Quotes from major publications:

"Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life." CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"People who want to stand out at work or face a job crisis increasingly turn to career coaches."          THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"Coaches aren't just for sports: They goad you, guide you on the road to success."                        SEATTLE TIMES

"Coaching can certainly help you strengthen your sense of self-worth, focus on your goals - and get there, fast." THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Coaches provide powerful professional insights. My personal advice: Get one." CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"People are looking to coaches as sounding boards and motivators who can offer a fresh perspective on career and life problems -- but without the conflicting agendas of a spouse...or even a mentor." FORTUNE

"These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals." CNN.com

"If you're thinking of overhauling your career to achieve a more fulfilling life, consider joining the estimated 100,000 Americans who annually enlist the help of some 4,000 personal coaches each year." MONEY

"The present research demonstrated the dramatic effects of one-on-one executive coaching as a transfer of training tool...There are a number of explanations for the dramatic increase in productivity resulting from coaching." PUBLIC PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

"Most leaders like executive coaching because: they receive direct one-on-one assistance from someone they respect; they don't have to leave their offices; it fits their timeframes and schedules; they can see fast results, if they're dedicated." TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

"Inside every successful business person is an even more ambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs a little help." AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

"Good coaching affords 'protean learning' for executives, resulting in greater self-knowledge, new perspectives, improved performance and greater adaptability." ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS

"Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlike psychotherapy which delves into patterns of the past, concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals." TIME

"As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths." SAUSALITO.net

"Regardless of how you define success...professional coaching offers the chance to visualize your highest goals and stay on track to achieve them." CENTRAL NEW YORK BUSINESS JOURNAL

"Today's managers, professionals and entrepreneurs are hiring coaches to help them with time management, a change in career or balancing their work and personal lives." FORTUNE

"Coaching is not about the past or figuring out why and how life got so complicated or overwhelming. It is about moving forward on the things that matter most to you, dissolving barriers and blocks to your own success, and designing a life that you love.  SAUSALITO.net

"Coaching relationships...are helping small-business owners improve their business skills, recalibrate their approaches to management, and, often, totally reboot and rebalance themselves as leaders on the job and in the home and community."  NATION'S BUSINESS

"Coaches can help entrepreneurs get their personal lives in order, which can go a long way toward solving what may have looked like purely business problems." NATION'S BUSINESS

"A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps you see your strengths and weaknesses and use them to accomplish your goals." MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL STAR-TRIBUNE

"Using [coaching] instead of sending executives and managers to seminars two or three times a year can be more beneficial to ongoing career development, not to mention less expensive." PC WEEK

"If you want to build your business and at the same time have a rewarding personal life, you call a coach." DENVER POST

"Want to get even further ahead?...What you need is a coach, your own personal motivator. They're not just for top-ranked tennis players anymore." MIAMI HERALD

"The benefits of coaching appear to win over even the most cynical clients within just a few weeks.: INDUSTRY WEEK

"A coach may be the guardian angel you need to rev up your career" MONEY

"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management - to make the most of an organization's valuable resources." HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

"The thing's I've gained are worth much more [than the monthly fee]...This is an investment. I'm designing my life. Coaching has given me an energy to put more of the things I want in my life. I can now focus my downtime, which used to be wasted time."  Citibank manager

"I thought she would work with the sales staff and make them wonderful. The first thing I learned was, 'oops, we have to go back and work on the leader." THE OREGONIAN

"I could have used my training budget to send my sales people to seminars. But I thought this would give us the ability to break out of old habits." THE OREGONIAN

"After all, don't we all benefit from encouragement, objectivity and structure in our lives?" SAUSALITO.net

"I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders." Wayne Calloway, Chairman, Pepsico Inc.

"Metropolitan Life Financial Services offered an intensive coaching program to part of its retail sales force....Productivity...increased by an average 35%, while 50% identified new markets to develop...[and] retained all of the sales people who had the coaching." The Rowell Consulting Group

"When you understand the definition of coaching, it seems that everyone should have one!" SAUSALITO.net

"[A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist."   THE BUSINESS JOURNAL