2012 Faculty

Michael Neill

Michael Neill is an internationally renowned success coach and the best-selling author of You Can Have What You Want, Feel Happy Now!, the Effortless Success audio program and Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone’s Life. He has spent the past 21 years as a coach, adviser, friend, mentor and creative spark plug to celebrities, CEO’s, royalty, and people who want to get more out of their lives. His books have been translated into 13 languages, and his public talks and seminars have been well received at the United Nations and around the world.

“Michael’s authentic approach and insightful concepts demystify ‘conventional wisdom’ and have enabled me to look at success in a completely different way. You can feel his positive, common sense way of addressing life gently seeping into your consciousness as you read his words.” – Sacha Gervasi, director, ‘Anvil: The Story of Anvil’

He hosts a weekly talk show on HayHouseRadio.com®, and you can read his daily and weekly tips for free at www.supercoach.com

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Live Faculty

Steve Chandler

 

Drawing on Steve’s more than 20 years of working with professionals to dramatically improve their success, the “MindShift” he offers frees people from unnecessary pessimism and puts them back in touch with the source of their enthusiasm for work and life.

Although Steve Chandler graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Creative Writing and Political Science, and spent four years in the military studying language and psychological warfare; he credits his own life experiences with failure as the most valuable tools for helping others. Steve’s audiences are inspired by stories of his “low points” – it gives them hope, because they realize that they are not nearly as bad off as he was – they figure if Steve can transform his life, so can they!

Steve Chandler is now the author of 20 books that have been translated into over 20 languages. His personal success coaching, public speaking and business consulting have been used by CEOs, top professionals, major universities, and over 30 Fortune 500 companies. He has twice won the national Audio of the Year award from King Features Syndicate. A popular guest on TV and radio talk shows, Steve Chandler has recently been called “the most powerful public speaker in America today.”

Steve is also a master coach that has helped train hundreds of coaches to transform many lives and businesses.

Bill Cumming

 

Bill Cumming is known as the coach’s coach, having worked with many of the world’s top coaches and thought leaders over the past 34 years. He has also been a consultant, trainer and mentor to countless CEO’s, businesses, non-profits, school systems, and health care delivery organizations. He is currently the Executive Director of The Boothby Institute. Bill founded and for over ten years was President of The Center for Access to the Power Within.

In 1964, he helped found a Ford Foundation Project, which became a pilot for Upward Bound. He spent thirteen years as an adjunct member of the faculty in the College of Education at the University of Maine, helping found the University’s Aspirations Four School Project. He is a key partner in the New Horizons Academy and developed Trustee Effectiveness Training – a series of workshops that allows individuals and Boards to understand their roles in for-profit, public and non-profit organizations – for what is now Key Bank nationally. He was a founding trustee of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, elected twice to the Maine School Union #47 Board of Directors and served as its Chair for three years. His work has included the development, management and support of programs in economically distressed areas of Houston, Cleveland, Grand Rapids and Newark. Bill is the creator of “Motivation, What Works,” “Power Within” and “What One Person Can Do,” “Inspired Teaching” and “Inspired Leadership” courses, all of which encourage loving-kindness, ownership, responsibility and teamwork. These programs have been delivered in hundreds of school systems, Job Corps programs, non-profit organizations and the Maine State Prison System as part of the New Horizons Academy. He is known for his ability to work and be with people in such a way that they are honored, acknowledged and valued as human beings; he attempts to ask the most important questions no matter how difficult they may seem.

Mara Gleason

Mara Gleason is one of those fortunate people who knew what she wanted to do with her life from a very young age. After observing a profound and rapid transformation in her father when she was 11 years old, she was determined to discover where he’d been and what he’d learned that allowed for his change. It seemed both intriguing and impossible that people could realize something, rather simply and quickly, that would fundamentally change them. Upon learning there was a growing group of professionals sharing basic principles that illuminate the innate well-being and potential within people, she declared: “When I grow up, I’m going to do what those people do.” The last 17 years have been a journey of discovering these basic principles for her self and working to propagate an understanding of their application to individuals, families, organizations and corporations. She truly sees that these principles have the potential to change the way we think about the human mind, well-being, and what’s possible for human endeavor.

After obtaining a Master’s degree from Columbia University in 2006, Mara moved to La Conner, Washington to work for Pransky & Associates, an organization that was one of the initial pioneers in these basic principles. In her four years there, she rose quickly from intern to junior to senior consultant, and moved to New York to act as the Director of a New York-based branch of the company. In working with a wide range of executives, organizational leaders and social entrepreneurs she was struck by how many times she heard the question, “Why doesn’t everyone know about this?” In January of 2010, she and her colleague, Aaron Turner, decided to found One Thought, a company dedicated to developing more professionals in this field and working with innovative leaders to allow for more and more people throughout the world to know about this and it’s potential to transform individuals and organizations.

Nancy Kline

Nancy Kline is President of Time To Think, an international leadership development and coaching company. She is the author of six published books including the best-selling book Time To Think: Listening To Ignite the Human Mind and the recently-published More Time To Think: A Way of Being in the World. Nancy is also an acclaimed public speaker.

Nancy created and pioneered the development of the theory and process called The Thinking Environment®. This model allows people to turn their teams, organisations and relationships into Thinking Environments in which people at every level can think for themselves with rigour, imagination, courage and grace. The process increases the quality of thinking in, and thus of concrete results from, all human interactions, both in pairs and in groups, and decreases the amount of time it takes to achieve them.

Time To Think with its professional Collegiate of qualified coaches, facilitators, consultants, and faculty operates in the US, UK, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, and Germany.

Time To Think began in 1984 and grew out of Nancy’s consulting and teaching work near Washington, DC, where she had served as a Founding Director of The Thornton Friends School for twelve years and as Director of The Leadership Institute for six years. She is a Fellow of Ashridge Management College, UK.

Nancy grew up in New Mexico and lives now in England with her husband Christopher Spence.

George Pransky

 

George Pransky is an innovative psychologist who lives and practices in LaConner, Washington, north of Seattle. In addition to providing counseling to individuals, couples and families, Pransky and his team of associates also provide consulting programs for businesses and organizations, executive coaching, mediation, and professional training.

Influenced by the philosopher and author Sydney Banks, Pransky’s methods are based on the premise that the human mind is innately healthy and it is but our thoughts that lead us astray. He is the author of such books as “The Relationship Handbook“, “The Renaissance of Psychology” and “Divorce is Not the Answer.”

Dr. Robert Holden

Robert Holden, Ph.D., is Director of Success Intelligence and The Happiness Project. He is the creator of a unique coaching program – called Success Intelligence – used worldwide by artists and writers, entrepreneurs and leaders, and also global companies and brands such as Dove, the Body Shop, IBM, the BBC and Virgin.

His innovative work on success and happiness has been featured on Oprah and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy. He’s the author of Happiness NOW!, Shift Happens! and Be Happy. His book Authentic Success (previous title Success Intelligence) was published by Hay House in 2011.

His websites are: www.robertholden.org, www.successintelligence.com, www.happiness.co.uk

Aaron Turner

In 2000, with a Masters and PhD from Brunel University, Aaron Turner left a research position at the university to pursue an internship at Pransky & Associates. Pransky & Associates is a widely recognized world leader in a pioneering approach to human well being and potential. Intrigued with the impact the work of Pransky and Associates had on him personally, Aaron developed a commitment to learning how to pass on similar benefits to others. In his 11 years at the company, he served as a consultant to individuals, couples and a wide range of organizations. Beginning as a junior staff member, he finished his full-time tenure at the company having served as C.E.O. for close to three years. During those 11 years, the company expanded its practice from addressing the well-being of individuals and couples to applying their innovative approach to solving a wide range of business challenges. Aaron played a key role in developing new applications and courses in leadership, cultural change, leveraging team performance, and developing a new foundation for sales to increase customer loyalty. He was also responsible for partnering with and mentoring senior leaders in both the corporate and military settings, both one-on-one and as a faculty member of several executive institutes. Aaron’s passion has been in showing leaders and organizations that there is a previously unrecognized cause and solution for many of the chronic frustrating problems organizations, and the people in them, face.

Guest Teachers

Ami Chen Naim

Ami Chen Naim is Director of the Center for Sustainable Change, a national and international speaker, and author of the “The Spark Inside: A Special Book for Youth.” She has worked with populations ranging from youth in detention settings to executives and managers for government and private institutions. Before co-founding the CSC, Ms. Naim served as a “Lead Trainer,” Trainer of Trainers and consultant for Santa Clara County’s “3 Principles Services Division” for almost decade. Ami has been instrumental in producing literature and video programs on applications of the Principles with youth, especially “at risk” youth. Through the CSC, Ami works across the country and internationally teaching organizations, parents, educators, staff, and youth. She also works privately with families, individuals and couples. She has worked directly with teenagers for over two decades.

Ms. Naim is also an award-winning freelance writer, poet and journalist (California Newspaper Publishers Association, James Beard Foundation) who has consulted for Ernst & Young and Silicon Graphics, and written for Inc. and Glamour Magazines, Entrepreneur of the Year Magazine (for which she also served as managing editor), the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the web-zines Contrary Magazine and Interracial Voice.

Publishing under the byline Ami Chen Mills, she was a staff writer for Metro Newspapers (www.metroactive.com) for many years until her research for an in-depth article on medication and depression inspired her to study a Principles-based Psychology. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Communications Department, a mother of two and wife of 18 years. She is currently at work on several writing projects on the topics of parenting, relationships and multiculturalism, as well a book for children.

Robin Charbit

Robin Charbit helps individuals; teams and organizations understand the mechanics that underlie the human potential and produce breakthrough business results with ease.

Having spent his first 20 years in the corporate world running businesses, and then as a management consultant, fixing them, he became increasingly curious why people did what they did and how that affected business performance.

With some wise and talented colleagues, Robin has been able to help individuals; teams and organizations apply Syd Banks’ principles and produce remarkable business results. These range from creating a step-change in a product development performance in 3-weeks, worth almost $100 million, to resolving a long-standing $15 billion intractable business issues in a few days. With his business partner, Ken Manning, he envisions a future where the understanding of these principles is commonplace, so that well functioning organizations are the norm and the corporate world is a place where people are fulfilled and get to be the best that they can be.

Chalmers Brothers

Chalmers Brothers is a Certified Personal Coach, Leadership Consultant, Seminar Leader and Author. Chalmers specializes in personal growth and development, leadership development, context creation, relationship-building, workplace effectiveness, trust and teamwork. In his over 25 year career he has worked for clients in a wide variety of industries, in both the public and private sectors. He is the author of Language and the Pursuit of Happiness: A New Foundation for Designing Your Life, Your Relationships and Your Results (2005 – New Possibilities Press, Inc.) and How To Screw Up Your Organization: A What Not To Do Manual for Leaders and Managers (2007).

Robert Dilts

Robert Dilts has been a developer, author, trainer and consultant in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – a model of human behavior, learning and communication – since its creation in 1975 by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. A long time student and colleague of both Grinder and Bandler, Robert also studied personally with Milton H. Erickson, M.D., and Gregory Bateson.

In addition to spearheading the applications of NLP in education, creativity, health, and leadership, his personal contributions to the field of NLP include much of the seminal work on the NLP techniques of Strategies and Belief Systems, and the development of what has become known as ‘Systemic NLP.’ Some of his techniques and models include: Reimprinting, Integration of Conflicting Beliefs, Sleight of Mouth Patterns, The Spelling Strategy, The Allergy Technique, Neuro-Logical Levels, The Belief Change Cycle, Generative NLP Patterns, the Unified Field Theory for NLP and many others.

Robert is the principal author of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Vol. I (with John Grinder, Richard Bandler and Judith DeLozier, 1980), which serves as the standard reference text for the field, and has authored numerous other books on NLP. His more recent books include From Coach to Awakener (2003), which provides a road map and set of toolboxes for coaches to help clients reach goals on a number of different levels of learning and change and The Hero’s Journey: A Voyage of Self Discovery (with Stephen Gilligan, 2009), which encourages you to embark on a path of learning and transformation that will reconnect you with your deepest calling, transform limiting beliefs and habits, heal emotional wounds and physical symptoms, deepen intimacy, and improve self-image. Just published in October of 2010 is the long awaited NLP II: The Next Generation (with Judith DeLozier and Deborah Bacon Dilts). This book reviews the new developments which have enriched the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming since the publication of NLP Volume I. During the last 30 years, NLP developers and practitioners have expanded the boundaries of NLP, creating a new generation of models and applications.

Recognized internationally as one of the foremost developers, trainers and practitioners of NLP, Robert has done consulting and training throughout the world for a wide variety of professional groups and organizations. Past sponsors and clients include Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, The World Bank, Alitalia, Telecom Italia, Lucasfilms Ltd., Ernst & Young, AT Kearney, The American Society for Training and Development, The University of Miami School of Medicine, and all of the major NLP institutes.

Mandy Evans

Speaker, writer, coach and seminar leader, Mandy Evans has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to be happier and more creative by freeing themselves from limiting, self-defeating beliefs.

She is the director of Option Learning Experiences, founder of Yes You Can Press, and the originator of the BREAKOUT Seminar. Each of her books, “Travelling Free: How to Recover from the Past by Changing Your Beliefs” and “Emotional Options” are written as a workshop-in-a-book so that everyone can clear the beliefs they hold that block happiness, success, and recovery.

Since earning a Group Counselor certificate at New York’s training institute, GROW in 1972 she has taught courses across the country and in Europe. She teaches teleseminars, is a popular radio and TV guest and works with coaching students from around the world.

Recently Mandy conducted a training for Joe Vitale’s Miracle Coaches in Austin,Texas; spoke for the Alcohol Awareness program at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, CA and shared how to “Accept Miracles” at “Attracting Miracles” seminar in San Diego. Mandy lives in Cathedral City, CA. (That’s next to Palm Springs)

Garret Kramer

Garret Kramer is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC. He has provided consulting and/or crisis management services to hundreds of athletes and coaches; from well known professionals, Olympians, and teams, to high school and collegiate players across a multitude of sports.

A former collegiate ice hockey player, Kramer is credited with bringing the principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought to the athletic community at large. Kramer often lectures on topics related to the states of mind that lead to success on and off the playing field.

He has been featured on WFAN in New York, ESPN Radio, WOR, FOX, CTV, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, The Newark Star Ledger, The Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Daily News, and other nationally syndicated sports programs and magazines. Kramer is the author of the book STILLPOWER: The Inner Source of Athletic Excellence; forward written by NHL and U.S. Olympic star Zach Parise.

Ken Manning

Integrating 15 years of business innovation in start up businesses in technology, consumer products, software development, and publishing with 25 years of coaching, training, consulting and psychology, Ken has a passion for showing people how to achieve awesome results through access to their innate capacities. During his 20 years as a licensed psychologist, he became a faculty member of the Three Principles Foundation basing its groundbreaking work the insights of Sydney Banks. Dr. Manning helped develop the use of those principles to create the next paradigm for leadership development, coaching and psychotherapy. He co-developed an advanced training for executive coaches called Coaching from Within which he taught throughout the US, Europe and Australia. In 1999 he devoted himself to bringing these principles into the corporate world. Dr. Manning now partners with Robin Charbit, Co-Founder of Insight Management Partners (www.insightmanagementpartners.com). They help organizations achieve their visions in record time with passionate people owning their inner strength and capacity for leadership at all levels in organizations. Their successes have been in many Fortune 50 and 100 companies.

Genpo Roshi Merzel

Genpo Roshi Merzel is a revolutionary in the tradition of the old Zen Masters who so embodied Buddhist teaching that they were able to revitalize and transform it for their own day and age. As the Buddha Dharma moved from India to China to Japan and other Asian cultures, it found unique expression in each culture that made its fundamental teachings resonate for a new time and place. Genpo Roshi is working to transmit the essence of the Buddha’s teachings in a way that is readily accessible to Westerners and relevant to our everyday life.

The core of Genpo Merzel’s teaching is the unshakable and contagious certainty that every one of us, regardless of our socioeconomic, cultural or religious background, can instantly awaken to our true nature, like the great masters of old — like the historical Buddha himself, whose essential teaching was nothing less than this. This experience helps us shed anxiety and fear and learn to live more purposeful, compassionate and joyful lives. Roshi combines Zen tradition with the insights of such visionary western figures as Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, and Hal Stone, enabling virtually anyone to realize their true nature, a realization they can further deepen through meditation.

Born in Brooklyn NY, he grew up in Southern California where he was both a high school and college champion swimmer and All-American water polo player. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Economics from California State University at Long Beach and a Masters degree in Education from the University of Southern California and was a teacher and lifeguard before ordaining as a Zen monk under Zen Master Taizan Maezumi in 1973. Completing formal Koan study in 1979 he became Maezumi Roshi’s second Dharma Successor in 1980, the first being Zen Master Bernie Glassman. He received Inka (final seal of approval as Zen Master) from Zen Master Glassman in 1996, thereby becoming one of a small group of Westerners recognized as lineage holders in both the Soto and Rinzai Zen traditions.

In 1982 Genpo Sensei began teaching throughout Europe and founded the international group he named the Kanzeon (Love and Compassion) Sangha, now centered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with affiliates in France, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Germany, England, and Malta. He has fourteen Dharma Successors, and has given Inka to eight Zen teachers making them Zen Masters. For eleven years, until 2007, he was the President of the White Plum Asanga, the worldwide community comprising all the Dharma heirs of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, their successors, and the many groups they lead.

Genpo Roshi Merzel is currently conducting workshops throughout the world. His publications include The Eye Never Sleeps, Beyond Sanity and Madness, 24/7 Dharma, and The Path of The Human Being, and many DVD’s. His latest book, Big Mind/Big Heart: Finding Your Way, published in 2007, is also being published in translation in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, France, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria.

His web site is www.bigmind.org

Gabriela Maldonado-Montano

Gabriela Maldonado-Montano received her degree in Clinical Psychology from San Jose State University in 1996, and has been working in the field of human services since 1991. She worked at the 3 Principles Services Division, Department of Alcohol and Drug Services (DADS) in Santa Clara County for ten years, where she was responsible for developing, teaching and supporting programs and partnerships committed to the health and wellbeing of youth, families and communities in a variety of multicultural settings. As a Trainer of Trainers for the department she led 3 Principles practitioner and internship programs in English and Spanish.

Ms. Maldonado-Montano received the Educator of the Year award in 2001 from the Mi Pueblo de San Jose, Kiwanis Club and was nominated for the Community Health Leadership Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2003 for her contribution in a community empowerment project in East San Jose. In February 2010, the County of Santa Clara recognized her with the “Employee of the Month” award for her work with incarcerated adults and expanding services to “at risk youth”.

Gabriela has developed and delivered leadership and work-wellness programs for executive management teams, sales teams, government staff in the justice system, educators and social workers. As a private consultant, she has participated in national and international conferences and training programs.

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Your Personal Coaches

Elese Coit

Formerly a graduate lecturer in London and interpreter at The European Parliament, Elese spent 10 years in global senior corporate management in the fields of telecommunications, internet, media and sports. As a corporate executive, Certified Master Transformative Coach and international radio show host, she has made a difference to thousands of lives around the world.

Elese is currently a Consultant with the Center for Sustainable Change, helping individuals and organizations thrive through positive, sustainable change. Elese focuses on maximizing corporate wellness initiatives and facilitating businesses to integrate the link between state of mind and performance to release the full potential of human beings. She also teaches classes.

Elese has private clients around the globe, and she speaks and facilitates through a simple “inside/out” approach using principles that, when understood, unlock human potential and the ability to live fully and thrive. She is the author of “101 New Pairs of Glasses” (January 2012) and her upcoming “Difference-Makers Handbook.” Her blog and newsletter, “Well Within” is available weekly. For her public talks, see the elesecoit.com homepage.

Elese has a particular passion for teaching from a Principles* basis and introducing the “Inside/Out” coaching approach into the wider coaching profession. She is permanent faculty at the world-class coaching training team at Michael Neill’s Supercoach Academy.

Her life mission is to assist difference-makers to make an even bigger difference in the world.

Elese continues to host the radio show she created and hosted since 2009, A New Way To Handle Absolutely Everything now with over 230,000 listeners around the globe. Archive shows are here. The radio showcases a variety of topics, examining them from new perspectives that reveal the keys to becoming a highly functioning, balanced and peaceful person no matter what the circumstances around you.

Elese is described as “The consummate mix of business savvy and inner sherpa.”

Rich Litvin

Rich Litvin, is one of the world’s most exclusive coaches. He works with no more than five personal one-on-one clients a year and his clients are by invitation or referral only. His coaching is highly personalized and tailor-made for each individual client and ranges from $40,000 to $250,000 a year.

An expert in deep, natural, inner confidence, Rich is the founder of The Confident Woman’s Salon – a select and elite group of highly empowered women.

Rich’s clients are exclusively women who are already powerful and passionate, confident and successful. Women who have already achieved a great deal in life. And women who – despite a track record of success – still have bold, outrageous or “Impossible” goals ahead of them…

Like the Olympic Athlete, struggling with her blocks around money and selling calendars at $19 a time to fund her Olympic bid… A single coaching session with Rich and within 24 hours she had raised $40,000 of corporate sponsorship.

And the mother of two who dreamed of the billionaire entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, writing the forward to her book and becoming President of her organization. He has just agreed to do both.

And the woman who built the confidence to turn down a job offer of $350,000 because they wanted her to work on Fridays – the day she spends with her 5 year old son… (They later came back and met her terms).

And the coach who just signed her second ever paying client for $160,000. He paid her in full; in advance.

www.thatconfidenceguy.com

Fiona Jacob

My gifts to you are as a transformative soul coach, healer, thinking partner and luminary who loves working with people in their journey of spiritual awakening, I uncover and awaken a person’s true magnificent essence, illuminating your brilliance and assisting you to live your true, authentic and purposeful life.

My own story is about a life unlived until I recognised the message the universe was sending me; to live a life of purpose and passion and follow my joy.

My Spiritual journey began when held hostage in Baghdad for 5 months in the lead up to the gulf war. I was held at gunpoint, with the butt of an AK 47 machine gun pointed at the base of my spine for 12 hours by a 14-year-old boy soldier. Although horribly shaken when I returned to my old life I failed to recognize the gifts of life I had been given.

In 2003, 3 major Al Qaeda bombs went off in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia close to our hospital compound. These bombs were targeted at expatriate workers and designed to create havoc and maximum devastation. During a 60-hour marathon I led the hospital team to save the lives of the 145 wounded brought into our ER at a time when we were in fear for our own lives. Sadly a number of the injured and 35 dead were hospital staff. Life had just waved a big red flag signaling ‘Attention’, Again, I walked away from the invitation of the universe to cross the bridge of my own spiritual evolution.

Guy Fawkes Night November 2005, I witnessed the stabbing of my best friend, Kate. I intervened between her and her attacker wrestling the knife off him enabling her to escape. Kate was stabbed 31 times. My actions saved her life that night. Eight weeks later I had my 6th miscarriage in 4 years, then my partner walked out of my life for good.

My life was filled with unremitting pain, anger, hurt, abandonment, betrayal, sadness, rejection and terror. I was empty inside. I felt I had lost everything. Yet the universe kept sending me a consistently loud message; you are alive…., YES YOU….YOU ARE ALIVE; wake up and live your life’s soul purpose. I started asking myself the larger questions; ‘Why has all of this happened? What is my life really for? What is my true life’s purpose?

I awakened to the fact that all I have experienced in my life has been in service to my growth. I chose to stop being a ‘victim’. Instead of being angry and outraged at life’s injustices I used my energy to gently and lovingly heal myself. I choose to step into my own power and purpose and live a truly authentic life. Now I live from a place of unconditional loving kindness, hope, light, peace, joy and happiness, in touch with my inner wisdom, understanding and compassion.

The miracle of our existence is truly precious and thus my intention for you is that you savor every moment of, and every breath in your life.

‬Coaching, my true vocation, is one of life’s greatest satisfactions and joys. When I do what I was born to do, life is a magical playground of contribution and profound self-expression that enables me to bring forth my unique gifts and contributions into the world. I delight in sharing what I have learned from my evolution so you do not have to go through what I did in order to recognize that you can choose to live to your magnificent life magnificently!

Michael Weitz

Michael Weitz is an engaging and dynamic coach, highly skilled in bringing out his client’s natural talent, creativity and vision. For the past ten years he has worked with speakers, leaders, and visionaries on increasing their impact while creating happier and healthier lives. His methods draw upon the best in leadership, human development, coaching, philosophy, science, and the arts. Clients have gone on to climb mountains, start businesses, leave companies, fulfill their dreams of speaking at TED, and become powerful coaches.

A world traveler born in Savannah, Ga., Michael works around the globe (literally) and currently calls Tel Aviv his home. He is a partner in The TAI Group’s Israel office, which he and his co-founder built into a thriving business in less than two years. Michael also teaches experiential leadership and communication in the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the IDC in Herzliya, as well as in the MBA and EMBA programs at Skolkovo, the Moscow School of Management.

Michael holds a PCC credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF), and has served in leadership positions for ICF at a global level. Having appeared in print and television in both the USA and Israel, his favorite media appearance was a surprised passenger in the hit game show Cash Cab.

In a previous life Michael made his living in theatre; directing, acting and producing plays on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in the middle of nowhere. He is a huge fan of TED, loves a good cup of coffee, and savors the peace and quiet of spending time with his ever growing list of books to read.

Follow him on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/weitzm and visit his site at www.ovationcoaching.com