Desert Blue Coaching

Discover Your Voice, Own Your Path

Coaching for people navigating career transitions, workplace nonsense, and self-doubt at work - helping them gain clarity, confidence, and the courage to advocate for themselves.

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You’re good at what you do.

So why are you second-guessing yourself?

Overthinking every conversation? Struggling to speak up? Feeling overlooked, burned out, or wondering if it’s time for a change?

You’re capable of more than your self-doubt is letting you believe.

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Why Coaching?

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    What is Coaching?

    Professional coaching provides objectivity to shift perspectives. Coaches focus on forward-looking action and help individuals set goals for the future. Coaching is encouraging, empowering, and supporting self-improvement, mastery, or problem solving.

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    What is a Coaching Culture?

    At work, when managers shift from “bosses” to “coaches”, a coaching culture can improve productivity, revenue, and employee satisfaction. With coaching, managers learn to provide healthy feedback, hold others accountable, and balance work/life goals.

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    Why Do I Need Coaching?

    Coaching empowers you to recognize your agency and take control and ownership of your life. We work on mindset shifts and strategies to overcome barriers, taking proactive steps, and offers a safe space to navigate challenges to build resilience.

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Work Shouldn’t Make You Question Your Worth

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Confidence affects how you communicate, make decisions, set boundaries, pursue opportunities, and advocate for yourself.

When self-doubt takes over, even capable people can get stuck playing small, overthinking everything, and putting everyone else’s needs first.

Add a difficult boss, unrealistic expectations, or a workplace that doesn’t recognize your value? It’s a lot.

You don’t need to fix everything about yourself. You need space to figure out what’s happening, what you want, and what you’re going to do about it.

That’s where coaching comes in.

Let’s work on what’s next.

Career Clarity
Ready for a change but not sure what comes next? Let’s figure out what you want and how to move toward it.

Confidence & Self-Advocacy
Speak up. Set boundaries. Own your strengths. Stop waiting until you feel 100% ready.

Workplace Challenges
Navigate difficult dynamics, unrealistic expectations, and the everyday nonsense without losing yourself in the process.

You don’t have to become someone else to show up differently.

So, what are you waiting for?

Ready to make waves? Let's start today!

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Coaching with a

real-world perspective

I bring years of experience in HR, leadership development, organizational development, and people strategy to my coaching practice.

I understand how workplaces operate, how leadership decisions affect people, and why talented professionals sometimes lose confidence in themselves.

I’m here to help you connect the dots, challenge the stories holding you back, and make your next move with greater clarity and confidence.

No generic advice. No toxic positivity. No pretending every workplace problem is a you problem.

Just honest conversations, practical strategies, and coaching that meets you where you are.

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8 Years of Desert Blue: A Little Reflection and a Lot of Gratitude
8 Years of Desert Blue: A Little Reflection and a Lot of Gratitude

Eight years ago, I graduated with my master's degree in Organizational Development & Leadership and did something that felt both exciting and a little terrifying. I started my own business.

That summer of 2018, Desert Blue Consulting and Coaching became official.

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The real reason work feels so frustrating
The real reason work feels so frustrating

A lot of workplace frustration isn't actually caused by difficult people, unrealistic expectations, or too much work.

It's caused by a lack of clarity.

When expectations aren't clear, priorities keep changing, feedback is vague, or decisions happen behind closed doors, our brains fill in the gaps. We make assumptions, second-guess ourselves, and try to figure out what we're "supposed" to be doing.

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A few phrases that quietly make you sound less confident at work
A few phrases that quietly make you sound less confident at work

A lot of us were taught to communicate at work in ways that actually make us sound less confident.

Not because we don’t know what we’re doing.
Not because we aren’t capable.

But because we’ve been conditioned to soften everything we say so we don’t come across as “too much.”

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Testimonials

  • Aga, Business Owner

    Nicole and her coaching has allowed me to reflect and pivot in some of the most important areas of my life. I recently started a new business and she helped me realize how limiting beliefs and some of my fears were rooted in a place I could control. Through visualization, goal setting exercises and her other valuable tools, I was able to get out of my own way. Leaning on her process was invaluable. She builds a safe space filled with trust, enabling you to open up and explore what may be holding you back from experiencing the joy, success or happiness you deserve. It's not easy, and it does require a lot of self reflection and hard work - but having Nicole on my side made the experience transformational. And I am so thankful for her support.

  • Jhenifer, Nonprofit Leader

    I had such a great experience working with Niki at Desert Blue Consulting & Coaching! She took such care with guiding me through conversations and goals all focused around my personal journey and how to achieve success. She has such a positive outlook and holistic and personalized approach and makes it easy to stay on task. Whether it is a business or personal focus, I highly recommend her Riptide package. Give yourself a gift by being coached by her!

  • Alex, Nonprofit Leader

    I joined the Desert Blue Book Club in January 2020 when I was pregnant, freshly moved into a new home, and in a career transition period. I had so many moving parts and things to think about and prepare. Being in this book club has been a personal and professional benefit. It gave me time to connect with other people during a busy time in my life and Niki does a great job of helping you organize your thoughts, figure out what your Wildly Important Goal is, and giving you actionable steps to reach it. Without having her and the group during this crazy season of life, I think I would have been stressed and disorganized. Thank you Niki for being such a fantastic coach and helping me love the changes coming my way.

  • Chelsea, Nonprofit Leader

    I can’t recommend Niki and Desert Blue Consultant + Coaching enough. Through pointed questions, Niki was able to help me navigate through my goals and most importantly - the roadblocks I put in my own way. Niki is a unique practitioner; you instantly feel like you are talking with a life-long pal and someone with a fresh set of perspectives at the same time. In our coaching sessions, Niki curated activities and conversations that helped me understand my big picture. She provided me with the tools and support to start down the path towards professional fulfillment and ownership of my experiences. Our conversations provided me with the clarity + confidence that I was missing. Please, do yourself a favor and book with Niki ASAP!

  • Bridget, Tech Leader

    Had an amazing session this evening with Desert Blue Consulting & Coaching! The clarity that comes with having your values solidified and knowing what you can and can’t allow in your life... sometimes that means you make changes and lose things/people in your life. But the freedom it gives you to not have conflict with what brings you peace is worth it.

  • Aye Aye, Business Owner

    My experience with Desert Blue has been eyes opening and thought provoking in business development. During the meeting, there’s so much I didn’t know about owning a business and what I have to do as a business owner. Through Niki guidance I was able to do things simpler and get through the important tasks.

  • Shingai, Business Owner

    Being able to connect and work with Niki has been a turning point in our business. The approach and the process Niki uses allows you to find the right ideas & the pace which you can move & make progress. She walked us through a lot of important parts of our business,ranging from the vision statement to short term and long term goals. Also shedding light on our Strengths,areas we can improve in plus more. To sum up in a few words our overall experience with Niki has certainly helped improve our business structure, our day to day system has been polished up and most importantly we feel that we have a better sense of direction in where we would want to be as we grow. We highly recommend Niki if you’re looking to really implement the right steps to lead you to your goals!