Meet Meichle
Greetings!
I understand and respect that you’re determined to choose a “best fit” for your vision for “better”- whether your focus is personal or professional, or for your organization/company. As you discern with whom to invest your scarce resources to do so, let me share a little bit about me.
Who am I?
I am an authentically compassionate, trauma-informed Counselor and Coach and a strategic, collaborative Consultant energized to elevate, amplify, and enrich the lives of others. I value integrity, relationships, intentionality, efficiency, and holistic wellness. I am a visionary following my heart & passion. I strive to thrive, live boldly, calmly, and with gratitude and grace. I possess the tenacity & grit to succeed.
I’ve led effective teams with the values of shared purpose and community, co-creation to foster engaged, collaborative & resilient teams, co-creation fostering authentic and accountable team contributions, and cultivating a wellness climate to mitigate burnout.
In Fall 2023 I pivoted from a nearly 30-year career in nonprofit service to share my gift of relatable expertise and experience as both a respected nonprofit executive leader and a clinical social worker. Capitalizing on my certification in nonprofit executive management, as well as my experience with Board membership, leadership development, coaching & mentoring, and decades of clinical counseling experience (most recently as an Independent Consultant with a local Family Support Center), I launched my own business, through which to infuse my positive, empathetic, and empowering style, convene and connect others, and expand my sphere of influence and impact.
My Purpose
Foster purpose and harmony for optimal impact. I am driven to elevate, amplify, and enrich the lives of others.
~ My paradigm for purpose and harmony ~
Using a logic model approach, I enthusiastically support and guide individuals, groups, and small organizations/companies as they clarify their purpose and desired impact, and craft their harmonious approach, respective goals, activities, steps, and necessary resources and processes with greater alignment, confidence and gratification.
→ Solidify core values
→ Clarify purpose/vision
→ Articulate brand
→ Identify strategic priorities
→ Define desired impact/results and timelines targets
→ Develop (SMART) goals, objectives and task with timelines
→ Inventory foundational strengths
→ Identify competencies
→ Leverage key attributes
→ Establish a “zone of genius” niche
→ Allocate resources, monitor, evaluate Return On Investment, and pivot accordingly
My Personal Journey to Purpose and Harmony
Just shy of a nearly 30-year career with the privilege of serving as a Chief Operating Officer in a local nonprofit organization, I took a leap of heart and chose to pivot to a career as a woman entrepreneur to expand my sphere of influence.
Why? A combination of things:
1. I seek opportunities to grow, infuse my empathy, empowerment, & development of others, and strengthen my innate leadership qualities.
2. I embrace self-revelation about what jazzes me up, what energizes me, what and who are my allies and, what and who are the obstacles to my joy. I strive to create harmonious conditions that allow me to fulfill my purpose, live with passion, and create impact.
3. In 2022, my body told me I was out of alignment- heightened stress, reduced energy, weight gain, exhaustion, resentment & cynicism. The chronic stress & toxicity of the workplace in which I worked was causing me emotional, mental and physical harm. I was feeling burned out and suffered from compassion fatigue.
4. I recognized my reduced passion and a drift from what initially drew me to the agency in which I worked. I was living in misalignment. Like many of those I guide in their personal and professional development my values and priorities no longer aligned with the people and the organization in which I worked. I humbly realized that I had been sacrificing my own priorities, joy and my health for the benefit and comfort of others- leaving me feeling less gratified.
5. So… I dug deeper- I reviewed my professional and personal assessments. I rediscovered myself- my core values and priorities, my innate strengths, passions, and zone of genius, my competencies, and my character attributes. I gained clarity of my purpose, my desired “brand”, and my priorities, and began to orchestrate the harmonious conditions necessary to fulfill my purpose and drive impact.
Through months of self-awareness, self-evaluation (my personal SCAN), and recalibration, I decided to pivot in my career. There it was- OPPORTUNITY- I’d pair my extraordinary gift as both a Licensed Clinical Social Worker of 30 years AND a respected executive leader in the nonprofit sector, take a leap of heart, start my own business, and inspire and influence in a new way!
I’d infuse my positivity & compassion and relatable experience & expertise through my consulting, coaching, and counseling services, to cultivate personal joy, live with passion, drive impact, and fulfill my purpose.
Meichle L. Latham, LCSW, PLLC, L.L.C.
~ Fostering Purpose and Harmony for Optimal Impact ~
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