C.J. Liu is a certified professional coach, who helps professionals define success on their own terms.  In addition to coaching, she has delivered workshops on work-life balance to help professionals feel better about the trade-off’s they make between work and family.  C.J. has taught for the University of Washington, Program for Eearly Parent Support, and is an adjunct staff from Centerpointe. 

C.J. studied coaching at the Academy for Coach Training (ACT), one of the top ranked accredited training programs through the International Coaching Federation. C.J. is one of the few fully certified professional coaches with an MBA from a top ranked MBA program (University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business).  C.J. uses tools from Paradox Management and Neuro Linguistic Programming, classes in conflict management, and is certified in Reikki II.

C.J. came to coaching with over 20 years of business, marketing, finance, contract negotiations, business development, and product development experience at some of the leading Fortune 500 businesses including such as Microsoft, General Electric, and Clorox.  C.J. loves the energy and excitement of working with high-tech start-ups and has used her passion and focus to fuelcontributed her energy, focus, and acumen to many of Microsoft’s most successful products.

C.J. is a wife and mother of two. She worked both full-time (for 13 years) and part-time (for 5 years) at Microsoft while simultaneously parenting two children.  She enjoys family, friends, drawing, and yoga.