About Us

Experience You Can Trust, Knowledge You Can Use

Our team comprises collective experience of over 100 years in personal and organizational effectiveness.

Henry is a professional certified coach (PCC) with more than 20 years experience in business development, marketing and communication. He holds two advanced degrees from Columbia University and is an Adjunct Professor at New York University 's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Henry is passionate about behavioral analysis and helping individuals improve their personal and interpersonal effectiveness. He is a experienced public speaker and workshop leader who has provided services to organizations such as: Crain's Communications, Acordia Insurance, Sheraton Hotels, Con Edison, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York , Pace University , and Pace Law School . He is also a past-president of the New York City Chapter of the International Coach Federation.

David, MCC, is an executive coach, speaker and trainer. He works in New York City specializing in business and executive coaching and in the design and delivery of coach management training programs for Fortune 500's. His international coaching work extends to Europe, South America and Japan. David serves on the coaching faculty at NYU (New York University; School of Continuing and Professional Studies), and at the University of Texas-Dallas where he teaches web based courses on the Ethics and Standards of Coaching for the Executive and Professional Coach Training Program.

As a leader in the coaching world, David serves on the global Board of the International Coach Federation (ICF) as a Vice President and recently completed a 3-year term as Co-Chair of the ICF Ethics & Standards Committee (2003-2006). Formerly a Trust and Financial Planning Officer with Chase Bank, he has an MBA from Thunderbird in international business. In addition to being a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NY, David previously taught improvisation skills for 8 years to professional actors at the Michael Howard Studios in New York City.

Jan has been training people to work smarter, not harder since 1988. She specializes in resolving complex time, task, and workload management issues.

Jan has a unique approach to organizing and time management. She's convinced that the standard wisdom, such as "It's important to have a neat desk" and "You should always file alphabetically" often doesn't work in the real world. (Having a neat desk can sometimes interfere with efficiency. Filing alphabetically can cause you to lose things.) In her book, Take Back Your Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information, & Technology (St. Martin's Press, 1999), Jasper explains why the standard wisdom often doesn't work and replaces it with realistic, tried-and-true ways to get more done with less effort.

Jan's clientele are successful people whose demanding roles require that they perform at peak efficiency. From Fortune 500 corporations to professionals and entrepreneurs, hundreds of people have gotten results with her unique methods. In addition to helping businesses streamline their systems and use office technology efficiently, she also prepares procedures manuals. Jan's services include workflow and technology coaching, and she provides Outlook configuration and programming.

Jan has done media appearances and voiceover work for IKON, one of the world's leading providers of products and services that help businesses communicate. She was previously the office organization expert on Staples.com.

Jill focuses on supporting people in realizing opportunities and facing challenges in their professional and personal lives. She works with individuals and groups to develop their leadership, presentation, facilitation, communication, and/or conflict resolution skills, and those who are facing change/transition. Jill also coaches adults with learning disabilities and ADD. She is a graduate of CoachU, the Authentic Happiness Coaching Program, "What now?" and Retirement Options coaching programs.

Jill has worked with a great variety of clients, as course designer, trainer, and coach. A Partial list includes: Turner Broadcasting Sales Inc., Time-Warner Sports, Ford Motor Company, SunTrust Mortgage, Chase Card Member Services, Gilead Science, Reed Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Siemens Medical, Inc., Petrotrin, Rutgers University , and Faircount, Inc. She is also a course designer/developer and leader for the American Management Association.

Jill holds a doctoral degree from Columbia University in curriculum development, and has over two decades of experience in instructional design, delivery and evaluation of training programs. Before starting her consulting and coaching practice she worked in the fields of education, as a teacher, principal, and administrator, and in nonprofit management, as a director of county and statewide nonprofit programs.

Phyllis is a professionally certified business and career coach and trainer. She works with individuals, business leaders and managers to explore and clarify who they have to be to achieve the results they want and then to clear away what’s been preventing them from getting there. As a result of working with Phyllis, her clients report having found greater clarity for their goals, increased their revenues, found new career focus and jobs, enhanced their decision-making ability, and felt more satisfied with their lives generally.

Phyllis is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and her organizational background includes Director of Career Counseling Services for a non-profit organization and Corporate Vice-President of a major brokerage firm consulting to $1 million brokers and managers on growing their businesses. Phyllis currently is a Board Director of the NYC chapter of the ICF. As an ordained interfaith minister, Phyllis is able to bring a spiritual dimension to the coaching relationship, if desired.

Rochelle is a Sales Coach, Trainer with more than 20 years in the corporate world as a top sales producer, and 10 years as a coach, trainer and speaker. Since 1995, she has successfully coached and trained executives in the Publishing, Financial Services, Banking, Media, Consumer and Real Estate industries. She specializes in sales and marketing, and interpersonal and communication skills. Rochelle is the creator of a step-by-step sales process that teaches her clients exactly what they need to know to close more business, sign on more clients, and make more money with ease and velocity.

Rochelle has been the Director of Sales for Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, an international publishing organization. She has also been the Senior Consultant for Communispond, a national training organization specializing in communications, sales, and presentation skills.

She has also worked with companies such as: American Express, Merrill Lynch, Met Life, Philip Morris, Crain's Business Publications, American Media, Magazine Publishers Association, and Union State Bank.

For over two decades, Wayne has helped successful family businesses develop an atmosphere of shared goals and address the challenges characteristically faced when they are planning for the future of their operations - beyond the current managing generation.

His post-graduate education and experience combines the skills of dynamic inquiry, family business dynamics, organizational and process consulting, facilitation and business coach training. The result is a unique combination that permits him to help business owners effectively address the predictable challenges that regularly block their road to long term success.

In the mid-1980's he co-authored the first of three books about management, relationships, and success for family businesses. In 1999 he took his newsletter for business owners online, with articles to help businesses grow and exclusive profiles of business owners adapting to achieve their continued success.

In 2003 he published, "Doing It Right, realizing your company's potential" - combining Fortune 500 strategies with Main Street examples that help business owners and professional solution providers answer hundreds of questions that are critical to the organization's very survival.

Ann, MSW, PCC is an executive/corporate coach specializing in enhancing workplace "cultures." Over the last 10 yeaars, Ann has worked with such companies as McLane, Genzyme, Ilex Oncology,
PacifiCare HMO, State Farm Insurance, Frost Bank and many state and national governmental agencies.

Ann is the author of Laughing Matters: The Value of Humor in the Workplace, many other small booklets, articles and special reports.

Ann is a professional member of the National Speaker's Association and speaks regularly at conferences around the country. All of her corporate work is built on her foundation as a clinical social worker psychotherapist.

Sheila is an Executive Coach, specializing in communication and leadership skills. She assists individuals in career positioning, transitioning and work/life integration that facilitates personal transformation and greater engagement within the workplace.

Formerly a VP in the insurance industry, Sheila worked seventeen years as an international risk management consultant with Fortune 50 companies in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, arts, financial and publishing sectors.

Sheila has a MSW from NYU and a BA, Psychology from Penn State, received her Coaching certification from iPEC and trained in Appreciative Inquiry. She is a member of The International Coach Federation, Toastmasters and the Association for Spirit at Work.

Lisa helps clients actively navigate their future by leveraging their strengths. She works with individuals throughout their career lifecycle, including students, individuals in career transition and development, executives and people planning their active retirement. Lisa gives her clients the edge and confidence to achieve success.

Lisa brings over 20 years of career counseling, human resources and management experience to her coaching business. She has a BA in Psychology, an MS in Human Resources Management and is a Certified Master Coach through the One-to-One Coaching School.

Terry is a certified personal and business coach who brings to her clients over 20 years of experience as a senior sales and marketing executive. She is a successful entrepreneur who left the security of the corporate world to start a sales and marketing consulting firm. Terry’s personal and professional experiences have helped her gain first-hand understanding of the challenges and fears associated with change.

Terry’s coaching practice focuses on professionals, entrepreneurs and small business owners who are dedicated to achieving their highest potential and stepping into positions of leadership. Terry’s strength as a coach is in helping clients develop clear life and business strategies by navigating both the business landscape and internal maps to success. She guides her clients in recognizing and overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of reaching their goals, helping them clearly see what can undermine their success.

Terry is a member of the ICF/International Coach Federation and serves on the Board of Directors of the NYC Chapter. She was one of the founders and is currently co chair of the AWNY/Advertising Women of New York mentoring committee where she continues to mentor individuals with their careers.

Debbie’s corporate and coaching experience is enhanced by an NYU certificate in Executive/Organizational Coaching. Debbie’s corporate experience includes Call Center Manager, Regional Marketing Manager and Supply Side Logistics Manager for a large privately held company.

She has managed hundreds of people from customer service representatives, to distribution center warehousemen, to Ivy League management trainees, to savvy long-term managers. She has spearheaded efforts in management development, recruitment and retention, anti-harassment training, communication skills development and mentoring.

Over the past few years she has put her corporate experience to use supporting clients’ goals through the power of executive and organizational coaching.