Bio of Mike R. Jay, Author COACH2 The Bottom Line

Biographical Information:

Mike Jay has been a professional business coach, consultant and successful entrepreneur for more than 35 years. As a business leader for much of his life, he has experienced first-hand what it means to deal with difficult management issues. As an active entrepreneur he has participated in his share of "successful failures." Mike's broad business background adds a depth of real-world knowledge to his ability to connect with clients, audiences and organizations.

As an award winning U.S. Marine, Mike parlayed his military leadership experience into cutting-edge agribusiness and was a nationally featured agribusiness innovator. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University, where he also won the highest award for senior athletes, the "Aggie Heart Award" leading the 1975 Aggies to a Southwest Conference Football Championship as a quarterback.

Mike's experience in leadership led to management success in medicine, hospitality and professional business services. He went back to graduate school at the age of 40 to study Business & Organizational Behavior. After coaching managers in entrepreneurial business and corporate environments for over 15 years, Mike founded a premiere business & executive coach training system [www.b-coach.com], when he realized the way leaders communicate and develop were key to leadership success.

Mike has been featured in international publications for his innovative work with employees. His service to people in businesses such as Coca-Cola, Exxon, EDS, Ford, Boeing, General Dynamics, and other business leaders through executive coaching and has led to broad experience all over the world in coaching, consulting and leadership.

Mike is a member of the International Consortia of Business Coaches, the International Coach Federation, International Consortia on Coaching in Organizations and the Association for Psychological Type. Mike holds numerous certifications in emotional intelligence, resilience, spiral dynamics, coaching, and training.

Mike is the author of COACH2 THE BOTTOM LINE: “An Executive Guide to Coaching Performance, Change and Transformation in Organizations;” Now What? “A Strategic Leadership System for Discovering and Operationalizing What Really Mattes;” COACHING as a Transformational Leadership Competency; Coach of Many Colors: the CosMos Coaching Model utilizing Spiral Dynamics Integral, CPR For The Soul: Creating Personal Resilience By Design and a book in progress called Emergenics: How to Solve More Problems Than You Create featuring the Mindful Leadership™ System.

Mike is also responsible for the designation of “Developmentalist” and the field of Emergenics, exciting new leadership paradigms integrating a variety of methodologies towards sustainability and well-being.

2004 brought about the realization of a 9 year project called Leadership University—a global virtual university focused on the Leadership Development System Mike created over the course of the past 17 years. LeadU as we call it contains more than 36 different programs for leaders in a variety of leadership venues. A complete performance leadership system for elearning and ementoring is available at http://www.leadu.com/perflead .

B\Coach and Leadership University are virtual schools with professional coaching students and graduates throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. For more information on business coaching visit http://www.b-coach.com or leadership development: www.leadu.com . For more info write press@b-coach.com or call 877-901-COACH (2622).

Mike is available for speaking, consulting and media engagements regarding coaching leaders.

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To learn more about our coaching programs: email or call 877-901-COACH

Practice Specialty:

Executive coaching: organizational and leadership development with corporate and entrepreneurial managers interested in growth, success, and developing their enterprise to its full potential.

Types of Clients:

Men and Women who are Executives, Coaches, Professionals, Business Owners, Managers, Entrepreneurs and innovative leaders.

Experienced In Business:

100-1000 employees, coaching and personal development, administration, leadership and organizational development with creative and innovative approaches to business management and effective personal leadership.

Coaching Strengths:

Identification, Discovery and Synthesis--personal leadership development--and helping clients find their own identity from which to expand and develop. Ideas, connections and associations with real life practical business issues provide you with an edge to understanding your preferences and the possibilities that are waiting for you.

Personal Style:

As an ENTP, direct when the situation requires me to be, leadership oriented, initiating, self-developing, compassionate, respectful, insatiably curious, well-read, competent, demanding, FUN, innovative and able to help you create opportunities where you thought none existed!

Distinguishing Features:

Dependable with abilities to quickly synthesize information and guide development with questions, great at getting things moving, easy to talk to, always available (if you need me, you can find me!), ability to help you gain insights into your own performance and development needs and move the process towards success.

Service Delivery Mediums:

CyberCoaching via Email, In person: your location, telephone, conference services, speaking engagements

Monthly Fee Range: $100 - $10,000 depending on service level.

Credentials:

Master Business Coach, Certified Corporate business Coach, BS Texas A&M University, FMP- Foodservice Management Professional-National Restaurant Association, Mediation & Conflict Resolution Training Certification, Award-winning Dale Carnegie Graduate, Myers-Briggs Certified. Member of the International Consortia of Business Coaches, International Consortium of Organizational Coaching and International Coach Federation

To begin coaching with me:

Telephone 1-877-901-COACH or email for an appointment for a FREE CONSULTATION.

[This was written a long time ago, I'm sure the author meant the information for both men and women.]

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is conformed desperation. From the desperate city we move to the desperate country...

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is the characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

When we consider what, to use the words of catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other.

Yet, they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

An excerpt from WALDEN, 1854, by Henry David Thoreau

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Final Comments:

I do not view failing as failure, and we all get better when we want to--with help. Often, the guidance and insight from another caring individual with skill will help you discover beliefs about yourself that can make the difference you're looking for in your own growth and development journey! We're all different and finding ways to leverage our strengths is an exciting way to live your life!

To learn more about our coaching programs: email or call 877-901-COACH or visit www.leadu.com or www.b-coach.com.

What people are saying:

Azriela Jaffe: Author, speaker, coach, the nation's expert on entrepreneurial couples and author of three books on entrepreneuring...

"What has always impressed me about Mike is that he is the quintessential networker. Though we have never met, and have had infrequent contact, he understands who benefits from my business, and will often email me resources I can share in my newsletters, or recommend people he believes could benefit from connecting with me. Though he probably does this for hundreds of people, he makes you feel like he's always got you in mind."

Azriela Jaffe is the author of "Honey, I Want To Start My Own Business, A Planning Guide For Couples" , (HarperBusiness'96), and "Lets Go Into Business Together, Eight Secrets for Positive Business Partnering"

Bill Roche, J.D. graduated from Johns Hopkins University & Georgetown University Law and was a practicing lawyer in Washington, DC for more than 20 years.

"Mike's knowledge of business is deep and broad-ranging. He provides a "big-picture" understanding of contemporary business challenges, penetrating insight into the forces that impact the business world today and offers that rare ability to ask just the right question to get the heart of the issue. Mike is not only a creative business thinker, he understands the complex developmental challenges that business people must overcome to thrive in our accelerating and ever-more-complicated world. "

Bill has appeared on the CNN Financial Network and been quoted in national publications such as Lawyers Weekly USA, the Washington Times and Entrepreneur magazine. He is the publisher of three electronic newsletters -- "Strategies for Success,""Getting Down to Business," and "Boosting Employee Morale" -- which are read in more than 30 countries around the world. Bill@TopResults.com & http://www.TopResults.com

Steve Baisch, MD is a pediatric intensivist and director of Pediatric Critical Care in Minneapolis, MN.

"From the very first time we met, I have felt a strong rapport with Mike and that was 10 years ago. Our relationship continues to gain strength as I rely on Mike to provide me with a synthesis of the complex world of enterprise we live and work in. His acumen at assessing business system dynamics and his ability to relate in a number of disciplines keeps expanding my own personal "spiral of success."

Steve has won numerous awards and honors for his medical expertise and was featured on a nationally televised series for his efforts in saving children's lives. Without a doubt, one of the premiere pediatric intensivists in the world, Steve lives with his family in Bloomington, MN.

Marion Brady, M.A., an award winning curriculum consultant, educator and member of the 1995 design team for the Association For Supervision and Curruculum Development whose 1995 Yearbook was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award by SUNY Press for best new idea in education, The SUNY book won Susan Kovalik & Associates 1992 Gold Medal Award. Marion with a long list of published articles was also a codesigner with Alvin Toffler of a secondary level social studies series for P-H, 1973. He states,

"Mike has gotten inside my head so successfully that, almost without exception, he has been right when he's said that I might find a bit of forwarded mail or this or that particular web address usefully informative. Sometimes, his recommendations almost make it seem he's following some sort of just-in-time delivery schedule for me."

Best wishes from London

Your TopTens are such a source of pleasure and wisdom and I always enjoy them. Well done and thank you. Should you ever be in this part of the world, it would be great to have you speak to the members of the UK Coach Chapter - now about 70 strong.

George Metcalfe GeorgeFMetcalfe@aol.com

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