicts (5 years)
• Reader for a monthly magazine for the blind through the San Francisco Public Library system (3 years)
• Current member of NERT, the San Francisco Fire Department's citywide Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (10 years)

About My Relationship with San Francisco

As you may have gathered, I have an ongoing romance with the beautiful city of San Francisco, where I have lived for many years. It was in 2001, while I was temporarily living in London, and feeling quite homesick, that I decided both to begin my coach training, and to become "San Francisco Coach." Not long thereafter, I moved back home, began my training and built the first version of this web site.

The photos on this site reflect my experience of San Francisco in her many guises and moods. The photo on this page captures the spirit of both the fun and sophistication that this city offers. It was taken in 1998 by my sister Verna, when we took her kids, my niece Kaitlin and my nephew Sean, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where a Keith Haring retrospective was showing. The sculpture is one of Haring's wonderful pieces of public art that were scattered throughout the City at the time.

Verna's children have now grown and the family has relocated to Kentucky. Kaitlin graduated high school with honors and has started college, and Sean recently received an honorable discharge from the Air Force, after serving a tour of duty in Iraq and is soon to be starting his college education.