RISE & Empower
RISE & Empower is our complimentary RISE coaching communities, focused on empowering and encouraging each other to uncover what inspires us to grow.
Each coaching community is facilitated by a certified coach, exposing RISE women to the power of professional coaching and the impact it can have on your personal and professional growth. The hour-long sessions of 8 – 12 women will be led, coached, and facilitated by one of our incredible certified coaches.
Meet the Coaches!
Amy Kloefkorn
Amy Kloefkorn leads the College of Business fundraising team at the University of Nebraska Foundation, is a certified professional coach (CPC) through the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC), and a master practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index (ELI).
Amy helps empower you to create meaningful and intentional change in their lives by focusing on the impact of our energy and creating win-win opportunities at work, home, and in life. Amy believes in the power of accountability, transparency and abundance.
Amy’s coaching community, the Win-Win Project, will focus on the following topics:
Win – Win Thinking: creating awareness and building partnerships
Showing Up: how your energy impacts your leadership ability
Meaningful Habits: creating habits that align with your values and your future
Boundaries: protecting your time, sanity, and managing expectations
Courtney Lockridge
Life and business coach Courtney Lockridge, is an entrepreneur and cheerleader at heart- on a mission to help her clients do life beautifully one intentional decision at a time.
As a certified enneagram trainer, Courtney desires to help individuals and teams grow in deeper self-awareness and unity through high-energy, relatable, and practical group sessions customized to your company's needs.
Join us on a journey of personal growth through utilizing the enneagram, an ancient tool, as we gain knowledge of how both our greatest weakness and strength is driven by our core motivation; affecting every relationship in our lives including the one we have with ourselves.
Courtney’s coaching community, Know Your Number- Growing in Self-Awareness Through the Enneagram will focus on the following topics:
Greater self-clarity
Tools for transformation
Knowledge to live better relationally and vocationally
Resources to independently continue your journey of exploration
KRIS PETERSoN
Kris Peterson is a Leadership Coach, Team Culture, Sales, & Communication Trainer, and Speaker. She is also an Executive Program Consultant with The Maxwell Leadership Team, and serves on the President’s Advisory Council. As a coach, Kris believes in empowering people to realize their potential with confidence and influence. She began her coaching career in 2005, as a church coach, helping congregations and pastors to develop their ministries and missions. In the process she realized she needed a better way to teach people how to be leaders. Since then, she has used her training in The Maxwell Leadership Team to help people lead themselves and others more intentionally and discover true significance in their personal and professional lives.
Kris’s coaching community, Unlocking Potential with Confidence & Influence, will focus on the following topics:
Understanding what you value most personally and professionally
Accepting and leading ourselves
Building more influence with others
Sarah Collins
Sarah Collins is a certified Gallup CliftonStrengths coach and experienced facilitator + speaker. Sarah is dedicated to helping everyone from managers to mothers understand how to utilize strengths to enhance their lives. Serving both local and global organizations, her unique approach helps teams intentionally learn about each other which saves organizations time, money, and energy. Leaders, managers, and young professionals find value in Sarah's enthusiastic and authentic approach that is backed by research, science, and proven strategies.
Sarah's coaching community, Strong as a Mother, will focus on the following topics:
Learning about and exploring your personal strengths, utilizing the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment
Discovering how your strengths currently show up in your motherhood and how to best adapt your parenting to fully utilize your strengths, making you and your children happier and healthier
Exploring how your strengths can contribute to your success as you balance work, relationships and raising the next generation
Meghan Davidson
Dr. Meghan Davidson is a Licensed Psychologist, a Certified Daring Way Facilitator. She has been a faculty member at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in the Counseling Psychology Program for the past 13 years. Having provided counseling, therapy, and coaching to individuals, couples, and groups for over 15 years, Meghan has honed her expertise in the areas of women's health, body image, trauma, relationships, vulnerability, authenticity, and self-compassion.
Meghan has trained with Brené Brown and has developed expertise in trauma-informed yoga. Bridging the domains of psychology and yoga, Meghan works with her clients in a holistic manner, utilizing aspects of mind, body, and spirit to assist individuals enhance their emotional, psychological, and physical health so that they may live their best life.
Meghan's coaching community theme, Stepping into Authenticity, will focus on the following topics:
Choosing to be our truest and authentic selves takes courage and compassion. We will work toward how to practice authenticity and move through the various obstacles that hinder us from stepping into who we truly are. From work cultures, to family dynamics, to friends, we'll work toward being our truest selves.
Bailey Seaton
Bailey Seaton is a certified holistic health coach and personal trainer on a mission to help women reduce inflammation and heal their relationship with food. As a coach, Bailey implements a mindset-first approach to improving one’s physical wellness.
After graduating from Nebraska Wesleyan and starting her coaching business in 2021, Bailey quickly developed a passion for helping women pursue their health goals through 1:1 and group coaching. She helps clients identify the root-cause of their inflammation and understands that there is no one-size fits all approach to improving the health of others. She values functional nutrition, mindset, and movement within her practice, as well as showing empathy and compassion for the various factors that diminish ones’ health. Through working with a variety of clients, Bailey has recognized that you could have the best diet and exercise routine in the world, but if you have failing relationships and are unable to cope with personal stressors, your overall health is being greatly impacted.
Bailey’s coaching community, Mindset Matters, will focus on the following topics:
Root-Cause approach: learn what is causing your body internal stress and understand the source of your inflammation through utilizing the Inflammation Spectrum Assessment.
Stress into strength: explore breathwork, journaling, identifying limiting beliefs, and supporting one another to both embrace and overcome life’s stressors.
Nourishment: understand how food plays a role in not only your physical, but mental health and learn simple tools for transforming your relationship with food.
Movement: find low-impact exercises that work for you, support your body long-term, and decrease stress.
Lori Botz
Lori Botz is a business/life coach, teacher, facilitator and speaker. She loves the world of business and the people who make it all come together. Her vast experience in business combined with a listening presence and masterful questions place her inside her calling.
She’s a graduate from Coachville, “Coach Training” and is certified “Professional Coach” through the International Coaching Federation for coaching mastery. She has over 14 years of experience and 1000’s of hours coaching.
Lori partners with Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Professionals in a thought-provoking and creative process. She blends 1:1 coaching, teams/groups, and classes that create Clarity, Ownership, Systems/Processes, Momentum/Growth, and desired Outcomes.
Lori’s coaching community is designed to coach and teach you how to take “The Coach Approach”. It expands and gives new perspectives about you and others. Learn new ways to be inspired and watch others become inspired. Create questions that bring clarity to you and those you lead. Encourage potential, create buy in, feel the energy come back, and hear renewing vision and passions that can bring momentum and growth.
Amanda Fairley
Amanda Fairley is a coach, mentor, speaker, and business owner. Certified in The Working Genius, Real Colors, and Gallup CliftonStrengths. She is a certified Life Purpose coach passionate about seeing others succeed. After spending almost ten years in higher education, Amanda stepped away in order to pursue her passions. She is the Managing Director for Amanda Fairley, LLC, and the Founder and Senior Analyst of The Studio of Color.
Knowing what gives us joy and energy in our work is truly the key to living a fulfilled life.
Amanda's coaching community, Own Your Genius, will focus on the following topics:
Discover the tools for transforming the way you work.
Learn to work in the areas that give you joy and energy.
Explore a shared language for appreciation.
Create a plan for making shifts in your life for happiness and fulfillment.
Anh Le
Anh Le, a seasoned educator and success coach in higher education, holds certifications as both a Life Coach and Parent Coach. With a doctorate in Higher Education Leadership, Anh serves as a teacher, mentor, coach and advisor for college students.
Anh’s coaching community, Life Purpose, will focus on the pursuit of Ikigai – the Japanese concept of finding purpose and fulfillment in life. Together, we empower each other to live authentically, with clarity, purpose and passion, navigating the path to realizing our fullest potential and creating deeply meaningful lives aligned with our true selves. Through this coaching community, participants will be able to gain:
Clarification of Purpose
Alignment of Goals and Actions
Enhanced Self-Awareness
Resilience and Well-Being
Community and Support
Actionable Strategies and Accountability