Mike Jaffe | Ann Mehl | Donna M. Marino | Jill Personius | Kim DiMondo | Theresa Salihu-Musso | Cathy Colangelo | Noah Blumenthal | Kathy Caprino | Stephanie Haber

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...

Mike’s Full Bio A Message from Mike

Kim DiMondo, Weight Loss and Life Visions Coach (Mouse over Kim’s to see her before shot)

Theresa Salihu-Musso

Theresa Salihu-Musso is a coach, speaker, and entrepreneur who has experienced her fair share of personal and professional setbacks! Now celebrating the rebirth of her business, happily remarried, and choosing not to participate in the recent current economic downturn, she is uniquely qualified to share her experiences in her first book, Rebounding. Having motivated groups at Siemens, GE Aviation, and other Fortune 500 companies, personally produced over $195M in real estate, automotive, and personal development/training transactions, the combination of her experience and perspective will inspire you to rebound and create your next best new chapter. As a Crystal Executive, she has recently established one of the southeast’s premier distributorships of Isagenix, the world’s leading nutritional cleansing company, and is embracing sales and team building leadership in network marketing as the growing edge of her personal and professional journey. She is passionate about entrepreneurship and the power of sustainable, internally-created motivaction™.

Her dream is to build Trillium, an integrative health, spa, and empowerment center designed to recharge the world’s thought leaders on a mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional level. Originally from Sterling Heights, MI, she now lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, Rob Musso, and is the proud mother of two school-age children, Arben and Katrina, and stepparent of two beautiful, married daughters, Brandi and Abriel. She enjoys walking, writing, and reading on a daily basis and playing with their family dog, Sadie and feels her most inspired, most expansive self on the shores of Lake Michigan, enjoying the water.

Cathy Colangelo, Life Enhancement and Career Coach

Cathy draws on her prior corporate and life experiences and uses her sense of humor, warm spirit, and empathy to motivate and guide her clients. She is passionate about helping others realize that one of the most empowering things about this life we are given is that it’s never too late to make a change…to make our lives “happen”!

With a degree in Human Resources Management, Cathy thought she finally knew what she wanted to be “when she grew up”. However, she found that something was still missing. After hearing her father voice regrets before he passed away, she recognized that it was up to her to take charge of her life and MAKE it happen, not just let it happen to her.

That’s when she discovered life and career coaching and through the process realized how powerful making conscious decisions can be. Now, as she is making her life happen, she wants to help others realize that they do not have to continue to just “go through the motions”. They can live positive, fulfilling lives.

As a life enhancement and career coach, Cathy helps her clients get clear and specific about what they want and she supports, empowers and challenges them as they set and achieve their goals, make positive changes and begin to live their lives “on purpose”.

Cathy’s specialties include:

• Guiding clients to discover their unique skills and talents and using them to enhance their daily lives and/or careers
• Incorporating self-care into daily living
• Navigating Career Paths
• Getting “Unstuck” & Moving Forward
• Taking Action – Setting & Attaining Goals
• Creating Resumes and Cover Letters

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, Professional Women’s Empowerment Coach

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
   

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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