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Clarity Coaching
for Leaders and
High Performers

Performers

Clarity Coaching
for Leaders and High Performers

Performers

Clarity, conviction & resilience to create a lasting impact in your life and organization

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Zareth Irwin MD, MS, FACEP

Zareth Irwin
MD, MS, FACEP

Great leaders are developed through reflection, courage, and continuous growth.

I work with brave, intelligent leaders and high-performing professionals who seek to explore their blindspots and welcome challenge. Grounded in decades of medicine and leadership experience, my approach meets you where you are and guides you to where you aspire to be.

Not a guru. Not a mentor. A strategic partner to help you be your authentic self and create the life you want.

Trained by The Hudson Institute of Coaching.

Grounded in evidence based, whole-person methodology for over 30 years.

Decades of combined performance, health, and physician coaching.

Maximal performance, improved health, increased reilience.

Based in Portland, Oregon, working globally

Coaching clients across all time zones and the globe.

Ethics and confidentiality come first

Trust and a safe space are always the foundation for progress.

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the process

Discovery

Comprehensive intake, getting to know you and what drives you.

We start with a supportive and deliberate conversation. Step back from urgency, develop trust, get to know you as a whole person and speak openly about what brings you greatest joy and the decisions, pressures, and responsibilities you're carrying.

Discovery

Comprehensive intake, getting to know you and what drives you.

Design

Customized plan.

Co-create a custom coaching plan with clear objectives, milestones, and success metrics tailored to your context.

Design

Customized plan.

Co-create a custom coaching plan with clear objectives, milestones, and success metrics tailored to your context.

Development

Choose deliberately.

With self reflection, a plan, and regular one-on-one coaching, this may be the only place where you receive unbiased feedback and have the chance to play and design experiments to try at home and work with fine tuning as necessary.

Development

Choose deliberately.

Integration

Presence.

With grounded authenticity and improved relational intelligence, presence deepens. New behaviors are embedded through sustained practice, accountability, and organizational reinforcement. Steadiness, equanimity, and unshakable confidence become your default stance.

Integration

Presence.

Let’s Start With a Conversation.

An opportunity to explore what you’re navigating, decide whether this approach feels useful, and determine if continuing the dialogue makes sense.

*No expectation to commit beyond the conversation itself.

Let’s Start With a Conversation.

An opportunity to explore what you’re navigating, decide whether this approach feels useful, and determine if continuing the dialogue makes sense.

*No expectation to commit beyond the conversation itself.

Let’s Start With a Conversation.

An opportunity to explore what you’re navigating, decide whether this approach feels useful, and determine if continuing the dialogue makes sense.

*No expectation to commit beyond the conversation itself.

My Services

What I bring that most coaches don't is twenty years of reading people in the highest-stakes environments imaginable.I know what it looks like when someone is telling you what you want to hear vs. the truth. I know how to hold space for someone in their worst moment. That's not a credential, it's a lived experience. It changes the quality of the coaching relationship in ways that are hard to quantify but impossible to miss.

Executive and Leadership Coaching

Coaching for senior leaders and managers who want to lead with greater clarity, presence, resilience, and equanimity.

Leadership

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Physician Coaching

Coaching for physicians who want to build and lead with greater resilience, clarity, and authenticity while navigating burnout, complexity, and the demands of medical leadership and systemic constraints.

Physicians

Burnout

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Clarity Intensive Coaching

Short term engagemnent for leaders facing a pivotal decision, transition, or reinvention point and who need focused support to cut through ambiguity and move forward with clarity and intention.

Clarity

Specific

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New approaches. Sustained Clarity.

Refinement, Not Overhaul

Your skills and hard work got you here. We focus on sharpening what works, changing what doesn't, and developing new awareness and skills.

Consistency Under Pressure

Clarity is crucial when conditions are demanding. This work supports steadiness when it matters most.

Presence That Endures

Over time, sustained presence and reflection support a posture that remains calm amid chaos.

Let’s Start With One Conversation.

Most engagements begin with a single, unhurried conversation. This is an opportunity to step back, talk through what you’re navigating, and determine whether an ongoing dialogue would be useful.

Private. Thoughtful. No obligation.

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Let’s Start With One Conversation.

Most engagements begin with a single, unhurried conversation. This is an opportunity to step back, talk through what you’re navigating, and determine whether an ongoing dialogue would be useful.

Private. Thoughtful. No obligation.

Request a conversation

Let’s Start With One Conversation.

Most engagements begin with a single, unhurried conversation. This is an opportunity to step back, talk through what you’re navigating, and determine whether an ongoing dialogue would be useful.

Private. Thoughtful. No obligation.

Request a conversation

FAQ's

How is this different from therapy or consulting?

Like therapy, we do consider the whole person, however, coaching is forward thinking and action oriented. You identify the changes you would like to see and we make sure you're on a path to realize these changes. Unlike consulting, coaching is intended to help you discover the answers that will work in your situation. By doing this instead of following someone elses formula, you are much more likely to realize lastig/transformal change.

What if I miss a session?

Life happens. If you can’t make it, you can reschedule your session, no problem. Just let me know in advance, and we’ll pick a new time that works for you.

How soon will I see changes?

Most people notice shifts during each session- more clarity, calmer days, better routines. Transformative changes generally develop more gradually as new behaviors become patterns.

What do I need to prepare?

You- and a willingness to look at yourself with a new perspective. Just bring yourself, a quiet space if possible, and an openness to explore what’s going on in your daily life. I’ll guide you step by step.

What do I need to prepare?