- Who Needs A Coach? by D. Trinidad Hunt
Trin is co-founder of two training and consulting firms, Élan Enterprises
LLC and Élan Asia-Pacific. Trin is an international author, consultant, trainer,
and keynote speaker with over thirty years of experience in the area of program
development and training. As co-founder of the Élan Enterprises LLC, Trinidad
has developed programs for business leaders nationally and internationally for
such companies as Pepsi Cola, Frito Lay, Sprint, and The Royal Bank of Canada.
As a result of her expertise in business and leadership, Trinidad has been invited
to speak in Australia, China, India, Canada, and the Philippines. Trinidad also
hosted her own radio talk show on the East Coast in the United States. Trin’s work
includes executive and management coaching as well as the development of
in-house corporate management training programs.
- A Values-Based-Approach by Stephen R. Covey
Dr. Stephen R. Covey, cofounder and vicechairman
of Franklin Covey Company, the largest management company and
leadership development organization in the world. Dr. Covey is perhaps best
known as author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is ranked as a
number one best-seller by the New York Times, having sold more than fourteen
million copies in thirty-eight languages throughout the world. Dr. Covey is an
internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, and
organizational consultant. He has made teaching principle-centered living and
principle-centered leadership his life’s work. Dr. Covey is the recipient of the
Thomas More College Medallion for Continuing Service to Humanity and has
been awarded four honorary doctorate degrees. Other awards given Dr. Covey
include the Sikh’s 1989 International Man of Peace award, the 1994
International Entrepreneur of the Year award, Inc. magazine’s Services
Entrepreneur of the Year award, and in 1996 the National Entrepreneur of the
Year Lifetime Achievement award for Entrepreneurial leadership. He has also
been recognized as one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential
Americans and one of Sales and Marketing Management’s top twenty-five power
brokers. As the father of nine and grandfather of forty-four, Dr. Covey received
the 2003 National Fatherhood Award, which he says is the most meaningful
award he has ever received. Dr. Covey earned his undergraduate degree from
the University of Utah, his MBA from Harvard, and completed his doctorate at
Brigham Young University. While at Brigham Young he served as assistant to
the President and was also a professor of Business Management and
Organizational Behavior.
- Choices by Sara Zeff Geber
Dr. Geber is a leadership and organizational development consultant, author,
and speaker based in Los Gatos, California. She is a senior partner and workshop
practice manager with The Piras Group, a leadership development consultancy
based in San Ramon, California. Her work centers around personal and professional
development in the workplace. Her keenest interest is in helping leaders and other
professionals learn to make good choices for themselves, for their businesses,
and for their employees. Sara is the author of Managing Stress for Success, a
1996 AMACOM publication, as well as several articles on leadership and stress.
She is co-author of “Serving Our Community,” an award-winning customer
service training program for cities and municipalities.
- Inspiring Your Possibilities by Chris Steely
Chris is a business and personal effectiveness coach with global experience
in numerous industries. His personal mission is to positively influence as
many people as possible through open communication, empathetic
understanding, idealism, and contagious commitment to success. Chris has
created and developed two executive coaching and search firms and currently
travels the world coaching and inspiring business owners to be more effective.
He has facilitated teams of hundreds in areas of business success—cross-pollinating
ideas and ideals and empowering growth. He holds an MBA from Boston University,
he is a United States Marine Corps Logistics Officer, and an NCAA National Rowing
Champion.
- An Entrepreneur’s Dream: The Success Story by Barbara Bigford
Barbara’s success story is an Entrepreneur’s dream. Her company Seabreeze
Products, Inc. and her invention, Beach Pockets® have already exceeded
$1 million in just one year. Inventing and marketing a product to weigh down
beach umbrellas with sand so they don’t blow away was not simple. No matter
how practical her product looked on paper, skeptics and red tape impeded her
progress. But through her tenacity, she managed to guide her invention from
dream to prototype to coast-to-coast bestseller.
- Navigating Your Way to Success is Easier Than Your Think by Jessica A. Haynes
Jessica is a business consultant who specializes in helping individuals realize their
dreams and maximize their potential. Jessica has been a motivational and
self-empowerment consultant for the past twenty years. Using her psychology
degree, marketing background, and business networking skills, she consults with
a steady clientele both nationally and internationally. She counsels Fortune 500
business leaders, wellknown personalities, entrepreneurs, and those seeking to
improve the quality of their lives. Her book, Get What You Want Now! Money,
Love, Power, and More . . . has received praise and highly supportive reviews
from her clients, and is now available to the general public. Jessica continues
to get top ratings as a regular guest on live-talk radio, answering questions that
inspire and motivate listening audiences. Whether she is talking about time
management, overcoming adversity, leadership skills, or team-building, she
connects you with your most valuable resource—you— that powerful part of you
innately designed to prosper and thrive. In this chapter, Jessica will show you how
to put the GPS factor for success into motion.
- Stretch, Push Yourself, and Reach Further by Les Brown
Les Brown, internationally recognized speaker and CEO of Les Brown Enterprises, Inc.
He is also author of the highly acclaimed and successful books, Live Your Dreams and
It’s Not Over Until You Win. Les is former host of the Les Brown Show, a nationally
syndicated daily television talk show that focused on solutions rather than on problems.
Les Brown is one of the nation’s leading authorities on understanding and stimulating human
potential. Utilizing powerful delivery and newly emerging insights, Les’s customized
presentations will teach, inspire, and channel any audience to new levels of achievement.
- The Heart of Success by Gail Fallon McDonald
Gail Fallon McDonald as a contributing author for our discussion about success.
Gail is a personal and business coach who assists her clients to achieve immediate
momentum toward the execution of their goals. Gail is the creator of The Heart
of Success System. She has taken her own experience as an executive leader,
team-builder, trainer, consultant, and speaker and crafted a practice that
encompasses a pragmatic system for success. The Heart of Success System is
designed not only to clarify your goals but also to provide a direct means to attain them.
- Tapping Into Your Inner Strengths by Judi Harris
Judi Harris, Founder of Transformation Catalyst, a company that works with
individuals and groups to realize their greater potential. Her personalized training
in discovering a person’s passion and purpose is transforming lives and awakening
people up to what is really possible. Lives and businesses are revitalized when the
person, owner, manager, and/or employee are clear about who they are and what
they stand for. Being a professional with an MBA and specialized training with Coach
University and Vision Force Academy, Judi knows how to best convey information
so that those she helps are able to put what they have learned to good use right away.
Her programs are about taking bold action. She has said that we all have inner strengths
that if we could just tap into them, we could have life-changing results. There are tools
already available to help people find these strengths. The questions remain: how does
one really tap into them and how do you get to know yourself from the inside out and
really let your gifts shine? Well, if you’re ready for work, you can read the chapter or you
can really apply it; that will be up to you.
- How to Hold Onto Your Money by Bob Baier
Bob is a Certified Forensic Document Examiner/Handwriting Expert and a graduate
of The School of Forensic Document Examination. He has three different degrees
AS, BS, MA and is currently a faculty member at the International School of Forensic
Document Examination where he received the Faculty Member of the Year Award in 2008.
Bob has been a guest on the television show Inside Edition National Public Radio
(NPR) and he has been featured in ESPN magazine, Orange Magazine, and in
alumni newsletters. He has been a speaker at national conferences in Hollywood, California,
Washington, D.C., Boca Raton, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and three times in Dallas, Texas. Bob is the author of the book Identity Theft
Prevention for the College Student, which is said to be “The finest and most complete book
regarding Identity Theft on the market today and the easiest to read with its conversational
style.” Bob also trains law enforcement in New York State in many areas, one of which is
Identity Theft.
- Develop a Disciplined Life by Dr. John Gray
DR. JOHN GRAY is the author of fifteen books, including Men Are from Mars,
Women Are from Venus (Harper Collins 1992), a number one best-selling
relationship book. Over thirty million Mars and Venus books have been sold in
over forty languages throughout the world. Dr. John Gray, a certified family
therapist, is the premier Better Life relationship coach on AOL. In 2001, he
received the Smart Marriages Impact Award. John Gray received his degree in
1982 from Columbia Pacific University. He has authored fourteen other
best-selling books. His book, The Mars & Venus Diet & Exercise Solution (St.
Martin’s Press 2003), reveals why diet, exercise, and communication skills
combine to effect the production of healthy brain chemicals and how the need
for those chemicals differ between men and women. An internationally
recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships, Dr. Gray’s
unique focus is assisting men and women in understanding, respecting, and
appreciating their differences. For decades, he has conducted public and
private seminars for thousands of participants. In his highly acclaimed books,
audiotapes, and videotapes, as well as in his seminars, Dr. Gray entertains and
inspires audiences with his practical insights and easy to use communication
techniques that can be immediately applied to enrich relationships and quality of life.
- Key Elements of Every Successful Business by Mark Storey
Mark Storey is the principle of Head and Heart Coaching, LLC, and Certified
Networker© of Columbus, through which he has coached clients to increased
business and management success in a wide array of industries. Mark received
an MBA in Organization and Leadership Development in 1996. Since 2000 he’s
completed three coach training programs. Mr. Storey is certified to provide
Certified Networker© training, he is a member of the International Coach
Federation, Central Ohio Coaches, and the Organization Development
Network.
- Spirituality in the Workplace by Sharon McGee
Sharon McGee, CSHO from Austin, Texas. Sharon is the President of Sharon
McGee Enterprises and is a wellknown Leadership trainer, OSHA Safety
Outreach Instructor, a Master Trainer for the National Center for Construction
Education and Research, and a Motivational Speaker for organizations across
the country. Sharon entertains her audiences with relevant educational and
hilarious real life stories from her years of hands-on, down-in-the-trenches
experiences. As an international marathoner, a wife, a mother, a “Nana,” a
Red Cross volunteer, a woman of great faith, and a lady of charm, she will leave
your audience with a renewed sense of confidence that they too can achieve
100 percent customer satisfaction and have fun while doing so. Her zest is
contagious to everyone who meets her. Although putting in a twelve-hour day
on a regular basis, she still finds time to balance her life with family, friends, and
other activities such as teaching at her church and giving her time and resources
back to the community. She was named Outstanding Volunteer by United Way
and a Hero of 2003 by the American Red Cross. After selling her thirty-two-year-old
multimillion-dollar air conditioning business in 2008, Sharon’s mission is to share
her legacy with other leaders on the importance of servant leadership and
spirituality in our corporate world.
- Build a Personal Brand & Powerful Networks for Business & Life by Jill Anne Jordan
Jill is founder and principal of Get Ahead By Getting Known, a personal branding
and networking coaching firm with a client roster of entrepreneurs, professionals,
and corporate and nonprofit executives. She is “The Networking Concierge,” helping
clients clearly and confidently articulate their message while building powerful networking
relationships for life. With twenty years of business development and marketing
experience for companies with a global reach, she also consults an international
community of women in business as a contributing expert with
SmartWomensCoaching.com. Jill Jordan resides in Michigan, where her
pastimes are philanthropy and outdoor adventures.
- The Sixteen World-Class Sales Competencies by Marc Weiner
Marc is Managing Director and CEO of Empowerment Associates LLC™, which
is a highly respected and national award winning business coaching and consulting
company. Marc’s company offers a full complement of coaching, consulting, and
customized mentoring services to CEOs, business owners, and senior executives
in the areas of strategic partnering and planning, long-term business growth and
development, complex challenges, sales and customer service excellence, and
senior executive career life transition. Marc is also the creator and founder of
www.Sales-Success-System.com, which is based upon the award-winning
QUAD-TRAK® consultative sales program. Marc is an accomplished speaker
and author; he coaches, lectures, and teaches across the United States, as well
as internationally. He is a highly rated faculty member and curriculum advisor
and developer for coach training programs, graduate programs, and national
professional associations.
- Stepping Up to Excellence by May Coussons-Read, PhD
Dr. Mary Coussons-Read who is a professor of psychology, a Certified
Professional Coach, and the founder of Powerful Mind Coaching. Mary is
unique in the world of coaching, as she brings not only her experience as a
corporate and personal coach to her work, but also the scholarly background
of her research career and stress/mind/body health expertise. She has published
over thirty peer reviewed articles in behavioral and health science, and a special
focus of her expertise is stress management and leadership communications.
Mary’s rich background allows her to coach effectively for increasing professional
performance and supporting work/life balance in even the most challenging situations.
