Virginia Crocker Timmins
Owner, Certified Business & Executive Coach at Soundboard Advisors LLC
Executive Office
Education: Union College - Rensselaer Polytechnic institute
Chelmsford, MA, USA
Biography
Virginia Crocker Timmins is a Certified Business & Executive Coach who believes in the power of individuals and organizations to connect people and potential toward greater levels of success. She founded Soundboard Advisors LLC and provides speaking engagement services because she believes that it is not our circumstances that define who we are but how we journey through them that shapes what we become.
A piano soundboard represents an inside-out transformation, where the string vibrations inside the instrument are converted to the music we hear on the outside. People and organizations also transform from the inside-out. At Soundboard Advisors, Virginia applies proven, inside-out, results-based development methods that enable her clients to greater realize their potential, become more effective, and achieve success while sustaining purpose and balance.
Virginia’s expertise spans leader and people development, strategic and tactical planning, and process excellence. She is a proud affiliate of Trusted Advisors Network, a world class leader in business and management consulting since its inception in 1978. Virginia is certified in Coaching, Process Excellence, and several Organizational and Personal Assessments that facilitate performance management and leadership development.
Prior to coaching, Virginia enjoyed a successful corporate career as a broad-based leader including 10 years in middle management and 12 years in executive management. She worked in large company, small business unit, start-up, and turnaround environments. Virginia’s life changing experience with a coach during an executive management position sparked her passion for becoming a coach. She now helps other individuals and organizations resonate with their inner soundboard for sustainable growth.
Passion
Virginia's passion in speaking is to provide interactive, energizing experiences to help people and organizations live their purpose and realize their potential. She designs her talks to build motivation and give her audiences new ideas, tools, and clear action steps toward achieving goals. Virginia can create a developmental and motivating speaking topic based on your unique needs, or you can choose from one of several customizable keynote topics, workshops and multi-part seminars. These topics address leadership skills and behaviors necessary master your own leadership, to build high-performance teams and to sustain and grow your customer base toward achieving business and personal success.
Best Story
When speaking about emotional intelligence I often share this story:
Many years ago, I was an executive on a VP's staff in a multibillion-dollar company. I had been in and out of work for months under the Family Medical Leave Act as my mother recovered from a subarachnoid hemorrhage (brain bleed). One day when I was in my office, a peer on the VP's staff, who I did not know that well, knocked on my door. He told me that he had heard about my mother and that he just wanted to let me know that he had been thinking of me.
Then he opened my own eyes to something that would impact me for the rest of my life. He shared with me that he had just returned from being with his sister who had undergone a leg amputation in her battle with bone cancer. He said, "If there is one thing that this experience has taught me, it is that on any given day in any given moment you never know what part of their journey someone is carrying around with them. It has totally transformed the way I see and interact with people at work, at home, in the grocery store and everywhere else."
I took his words to heart, subsequently feeling a change in myself and my effectiveness with other people. Many years later, I would learn that the transformative gift my colleague had given me that day was understanding a piece of what we now refer to as emotional intelligence.
Origin Story
My education was in Engineering. I spent 28-years in the defense industry working in engineering, new business development and strategic initiatives, and profit and loss running programs. I worked in large corporate, start-up initiative, and turn-around environments. My corporate career included 10 years in middle management and 12 years in executive management.
In one of my executive positions, I had a coach, which was lifechanging for me professionally and personally. Always enjoying the mentorship aspect of my career, my experience with my coach is what sparked my desire to transition into the field in the future so that I could help positively impact the lives of other professionals.
I reached a point in my corporate career where the travel demands and hours were becoming difficult to manage as my child got older and as my parents got older. I loved the people and the purpose behind what I did, but I was not finding much joy in the job anymore. I prepared a new path, eventually quit outright, and two weeks after resigning started my training to become an executive and business coach so that I could help others sustainably achieve their next level of success.
Example talks
The Attitude Advantage: Unlocking Peak Performance
What separates those who consistently achieve their goals from those who struggle to make progress? They cultivate productive ways of thinking that elevate their skills, knowledge, and goal setting. This combination enables them to turn potential into real progress.
In results-based leadership, we start at the end: What results do you want to achieve? Whether at the individual or organizational level, sustainable success is not just about external strategies—it requires an internalized behavior shift. Just as a piano’s soundboard transforms internal vibrations into music, peak performance is driven from the inside out.
Attitude is key to this internal transformation, shaping how effectively you activate your skills and pursue your goals.
In this talk, we address:
🔹Attitude as a force multiplier - how mindset amplifies or limits your effectiveness
🔹How attitudes are conditioned - how to shift away from unproductive thought patterns with awareness, intention, and practice
🔹A practical framework for aligning attitude, skills, and goals to drive sustained behavior change and breakthrough results.
Peak performance isn’t just about what you know or where you aim. It’s about how you think. When attitude, skills and goals align, you achieve results faster, more effectively, and in a way that lasts.
Are you ready to transform the way you think and perform at your best?
Testimonials
"I feel energized ... made it more real (and doable)."
"A chance to 'dig deep' and really reflect on goals."
"Today was informative and gave me a positive perspective in goal setting an achieving."
"This training was eye opening and humbling."
"This program has shown me that I need to reach further with my goals."
"It was very helpful and educational. I will definitely be applying what I learned to my life."
"A really well-organized presentation that really walked me through all steps and explained it well!"
"Very insightful. It helped me put a grasp on what needs to be done in order to move forward."
"It's time to start making my goals and dreams a reality, and this was the 1st step."
I am willing to travel
Up to 100 miles
When it comes to payments
I sometimes get paid for speaking
Topics
Best Story
When speaking about emotional intelligence I often share this story:
Many years ago, I was an executive on a VP's staff in a multibillion-dollar company. I had been in and out of work for months under the Family Medical Leave Act as my mother recovered from a subarachnoid hemorrhage (brain bleed). One day when I was in my office, a peer on the VP's staff, who I did not know that well, knocked on my door. He told me that he had heard about my mother and that he just wanted to let me know that he had been thinking of me.
Then he opened my own eyes to something that would impact me for the rest of my life. He shared with me that he had just returned from being with his sister who had undergone a leg amputation in her battle with bone cancer. He said, "If there is one thing that this experience has taught me, it is that on any given day in any given moment you never know what part of their journey someone is carrying around with them. It has totally transformed the way I see and interact with people at work, at home, in the grocery store and everywhere else."
I took his words to heart, subsequently feeling a change in myself and my effectiveness with other people. Many years later, I would learn that the transformative gift my colleague had given me that day was understanding a piece of what we now refer to as emotional intelligence.
Origin Story
My education was in Engineering. I spent 28-years in the defense industry working in engineering, new business development and strategic initiatives, and profit and loss running programs. I worked in large corporate, start-up initiative, and turn-around environments. My corporate career included 10 years in middle management and 12 years in executive management.
In one of my executive positions, I had a coach, which was lifechanging for me professionally and personally. Always enjoying the mentorship aspect of my career, my experience with my coach is what sparked my desire to transition into the field in the future so that I could help positively impact the lives of other professionals.
I reached a point in my corporate career where the travel demands and hours were becoming difficult to manage as my child got older and as my parents got older. I loved the people and the purpose behind what I did, but I was not finding much joy in the job anymore. I prepared a new path, eventually quit outright, and two weeks after resigning started my training to become an executive and business coach so that I could help others sustainably achieve their next level of success.
Example talks
The Attitude Advantage: Unlocking Peak Performance
What separates those who consistently achieve their goals from those who struggle to make progress? They cultivate productive ways of thinking that elevate their skills, knowledge, and goal setting. This combination enables them to turn potential into real progress.
In results-based leadership, we start at the end: What results do you want to achieve? Whether at the individual or organizational level, sustainable success is not just about external strategies—it requires an internalized behavior shift. Just as a piano’s soundboard transforms internal vibrations into music, peak performance is driven from the inside out.
Attitude is key to this internal transformation, shaping how effectively you activate your skills and pursue your goals.
In this talk, we address:
🔹Attitude as a force multiplier - how mindset amplifies or limits your effectiveness
🔹How attitudes are conditioned - how to shift away from unproductive thought patterns with awareness, intention, and practice
🔹A practical framework for aligning attitude, skills, and goals to drive sustained behavior change and breakthrough results.
Peak performance isn’t just about what you know or where you aim. It’s about how you think. When attitude, skills and goals align, you achieve results faster, more effectively, and in a way that lasts.
Are you ready to transform the way you think and perform at your best?
Testimonials
"I feel energized ... made it more real (and doable)."
"A chance to 'dig deep' and really reflect on goals."
"Today was informative and gave me a positive perspective in goal setting an achieving."
"This training was eye opening and humbling."
"This program has shown me that I need to reach further with my goals."
"It was very helpful and educational. I will definitely be applying what I learned to my life."
"A really well-organized presentation that really walked me through all steps and explained it well!"
"Very insightful. It helped me put a grasp on what needs to be done in order to move forward."
"It's time to start making my goals and dreams a reality, and this was the 1st step."