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Biography of Alvah Parker

Career, Transition, and Business Coach

Alvah Parker of Parker Associates has impacted the personal and professional lives of hundreds of clients by helping them to create successful careers and businesses. She has expertise in career coaching, business counseling and a specialty in law practice development and management. Alvah coaches clients to find, use and expand their natural talents in order to integrate them into their chosen work. Her clients are most often intent on finding work that is engaging, energizing and fun so that they have a more meaningful and fulfilling experience.

During her 15 years with AT&T Alvah was well known for her expertise as a sales and marketing executive. She was elected to the prestigious Council of Leaders as one of the top 3% of the entire AT&T sales force.

In her own practice Alvah has coached individuals in organizations such as: Lawyers in Law firms, Agents in Real Estate companies, Contractors in High Tech firms, Professionals in Public Health Organizations, Executive Directors of Non Profits, Entrepreneurs and solo professionals in their own business, and Managers in High Technology and Biotechnology. She is the Senior Career Coach for Boxwood Technology, an online provider of career services for professional organizations and has written a career column for the American Marketing Association.

Alvah has been a Business Advisor for SCORE (Advisors to Small Businesses for the Small Business Administration (SBA)) since 1999. In this capacity she counsels entrepreneurs who are looking to start or grow their businesses.

She has served as Vice President of the Simmons College Alumnae Association where she designed, developed, administered and analyzed a survey of the alumnae population. As a result of the survey she formed and chaired a committee on Career and Transition for the Association.

Alvah publishes two popular ezines and is well known for her Top Ten lists. Her articles and lists have appeared in books such as Streetwise® Small Business Book of Lists, publications such as The MBA Chronicle, and are found on numerous websites such as ExecutiveAgent.com, WorkingNews.com, and ExpertLaw.com

Alvah earned a BS from Simmons College in Boston. She is a graduate of Coach Inc.’s 2 year professional life and business coach training. She furthered her coaching education with Successful Professionals and the Life Blueprint Institute. She is an Authorized Life Blueprint Facilitator and a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA). Alvah can be found on the web at www.asparker.com

Biography of Linda Griffin

Leadership Coach

ClearWind LLC Founder, Linda G. Griffin is a leadership coach who helps her clients take control of their careers by developing a core set of principals and values which inform and impact their decisions, building and leveraging a support network and understanding the formal and informal power structure of their organizations. Linda's special focus is on women leaders and consultants in technology careers. Through her Five-Step Leadership Process, her clients: - Create a Compelling Personal Brand which focuses on their unique brilliance and learn how to market this brand effectively to senior management

- Learn techniques which allow them to communicate with confidence and clarity in formal and informal presentations

- Build and leverage a support network who provide guidance and feedback and who will champion their accomplishments to others

- Create a winning team by understanding the ideal mix of skills and abilities needed to accomplish the team objectives and ensuring that the staff's interests and motivations are in sync with those objectives.

- Learn Resiliency by acquiring the skills needed to learn and recover from setbacks and use them as a springboard to achieve even greater career success.

Linda spent thirty years in the technology industry at IBM with over half of that time in leadership and management assignments. Helping others achieve their potential and goals is her passion. Linda completed her coach training at Coach Training Alliance and is a member of the International Coaching Federation and The Association of Coaching and Consulting Professionals. Linda has a B.S. in Mathematics from Auburn University and an MBA from the University of South Florida.

To find out more about Linda's services, please visit http://aclearwind.com or email her at lindag@aclearwind.com and reference CoachCore.

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