Career
Examine what success means in this season of life. Explore how your career supports your well-being and the goals you want to pursue.
Pause Learning with Monica Giannobile
Learning about yourself is a human right.
Understanding who you are gives you greater freedom to choose how you live. I apply learning design to personal growth, helping you examine inherited expectations and make choices through your own inner knowing.
Begin with a guided reflection on your life and the choices ahead.
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Monica Giannobile
The borrowed self
Whose expectations guide your choices?
School teaches us to pursue the grade. Work teaches us to pursue the promotion. We learn how to meet expectations, often with little time to ask what we want.
Over time, inherited beliefs can create a borrowed self: a version of a person built from other people's expectations. A career can look successful while the way we work drains our health. Parenting advice can become a rule before we examine whether the advice fits our family.
Learning about ourselves helps us recognize those beliefs and decide how we want to live in this season of life.
Approach
Learning design, applied to your life.
Learning design starts with the learner: what you already understand and what you want to learn. I use the same discipline to help you learn about yourself.
We make space for reflection and active learning. You examine a familiar choice, try a different response, and consider what the experience teaches. Your own experience helps guide the next step.
How does that look in practice?
Suppose saying yes at work leaves you exhausted. We explore what makes the next request hard to decline, then design a small experiment with a boundary. You notice how the decision feels and what changes in your day.
Coaching
What are you ready to explore?
I help adults learn about themselves through the choices they face in daily life. Your starting point may be a career question, a parenting challenge, or a change in your health.
Parenting
Get clear on which parenting beliefs you have chosen and which you adopted. Practice making decisions that reflect your values and your child's needs.
Health and Wellness
Explore what caring for your health means in daily life. Develop personal practices that fit your needs and circumstances.
Support for your adolescent.
An adolescent sometimes needs a consistent, objective adult to talk with while learning about themselves. I offer coaching that gives young people space to explore their questions and choices.
Begin with a discovery call. We will discuss your adolescent's situation and whether coaching would be a useful next step.
Book a Parent Discovery Call
About Monica
Hi, I'm Monica.
I believe learning about ourselves is a lifelong process. The more we understand who we are today, the more clearly we can choose how we want to live.
My background combines learning design with integral coaching and national board certification in health and wellness coaching. Learning science and Montessori principles inform how I teach. I also teach yoga and mindfulness to children, and I value evidence wherever evidence exists.
I bring curiosity, close listening, and room to try a different approach. Each person gets to choose their way.
Coaching certifications
How adult coaching begins
Begin learning about yourself.
Take the assessment.
Reflect on your current life and the choices you want to explore. You receive a copy of your answers.
Choose a free personal analysis.
Book a conversation with me to explore your answers. Together, we look at the beliefs behind your choices and what you want to learn next.
Consider your custom coaching proposal.
If coaching fits your needs, I recommend a path based on your questions and goals. You decide whether to begin.
Testimonials
Quotes shared by clients with permission.
I started working with Monica when I was going through a rough patch in my career. I felt I wasn't achieving my potential, and I wasn't totally sure what I wanted to do next. Monica is a fantastic listener, and is adept at driving to the key thoughts/feelings behind every statement. She helped me mine valuable insights from my own identity, and together we used them to reframe my thinking so that I could build a path forward from a position of understanding and strength. Before I met Monica, I never would have believed that I could make the career pivot that I have. Now, I am fortunate enough to have my dream job. I am forever grateful for the career and life Monica has helped me build.
Ethan H.Management Consultant
I came to Monica wanting to be a more thoughtful, intentional parent, especially as we navigated the overwhelming process of choosing a school for our daughter. Monica has an incredible depth of knowledge about education, school systems, and the foundations of learning, but what makes her so special is the genuine care and thoughtfulness she brings to every conversation. She helped me step back, reflect on what truly matters to our family, and find clarity in our values. I'm so grateful for her expertise and guidance, which have given me greater confidence in making important decisions as a parent, especially when it comes to my daughter's education.
Nishtha A.Parent
I began coaching with Monica because I had a lot of uncertainty around my career and what I wanted to do next. I was unhappy, and it was causing me a lot of anxiety. I enlisted Monica as a coach to help guide me. I found her guidance to be unbelievably helpful: she was an attentive listener, and offered me invaluable techniques, resource material, and ultimately challenged me to really think about my career in a more meaningful way. I am happy to share that alongside Monica‘s guidance that I have a new opportunity that I am excited about. Without her support as a coach, I’m not sure where I’d be now!
Amanda B.Senior HR Business Partner