Services for Individuals

The process of coaching allows you to enter into a relationship that focuses on the skills and actions needed to successfully accomplish your personally-relevant results. The primary focus is on creating actionable strategies and necessary outcomes for achieving specific goals in your work or personal life. Coaching works by identifying opportunities for development, based on your strengths and capabilities.

Alaya Consulting is in the business of developing and realizing the full potential of individuals and organizations. Regardless of whether you are seeking to transition to a new career, leverage current skills for your next promotion, gain control over your current workload, or attain a personal or professional goal, we can help you develop skills to enhance your growth, productivity and excellence. We also assist organizations that are trying to develop a more productive and satisfied workforce by generating options and developing tools that transform the way employees view themselves and the organization. We bring enthusiasm, confidence, positive direction and accountability as you learn to observe yourself, develop new competencies, and achieve new possibilities.

We enjoy working with anyone who is committed to changing something in their life. However, we have experience and interest in working with attorneys, entrepreneurs, law firms, small business owners, artists and individuals suffering from chronic pain.

As a former attorney at two large law firms within the Bay Area, Sarah Kowalski has gained insight into the challenges law firms face in trying to maintain productivity and retain a qualified, enthusiastic workforce. Alaya Consulting can quickly identify issues that affect retention, mentoring, professional development, loyalty, burnout and business development and help the organization develop skills and competencies that impact positive change, and improve morale and productivity. Together we can create fantastic leaders, mentors and workforce to lead your firm to the cutting edge.

As a former attorney, Sarah Kowalski knows the challenges facing today’s lawyers, such as maintaining work/life balance, developing effective leadership skills in the face of billable hours, generating new business, and remaining resilient and creative during the chaos and pressure of practicing law. Alaya Consulting embraces this knowledge and works with individual attorneys to identify your vision and realistically cultivate a meaningful and fulfilling lifestyle and professional life. We work together to help you:

  • Align values with busy schedules to become resilient and creative during chaos and pressure of practicing law
  • Develop and sustain core practices that lead to work/life balance
  • Maximize professional effectiveness and management skills
  • Assist in life and career direction and transition
  • Develop management and leadership skills necessary to effectively practice law and minimize interpersonal conflict within the workplace

Entrepreneurs and small business owners face a unique set of challenges, primarily because the line between personal and professional rarely exists. The project or business quickly becomes all-consuming as the boundary between personal and professional fades. Habits and patterns begin to surface, which may or may not facilitate progress. One’s vision can quickly get mired in the details and stress of launching and running a business, making it overwhelming and paralyzing to take action. Because the line between personal and professional is all but non-existent, it becomes increasingly important to understand how your own habits and blind spots may be limiting your effectiveness and results. By working with Alaya Consulting you can:

  • Develop the courage to launch your business
  • Clarify and maintain your strategic and long-term vision
  • Create systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness so the business does not become all-consuming
  • Improve and streamline your marketing message
  • Generate greater commitment and momentum toward strategic goals

Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI), chronic pain and stress-related illness are taking their toll in corporate America. Many individuals who work long hours and avoid the warning signs of stress find themselves with severe and long-standing injuries and illnesses. In this situation, necessity requires individuals to completely alter their work habits and every aspect of their personal lives or find a new career altogether. This process can be devastating and overwhelming because it requires the individual to redefine many aspects of their self-image.

Alaya Consulting has a particular expertise and interest in working with individuals faced with such challenges. Sarah Kowalski found coaching because of her own struggle with RSI and has taken a particular interest in somatic theory as a result. We believe that awareness fostered through the Feldenkrais Method and Qigong is most applicable to people suffering from any form of chronic pain, but especially effective in helping individuals who have injuries and illnesses that are intimately tied to body usage and image. By working with Alaya Consulting you can:

  • Reclaim and find your life direction in the face of physical limitations
  • Find optimal health during recovery or management of health issues
  • Develop awareness of inefficient and pain-inducing movements and habits
  • Uncover new movement possibilities that affect all aspects of mind and body
  • Discover options and strategies for new career paths that honor your body and your potential
  • Develop strategies to re-enter the work force
  • Understand emotions and habits that may have contributed to your injury or illness