Steve Sobczak

• About Coach Steve

  Focus Areas:
  Shame, Grief, Marriage, Dating, Freedom From Porn, Parenting, Identity, Loneliness, Pressure, Emotional isolation, Fatherhood, Relationship strain, Addiction, Spiritual drift, and Burnout
  
  ICF Certified Coach · Spiritual Director · Executive Coach · Husband · Father
  
  Steve’s work begins with the deeper questions men carry: identity, calling, suffering, fatherhood, shame, and the quiet ache for a life that feels whole. To serve those places with clarity and depth, he integrates a set of proven frameworks that help men name what’s actually going on beneath achievement, pressure, and performance:
  
  • VALLEY Framework — suffering, loss, and disorientation
  • CALLED Framework — vocation, purpose, and the work a man is uniquely made to do
  • STORY Framework — spiritual autobiography and narrative identity
  • LEGACY & PILLAR Frameworks — fatherhood, masculine formation, relationship, identity
  • GRACE & FREEDOM Frameworks — shame, addiction, and compulsive behavior
  
  
  Steve knows the cost of leadership from the inside. As a retired U.S. Army Colonel, he has lived the pressure to perform, the weight of responsibility, and the way success can stretch a man thin on the inside even as everything looks strong on the outside.
  
  For more than three decades, he has walked alongside executives, senior military and civilian leaders, fathers, and high‑performing men in their most defining seasons — not with answers, but with something rarer: the kind of presence that creates the conditions for a man to finally hear himself. His work sits at the intersection of ICF Certified Coaching, Spiritual Direction, and a soul friend who stands with you on the sacred ground of your own life and listens with unhurried, attentive care.
  
  His conviction is simple: you are not broken. You are a person with a story God has been shaping across every chapter — including the ones you’d rather skip — and that story deserves to be heard in full.
  
  What men most often say after working with him:
  “I finally felt heard.”

• Training & Accreditation

  Over 20 years of professional coaching

  Associate Certified Coach, International Coach Federation: 2019

  Spiritual Direction, Sioux Falls Seminary / Kairos University: 2021

  Master of Arts, Human Resource Development, Webster University: 1996

  Bachelor of Science, Physical Education, The Citadel: 1987

  Team Coaching Certified, Brown University: 2023

  The Leadership Challenge Certified Facilitator: 2105

  Arbinger Institute Certified Mindset and Leadership Facilitator: 2012

  Reboot Recovery Facilitator for Trauma, Military and First Responders: 2020

  US Army Observer Coach: 1994

  Joint Forces Coach Trainer: 1998

  Naval War College Graduate: 2010

  Command and General Staff College Graduate: 1996

  Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certified: 2012

  Spectrum Temperament Certified Facilitator: 2014  

  US Military Certified Instructor: 1994

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