Hi, I’m Jory! I’m so happy you are here.
Welcome, I’m Jory, founder of ExpansiveCoach™.
People usually find their way to my work in seasons that don’t yet have a clear name. Life and leadership aren’t falling apart, but they aren’t settled either. There’s responsibility, history, momentum, and a growing sense that something wants attention.
What matters most to me in this work is how we stay with moments like these.
I don’t believe clarity comes from pushing harder, gathering more information, or rushing toward answers. In my experience, it comes from slowing things down enough to hear what’s actually happening underneath the noise.
Much of my work is about helping people think and sense well when certainty isn’t available. To notice where pressure is distorting judgment. To separate what feels urgent from what’s actually important. And to make choices that feel honest, sustainable, and true to who they are.
I tend to work with people who carry real responsibility in their work, their families, and their communities. People who care deeply about how they show up, and who want their lives and leadership to feel more coherent and less fragmented. I call this space the “messy middle.”
In a nutshell
My work is guided by the EXPANSIVE™ Approach, a whole-person way of coaching I developed to support clarity, steadiness, and growth in complex and transitional seasons. It weaves together cognitive, somatic, and reflective practices, allowing the work to be both practical and soulful, without losing rigor, discernment, or depth.
Over the past 5,000+ hours of coaching, I’ve partnered with leaders, professionals, founders, and coaches across industries and cultures. I’m a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and serve as an ICF Mentor Coach and Assessor, supporting coaches as they develop mastery, confidence, and alignment with the ICF Core Competencies. I also contributed chapters to Becoming a Coaching Supervisor and Coach Mentor: A Guide to the ICF Supervision and Mentor Coach Competencies and Best Practice, alongside Jonathan Passmore, Judit Abri von Bartheld, and colleagues
I remain deeply engaged in learning, supervision, and reflective practice. I care deeply about ethics, discernment, and the integrity of the coaching relationship.
A bit more about my path
I bring my full humanity into this work. Like many of the people I coach, I’ve lived through seasons of transition, uncertainty, and reorientation. I know what it’s like for life to look steady on the outside while something important is shifting internally.
Those lived experiences shape how I listen, how I pace the work, and how seriously I take the trust people place in me. They allow me to meet complexity without rushing it, and to stay present with questions that don’t yet have answers.
Clients often tell me the work feels steady, spacious, and clarifying in ways they didn’t realize they were missing. I attribute that not to having solutions, but to how carefully the space is held.
At its heart, this work is about orientation and finding steadier footing when the path isn’t obvious. Creating enough room to breathe, reflect, and choose with integrity over time.
For those who want the longer story
I first encountered coaching in 2004. At the time, I was working as an educator and yoga teacher, already drawn to questions of learning, embodiment, and human development. Becoming a coach was not an immediate leap. It was a gradual transition shaped by experience, training, and life itself.
Over the years, I’ve navigated significant personal and professional transitions. I’ve lived through periods of depression and anxiety, career shifts, moving countries and communities, marrying later in life, becoming a step-parent, and coming to terms with infertility. Letting go of the expectation of biological children was painful, and it also opened the door to a life I hadn’t planned but deeply cherish, including a long, loving marriage and the experience of helping raise my partner’s children.
I don’t share these experiences to center my story, but because they have shaped my capacity to sit with others in moments that are tender, uncertain, or quietly profound. I understand what it means for life to look “fine” on the outside while something important is asking for attention on the inside.
Clients often tell me they feel safe bringing the parts of themselves they don’t know what to do with yet. I attribute that to my ability to remain non-judgmental, curious, and present, and to the fact that I am not asking anyone to go somewhere I haven’t been willing to go myself.
I am deeply committed to ongoing learning and ethical practice, and I continue to invest in my development as a coach and mentor. When it serves the work and with permission, I may reference my own experience, not as a roadmap, but as a way of normalizing complexity and reinforcing that growth is rarely linear.
At its heart, my work is about walking alongside people as they navigate life and leadership with greater clarity, self-trust, and integrity, especially in seasons when there are no obvious answers.
Exploring further
If something here resonates, you’re welcome to explore working together in a way that feels supportive.
