Executive coaching for women

Rachel Luis y Prado

Whitespace Method™ was founded by Rachel Luis y Prado. She has spent more than twenty-five years reading data about people and turning it into decisions other people could act on. Whitespace Method is executive coaching for women leaders who are ready to make a consequential decision.

She holds a Master of Science in Survey Methodology and Social Statistics from the University of Maryland, a Master of Arts in International and Intercultural Communications from the University of Denver, and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Central Florida.

She founded and led the global market research division at a global assessment company, where she delivered more than six hundred executive presentations.

She has since served as Chief Impact Officer at a workforce development organization, where she designed the operating systems and dashboards.

Earlier, at HiPER Solutions, she designed a high-performance assessment instrument used with the firm’s clients.

She edited Disrupt or Be Disrupted, published by Wiley and Jossey-Bass.

She is certified in iEQ9. A certified coach partners with her for the one-to-one sessions.

Whitespace Method is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by any assessment publisher.

What the method is built on

An accomplished woman at a crossroads is usually not disengaged. She is engaged and running hot at the same time, and that is the part that does not fit.

That figure describes a pattern, not a person. Gallup surveyed women in paid employment, so it does not describe every woman Whitespace Method is built for, and it is not evidence that anyone should leave a role, stay in one, or change anything at all. It is here because it is the closest public measure of the thing the method starts from.

How the reading works

Four validated instruments are selected for each woman and read against each other as one document. Convergence is named only where two or more instruments point at the same thing. Where instruments contradict, the contradiction is named and left standing. Nothing gets tidied to make the picture simpler.

That document is the Pattern Intelligence Report™. It is designed and built by the founder. No assessment publisher produces it and it is not available anywhere else. It is not a psychometric instrument, an assessment, or a test. The instruments are validated. The document reads them.

This is not therapy

Whitespace Method is a coaching engagement. It is not therapy, counseling, or a clinical diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for any of them. Some women work with their therapist through the twelve weeks. Whitespace Method never asks anyone to pause, reduce, or step back from care she is already receiving.