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Jan Berg

Jan Berg

"Humor, personal development, synergy, adventure…contribution, making a difference, collaboration, giving back…family, community, unity…energy, ease, sweetness, inner peace… joy, lightness, abundance… synchronicity, conscious choice. My life lives bigger, my days are brighter and my impact is greater…who I am and how I walk in the world has changed forever. Transformative coaching is too powerful to keep to myself!"

Areas of Expertise

Life’s challenges.

I have served as leader, facilitator, educator, manager and mentor in diverse settings, including school administration, social services and adult education. I assist individuals and organizations to develop effective focus, communication, advocacy and diplomacy, enabling greater energy, emotional flexibility, passion, resilience, resourcefulness and inspired action so that desired changes manifest.

Coaching Experience

Since 2000, I have coached with individuals, business owners and work groups who are looking for more effectiveness, balance, motivation, contribution, satisfaction, fulfillment, personal power and joy. I’m a compassionate, gentle, challenging and illuminating partner and advocate, supporting the graceful navigation of change.

I believe our unique experience of the details of our personal and professional lives influences everything else. Our patterns, unexamined, become our prisons. My clients are focused on what they want, despite challenging relationships, aging parents, rebound children, demanding careers, overfilled schedules and previously untended spirituality.  I bring personal experience, perspective, playfulness and hope to the process of living full-spectrum lives.

Client Results

  • Freedom from the tyranny of “shoulds”, reliable connection to inner wisdom  as a guide for decision-making and life design
  • Action in service to dreams and passions: launching a business, writing a play, completing a masters degree, earning a teaching credential, choosing work that is self-fulfilling and personally rewarding, regularly doing art, retiring to a sailboat
  • Success through transitions with aging parents, difficult children, strained relationships
  • Relief from habits and beliefs that have previously resulted in depression, migraines and despair
  • Joy

Professional Certifications & Achievements

  • International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach
  • inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coach
  • Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator, 1998 to present
  • Certified Professional Coach (CPC) Training Program, Academy for Coach Training (now known as inviteCHANGE), 2001
  • Toastmasters, ATM-G, Past-President (two clubs)
  • Voice Dialogue, Facilitator Certification
  • Ellen Fay Award for Contribution to Educational Excellence

Professional Experience

  • inviteCHANGE, Partner, VP Administration, Faculty — 2006 - Present
  • Academy for Coach Training, Faculty — 2004 - Present
  • Focus on What You Want, Founder — 2000 - Present
  • Peninsula School District, (Gig Harbor WA) Program Manager — 1985 - 2000
  • Child Abuse Prevention Services, Trainer — 1982 - 1985
  • Clover Park School District, Teacher — 1973 -1981

Education

  • M.A. Psychology, Antioch University, Seattle, WA
  • B.A. Education, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA