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Business and life coaching

Choose a heading you can keep.

Compass Coaching is a small practice for people who are capable, busy, and slightly lost about the next true move. We find it. Then we walk it.

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The studio, before the agenda starts.
12 yrs
Guiding decisions, not pep talks
4 mo
A typical engagement, then you go
30 min
To learn if the work fits

The Compass method

A method, not a mood.

Four feelings are not a transformation. A direction you can defend on a hard Tuesday is.

  1. 01

    Orient

    We name the decision hiding under the busyness. Most people arrive with five problems and one real one.

  2. 02

    Chart

    Constraints first: time, money, and the people you will not abandon. Then a direction that fits the life you actually have.

  3. 03

    Move

    One committed action each week. Not a vision board. A calendar block with a name on it, and a standard for done.

  4. 04

    Recalibrate

    Every fourth week we look at evidence, not mood, and adjust the heading. Staying is a decision too.

The method in full

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Direction is a practice.

Who the practice is for

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For the work

When the company is growing and you are not sure you want the version of you it requires.

  • A founder partnership that has gone quiet
  • A promotion that would cost the rest of your life
  • A team that needs a leader, not another hero
  • An exit you keep postponing
Business coaching
A folded map, a cup of tea, and a notebook with a pen

For the life around it

When the calendar belongs to everyone except the person living it.

  • A move, a marriage, a season of care
  • The creative work parked after this quarter
  • A boundary you keep explaining and not keeping
Life coaching

Client stories

What changed after the heading got honest.

All three stories

I stopped managing the anxiety and started managing the company.

Amira Shah

Founder, wholesale brand

Left a co-founder stalemate, hired an operator she trusted, and grew revenue without adding a night shift to her own life.

The promotion was not the point. The boundary was.

Chris Lang

Engineering director

Declined a role that would have erased his weekends, then built the staff plan that made the job he wanted possible a year later.

I had a five-year plan and no Tuesday.

Lena Ortiz

Attending physician

Redesigned call coverage with her group and took the research quarter she had postponed since residency.

Client stories as published on the original Compass Coaching site.

Mara Voss, founder of Compass Coaching, beside a studio window

The coach

Mara Voss

Mara spent a decade inside scaling companies — the kind where the strategy is clear and the people are not. She started Compass after watching talented operators make the wrong next move for loyal reasons: fear, duty, or a calendar that had stopped belonging to them.

More about Mara

Free discovery call

Thirty minutes. No pitch.

We will name the decision in front of you and decide together whether this practice is the right place for it. If it is not, you leave with a clearer question anyway.

  • Video, not a webinar
  • You choose business, life, or both
  • No coaching agreement until you want one
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