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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.