The Coaching Conversation Check · Stamina Lab

The Coaching Conversation Check

How well do your conversations produce client follow-through?

A six-question self-assessment that reveals where your instincts align with the evidence-based Solution-Focused approach and where they default to conventional helping patterns that quietly erode follow-through.

6 questions  ·  3 minutes  ·  Instant results

Built for health and performance professionals: physicians, nurse practitioners, PAs, RNs, health coaches, personal trainers, behavior change specialists, and coaching professionals across clinical and fitness settings.

Authored by Dr. Deborah Teplow: doctorate from Stanford University, advanced credentials in Motivational Interviewing from Brown University and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, worked with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, the creators of the evidence-based Solution-Focused approach. Co-Founder and Chief Program Architect at Stamina Lab.

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"After going through Stamina Lab's training, everything changed. My closing rate shot up because the conversations were completely different."

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Dr. Deborah Teplow

Co-Founder & Chief Program Architect, Stamina Lab  ·  Editor, The Solution-Focused Practice

Dr. Deborah Teplow earned her doctorate from Stanford University and has spent decades translating behavior change science into structured professional practice. She worked with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, the creators of Solution-Focused practice, and holds advanced certificates in Motivational Interviewing from Brown University and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She co-founded the Institute for Wellness Education, where she helped establish U.S. national wellness coaching standards. At Stamina Lab, she designed Foundations in Solution-Focused Health Coaching and leads all faculty development and program quality.

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Foundations in Solution-Focused Health Coaching

The structured pathway that turns the principles in this check into a reliable, repeatable conversational method. Self-paced certification, four private 1:1 consults, unlimited AI practice with SolutionCoach AI™, and one month of Practice Lab.

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