Ed Ames

Background

About Ed Ames

Ed spent time with a Catholic religious community and once planned to become a priest. After leaving the religious community, in his early twenties, Ed was hired by the federal government. While working fulltime, Ed attended college at night to get his dream degree in psychology. He first graduated with an associate's degree from Northern Virginia Community College, and then moved on to graduate from the University of Maryland Global Campus (formerly University College) with a bachelor's degree in psychology with minors in management and sociology. Ed's career highlights include more than 30 years of federal human resources experience in different specialties, with different agencies in leadership, field, and headquarters positions. Ed first became interested in the coaching profession when two coaching colleagues planned to attend a coaching conference and invited him to go. That conference and other professionals sharing their own powerful coaching experiences brought Ed to embrace coaching and his desire to enter the profession. As a coach, Ed has partnered with clients using his strong intuition and understanding of human nature. He has provided executive coaching, life coaching, career coaching, and spiritual coaching (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism). Ed has worked with individual clients on personal development, work/life balance, individual and organizational performance, leadership skills, interpersonal communication and conflict, and HIV and AIDS. Ed is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He completed his coach training with the ICF accredited Federal Internal Coach Training Program in 2017. Ed’s goal as a coach is to walk beside his clients when they need/want someone to help them recognize and understand their own talents, emotions, spirituality, values, and intellect.