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Embracing Change in Troubling Times
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FACILITATORS
Taunee Besson
 Taunee
Besson is president of Career Dimensions, Inc., a consulting firm founded in 1979 that works
with individual and corporate clients in career/life coaching, career transition, talent management and small business issues.
"One of the smartest minds in the career field,"
according to Tony Lee, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal's Online Vertical Network, where Taunee has been an award-winning
columnist since 1985 for CareerJournal.com. She has also continued her collaboration with Tony as the senior columnist for CareerCast.com, a career
management website launched in January, 2009. Having authored three editions each of the Wall Street Journal’s Premier Guide to Resumes and
Premier Guide to Cover Letters and a variety of articles for trade and business journals, Taunee has been quoted numerous times in The
Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Business Week, Time and Smart Money among others.
In
2000, she and Gerry Myers co-founded Advisory Link, Inc., which helps organizations increase their number of female employees, managers, executives
and customers by developing and facilitating external Women's Advisory Boards and Exec-U-Link mastermind groups. Out of 470 entries, the firm was
named as a 2005 Stevie Award Finalist for Women Entrepreneurs in both the "Women Helping Women" and "Community Involvement Program of the Year"
categories.
From 1995-2008 Taunee served her profession as a
director of the International Board of the Association of Career Professionals International, past president of the organization's USA Board and
past president of its Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter. She is also the founder and chair of ACP’s International Advisory Board of distinguished
professionals from around the world. Asserting her commitment to professionalism, she also served from 2001-2007 on the International Board of the
Institute for Career Certification International and the task force to evaluate and update her field's certification process.
An alumna of Leadership Dallas, Besson has worked
on community nonprofit boards and committees for the past 25 years including Girls Inc., Women's Center of Dallas, Girl Scouts, Dallas Women's
Foundation and Mortarboard, among others. She was also a member of the Leadership America Class of 2003.
In 1994, the Dallas Chapter of the American
Society for Training and Development chose her as its "Professional of the Year". In 1999, Alpha Gamma Delta, a 200,000 member fraternal
organization, named her as one of three "Distinguished Citizens" at its biannual international convention. Her Wall Street Journal columns
were selected for the “Ten Best Articles Award” in 1990, 1994 and 1997. She has been a Career Management Fellow of the International Board of Career
Management Certification since 1995.
“LifespaceSM
has moved me toward my goals faster than any other coaching process. I definitely want to offer it to my clients.”
Life Coach and former HR Director
“Twenty years ago I did my first LifespaceSM.
I’ve been using it ever since to help me focus when my life feels out of control.
Fortune 100 Marketing Consultant
“When I came to you for coaching, my life was in turmoil. I was
recently divorced, unhappy in my career and in tremendous need of figuring out where to go forward with my life. The LifespaceSM process
guided me through an emotional mind dump. I was able to capture all of the people, activities, things and concerns on one piece of paper and
evaluate them objectively. By the time I left your office, I had hope for a new, more satisfying career/life.
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Jane Warren
 Jane Warren
has always been curious about people’s thoughts and feelings; why they make certain decisions and what it takes for them to change. While having many
teachers along the way, she has found life itself to be most educational. She has survived divorce, breast cancer, being a single Mom and taking a 30% pay
cut to keep the company she was working for out of bankruptcy!
She
started her education at Brown University earning a BA in Psychology. After graduation, she joined American Airlines as a flight attendant. Her
commitment to developing her personal skills continued. Jane sold advertising for a woman’s magazine and became their highest-level salesperson. She
was certified by the Carlson Learning Corporation to be a trainer in personal assessment and skill building, then started her own training business
for small-medium size companies.
After the flight attendant strike at American,
there were large numbers of disgruntled employees, who were fearful and concerned about their future. The training department put together a program
called “Moving On”, which consisted of facilitators, including Jane, who traveled the country and meet with employees to answer their questions,
assist with their grief process and give them support during this chaotic time. In her career with American Airlines, she enhanced her communication
skills, time management, organization abilities, stress management and creativity. She was trained to listen to people’s complaints and come up with
win-win solutions.
In 1993, Jane started her business
LifeScriptingSM, facilitating groups and workshops. She later
became a certified life coach and has coached clients and taught seminars on: Improving Relationships, Mastering Communication Skills, LifeScriptingSM,
How Limiting Beliefs Are Hindering Your Success and Designing The Life You Desire.
“Jane works with you using a good balance of “heart and head”. She has soundness of spirit that doesn’t
smother you with non-reality ideas or feelings.”
"I wanted to thank you for your programs, which have given me so many new tools in which to more effectively live my life. As
you know I’ve been a seeker and continuous learner for thirty years and have still found I have needed something more in order to create specific goals and
dreams, which have been alluding me."
"The processes you
provided have facilitated
better clarification of the vision for my life and many specific techniques you’ve taught me, I use on a daily basis. Over the past year I’ve attracted a
new career in life coaching and now have over 50 clients internationally and am finding this is something, which allows me to use my intuition, spiritual
wisdom and business/life experiences. All kinds of new opportunities are continuing to unfold. Your introduction of the concepts associated with the Law of
Attraction has been tremendously helpful and something I’ve shared with my clients and friends. I now begin each day in gratitude and find myself at peace
even when there are challenges around me. That’s a huge piece and I thank you helping me to discover my own power to create that at any time and in any
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Leia Francisco
 Leia
Francisco, M.A., CJF, has been a life and executive coach for more than 15 years, helping hundreds of individuals clarify their goals and achieve deeper
satisfaction in their lives and work. Leia has been certified through the International Coach Federation and trained by William Bridges as a consultant for
businesses and individuals navigating significant change. She has a deep and broad background in developing initiatives and training for women. For twenty
years she was the director of The Office for Women in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She also helped establish the first SBA-funded Women’s Business Center
in Northern Virginia. Francisco has been a keynote speaker and presenter on women in the workplace, and her work has appeared on a number of television and
radio affiliates.
Leia’s career management strategies are cited in
the groundbreaking book, Reinventing the Corporation, and her work has been nationally recognized through the U.S. Women’s Bureau Honor Roll
and the National Associations of Commissions for Women. Her speaking and writing about women’s financial education have earned her leadership awards
in various parts of the country. Leia was the founder and President of The Women’s Alliance for Financial Education. Believing in servant
leadership, she has been active on many boards, including Leadership Fairfax, the Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board, Big Brothers and Big
Sisters and the National Association of Poetry Therapy.
She is also a writer and certified journal facilitator. She
co-authored a career planning text, Crossroads, and has written numerous articles about women and careers for publications like The
Washington Post and currently writes a workplace column for a newspaper in Texas, In 2000, she began her training as a Certified Journal
Facilitator, facilitating expressive writing to help people grow and heal. She is now on the faculty at The Center for Journal Therapy, where she
trains other facilitators. Her newest book Writing through Transitions
combines her passion for coaching and writing.
“Leia is a gifted life
and transition coach with years of rich experience in a variety of settings. For over 30 years, I have worked as an executive coach with hundreds of top
notch professionals in the field and can say that I know of none better than Leia. She is intelligent and compassionate and has a rare ability to get to the
core priorities of a client and then identify creative options. Her coaching credentials are richly supplemented by her years in positions of responsible
leadership and her own successful transitions.”
David Borchard, Ed.D.
Career Coach and
author of
Will the Real You Please Stand Up?
www.VisionTrac.com
“The timing of Writing
through Transitions and this webinar couldn’t be better. So many face transitions that they didn’t anticipate, and they struggle with how to deal with
unwanted change. In Writing through Transitions, Leia proves to be a clear and powerful guide that can help the reader/writer learn from this time of
uncertainty.”
Rick Maurer
Author, Beyond the
Wall of Resistance
www.beyondresistance.com
“I
have used Leia’s coaching services for two years now. She has guided me through the creation of a new major program in my business. Not only has her
coaching been instrumental in the success of my program launch, but I have peeled off unproductive attitudes through her artful questions and insightful
observations. Thanks in large part to Leia’s coaching, I experience myself in the midst of a paradigm shift.”
Kathleen Adams, LPC
CEO, Center for
Journal Therapy,Inc.
www.journaltherapy.com |
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