Choose the Life You Want

With Professional Coach Kerri K. Yates, CPCC – President of  Opinion Ready and Resumes by Coaches. Founder of The Kenerson Group and AnythingGIS. Co-leader of muse. Winner of the 2009 Top 200 Leading Moms in Business Award from StartUpNation.

Are you determined to wake up excited about each day? To establish your definition of success and move fiercely towards it? Achieving this requires clarity,  smart choices, and educated actions with accountability.

As your coach, I am your objective ally, a highly-trained partner who can move you forward faster than you could on your own.  Although focused on your specific goals, our coaching will influence every area of your life.  You will leave the experience feeling stronger and more in touch with your identity than ever before. You will be able to make better choices,  to free yourself when you feel stuck, and to coach yourself forward.

Please contact me to discuss your goals.  My specialties include: business owners, entrepreneurs, career-seekers, and those who want to experience more enthusiasm about their lives. Subscribe to my newsletter below and follow me on Twitter.

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icf_logo Kerri K. Yates, CPCC is a certified co-active professional and life coach, motivational speaker, and published writer. She founded two software companies until realizing that although outwardly successful as a businesswoman, she wasn't fully honoring her interest in positively impacting other peoples' lives. Hence, she became a coach.

"I want people to feel good about who they are and how they are living their lives. This comes from knowing what you value, believe, who you are, and then actually living out this knowledge."

About Kerri

My Coaching Philosophy: Eudokeo means, “To choose and be well pleased with.”  With the right information, we can make strong choices with ease and move forward with surety. In line with these beliefs, I have developed a suite of services that strongly impact my clients.   These include:

In addition, I am pleased to offer:

  • Opinion Ready – a bi-weekly e-resource providing 4-6 informative articles (with the author’s biases explained) on a single important current topic so that our readers can form supported opinions and engage intelligently on these issues.  “Know what you believe and why.”
  • Muse – Adventures for women that are fun and include things you have always wanted to try!



“…When I lost my job due to a budget cut, I was devastated…I didn’t know if I had marketable skills or to what degree…She listened closely to my situation, immediately giving me the feeling that, as personal as my situation was, it also was something that so many people shared.  Asking the right questions, she helped me understand that I do, in fact, have a unique skill set that not only is quite marketable but is really far more valuable even than a price tag or a job title can do justice…I am enjoying myself more than I ever have…Kerri has helped me to transform my life, to be respectful of my own boundaries and needs, to clarify my values, and to continue to live with integrity.  Her tremendous ability to connect the dots, her commitment to my growth, and her keen business acumen are a potent force for making a difference in people’s lives.~ M.D.

“Kerri Yates is an incredible inspiration… She has found a way to be incredibly eloquent while encouraging her clients to axe excuses and take action.”~ Lindsay Yaw

“Kerri has the gift that transforms lives from just living to living your dreams.  Her soft, passionate, and straightforward demeanor embraces her clients to open up their hearts and minds to know they can achieve…My Life has been transformed to living my dreams, and Kerri’s coaching allowed me to achieve them!” ~ Scott Glash

“Kerri started out as my coach, and I now count her as a close friend too. I am so grateful that I have had the privilege to work with her. She has been an encouragement, confidant and supportive mentor and friend. She is an inspiration to me and I have grown and moved forward in my life thanks to her support and coaching.”~ Susan Chittenden

“I have coached with Kerri for almost a year now.  I have found her to be a compassionate, sensitive person, who hears beyond the words I am saying and has helped me get to the heart of the matters that I have been dealing with.   She has the ability to gently point out issues that need to be dealt with, and has helped me take ownership and management of issues in my life that have needed to be resolved.  She is my biggest cheerleader, and I look forward to each of our coaching sessions so that we can celebrate together the progress I am making.  I feel very safe with her and know that I can say what I am thinking and she will never judge or reject me.  I …feel blessed to have her in my life as both a coach and now a friend.”~ S.C.

“Kerri has built a successful private coaching practice and has also been a featured speaker at several public events.  She is a savvy business woman, and radiates grace and elegance in all that she does…Kerri has frequently mentored and coached me, specifically on how to grow my business.  She has the ability to get right to the heart of the matter each and every time.  She is curious and probably makes me laugh more than anyone else in my life!  What strikes me most about Kerri is her ability to connect in an intuitive way with others, her heartfelt kindness, her depth of character, her wisdom beyond her years.”~ S.F.

“Kerri has been my coach for almost five months now and she has made a marvelous difference in my life. She is a joy as well as an excellent coach. I’ve had other coaches in the past, but never have I felt such kinship, aliveness and genuine championing of my ideas as I have with Kerri. Kerri was recommended to me and I can genuinely recommend her if you are seeking a coach with sensitivity, insight and passion who loves to laugh. I recommend her both for the results I have achieved though her coaching and from my heart because she is also a warm and lovely person.”~ Roxanne Arian

I have to thank you for another great session. Each session really energizes me more and more and makes me realize that I am really someone that has skills and abilities …I feel really good about myself and know that I wouldn’t be feeling this way if I hadn’t started coaching with you. I still can’t believe how I discovered you were coaching and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Thank you.”~ K.S.

I really liked your approach of encouraging me to look inside myself, to get in touch with feelings that I already have about a new career and who I am in this sense. The coaching session left me feeling like I had connected with something “truer” to myself, and our exchange felt much more “emotional” than “mental”. I also appreciated your follow-up e-mail, especially the summary of values I had mentioned during the session – it made me feel really listened to!~ S.M.

“Kerri was fantastic! Really opened my eyes to things I never knew about myself.”~ John McClure

“I highly recommend my current coach, Kerri Yates …I admire her non-judgmental courage in going anywhere in the coaching that I need to go.  She also provides me with her insight in a very supportive way…  she is helping me surface what is important.”~ S.F.

“She [Kerri Yates] is fully present, energetic, invested in her clients, a great listener and distiller. She is fully qualified to draw information out and weave it into something powerful.”~ Anne Beach

“It has been amazing that in a few session I have taken on some very big topics in my life and gained clarity and movement.”~ Anonymous Client

“Wow, I always feel so balanced when I get off the phone with you, like things are more positive and accessible. Thanks. Really, it changes my outlook on my future.”~ L.Y.

Opinion Ready

logo“Know What You Believe and Why.”  A bi-weekly newsletter with 4 – 6 articles on a current topic, and with the author’s biases explained.  Then, it provides questions to help you form your own educated and informed opinion.  www.OpinionReady.com.


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