My name is Whitney and I founded Carrot Seed after almost a decade in law and academic medicine. The name Carrot Seed is inspired by The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss. In this children’s book, a little boy plants a carrot seed. Although his family repeatedly tells him no carrot will sprout, the little boy tends to his seed every day, and one day, a carrot comes up, “just as the little boy had known it would.”

The Carrot Seed offers us messages about internal wisdom, patience, practices, and trust in what we cannot see. I believe coaching offers us an opportunity to bring those messages to life, tending to transitions and disruptions, so something new can grow.