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Coaching Methodology

The Decision Tides Methodology is Sherry Rivard’s integrated approach for helping people navigate life’s most important crossroads with clarity, direction, and lasting momentum.

Understand where you are today by exploring your experiences, challenges, opportunities, relationships, and the variables shaping your current reality.

Identify the values, priorities, assumptions, motivations, and underlying influences that shape your decisions. This is where the “aha” moments emerge and what truly matters becomes clear.

Determine the key decisions that need to be made and establish a clear direction aligned with your values, priorities, and desired future.

Translate your decisions and direction into a practical path with intentional priorities, meaningful actions, and a roadmap for moving forward.

Create sustainable progress through accountability, reflection, and continuous growth so today’s decisions continue to strengthen tomorrow’s opportunities.

How We can Work Together

  • One-on-One Coaching
    Personalized coaching focused on decision-making, transitions, leadership, and personal growth. This work provides space for deep reflection, practical strategy, and accountability—supporting meaningful change that holds up in real life.
  • CIJ Clarity Catalyst® Individual and Group Coaching
    A structured, experiential program based on Stanford’s Creativity in Business (CIJ) methodology. Offered in small, intimate groups (typically 4–6 participants), this program supports insight, connection, and momentum. CIJ Clarity Catalyst can also be adapted for individuals or teams who prefer a more tailored experience.
  • Team & Organizational Coaching
    Targeted coaching and facilitation for teams, leaders, and professional groups navigating change, complexity, or growth. Focus areas may include communication, leadership presence, relational dynamics, and decision-making under pressure.
  • Retreats & Immersive Experiences
    Curated retreats that integrate personal growth tools, reflection, and wellbeing with time away from daily demands. These experiences are designed to support insight, renewal, and connection with others who value thoughtful growth and meaningful conversation.
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CIJ Clarity Catalyst Program

A Transformative Path to Clarity, Confidence & Leadership

An 8-week small-group experience grounded in the Stanford-developed Creativity in Business curriculum, designed to help you break old patterns, reduce stress, and move forward with purpose.

CIJ Clarity Catalyst is an eight-week guided group experience that helps individuals and teams reconnect with what matters, strengthen self-awareness, and create meaningful forward momentum.

Grounded in the Stanford-developed Creativity in Business curriculum, this methodology has helped thousands of participants nationwide deepen confidence, shift long-held patterns, and experience lasting personal and professional growth.

Participants often describe it as a turning point — not because it tells them what to do, but because it helps them see themselves and their next chapter more clearly.

This experience is designed for people who:

  • Are navigating transition, uncertainty, or a major life or career inflection point
  • Feel stuck in old patterns or self-doubt
  • Want space to reflect, reset, and move forward intentionally
  • Value structured tools and human connection
  • Are ready to engage honestly with themselves and others

Over eight weekly sessions (1.5 hours each), you will:

  • Strengthen self-awareness and confidence
  • Move beyond self-doubt and limiting patterns
  • Build clarity around your next chapter
  • Reconnect with what matters most
  • Cultivate resilience and purposeful momentum
  • Learn alongside a supportive, growth-oriented community

This is not therapy, and it’s not lecture-based.
It is experiential, reflective, and grounded in proven developmental tools.

CIJ Clarity Catalyst is delivered as a Circle of Growth — a small, thoughtfully facilitated group designed to create trust, reflection, and meaningful dialogue.

  • Groups are intentionally small (typically 4–8 participants)
  • Sessions are live and interactive (online)
  • Each participant is supported while learning from others’ perspectives

Many participants describe the group dynamic as one of the most powerful aspects of the experience. 

Format:
Onsight, In Person or Live online group coaching

Duration:
8 weeks | 1.5 hours per session

Availability:
Ongoing sessions beginning January 2026

Options:

  • Group experience
  • Individual CIJ-based coaching (by request)
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Achieve Your Potential

Discover how my tailored life and business coaching services can help you unlock your potential, achieve your goals, and navigate the complexities of personal and professional development with confidence. Book today!

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