Pam Pfeiffer Develops the Empowerment Society
After graduation and certification from iPEC, Pamela Pfeiffer took on a major project in developing ESUSA, the Empowerment Society of the United States of America, a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to assisting the women of the U.S. Armed Forces. Pamela's passion and drive manifested this dream from the ground up. A natural networker, Pam used all of her coaching skills to pull together the knowledge, support, and energy of many other coaches to create the organization. Once there was a solid foundation for the organization, built on clarity of purpose, Pam formulated a five year business plan based on goals and dreams that would help her maintain daily fun and fulfillment, while serving a wonderful cause at the same time. Besides successfully founding and now running the organization (and doing extensive coaching as part of its mission), Pam remains one of iPEC's most energetic and lovable graduates. We at iPEC wish her continued success.
Randy Nathan -- From Social Work and Non-Profits to Teen Coaching
Randy was first introduced to the world of life coaching when he was searching the internet for baseball coaching drills. Shortly thereafter, he came across an ad in the newspaper, no bigger than a business card, and Randy's life was changed forever. He found iPEC Coaching, he found empowerment coaching and, most importantly, he found his calling. The appeal of life coaching was too hard for him to resist. He enrolled in the iPEC coach training program, not knowing how dramatically it would change every aspect of his life. Two weeks after completing Module 1, Randy gave notice to his employer and started his own coaching business. Having a Masters Degree in Social Work and having spent 15 years in the non-profit sector, this was the biggest and best risk he had ever taken. Randy's passion has always been helping teens and youth. With this in mind and his incredible sense of enthusiasm, he started YPCoach.
Coach Randy (as his teens affectionately refer to him) offers a full service coaching practice for adolescents and young adults between the ages of 13 to 23. Within 8 months, Randy completed iPEC's program, graduated as a Certified Empowerment Coach, was already working with 15 clients, and was speaking at numerous locations around the Tri-State area -- including schools, camps, houses of worship, and youth groups. Randy has developed a youth empowerment program called the LEAP program, and is the host of a internet radio show on the Progressive Radio Network. As a result of his coaching abilities and achievements, iPEC offered Randy the opportunity to be trained to become an iPEC instructor. He is working harder than ever and loving every moment of it!
When individuals ask Randy whether or not they can make a living as a coach, he quickly tells them that they can do it. Not because he did it, but because they really can do it!
Sue Nodine - Trainer and Mentor Leads Organizational Change
Sue Nodine completed the iPEC program and received her Certification in August, 2002. She later became a trainer for iPEC and supervised and mentor coached students in the program. After six months of coaching experience, she was ready when opportunity knocked. Sue was invited to attend a coaching seminar at a company that had made a decision to replace the annual Performance Review with a program called Catalytic Coaching. The seminar was to inform the management and supervisor levels of the decision to embrace coaching. Sue asked who would be working with personnel to ensure the program's success. The CEO asked if Sue could do that for them and she replied "Yes, I can!"
The result: The company has gone from 150 employees to 212 employees with aggressive growth planned for the second half of this year. A strong commitment to coaching (and to Sue) from the top remains, and they are very pleased with the changes in the culture. Sue continues as an iPEC trainer, and she is passionate about coaching individuals, mentor coaching iPEC students, and helping others to learn to communicate in the language of coaching.
Rene Rioux Gets Fast Start
According to Rene, as a result of the confidence she had from the training received at iPEC, she was able, before graduation to establish a successful full-time coaching business. She broke the iPEC record, at that time, for most paying clients before graduation with 18 (the previous record, held by Lynn Goldberg was 16)! The new record has been set at 21 by Madeline Estrada -- featured below. In addition, she was featured in a health and fitness magazine that published an article about her business. The response was so great that the magazine invited Rene to be a regular contributor to its monthly publication. Since then, another magazine has decided to feature her. Rene is a natural networker and loves "getting out there."
The result: Her business is already yielding referrals for more personal and professional clients. She states, "I haven't even begun to touch the surface of the opportunities available in coaching. This is so exciting and rewarding! Thank you iPEC!!!!" We say, thank you, Rene, and keep going strong.
Ellie Weiss - Client Success!
Even though our coaches send us client success stories all the time, this particular client success was interesting enough to add to the website because it demonstrates how coaching can assist the type of client who, feeling down, would normally seek therapy. And without any therapeutic intervention, the coaching process helped turn his life around. Note: It is important to realize that coaching is not a replacement for therapy. However, there are many times when people seek therapy when they could really benefit more from coaching.
From Ellie: "I have a client who built a very successful business from scratch. He told me that he hated his life and his job and could no longer walk through the door of his business. At our first session it had been a while since he put in an appearance at his shop. After only 2 months of working together, he was going to work 2 - 3 days a week. After 3 months he was back at work enjoying it completely and felt excited again about being there. The bottom line was burnout. He had forgotten to allow himself to have fun at work and to have a balanced life. Thru our coaching relationship he found himself again, and gave himself permission to find the joy in his life. He is still a weekly client and continues to grow in many ways of self acceptance and self love and continues to maintain a successful business."
Madeline Estrada's Home Makeover Catapults Practice
Prior to attending Module I of her iPEC certified coach training program, Madeline Estrada had the opportunity to appear on a home makeover show on HGTV. Ironically, this show was hosted by a Life Coach who appeared on Oprah. In conversation, he told Madeline that he initially received all of his clients solely through word of mouth and referrals. For Madeline, this information resonated with her at a high level, as she envisioned her practice to be filled in the same manner. Keeping that intention and using this approach, she was able to attain an amazing iPEC record-breaking achievement of getting 21 paying clients before graduating!
According to Madeline, she often felt as if she were an instrument, whereby someone or something worked through her to bring about miracles in her life. She stays passionately involved and is successful in many communities (she is a Reiki practitioner in New York and New Jersey, a yogi, a full-time graphic designer, actor, model, and artist, to name a few), and her connection and love for these people helped her grow her clientele and business. Her clients have commented on how her authenticity, credibility in the community and tremendous joy for life attracted them to her instantly. Madeline's accomplishments and achievements have always happened with effortless ease, allowing her to believe that continual positive thinking, acceptance, detachment, surrender and openness to receive have helped her in all aspects of life.
Madeline believes her success as a Life Coach also comes from the exceptional support she received from the staff, trainers, classmates, and graduates who are part of iPEC's loving and supportive community. Her connection to them remains deep-rooted and if her path with iPEC hadn't crossed, she feels she wouldn't be who and where she is today.
