Refractive
Coaching
Aim your light
Transformative, empowering, impactful coaching.
Be your best. Be refractive.
As light pases through it, a prism can bend, reshape, concentrate, or diffuse the energy, revealing the light’s seemingly hidden power and beauty.
Refractive Coaching offers a multi-layered approach based on your unique drives and objectives, helping you embrace your fullest potential. We provide structure to help you align with your authentic true north.
Whether a corporate executive, a solopreneur, a recent grad, or a retiree, Refractive has surefire systems to help you make the changes that matter most to you.
It’s time to bend your power towards a life that feels right. It’s time to be refractive.
“If you are open to it, Johnny is the coach who gets inside your mind, inside your heart, inside every part of your being to help you bring forward your best self and harness the power from within.”
Non-Profit Executive Coaching Client
Philadelphia, PA
Coaching Designed to Support Your Goals
Stop the Cycle of Self-Sabotage
Level Up Your Career Potential
Establish Healthy Boundaries
Understand & Honor Your Values
Personal & Spiritual Growth
Plan Out Major Life Changes
Build Discipline & Accountability
Gain Clarity on Your Purpose
Coaching Services
Executive Coaching
Whether new to the c-suite or a seasoned VP seeking expanded influence and impact, executive coaching is the way to go. A 20-year corporate-level talent development expert guides your growth through structure, accountability, candid feedback, and a toolkit of proven methods and best practices.
Tactical
Goal Oriented
ROI-Focused
Transformational Coaching
As a child you knew exactly what you wanted to do. As adults, practicality and societal pressures tell us that life obligations and joy rarely coincide. If you’ve done everything right and life still feels hopelessly lukewarm, Transformational Coaching is the way to go. Your coach will enable a structured whole-life realignment based on your truest north star.
Authenticity
Fulfillment
Growth
Career Coaching
Your coach will guide you in crafting a comprehensive branding and storytelling strategy around why you are the *perfect* candidate. Choose to be supported in any or all of these topics: career path clarity; crafting a strong resume; impactful networking; interview prep; leveraging recruiters and LinkedIn.
Career Path Clarity
Own Your Narrative
A Concrete Action Plan
Team Coaching
When a team or department has gotten off-track over time, it can feel hopelessly complicated to get everyone back on track. A team coaching approach opens communication, encourages transparency, empowers individuals to drive bottom-up change, and provides a safe, structured environment to tackle sensitive challenges.
Collaborative
Transparent
Goal-Focused
Group Coaching Programs
Group coaching offers several advantages, including rock-solid network building within your cohort, hive-mind collaboration, strength sharing, and a lower price point compared to 1:1 coaching. Refractive offers several group coaching programs built around precise objectives and the adventure of connection.
Structured
Supportive
Economical
“Johnny is a dynamic and versatile coach. He brings a warm and supportive style that immediately sets the client at ease and creates a safe space to explore strengths, challenge limiting beliefs, and create a vision for the future. His substantial background in organizations enables him to provide structure and accountability that allows the client to define actionable change.”
Ed Tech Coaching Client
Eastern Shore, MD
Additional Tools & Services
- Keynotes & Workshops
- Career Services
- HR Consulting Services
- Off-Site/Retreat Facilitation
- Refractive Podcast
- Virtual Learning Events
- Free Tools & Resources
Speaker, Executive Coach, and Master Facilitator Johnny Guidry is the perfect choice to energize, inspire, and empower your event. Having delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops in corporate environments, university lecture halls, and annual conventions, Johnny’s content and delivery have been praised by attendees as moving, deeply inspiring, and life changing. His keynote speeches and workshops are available in a range of empowering topics and can be customized in both content and length to meet your objectives.
Learn more…
Coaching clients often find themselves in a career that no longer fits their values or purpose. Refractive Coaching’s Career Services puts you on the path to a life that feels right. From career path clarity, to resume writing, interview prep, powerful LinkedIn presence, executive bio services, network activation strategies, and much more, Refractive provides a fully customized career pivot action plan with top-tier support for your objectives.
Learn more…
HR support for organizations, including temporary HR Director services to maintain effectiveness during transition periods, and fractional, temporary, retainer, or on-call support for Learning & Development services, investigations, staff event planning, facilitating leadership team meetings and retreats, open enrollment support, HRIS organization and transitional support, file audits, supervisory development programs, high-potential college student engagement programs, and more.
After more than 16 years of driving learning and organizational culture in large organizations, Johnny Guidry uses his deep knowledge of strategy setting and his front-of-room expertise to design and facilitate an informative, energizing, uplifting day for your leadership team. Services include driving and maintaining the day’s agenda, leading discussions and brainstorming, facilitating ice breakers and energy-building sessions, and leading custom keynotes or workshops to enhance your theming.
Join Johnny G and an array of inspiring guests as together we aim our light.
Each episode focuses on moving into our best lives through personal growth, healing, fulfillment, and authentic living.
The goal of Refractive Podcast is to encourage every person to stand in their fullest power.
Listen anywhere you find your favorite podcasts, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, and Amazon Music. Or stream episodes at RefractivePodcast.com
From on-demand sessions to live virtual fireside chats, from career support to spiritual growth, Refractive offers informative, inspiring, and chock-full-of-goodness free events to enrich you on your path.
Refractive offers lots of free resources for you to move into your best life: podcasts to harness your fullest power, worksheets and fireside chats to unlock your inner wisdom, and book and article recommendations to give you a boost towards your objectives.
Speaker, Executive Coach, and Master Facilitator Johnny Guidry is the perfect choice to energize, inspire, and empower your event. Having delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops in corporate environments, university lecture halls, and annual conventions, Johnny’s content and delivery have been praised by attendees as moving, deeply inspiring, and life changing. His keynote speeches and workshops are available in a range of empowering topics and can be customized in both content and length to meet your objectives.
Learn more…
Coaching clients often find themselves in a career that no longer fits their values or purpose. Refractive Coaching’s Career Services puts you on the path to a life that feels right. From career path clarity, to resume writing, interview prep, powerful LinkedIn presence, executive bio services, network activation strategies, and much more, Refractive provides a fully customized career pivot action plan with top-tier support for your objectives.
Learn more…
HR support for organizations, including temporary HR Director services to maintain effectiveness during transition periods, and fractional, temporary, retainer, or on-call support for Learning & Development services, investigations, staff event planning, facilitating leadership team meetings and retreats, open enrollment support, HRIS organization and transitional support, file audits, supervisory development programs, high-potential college student engagement programs, and more.
After more than 16 years of driving learning and organizational culture in large organizations, Johnny Guidry uses his deep knowledge of strategy setting and his front-of-room expertise to design and facilitate an informative, energizing, uplifting day for your leadership team. Services include driving and maintaining the day’s agenda, leading discussions and brainstorming, facilitating ice breakers and energy-building sessions, and leading custom keynotes or workshops to enhance your theming.
Join Johnny G and an array of inspiring guests as together we aim our light. Each episode focuses on moving into our best lives through personal growth, healing, fulfillment, and authentic living. The goal of Refractive Podcast is to encourage every person to stand in their fullest power.
Listen anywhere you find your favorite podcasts, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, and Amazon Music. Or stream episodes at RefractivePodcast.com
From on-demand sessions to live virtual fireside chats, from career support to spiritual growth, Refractive offers informative, inspiring, and chock-full-of-goodness free events to enrich you on your path.
Refractive offers lots of free resources for you to move into your best life: podcasts to harness your fullest power, worksheets and fireside chats to unlock your inner wisdom, and book and article recommendations to give you a boost towards your objectives.
“Participating in the cohort was pivotal in shaping my career path. Johnny’s guidance and coaching brought to light nuances of job searching that I was not aware of. This experience proved immensely valuable, and I enthusiastically recommend it to anyone navigating a career transition.”
Human Resources Group Coaching Client
Chicago, IL
Who you choose matters. Meet Johnny.
Johnny Guidry is a speaker, podcaster, and coach focused on helping others embrace their most authentic calling. His career progression includes over 20 years of developing leaders, learning design, public speaking, human resources leadership, project management, and operations.
Johnny trained as a personal coach at the Co-Active Training Institute and launched both Refractive Coaching and Refractive Podcast to spread hope and empower others. He resides in Washington, DC and lives his best life by helping others do the same.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does coaching help?
What happens in a coaching session?
How do I know if my coach is qualified?
What’s the price and length of a coaching engagement?
How much contact will I have with my coach?
What are the prices of services other than coaching?
How does coaching help?
Given ideal circumstances, we actually don’t need a coach! We are born with a fully-formed roadmap to fulfillment in all areas of life. For some of us, we lose our conscious connection to that inner wisdom. A coach helps you to re-orient to your authentic true north, to get used to making honest, authentic values-based choices, and saying yes to your most optimal path. A coach can often see when your self-sabotage or imposter syndrome steps in to derail your progress, and gently nudges you back onto the path you’ve set for yourself. A coach will push back with curiosity (in a kind, honest way) when you procrastine, move your goal post, or otherwise back away from what you’ve said you want out of life.
What happens in a coaching session?
Whether the objective is personal growth, career change, executive-level skill building, or spiritual exploration, a coaching engagements begins with identifying values, motivators, insecurities, and fears. The coach then holds space for the goals you set across the engagement. Each session the client reviews any progress or homework completed, and then the coach and client co-create a path to the next milestone. Suggested assignments might include discussing options with your inner circle, reviewing articles or books for valuable guidance, practicing tactics and new skills discussed during the session, applying planning tools and systems, etc.
How do I know if my coach is qualified?
Johnny Guidry has worked in Human Resources for over 20 years. His special focus has been training and leadership development. Helping emerging and established leaders grow a career and find fulfillment became a primary way Johnny contributed to his organizations. He then studied coaching at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). To learn more about the Co-Active framework, visit Coactive.com/about
What’s the price and length of a coaching engagement?
Career coaching includes 8 sessions across 4 months. Transformational coaching and Executive Coaching involves more intenstive work, support, and behavioral changes, and therefore requires 12 sessions across 6 months. A la carte coaching sessions are also available for narrow-focused work.
To ensure accessibility to those who need it most, Refractive offers a 4-tier sliding scale:
>> Recent grads/unemployed/underemployed (earning under US$55k/yr)
>> Low-to-moderate income (earning US$55k-$75k/yr)
>> Standard pricing (earning US$75k-$150k/yr)
>> Higher earners (earning US$150k/yr and above).
Reach out with your circumstances to receive for more specific pricing info via email. Note that Refractive’s standard rates are set to fall in the middle of average coaching rates.
How much contact will I have with my coach?
Clients receive two 50-minute sessions per month (offerd via Zoom) and have unlimited additional contact via email. Clients can also request brief supplementary calls for pop-up situations between sessions at no additional cost.
What are the prices of services other than coaching?
For keynote speaking services, a la carte career support (resume coaching or writing, interview prep, LinkedIn design, etc), corporate meeting/retreat facilitation, custom training programs, on-site or virtual workshop facilitation, send a note using the form below for clear, no-fuss pricing information.
Any other questions? Just ask.
“This process helped me position myself for what’s next in my career. I’m much better positioned and informed now than when I started. I think I’m most proud that I’ve created a plan for more than just career goals, I’ve also moved closer to personal goals that bring me joy.”
Corporate Tech Coaching Client
San Francisco, CA