Marlene Lockwood

Transition Coach Marlene Lockwood helps individuals and groups navigate through life change and transition with more ease, increased balance, enhanced inner peace and improved creativity and vitality.

Clients seek out her guidance and support in life-changing circumstances like:
• ending a relationship (or beginning a new one!)
• working through loss and personal crises
• changing careers or jobs
• relocating to a new city
• setting personal goals
• empty nest and second phase of life
• improving health and vitality
• ... and any type of life change or challenge that requires support and guidance from an unbiased outside party

Prior to becoming a health and wellness coach, Marlene worked in health care initially as a registered nurse in critical care units and eventually served in a variety of business leadership positions within the health care sector. She helped develop and lead the Healing Health Care Project at Sutter Health, and in this position spoke at other health care facilities with such luminary leaders as Leland Kaiser Ph.D., Bernie Segal M.D., Joan Borysenko, M.D., and others. She led out in a variety of early leading edge change endeavors such as participatory system wide reorganization, team-based senior leadership programs, participatory line staff budget reductions, etc. She accepted an appointment as Director of Strategic Planning for Habitat for Humanity International where for 5 years she worked with the COO and International Board of Directors guiding short/ and long-range worldwide planning . As the senior principal in the Lockwood Group, a private consulting firm, she led special projects and strategic planning endeavors with numerous private organizations and state agencies.

In addition to her one on one coaching practice, Marlene facilitates group coaching tele-programs where she gently leads people who have experience significant loss, through the challenging sometimes dark, scary and seemingly endless time of transition to wonderful, rewarding and new beginnings. Through their work with Coach Marlene, clients becoming stronger, wiser, and more in tune with their own wants and needs as well as how to make their desires reality.

She hosts Springboard Conversations interviewing key figures in the world of health, well-being and life transition such as Mary Allen CPCC, MCC, Author Rebecca McLean, and Dr. Roger Jahnke. She serves as Faculty for ICA Technology of Participation, is a Qualified Myers/Briggs Assessment provider, a facilitator of Tai Chi Easy, and is certified as a Professional Facilitator by the International Association of Facilitators. She received her BSN from Sacramento State University, MPA from the University of San Francisco, and her Health and Wellness Coach Training from Health Action in Santa Barbara.

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