Nursing Side Gigs: Leadership Coach

This is part of a regular series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a nurse who is a leadership coach.

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Ever wanted to pursue your passion, even if you’re doing it as a side-gig? That’s exactly what Rasheda Hatchett, MN, RN, did when she became a leadership coach.

As part of our side-gig series, we wanted to know how she got into it and how you can, too.

How did you get interested in being a leadership coach? What drew you to it? How long have you been doing it?

I think like most people, you find you passion in what you do innately. I have mentored and coached many women in my career—I just never charged for my time and effort. Once I began to see the clear value I was adding to women’s lives, the light bulb went off, and I knew I had found the thing that I could do that didn’t feel like work and was fulfilling in ways I had never dreamt of.

Explain to me briefly what a leadership coach is. Did you have to get additional training/education to do it?

Leadership coaching is personal for me, I believe in what I call “Whole life Leadership,” so my coaching is centered around leading in your home, career, community—and most importantly—leading yourself. One of the largest predictors of your leadership style is how you lead yourself. Just like people who don’t tend to give themselves grace when they make mistakes, similarly you’ll find that you may need to work on extending grace to your team. So for me, we have to dig into how you lead yourself to truly understand where we need to work on growth and goal setting.

I was coaching for a long time as a lay person and decided I wanted to get some additional certification, so I recently completed a coaching academy course and am working toward ICF certification.

What types of people/clients do you serve? What are they looking for and what do you provide for them?

The women I work with are true unicorns—they are leaders in health care, nonprofit, and corporate spaces. Women come to me who are ready to increase their confidence and really cultivate the skill of expressing their organizational value and communicating to garner results. I work with them to create a 360 vision for their lives and flush out exactly what they are working toward in life: including career, self-care, finances, and family.

Do you find that this is hard to do while working as a nurse?

Because I love what I do, no, it’s not hard to create harmony in my nursing career and the leadership coaching that I do. I own my nursing company in the Seattle area that provides education for caregivers of adult family homes caring for the elderly population. Being the CEO of my nursing business allows me a level of freedom to also work on my passion and help female leaders grow to the next level.

What do you like most about working as a leadership coach?

I love the transformation that I get to witness in the women I work with. Watching them take on new challenges, become more confident in themselves, get promoted, start new ventures, win contracts, and collaborate with other women in our circle—that’s why I do this. I love to see women win. Getting an up-close-and-personal view really sets my heart on fire. Knowing that I have made a difference in the way that women show up in the world is an amazing feeling.

What are your biggest challenges as a leadership coach? What are your greatest rewards as one?

My biggest challenges are helping the women I work with change their mindset around what they believe is possible for them in the world. I think this is a challenge for so many reasons, but the largest reason is the part society has played in defining a woman’s role in the world and doing all it can keep us in a box. My desire is to help women break every glass ceiling and tear down every wall that limits women in leadership and business.

Part of how I do that is guiding women to have the confidence to express their value as leaders and business owners in a way that resonates with decision makers.

Leading from the inside out requires a level of vulnerability that will challenge you out of your comfort zone, but the transformation on the other side is so worth it!