Education

MS Clinical Psychology
University of Miami

BA Psychology
San Francisco State University

Cassandra Vaughn, MS, ACC

Seattle, WA

​Cassandra Vaughn is a Professional Coach specializing in supporting emerging leaders, new and experienced managers, and professional women to balance creativity, strength, decisiveness, and grace under pressure to overcome stressful workplace, career, or leadership challenges.
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Cassandra has 20+ years of experience working in academic and healthcare settings where she used evidence based, targeted and practical approaches to behavior change to help individuals create specific and achievable goals and actionable plans, and realize measurable progress. As a coach, she leverages her training and experience in behavioral science to ask powerful questions that guide clients to deeper insights, new ways of thinking, and greater self-awareness.

Cassandra is a published author and has extensive experience in the use of psychological and workplace assessments. She incorporates assessment into her work with leaders and uses the insights gained to provide a feedback rich coaching experience. She believes that diversity of experience fosters innovation, and enjoys helping organizations improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by developing customized assessments and approaches tailored to unique organizational values and cultures.

Cassandra is passionate about helping individuals make their work lives work based on a whole-person model. She leads with empathy and holds space for clients to interrogate their own experience, explore their motivations, and learn how to “coach” themselves. She works in collaboration with clients to implement coping strategies such as mindfulness and relaxation techniques for dealing with stressful situations. Clients build skills quickly, learning to leverage strengths and manage derailers, engage productively with conflict, carving out time for professional development, and achieve complementary balance in their work and personal lives.

Areas of Specialization

Building on Strengths
Overcoming Derailers
Managing Conflict
Coping with Workplace Stress
Supporting Mind-Body Wellness Employee Engagement
Servant Leadership
Emotional Intelligence
Leveraging Diversity
Habit Change
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Training + Certification

ACC, ICF Certified Coach 
Certified Coach (CCTA)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
360 Assessments
Hogan Judgment
Everything DiSC Assessments
Deeper Signals
Maslach Burnout Inventory
CliftonStrengths (i.e., StrengthsFinder)
Strong Interest Inventory​