Hi. My name is Sheila Madden and I am the CEO of Madden Coaching & Consulting. My firm provides executive and career coaching and consulting to businesses  and universities as well as private coaching with clients who want to be as fulfilled in life as they are successful.

I have worked as a coach for many years…OK, 33 to be exact! My career has included working my way from individual contributor to executive inside corporations such as IBM, Tandem, The Learning Company, and GlobalEnglish. I am also an entrepreneur and started my coaching and consulting business 15 years ago.

When I was 38 I had what I affectionately call an early mid-life crisis. I realized that after achieving what I thought was “success” (big job, big salary, big office) that I was very unhappy. I came to the painful realization that I had, in fact, been living as an “extra” in other people’s lives. I could not answer the questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? What do I want? How do I connect with God again?  How do I create life on my terms?

Prior to starting my career I was a songwriter and musician. That was a time when I was deeply connected to God and in the flow of expressing all my creativity.  It had been fourteen years since I had written a word or picked up my guitar or prayed.   That is when I did what I would not necessarily recommend to anyone else. I quit my job, (Uh-ha, at the height of my career) hired a coach and spent the next  six months beginning to get to know myself.

At the conclusion of the six months, I started my coaching and consulting business and began working part-time with some fabulous corporate leaders and businesses in Silicon Valley. (This part-time work yielded the same income as fulltime work AND gave me the flexibility to explore other things that I thought I might be good at) I enrolled in a 9 month program studying Yoga and became certified to teach. I enrolled and graduated from Coach University just for the fun of it. Then I studied Reiki and expanded my coaching practice to include energy work and spirituality. I wrote two volumes of poetry, a book of true stories and did freelance writing which included advertising copy, feature stories for a local magazine  as well as restaurant reviews (the restaurant reviews were SO much fun because of course you have to eat and drink what you are going to share with readers. Did I mention that I love to eat and drink great red wine?)

It has been  an amazing time. A time of deep spiritual reawakening and a fun time of realizing that when I actually took the time to connect with my higher power,  focus and get out of my own way, I not only knew what I wanted but that I had the power to create it. I have been intentionally creating my life ever since.  I have to be honest and say that there  have been times of ecstasy  as well as times of confusion.  I have discovered that living a fulfilled life is not a linear process but rather, that it ebbs and flows like all of nature.

Now, nothing is more important to me than being a catalyst for others to  create holistic lives of joy and well-being focused on purpose and contribution.  Whether with work or your personal life I  can partner with you to:

1. Expand your vision of possibilities for integrating your personal and work life
2. Awaken your dreams and unlock your purpose
3. Understand your unique gifts/strengths and define the roadmap that ensures that you contribute intentionally and fully in alignment with your purpose, values and beliefs
4. Develop spiritual practices that keep you connected to God and in harmony with  life
5. If you are a leader, help you integrate spiritual principles into impactful results
6. Fulfill your potential and help others do the same

If you are interested in creating exactly what you want in your personal and work life, please call me and let’s talk: (831) 277-4919 or email any questions you may have: sheila.madden@maddencoaching.com