Inspiring Conversations with Kelly Oberle of Access Human Potential

 After graduating, I moved to Southern California and started my corporate career in Marketing and Sales Management. I pursued a variety of roles and responsibilities and started to notice a theme – I continually struggled with stress, not feeling fulfilled, lacking confidence, and being pulled in multiple directions. To climb out of this, I spent time learning breathwork, mindfulness, and stress management tools to help cope with the stressors I was facing. In addition, I had extensive training in emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and character strengths to try to find my why. I found myself working in environments where individuals were knocked down and easily knocked off track. It reminded me of the teamwork struggles I had witnessed as both a player and coach throughout my athletic career.

 I realized I was unhappy. Most of the time at work I was not feeling well, mentally or physically. I knew that if I could change myself, I could help others change themselves as well.

I dreamt of creating services that provide a foundation to build resilience, leadership, positive mindset, and teamwork – all the skills a person needs to not only survive in this crazy world, but to thrive by becoming the best version of themselves, happy and content in their skin.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Definitely not a smooth road, but a very rewarding road. When I made the decision to start my own company, I knew that I would sacrifice some of the real and perceived stability of working in an organization. When I resigned towards the end of 2019, my plan was to take a little time off and then get started in the first part of 2020. Well, that was not the best timing workwise, but for my family it was perfect.

I was able to be at home to help the kids transition to online schooling, and after a few months, I was able to use my education around stress management and building resilience to create coaching and training programs to help both individuals and organizations. It took a longer time to focus on athletes – just due to how the Pandemic affected sports. I had to put that piece on hold for most of 2020. Once athletic teams started getting back on the field/court I was able to start providing those services – and they are very much needed.

Another obstacle/challenge was I had originally planned on doing most of my work on site and with the pandemic in full swing, I had to restructure my programs to be successfully delivered online. With 3 kids doing online school and me needing to do my client programs online – I had to upgrade my technology, internet and home office space. I had to incorporate the tools I have been teaching into my own daily practices to keep my sanity and minimize my stressors. It definitely was a great learning experience of which tools were helpful based on the situation!

Healthy-minded people solve problems faster, better, more completely, strengthening priorities so that the business can be reimagined by focusing on what matters most and directing that focus to make the highest impact.

 For Athletic teams – we empower coaches and teams struggling with problematic behaviors, dejected attitudes, low productivity, high-stress environments, and low attendance who want to affect their athletes’ lives in a positive way. We work with coaches who want to become more innovative in their approach to cross-team dynamics and collaborations. We focus on improving the mindset of athletes and athletic teams. Imagine your team with a toolbox of life skills and resilience training to turn around a losing streak, improve team relations, and set up each athlete for a lifetime of confidence and success.

When you want to pivot negative mindsets toward positivity as a lifestyle change to reduce overall stress, that’s when you include Access Human Potential.

We work with people in a number of ways including workshops and coaching.