At Coppei Collective:  Layne provides professional coaching to onboard and transition employees into new roles. This helps employees learn and be successful in their new positions and in their careers. Layne also focuses on executive recruiting and staffing management. 

Experience:  Layne has over 20 years of experience in Executive Recruiting, Staffing Management and in Recruiting Program Development in both industry and non-profit environments. In the last few years Layne has taken his experience into becoming a Coach. His coaching includes job search coaching, career transition coaching and professional coaching. Layne’s passion is in helping individuals enhance their careers and lives and also help companies innovate by recruiting the best people into the right roles for them to succeed. He also understands the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion to build a better workplace and environment to help companies and employees prosper.

Education and Training:  Layne is a certified coach, CPCC through the Coaching Training Institute and has a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in Human Resources and Economics from Utah State University.

Trainings and Workshops Conducted: LinkedIn workshops focused on job search and career coaching. 

Leadership today:  Means realizing your leadership potential, planning and managing your development. It is important to have a clear sense of purpose as it sets the direction for strength as challenges arise. It is also important for a leader to have a mindset for the future to enhance skills as things change and evolve. To do this a leader needs to have increased attention on curiosity as curiosity fosters creativity and innovation.

What clients say about Layne:

• Very informative and insightful. Layne clearly knew his space very well and provided me valuable guidance.
• Layne brought things to my attention that I’d have missed without this experience.
• My coaching sessions with Layne were built on trust and he helped provide suggestions and recommendations on real life scenarios which will help me in building a stronger foundation.
• I felt like Layne had my interests in mind and he suggested several helpful ways I could think about my carrier goals and future.

Important qualities Layne brings to his clients:  Authenticity, Sincerity, Openness, Curiosity, Listening and Knowledge 

When not working:  You will find Layne trying out new restaurants and/or wine with his husband, Rick (they both love fine dining and beautiful food). They also love to travel; visiting and experiencing new cultures and people. When not eating and traveling they love spending time with their wonderful dog, Kobi.