May 13th Monthly Meeting: Coaching Panel Posted by Rachel Pradhan on Friday, April 9, 2010
Are you struggling to make your coaching business a success?
Have you spent thousands of dollars on training to obtain the skills and certifications only to find yourself unable to attract the clients that will make their business a success?
Are you an experienced coach who wants to take your coaching practice to the next level?
If so, you need to attend the May 13, 2010 International Coach Federation Orange County meeting where a panel of five successful coaches will show you exactly what you need to know to organize your business and attract clients.
This coaching panel will present two one-hour sessions, the first focusing on organizing your business, the second focusing on coaching specialties.
Session I: Setup a Foundation for a Service Oriented Coaching Business
Many new coaches enter coaching with little or no knowledge of how to set up and organize a business that will support their coaching practice.
In this one-hour session, you will learn these basics of running a business:
- Business setup: office space, computer(s), business phones, mobile phones, business software, fax, printer
- Business plans: naming the business, business license, business plan, financial projections, business development plan, marketing plan, vision, mission
- Technology: website, emails, internet, social media, newsletters, blogs
- Time: setting up a master calendar, how to manage it for business and personal, delegating to support personnel
- Support personnel: virtual or in-office assistants, bookkeeper, CPA, graphic designer, website designer
- Financial: estimated cost to start a business, estimated annual costs, the pros of beginning a part-time coaching business, the pros of maintaining a job while beginning a business
Session II: Coaches, their Specialties and the Wisdom for a Sustainable Coaching Business
During this session, the coaching panel will discuss:
- The challenges they faced and what actions they took to meet those challenges, especially when they were just starting their coaching practice
- How they developed and perfected their niche/specialty
- The most important steps they took to achieve a successful specialty business such as Executive Coaching
- How they created a successful business once they determined their specialty
- How they sustained their successful businesses
Our Coaching Panel:
Life Coach Mary Allen
Mary Allen, CPCC, MCC is America’s Inner Peace Coach, author of The Power of Inner Choice and host of Conversations with the Masters interviewing best-selling authors, speakers and coaches including Dr. Wayne Dyer, Caroline Myss, Debbie Ford, Ken Wilber, Dr. David Hawkins, Byron Katie and others. Her clients include entrepreneurs, CEO’s, business owners and even a couple billionaires. Her passion is helping “conscious achievers” awaken to greater everyday inner peace, as they realize their inspired goals. Mary leads the annual 4-day Inner Peace Immersion Retreat and one-day live Awakening Beyond Achievement Tour events. She guides audiences in “radical awakening” and “radical releasing,” resulting in expanded success and inner peace. Mary is a graduate of University of Wisconsin (Madison), and both CTI and Coach U. She enjoys veggie smoothies, yoga, meditation and walks at the beach with her husband John.
Executive Coach Carrie Scuba
Carri Scuba, ACC, is a certified professional coach who helps individuals produce extraordinary results in their personal and professional lives. Through an ongoing partnership, Carri supports her clients reach new levels of success by identifying and removing barriers that have stopped them in the past.Working as a successful Professional Coach for the past seven years, Carri uses her 12 years of corporate experience from companies such as Kemper Financial and Monster Worldwide to create structures that support her coaching clients, which include individuals and groups from: Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo, Sharp Heathcare, Merrill Lynch and Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Carri’s clients unanimously claim a renewed sense of self-confidence, enhanced communication skills, and the ability to relate to themselves and others on levels that were previously unimaginable. Owner and creator of Core Vision Concepts, she holds the credential of Associate Certified Coach from the International Coaches Federation.
Leadership Coach Charles Feltman, PCC
Charles Feltman, PCC, coaches executives and managers who want to strengthen their leadership presence, capacity to connect with and positively influence others, create alignment, and hold focus. He also works with leaders who are moving into a new position or taking on a new direction in their careers. In addition to individuals, Charles coaches teams and groups that want to develop greater trust, alignment, collaboration, innovation, and accountability in order to consistently produce exceptional results. He has worked with clients in many different industry segments, but the majority of his coaching has been with leaders and teams in the tech sector and IT fields. He has over 18 years of professional experience in coaching and organizational development consulting. Charles is author of The Thin Book® of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work, based on three decades of experience working with individuals and teams on issues of trust, integrity, commitment, conflict management, and collaboration. As a coach, facilitator and mediator, Charles has helped hundreds of people achieve greater success and well being by building trust, healing betrayal and finding reconciliation in their work, community and personal lives. He holds an International Coach Federation (ICF) credential of Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Charles received formal training as a coach from The Newfield Network, is a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach™, and currently serves as a mentor coach for students in Newfield’s coach training programs.
Career Coach Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC
Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC, career strategist, coach and counselor, has worked with hundreds of clients over the past 19 years. Known for her compassionate and straightforward approach, Daisy guides her clients to clarify their career direction and supports them as they find and take the necessary steps to realize their professional and personal goals. Daisy has been a career professional in private practice for 15 years, serving a broad population of senior executives, attorneys, sales and IT professionals, writers, producers, actors and new grads. Daisy has appeared on network TV on NBC’s daytime coaching program Starting Over as well as ABC’s online ABCNewsNow.com. She is regularly quoted in articles featured on YahooHotJobs, The Washingtonpost.com, The New York Post, and various other print and online publications. Daisy has expanded her private practice over the past seven years to serve an increasing number of clients. Several associate coaches also work with clients under the umbrella of Daisy Swan & Associates. She has created a variety of program offerings to meet the needs of current and prospective clients including groups, and public networking events. Daisy’s first book Secrets from A Career Coach, Simple Actions To Spark Career Change will be published in June 2010.
Business Coach Christine Lewicki
Christine Lewicki is the Founder of O Coaching. She is a bilingual (French and English) Certified Coach, Speaker and MasterMind group facilitator with clients in the US, Canada and Europe. Christine is known as an expert in being a catalyst for her client’s professional’s brilliance. She is grounded, bright and easy to work with. In addition she is a wife and the mother of three beautiful young children. Her life is busy and rich. She has a Bachelor of Art in Sociology and a Masters Degree in Human Resources from the University of Lille, France (1997). For over 10 years she enjoyed a successful career in the corporate world as the Director of Human Resources for several multi-national firms. She decided to transition into Coaching in 2005. Lifting a page from her professional Human Resource book, she prepared thoroughly for her new role as an expert in personal and and professional development. She obtained her Coaching Accreditation from the International Coach Academy. She has studied with the best marketing, sales and business coaches including Ali brown, Lisa Sasevick, Lisa Cherney and Kevin Nations.
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