Make confident career decisions. Become a more effective leader. Change what's no longer working for you.

Whether you're considering your next career move, navigating new leadership responsibilities, or rethinking how you work, I help you get clear on what you want, make decisions you trust, and take practical steps forward.

Career & Leadership Coaching

For Law Firms & Organizations

Leadership Development Coaching

Developing lawyers and leaders who can lead people effectively, navigate complexity, and sustain high performance.

As lawyers and professionals take on greater leadership responsibility, technical expertise alone isn't enough. They need to influence others, navigate challenging dynamics, make sound decisions under pressure, and get results through people.

My coaching helps firms and organizations develop leaders who can handle difficult conversations, make better decisions, strengthen team performance, and manage the pressures that come with greater responsibility.

Through coaching, leaders develop the ability to:

  • Lead with greater self-awareness and confidence, understanding their strengths, blind spots, and impact on others.

  • Build influence and credibility with clients, colleagues, teams, and senior leadership.

  • Handle difficult conversations and lead through complexity, including conflict, change, and competing priorities

  • Delegate effectively, give feedback, and hold people accountable to improve team performance.

  • Make sound decisions under pressure and navigate uncertainty.

  • Manage their capacity and energy so they can meet demanding expectations without operating at an unsustainable pace.

Coaching is tailored to each leader's role, goals, and real-time challenges, including partnership transitions, expanding leadership responsibilities, and leading teams through change.

Every engagement includes the Hogan Leadership Assessment Suite (HPI, HDS, and MVPI), providing insight into leadership strengths, potential derailers, values, and motivators that inform development.

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“You have more agency than you think. You may not control every circumstance, but you can decide what matters, how you want to show up, and what you do next.”
—Arivee Vargas

For Lawyers and Leaders

Career Coaching

Make your next career decision with confidence.

You've worked hard to build your career, and now you may be considering a new role, weighing a bigger change, or wondering whether you can continue growing where you are. These decisions aren't always straightforward, especially when you're balancing your ambitions with everything else that matters in your life.

Through coaching, you’ll:

  • Clarify what you want next and why.

  • Evaluate your options with practical decision-making frameworks.

  • Separate fear, outside expectations, and limiting beliefs from what is actually true.

  • Prepare for the opportunities, tradeoffs, and challenges ahead.

  • Move forward with more clarity, self-trust and a realistic plan.

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What Clients Say

  • My sessions with Arivee helped me realize my optimal career path. Arivee's coaching approach was compassionate, impartial, and committed to achieving tangible goals. I realized that what I sought was not external but within myself. I could only uncover it through her approach of guiding me in dedicated introspection and challenging me with her questions. As an attorney, I was often constrained by conventional protocols. However, after my coaching sessions with Arivee, I felt inspired to challenge and reevaluate those norms in my professional and personal life. I have now integrated my professional and personal aspirations, leading me to a more fulfilling path forward. - D.H.

  • Coaching with Arivee opened my eyes to all possibilities— and made me see ALL possibilities as within reach. I was clearly the strong bridge to the possibilities of my wildest dreams. Arivee has a gift for asking very targeted questions that allow you to see the facts (and truths) of your accomplishments, strengths, and what you perceive to be roadblocks— so that those roadblocks can clear away to get you ready for taking off to those wildest dreams. - M.S.

  • Battling against mental fog (maintaining clarity) brought me to Arivee. A newly minted professional, my intuitive instincts seemed to be at odds with the culture and examples of success at my first job. The people pleaser in me wanted to oblige and do everything necessary to succeed, but this, I came to realize through our conversations, was inherently at odds with my deeply entrenched desire to live life freely and set necessary boundaries. Arivee is more than just a brilliant sounding board and dynamic personality, her thoughtful coaching approach makes me instantly comfortable.

    I am most thankful for her introducing me to gratitude practice. It has dramatically shifted my mood and allows me to remain steadily grounded during 2020's turbulent times and beyond. - M.C.

  • I was really feeling stuck about where I should go with my career, should I stay or should I leave my current role and if I chose to leave what would I even do. I really love the job I have but worried about being stifled from getting to the next level and how much I had invested over the years that was maybe taking away from the life I had/could have had outside of work. A big question I had was what time, if any, would be the right time to make a leap and how would I know it's the right thing to do/I'd enjoy a new job as much as I love the one I am in.

    The big a-ha moment for me was learning about some of the traits I had and how those traits not only impacted me professionally (what would be the jobs that made me tick if I chose to leave) but how they played a role in my life personally. I often think of those things now both at work but also at home and it's really helped me understand the things that are important to me and that make me feel good about things both at work and outside of work. - J.B.

  • When I sought out Arivee, I was struggling to balance all of my goals and interests. I was overwhelmed and not accomplishing anything because I lacked clarity and focus. I kept thinking myself in circles. Arivee not only helped me to see the truth I had deep down inside me, but helped me write my own permission slip. Working with Arivee helped me realize that I was letting fears hold me back and wasn’t standing in my truth. The clarity she helped me achieve allowed me to feel excited about and confident in moving forward with creating the life I have been dreaming for myself. - Ali C.

  • I’ve thrived and am proud to say I have maintained my boundaries and continued to strengthen them. Notably, I am much more comfortable saying no and keeping my peace as I silently maintain the boundaries I have set for myself. Thank you again for the impact you made on my professional and personal life.

    - H.H.

  • Working with Arivee has been an absolute game-changer. She has a warm demeanor and is so intensely relatable that I felt comfortable opening up right away. It's rare to find someone who's not only genuinely cool to talk to but also has her level of deep, knowledgeable experience in both law and corporate settings. She just gets it! If you’re looking for guidance that's smart, strategic, and feels completely grounded, talk to Arivee!

    - V.S.

Please remember that coaching is not a substitute for medical care or therapy.