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Healthy Project Coaching

Leadership coaching for construction professionals navigating complex projects

Coaching for project managers, superintendents, and construction leaders in healthcare and A/E/C.

When you’re responsible for people, projects, and clients, the pressure doesn’t stay neatly contained.

It shows up in how you communicate, how you make decisions, and how steady you feel when everything feels urgent.

Healthy Project Coaching is one-to-one leadership coaching designed for people in the thick of it — not theory, but grounded support for leaders carrying real responsibility.

Healthy Project Coaching

Leadership coaching for construction professionals navigating complex projects

Coaching for project managers, superintendents, and construction leaders in healthcare and A/E/C.

When you’re responsible for people, projects, and clients, the pressure doesn’t stay neatly contained.

It shows up in how you communicate, how you make decisions, and how steady you feel when everything feels urgent.

Healthy Project Coaching is one-to-one leadership coaching designed for people in the thick of it — not theory, but grounded support for leaders carrying real responsibility.

Cathy Dolan Schweitzer

When the pressure is high, leadership gets personal

Most construction leaders don’t need more tools.

They need space to think clearly.

You may recognize this:

  • You’re technically strong, but the people side feels heavier than it used to
  • You’re managing conflict, expectations, and constant urgency
  • You’re carrying responsibility without a safe place to process it

And when leaders don’t feel supported, teams feel it.

So do clients.

“Cathy doesn’t just coach; she listens deeply. She picks up on the things you say, the things underneath what you say, and the things you didn’t even know were holding you back.”

~ Hilary McCoy, Coaching Client

What Healthy Project Coaching makes possible

Healthy Project Coaching helps leaders:

  • Think clearly under pressure
  • Strengthen communication and decision-making
  • Navigate conflict without burning bridges
  • Lead with confidence, intention, and steadiness
  • Stay in the work without losing themselves in it

This isn’t coaching to “fix” you.
It’s coaching to support you — so you can lead sustainably.

“Cathy helped me reframe my role from managing tasks to leading people… accelerated progress on a project that had stalled for over a year.” ~ Jean O’Reilly, PMP, Consultant, NJ Transit

The framework behind the work

All coaching is grounded in the Systematic Caring Framework:

Healthy People → Healthy Team → Healthy Project

Leadership doesn’t start with managing others.

It starts with how you show up.

Cathy Dolan-Schweitzer

When leaders are supported and self-aware:

  • Teams communicate better
  • Trust builds faster
  • Clients feel steadier
  • Projects run cleaner

This is the soft side that makes the hard side run.

What coaching looks like (in practice)

Healthy Project Coaching is tailored to the individual — because no two leaders or projects are the same.

Typical engagements include:

  • One-to-one coaching over a defined period
  • A focused starter session to clarify goals and challenges
  • Ongoing sessions that combine reflection with practical tools
  • Real-time application to active projects and teams

This work meets you where you are — mid-project, mid-decision, mid-career.

“Cathy has an ability to challenge you to step outside your comfort zone while recharging your mind and spirit. The value I gained from this program was enormous.” ~ Nicholas Caltabiano, Coaching Client

Who this coaching is for

Healthy Project Coaching is designed for:

  • Project managers stepping into larger responsibility
  • Superintendents transitioning into leadership roles
  • Construction leaders navigating healthcare or complex A/E/C projects
  • Leaders who care deeply — and want to lead without burning out

“Cathy established a strong working relationship quickly. Her people-centered coaching helped our superintendent successfully transition into a healthcare project management role.” ~ Todd Renz, President, OR&L Construction

What Healthy Project Coaching makes possible

Healthy Project Coaching helps leaders:

Commitment

1-Month Commmitment

This allows you to “stick your toe in the water” and test out if coaching is for you.

3-Month Invest in You

3-Month “Invest in You”

This option provides an opportunity for you to begin to see positive changes and impact from coaching.

6-Month Committed to You

6-Month “Committed to You”

This option will allow you to truly see changes in leadership effectiveness and project team success.

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Cathy provided guidance that morphed my thinking as an IT project manager to reframing a situation to regarding it as people project instead. This significantly boosted the cadence and outcome. Cathy was the presenter at a monthly NYC PMI (Project Management Institute) meeting in the fall of 2023 and I was awarded a 30-minute remote session with her. I was a contractor who had recently started as a project manager on a project that had started one year earlier and barely moved, additionally I was its 5th PM. She had me describe the players and our interactions. She gave me ideas regarding developing interpersonal relationships with the deliver teams rather than just emailing and virtually meeting on the core topic, finding out more about what was going on beyond this project, and getting up from my desk to visit with the teams at their desks. Cathy’s suggestions opened the conversations much more deeply, with teams discussing their blockers and how I could help. Additionally, our discussions led to discussing family matters, holidays, travel, etc. This deeper interaction distinctly accelerated progress and trust, the project is nearing completion. Cathy's recommendations were highly valuable and impactful for me.

Jean O’Reilly, PMP
Consultant N.J. Transit

The whole purpose of my wanting to hire a coach was so I could step out my own way and get out of my box. I needed an accountability partner that would help take me to the next level. My immediate experience with Cathy Dolan Schweitzer felt comfortable. She saw potential that I didn’t see in myself. I did not enter into coaching wanting to promote my “Keep Living” journal or to use speaking engagements as part of my business. My original intention was to talk about building a project management company. After a few sessions, we expanded that vision with a tie to my “Keep Living” journal. I never thought I would be able to tie it into the project management company and speaking engagements, but my coaching sessions with Cathy helped me see my worth at a level outside my comfort zone — a level I did not even know I had.

Jennifer Fennell
author of Keep Living: A Journal for Healing Through Your Grief

As someone not prone to open up and talk too much, my experience with Cathy Dolan Schweitzer was comfortable — she is extremely easy to talk to. Her use of humor and how she would always say “be your own spectator” helped me step out of myself and become a spectator of my world; I looked at my office, habits, and how I do things … and it shocked me. At 55 years old, I’ve always thought of myself as average at my job and never good at selling or promoting myself, but she made me see that I AM good at what I do, where changes needed to occur, and that I can continue to improve because I possess sought-after attributes. Cathy helped me see what I needed to be top priority as a project manager and we laid out the steps on how to improve … and I am learning to be patient with myself because change does not happen overnight.

Tom Lucus
OR&L Construction

The Coaching Process

The coaching process will overall look something like this …

First discussion between the coach and coachee to identify the client’s needs and align them with personal and professional goals.

  • The coach explores the coachee’s capabilities, identifying the present state and situation, and the desired end goal.
  • The coach and the coachee develop the coaching plan and identify the key performance indicators.
  • The coaching plan is approved and coaching sessions proceed according to the plan.
2

An initial work session within the first month of engagement.

  • The first session is 90 minutes and it can be split into two sessions if needed.
3

One 30-minute virtual call weekly or bi-weekly based on contract which will follow the same format each week.

  • The calls cover what we are we working on as well as a review of “homework” and planned next steps.
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Meet Your Coach

Meet Your Coach

Cathy helps you to develop the skills to lead healthy, effective, and successful teams. With 26 years of experience in healthcare and commercial construction project management, Cathy holds a people-centric focus that is rooted in the idea that health (physical and mental), kindness, and caring matters to both the people involved and the projects on which they work — this belief is the foundation on which all her coaching sits.

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What clients experience

Clients consistently report:

  • Clearer communication
  • Better decision-making under pressure
  • Increased confidence as a leader
  • Healthier boundaries
  • Stronger relationships with teams and clients

Not louder leadership.

Steadier leadership.

Ready to talk?

If you’re ready to lead with more clarity — and less weight on your shoulders — Healthy Project Coaching may be the right next step.

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