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What people are saying about coaching . . .

"Life coaching is a process in which the coach assists the client to determine what he or she wants in all areas of life and then helps develop realistic action plans to achieve those visions. Life coaching is not just a collection of techniques; it’s a relationship that is both confidential and life changing – allowing clients to move quickyly from problems to solutions, from insights to action, from the status quo to completely new outcomes in their lives."
Dave Ellis, CEO, The Brande Foundation


“[A coach] is not an advisor. He’s not telling what to do. It’s more that you have capacity within yourself, but you never touch those buttons. So he brings out your own capacity – or rather, you discover your own capacity. You become an explorer of yourself.”
Muhammad Yunus, founder Grameen Bank
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2006


“Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got . . . managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what th coaching had cost heir companies.”
Fortune Magazine
Executive Coaching—With Returns a CFO Could Love
February 19, 2001


“It is hard to doubt that coaching delivers benefits. It fosters relatuionships, feedback, care, conversation, collaboration, answers, and bonding between veterans, experts, and novices. So how could coaching be anything but good for individuals and organizations?”
Careers Journal, Wall Street Journal
Growth of E coaching Provides more options
November 28, 2005


”[A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.”

The Business Journal
April 10, 2000


“What’s really driving the boom in coaching,, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180 . . . as we go fromdriving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting on motorcycles . . . the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up,, learn how not to fall off.”

John Kotter
Professor of Leadership
Harvard Business School


“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariabley finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.”

John Russell
Managing Director
Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.