Elaine and David Taylor-Klaus have coached together for more than two decades. Now their adult children, Bex and Josh, are bringing their own voices to the work. Four Taylor-Klaus coaches, each with a distinct focus, united by a shared belief that change takes compelling reason, real support, and a clear intention.
“People create positive, lasting change when they have a compelling reason, support or guidance, and a clear intention.”
Underneath Touchstone sits a family of coaching companies — Impact Parents and DTK Coaching, with the kids' practices growing in alongside them. One family. Four coaches. Several companies. A shared approach.
Creating Change
A practical, action-oriented approach to working with people, partners, and organizations.
People and organizations only change when there's a compelling reason to. Core values — the ones underneath every personal and professional decision — are often where that reason lives. When people understand and act in accordance with their values, they set goals they can actually reach, and stay focused on reaching them. The odds of real, lasting success go up dramatically. That's as true for a team or an organization as it is for one person.
Touchstone clients — individuals and institutions alike — are guided to find the purpose behind their decisions in the context of their own values.
Focus | Clarity | Action
Our model is the foundation for all of our coaching — individual, group, team, and partnership. It gives clients the structure to build a life and a business that actually work. Along the way, the coach's job is simple: be the accountability structure — the touchstone.
Focus
Start with what's real — your current state, what drives you, what matters. For individuals, that means naming core values, dreams, and purpose. For organizations, it means understanding the system itself.
Clarity
Confusion turns into clarity through the lens of your own values — missions, goals, and commitments get named, possibilities get explored, decisions get made. In business, this is where you take the time to aim well.
Action
Without action, insight is just talk. Clients build the structures that hold them accountable — now, and going forward. Results get measured. Effects get made to last.
Why a Touchstone
A system of accountability. A Touchstone.
Organizations need a keen outside eye: someone who can size up where things stand and help them move forward with intention.
Individuals need someone to turn to. Someone to count on, learn from, be vulnerable with, lean on, celebrate with, boast to — someone who holds them accountable to their own integrity, and invites them to grow, gently but firmly.
Meet the Coaches
Each with a distinct practice, each trained through Coactive Coaching, each bringing a particular lens to the work.
