TESTIMONIALS

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Elbert Hubbard

“Kirin is an original. Once in a lifetime — if you are lucky– you find someone who can really bring out the potential in you and help you to realize deep goals and challenge personal assumptions you might have held for years.  Her ability to absorb and synthesize the struggles we all face with work and life is a gift to those who have the privilege to work with her. Kirin has been my coach for several months covering a crucial time in my life regarding career change and reinvention and complicated assessments of my mid-life existence and goals for the future.  She has successfully kept me accountable to those goals we set forth and encouraged me to innovate while staying focused. 

I have been particularly impressed with her patience around the Values work, a sticky subject for me and a lot of personal work which I struggled to embrace emotionally and time-wise.  She was understanding and creative in her approach to getting me to engage with the material. Once I did, the work catapulted me out of my “stuck zone’ and many puzzle pieces fell into place. She went over and beyond to put together a thought-piece to expand my perceptions and was able to synthesize and describe my challenges to me in a non-judgmental way that allowed me to feel hopeful about changing those habits. She challenged my thoughts around expectations for what I should value or how that might manifest itself in my life and introduced me to a deeper understanding of self-acceptance and self-worth.

Kirin has a unique ability to turn a personality trait you may dislike about yourself and teach you how it can be harnessed to work for you instead of against you.  With this constant growth mindset, she really sets the stage for deep and transformative personal learning. 

Kirin’s responses to my questions/struggles through email are so beautifully written, so tenderly thought out and poetically executed—she has a real gift with language that both illuminates and instructs.  On numerous occasions, the work she guided me through and her expert analysis created a transforming release where I unblocked to go out of my comfort zone actually feeling excited about what new experiences and opportunities the future might hold. 

I have been setting goals towards specific opportunities I want to manifest in my life and working with Kirin has produced positive results across the board.  I have been offered a job in the new field I am interested in pursuing, have developed an on-going relationship with a mentor in this new field, felt motivated to pursue new trainings at work that will support:”

Clove,
CLIENT

“For Person of the Year. LOL. Love ya Lady. I met Kirin doing a painting job for her, and now many jobs. She had said she was doing the life coach thing. I’m a recovering alcoholic who has had many challenges in my life. I thought that I might just see what this was and if it might help me deal with life a little better or if it was just crap. (I’m a cynic.)

So I tried and it works in a lot of the issues I had. I was amazed. My time management skills were very lacking. I was 20 minutes late for life, now down to 5-10 minutes. Didn’t communicate or set boundaries. Now I keep people informed and let them know what I can and cannot do. I also relearned how to talk to people who I normally would have yelled at in anger. Now I share my point neutrally. That so helps in real life. I have found Kirin to be extremely knowledgeable, helpful, kind and just a beautiful person inside and out. In life’s challenges, I have considered Kirin to be a great life coach along with a great client and now a wonderful friend.

Richard,
CLIENT

“In my professional relationship with Kirin Parmar as her financial planner, I have always found Kirin to possess an unusually thorough and analytical mind, as well as one that is extremely well organized and detail-oriented. What is particularly impressive to me is that Kirin exhibited these qualities from our very start when the intricacies of the subject matter were unfamiliar.  It is no exaggeration to say that, among all of my clients, Kirin stands out as the most diligent and thorough at not only processing entirely new, complex, and unfamiliar material, but also in taking the initiative in following up with her own research and findings. By doing so, and in effect becoming a collaborative partner -and a highly challenging one at that, Kirin has not only made the process of financial planning more enjoyable for me but has also made me a better financial planner, for which I am grateful to her.

It is clear to me that Kirin possesses every quality – high intelligence, diligence, open-mindedness, curiosity – needed to master any field of study and work that engages her outstanding mind.”

Michael Zaidlin
Founder, Madrone Investment Advisory

San Francisco BART Planning Dept: “Kirin quickly demonstrated ability as a team player. …As with many take-over situations, there were challenges of cooperation and coordination of multiple agencies, time pressures, and a potentially tight funding deadline. Kirin repeatedly demonstrated considerable patience and a professional approach in gathering critical information and helping to develop the project. (Also) tasked with duties of department Budget Coordinator, …she quickly developed a system ….managed this function much more effectively and efficiently than any of her predecessors.  Kirin developed a number of very effective publicity-style graphic presentations to assist in gaining public support and funding for the project….worked with the staff of funding agencies, transportation planning, engineering consultants, and policymakers.  Her immediate manager stated repeatedly that Kirin’s work was superlative……was promoted… in recognition of …high level of performance. To sum up, (she) demonstrated a high degree of competence in a wide variety of planning and analytical skills… She carried out her responsibilities with a high degree of initiative and independence while keeping her managers and colleagues fully informed…  Kirin repeatedly demonstrated a wonderful sense of humor and respect for the views of her co-workers. She paid close attention to issues and details important to key policymakers with whom she interacted. Most importantly, she maintained an excellent grasp of the overall context ….She demonstrated an excellent capacity for career growth…BART was very fortunate to benefit from Kirin’s many professional contributions…”

Ward D. Belding, Jr.
(now former) Planning Director, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

It is with pleasure that I am recommending Kirin Parmar as a Life Coach. Kirin has worked diligently with me on her own personal development as a person who understands and values what is intrinsic in her own nature. She has worked on her own inner child and has moved on to become an enneagram practitioner and a well-trained and yet intuitive coach. Kirin is spiritual and practical. She has been a star pupil with me and I believe she has all the right training in her certificate program. She is poised to begin a wonderful career.  You will not find a better coach!

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT,
Counselor and Life Coach