Mike Jaffe, Founder & Certified Life Coach

Mike Jaffe combines a solid business background with a motivational style that ensures clients clarify their goals and achieve successful results. A certified life coach, with more than 12 years of coaching and mentoring executives and corporate teams, Mike brings a wealth of experience, and powerful insight to your company as a business and personal leadership coach, keynote speaker, workshop leader and nationally published writer...

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A Message from Mike

 


Noah Blumenthal, Executive and Team Leadership

Noah Blumenthal and his clients work together to create organizations where people experience the most satisfying and most productive work life possible. Prior to becoming an executive coach, Noah was a founding member of an internal consulting group at UBS Financial Services. There he helped create and lead the effort for team development and coaching within the organization. During his tenure at Chase Manhattan Bank, Noah built competency, leadership and values-based 360° assessment tools while coaching executives on leadership challenges.

Noah has been featured as a guest lecturer at Columbia University on consulting to executive teams and at New School University on developing effective interpersonal relationships in the work place. Noah has a BA in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from Brandeis University and has completed graduate work in Psychometrics at Fordham University and in Organizational Psychology at Columbia University.

Noah’s specialties include:

  • leadership development

  • conflict resolution

  • behavior change

  • business development

  • strategic decision making

  • seeing from a radically new perspective


Kathy Caprino, Personal and Professional Coach

In her work as a coach, author, speaker, and psychotherapist. Kathy specializes in helping individuals navigate through major crossroads to reclaim the direction of their lives for greater fulfillment, meaning, and joy. A reinvented professional herself, she has transitioned from a corporate VP to helping professional and thriving entrepreneur, and draws on her extensive corporate and coaching experience to help others define their authentic life vision, and make it a reality.

Kathy is a frequent invited speaker at schools, diversity networks, corporations, women’s conferences and other organizations, and is the author of the forthcoming book tentatively titled I Can’t Do This! The Professional Woman’s Guide to Overcoming Crisis and Claiming Your Power and Purpose (Berrett-Koehler, Fall 2008). Her book is based on key findings from her national research study Women Overcoming Professional Crisis: Finding New Meaning in Life and Work, co-sponsored by The Esteemed Woman Foundation.

Kathy holds a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy, and is co-founder of a leading therapeutic center in CT called Living in Harmony—The Center for Emotional Health (www.livinginharmonycenter.com). Passionate about helping people understand where they are disempowered and move beyond it, Kathy assists her clients in accessing their vast inner resources and living their true potential.

Kathy areas of specialization include:

  • Overcoming Crisis and Claiming Your Power and Purpose

  • Thriving Through Change

  • Empathic Parenting

  • Empowering Relationships in Marriage and Family

  • Moving Forward with Your Creativity and Artistry

  • Making Sense of Conflict in Communication – And Resolving It

  • Achieving Balance and Integrity in Life and Work

  • Finding and Following Your Inner Compass


Donna M. Marino, Personal and Professional Coach

As a former corporate veteran and executive with well-known and reputable companies such as Eastman Kodak Company, Rubbermaid, Inc. and Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Donna awakened one day with great ‘mid-life clarity’, thus beginning her quest to re-engineer her life. Donna is now living that journey as a Personal and Professional Coach, specializing in helping individuals and teams rediscover their authentic selves for optimum balance and fulfillment . . . . leading to both living and working in harmony.
 

Donna draws on both a lifetime of Coaching relationships and extensive personal and professional leadership experiences to inspire, support and guide individuals and organizations to new heights towards achieving their goals. Described by others as a ‘motivator, mentor and coach filled with great warmth, humility, intellect and sense of humor,’ Donna’s commitment is to help others, authentically and compassionately, re-balance their lives so that they are living to their fullest, best and highest potential…..all they are intended to be.
 

Donna’s specialties include:

  • Creating a Purpose & Value Driven Culture

  • Building High Performing Teams

  • Professional Leadership & Executive Effectiveness

  • Organizational Dynamics

  • Career Paths, Planning & Transitions

  • Empowering Workplace Relationships

  • Personal Power, Presence, Image & Effectiveness

  • Leading Creative Teams

  • Operational Efficiencies through Improved Relationships

  • Achieving Balance in Life & Work

  • Getting off “Auto-Pilot” & Reclaiming Your Authentic Life

 

Stephanie Haber, Business Success Coach and Special Needs Family Advisor

Stephanie Haber has been a successful entrepreneur for the last 20 years. During that time she has developed, run and created successful businesses in 5 different career venues as well as consulted in at least another 10. For the last 12 plus years Ms Haber has been in financial related businesses. While always in charge of multiple venues at a time, she has always had successful results. She would like to share those skills with you.

Mrs. Haber has entered the consulting/coaching environment with the same energy and commitment she attaches to all her business ventures. She has a reputation of being loyal, driven, focused, smart, fair and tough. A born leader, an inspirational team member and team creator she now uses her skill set to empower others to succeed. Mrs Haber has always empowered and taught all those she touched to push themselves to their fullest, learn the most in every situation and try to attain everything they could possibly wish for. This has become her quest.

Stephanie Haber is also the founder The Special Needs Family. Being the parent of several special needs children, Mrs. Haber understands the importantance of Success in these complicated families. “We are moms, dads and caregivers. We are frustrated loved ones and dedicated family members. Most importantly, we are the voice when no one hears and we are the strength when there is no more. Our beauty is in our children and our strength is in our numbers. Our Special Children can and will have everything they need. If it is the single last thing I do.”

Through Momference, The Special Needs Family is producing year round Special Needs related events that will empower these special families to create balance in their lives while gaining support for their very special families.

Specialties:

  • Entrepreneurs and Time Management for Success

  • Redefining Careers and Healthy Career Transition

  • Teaching How to figure out what you want and how to GO GET IT

  • Achieving Balance For Entrepreneurs

  • Defining a Business Vision

  • Setting and Attaining Goals

  • Developing Structure by Your Rules
     

 

KC Christensen-Lang, Success Coach

As a Joyologist, Success Coach, Keynote Speaker and Business Trainer, KC specializes in personal and business coaching, humor, laughter and stress reduction programs. She employs her uplifting and engaging style in staff training and seminars for companies, federal, state and town departments, hospitals, universities, schools, groups, assisted living facilities, senior centers and nonprofits.

With 30 years of management, promotion and marketing experience, KC is also a PR Consultant/Publicist for coaches, speakers, entrepreneurs, business owners and authors. Her methods help clients grow their business by working smarter not harder, by obtaining increased PR and media coverage or promoting their books/services/products. A Multiple Steams of Passive Income/Making Money While You Sleep Licensee, she also teaches Promoting with Pizzazz teleseminars worldwide.

KC is also a ClubMom expert and a co-author of the upcoming book, Speaking Of Success with Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Ken Blanchard (One Minute Manager) and Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People).

 

A Message from Mike

I formed Jaffe Life Design, LLC after spending more than 15 years as a Marketer in various capacities, from Fortune 500 firms to an internet startup to consulting. In 2001, an airplane crashed into the floor I worked on in the 96th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. However, I was still in the subway en route to my office after deciding the day before to go into work a few minutes late that day so I could have breakfast in my new home with my wife and one year old daughter.

I learned many important lessons from that horrible event. For instance, that life is a very precious gift and every single day counts! I never leave the house without kissing my wife and kids and telling them I love them no matter how early in the morning it is. It also awakened me to the fact that there was something else I needed in my career and life to give me a deeper sense of satisfaction; something I could link to service or giving to others. I just didn't have a clue what that was and I didn't know what direction to head in, so...I did nothing.

More than a year later, during a very innocent conversation with a friend, she told me that I would make a great “life coach.” I didn't know what a certified life coach was at the time but it sounded intriguing because I knew I had loved coaching and mentoring others for my entire life; I just didn't know there was a formal job and career that existed in doing so. After doing extensive reading and research a whole new world opened up to me that I didn’t even know existed. I started training to be a certified life coach and even took on a few friends as my "guinea pig" clients on the side. After receiving my certification I left my Corporate job and started Jaffe Life Design on a full time basis.

Now that I see the impact this work has on the lives of others, I know I made the right choice. It’s uplifting to witness clients discover things about themselves that they didn't even know existed; seeing them develop tools that help them design, create and live the life and career they truly want. For me, sharing my energy and passion to positively affect another person in a profound way tells me one thing - there is nothing that I would rather be doing!

I wish you peace, satisfaction and joy in every aspect of your life.

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Mike Jaffe, MBA, CC – Certified Life Coach

Mike Jaffe combines a solid business background with a motivational style that ensures clients clarify their goals and achieve successful results. With more than 12 years of coaching and mentoring executives and corporate teams, Mike brings a wealth of experience, and powerful insight to your company as a business and personal leadership coach, keynote speaker, workshop leader and nationally published writer.

When Mike worked as a Global Marketing Specialist at the top of the World Trade Center, one random morning he decided to take a later train. The day was September 11, 2001 and his choice ultimately saved his life. The rest of his business team and many more colleagues and friends were not as fortunate. The events of that tragic day served as a shocking WakeUp Call, leading Mike towards his calling to inspire and guide others in creating possibility in their own lives and businesses without wasting another precious day.

Now Mike is a certified life coach and committed to serving as a Human WakeUp Call™ for others around the world. His unique approach and rare insight combines the power and directness of coaching to empower his clients to break free of their complacency, limiting beliefs and inactivity. He pushes them to overcome the challenges that inevitably arise, to stay focused and reach their goals.

An energetic and passionate professional, Mike has provided motivational speaking presentations to corporate and academic audiences, and community and nonprofit groups including Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, the Interfaith Housing Association, and Guardian Life Insurance Company. Mike received his MBA in Management and Marketing from New York University and his BBA in Management and Finance from SUNY Albany. He is a certified life coach, trained by the Life Purpose Institute (LPI) of San Diego.

Mike’s experience provides the insight to help clients tackle the broad array of challenges they often face. His career has included business strategy and planning, new product development, client retention and loyalty, and product launch and support, for major global players such as American Express, Marsh and McLennan and JP Morgan Chase. His strong client orientation and entrepreneurial drive has been demonstrated as an international consultant, a customer loyalty leader, and as a founder of two independent small business startups. He is also a popular guest lecturer for New York University.

Mike is ready to bolster your company by providing your top executives with a powerful, life-changing, success-oriented WakeUp call of their own.

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What People Say About Noah:

"Engaging Noah as a personal coach is one of the best decisions I have made for myself. Noah helped me set challenging, realistic goals for completing my graduate degree while working. He set me up for repeated success rather than burnout. In addition, we identified a process for hitting my goals that dealt head on with things that had been challenging for me in the past. Noah is an exceptional coach."

Tammy Winnie
Sr. Manager, Global Organization Effectiveness
Fortune 500 Company - Consumer Products
 

 

What People Say About Kathy:

"Kathy's intuitive nature gives her an amazing ability to get to the heart of any issue. She is passionate about helping others and it is evident in her unique approach to coaching. I have watched myself transform over the last several months working one-on-one with Kathy and know that I could not be doing what I am doing today without her continual guidance, wisdom and support. I am grateful for what she has helped me to achieve and look forward to what is to come.”

TT.R., Fairfield, CT
 

 

What People Say About Donna:

"Our company was struggling with the transition from becoming a chaotic company that just 'gets things done' to becoming a company that has a streamlined process for how to service our customers both external and internal. Donna came in as a Coach and very quickly became the leader our company needed to assist us in this transition. Her experience, coupled with great soft people skills and an ability to move things forward, allowed us to make great leaps forward in a short time. Any company looking to improve should consider having Donna be part of their team."

 Scott Hill, CEO, CIK Enterprises LLC
Voted Indiana's #1 Best Place to Work
 

 

What People Say About Stephanie:

"Like a lost child finding his parents among a huge crowd"- that’s what Haber CC has done for me! Never before in my 25 years career have I felt so lost as when the mortgage crisis hit home nearly 10 months ago. What to do next, personal concerns, mood swings...............like I said, LOST! Haber CC helped interpret my thoughts, prioritize my action steps, and kept me focused at a time that has been very difficult for me. A true professional friend and a time that I most needed it.”

 Greg Cassidy, NY
 

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