Martha Carnahan, PCC, CPCC Business & Life Coach Atlanta, USA martha@oaktreecoaching.com +1 404 377 3855

Martha Carnahan is an intuitive and insightful coach who has a passion for helping people discover - and embrace - their natural brilliance. With a gift for putting people at ease, Martha helps her clients get crystal clear about their purpose, values and strengths, and sparks the action and learning that brings fulfilment and success. The focus is not just on achieving a goal, but creating lasting change through gentle internal shifts.

Martha’s background includes more than 25 years of experience in communications (journalism and marketing), management and thinking-partner consulting in the professional services arena: accounting, engineering, architecture, insurance and IT. Martha uses humour, powerful questions and tender truth-telling to help clients tap into their innate wisdom and live up to their true potential.

Martha has three specialisms:

• Small Business Coaching: Martha combines her expertise in strategic marketing with a coaching approach to help entrepreneurs define how to create thriving business without squeezing the life out of their lives. She begins each engagement with an eye-opening Marketing Mindset Diagnostic tool, which highlights specific areas an entrepreneur can work on to move from overwhelm to prosperity.
  

• I love Mondays Coaching: Martha has a passion – and a commitment – to shift the way our world interacts with the notion of work. What if everyone woke up each Monday morning with a huge grin and an eager enthusiasm to get to work? In bringing this powerful vision to one client at a time, Martha helps professionals get clear about their life purpose, find meaningful work, build the confidence to be their true selves, and boldly make the choices that lead to a more fulfilling and joy filled career and life.
  

• Team Coaching: With a core belief that teams are the engines that drive successful organisations, Martha works with organisations to harness their teams’ full potential. Starting with the powerful Team Diagnostic Assessment to measure a team’s strengths and hidden (and not-so-hidden) weaknesses, Martha uses teaching, coaching, modelling and powerful exercises to help the team increase its overall performance – which has a direct impact on the organisation’s success as well as the satisfaction of individual team members.
  

Professional Background & Qualifications

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) - trained and certified by the Coach Training Institute. Credentialed (ACC) member of the International Coach Federation. Past President of the Georgia Coach Association (ICF Chapter). An authorised facilitator of the Team Diagnostic Assessment, and trained by Team Coaching International. More than 25 years of experience in business, in senior management roles in the corporate setting and as a small business owner.

Client Testimonials

“Martha has worked with me during a time of significant personal and professional change and growth. Her clarity, focus, and intelligence have been evident throughout. She has a strong understanding of the challenges of working and growing in organisations, and combines that with ability to work with a client to stay in balance with the rest of their lives. She has always 'shown up' in the coaching process with on-target questions, clear reflections, and humor. I have referred friends and colleagues to her.”
M.M., Senior Manager, International Nonprofit, Washington DC

"If you think you know all there is to know about managing yourself in both your personal and professional roles…think again! Martha’s strategies will unlock your inner potential and the possibilities that lay before you will exponentially grow! Employing the lessons I learned have truly expanded my ability to 'manage' instead of just 'react to' life’s challenges and opportunities. GREAT SELF INVESTMENT!"
William Swinson, Senior Lean Sigma Leader, manufacturing company, Atlanta, GA

“Starting a business is really scary for some people (me!), and Martha helps me believe that not only are my dreams possible, but that I will achieve far more than even I can imagine right now. I really appreciate her use of humor, which helps to dissipate the fear.”
Ann Margaret McKillop, President, My Fitness Recovery, Ludlow, VT