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An Evening with Author of the #1 Best-Seller “Sixty-Seconds to Yes!”

Don Spini personally conducts over 150 sales training sessions per year, making him the top sales coach in the nation. Don has been a successful sales professional and sales manager for the past 25 years, focusing primarily on the financial services and corporate insurance industry. Fed up with the poor quality and content of available sales training for his teams he designed in 1995 what is known today as The PRO Force Sales Mastery and Influence “Sixty-Seconds to Yes” workshop.

This simple yet powerful methodology shows participants how to create extreme interest in their product, service or ideas before they talk about their product, service or ideas. What his clients discovered is the methodology and skills were relevant in all aspects of their lives, not just in front of buyers. His participants came away with confidence in handling objections and conflict, directly resulting in better relationships, higher closing ratios and more revenue.

“Don Spini and the Pro Force Team have created a ’Must Attend Workshop’ for success in life and sales. As past President and Partner with Jim Rohn, I had the pleasure and the opportunity to spread the word on the power of Jim’s philosophy and principles of success. Don’s insight on the ‘Buy-Sell- Encounter’ is truly a significant break thru in understanding the customer’s decision making process. 
I highly recommend Don and his team.” - Dan McBride

EXTRA BONUS: We talked Don into giving away his program. Isn’t that Crazy Cool!!! One Lucky Winner will get the complete Sixty-Seconds to Yes Program . All You have to do is Pre-register for the meeting and Show Up to WIN. We will draw the name at the meeting. So go for it!!!

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Walk away with insight to your biggest coaching challenges and learn powerful coaching techniques to take you from ordinary to extraordinary.

A collaboration partner or team is key to a persons’ growth and success. Collaboration is one of the intrinsic benefits of a coaching relationship and what we do as coaches. Many of us work from home with much of our attention focused on our clients we miss out on opportunities to collaborate with other coaches for our own professional growth. The ICF is the single largest coaching organization and together on a local and global level we have an abundance of knowledge and experiences within the coaching profession. We invite you to join us and collaborate with us at our May event as we engage in an open forum discussion focused on Coaching Challenges and Powerful Coaching Techniques around the ICF Core Competencies. This is a great opportunity to bring your coaching challenges and expertise to connect, share & grow with your professional collaboration team.

We’ll begin the evening at 6:00 pm with networking and light refreshments then we’ll engage in our coaching collaboration forum from 6:30 to 8:00 pm.

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The phrase “personal branding” has all but lost its meaning. Well-intended sources have used it to define everything from “dressing for success” to creating the perfect elevator speech. While these tactics can support the overall personal brand, they are not the brand itself. Branding lies within in a more profound and detailed strategy rooted in each individual’s unique points of differentiation and cultivated through the use of specific, measurable evaluations and outcomes. What’s Your BQ? is a content –rich program designed to help the coach use powerful, targeted questions to create personal brand awareness for their clients, supported by a metric-driven action. Adapted from EBQ*100 ( Executive Brand Quotient and 100 Day Plan) used for coaching and mentoring VP and C-Level Executives, this program will give a summary EBQ100’s most potent evaluation elements.

Participants will learn:

• How to Bridge the Brand Gap. Why what your clients don’t know about their personal brands CAN turn their career paths into a dead end.
• The BQ Test. This 40-question test will help you to ask specific, targeted questions to get to the heart of your clients’ branding roadblocks.
• The VRIO Analysis – the four most important letters in branding – how to use this analysis to create personal awareness for your clients, evaluate their unique core competencies, and give them a competitive advantage in the workplace.
• Leave with tools that you can use immediately to bring your clients closer to their goals. Build on your existing credibility as a certified coach by utilizing exclusive, time-honored branding techniques with proven results.

Sandra Sellani, MBA Brand Author, Strategist, Consultant

After more than 20 years of proven results in corporate America, Sandra Sellani became founder and Principal of the Sellani Group Brand Strategists in 2007. The Sellani Group is a full service brand strategy company that utilizes the proprietary branding methods Sandra used to help a small Orange County company become a national industry leader. During her five years as a VP of Marketing with Sperry Van Ness International, Inc., the company grew from $14 to $140M in revenues, transitioning from a local Orange Country brokerage firm, to one of the top five commercial brokers in the nation.

Sandra released her first book, “What’s Your BQ?” (Brand Quotient), (WBusiness Books, 2007) which received positive acclaim from critics including best-selling author and world-renowned brand guru Laura Ries, author of “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding.” The book launched to #2 in Marketing/Product Development on Amazon.com.

Sandra is currently in a partnership with marketing and strategy executive Scott Hamilton and executive coach John Delmatoff on what has been referred to as a disruptive technology for executive assessment and coaching, called EBQTM100, which stands for “Executive Brand Quotient & 100 Day Plan. The product combines both personal branding and behavioral assessment tools with a customized, measurable 100-day plan of action for executive and corporate success.

Sandra has an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. Sandra resides in Newport Beach, California. http://www.sandrasellani.com

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With a decade of executive and entrepreneurial coaching experience, join Dr. Frumi Rachel Barr, MBA through a branding and marketing journey.Frumi will share how her strategy has evolved over the years how the past two tumultuous years has altered her thinking. Frumi believes that you can’t do the same thing harder…you have to get out of your comfort zone and leave the status quo behind.

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Our panelists will share their personal stories, including how they decided which assessments to use with clients, what they learned about the assessments they use, and what they do to insure that the assessment experience is a useful and productive part of the coaching engagements. As a team, our panel has experience with the Leadership Agility and other 360 assessment tools, the Keirsey Temperament sorter and the Myers Briggs Personality Assessment, the Strengths Finder, the Enneagram, the DISC, Emotional Intelligence Assessments, and many others. Come join us for an in-depth discussion and bring your questions!

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Panelists

Tina Jackson, M.A., M.C.C.

Tina is the president of Clarity Consulting, a company that provides consulting, training and coaching for leaders, executives and entrepreneurs. Drawing upon her 20 years of experience as an organizational development practitioner and successful business owner, Tina brings a strategic and practical approach to leaders who are guiding teams and organizations through change.

Specialty Areas: Working as a coach since 1993, Tina has a proven track record in helping leaders and high-potential employees deliver results. She has extensive experience in helping clients increase their leadership agility, build trust, and successfully motivate individuals and teams.

Credentials: As a Master Certified Coach, Tina holds the highest certification level awarded by the International Coach Federation (ICF). She holds her coaching certification from Success Unlimited Network, and has completed additional coach training from the Coaches Training Institute and New Ventures West, all accredited training programs recognized by the ICF.

Tina holds an M.A. In Organization Development from the Fielding Graduate University, as well as certifications in Leadership Agility 360, BarOn’s Emotional Quotient Inventory, TalentSmart’s IMPACT EQ Learning, Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and the Strength Deployment Inventory. She is co-author of A Practical Guide to Working with Diversity (AMACOM, 1995).

Clients: Tina’s coaching clients include leaders, executives and managers in Fortune 500 companies, the federal government, and major foundations. In addition, for the last decade, she has taught coaching skills to leaders and managers in organizations including Novo Nordisk, the CIA, FDA, the Veteran’s Health Administration, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Andrea KniesAssistant Director, MBA Career Management Center, Chapman University

Andrea is the Assistant Director of the MBA Career Management Center at Chapman University in Orange, California. In this role, she helps the MBA candidates evaluate their career goals and then take action on these dreams. Throughout the year she conducts career based workshops and provides individual career consulting. Prior to her position at Chapman, Andrea was a Career Counselor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Since attending a Strengths Educator seminar in 2009, Andrea has focused her strengths knowledge in career services and leadership. She received bachelor’s degrees in communication and sociology and a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University. She is currently in the process of earning a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in organizational leadership. Andrea is also a Gallup certified strengths-based educator. Her Signature Themes are Ideation, Futuristic, Self-Assurance, Input, and Achiever.

Linda Denton, PCC

Linda’s experience as professional coach, group facilitator, and organization consultant includes over 22 years as a senior executive where she has worked in a wide range of national and international organizational settings and industries. She is experienced in creating innovative practices that promote organizational learning, enhance leadership and team development, and has coached leaders and teams at all levels.

She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and is a Certified integral Coach through New Ventures West. She has extensive experience as a coach and facilitator and uses a number of different methods to support her clients in attaining the desired results and outcomes. Linda’s toolbox includes a variety of assessments and group processes that can add value in creating and achieving a coaching or facilitation strategy. Her knowledge of assessments includes:

1. Bar-On EQ-i®/360 Emotional Intelligence
2. Keirsey Temperament Sorter
3. Myers Briggs Type Indicator
4. Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Instrument
5. Strong Interest Inventory
6. Enneagram
7. DiSC
8. A variety of multi-rater feedback tools

Facilitator

Nahid Casazza

Nahid is founder of Aspyrre Professional Coaching Services. She works with business leaders in two key areas: (1) to navigate professional transitions, and (2) to master personal awareness and interpersonal skills so they can powerfully influence the organizational environment.

Nahid has a Master’s in Business Administration from Pepperdine University, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology from Michigan State University. In addition she has three years of post graduate training specifically in coaching, from CoachU, an International Coach Federation fully accredited coach training program. Prior to starting her business in 2001, she spent fifteen years in the high tech arena, where she was inspired by entrepreneurial leaders who provided employees the freedom to grow and develop their natural talents.

Nahid served as the President of the International Coach Federation, Orange County Chapter in 2007, leading our coaches to win the “Finding your Voice” award, distinguishing the team amongst 150 chapters worldwide. From 2006 through 2008, she led the development of the Success Team Program at NAWBO (National Association for Women Business Owners) where members work together in professionally facilitated groups to accelerate their business success. Currently Nahid is on the advisory board and co-teaches a unique, ICF competency-based coaching program specifically designed for business leaders at Chapman University’s Extended Education Leadership Services Program.

Nahid currently works with clients individually, organizationally, and in small groups. To learn more about programs and pricing, visit www.aspyrre.com or call (949) 495-1021 to schedule a consultation.

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One of the most critical parts of using assessments in coaching is how you handle the meeting with your client when you review the assessment results and decide together how to interpret them.  In many cases clients will feel defensive and vulnerable and choose to focus on the negative, which can put you in a challenging position as coach.  How do you help a client get true personal value from an assessment and use it productively to get to the next level?  In this experiential practicum, you will have an opportunity to sit with one of our assessment experts and actually walk through an assessment debriefing session.  You will have a choice to work in depth with one of these three popular assessment tools:  (1) The Leadership Agility 360 Assessment, often used with executives and leaders in corporate environments, (2) The Keirsey Temperament Sorter which can be used in team environments and for individual personal growth, or (3) the Strengths Finder, which is an excellent tool for career coaching and personal development.    Don’t miss this opportunity to get a real sense for what it feels like to be debriefed and to witness an expert navigate the waters of providing useful feedback while maintaining a positive and productive environment for the client.

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Attend this one day information packed event where our coaches will inspire change, help you identify what’s holding you back, share with you techniques to develop winning habits for success and show you how to set a clear vision and meaningful goals so you can be Outrageously Successful in 2011!

Keynote Speaker

11:30am – 12:30pm

Reincarnation of Theodore Roosevelt, David Markovitz,  presents:

Leadership at the Speed of Change

David Markovitz is an expert  on leadership. As Teddy, David inspires  people to overcome the challenges and  uncertainty we are facing with  courage, boldness, integrity, character, and  action. They will learn  how to CHARGE forward (as Teddy did in so many ways),  contributing to  the strength and future of your enterprise. He will  address two key  issues facing people in business today – Effective  Leadership and Managing  Change.  He puts these into  perspective by identifying the changes that  occurred during Teddy’s lifetime  (1858- 1919). By outlining the  leadership strategies he used to master these  changes in his day, Teddy  helps his audiences discover how they can apply  simple,  straightforward tips to reach their personal pinnacle of success.  Teddy’s  message is sprinkled with facts about his life and the era in  which he lived. http://www.TeddyLeads.com/

Event held at the The  Sports Club – Irvine,  1980 Main Street @  Mercantile (just West of MacArthur) Irvine, CA 92614

Friday, February 11, 2011

Register before February 4th and your ticket to this full day event is $20. Click here to learn more and register.

“The ability to speak well can open doors for anyone. Irene Brennick makes Public Speaking delightfully simple. Her personal stories, insightful wisdom, and practical tools show exactly how it’s done. Why just speak when you can change the world?” – Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay It Forward,

Join us for dinner and our main event speaker, Irene Brennick who will share her secrets on how to ”Bring Your Audience to Their Feet From”.

Irene Brennick is an award winning public speaker, and author of “Bring Your Audience to Their Feet”, who has shared her story of overcoming adversity with tens of thousands of people, bringing audiences to tears and cheers. Her story has been featured in the L.A. Times, Daily News, and on TV and radio. www.irenebrennick.com

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Being a coach and building a coaching practice today is much more than just providing one on one coaching. Many coaches are conducting workshops and speaking to promote their coaching practice and to create additional revenue streams. We want you to be outrageously successful in 2011 and have planned a great evening to kick the year off right. Learn from the experts on how to conduct workshops and speaking events to promote your coaching business.

We’ll begin the evening with our Business & Coaching Excellence program as our expert panel of coaches share best practices on how to use workshops and speaking to build a successful coaching practice. Learn what’s working and what’s not and the various types of workshops from live to tele-classes to webinars. Our expert panel of coaches Doug Gfeller, Anita Goldin, & Scott Hunter conduct workshops and speak as a major part of their business.

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