About Our Facilitators
January 12, 2010 . by Karen Hoffman
Karen Hoffman, the IDEA Coach,is a woman of many talents, interests, and business endeavors. A former radio show host, and magazine publisher, Karen has created and collaborated on the development of a number of workshops and programs targeted at entrepreneurs and small businesses. The workshops include Creative Coaching Circles, the Joy of Goals, Six Degrees of Collaboration and Positive Possibilities. Karen is also a licensed presenter of the Get ClientsNOW! business-growth plan. Her latest collaborative project is Ign!te for Business an incubation and ideation company. She is the co-founder of the City of Experts (http://www.cityofexperts.com/), an internet site to help facilitate strategic business connections, the co-founder of NichePOWER!, a database of the St. Louis media; and Your Collaborative Board, a facilitated MasterMind group that focuses on positivity, taking action and accountability. Karen owns and operates The IDEA Coach, a coaching and consulting service that creates collaborative opportunities based on the clients’ strengths and passions.
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Lethia Owens, CEO of Lethia Owens International, Inc., (http://www.LethiaOwens.com/) a Personal Branding & Social Media Consulting Firm and the Founder/CEO of CallKayla.com, a Social Media Virtual Assistant Agency. With 19+ years in technology and leadership roles for corporate and not-for-profit industry leading organizations, Lethia applies her insights and talents to helping professionals and business owners define and promote their powerful personal brand through the use of social media, community platforms, and other emerging web and mobile technologies. Lethia helps clients define their brand message and develop a strategy for attracting, connecting with and engaging clients online while generating consistently high value for their friends, fans and followers. Relationship management, Conversation Management and Crowd Conversion are at the core of the social marketing strategy she helps develop for her clients. Lethia is a contributing author in Leading the Way to Success (Define, Promote and Live Your Powerful Personal Brand), the Personal Branding Strategist Facebook Fan Page, AToolADay.com blog and the Social Media Marketing for Dentist Program. She is certified as a 360 Reach Personal Branding Strategist, certified as a social media strategist and is a contributing faculty member of the Leadership Development Institute.
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Kelly Alcorn is The Activation Coach. As speaker, coach and mentor, Kelly works with individuals and groups to help them first identify obstacles and then create an activation plan that’s life transforming. Kelly’s unique approach inspires people to dream about and identify their goals; then she successfully moves them to action so they become successful achievers. Kelly currently holds a leadership position on the board of ESPW (Encouraging, Supporting and Promoting Women) and is active in several local chambers. Kelly was a top ten nominee for the Spirit of St. Peters award and was recognized by Zonta as a woman of leadership in the community.
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Patty Cook, Life Coach and Founder of Life By Design (http://www.lifebydesign.biz/) works primarily with executives, entrepreneurs, and women and knows that stress is a key barrier to professional and personal success. Her coaching, training, writing and speaking are all designed to help people create personal foundations strong enough to support the most imaginative goals and withstand life’s greatest challenges, and though she is retired from construction, she is still building today. She helps individuals, businesses and organizations build success while improving health, happiness and peace of mind. Patty is sympathetic toward her clients’ concerns and goals without “getting into the pit with them.” Instead, her role is to show them how to climb out of the pit and create a life structure that keeps them from falling back in.
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Erin Murphy is a Serenity Life Coach and Energy Leadership Coach who specializes in self awareness and realization as a basis for turning goals into reality. (http://www.newrealmsofpossibility.com). Erin does a unique combination of life coaching and Serenity Vibration Healing® in every session to speed up the process of shifting past what is blocking the client and keeping them stuck (negative mind chatter, self-sabotage, fear of success/failure/rejection, anxiety, etc). This all-inclusive approach utilizes your past experiences, current state of awareness, and future aspirations to awaken your greatness within. Once this potential is unlocked, you experience a world full of limitless possibility. Everything is possible; you just have to know where to look within yourself to make it a reality.
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Cathy Sexton, Productivity Enthusiast, works with people who want to add time to their day be focused, boost productivity and do a better job of connecting with colleagues, prospects and customers. Cathy is owner of The Productivity Experts. She brings a wealth of experience in business management, training, and optimizing productivity and employee performance. She develops custom solutions for client’s specific needs to improve productivity and simplify life through her expertise in systems and processes. Cathy is a co-author of “Focus, Organization and Productivity,” and “Exploring Productivity”, both books are based on improving success in the workplace. She is a Certified GO System© Trainer, Info-Excellence Email Training, Productivity trainer. Currently Cathy teaches QuickBooks, Goal Setting, Getting Organized and Email Efficiency for local Schools and Colleges.
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Aprille Trupiano, Success Coach, is described by clients as being bold, completely straight, high energy, vivacious and dedicated. Her talent for being creative, engaging people in actions that will fulfill their goals, and encouraging others to think outside the ordinary redefines how they see themselves. Her practical mix of how-to and high dose of inspiration leaves people empowered and effective. Aprille’s ability to break through what holds clients back uncovers obstacles they can’t see yet. Her newly created “Successful Sassy Sexy You Program” catapults clients to the miraculous in their life, where all their purest desires, their most intense passions are reborn. Aprille’s clients become fully engaged in living life and their natural leadership surfaces so they’re fully realized as they are born to be and living their most passionate life!