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About New Waters Group, LLC

New Waters Group, LLC was founded to serve and support others in their personal and professional development. 

We affirm that individuals, teams, and organizations have great capacity that can be released to their full potential through professional coaching.

We believe that spirituality is a core component of identity, and we encourage each person’s unique journey of faith development and spiritual growth. 

We celebrate the outside perspectives and insights we bring to others as they produce transformation, renewal, and fulfillment.

We inspire others who want to step out onto “new waters” in pursuing their goals, dreams, visions, and new ventures. It is our joy in helping those pursuits become actualized. 

Let us support you in navigating your next steps!

Brad Farrington

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It is my life’s calling to help others claim their unique identity, clarify their purpose, and connect to a greater journey of life. Through the New Waters Group, I want to support you or your team as you navigate your next steps – personally, professionally, or organizationally.

Through my 25+ year career I’ve had the privilege of serving in numerous lead roles, including being a pastor, campus minister, and nonprofit executive director. I’ve also had the great joy of being an entrepreneur in building two new companies from the ground up, and I know the celebrations and challenges of being a small business owner. 

I want to offer the best of my experience, abilities, education, and training to you so that you can be a more effective leader and achieve your goals in your personal life, relationships, education, work, and service. Whether it’s through one-on-one coaching or seeking my services for desired project or need, I look forward to working with you!

Credentials & Affiliations:

 International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
PCC Marker Assessor

Integrative Enneagram Solutions
Integrative Enneagram Accredited Practitioner (iEQ9)

Licensed Pastoral Minister & Ordained Elder

Institute for Transformational Leadership
Georgetown University; Washington, DC
Certificate in Leadership Coaching, 2021

Candler School of Theology
Emory University; Atlanta, Georgia
Master of Divinity, 2002

Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion, 1998

Mickey Thaxton

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Mickey is an executive leadership coach and founder of Beacon Leadership Coaching and Military LeaderShift. A retired naval officer, he served for twenty-two years, the last ten of which were spent teaching history, leadership, and ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy.

A firm believer in the power of stories, he works to help leaders recognize the stories they tell themselves and to understand how those narratives influence their perspectives and actions, as well as shape the cultures of the teams and organizations they lead.

Mickey lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

Credentials & Affiliations:

International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Associate Certified Coach (ACC)

Brown University
School of Professional Studies
Providence, RI
Certificate in Team Coaching, 2023

Institute for Transformational Leadership
Georgetown University; Washington, DC
Certificate in Leadership Coaching, 2021
Certificate in Organizational Consulting & Change Management, 2015

Villanova University
Villanova, PA
Master of Arts (History), 2005

United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD
Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Government, 1992

Description of Coaching

Coaching begins with an assumption that clients are whole, wise, and highly knowledgeable about the nature of their own personal and professional development. Therefore, the coach’s primary role is to:

  • Create a safe and confidential space for the client
    Discover, clarify and align with what the client wants to achieve (assessments/pre-work)
  • Draw out the client’s wisdom through inquiry, curiosity, and gentle provocations
  • Encourage client self-discovery
  • Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies
  • Hold the client responsible and accountable
  • Help the client stretch into their best capacities through challenge and support

Coaching Approach

We approach coaching from a holistic lens, attentive to the client’s interior life (emotional, cognitive, and spiritual) as well as how their interior reality is expressed through their physical presence and behaviors. 

Coaching is distinctive from consulting, advising, therapy, or counseling. However, coaching may address personal issues or life conditions that have an impact on a client’s professional effectiveness.

Our approach to leadership coaching includes the following:

  • Determine client’s commitment to the coaching process: to solicit feedback, assess feedback, work to develop more effective behaviors, involve stakeholders to support desired changes, and measure the results of the behavior change effort.
  • Identify with the client the high leverage behaviors that will provide the most strategic benefit for the client and organization.
  • Partner with the client in understanding and responding to feedback.
  • Support the client in engaging more productively with stakeholders.
  • Conduct regularly scheduled coaching sessions in person, by phone, or through Zoom.
  • Be available to the client for needed coaching and consultation between regularly scheduled sessions.

Outcomes

The anticipated outcomes of leadership coaching for the client include:

  • Identification of the key behaviors to stop, start, or continue doing to increase leadership effectiveness.
  • Involvement and commitment of stakeholders (i.e., direct reports, peers, support staff, supervisor) in the process of helping to increase effectiveness.
  • With sufficient client commitment to the process, improvement will be noticeable and measurable (by ongoing feedback from stakeholders) on specific leadership behaviors.
  • Long-term effectiveness for the client and the client organization, based on increased capacity to achieve results through building and maintaining healthy relationships.
  • Maximize the client’s personal and professional potential through a though-provoking, creative, and individually customized coaching program specifically tailored to support the client’s desired outcomes and goals.

Leadership Coaching Specialization Areas

Vocational Alignment

Wholistic Coaching
(somatic, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual approach)

Navigating Complexity

Growth Edge Coaching

Navigating Polarities

Thinking Path

Change Management

Enneagram

Team Coaching

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Executive Leadership Coaching

College Student & Parent Coaching

Pastoral Services

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