Michelle Richard Coaching

I coach healthcare professionals to better understand the challenges they face and identify the best next steps.

One-on-one coaching offers a confidential place to step back, make sense of complex professional situations, see your options more clearly, and determine how to move forward.  



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ICF Associate Certified Coach
Advanced Certified Professional & Executive Coach
Not every professional challenge has the same cause—or the same solution.

Sometimes the solution involves developing a new skill or changing how you approach a situation. Sometimes the challenge lies in a relationship, an unclear role, competing expectations, or the organization itself. Often, several factors are at play.





Before deciding what to do next, we work to understand what is actually happening.


Each coaching engagement is designed around your situation.
Together we clarify the dynamics at play, identify what matters most, and determine practical next steps.

Coaching may be helpful when...

* You have stepped into a new or more visible role.
* You are uncertain whether the challenge lies in your approach, the environment, or both.
* You are trying to influence a decision or move an initiative forward.
* You are dealing with a difficult colleague, supervisor, or stakeholder.
* You are carrying competing responsibilities and are unsure what to prioritize.
* You are considering an important career or leadership decision.

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Coaching for Healthcare Professionals

I work primarily with physicians, as well as other healthcare professionals. Some hold formal leadership positions. Others are taking on greater responsibility, navigating complex relationships or institutional dynamics, reconsidering their direction, or recognizing that the strategies that brought them this far are no longer enough. Healthcare professionals do not need a formal leadership title to benefit from becoming more intentional and strategic about the challenges they face.
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About MIchelle richard, md

A Coach Who Understands Healthcare From the Inside

I am a physician,  former hospital leader, educator, and now an executive coach.  Before becoming a coach, I practiced infectious disease medicine, conducted HIV-prevention research, and served as Chief of Medicine and Chief of Quality. I understand both the personal demands placed on healthcare professionals and the complicated systems in which they work. As a physician and parent,  I also bring personal insight into the competing demands physician parents often face. My coaching brings those perspectives together, helping clients examine themselves and their environments with honesty, curiosity, and practical judgment. During my own transition into hospital leadership, I worked with an executive coach for more than a year. That experience helped me become a more thoughtful and effective leader and eventually led me to pursue coaching myself. Today, I teach leadership and change management at Boston College and work primarily with physicians and other healthcare professionals who want to better understand the challenges they face and identify the best next steps.

 
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A first conversation gives us a chance to talk about what you are facing, what you hope will change, and whether coaching could help. There is no fee and no obligation to continue. It's simply a chance to see whether we would work well together.
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Coaching Engagements

Coaching engagements are designed around the  situation you are facing.

We begin with an introductory conversation to explore your goals and determine whether coaching would be helpful. If we decide to work together, engagements typically involve sessions every two weeks or monthly sessions over three to six months.

Depending on the situation,  and only with your agreement,  our work may include gathering input from key stakeholders to deepen self-awareness and identify opportunities for growth.

I work from both Rhode Island and Florida.  Coaching conversations are available by video conference, with in-person meetings possible in either location.  


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