Coaching: Rooted in relationship, guided by Indigenous ways of being
Our coaching approach is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and relating. We center relationship, responsibility, reflection, and reciprocity in how you lead and show up in the workplace.
Coaching is a client-driven and transformation process. I partner with clients to create nurturing spaces where they can explore ideas and take action toward the changes they want to achieve in their lives and organizations. I offer individuals, executives, and group coaching.
Unlock your potential with Dr. Benny's coaching services
We offer a range of specialized services tailored to meet your individual needs, focusing on transforming culture and achieving impactful outcomes through values-based leadership.
Individuals
For emerging leaders, professionals navigating transitions, or those seeking alignment between personal values and professional roles.
Executives
Designed for senior leaders shaping culture, strategy, and direction within their organizations.
Teams
Helping teams build stronger relationships, increase trust, and achieve sustainable productivity.
Experience culture change through connection, not just policy
When Indigenous ways of being are practiced in the workplace, organizations often experience stronger and more authentic relationships, increased trust, healthier communication, and a deeper sense of belonging.
Individual coaching for personal growth
Individual coaching is a space for reflection, growth, and grounding. We focus on your leadership, goals, challenges, and your relationship to your work. We explore how Indigenous frameworks like relational accountability, storytelling, and intentional reflection can guide your decision-making and leadership style.
Executive coaching for impactful leadership
Executive coaching is designed for senior leaders who are shaping culture, strategy, and direction. This work goes beyond traditional leadership models by integrating Indigenous perspectives on responsibility, community impact, and long-term thinking. We examine how leadership decisions affect not just outcomes, but relationships and environments.
BelongingU Signature Coaching Experience
Design a Life of Belonging
Build a life, career, and leadership style that feels authentically yours.
Most people don't need another productivity system.
They need permission to become who they already are.
The Design a Life of Belonging Coaching Experience is a personalized one-on-one journey that helps you reconnect with your values, rediscover your purpose, and intentionally design a life where you truly belong.
Grounded in research on belonging, leadership development, design thinking, and Indigenous ways of knowing, this experience helps you move beyond simply surviving work and life toward creating a future that reflects who you are.
Together, we'll explore what gives you energy, identify what's keeping you stuck, and develop an intentional roadmap that aligns your career, relationships, leadership, and wellbeing.
This isn't about becoming someone new.
It's about becoming more fully yourself.
This Experience Is For You If...
You're feeling disconnected.
You have success on paper but still feel like something is missing.
You're navigating change.
Whether you're changing careers, stepping into leadership, finishing school, or entering a new chapter of life, you want clarity before your next step.
You want to lead authentically.
You're ready to lead from your values instead of expectations.
You crave belonging.
You want your work, relationships, and daily life to feel meaningful—not performative.
You're tired of burnout.
You're ready to build a sustainable life that honors both ambition and wellbeing.
Your Coaching Experience Includes
Six Months of Personalized Coaching (12 Sessions)
Together we'll meet twice each month to create meaningful, lasting change. Every session is tailored specifically to your goals while providing accountability, reflection, and practical action.
Unlimited Between-Session Support
Life doesn't happen every other Tuesday.
You'll have email and voice message access between sessions whenever you need encouragement, perspective, or help navigating a challenge.
The Belonging Blueprint Assessment
Discover how belonging currently shows up across every area of your life—from work and leadership to community and relationships.
Together we'll identify your strengths, growth areas, and opportunities for intentional change.
Values & Purpose Mapping
Clarify what matters most.
We'll identify your core values and use them as the foundation for every future decision.
Leadership & Life Design Toolkit
Receive exclusive worksheets, reflection guides, decision-making frameworks, and exercises that help you continue growing long after our coaching ends.
Personalized Action Roadmap
You'll leave with a clear, achievable roadmap for your next season of life—complete with milestones, accountability, and practical next steps.
Why Belonging Coaching?
Belonging isn't something you find.
It's something you intentionally create.
Research consistently shows that belonging improves wellbeing, resilience, confidence, leadership effectiveness, and life satisfaction.
When we understand ourselves more deeply, our decisions become clearer.
Our leadership becomes more authentic.
Our relationships become healthier.
Our work becomes more meaningful.
This coaching experience helps you create that foundation.
The BelongingU Journey
1. Remember
Reconnect with your story.
Explore your experiences, strengths, identity, and values.
You'll discover what has shaped you—and what no longer needs to.
2. Reclaim
Identify the beliefs, expectations, and habits that no longer serve you.
Create space for authenticity, confidence, and self-trust.
3. Reimagine
Design multiple possibilities for your future.
Using design thinking and reflective coaching, we'll explore new paths that align with who you are becoming.
4. Build Belonging
Develop intentional practices that strengthen belonging in your work, relationships, leadership, and everyday life.
You'll learn how to create environments where both you and others thrive.
5. Live with Purpose
Turn reflection into action.
Together we'll build sustainable habits, celebrate progress, and create a roadmap that supports long-term fulfillment.
What Makes BelongingU Different?
BelongingU isn't traditional life coaching.
It's grounded in:
• Research on belonging and student success
• Authentic leadership development
• Design thinking for life and career
• Indigenous ways of knowing and relational leadership
• Evidence-based coaching practices
• Whole-person development
Most coaching focuses on what you should do.
BelongingU helps you discover who you are first—because the best decisions come from knowing yourself.
When you belong to yourself, you can belong anywhere.
Imagine What Could Change...
✔ Wake up excited about your future.
✔ Lead with confidence instead of comparison.
✔ Build healthier relationships.
✔ Make decisions rooted in your values.
✔ Create work that aligns with your purpose.
✔ Experience belonging—not by fitting in, but by fully showing up as yourself.