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MARGARET
MAAT - "Strategizing
Breakthroughs"
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 Margaret Maat has 22 years
experience as a coach, organizational development professional and business
strategist. She has a specialized expertise in organizational change and
the impact of downsizing. She has worked with managers in the aftermath of
mergers, layoffs and restructurings as they adjust to new strategic directions, rebuild employee morale and deal with new
external and internal partners.
Margaret coaches
executives and entrepreneurs as they launch new business ventures,
jumpstart sales initiatives and plan infrastructure changes to support new strategic
initiatives. Having begun her career in the software industry, she is
especially effective as a coach in the high-tech sector. Her understanding
of technology and the technological mindset gives her an edge in coaching
managers in high-tech firms in interpersonal and organizational dynamics.
She also helps high-tech companies create better partnerships between
technicians and sales & marketing professionals.
Margaret's coaching
clients report increased business, fewer organizational crises and a more
strategic approach to the situations they face. "She makes me
think" is a common comment, as well as "she asks great
questions." Margaret excels at "on the fly" interventions
that bring clarity to challenging issues. She has also created a number of
tools that help managers and leaders manage their businesses more
effectively, with more integration between the company's face to the public
and its own internal processes.
Margaret is a popular public speaker and facilitator for
conferences and professional associations, including the Conference Board,
National ASTD Leadership Conference, NJ State SHRM Conference, Northern NJ
ASTD, IT Training Managers Conference, NY Metro ASTD, NJ ISPI and New
England Data Educators. She is a past president of the New York Metro
American Society for Training and Development. She is currently a member of
the International Association of Coaches and the Association of
Psychological Type.
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BETH
WILLIAMS - "Making
Connections; Getting Results"
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 Beth Williams brings 18 years
of sales, marketing, management and human development experience to the
coaching and training profession. Her corporate experience in the
Advertising and Publishing industries includes sales and management
positions with Jordan Case and McGrath, The NJ Star-Ledger, Newspapers
First (a national sales organization for Knight Ridder, Times Mirror and
other independent publishing firms). Over the years she has served a
diverse client base in the financial, media, travel, cosmetic, high tech and recruitment industries. She was awarded
the top new business sales producer in 1995 and 1996.
As an independent
marketing, sales and training consultant Beth has served the new media
industry, including Recruitment Marketplace, Zip2.com, Careerpath.com and
AdStar.com. These assignments included sales and marketing strategy,
training and coaching, project management and client sales conference
planning. She has also worked for QED, a training and organizational
development firm, where she assisted in the development of a marketing
program and planned the 1998 Conference Board, Human Resources conference.
Beth's coaching
strength lies in her ability to integrate personal development with
business results. Her clients report improved bottom line, increased sales
ability, greater organizational and managerial influence and clarity about
goals. She is a skilled relationship manager who gets at the real issues
and brings great insight into conflict management situations.
Beth's clients
appreciate her ability to create a judgement-free
environment where they can share openly yet receive challenging messages
that promote growth.
Beth is a certified
practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and a distributor for the
DISC assessments. She uses these tools to help companies make better hiring
decisions, orient new hires to the organization and strengthen
communication among supervisors, peers and direct reports and other team
members.
She has a BA in
Communications and Marketing from Boston
College and has completed graduate
courses in Training and Organizational Development at the New School.
She is currently a member of the International Association of Coaches and
the International Listening Association. Beth is a volunteer for the Girl
Scout Council of the Greater Essex and Hudson Counties
and on the Board of Directors of First Congregational Church of Montclair,
NJ.
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BECKY
NELSON - "Connecting
Knowledge to Action"
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 Becky Nelson serves on the program
design team. She brings to the team 25 years’ experience in designing
learning programs for small and large group audiences and 19 years’
experience in management and organizational development. She has served as
a coach for 20 years, including work with multi-cultural mentoring.
Becky has specialized expertise in strategic planning, change initiatives,
leadership development, skills assessment, adult learning strategies, and
personal growth. She has skills in research, writing, editing, and training.
She has extensive experience in the non-profit sector as well as experience
in small business ownership and management.
Becky particularly enjoys the process by which people learn and the
challenge of creating courses that meet the needs of specific audiences.
She works hard to make Forward Focus courses creative and challenging.
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LAURA FRIEDMAN - "Reaching Potential; Producing Exceptional Results"
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 Laura Friedman is a business coach who helps leaders realize their full potential. She coaches her clients to evaluate leadership potential, develop high potentials, recruit and retain talent and improve processes within an organization.
Laura began her corporate career at a major health care company in NJ where she held various management positions within Learning and Development. She specialized in evaluating learning techniques, competency management and strategic planning. The world of Learning and Development was slowing migrating to alternative ways of learning, including coaching, which opened the door to a career in coaching. Over the last number of years, Laura has been able to apply her Organizational Development and Learning and Development skills to her coaching practice.
Laura's clients love her coaching style. She exhibits a level of integrity with her clients that encourages them to trust her. Her relationship with clients also encourages accountability. Clients know that Laura will expect them to make steady, consistent progress toward reaching their goals.
Laura has proven results working with both business owners and executives in Executive, Leadership, Middle Manager and New Supervisor development, Leadership and Organizational Development, Entrepreneurial Start Ups, Effective recruiting using proven job match techniques and assessments, Pipeline development, Building effective teams, Performance and process improvement and Improving customer service and production.
Laura earned her BA in English with a concentration in Journalism from the State University of New York at New Paltz. After 16 years in the Learning and Development field, Laura became a certified coach with a large international business coaching franchise and has tapped into all of her skills to mentor leaders in small, mid sized and large companies to productivity and profitability with exceptional results.
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