About Us

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Teri Harper was first-in-class at Wisconsin to be awarded the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation from the International Coaching Federation, the gold standard in coaching. Teri earned it for the immeasurable value and experience she brings people through coaching. Recognized as the “thinker”, “visionary”, and “whisperer”, she has worked with Olympians, C-suite executives, Impact-award-winning professionals, Ivy-league students, and inspired students and clients everywhere, on five continents – North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Harper, who originates from The Washington DC Metro Area, helps people expand their life possibilities and make lasting life changes. When working with her, clients go on a journey of discovery like no other. She asks evocative questions, responding to clients in the moment, that take the client to a new place of thinking. By honoring confidentiality, giving clients time and space, and offering new light, Teri enables clients to uncover their own insights, wisdom, and perspectives. This leads to impactful and sustainable changes in every area of their lives. (In Teri’s coaching, different from therapy, a personal vision of our ideal future self takes root in the present.)

Clear in purpose, Harper’s clients become unstoppable. She believes clients' results are directly related to their desires to learn and grow, and are positively limitless, something she learned herself when she was still a young child. Teri is all about growing, moving from surviving to thriving. Professionally, she uses her work and studies in landscape architecture to grow places for people, and uses her work and studies in psychology and consulting and the inquiry approach of coaching to grow people. Clients remark, “Teri Harper has changed my life”, “Every time I work with her I change, and I get better and better”, “She helps me see the big picture differently, which allows me to pivot”, “Teri has helped me find my North Star”.

As a three-time parent, Harper has personally coached her children through the nation’s first Gifted + Talented public-school Program based on the inquiry learning approach. There it was shared with her by its founding teacher, “Parents would kill to have happy and thriving children who could meet their potential and perform to the best of their ability.” “What’s your magic?” the teacher asked. All of Harper’s work is fueled by her life story.

At age five, Teri’s father passed on. She vividly remembers looking out of the window in her childhood bedroom and keeping hope alive with imagination and vision. At age 16, she triumphed over a personal near-death tragedy by figuring out what she was never trained to do – to live happily and reach for the stars. Teri will help you do the same in your personal and professional lives. Having been left to live, Teri jumps into each day with a clear purpose – to help people of all ages and places thrive in life on their gifts and talents, by using Harper Living, Happy Living to enable High Potential, High Performance individuals.