Self Portrait, White Sands, New Mexico; 2021
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Coaching for Software Engineers & Data Scientists
I’ve coached senior/lead level engineers at high-tech companies:
Moving into Management - navigating company politics, landing the promotion, developing soft skills and leadership capability
Returning from Career Break - navigating the job market, creating resumes that resonate with hiring managers, dealing with long-term unemployment
Additional topics I’m experienced with: sustainable peak performance, thriving in early stage startups, navigating fortune 10 consulting engagements, in-the-trenches perspectives on AI and technology advancements
Coaching for Personal Transformation
I’ve coached people through challenging and life changing endeavors
Organizing Transformative Experiences - supporting clients who are choosing to initiate substantial change in their life. From preparation, enduring and integration.
Navigating Life Challenges - support through emotional processing and working along-side therapists while confronting difficult experiences
I have specifically coached people through mindfulness & yoga -based personal development, plant medicine and shamanic ceremonial integration, and bereavement / passage of life support.
I help my clients with self-transformation - empowering themselves to be leaders in their own lives & careers
About Me
Fitz Roy Mtn, Patagonia, 2023
I’m Zachariah Garner
I have a two decade long tech career, recently managing the Artificial Intelligence practice for a large consulting company.
My career as an AI Consultant has always had a flip side: in exploring consciousness expansion and conscious connection. While I work in technology, my first focus in college was Philosophy of Mind.
I'm trained and certified in coaching and a variety of wellness, fitness, healing and spiritual practices. The practices that I have studied, certified or trained in most depth include: buddhist meditation (zen, vipassana & tantric), plant medicines & shamanic healing, Qigong, Bioenergetic Breathwork & Wim Hof, Thai massage/bodywork, partner acrobatics & yoga.
Each of those practices come with specific techniques, unique perspectives and different paths toward growth, covering various dimensions of life: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social.
Coaching for You
As a coach I have worked with a variety of different types of people with a variety of different destinations in mind. As our journeys progress, many of the differences fade away, and we find our common struggles have common solutions.
Juvenile Red Fox, Patagonia, 2023
Coaching for those navigating high-demand technology careers
I’ve coached and mentored mid-career leaders in technology and management roles at well-known high-tech companies.
I know what it's like to be in your 30's and 40's working in tech, making big career moves, but also needing more space and growth in other areas of life. I know how you can feel stuck while keeping pace with endless technology revolutions. I know what it'‘s like to have a career grind to a halt because of a lack of balance and fulfillment.
I also know how to navigate that experience to restore health, happiness and creativity. All of which are foundations for a successful long-term career.
White Morpho Butterfly, Costa Rica, 2022
Coaching for those seeking Transformative Growth and Integration
I’ve coached and supported people who are embarking on or returning from vast and transformative experiences.
I’ve worked with people going through psychedelic-assisted therapy, experiencing shamanic healing with plant medicines, or committing themselves to month-long meditations. I’ve taught those interested in these growth and healing techniques how to take their first steps towards long term transformation.
These life changing transformative experiences are often sought, and often difficult to navigate. Preparation involves gaining skills and resources to empower your self and ensure that you have equipped yourself to navigate the unknown. Integration involves a long-term re-discovering of who you are in the newly re-imagined world you find yourself in.
Let’s Connect
Trail puppy, Salkantay Mtn, Peru, 2018
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