When I began working with Laila, I was struggling, unemployed, and in a difficult place…read moreemotionally. The profound gift that Laila brought was the depth of presence that she carries. She listened astutely to everything I shared and also read between the lines, helping me articulate that what I needed to focus on wasn't even actually my career- it was my own personal growth and mental and emotional health. Her questions and carefully developed worksheets are truly holistic, providing an opportunity to reflect broadly on what a more aligned life looks like for you and all your dreams, passions, fears, etc. Yet, as I got clearer on what I needed, I still was unemployed. Laila recognized my immediate need to become financially stable, introducing me to the concept of "transition jobs" and helping me identify what type of work I would be able to do in order to sustain myself while having the time/energy/resources for the deeper personal development I knew I needed. Though it was a difficult process, and I needed a whole support system of friends, counselors, and Laila's holistic approach, I got to work applying for transition jobs. We worked together to create a series of resumes for my different skill sets and Laila honed the language used to describe my experience. She had example resumes and resources that helped me bring life back to my resume, which I had grown deeply disillusioned with. While applying to transition jobs, Laila advised me to apply to as many as possible so I could have the upper hand in making my decision. Still in a very low place, I took the first offer I was given. As Laila could have predicted, I didn't last long (only a couple of weeks). The whole experience helped me realize that I wanted something between a transition job and my dream job, a little more in alignment with who I am. Ultimately, I was given three incredible offers, and Laila helped me negotiate which offers were right for me as well as coached me in negotiating compensation for my skills. If you are somebody who, like me, struggles with imposter syndrome and fully claiming your value, Laila enthusiastically supports you in advocating for yourself. I never imagined I could get the offer I ended up accepting- I am earning the highest hourly wage I've ever earned in a part-time job with full benefits doing the kind of work I want to do (work not usually highly compensated). Throughout the whole process, I always felt I had somebody at my back who believed in me and was available to talk through each interview and the challenges of surviving in such a tough economy, but I also had somebody to celebrate each small win with. Thank you, Laila, for your presence, your attunement, your perseverance toward joy, and your fluffiness! Your support was deeply needed during a very difficult time and brought insights that will change the trajectory of my life. I hope that more people, especially those like me who struggle to live in the system as it is, can work with you to bring meaning to their lives (while also learning to cover the basic costs of getting by)! I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to work with you.

Laila is a seasoned career coach who understands individuals. She knew I had a very eclectic…read morebackground and helped me translate that into a stellar plan for defining and transitioning into the career path I've been on for many years now. I highly recommend her as an empathetic passionate career coach.

Diana recently helped me prepare for a daunting interview which required a presentation with…read morePowerPoint slides. With her input I was able to work out the structure of the presentation, and she helped me wordsmith the language of the slides to maximize their impact. Her assistance really improved my confidence in both the overall interview and presentation, and as a result the presentation was a smashing success. And best of all, I got the job! Diana is great at talking through your work history and helping you to convey your experience in clear and professional terms, whether that be on your resume or in coaching you on how to talk about it in an interview. She's perceptive and kind, and really likes to help people. I would happily recommend her services to anyone looking for help polishing themselves as a job candidate!

Diana is a fantastic coach, especially when it comes to helping beef up a resume or be a sound…read moreboard when I'm preparing for a process improvement project. She is a great listener and provides the best advise. Being a visual learning she coached to my learning style. I would recommend Diana anytime

Coaching with Kathy Clayton has had such an invaluable and beautiful impact on my life. I reached…read moreout last spring, when I had hit a mental low, and knew things needed to change. I look back at the person I was then, and I don't even recognize her. Being vulnerable enough to change is extremely uncomfortable for me, but Kathy met me where I was at with such compassion. She has an unbelievable ability to educate, question, and motivate with both comfort and firmness. Kathy is extremely intelligent and brings the energy and insight that is needed for all kinds of situations. (I love her creativity and sense of humor too.) Because of our work together, I can now face life's challenges more more self awareness and courage than I ever thought possible. Thank you, Kathy.

Kathy vastly exceeded my expectations. She is a smart lady with a real knack for helping people…read more She has brought so much insight into my life and helped me understand my strengths and values. I started working with Kathy while I was lost and confused, searching for a career with meaning. She has helped me get a fresh perspective and I came out the other side so much more sure of myself and my future.

It feels like a privilege that I finally have the opportunity to praise and speak to the success of…read moremy experience with Plum Coaching--I called Lora expecting a fairly transactional conversation about costs and expectations, but I decided to move forward because she genuinely listened to the specifics of my situation. In summary: I was seeking new opportunities in my field of UX design, had built an impressive portfolio but was consistently failing to communicate my work in a way that resonated with hiring managers. I had gone through 12 unsuccessful interviews before I decided it was time to seek some professional and objective advice. What I appreciated most about the mock interview with Lora was that she never tried to steer me away from being myself...she gave me practical tools to make sure that I was able to speak on my own behalf and recognize the intention behind every interview question. Long story short, I found myself with an offer letter about three weeks after our session in a role that is perfect for my professional development. If you're in a tough or confusing spot, don't make decisions based on the cost of services--just find someone who you trust that understands your goals and needs and it will pay off a thousand times in the future. Plum served that purpose for me and I can't reccomend their services highly enough.

I called Lora because I'm looking for a contract position in Seattle. She was really sweet and…read morehelpful. I couldn't tell from the Yelp reviews that she doesn't do placement work. She recommended a company for me to get in contact with. Thank you Lora for your help!

Erica is awesome! Just talking with her injects rays of positivity into your life. She's an…read moreexcellent listener and is able to give you the tools and plan you need to move towards your goals.

From the owner: You are the architect of your life. You have the ability to create the blueprint of your dreams…read more Ready to embrace your possibilities? **Conscious Transformation Fulfilling life path Life Transitions Transform negative thoughts and habits Release Fears and phobias Positive Self Image Enhance creativity Attract nurturing relationships Discover inner resources Full body presence Create healthy boundaries Positive Work Life balance Reclaim your power Achieve goals Develop intuition Create abundance **Medical and Wellness Accelerated Healing Pain Management Relaxation Intuitive eating and nutrition Healthy lifestyle Conscious Childbearing Use inner wisdom to heal from the inside out Surgery support Transform unhealthy habits **Spiritual Exploration Experience your divine nature Spiritual connection Understand unique energy patterns Clear your energy pathways Past Life, Inter Life and Natal Regression Improve meditation **Entrepreneurial and Leadership Job and career satisfaction Manifest ideas Release limiting beliefs Transform your relationship to Money and Success Adjust your financial blueprint Release Self Sabotaging habits Ability to handle crisis Creative problem solving Intuitive decision making Improve communication Plan and set goals Learn to read people and situations Distraction and procrastination habits Be your most inspired, vibrant self.

I worked with Sage on several issues that were really dominating my life last year. Sage has a…read morenatural ability to be fully present in the session, using her deep listening skills. She was able to make me feel totally relaxed so that I was able to follow her guidance easily. The sessions were not only relaxing, which helped greatly with general stress levels, but working with her allowed me to be myself, to let go and to trust that she was taking me through a transformation or shift. When each of the sessions were finished, I felt a clear sense of that shift and was able to go about my day, free of the emotions that were otherwise getting in the way. Very liberating! With confidence, I highly recommend working with Sage. She is empathetic, compassionate, and gentle but also thorough in getting to the heart of the matter and helping work through the issues at hand.

Sage Wolfe has been my coach, counselor, and mentor through multiple life changes. She is a…read morewellspring of positivity and good spirits with a deep reserve of compassion and patience. Sage possesses a deep knowledge of her craft, and even her name is synonymous with wisdom. A major component of her strength stems from the difficult challenges she has personally faced and overcome during the course of her lifetime. She draws upon this experience to bring a genuine understanding and sensitivity to my needs. My own journey has sent me through a series of hardships over the past several years (health issues, divorce, anxiety, financial loss, sleeplessness, a major career change, etc.) and every time, Sage has confidently helped me reframe my perspective of things. No matter what I am going through, she has strategies to offer me hope. While it is always up to me to actually implement the plans, Sage is an invaluable and trusted resource to design these blueprints for action. She motivates me to do well, to question my preconceptions, and to be action-oriented in my own life. I am truly fortunate to have found her and I am so grateful for her healing advice and counsel. Sage has made all the difference in the world. I highly recommend her.

This is LONG over due. Wendy is AWESOME…read more My very first class with Wendy was June/July 2013. It was a life-changing experience. I can honestly say that I am a better person today than I was in July of 2013 and it all started with what I have learned from Wendy. She teaches you life tools. Things I think that we should learn earlier in life to help us deal with life. She is not going to do the work for you, but if you actually practice the tools she teaches you, you will change yourself in the best ways possible. Many people put their money into coffee, clothes, cars, and homes.... Until you invest in your self in this way, all that other stuff is a little shallow. It's like building a "foundation". If the foundation of a house is no good, it doesn't matter how nice the house is.... When you strip everything away, the cars, clothes, house, material items away, what are you left with? Yourself. How do you feel about yourself? Maybe you think your perfect but chances are that you realize how imperfect you are. Which is why you feel the need to have all the fancy materialistic things. In learning to do this great work, you really learn about yourself. What kind of person you are and who you want to be. You begin to listen, tune into your soul and begin to make choices based on what your soul wants rather than your ego. Think about investing in yourself, at the souls level, you won't regret it.

Wendy is AMAZING, I can't recommend her highly enough! She has such a gentle, sweet, supportive way…read moreto her, always making you feel safe and welcomed, seeing you in your best light. But she also has a zest for life and you can almost always find her laughing. She also is quite gifted, and while working with her, I was often amazed at how she could see exactly what was going on with me, and help deepen my awareness, and help me shift through it. I have sent many people to her since we first met several years ago, as she is probably my favorite teacher ever. If you're thinking about it, you should absolutely schedule a session, and find out if you are a fit (spoiler alert: you will be!)

Mir and team were prompt, communicative, competent, and professional. I'm happy with the finished…read moreproduct and feel that the quality writing of the Seattle Resumes team has represented my professional brand well.

Seattle Resumes helped me create a solid, comprehensive, and effective resume. The process was…read moresmooth, the communication was easy, and they were very prompt throughout. Overall, I had a great experience and have already recommended their services to several friends

For the Tuesday night Canada West Coast Masterclass led by Jonathan,…read moreWe need some way to get feedback to someone about the Masterclass and the leader of the masterclass.But it has been hard to reach people at the office. And there is no built in way. We're giving it anonymously due to backlash we've seen people receive. We love the overall Masterclass so far and will look forward to keep continuing. However there are a few problems that have creeped up. We're in a new era at Landmark, and there are ways we don't operate or treat people anymore. But some of this is still happening in the masterclass. stuff the leader is still doing or people are still doing to support the leader. Please stop calling us at home if we miss a session, under the guise of we're just checking on you to see if you are okay. We didn't opt in for this, ask for this, or request it.And it comes across as culty, pressuring, and strange. Please stop.It just puts people in a very uncomfortable situation. These are the things that make us hesitant to bring guests or bring more guests. Please stop the we're going to call you at home, or single you out,or put you on the spot, or moralize, or get us in the class to pressure or make other people uncomfortable if they are out for a session, or a few minutes late, for the masterclass, or have to be off camera for some part of it. or behind the scenes talking about, we're going to put people in another room if they don't do this or that. What was happening the other night. It was not Jonathan being Jonathan, and not in a really so new way of empowering people way. We also don't rail into people anymore. We ask for permission to interact in a certain way with people. Also, the leader needs to remember the Masterclass is not the Landmark Leadership academy. It is also not the military. This is a Masterclass, not the military. Nobody signed up for bootcamp or to be railed into. There was an interaction with a young man last week that made people very uncomfortable. Not in an Awesome Landmark Forum way. Jonathan was interacting with the young man who is in a very tough situation. We won't say the name of the young man or the details of the situation, as that is confidential to the seminar. We would not even use the leader's name except that then there'd be no way for anyone who can do anything about it to know which leader or course we were talking about. But we would not be surprised if you ask Jonathan if he doesn't immediately know exactly what interaction you were talking about. Compassion, listening, presence, all of it was out. Jonathan was not his usual open or even strongly standing for people self. Something else was happening. That may have something to do with the similarity of what the young man was dealing with connected to maybe something that was personal to him. It was also a guest event night, so Jonathan only did this, and only kind of uncomfortably put people on the spot, and was this way when the guests weren't in the room. He was just like you're responsible for your situation, you're getting something out of it, you're responsible for your situation, without listening to what the young man was saying anymore at all. Not like an inquiry. Like he was stressed. And wanted this to go on. And like it was just, it really was just something else. And then as soon as the guests were back into the room was a completely different person. Thank goodness none of our guests were accidentally in that room while Jonathan was interacting with this young man that way. With how the leader was being with this young man it seemed like something else was taking over stress or well being or something. It genuinely did seem like, is Jonathan okay, what is he doing, why is he being that way. There was also a guest he had there that was personal for many reasons so maybe that had something to do with it. But the new Landmark Worldwide exists to empower people. Including people in tough situations. And just something else was going on and something else was happening. We don't want the seminar to suddenly fall apart, or to stop being great, or maybe for a guest to get accidentally treated this way, or witness this kind of thing. or someone who may be bringing a guest or has a guest. or suddenly everyone starts getting kicked out the seminar for not being perfect and it starts breeding like this fear and something else in the environment that is not a great way to grow the seminar or inspire people to be inspired, or even share more of themselves, and bring guests. And there have been a few of these things in the Masterclass. But the interaction with that young man, as well, as in anyway putting people on the spot of railing into people, is not something we want to see happening again. It was also the Creating Happiness Seminar for goodness sake. Hard to tell a guest that this, or dealing with people this way is what the Creating happiness seminar or any Landmark Seminar is all about.

To anyone who deals with Landmark customers directly, that is in person or on the phone at this…read morecenter.  Please stop lying Please stop lying Please stop lying Please **stop lying** to people on the phone or in person to get them to do things. And please stop pressuring. And please tell other people to stop Lying and pressuring people just to grind through and fulfill an objective. Lying includes exaggerating. And Making Stuff Up that sounds good in person or over the phone just to make something happen. and PLEASE STOP CORNERING AND PRESSURING PEOPLE ONCE YOU ALREADY HAVE THEM IN THE COURSE BECAUSE YOU THINK IT'S OKAY THEN, OR THAT NO ONE OUTSIDE THE COURSE OR GROUP WILL KNOW. PLEASE STOP GETTING TOGETHER AND DECIDING PUSHING AND PRESSURING PEOPLE IS OKAY BECAUSE IT FULFILLS THE COMPANY MANDATES AND FULFILLS LANDMARK'S OBJECTIVES. That includes people registered, or registering in, or thinking about registering in, or even withdrawing from, or transferring between courses.  Having had someone take a course at Landmark within the last couple of months, I have to give this feedback to the Seattle Washington front office here specifically and to the center. This kind of behavior from Landmark employees and volunteers embarrasses people and makes it hard to recommend programs and events there, when this type of behavior is happening.  And we have to teach people how to get around some of this, meaning to deal with as little of this as possible, to try to get to some of the value out of the content that is or can be so helpful in the courses. No one should have to get around the bad, or pressuring behavior, of the employees or volunteers to get to the courses. Please give more space, and breathing room, and presence and listening, and then even more space, and generosity to the people you are interacting with, on the phone and in person. Please don't guilt, shame, grind, manipulate, cajole, people into registering, or staying in, or registering for the seminar, or the next thing,or try to force, convince them, cajole them, manipulate them, grind them, corner them, scare them, pressure them, and force and push them... into being in a group, or doing another program, or into showing up for, participating in, or speaking in, or doing other optional or simply recommended activities events programs, calls, evenings or into bringing guests or more guests.or really into anything The feedback was that this aspect of attempting to do and then finally doing the course was exhausting.  Really just completely exhausting.The times I've run into it as well, I would agree it is completely exhausting. By the way getting people to do things using lying exaggerating, or pressure, builds up resentment and that should not ever be the feeling that Landmark is ever leaving people with, or that a professional organization that says it's out for people, that is out for people, should be leaving people with. Dealing with Landmark personnel should not be a draw back or exhausting part of the course. It should be an enjoyable spacious space. And a great listening. On the phone. And in person. This cultural mandate and habit of grinding down on people, while calling it supporting it shouldn't be a problem still, and it is exhausting.  Be there with people and actually listen to them. People don't have space to think, breathe, choose, or even AGREE with you because you're just grinding them into a corner and not listening at all. And not giving any space or breathing room guilt lies manipulation enough of this. please. put a stop to this within the office and the organization. please. Seriously Seriously stop it. Find another way.  This drawback is exhausting. 4 stars for the content of the programs. 1 star for this kind of continued behavior from the personnel.