About Your Coaches:
Sheila Kutner and Susan Sussman

Sheila Kutner

Sheila Kutner is President of a Coaching/Consulting firm focusing on Transformational, Organizational and Professional Development, with an emphasis on Communication. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) the Global Certifying Body for all Coaches. Sheila maintains a thriving international coaching practice and has developed and presented communication seminars and speeches for hundreds of businesses and organizations regionally and nationally since 1983. Her services include one-one coaching, group coaching, and facilitation of communication in every venue with an emphasis on conflict management.

Sheila facilitates the ICF accredited FastTrack Coach training program created in partnership with her colleague - Sue Sussman. She is one of a team of 12 coaches selected by a Legal Consulting firm coaching lawyers, is a licensed facilitator for the team building Exercise "Gold of the Desert Kings" created by a retired Nabisco CEO, and is a speaker for Vistage, an organization that serves CEO needs nationally.

Sheila is a member of the ICF, the Philadelphia Area Coaches Association PACA, the American Society of Training and Development, Meeting Planners International and the Philadelphia and Delaware County Chambers of Commerce.

Sheila served as the President of the Board of the Arden Theatre Company for five years, was producing director for PCS Theater for three years, and is presently President of the Board of Hedgerow Theatre.

Her coaching clients: Executives, CEOs, Doctors, Lawyers, IT Experts, Corporate Managers, Support Staff, Human Resource Professionals, Sales Managers, Entrepreneurs, and Therapists.

A partial list of her clients includes: ARCO - Pharmaceutical Companies including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Johnson and Johnson, Aventis. Astra Zeneca, and Wyeth Ayerst - Hospitals - Dupont - Insurance Companies including Independence Blue Cross and National Liberty - MCI Corporation - Legal firms including Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC, Altman Weill, Inc. - The Vanguard Group - marketing companies including Dorland Sweeney Jones - entrepreneurs, and many more.

What clients say they unearth from coaching with Sheila: "Insight, empowerment, self-awareness, communication and leadership skills, the ability to conduct powerful conversations with productive and healthy outcomes, freedom, direction, perspective, strength, confidence, security, more money, more time, more fun, less stress, less suffering, less confusion, status, respect, self-worth, leverage, peace of mind, security, inspiration, positive results toward their goals."

• B.S. in Special Education and Theatre Arts from Temple University.
• Professionally Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Trainer/Educator on Non-Violation Communication
• Certified E.Q. Trainer
• Wife, Mother, Grandparent of 5 exquisite grandsons
• Co-Creator with Susan Sussman, MCC of ICf's approved FastTrack Coach Training Program

Susan Sussman M.Ed.

M.Ed., Temple University, Educational Psychology
Master Certified Coach, International Coach Federation

Susan Sussman, MCC has been a professional coach since coaching became a professional discipline: she served on every committee that established the International Coach Federation (ICF) as the global certifying body for all coaches, was among the first group of coaches credentialed by the ICF, has been an ICF assessor of credentialing applicants for over 8 years, and was a founding member of the Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance. Susan has been coaching for more than a dozen years and training coaches for more than 10 years.

Susan has worked tirelessly for the last decade helping to put the field of coaching on the map by writing, speaking, and, through her training programs, assisting hundreds of coaches to launch their own careers. She has trained coaches all over the world and has been instrumental in helping establish coaching programs in a number of countries. Susan is passionate about providing the highest quality training to effective, caring coaches committed to co-creating clients' "possibility".

She has coached hundreds of clients from all walks of life throughout her career. She has had the opportunity to work with"

• all types of professionals (doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, etc.)
• all levels and types of business people & business owners/entrepreneurs
• a variety of artists (opera singers, violinists, fine & graphic artists, actors)
• clergy of every stripe (ministers, rabbis and priests)
• individuals in every imaginable business and life transition
• people who want to create change in their lives or find ways to adapt gracefully to changes coming from outside

Susan develops her clients' and coach training participants' ability to see things from a variety of perspectives, listen for both what is and isn't being said, move back and forth between the big picture and the details, and challenge their own assumptions and limiting beliefs about people and the way the world works.

Susan is also an active mentor coach, assisting clients to successfully become credentialed by ICF; and, as a licensed facilitator of the Get Clients Now! Program, can assist clients not only in building their coaching skills but in building their coaching businesses as well.

Susan Sussman lives in Lafayette Hill, PA with her dog, Chloe and her parrot, Peanut. She has two married children and two grandchildren.