The extended Compass talent network includes many seasoned team and individual coaches with deep and varied experience, tools, and approaches who may be leveraged to support each client’s unique needs and scale. Reach out to discuss your needs and desired outcomes. Read on to learn more about Lucan’s unique coaching approach and experience.
About Lucan's Coaching Approach
Lucan Pipkin is an experienced and certified coach, consultant, facilitator, and trainer. She has nearly 25 years of experience leading change in organizations, engaging teams and stakeholders to maximize their energy and contribution, and developing leaders to achieve their full potential. In her coaching practice she specializes in bringing a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to supporting her clients in balancing their desire for achievement and contribution and the importance of creating space to be physically and mentally healthy and fully enjoy their life, relationships, and creative endeavors. Here are a few key components of her approach:
Holistic and Integral Approach
Lucan brings a holistic, integrated approach to developing and coaching leaders and adults along their journey to actualizing their full potential and achieving fulfillment. Her approach works to develop, align, and embody all of our intelligences – cognitive, emotional, social, somatic, and spiritual – resulting in authentic, powerful leadership whether at work or in their lives in general.
Foundation in Neuroscience
Lucan understands how the human brain is wired and the importance of sustained and supported, individual attention on new behaviors to achieve sustainable change. Supporting leaders in understanding human brain function builds their capacity to intentionally maximize reward and reduce threat within themselves and their teams.
Personal Vision and Plan Based in Unique Strengths
Lucan works with leaders and individuals to clarify their personal visions and values, tap into their unique strengths and vital intuition, resolve internal debates or questions, and define an inspiring and achievable plan as well as simple practices and tools to achieve it. Lucan understands the importance of balancing the doing and being sides of ourselves and task and relationship sides our teams and can support you in both to ensure your vision comes to fruition.
Skill-building in Leadership, Emotional and Somatic Intelligence
Lucan works to support individuals in developing balance, presence, confidence and power as well as skills in articulating vision, leading change, decision-making, empathetic communication, difficult conversations, giving and receiving feedback, among others relevant to the challenges at hand. Key to developing these skills is building awareness of the relationship between our brain, body, and emotions. Lucan leverages a mindfulness and somatic technique called Inner Relationship Focusing to support this awareness building and behavior change.
A Safe Space to Evolve
Lucan works to build self-awareness around one’s strengths and blindspots through assessments, observation, and feedback and provide a trusted, safe environment to be open, curious, take risks, and try new things. She meets you where you are and can support you in troubleshooting your day-to-day challenges both in your work and life with an eye towards achieving your desired outcomes. She supports you in building the ability to integrate and sustain the behavior change necessary to reveal the strength of your unique style.
Coaching Training, Tools, and Credentials
Lucan holds a degree in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University and has been practicing as an organizational development consultant, facilitator, trainer, and coach across the public, non-profit, and private sectors for over 20 years.
Tools
Lucan employs several assessment tools for both individuals and teams including: Enneagram, StrengthsFinder, DISC Individual and Team Inventory, CCL Benchmark 360 Leadership Assessments, Extraordinary Teams Inventory, and Neuroleadership SCARF Assessment.
To learn more about my background, connect with me on LinkedIn!
The extended Compass talent network includes many seasoned team and individual coaches and consultants who may be leveraged to support each client’s unique needs.
Coaching Offerings
It is recommended that coaching engagements be a minimum of 3 months with a recommendation of 6 months. After completion of the initial engagement, additional coaching sessions can be committed to in bulk or scheduled one–off as needed.
A coaching engagement includes:
- An intake and assessment process including: 1.5 hour intake session, assessment (360, Enneagram, Strengths Finder, DISC or other of your choice), program development including goals and practices to support development, and 6-12 bi-weekly one-hour coaching sessions
- Coach is available for email check-in between sessions as needed.
- A safe space and support over time in building self-awareness, gaining insight, developing skills, and working towards a set of goals and outcomes.
Additionally, retreats are an option for any client that wishes to devote a more intensive amount of time to reflection, visioning and planning, skill-building, self-care, and/or deep level inner work. Retreats can be customized to any length of time including 2 hours, half day, full day, multi-day or even a series based on the outcomes that the client would like to achieve. Reach out to discuss your hopes and we can customize a retreat to achieve them.
To meet Lucan and discuss her coaching approach and what you are seeking to achieve, book a free intro call or feel free to reach out via EMAIL with questions.
Testimonials
Lucan’s coaching helped me immensely. Through six months of one-on-one virtual sessions, we explored tension and stress inducing topics, identifying and de-mystifying inner critic thought patterns. She helped me recognize and strengthen my ability to be more objective (less defensive) and to set boundaries without building walls – which feels great! Difficult conversations are part of life, and now that I am more in tune with my own reactions, uncomfortable topics are far easier to tackle with others. Thank you, Lucan!
Anne, Chief
Working with Lucan has been an eye opener for me. She has a wonderful way of asking questions and then creating space for you to walk into, explore, and just talk confidentially with her about your thoughts. Through our conversations, I said things in the moment that I didn’t know impacted the way I led, coached, and behaved in and out of the workspace. She provided me with tools that helped ground my thoughts and feelings in a way that have changed the way I interact with people professionally and personally. If you want to learn more about what makes you behave the way you do, work with her, it will be eye opening.
Chris, General Manager
Lucan Pipkin from Compass Consulting has been a trusted advisor of mine. She has coached me personally around leadership, and worked closely with my leadership team to address challenging and sensitive organizational development issues. Her insight and strategies have brought us to a new level of confidence and organizational culture. As a maturing global social enterprise, her efforts to unknot sticky issues has opened up new levels of energy and enthusiasm that will propel our growth for years to come. I would not hesitate to recommend Lucan Pipkin. Her high level of professionalism, help and support is to be commended.
David, Executive Director
My life changed a year ago when I met my coach Lucan. I was headed on a path to nowhere. Holding on to the past. Focusing on my weaknesses. Not anymore. I’ve had the privilege to work with someone who has shown me a different style and approach when struggling with life lessons. Work hard on my strengths. Be a better communicator. Become a better listener. Love even harder. Without proper guidance, none of these things are possible. I struggled in the beginning. Those were my insecurities. Once Lucan explained to me how to soften my heart, things became much easier. Having a supporting cast when you’re raising kids is wonderful. Having someone become a part of your village and show you nothing but kindness and humility is amazing!
Kenny, Coaching Client
I began working with Lucan when my career was at an inflection point, moving from a highly technical role focused on development and execution, to developing and leading an entirely new group. Lucan’s coaching helped me to build upon some of my strengths which I hadn’t yet harnessed to their full potential to set a vision and milestones of growth for the team. Through this process, what I had previously viewed as a bird’s nest of tasks became far clearer in how to tackle each. This set the stage for the future which has led to me work on focusing my own personal goals and to help teach our future leaders so they can take the baton and continue to advance our work and mission. Lastly, Lucan is a joy to work with and would encourage any new or early career executive leader who may feel overwhelmed or overburdened with their new responsibilities to work with her and her program.
Ian, Managing Director
Lucan coached me at a point in my life where I was at a crossroads. I was burnt out from my career and wanted to find a work-life balance. Lucan made a conscious effort to truly understand who I was. She helped me distance myself from the micro, reconnect with the person I had buried down inside, and refocus personally and professionally according to the new priorities I had chosen for myself. Lucan gave me methods to use beyond our sessions. This transformation enabled me to become more self-aware and evolve as a person. Lucan helped me gain that control, to morph my life into what I want it to be.
Elli, Business Development Manager
I highly recommend Lucan as a coach. In our work together she provided exceptional value in her ability to assess situations and offer concrete tools to enable successful growth, while having a high level of empathy while we navigated through different topics. Lucan is extremely personable and has helped me find a better balance in my life. As a result of Lucan’s coaching, I’ve improved personal and professional relationships. Her techniques allow your strengths to be realized, your journey to be appreciated, and a greater sense of purpose to be obtained.
Michelle, Manager