John brings to CIC over 31 years of diversified experience in the corporate and private sectors, with a heavy emphasis in organizational and individual systems, behavior and development; life, career, change and business coaching; performance improvement, psychology, and group/system dynamics.  He has a history in designing, facilitating and conducting customized programs in all facets of personal/work development and interaction. John has worked in both the investment world and the field of human behavior and development.  He is the creator of CALM Coaching™ , a "systemic, stress sensitive" approach to Career and Life Management, which respectfully empowers individual, teams and organizations to discover, clarify and met their goals, increase their performance and thrive on the learning's found in change and transformation. Moving beyond "stuck," blockages, stagnation, and creating positive entropy, growth and desired outcomes. His professional roles include: coach, mentor, facilitator, consultant, trainer, and teacher to individuals, groups, businesses, and organizations. John's focus includes: working with clients to meet their business, financial, emotional, interpersonal, and personal needs through self-empowerment.

KNOWLEDGE AREAS

• Executive/Corporate/Personal Coaching
• Stress Management (organizational/individual)
• Organization & Personal Change
• Work/Life Balance
• Time Management
• Smoking Cessation, as  featured in the August 2004 "Best Of" issue of Chicago Magazine.
• Leadership Skills
• Goal Setting and Achievement
• Team Building
• Communication Skills
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
• Creativity Enhancement
• Sales Training
• Behavioral Finance
• DISC & Inscape Publishing Products
• Psychology/Counseling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Executive/Performance Coach, Consultant, and Psychotherapist-Chicago/Mt. Prospect, IL  1993-Present

President/CEO-Center for Internal Change, Inc. (CIC), established in 1994

Top Award Winning Authorized Inscape Publishing Distributor and Consultant since 2001

Created CIC as a vehicle to deliver psychotherapy & coaching, while minimizing dependency on the therapist or coach, thus enhancing client empowerment.  A coaching component developed as a natural extension of the intra-personal, interpersonal, and organizational focus on change, cognitive technologies and systems thinking.

Created CALM (Career and Life Management) Coaching™

Many private clients works was futures traders, consultants, sales professional, consultants, other coaches and therapist.  John has been referred to as "The Coach's' Coach, the Therapists' Therapist, the Coach's' Therapist and the Therapists' Coach."

Mission: “Creating Change Through Self-Empowerment.”

Coached, facilitated and conducted: groups, seminars, trainings, and workshops. Provided consulting,

  assessing, and counseling individuals/teams/groups in various organizational settings and in private practice.

Provided services in-person, and by phone, fax, and e-mail

Developed hospital programming and marketed and delivered the programs at American Day Treatment Centers in Barrington, Illinois and Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn , Illinois for their Psychiatric Day Programs.

   Investment Advisor/Stockbroker-Chicago, IL  1983-1993

Associate Vice President-Bear Stearns & Co.              

Associate Vice President & Insurance Coordinator-Mesirow & Co.

Account Executive & Municipal Bond Coordinator-Dean Witter

• Created marketing and sales campaigns to establish a clientele, resulting in over 500 accounts within my first two years in business

• Associate Vice President after two years in the business

• Managed money, advised on individual, pension, and corporate investment strategies

• Provided financial counseling, education, retirement planning, personalized financial and emotional support

• Developed and presented over 100 investment seminars to corporate, professional, and public groups

• Office coordinator for various packaged investment products

Financial Futures Industry Experience-Chicago, IL  1980-1983

• Director Stock-Index Futures, Floor Manager, Educator, Arbitrage Phone Clerk-Dellsher Investments

• Developed and delivered presentations on S&P 500 Stock Index Futures and futures arbitrage

• Financial Futures Floor Trade-Chicago Board of Trade

EDUCATION

Masters Degree, Focus: Executive Coaching

Loyola University's Center for Organizational Development-Chicago, IL 2001

• Member: CORD Consulting Group-Student operated consulting concern.

Masters Degree, Focus: The Psychology of Human & Systems Behavior,

Loyola University School of Social Work-Chicago, IL 1993

• Graduate Assistant and recipient of the Haggerty Scholarship

• Executive Officer, Graduate Student Association

• Selected to present Graduate Research Project to facility and student body

Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Lawrence University-Appleton, WI 1979

Recent Presentations

•CALM Coaching™-Career and Life Management Coaching, and 60 Minutes to CALM Chicago, IL 2004-2007   Various Investment Banking firms, under contract.

•CALM Coaching™-Career and Life Management Coaching, Chicago, IL April 2002

   Loyola University of Chicago, Center for Organizational Development

•“50 Minutes To CALM™-A Systems Approach to Stress & Work/Life Balance,”Chicago, IL July 2001

   Presented to 275 participants at Discover Financial Service's annual Business Technology Conference

•  “Team Building With Leadership,” Chicago, IL July 2000

    Co-facilitated this three-day workshop with Diane Wilson

•   “Adventures in Attitudes,” Chicago, IL, February 2000

      Co-facilitated this three-day workshop with Diane Wilson

•   “The Nature of Stress, Its Toll on Staff and Executives,” August 1999

     Presented with James McGettigan Ph. D. at Walden University’s Applied Management & Decision Sciences Program Colloquia