Coaching Success Stories

The Challenger Group sought the help of Lori Hanson to address and solve issues we were facing. Our goal was to improve communications, improve perceptions within the organization, expand collaboration, invite dialog between staff and leadership, and evaluate ourselves on the issue of gender equality.

Lori took several groups through a Leadership Empowerment Series, including the senior management team at Challenger Homes. The process series was well thought out, engaging, and truly delved into aspects of both employee and company responsibilities and accountabilities.

Lori is a dynamic leader and she related well to everyone in our company.

We have made several advances in all our targeted areas, and we will continue to use Lori on our quest to be a company of empowered team members.

I reached out to Lori for coaching for our female administrators during the pandemic. The coaching was designed to empower them, help them find their voice, break down barriers to doing so, and establish practices to prioritize self-care boundaries. I offered the program to our female administrators during the pandemic and 17 signed up.

Participants didn’t just attend a six-week program, they engaged in a transformative journey that equipped them with practical tools to transform their behaviors and responses in the workplace. This was delivered with a strong emphasis on mindset and energy.

Each session was designed to be practical with a mix of instruction, class exercises, and homework. This approach ensured that attendees were actively involved in the process of owning their voices.

Additionally, each participant had a 30-minute private coaching session with Lori to address any specific issues they needed assistance with, making the program a truly hands-on experience.

During a recent meeting with my female leaders (before my retirement), they shared how profoundly the coaching had influence their leadership. They expressed that this work not only enhanced their professional lives, but also had a transformative effect on their personal growth. Some even went as far as to describe the program as life-altering.

Female leaders may struggle with owning their voice. I have personally worked with Lori on this. Lori has a no-excuse approach—meaning she doesn’t accept or tolerate excuses for not taking action, to helping women move beyond holding a leadership position to actively leading confidently and getting their voices hear. This approach is beneficial as it pushes participants to take responsibility for their growth and development. It also allows them to achieve new levels of success.

As a fellow advocate for female leaders, I strongly recommend those who could benefit from this training to contact Lori. I’ve seen firsthand the value of this investment in the lives and careers of our female administrators. It’s not just a program, it’s a pathway to personal and professional success that will yield significant returns.

“We asked Lori to lead a New Year’s goal setting and planning Workshop for our Chamber Staff. Our objective was to get the team engaged and bought into our goals for the upcoming year.

Lori is a very skilled facilitator in analyzing the relationships in the room, identifying individual behaviors, enlisting staff engagement and requiring positive outcomes. She has  the ability to navigate through emotional clutter and clarify roles in achieving positive outcomes.” 

“I needed permission and to see how I was getting in my own way of speaking up confidently. Not only has Lori improved my abilities to be a better C-Level executive, she provided insight on how to be better balanced in all areas of my life.

Being stuck is probably way worse than than any uncomfortable place Lori put me in because I was so frustrated. And now I’ve just promoted to the first female Superintendent of my school district—and I’m headed into it confidently and comfortably because of the work I did with Lori!

This is the best financial investment I’ve ever made in my life!
I highly recommend Lori’s coaching to help others to become better leaders and find balance to create their best life.”  

“Lori is a genuine and instinctive coach and she has changed my life! I began my relationship with her by doing the cleanse and trying to feel better about myself. 

Over the course of 9 months, I de-cluttered my life, dropped almost 6% body fat and have been promoted at work. She gives you the courage to face your fears and beliefs so you can move past them on your way to your goals. I am also proud to say she is a friend.”

“If you are looking for an executive business coach to optimize your talents in the New Year, I highly recommend Lori Hanson. I met this wonderful, brilliant woman over a decade ago, we formally worked with one another six years ago, and she’s been cheering me on ever since.

She’s the truth. Her journey is amazing and the way she drives mindset transformation is thoughtful, courageous and methodical.

Our coaching time together was the catalyst towards me taking bold steps towards the life I want. I’ve realized that I have accomplished a lot and I have so much to be grateful for in my life.

Don’t take my word, try her for yourself. You’ll be amazed at your resilience, success and results.

Thank you coach Lori!”

“I just put a contract in for a home for me and the children with a closing date of of December 15 by 3:30 PM. The offer was accepted and I am under contract my friend. I don’t know the feeling I can really describe in this moment but every goal that you set with me I have hit and exceeded this year and now my big final goal will be complete December 15 at 2 pm!

“Lori inspired me to let go of self-limitations and focus on my true objectives and things that would make me feel fulfilled. She brings a sense of calm and clarity – every time you speak or listen to her you leave feeling more positive.”

“I decided to hire Lori Hanson as my speaking coach. After much discussion I decided it would be best to fly from Pennsylvania to Colorado for a one-day intensive coaching session. It seemed like a lot at first, but I’m here to tell you it was worth its weight in gold.

Lori gave me a total experience and covered everything I needed to know to get my business and my career off on the right foot. She was able to provide me with honest feedback and positive direction and her leadership greatly accelerated my company. We set goals, established a target market and developed a clear plan for both my speaking career, my first book and many other sources of income I could establish. 

Lori gave of herself and knowledge that day to help me be stronger at what I do from marketing skills to the structure of my presentations and speeches. We covered so much in that one day I left prepared to take on the world. I highly recommend Lori to anyone looking to move their career to the next level in a positive, motivating environment. Lori was an inspiration to me and I’ve already used that inspiration for myself and my clients.”

“I contacted Coach Lori for help after I got my third DUI. I was going through a very messy divorce from an abusive husband and my first few meetings at AA told me that it wasn’t going to help me. I knew about the work Lori was doing and her ability to change people’s lives so I asked if she could help me.

Lori first taught me about the link between diet, nutrition and sugar sensitivity and how this plays into alcoholism. Much to my surprise I gave up sugar in less than two weeks which significantly helped to eliminate my cravings for alcohol. With the nutritional supplements and her keeping on me my plan with eating balanced meals I had a foundation to work on toward recovery.

Lori goes far beyond the chemical addiction and cravings! She taught me so much about my thoughts and how I was defeating myself on a daily basis. She never judged me, always encouraged me and told me how much she believed in me.

I improved my self-esteem one step at a time. People at work started to notice the changes. Coach Lori said she heard it in my voice. It took me a while longer to see and accept it.

Lori is a compassionate and caring coach who is dedicated to helping you reach your goals toward recovery, better habits and a much better quality of life. Her approach is different, alternative and refreshing. Lori thank you for all you have done and continue to do for me. You are a great source of encouragement and inspiration to me. Now I plan on going out there and Kicking some ASS!

Two thumbs up to an outstanding coach. I highly recommend her.”

“Before the cleanse, I was bloated, tired and had indigestion a lot.  I was also worried and distracted about my daughter.  The cleanse helped me realize that some of my food choices were making my moods worse and affecting my sleeping. My ‘highs and lows’ were much deeper. 

I’m now more even keeled and have a better energy…besides losing 15 pounds and having my clothes fit again. I found that when I prioritize taking care of myself it helps the whole family. I always feel energized and focused after our calls.” Thank you Lori!

“I had been sick with an ongoing cold that would not go away. And I was still trying to tackle a difficult situation at work. My stress level was as high as it had ever been. I knew that it was time for a change. I remembered seeing Lori speak where I worked, and decided to take her up on her offer for coaching.

I was looking for any tools from Lori to help my stress level.  I was surprised to hear her say that we were going to focus on nutrition. But at that point I was up for anything. So I agreed to follow her nutritional plan. After a few weeks of the nutritional supplements I felt like my happy glow was starting to come back.

For the first time in probably 5 years, I started to feel like myself again. I was remembering the positive side of my personality and my outlook was changing.

The next step for me was to do Lori’s cleanse. I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to keep this up for three weeks. But I made it through the first week, and my cravings started to subside. My taste for food was changing. I was enjoying the simple flavors of food not masked by sauces or added sugar. People at work were starting to notice the changes. Now as a benefit of the cleanse I’m down a size and have been pulling out clothes that I haven’t worn in a couple of years! While I still encounter stressful situations at work, I feel like I have the energy and enthusiasm to meet them.” 

“When Lori suggested starting with a ‘Cleanse’ like many of us I wanted to push the idea to the side, anxious to start on ‘Goal Setting’. During my cleanse, I had to work extra hours, at one point being awake for 30 hours with only 3 hours of sleep.

What this showed me is through adversity I could plan/prep my meals, finding it easier to ‘BE’ than fight everything. I choose to follow the protocol; I choose to adjust the eating to fit my schedule to remain on target for the end goal. It would have been easy to give up and say this isn’t the right time…but then when in life is ever the right time? It’s funny because it was recognized by members of the team, I work with. I could, just show up and be positive despite lack of sleep and work demands.

The next big ‘ AHA’ came in week 4 with the intro of wheat and rice. Seeing the correlation between what I was eating and how it impacted my body and emotions was huge. I had never seen the direct correlation prior to this.

The remarkable differences for me are:

• Loosing 4″ in my waist line
• Subsiding of abdominal pain
• Ringing in ears from allergies was intermittent to fully gone
• Journaling pointed to more positive than negative times & the negativity was shorter in duration
• The ability to speak out for what I wanted and needed
• Feeling free and empowered

The icing on the cake is I needed the “cleanse” on Valentine’s Day when I realized, “I love and approve of myself.” It gave me a jump start on insights into my emotional and physical being. The journaling provided where Lori and I would need to focus. It provided the roadmap for the start of my goal setting, revealing things I knew about myself, and things I had managed to push deep down not wanting to acknowledge.

What the ‘Cleanse’ provided for me was a jump start on insights into my emotional and physical being.

The journaling provided where Lori and I would need to focus. If you will, it provided the roadmap for the start of the Goal setting.  Revealing things I knew about myself, and things I had managed to push deep not wanting to acknowledge. Twenty eight days highlighted for me the control and stability I was gaining, along with forming good habits for the future. Especially, with an intense schedule most of us would not have wanted to attempt during a Cleanse. But then isn’t that life. 28 days highlighted for me the control and stability I was gaining, along with forming good habits for the future. If you are thinking if you should start the cleanse, I recommend it!”   

“Lori Hanson is one of the few persons in all my years of psychiatric care that has really gotten through to me, she’s shown me solutions – she showed me that I don’t have to be chained to the psychiatric system for the rest of my life because of my eating disorder.

I made more progress with her in a couple months than I ever did while inpatient or with the hundreds of sessions with the therapists that I’ve had in my life. The supplements she suggested to me didn’t just help me, they saved my life.

The very first email I sent to her after starting the supplements was the most exciting moment I’ve ever had during treatment- for the first time in the past 2 years I went an entire week without planning a suicide. I didn’t need to kill myself anymore, because all those pent up emotions that chained me down and overwhelmed my life were suddenly not so bad. I wasn’t taking drugs that simply covered up my emotions, the emotions just didn’t control me anymore- the supplements were really helping me. I couldn’t believe it, but it was true.

Not only did the supplements help, but the sessions I’ve had with Lori have helped as well. Though Lori is a really easy person to talk to about anything, I have always found it to be very difficult to talk about certain things in my life with anyone. She taught me how to center myself to find a safe medium so that I could allow myself to talk. She got me to open up, it’s the first time anybody in my years of treatment had ever gotten me to talk like that.”

“Before I heard Lori Hanson on the stage at an event in Denver, I figured I’d develop my own speech for a conference at which I’d been asked to give the keynote. After all, I’d done a lot of public speaking over the years – at writer’s conferences, book signings, community events, and as the president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in Colorado Springs.  Surely I could take the step to the next level without help. 

But when I heard Lori speak, I was reminded of what a real professional sounded like. I knew I wanted to speak like that! 

When I learned she was a speaker coach, I didn’t hesitate to ask for her help, and I’m glad I did. Lori has taught me how to how to present with style and confidence and how to inspire. She’s advised me about finding venues that support my particular messages about mental health and also how to be successful selling my books. 

But most important about Lori—she has been in it with me, brainstorming, advising, using her creative know how—wanting the best out of me.  Thanks to Lori, I am well on my way to being the professional speaker I need to be.”

“I heard Lori speak at a meeting of writers in Denver. I knew the talks I had given about my book did not meet my expectations and that I needed to focus on some specific strategies to take the marketing of my book to the next level. Lori has helped me do that in a very organized way in a short period of time. She is a dynamic coach filled with a great deal of energy and commitment to the task at hand.

She helped me:
1 – tighten my speech so I am able to say what I want to say in a more effective and concise manner
2 – create letters to ask celebrities for endorsements
3 – learn effective methods requesting to speak at different organizations
4 – organize a booking process for speaking engagements.

I highly recommend Lori for her skills and the dynamic way that she teaches what is important.”