Life Notes
Leadership Coaching &
Team Effectiveness Consulting
Individual coaching, leadership workshops, and team-based programs designed to drive meaningful, lasting change
Why Life Notes?
Life Notes started with a simple habit: taking notes on what mattered. Insights from books, powerful quotes, and lessons from experience were captured, condensed, and revisited over time.
Over more than a decade, those notes grew into a living body of work. What was once over a thousand pages has been distilled into a clear, structured framework used in leadership coaching and development. These notes represent not just ideas, but a way of thinking. They help individuals and teams identify what matters, ask better questions, and build new behaviors.
The name reflects exactly what it is: a collection of what has been learned, refined, and applied across a lifetime, now shared to support the growth of others.
Specialized Workshops
Focused individual or group sessions that unlock performance, alignment, and measurable business results
Immunity To Change (Unblock Yourself)
Addresses: Hidden barriers that prevent meaningful and lasting change
Approach: A structured method to uncover and overcome resistance to change
Outcomes: Lasting behavioral change and more effective execution
Who This Is For: Leaders and teams committed to driving real, sustained change.
Don't Kill Semmelweis
(Hug The Messenger)
Addresses: Common leadership and team dynamics that limit performance
Approach: Practical frameworks to strengthen communication and decision-making
Outcomes: Stronger alignment, execution, and measurable business impact
Who This Is For: Leadership teams and organizations ready to elevate how they operate and make decisions
Navigating Polarities (Regain Balance)
Addresses: Leadership patterns that limit flexibility and strategic thinking
Approach: Frameworks to help leaders manage competing priorities more effectively
Outcomes: Greater innovation, alignment, and confidence in decision-making
Who This Is For: Leadership teams seeking to operate with greater balance and strategic clarity
Assessment Certifications
Proven frameworks used to clarify, develop, and elevate your team’s performance
The Impact
Across hundreds of coaching and workshop participants, here’s what they had to say.
"I would recommend this workshop to others."
–100% Agree or Strongly Agree
"Andrew combines a rare depth of business insight with the ability to understand the pressures and perspectives of senior leaders."
–Vice President, Financial Services
Helped teams overcome cultural resistance, increasing product delivery speed by 6x
Meet Andrew
Prior to founding Life Notes, Andrew McHugh spent over 11 years at Google, mostly focusing on leadership and team development programs.
A former camp counselor and college orientation leader, Andrew has always been drawn to environments where people learn, grow, and collaborate. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Psychology, a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology, and an Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching . He is also certified as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation.
McHugh's coaching and leadership work has spanned across various industries, and he draws inspiration from Amy Edmondson, Simon Sinek, Edgar Schein, Patrick Lencioni, Kim Scott, Mitch Hedberg, Gabor Maté, and many others.
Andrew's favorite quote is by Linus Pauling: "Do unto others 20% better than you would have them do unto you, to correct for subjective error."