“Connecting with nature, it’s like giving your brain a mini vacation.”
Pam Cho is an Executive Coach and certified Forest Therapy Guide from Cincinnati, Ohio, no stranger to the coaching world, Pam has over seventeen years of coaching experience. However, it’s only in the last two years Pam discovered the power of outdoor coaching. She shares insights and anecdotes on the incredible client transformations she has personally observed from taking this path into nature.
Join us as we explore Pam’s backstory from the ocean, to hitting a wall of online coaching at the beginning of the pandemic, to taking her practice outdoors and witnessing the power of nature on her clients. Pam shares some great techniques which she uses in collaboration with nature.
Pam steps into the client’s world to understand first what being outdoors means to them, and what works for them however small that time may be. Pam talks about the presence of nature, closing your eyes and grounding, “feeling bad energy come out and good energy going in”, and the positive effects of fractals on your brain, all of which result in a more creative, productive coaching session.
Lastly, learn how Pam gifts her clients “nature in a bag” to sustain their connection with nature.
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Pam Cho, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, is a senior executive coach and certified nature therapy guide with the firm she founded in 2009, Trek Executive Coaching.
Pam conducts 1:1 and group coaching programs for senior business executives and early-career professionals.
In 2021, during the pandemic Pam moved her coaching practice to the outdoors, conducting “walk-n-talk” coaching sessions in area parks. Shortly after, Pam earned a certification as a Forest Therapy Guide from the ANFT (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy) and received training from Lesley Roberts of Coaching Outdoors.
Prior to launching her executive coaching practice, Pam spent 20+ years as a corporate communications officer with two Fortune 500 companies, managed an international trade association, and served in The White House.
When not on the hiking trails, Pam and her husband enjoy traveling, cooking for friends and family, playing pickleball, and volunteering with their certified therapy dog, a rescue golden retriever named “Robert.”
