“Ultimately, it’s opening to another loving soul, a friend who can walk us home to ourselves, that is the most potent catalyst for transformation.”
- Bear Brandegee
Bear Brandegee
ICF Professional Certified Coach
Certified Integral Coach
Certified Enneagram Coach
MBA | BA | AA
Meet Coach Bear
I came to coaching as a second career. My first was in the marketing arena. Early on I developed and managed technology campaigns for the global PR firm Fleishman-Hillard rising to Vice President in the company’s Los Angeles Technology Division. I later served as speech writer and communications advisor to Takashi Kiuchi, the Chairman of Mitsubishi Electronics while leading the public relations programming and communications for that company.
In 1997 I earned an MBA from The University of Southern California Marshall School of Business capping a decade as a senior marketing executive in multinational agency, corporate and entrepreneurial environments. The MBA prepared me to launch an Internet company — The Patent & License Exchange (PL-X) raising, with my co-founders, $50 million to fund the first on-line intellectual property exchange. You can read the Harvard Business Review case on PL-X.
My formal education also includes a BA English Language & Literature from the University of Chicago ‘83, and an AA in Merchandise Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Los Angeles ‘97.
In the past six years I’ve become intensely interested and immersed in deep inner work and development of myself and my clients. For my body, I dance, weight lift, do yoga and practice energy medicine. For my mind, I enjoy daily Vedic meditation and allow my curiosity to take me on adventures as I study transpersonal psychology and cosmology. For my emotional regulation, I check in with myself regularly to see how I’m doing in each moment. To bring myself back to center, I engage in breathwork and Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, a body-wisdom-based way of connecting with my inner knowing.
I am passionate about dance and travel and get to enjoy both with my soulmate and husband. My creativity is expressed through fashion and interior design. As a mom of a Gen Z child, I am privileged to learn about the world through the eyes of an empowered champion of humanity.
I look forward to connecting with you so that we can see if my coaching style and your coaching objectives are a good fit.
What you might not know about me…
MIXOLOGIST
I enjoy crafting mocktails and cocktails and learning from bartenders who have trained in this fabled culinary art.
dancer
I’m a Lindy, Zumba, and K-pop dance enthusiast with dozens of dances from BTS under my belt and sneakers!
mom
I’m grateful to be Mom to a beautiful human and who teaches me about the richness of life every single day.
Bear’s Qualifications
ICF-Certified Coach
The International Coaching Federations’ PCC designation affirms 500+ client hours of coaching experience.
Certified Integral Coach
New Ventures West is an ICF-certified coaching school with a rigorous and unique curriculum focusing on the whole person.
Certified Enneagram Coach
Chestnut Paes Academy is IEA-certified with a world-class reputation for exceptional training.
What Clients Are Saying
Tanya, Business Founder and Owner
“I had searched endlessly for ways to manage my stress and anxiety. As a workaholic, my soul never rested. Through coaching conversations with Bear, I began to embrace calm and to realize the truly important aspects of my life. Bear’s deep wisdom and ability to share her understanding of human development have been life changing for me. I feel restored and grounded. I am now more effective in leading my team and experience a greater richness and vitality in my personal relationships. Through our conversations and my daily practices, I feel healed and changed from the inside out.”