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LifeBound Partners

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars - This organization of academically outstanding college students has over 400,000 members in chapters across the country. They provide career connections, community service opportunities, and much more!

Prentice Hall - As the world’s leading publisher of academic and reference textbooks, Prentice Hall is committed to providing the most innovative, flexible, and powerful educational materials available today. Prentice Hall publishes more than 17 of Carol Carter’s books, including the Keys to Success series.

Resident Assistant: Resident Life Resources for RA’s - This useful website provides over 2,500 pages of programming ideas, games, teambuilders, and advice for Resident Assistants. Be sure to check out their great advice articles and helpful sign ideas!

My College Options - My College Options is a free service that provides the college-bound student with the ability to match his or her personal goals and interests (including academics, co-curricular activities, location preferences, and attitudes) with the offerings of all the accredited post-secondary institutions in the United States. My College Options also provides parents with valuable information on the college selection process.

College Parent Magazine - College Parent Magazine™ is dedicated to providing parents of college and college-bound students complete and reliable information about important issues such as financial aid, admissions, campus life, and much, much more.

The Vincent Curtis Educational Register, 66^th annual edition – Online guide to 1200 accredited K-12 independent schools in the U.S., Canada and Europe, most visited by the publisher, plus helpful articles on testing, what to look for in a private school, the admissions process, boarding school life, international education, learning differences, summer study and more, as well as a free referral service based on the needs and interests of your child.

Campus Advantage

RealWorld University

American School Counselor Association

LifeSkills4TheFuture

National Tutoring Association

Want to become a LifeBound partner? Please feel free to contact us.

Who uses LifeBound?

LifeBound works with a number of instructional coaches and motivation speakers who can assist teachers or come in for special events with students in class or in the auditorium. For semester-long programs, we do pre- and post-assessments on students so that teachers, principals and the administration can gauge the progress of each student academically, emotionally and socially.

LifeBound Gets Results

During the 2007/2008 school year, LifeBound curricula were implemented at a Denver-area high school to help bridge gaps in study skills, postsecondary/career education, and mentoring. The results?

• 88.4% of students surveyed believe they somewhat, strongly or absolutely “improved their reading, writing and note taking skills so that they perform better in class.”
• 85.5% of students surveyed said they somewhat, strongly or absolutely “are doing a better job of setting goals for themselves.”
• 92.1% of students reported that they somewhat, strongly or absolutely “have a clearer vision for their future” or “have a better understanding of how to make the most out of high school.”

Read the full study

More LifeBound Curriculum Studies
The following data represent statistics from two Denver-area high schools that use LifeBound books and curriculum.
[ Middle class high school | At-risk high school ]

LifeBound Seminars

LifeBound Corporate seminars | Student seminars

LifeBound provides corporate training sessions for managers as well as interns. Our sessions are interactive and question-based so that participants can find their own answers and make valuable contributions to the learning of the group. Our clients include financial services, publishing, armed services, telecommunications, non-profit, and business consulting and strategy.

Our customized sessions are based on the individual needs of the client and the goals they are trying to achieve with their staff. We can work with sessions we routinely give to clients or we can develop a program based on your management needs.

We coach corporate clients on how to be more effective at work and in their personal lives, which inevitably impacts life at work. We work with clients weekly or monthly to set goals and discover better ways of leading, managing and innovating.

For information on our one, two, or three day sessions or to arrange corporate coaching, please call toll free at 1-877-737-8510.

Our approach

Each of our corporate sessions is developed with your specific needs in mind. We meet with you to determine your goals and objectives and then we develop an interactive presentation to meet those needs. You collaborate with us to make sure that the session is tailored to your employees and managers. Following the session, we do extensive follow-up to measure the results of the session. We tabulate these results for your and give you feedback from the attendees.

Corporate coaching 

At LifeBound, we have experienced professionals with a track record of success in corporate America who are available a coaches. If you are interested in developing new skills in your employees and managers through a weekly or bi-monthly coaching format, please let us know.

LifeBound Seminars

LifeBound Student seminars | Corporate seminars

Each LifeBound seminar is designed to address a specific time or topic in a student’s life. The four core classes described below address the major challenges and opportunities of the high school and college years.

Making the Most of High School [ sign up ]

This course is designed to help these students value and appreciate their unique gifts and discard self-defeating beliefs so that they can approach their high school years with confidence and enthusiasm. We’ll help them envision the future and plan the steps that will help them find success.
[ Sign up | Textbook ]

I will be more motivated and before I make a decision will think back to these strategies.
–Audrey Dufford

Keys to College Studying [ sign up ]

Most students have no problem getting excited about college. But are they ready for the challenges that they’ll encounter there? Our goal is to help college-bound students prepare to “kick it up a notch” by understanding their studying strengths and weaknesses. We’ll help them understand how studying relates to learning styles and we’ll guide them in creating study plans that will make the most of their individual learning styles.
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Being able to see how my actions and behavior affect other people and how it reflects on me is such a great tool I can use in the future.
–Jeremy Hawn

Keys to Preparing for College [ sign up ]

College-bound students are faced with all the excitement, challenges, and stress of the college application process. Our goal is to help these students enter this exciting time feeling confident that they understand the process – and how to make the system work for them. We’ll guide students in identifying the college selection criteria that are important to them, and we’ll help them understand what the admissions process will require of them. College applications, essays, interviews, and financial aid will be covered. Students will leave feeling ready for the future!
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I think that more than anything else the seminar gave me motivation to succeed in college!
–S. Flohr

Majoring in the Rest of Your Life [ sign up ]

Students should begin planning for a powerful experience as soon as they make the decision to attend college. Our goal is to help students explore their options and define their goals for their college years, so that they’ll be prepared to demonstrate the work experience and leadership skills that the work world requires. We’ll guide them in determining their talents, interests, and abilities and we’ll help them understand how to relate this knowledge to choosing their fields of study and their career paths. Students will set specific goals for the future and learn how to move towards those goals with determination and enthusiasm.
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I feel more confident about college. I re-discovered my interests and goals and am ready to succeed!
–Laura Mason

Get involved with LifeBound

There are many different ways to get involved with LifeBound:

• Internships - Lifebound offers local and remote internships. Interns can work in the summer, during the year or during the winter break. Students who live outside of Denver can arrange summer housing through University of Denver. Internships are often handled through colleges on a for-credit basis. Remote internships are based on specific projects under the tutelage of the LifeBound staff.
  [ Current internships | Download internship application ]
• Student Editorial Board - Our student editors help us to develop our manuscripts and revisions by providing ideas, suggestions for improvement and direction for new books. These students also work with their teachers and their fellow students to get good advice on how to make our books as effective as possible.
• Student Leadership Board - The student leadership board is comprised of  dynamic youth who help us to shape the direction and the services which LifeBound provides to students. Their ideas and their strategies help the managers at LifeBound to provide the most useful services possible to students, parents and teachers.
• Student Entrepreneurs Board - This group of students is interested in owning and running their own businesses. They work with each other to develop their ideas, write business plans, consider sources of funding and make valuable connections with people who can help them refine their ideas.
• Student Photography Board - This group of students is passionate about taking pictures and contributing their design ideas to our books, website and other programs. Students provide the photos for most of our books and we are delighted to help them think through how to launch their own careers - or hobbies - with their photography talent.
• Student Technology Board - This group of students has a keen interest and talent in understanding how technology drives learning and motivation. They think through the most original and cutting-edge ways that students can learn using technology. They also influence and guide LifeBound’s technology strategy.

Coaches and seminar leaders

Carol Carter is founder and president of LifeBound, a Denver-based coaching company that offers individual sessions and seminars for high school students, college students, career seekers, and parents. Before starting LifeBound, Carol Carter was an executive in corporate America for fifteen years, as Publisher of Student Success and Career Development at the college level for Pearson Education. Over the past ten years, she has presented seminars and workshops to both faculty and students and has authored or co-authored 20 books on college and career success. In addition, Carol Carter speaks at national education conferences across the country, and she is regularly featured on television, radio, and in print discussing today’s topics on college and career planning.

Jim Hoops - Jim taught mathematics and coached football for 34 years at the high school and college levels and saw many of his students and student-athletes go on to success at top schools. After a long and successful career in education, Jim went on to found Peak Learning and Performance, a personal coaching organization dedicated to empowering people to reach their full potential. Jim’s present focus is on efforts to empower schools through staff development and building teamwork in educational systems. Jim has worked with many different educational programs, including Colorado Outward Bound, camps for children with diabetes, and a white water rafting program that he developed for students at East High School. He is also a leader of the Bigger Game Project that is bringing personal coaching training into prisons.

Deirdre Dalton-Brodeur - Deirdre is a Business & Career Coach who brings 15 years of her business, marketing, and teaching experience in working with a variety of industries. She has run her own marketing consulting firm primarily in the high-tech arena, and has traveled to over 35 countries. Deirdre combines her eclectic experience and humor with her passion and understanding for her clients’ journey in reaching their dreams. She helps teens and adults discover their Life Purpose, navigate through Career Exploration/Change, or develop their own business toward creating their aspired career and lifestyle. An entrepreneur at heart, Deirdre revels in the successes of her clients in each step toward creating their own fulfillment and freedom!

Mario Williams is a career educator who most recently served for ten years as principal of George Washington High School in Denver, Colorado. Mario is dedicated to the mission of helping young people be successful and competitive in a complex world. He sees quality education as the source for solid values that offer happiness to our youth. He understands that helping educators grow, develop and be accountable for increasing measurable student achievement is a very important part of leadership. His goal in dialogue with teachers, students, parents, school executives and community representatives is to have them leave the conference feeling enhanced by the conversation. Mario believes we want to feel good about our work and experience personal success. Through motivational speaking, coaching and seminar sessions, Mario facilitates meaningful professional development and ensures buy-in to becoming serious and willing learners. His training and consulting experience includes participation in a nine-month investigation of high school reform initiatives and subsequent recommendations on ways to revitalize high schools. By focusing on learning and teaching, Mario has invented new opportunities for ideas, tools and measurements others can use to improve the success of all students. Empowering others to be more productive can build strong loyalties and is a critical element in effective leadership practice. Mario is committed to sharing strategies that can work to transform the culture of any school or district.

Michael Vladeck is a relationship coach who has worked closely with hundreds of teenagers and adults on their personal development and family dynamics. Michael’s passion and purpose is helping individuals create a grounding and authentic relationship to themselves and others, and a clear connection to their own wisdom. Over the past 14 years he has worked as a Course Director and Instructor for Outward Bound Wilderness, as a Teen-Parent mediator, a mountaineering guide, and a teacher in numerous educational systems. Personally, Michael fully overcame 15 years of clinical depression by the age of 19 and completely healed from having an “incurable” form of cancer for eight years by the age of 29. Michael brings a developed sense of how to support teenagers and parents in giving up the kinds of limited thinking and being that no longer serve them, and in helping them create relationships that are mutually open, supportive and lovingly connected.

Cynthia Nordberg - Someone said: “More people fail for lack of encouragement than for any other reason.” Cynthia Nordberg believes so strongly in the power of mentoring as a tool for encouraging youth to succeed, that it has become her life theme. Cynthia graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor of science in Education. Over the next 13 years, she co-directed Chicago Youth Ministries whose mission is to empower economically challenged youth. During that time she received the “Extra Effort” award from an ABC news channel in Chicago for her mentorship with teens in foster care. In 1998, she was selected to work with a team of consultants on a national mentoring project called “Women of Destiny,” sponsored by the youth organization Kids Across America. Today Cynthia is the mother of two school-aged children, a freelance writer, and Lifebound’s publicist. She also volunteers in her community as a youth advocate and is helping to launch an intergenerational mentoring program for women. “I couldn’t have come into my own as a confident woman without the influence of mentors,” says Cynthia. “I’m grateful that Lifebound invites me to pass along that blessing of influence to others.”

Joe Martin has addressed more than 450 student organizations, associations, businesses, colleges and universities, helping hundreds of thousands of students and staff members across the country achieve more, live and serve more passionately, and maximize their leadership potential. Because of his dynamic and highly-energetic presentations, Joe has become recognized as, “One of America’s Top Motivational Professors.”

Joyce Bishop holds a Ph.D. and license in Psychology. She has degrees in Biology, Health Science, and Clinical Psychology and has taught adults for more than twenty years; including Student Success, Human Growth and Development, and Psychobiology courses. She has received a number of honors, such as, Teacher of the Year, and for three years was voted “favorite teacher” by the student body and Honor Society at Golden West College where she is a tenured professor. She has developed workshops and trained faculty in cooperative learning, active learning, multiple intelligences, workplace relevancy, learning styles, authentic assessment, team building, and learning communities.

Gary Izumo is an educator and author. He gives career workshops nationally and has co-authored The Career Tool Kit, 3rd edition, The Career Tool Kit for High School Students, Keys to Workplace Effectiveness, and Keys to Career Success, 2nd edition.

Gary also writes a business column for the Los Angeles Times, Ventura County Edition called Business View. The purpose of his column is to explore everyday career/work challenges that employees and managers face providing practical suggestions on how to effectively address them.

Sarah Lyman Kravits comes from a family of educators and has long cultivated an interest in educational development. As a Jefferson Scholar, she received her B.A. with high honors from the University of Virginia and went on to receive an M.F.A. from Catholic University. She is co-author of Keys to Success, Keys to Effective Learning, Keys to College Studying, The Career Tool Kit, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Study Skills. In her writing work she is in constant contact with instructors and students, investigating the factors that most effectively contribute to student success.

Diane Kessel is a results oriented human resources professional with over 25 years experience in human performance improvement. An independent consultant since 1997, she has brought her corporate and people performance expertise to numerous clients (including InSite Properties, Red Lobster and Vicorp), assisting them with leadership development, executive coaching, team building and strategies for managing change, improving morale and boosting profits.

Hire a LifeBound coach

Are you a frustrated parent who feels like your teenager doesn’t listen to you?

Are you a teacher who is tired of using the same tactics in class?

Are you a professional who knows you could be leading a more effective and more productive life?

In these situations and countless others, coaching can dramatically impact and improve your life. Coaching is based on the premise that we can all improve our lives and be more effective at what we do. Sometimes, we can get stuck by refusing to be open to opportunities and new situations. Coaching is designed to “help you help yourself” become the best person you can be personally and professionally.

Our coaches have excellent track records with students, parents and professionals. We consult with you to set concrete goals and then work closely with you so that you can achieve those goals. Coaching is not set in a structure of dependency. Instead, we recognize that all of the answers lie within you. Coaches help you learn to listen to yourself, remove any barriers that limit you and keep you accountable to your own highest standards. Normally, we work with clients for a year to two years. [ Meet the LifeBound coaches ]

FAQ

How does a coaching session work? Typically, a coaching session lasts for one half-hour and is conducted over the phone about once every two weeks. All of our seminar prices include two mandatory coaching sessions; one before the seminar, and one following. Coaching beyond this is priced as seen below.

Who might be interested in coaching? We encourage individuals from all walks of life interested in actively pursuing their goals and in taking steps to overcome challenges, to consider a coaching package, as outlined below.

Why do you coach over the phone? We find that coaching over the phone allows our clients more flexibility with their busy schedules as well as a greater degree of comfort while discussing tough issues. However, if you feel that face-to-face consulting may be a more effective solution for you, please contact us to make arrangements.

Does it matter where I am? Please note that we are currently coaching students from all over the U.S! This is part of the beauty of phone-coaching. If you or someone you know could benefit from coaching, location is irrelevant! Prior participation in a seminar is not required.

Upcoming LifeBound internship opportunities

Our mission at LifeBound is to help students and career seekers unlock the power of their dreams, access their gifts and talents, overcome their fears and challenges, and create every advantage possible through planning, purpose and determination. An internship with LifeBound incorporates an understanding of real world realities and an individualized set of goals. [ Download internship application ]

Publishing Internship: This intern would work closely with the publisher to develop our books and revisions. Responsibilities would include reading manuscripts, finding and securing reviewers, interpreting their comments and making suggestions for improvement. A successful candidate should have an excellent eye for detail; enjoy reading and putting forth comments in a creative and innovative way. This is a great internship for someone interested in journalism, writing or magazine editing. Liberal arts majors in journalism, English, psychology and sociology are preferred.

Marketing Internship: This intern will be responsible for marketing and promoting LifeBound’s services. There will be a fair amount of live, in-person sales opportunities with some of our clients if the intern displays competence towards sales. The intern will run direct mail campaigns, create brochures, slide shows and work directly with Carol Carter’s publicist in Chicago. A successful candidate should have highly developed interpersonal skills, creativity and attention to detail.

Publicity Internship: This intern would work closely with Carol Carter’s publicist to secure print, TV and radio interviews. Responsibilities would include preparing a publicity package with the publicist, faxing stations and booking events. This intern would also be able to represent the company at national and regional events if the timing works out. An intern should have a strong interest in learning all parts of marketing and sales. Ideally, we would have the intern input on marketing campaigns and other sales activities to give him or her practical experience.

Editorial Internship: This intern should have strong writing, editing and creative thinking skills. A successful candidate should be self-directed, inquisitive and willing to learn. This is an incredible opportunity for someone seriously considering a career in publishing, writing or editorial work.

Additional Internships are Available in Design, Sales and Market Research

E-mail a cover letter and resume to mailto:contact@lifebound.com or fax to 1.877.737.8510. Please include a completed internship application.

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