Ed Ames, Associate Certified Coach

Ed was born in New Hampshire, started kindergarten at Rhein-Mein Air Force Base in (West) Germany, and graduated from high school on Long Island, New York.  After graduation, Ed moved back to New Hampshire to live closer to his older siblings.  Eventually, Ed settled in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, where he has lived for over 33 years.  Ed has been with his spouse for 30 years, and they have a teenage daughter and son.   

Ed spent time with a Catholic religious community and once planned to become a priest.  After leaving the religious community, in his early twenties, Ed was hired by the federal government.  While working fulltime, Ed attended college at night to get his dream degree in psychology.  He first graduated with an associate's degree from Northern Virginia Community College, and then moved on to graduate from the University of Maryland Global Campus (formerly University College) with a bachelor's degree in psychology with minors in management and sociology.  

Ed's career highlights include over 32 years of federal human resources experience in different specialties, with different agencies in leadership, field, and headquarters positions.  He has been with his current agency for over 20 years.  In his current role, Ed works on human resources policies effecting federal employees and serves as an internal coach, coaching federal employees, supervisors, managers, executives, and political appointees.   

Ed first became interested in the coaching profession when two coaching colleagues planned to attend a coaching conference and invited him to go.  That conference and other coaches sharing their own powerful coaching experiences brought Ed to embrace coaching and his desire to enter the profession.    

As a coach, Ed has partnered with clients using his strong intuition, being an empath, and his understanding of psychology and human nature.  He has provided executive coaching, life coaching, career coaching, and spiritual coaching (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism).  Ed has worked with individual clients on personal development, work/life balance/boundaries, individual and organizational performance, leadership skills, interpersonal communication and conflict, terminal illnesses, and career transition to name a few. 

During his federal career, Ed has been a part of various employee interest groups/teams and committees, to include an elder support group, Weight Watchers,, a human resources office softball team (called the Terminators), and served as a mentor to other employees.  Outside of work Ed has belonged to community and church choruses; volunteering at his church, with his son's and daughter's scouting organizations, school activities, and nonprofits serving others within the Washington, DC metropolitan area. 

Ed's personal interests include learning about religions around the world, deepening his own faith, medieval history around the globe, reading science fiction/fantasy novels and historical accounts on specific topics of interest, spending time with family, human behavior, and learning how to use new information technology tools such as artificial intelligence, Microsoft automation tools, and data analytics.  

Ed is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He completed his coach training with the ICF accredited Federal Internal Coach Training Program in 2017.  In 2021, Ed received a certificate in career coaching, and Ed continues his personal development as a coach to enhance his coaching knowledge to assist clients with more insightful and impactful results.   

Ed’s goal as a coach is to walk beside his clients when they need/want someone to help them recognize and understand their own talents, emotions, spirituality, values, and intellect. 

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Ed Ames Coaching is organized as a limited liability company within the Commonwealth of Virginia and licensed as a business in Arlington County, Virginia.