Wanda Ropa

Welcome to the first day of the next chapter of your life: your ideal life. As a Master’s level certified success coach, I can help you navigate in the changing world around you. I am able to work with many types of clients on many types of issues, but my specialty is in helping people to get unstuck.
My Success Coaching Approach & Tools Success Coach Wanda Ropa

I believe life is meant to be fun, easy, and effortless. Using an intuitive creative style, I help you CREATE the life of your dreams. I help take you off the rollercoaster of life and guide you back onto the road and into the driver’s seat. There are no coincidences in life. When our paths cross, synchronicity happens and the magic begins. Remember, as a child, when life seemed fresh and exciting and each day was a new adventure? Starting a coaching relationship is starting on a journey with the next chapter of your life: your ideal life.

During the collaborative coaching sessions, you will develop immediate action steps to:

Achieve spontaneous relief with a fresh perspective
Clearly identify solutions
Establish and define priorities aligned with your core values
Reframe your current situation into manageable segments
Navigate and clear current obstacles
Boost your confidence using easy tools
Explore and enhance your creative potential with a creativity coach
Start building the foundation to move toward creating your dream life
Create deep and satisfying personal and social relationships
Attract success in life, work, and business
Experience life as easy, fun, and effortless

Starting my career as a nurse therapist before entering the corporate arena, with a Master’s degree in Psychiatric Nursing, I leveraged my unique perspective and creatively approached the business world. I quickly discovered that what separates successful individuals from unsuccessful ones is using tools and resources.

During collaborative coaching sessions, we will be using my own powerful tools, as well as the Strategic Life Planning Process: the Creation of the Future Self, based on your needs. Using a revolutionary new integrative approach called the Life Architecture Program™, I help clients like you design a blueprint or roadmap to navigate the next chapter of your life. Based on cutting-edge research from diverse disciplines studying the powers of the mind, these techniques activate your own natural intuition and creative problem-solving abilities, help you discover your natural talents and leverage your unique strengths to experience strategic solutions to start living your dream life.

Know Your Success Coach

One of my tools, the StrengthFinders™ Profile, identifies a person's top 5 natural-born talents.

My StrengthFinders™ Profile reveals my top 5 strengths to be a great fit for the coaching profession. Here's what you get:

Self-Assurance
People strong in the Self-Assurance theme feel confident in their ability to manage their own lives. They possess an inner compass that gives them confidence that their decisions are right.

Activator
People strong in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. In fact, guided by the Activator theme, these individuals believe that action is the best device for learning.

Ideation
People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. They are great for brainstorming.

Strategic
People strong in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.

Learner
People strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them. They learn, extract the useful applications, and resynthesize this knowledge and wisdom.

These are perfect strengths to be your success coach. Would you like to find out your top 5 strengths? Ask for a free coaching consultation.

Enjoy this original poem that illustrates how I feel when I’m stuck and need help. (If you’re stuck, ask for a free coaching consultation).

The Quicksand of Your Mind

Are you in struggle?
Your mind a puddle?
Are you stuck?
What luck?
In the quicksand of your mind?
Are you out of flow
And problems just grow?
What to do, to solve this riddle?
Stuck in the middle
In the quicksand of your mind.
There's only one way
Out of this unwanted stay.
Resolve to clearly see
And not live by some false decree
In the quicksand of your mind.

Educational Background and Philosophy
Working as a therapist, with a Master’s in Psychiatric Nursing, I gained real life experience about the factors that affect motivation and behavior. With the foundation of understanding human dynamics and the basic framework of understanding people, I used my intuitive gifts to realize the potential of an individual, a group, or an organization.

Throughout my entire work life, my creativity fueled my success. Fascinated by the cyclical nature of change and the emerging patterns, I began research in the fields of creativity and innovation, including creative intelligence.

The big question: If all of us are born with creative talents, what distinguishes the men and women who are recognized for their creative achievements in diverse fields, such as science, engineering, marketing, art, music, manufacturing, literature, poetry, architecture, to name a few? I quickly discovered that similar patterns exist with every client, from every walk of life. The differences lie in how they uniquely respond to life’s stimuli and triggers, based on the resources and tools they possess.

I leveraged my unique perspective and creatively approached the business world. Many articles tout the importance of diversity and objectivity in the workplace. Working within the world of business, I effectively used my clinician’s background and functioned without any biases or preconceived notions. Educated in systems theory, all the traditional filters and screens had been removed. My past experiences paved the foundation for my passion and commitment to the field of creativity and innovation. My goal is to assist individuals, groups, and organizations with tools to use their intrinsic creativity within their lives, both at work and within their personal domain.

Assuming unique challenges, I began in the field of executive and technical recruitment for a search firm. My next challenges were to include leadership roles in corporate consulting, human resources, training and development, health care consulting, telecommunications, IT, performance consulting, sales, advertising, dot.com development, usability, marketing, and e-commerce. I have worked in diverse industries, such as health care, IT, telecommunications, manufacturing, media, call centers, and tax and financial arenas. I am a certified executive coach (College of Executive Coaching), certified CPP assessments coach, experienced speaker, professional facilitator, writer, and poet.

I am known for my easy engagement of individuals and groups and my renowned humor. For me, work and being alive is FUN. My goal is to recharge my clients’ creative batteries and have them invite fun into their life equations.

I have been awarded many accolades throughout her extensive career, including, The World Who’s Who of Women, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders of America, and Who’s Who in the Midwest.

I am a member of and follow the ethical guidelines of the American Society of Training and Development, Society for Human Resource Management, NAFE, Phi Delta Kappa, and the International Coaching Federation.

Success Coach Wanda Ropa

Creativity Architect