Your peak professional performance is within reach.

Envision it, and make it happen with Pracademic Coaching. Put our practical management experience and top-tier academic credentials to work for you.

  • Coming from different backgrounds, the co-founders and coaches at Pracademic Coaching have found a powerful intersection of real-world executive experience and the study of performance psychology.

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  • By combining the practical and the theoretical, we created a unique approach to helping individuals and organizations envision peak performance in their chosen field, then enact a plan to achieve it.

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Our approach:

Think ahead.
Act now.

Our unique approach to coaching peak performance enlists the power of thinking ahead to enable our clients to act with conviction now. Combining our backgrounds in psychology and practical management, we guide our clients to envision the desired future state. This applies to both long-term goals (like preparing a company for successful exit) and short-term goals (like evaluating a key hire).

Think ahead to how the situation will look when you have achieved peak performance, or made the best possible decisions. Your vision is powerful, motivational, and actionable. Knowing where we’re headed enables charting a path to get there, while unlocking the ability to anticipate and overcome challenges along the way.

With individualized support from Pracademic Coaching, you will be amazed at the power of envisioning your own peak performance, and creating an actionable plan to achieve it.

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Coaching Services

 

Performance Coaching

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Performance coaching helps clients achieve optimal performance in their chosen field. We use a range of peak performance techniques based in psychology and management training to coach elite athletes, musicians, actors, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and others.

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Design Leadership Coaching

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Companies that value design as a strategic function achieve better business outcomes. Yet it can be difficult for design leaders to receive support for developing strong design practices. We have experience helping design leaders raise their organizational design maturity.

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Executive Coaching

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We coach individual leaders and full leadership teams, usually in long-term engagements. We help founders and executives think ahead to lead with conviction now. We help team streamline their processes, create effective communication structures, and maximize their strengths.

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Career Coaching

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Successful professionals typically pursue new opportunities several times within a career. Whether starting a new business, seeking a promotion, changing companies, or pivoting fields – career coaching helps clients navigate new opportunities, usually within shorter engagements.

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Coaches

 
Lauren Rigney, co-founder and coach at Pracademic Coaching

Lauren Rigney

Co-founder and coach Lauren Rigney represents the academic side of Pracademic Coaching. She holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Princeton University, a master’s degree in Exercise and Sport Studies and a master’s degree in Professional Counseling . She not only learned the theory and science of human behavior and motivation, but has practiced and taught it as a Division I basketball player and coach before becoming a professional counselor and coach over the past 15 years. Learn more


 
Kristen Connor, co-founder and coach at Pracademic Coaching

Kristen Connor

As the practical side of Pracademic Coaching, co-founder and coach Kristen Connor brings 20 years of management experience in the tech industry to the coaching practice. She began her career as a user experience designer in the client service industry. She has since held executive positions in product management and design in multiple startups that have achieved successful exits through acquisition and SPAC IPO. She now is a full-time coach who can share lessons learned through extensive practical experience. Learn more

Your peak professional performance is within reach.

Start thinking ahead and acting now to achieve your goals. Contact us to set up a free coaching consultation.