Starting in 2000, I engaged Curtis Watkins
as an Executive and Life Coach.
Up until December of 2003, I was Chief Executive Officer of United American Energy Corp. (UAE), which I founded in 1980. In 1999 we commenced an ownership and financial reorganization program to accommodate rapid corporate growth in a rapidly expanding marketplace. As a result, I became subject to new and demanding dynamics as CEO of the company. I needed an improved stress management program, other personal life style changes and a reorientation of my strategic planning activities and capabilities given the company's rapid growth objectives.
Due to the above mentioned challenges, I searched for a highly capable Executive and Life Coach and retained Curtis Watkins for this important task.
Curtis did an outstanding job in helping me through this process and period of personal life change. As an Executive Coach, he helped me focus on the tasks (which are not always obvious) in processing what I needed to do. On an emotional and spiritual level (the most difficult part) he navigated me through a series of shifts which were necessary in unlocking my inherent capabilities which theretofore I had been shutting out thus hampering my ability to excel and personally grow as CEO of the Company.
Curtis's approach was to get me to describe the problem and come up with the answers and solutions vs. his "telling" me what to do; his functionality was similar to coaching a high performing athlete who after the "time out" has to get in the game and "just go do it." Curtis did not "preach" and "tell me how to do what needed being done." While this coaching process took time, certain results started immediately and grew over time. The net outcome was, is and remains to be, very effective for me.
I highly recommend Curtis as an Executive and/or Life Coach to any and all people who are ready and need a real life growth experience and opportunity.
Best to you in that endeavor,
David Goodman |