20+ Years Construction Industry Experience
Prosci® Change Management Certified
Organizational Design Experience
Recovery
Informed Leadership
When Work No Longer Fits the Reality People Are Operating In
Organizations rarely fail because their people don't care or their leaders can't lead. They fail because the systems themselves create pressure that nobody can sustain.
Roles grow without clarity. Schedules leave no margin. Accountability is uneven. Change is introduced without support, then blamed on "resistance" when it doesn't stick.
Pressure moves downstream. Leaders absorb it. Teams carry it. Burnout becomes normalized. Turnover feels inevitable. Safety, trust, and performance quietly erode long before anyone names the issue.
By the time leadership gets labeled the problem, the damage is already done. People aren't failing; they're responding exactly as the system designed them to.
Real change starts with redesigning how work functions, not with another push for motivation or mindset.
A More Thoughtful Way to Work
Align operations, leadership, and people, so performance holds up under real-world pressure.
Copper Penny Coaching® helps organizations examine how work is structured, how leaders are supported, and what the day-to-day experience of work feels like for the people living inside it.
This work blends operational clarity, leadership support, and recovery-informed insight, guided by disciplined change management, so improvements don't fall apart when things get busy.
The result is work that performs without relying on burnout, leaders who can lead realistically, and an employee experience people don't have to recover from, because the environment finally makes sense.
What Changes When Work Is Designed Well
Reduce
Preventable Turnover
When expectations are clear and pressure is managed intentionally, people stop burning out, and stop leaving.
Support Leaders Without Breaking Them
Leaders get structure
and clarity instead of absorbing pressure
alone after promotions
or during growth.
Strengthen Safety and Decision
Making
Clear accountability and communication improve
judgement under pressure, where mistakes are most costly.
Make Change Last
Change is guided, supported, and reinforced so new ways of working don’t
quietly revert.
For 20 years, I worked across every level of construction, from the front desk and jobsite to workforce development and regional operations.
I thought I had mastered balancing operational demands with people management, until my own burnout showed me what was missing. My recovery journey revealed that the same principles helping individuals heal can also transform how organizations operate.
What makes Copper Penny Coaching® different? Most consultants have theory but lack AEC experience. Most recovery coaches understand personal healing but lack corporate credibility. I have both.
Meet Monica
Recovery Wisdom Meets Real-World Results
Three Ways to Start
Where you start depends on where you are today, and what kind of support you need right now.
Bringing a team instead of just yourself?
That's what the Signature Programs are for. The Team Read™ if the team needs to understand how it operates under stress. Trust to Traction™ if it has to move fast together. Say the Thing™ if there's a group sitting on conversations nobody's having. Custom retreats and speaking are on the table too.
A Clear, Low-Drama Process
Understand the Pressure
We identify where work design, expectations, and leadership strain intersect.
Redesign What Isn’t Working
Roles, workflows, and accountability are clarified to reduce chronic stress.
Guide the
Change
Using Prosci® principles, we support adoption so people know what's changing and why.
Scope Support to Fit
Continued support at whatever level fits, so improvements hold as the business evolves.
Trusted by Leaders Who Get Real Results
"I finally felt like someone understood both the work and the weight of it."
— Project Executive
“Monica helped me see what I couldn’t see on my own, without making me feel wrong.”
— Project Scheduler
“This work didn’t just help our organization. It helped me breathe again.”
— Regional Controller
No judgment. No fluff. No fixing. Clear, grounded support inside real work.
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