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Explore Coaching Services

Achieve your goals and find new ways to foster effective leadership.

Coaching starts with your goals. Together we'll identify what's getting in the way, clarify what you want to achieve, and build a path to get there. The answers are often already within you. My job is to help you find them. Typical coaching engagements begin with an initial 6-month commitment.

Explore and reflect upon new ideas with a confidential and experienced partner.

Coaching gives you a confidential space to think out loud with an experienced partner. Sometimes just saying something aloud shifts your perspective. Together we'll explore your priorities, reframe the challenges you're facing, and uncover new approaches you hadn't considered.

Find a new perspective with the help of a leadership coach drawing on years of experience and training.

As a leader, you're wired for quick thinking and fast action. Coaching gives you permission to slow down. With a fresh perspective and an experienced thought partner, you'll get to the root of complex issues and find solutions that actually stick.

Take the time you need to take steps towards a transformation of your leadership and your approach to motivating your team.

What you share in coaching stays in coaching. That confidentiality gives you the freedom to be honest about what's really going on. From there, we turn those conversations into action, building better performance, stronger relationships, and a more motivated team.

Coaching Services

  • Great leaders know how to bring out the best in the people around them. But leading well takes more than good intentions. It takes self-awareness, strong relationships, and the ability to adapt as your organization grows and changes. Coaching helps you develop the skills and mindset to lead with confidence, engage your team, and build a culture where people want to do their best work.

  • HR work is uniquely complex. You're supporting everyone else in the organization while managing your own professional growth at the same time. Finding a coach who truly understands that experience makes all the difference.

    With decades of HR leadership experience across small businesses, nonprofits, and other mission-driven organizations, I understand the pressures and complexities you navigate every day. Whether you have specific career goals or just need a trusted thought partner to work through a challenge, I can help.

  • Career development looks different for everyone. Maybe you're preparing for a promotion, navigating a transition, exploring a new direction, or simply trying to find more meaning in your work. Wherever you are, coaching gives you the clarity and confidence to move forward.

    Together we'll identify your goals, work through what's holding you back, and build the skills and mindset to get where you want to go. You'll leave each session with a clearer sense of direction and practical steps to take.

Resources to Support Your Journey

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The Top 5 Questions Clients Ask Me — Answered

The same five HR questions come up with nearly every client I work with. When do you need a handbook? How often should you update it? What makes a position overtime-exempt? How is nonprofit work different? And when do you actually need HR? If you've been asking them too, you're not alone — and the answers might surprise you.

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3 HR Fundamentals Every Small Business Needs to Get Right

When all elements of HR are aligned -- from attracting and selecting the right people to onboarding, developing, inspiring, and engaging your team -- your business can thrive. When each step in your HR practices is intentional and aligned, you create a stronger foundation for your team and your business. By focusing on clarity, compliance, and policies that fit your organization, you set the stage for growth and long-term success.

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Six Years of Purposeful Transformation: Reflections from the Chrysalis

Six years ago today, I launched my business: Chrysalis HR Consulting. This is my story of how I found my purpose working with small businesses and nonprofits, with a focus on culture, policy and people development, learning in the process that I can make HR fun and easy to understand.

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Client Experiences

  • Nicole helps me to focus not just on what I want to accomplish, but also why it’s important to me. Through our coaching discussions, she gives me the opportunity to vocalize what I feel but don’t always say.

    — B. L. (Coaching Client) —

  • During multiple hours of one-to-one coaching with her, she provided practical guidance that honored my Co-Executive Director and me, as well as our organization’s mission and values.

    Nicole was so knowledgeable about a variety of HR best practices. She not only pointed us to additional resources to keep us up to date in Human Resources standards and best practices, she has personally continued to be a source of feedback and information. Her passion for supporting nonprofits and executives as well as her lightness, positivity, and down to earth sense of humor made the entire coaching experience exceptional!

    — Read to Succeed —

  • Saying the thoughts that I have in my head and heart enables me to name the specific issues; it helps to get it out. It’s eye opening how much comes out through the thought partnership, peeling back the layers helps me to see that what I start with is often not what I end with.

    — W. F. (Coaching Client) —

  • Nicole was an absolute pleasure to work with!

    She is incredibly knowledgeable and has the ability to break down difficult subject matter and transmit it in an understandable way. Nicole has many resources that she shares freely and she supports you as you navigate the sometimes challenging world of Human Resources.

    — Asheville City Schools Foundation —

  • I had the pleasure of working with Nicole Norian on developing a staff handbook for our nonprofit organization, and it was an outstanding experience. Her expertise and dedication were evident throughout the entire months-long process.

    She not only crafted a comprehensive and clear handbook but also tailored it perfectly to our organization's needs. Her professionalism and efficiency made the entire collaboration smooth and enjoyable. I highly recommend Chrysalis HR Consulting for any HR-related projects; Nicole is truly exceptional!

    — WNC Communities —

WHAT I BELIEVE

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

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— JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE —