Our Approach


Growth & Sustainable Change

Our work with clients provides an expeditious route to change, at a deep level, for transformational growth. We specialize in developmental coaching, helping clients achieve adaptive goals, real growth and sustainable change. Clients expand their leadership capacity, mental complexity, and discover new perspectives that not only drive business results but unexpectedly enhance other areas of their life.

Challenge Assumptions & Surface Hidden Barriers to Change

The approach we most rely on for profound and expedient results is Immunity to Change (ITC). Based in adult development theory and developed by Robert Kegan, Ph.D. and Lisa Lahey Ed.D. of Harvard University. ITC is used across industries as a highly effective method to get at the root of deeply held beliefs that serve a purpose but prevent change. Clients quickly surface hidden beliefs and barriers to change and begin to be able to see and evaluate them, discovering new perspectives, and generating options and choices that were previously unavailable while unknowingly subject to these beliefs.

Individuals, Teams & Organizations

We work with individuals, teams and organizations to achieve individual or collective goals. Because each person and organization is unique, our approach is customized for every client, using the tools and assessments necessary to quickly get to the heart of the problem and get on track toward success.

About

Lynn Killips

Lynn is a consulting psychologist, clinical nutritionist and integrative health coach who works with teams and leaders to facilitate sustainable change for enhanced cognition, peak performance, and life-long brain health.

She helps clients find a meaningful and enduring path to realize their goals and become the best version of themselves. Her clients often find their developmental journey bears the unexpected but welcome benefit of improvement in other areas of their life.

Her background is in business as an entrepreneur. She developed a gift product line from concept to market, orchestrating and overseeing each step of the process including trademarking, R&D, sourcing, production, marketing, order fulfillment and shipping. Her product achieved international distribution, won Best New Product at the New York Gift Show, and was selected for distribution to attendees at the Daytime Emmy Awards.

Lynn's combined passion for business and health supports a whole-person perspective, incorporating well-being into the success equation — something that clients sometimes lose sight of with the demands of responsibility.

When not working, Lynn enjoys barre classes, weight training, hiking, skiing, golf, reading and nutrition for health and healing.  She lives in San Francisco, California.

Lynn is a registered Tribal member of the Cherokee Nation.

Education

Psy.D., Leadership/Organizational Psychology, Leadership Neuroscience Concentration, William James College, Newton, MA
M.S. with Honors, Clinical Nutrition, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Tempe, AZ
M.A., Organizational Psychology, William James College, Newton, MA
B.S., Business Administration; Major: Marketing, Minor: Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Certifications & Training

  • ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)

  • Certified Executive Coach; Center for Executive Coaching, Sarasota, FL

  • Immunity to Change facilitator and coach, trained by Robert Kegan, Ph.D. & Lisa Lahey, Ed.D.; Immunity to Change Coach Certification Program, Cambridge, MA

  • Subject Object Interview; Deborah Helsing, Ed.D. & Annie Howell, Ed.D. Cambridge, MA

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I); Dr. Gregg Jacobs

  • Motivational Interviewing Supervision, Quality Assurance & Training; Theresa Moyers, Ph.D. & Motivational Interviewing founder William Miller, Ph.D.

  • Advanced Motivational Interviewing; Theresa Moyers, Ph.D. & Motivational Interviewing founder William Miller, Ph.D.

  • Certificate of Intensive Training in Motivational Interviewing; UMass Medical School

  • National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners

  • Certified by Duke University Medical Center, Department of Integrative Medicine; Integrative Health Coach, Durham, NC

  • Reversing Cognitive Decline Advanced Clinical Training; Institute for Functional Medicine

Professional Memberships

  • American Psychological Association (APA)

  • Society for Consulting Psychology

  • Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)

  • Academy of Management

  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement

  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology

  • International Coach Federation (ICF)

  • Founding Fellow at the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate


Transcend Barriers. Expand Capacity. Measure Results.