1 Step Coaching and Consulting

Trusted Partner and Coach

As an Executive Director of several large non-profit organizations in our community, I believe that building the leadership capacity within the organization is the most important work that I can do. And for the past four years I’ve relied heavily on Amy Kohut to help me do that work. She is not only a transformational consultant – someone who creates a shared vision with the Executive Director and the team and helps make that vision a reality – but she is also a trusted partner and coach.

Joe Sammons

Executive Director, Hospicare and Palliative Care Services of Cortland and Tompkins Counties

Community and Culture

The pandemic caused much stress and separation within our program which typically is very tight-knit. Amy met with us to gather a full scope of understanding of our issues surrounding teamwork, trust, communication and wellbeing. We began our work with a fantastic one-day staff training/retreat day and I could instantly feel the weight on our staff’s shoulders being lifted. This solidified that I wanted to invest in our staff and engage with Amy throughout the year. This will allow us to dive deeper and really make the necessary changes and healing that we need as an organization to get back to our pre-pandemic sense of community and culture.

Sherri Koski

Director of Ithaca Community Child Care Center

Spectacular Coach

Amy Kohut is a spectacular coach, a true partner in my development as a non-profit leader. She creates high levels of trust, maintains gentle accountability and encourages me with compassion and empathy.

Corey Madden

Executive Director, Monterrey Museum of Art

Flexible and Creative

Amy has been a delight to partner with as faculty in the Presence-Based Coaching work. She has stepped in to co-design and deliver this work as we navigated to a virtual format, and now going back to an in-person format. She is flexible, creative and brings her years of experience to our trainings.

Beatrice W. Hansen, MSSW, PCC

Principal of Presence-Based® Coaching

Leadership Development Experience

I’ve had the joy of learning from and working with Amy over the last three years. We collaborated to design and facilitate an outdoor (backpacking) leadership development experience for 10 faculty and staff of the University of Maryland. As a thought partner and co-facilitator, Amy helped to provide material and activities designed to support participant self-discovery. Reviews from participants sited the relevance and applicability of what they learned. We’ve been asked to repeat it and allow for a larger group. Because of the many quality ways that I’ve seen Amy in action, I recommend her without reservation to those looking for a dynamic professional, committed to providing a quality learning experience for those in her care.

Monette Austin- Bailey

Organizational Development Specialist, Center for Leadership and Organizational Change, University of Maryland

Inclusive, Patient, and Unrelentingly Fair

Amy has served as a team coach with Executive MBA Programs at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management since 2017. With our team-based learning model, we place significant emphasis on helping our students develop and broaden skills that are highly applicable in their professional lives as well as during their academic pursuits. Over the last five years, Amy has worked with dozens of students and helped numerous student teams refine key leadership and team-building skills. Amy is a very skilled coach. Among the many words which come to mind when thinking about how to describe her, Amy is inclusive, patient, and unrelentingly fair. She does a great job creating a supportive and trusting environment which allows the students she works with to feel highly valued and actively engaged. She continues to do an excellent job working with our EMBA students.

Verne Thalheimer

Director, Cornell Executive MBA Programs, SC Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Empathic and Intuitive

Amy Kohut does outstanding work. I have had the honor to work with her for many years. She is empathic, intuitive and willing to challenge people to dig deeper and cultivate the possibilities. Whether as a coach one on one or facilitating a leadership or team development session, Amy is authentic, optimistic and innovative in her approach. I welcome any opportunity to partner with her on projects and bring her on to work with my clients and programs whenever possible including the settings where we require security clearances.

Marianne Scippa

CEO Scippa and Associates

Thoughtful and Tailored

I can personally attest to the skill and attention that Amy Kohut brings to her engagements with executive teams. Our senior leadership team at Cayuga Health System engaged Amy to introspectively consider how we were performing as a team and to explore how we could elevate our teamwork to the next level. In a thoughtful and tailored way, Amy met with our team and led a fruitful retreat that incorporated the DiSC leadership survey that we all completed in advance of the event. Through a series of short discussions and hand-picked teambuilding exercises, Amy energized our team to incorporate awareness and respect for the different styles that exist within our group. We appreciated her insights greatly and we certainly benefited from her involvement. We would certainly recommend Amy for any executive team looking to bring its collective performance to the next level.

Dr. Marty Stallone

CEO, Cayuga Health System

Pivotal

Amy was my coach during a pivotal moment in my career. I had burned out physically, mentally, and emotionally. I needed to figure out a new way forward that would ensure a healthier balance of professional work and personal life. With her insightful questions and fun, compassionate style, Amy supported me in getting to a fresh understanding of what was possible and what I needed to let go of. Now I have a clear vision for my life. Regularly, I use the strong tools that we developed together to discern what work I want to do and, most importantly, can do sustainably. The nutrients of my coaching experience with Amy feed me daily. I’m very grateful and highly recommend her as a coach!

Althea Gonzalez

Independent Consultant

Found Our True Calling

August Moon Spa contracted 1 Step Coaching to help us with team development and team building as we were going through a transitional period in our business. Amy helped each of us find our true calling within our business and guided each of us to see the other's role and responsibilities. The work our management team did with Amy resulted in a reorganization of our team and allowed our business to move in the direction that best suits our needs.

I would highly recommend One Step Coaching to any business looking to future communication within it's management team members and especially throughout a restructuring process.

Kash Iraggi

Director of August Moon Spa

Extremely Skillful

I worked with Amy as a coach in the context of my work as a clinician-scientist at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine. She helped me to identify the tension between how I performed at work and how I wanted to perform. She supported this progression with practical field work and additional skills training during our sessions together. I found this process very effective, it has improved the quality and depth of almost all my interactions professional and personal, and opened up several leadership opportunities.

Amy worked with me to creatively uncover blind spots, discover new ways of thinking and behaving and open possibilities. She started where I was and helped me get to where I wanted to be. I cannot recommend her coaching enough.

Jon Cheetham VetMB PhD DipACVS

Associate Chair for Research, Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University

Strong and Compassionate

Amy has been a Team Coach with the Cornell Executive MBA programs since 2016. Amy brings an incredible balance of business practicality and coaching acumen to her work with teams; she listens deeply while exploring ways to support individual and team leadership with all of her students. She is very strong at helping individuals hold themselves, and each other, accountable for their choices and decisions. Amy is very well regarded as a Team Coach in the Cornell EMBA program and I would highly recommend her to any organization that is looking for a strong and compassionate facilitator and coach.

Janet Gilfillan

Director of Team Coaching, Cornell Executive MBA programs, SC Johnson College of Business

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