About Take Note Coaching

Focusing on the practical application of simple, timeless principles, Take Note Coaching works with corporations, small businesses and individuals to energize and empower them beyond their next level of success.

What we do, and how we do it:

  • Take note - pay attention to what’s working and
    tell the truth about what’s not

  • Empower from the start – ask great questions and
    listen for great answers

  • Stay available, not enmeshed

  • Be smart - choose the best tools and collaborate with
    the best coaches & consultants on behalf of the world’s
    best clients . . . always

  • Pray for wisdom and be open to guidance



About Elizabeth Sutherland

Elizabeth Sutherland
Working in personal and business growth and development for over 25 years, Elizabeth Sutherland has consulted and coached individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies. She’s been called the “secret ingredient in a recipe for inspiration.” A certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Practitioner and Soul Coach®, she is a dynamic speaker, inspiring writer, creative facilitator, and powerful coach.

Growing up in Japan gave her first-hand experience being a minority and having to listen from someone else’s point of view. Her undergraduate degree in English helped reinforce her natural talent with words, both written and spoken. Her years in upper management, focused in health care and technology, proved her mettle in an operational setting.

Elizabeth's business training, transformational development, and coaching certifications have provided the discipline and practice to foster extraordinary results for her clients.

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Testimonials

“Elizabeth, I thank you for working with me the past seven months. In that time, some amazing accomplishments have been made.

Seven months ago, I was unclear of my personal and professional goals, being pulled by circumstances and events. Today, I am clear as to where I want my life to go. Your creative guidance and insight has been priceless! Some specific tasks we accomplished were developing a personal mission statement, setting solid professional goals and timelines, developing a list of talents to expand, developing a list of habits to curb and identifying self-defeating thoughts that stand in the way of realizing my dreams. You taught me better ways of asking for things I need to succeed and attitudes that will be beneficial to my continued growth.

Today, my days are filled with a much more definite purpose. Stress no longer consumes my time and thoughts. I am more productive and more valuable as an employee today and am continuing to improve daily through practicing the techniques you have taught.

God has blessed you with a talent to help others by bringing their best qualities forward.”
– Project Coordinator & Administrative Assistant

“I’ve never seen anything like it – Your Excellence at the Top work session was pure magic!”
– Operations Vice President

“You listened so keenly that I began to hear and value my own wisdom.”
– Small Business Owner

“As a coach, Elizabeth is priceless. Bold and creative, strong yet compassionate, visionary and at once realistic and practical. Elizabeth is insightful and inspiring. She has the real-world, concrete skills to support dreams: spreadsheets, timelines, an array of charting practices, creative homework assignments. If she tells you it shall be done, it shall be. No doubt.”
– Real Estate Investor

“Before this project started, I knew that you would be the right facilitator for this effort. I am continually impressed with your organizational and communication skills, your enthusiasm and positive outlook, your teambuilding, and your technical expertise. I really don’t believe that we could have gotten this far without your support.”
– Senior Vice President
 
“On behalf of the Nursing Administrative Staff, thank you for your ‘Writing Skills for Nurse Managers.’ This seminar series met an educational need for writing and communication skills inherent in a management role. Your experiences, leadership and abilities, dynamic and creative presentations captured group interest and facilitated learning transfer to the real arena of the work world.”
– Associate Chief, Nursing Service Education

“I was really amazed by the depth and practicality of the two-hour session you gave us. What a dynamic presentation: stories, examples, role playing, actual practice in writing, lots of personalized interaction with the audience. It was great! The students couldn’t get enough, as you could tell by the mob of students asking questions during the break. . . . I think your presentation is one of the most valuable services we can provide our graduates.”
– University Instructor

“Elizabeth never fails to astonish me in her brilliance, creativity and boldness. She is one who thinks outside the box, but has the so-rare talent of communicating in ‘in the box,’ ordinary ways so as to relate to and reach every kind of person.”
– Web Editor

“Your presentation was one of the most practical aspects of the entire course.”
– University Assistant Professor

“Elizabeth is a gifted communicator . . . a wonderful, ‘energizing’ lecturer!'”
– Dental Clinician

“But for your rigorous facilitation of this project, I suspect we would still be in the early phases of vendor selection. We would never have come so close to satisfying all of the desired features which we will now have in our management information systems.”
– Assistant Director of Operations

“Your assistance was invaluable in the on-site implementation and user training of our software. Your swift evaluation of our needs and your ability to motivate and instruct our staff helped establish good communication and technical skills. In addition to the technical support you offered regarding the software, the recommendations you made for policy and procedure development have made the office manager’s task of organization and implementation an enjoyable one.”
– Technical Office Manager

“Elizabeth makes a unique contribution to academics with her editing skills and her uncanny ability to motivate.”
– University Department Chair

“We are where we are today because of you and your amazing talent and creativity.”
– Corporate Attorney

“Everyone would want their coach to practice what they preach, and Elizabeth does. She regularly involves herself in things she loves and is actively engaged in making her dreams a reality on a daily basis, struggles and all. And that’s what’s so precious about Elizabeth. She’s so REAL. Is she perfect? No (but you might start to think so if you hang around her long enough). . . . And that’s why you can trust her. She understands and consistently excels and loves life in the face of being totally human.”
– Resource Librarian & Mentor

“I hope you know how much your support, coaching, encouragement, prayers, and inspiration mean to me. Thank you especially for helping me ‘regroup’ after the layoffs and find out what wasn’t working. Having your expertise made it fun, easy and hopeful. It was so wonderful to see how God works.”
– Marketing Director

“Wow! The work we have done together is amazing. I knew that I was a valuable and important person deep down inside, however, I felt like debris in the form of confusion was covering me up. You carefully, like a surgeon, removed the covering over my essence so I can now see clearly on paper my life purpose and mission statement. . . . I am so grateful! I now know having clarity of who I am and what I have to offer, that my practice is going to thrive. What a gift it is to live my passion.”
– Personal Performance Coach

“As a coach you are gifted, incisive and fearless. As a friend your compassion is boundless.”
– Business Owner

“You helped me to grow, to be stronger, and more vocal. Someone said she liked the ‘boldness’ that she now sees in me. That happened because of you.”
– Teacher

“Elizabeth has an easy warmth and compassion. She has a wisdom that goes beyond knowledge and seems to have access to universal streams of love, which she generously shares.”
– Business Owner

“WE DID IT!!!!!!! I feel like I can breathe again! Can you believe 9 months [for implementation of an enterprise payroll system]? We could not have done it without you. THX!”
– Owner, Consulting Services Company

“Vivacious. Focused. Combines work and fun. Gets the job done. Positive influence. Persuasive. Helpful. Encouraging. Unconquerable. Loves Buzz Words. Witty. Larger than life. Offers great business tips/advice. #1 Coach. Kindred spirit. Fun. Open. Communicative. Friend. Amazing. Contagious. 100% committed. There for everyone. Exhausting. Creative. Convincing. Exceptional. Brings out the best in everyone. Cares—it shows! Liaison. Whirlwind. Dedicated to improving self and others. Always looking/listening for something new. Builder. Investor. Willing. Wise. Respected. Appreciated.”
– Description of Elizabeth by the members of one of her project teams




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