WOrk Well coaching

Our coaching creates space to understand your strengths, work through challenges, and develop practices that support your goals and the people affected by your leadership.

We work with individuals and teams across nonprofits, education, philanthropy, government, and other community-serving organizations.

Together, we explore your values, strengths, assumptions, and leadership habits alongside the organizational conditions influencing your work.

Your individual wellbeing (or your team’s collective wellbeing), lived experiences, and aspirations ground all aspects of our coaching approach ensuring that our work with you is unique to YOU.

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What working together looks like

01 / Understand your starting point

We begin with your goals, current responsibilities, and the challenges or opportunities bringing you to coaching. Reflection and relevant science backed assessments help us identify strengths and areas for development.

03 / Practice in your everyday work

Sessions combine reflection and mental model exploration with practical application and frameworks. You might prepare for a difficult conversation, work through a decision, test a new leadership practice, or develop a focused action plan.

02 / Establish a focus

Together, we define priorities and what progress will look like both for your personally and through the lens of development models These goals guide the engagement while leaving room to respond to new questions and experiences.

04 / Reflect and adjust

As you grow and change so will your goals and needs, we examine what you are learning, and adjust your approach. Progress includes both the actions you take and how those actions affect you and the people around you.

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Coaching Tenants

  • Wellbeing Skills

    Provide leaders with tools and resources to promote personal and team well-being. Emphasize the importance of prioritizing well-being through an interdisciplinary approach including; a practice of innovation, the eight dimensions of wellbeing, social and emotional development, and trauma-informed care to both support their individual wellbeing and advance a culture of care.

  • Power Practices

    Leaders will be provided with space and resources to explore practices, actions, and behaviors that actively inform cultures of trust, belonging, inclusion, accessibility, and shared power. This may include understanding how to grow their leadership practices through do-no-harm principles, in order to strengthen their ability to advocate for their rights and needs, and the rights and needs of employees.

  • Human Centered Development

    Coaching is both designed through, and aims to build human centered tenants in leaders. This approach to problem-solving and creation places the needs and experiences of people at the center of the process. It involves understanding the needs, desires, and behaviors of people, and then designing solutions that meet those needs in a way that is useful, and enjoyable.

  • Psychological Safety

    Help leaders cultivate psychological safety skills to promote open and honest communication, encourage feedback, and foster a culture of growth and development. Teach active listening, constructive feedback, and conflict resolution skills to build a more cohesive, collaborative, and emotionally intune team.

  • Sense-Making and Insights

    Coaching will collect and use data, deconstructive patterns, and sense making practices to provide valuable insights into trends and opportunities that can help leaders make informed decisions and identify ways to improve or grow skills and performance.

Coaching Services

  • Executive Coaching

    For leaders carrying organizational responsibility.

    Work through strategic decisions, organizational change, and the relationships that come with executive leadership. We help you clarify priorities, examine how you exercise power, and strengthen alignment between your values, decisions, and impact.

    Coaching can focus on:

    • Setting direction and translating priorities into action.

    • Delegating responsibility and developing other leaders.

    • Navigating complex relationships and competing expectations.

    • Leading change while supporting trust and accountability.

    Available for individual executives and leadership teams.

  • Leadership Coaching

    For people developing their leadership practice.

    Build the confidence, awareness, and practical skills to lead people and work with greater intention. We help you understand your leadership patterns, navigate challenges, and strengthen the everyday practices that shape team culture.

    Coaching can focus on:

    • Communication, feedback, and conflict navigation.

    • Trust, psychological safety, and clear expectations.

    • Shared decision-making, delegation, and collaboration.

    • Boundaries, sustainable workloads, and team wellbeing.

    Available for emerging and experienced leaders, managers, and teams.

  • Carrer Coaching

    For professionals considering growth, change, or a new direction.

    Explore what you want from your work and how it fits within the life you want to build. Together, we identify your strengths, make sense of your experience, and develop a practical direction grounded in your values, needs, and aspirations.

    Coaching can focus on:

    • Clarifying career goals and exploring possible paths.

    • Communicating your experience and professional strengths.

    • Preparing for advancement or a role transition.

    • Weighing opportunities alongside wellbeing and personal priorities.

    Available for professionals at different career stages.

Meet your Lead Coach

Mykella Auld, M.Ed., is a culture researcher, leadership strategist, educator, published author, and Executive Director of The Work Well Studio.

Her work connects leadership development with organizational culture, power, and collective wellbeing. She brings experience across education, nonprofits, philanthropy, and government, alongside training in Coaching for Professionals through Johns Hopkins University and certified in DISC, Emotional Quotient, and 8 Factors of Engagement from TTI Success Insights.

Mykella creates space for thoughtful reflection and honest conversation while helping clients identify practical ways forward. Her coaching considers both the person doing the leading and the conditions in which they lead.

She leads a team of five coaches, each bringing their unique experiences, approaches, and frameworks.

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