About Me

Shelley Brock, ACC Professional Coach, MA Architecture

I became a coach because I love being present with people as they find clarity and take steps to move toward their full potential.

I work with leaders, individuals and groups who want to find their flow, navigate transitions with ease and move from feeling stuck to finding clarity, presence and confidence in their work and life.

My role as a coach is not to give advice or provide a consulting opinion but to partner with you by listening and attuning to your present situations and experiences. I ask questions to assist you in expanding your perspectives so you can make contact with what’s most meaningful in any given situation. You gain the awareness and self-trust to design your best ways to achieve what is most important for you.

I find it very rewarding to help hold a safe and focused space so my clients can touch into their deeper self-knowledge, which can be surprisingly hard to do on one’s own.

I was inspired to begin training as a professional coach after working with a coach who supported me to open my awareness to what was true for me in my professional and personal life. I began to trust more in my own capacities. He help me to see that I was ready to make a transition from my work as an architect toward providing assistance to others to help them recognize their own full potential.

My coaching practice draws on my 25 years of experience as a licensed architect and design advisor to non-profit affordable housing developers in California, as well as 15 years of experience as a lay-ordained Soto Zen Buddhist practitioner.

Since 2017, I have focused on psychology studies and inner inquiry work with the Diamond Approach school.

I am currently based in Brittany, France after living 22 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. In my free time I’m renovating an 18th century stone house, which is my delight.

“Working with Shelley inspired me to reconnect with my true values. Her observations and direct questions helped me to see that I was capable of relying on my own resources and capabilities, that there was a lot already here waiting for me to notice it under the surface of my crazy, busy life. I’ve learned new habits that really serve me.” Anne S., Director of Fundraising

Qualifications and Affiliations

ACC Accredited Coach with the International Coaching Federation

Member ICF, International Coaching Federation

Accredited Coaching Program Certificate - Erickson, ASCTP

New Ventures West - Certificate - Foundational Coaching Program

Lay-ordained Soto Zen Buddhist practitioner

Former Licensed California Architect

Master’s of Architecture, Columbia University

Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College