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"Everything you have ever done has prepared you for what is next."

Sydney Rice has been supporting organizations and individuals as an executive coach, change consultant, facilitator, and trainer for the past 25 years. In 1987, before the word “coaching” became part of the business vocabulary, Ms. Rice had the foresight to found a coaching company focused exclusively on optimizing the professional development and effectiveness of managers and leaders. Her venture has evolved and is now called The Boston Coaching Company. It currently includes 12 associate coaches. Ms. Rice is the president.

Ms. Rice studied systems theory and adult learning theory for her master’s degree in education from Cambridge College in Massachusetts. Systems theory is the foundation for a number of proprietary processes and products she has developed to support the emerging field of executive coaching.

In 1995, she created the first iteration of her PaperRoom™ program, which is a powerful discovery method that explores the personal history, assumptions, values, and barriers of managers and executives. She has delivered the PaperRoom for over 800 clients individually, and expanded it into a workshop for Time Inc, which she has been leading for four years and receiving rave reviews. In 2003, her book about how to make the right professional choices, Choice Points: Navigate your Career using the Unique PaperRoom System, was published by Davies-Black.

Ms. Rice also created the Partnership PACT™ in 1988, a collaborative coaching and mentoring model for groups and individuals seeking to embrace new knowledge while retaining old wisdom.

Ms. Rice is currently writing It’s About Time: Crossing the Gap Between Life’s Second and Third Quarters. Based on her experience—and that of her clients—that life before age 50 is just “homework for what you’re really going to do when you grow up,” the book provides guidance to those who want to make life and career changes but are unclear about what they want to do and what steps to take to create lasting change.

Before she was a coach, Ms. Rice held management positions in the services industry, where she learned first-hand about the challenges and pressures faced by managers.

Ms. Rice lives in a pre-Revolutionary War house in West Newbury, Massachusetts with her husband, Vincent Harrild, (an antique furniture restoration artisan), and their cats, Larry and Tom. Her son, Dan, lives in India, and her daughter, Laura, in New York City.

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