Purpose Centered Coaching and Consulting

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Welcome to the 2026 PCCC LB Gives Landing Page! 

EMPOWER US TO MEET OUR MATCH! We have a $1000 Matching Gift! If we raise $1000, we get $1000! Help us raise this in Early Giving Week Thursday, 9/17-Wednesday, 9/23! 

PCCC is a California nonprofit organization for women guided by diversity equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. We create gender equity through the power of professional coaching, leadership development workshops, and inclusive networking opportunities. We are BIPOC women led and founded. 

PCCC is standing steady during these challenging times and is proud to serve and support women of color, women with disabilities, women who identify as LGBTQI+, low-income women, college women, undocumented women, older adult women, and other underserved/under resourced women. We provide flexible rates via a sliding scale self-selecting system, and/or scholarships. We have a diverse roster of professional Coaches with unique and different lived experiences.

Since our founding in 2021 we have served close to 300 women and those who self-identify as women through our coaching programs, leadership development workshops, and networking events.

Key Programs:

  • Individual Coaching – including Spanish speaking coaches
  • Group Coaching Circles - including a free Spanish speaking group!
  • Free Coaching Fairs - including Spanish speaking coaches 
  • Inclusive Networking Events and An Annual March Women’s Celebration Month Event
  • Professional Development Workshops

PCCC's Client Coaching Impact & Results:

  • Client Quotes: 
    • Spanish Speaking Coaching Group Particpant: Thank you for this opportunity for coaching, it’s an opportunity to get to know myself, an opportunity for change.  Each small step/change is an act of love.
    • Spanish Speaking Coaching Group Participant: I’m grateful because I’m taking time for me to discover more of who I am.  I have loved this time.
    • Individual Coachig Client: 
      • Before coaching, I thought growth was about finding the right answers. I learned that it’s really about asking better questions.

        This coaching experience gave me something I didn’t know I needed: a safe space to be vulnerable without judgment. Through thoughtful questions and genuine curiosity, Carolina helped me identify the “structures of knowing”, the beliefs, assumptions, and patterns I had developed over my lifetime and challenged me to ask whether they were still serving me.

        One of my biggest breakthroughs was realizing that my past does not have to dictate my future. I often caught myself saying, “I’ve always been this way…” or “I’ve always done this…” Coaching taught me to replace that with, “Up until now…” Those three words changed everything. They reminded me that my past patterns are not permanent and that I can choose differently.

        I leave this experience with greater self-awareness, more confidence, healthier boundaries, stronger communication skills, and, perhaps most importantly, more compassion for myself. I speak to myself with kindness, give myself grace while I’m learning, and trust that growth comes through practice, not perfection.

        This is not therapy. While you may share challenges and personal experiences, coaching is different. It is about developing awareness, identifying the beliefs that shape your thinking, understanding why they exist, and choosing whether they continue to serve the person you want to become. I am incredibly grateful for Carolina’s empathy, curiosity, and ability to create a space where I felt both challenged and supported. She didn’t tell me who to become, she helped me discover who I was capable of becoming.

      • Coaching can support:

        • Going back to college, entering college for the first time or a training program
        • Landing jobs, promotions, and/or raises by empowering oneself to move past old patterns or limiting self-beliefs
        • Using voices for artistic endeavors, creative self-expression, including becoming published authors
        • Taking ownership of financial health, well-being and the future
        • Discerning with a Coach to seek the support of a mental health professional 
        • Moving past self-limiting belief systems/behaviors, discomfort and challenges

2026-2027 Board of Directors

-Susana Gonzalez Edmond, Board Chair, Edmond Group, LLP

-Kelly Buck, Board Treasurer, Windes, Tax, Audit & Advisory Services

-Veronica Garcia Davalos, Board Meber, Long Beach Public Library Foundation 

-Eva Melgarejo, Board Member, New American Funding

-Silissa Uriarte Smith, Board Member & Founder, ICF ACC

2026-2027 Advisory Board 

-Beth Ann Suggs, ICF PCC, Academy for Coaching Excellence, Dean of Students & Senior Course Leader, Retired

-Jennifer Kumiyama, Board President, Long Beach Disabled Resource Center

-Bryce Cullinane, Attorney at Law, Long Beach, CA 

Contact/Web/Socials

PurposeCenteredCoaching@gmail.com

https://www.purposecenteredcoaching.org/

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Mission

PCCC's mission is to create Gender Equity through the power of professional coaching.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Purpose Centered Coaching and Consulting

Tax id (EIN)

88-4268423

Operating Budget

Small ($0 - $99,999)

Mission Category

Social Justice, Civic & Community Engagement

City Council District

District 1

Address

539 Daisy Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90802

Service areas

Long Beach, CA, US, 90802

Long Beach, CA, US, 90804

Long Beach, CA, US, 90813

Long Beach, CA, US, 90810

Long Beach, CA, US, 90808