I have been helping people improve the quality of their lives since I was a child. I was so grateful when I discovered a career in which I could use my gifts, knowledge and experience to help people live their dreams, actualize their potential, and enjoy their lives.

I’ve been coaching since 1989. Most of my clients were business people and their organizations. Some have asked how I am able to work with such a diversity of individuals, businesses and organizations in so many different areas. What I have found is that the strategies for being successful in business and in life are very similar.

Others have asked why I coached people to be more successful in business and in life. My experience taught me that who we are in business affects our personal life and visa versa. Patterns that serve us and those that limit us in our personal lives also show up in our professional lives. Making improvements in one aspect of our lives will result in improvements in all other aspects. In addition, many of my clients discovered that their focus on professional success has caused them to neglect aspects of their personal and spiritual lives. Much of our coaching was focused on their achieving greater balance in their lives, improving their personal relationships, taking care of their health, and enjoying their lives while continuing their pursuit of success in business.

Over time, I discovered that I preferred doing life coaching. After going through my own tough transition, I decided to follow my heart and focus on life coaching. My partner, Lynn and I decided to work together to create Lifelines to Laughlines, the program we wished we had found to help us navigate life’s turbulent waters and uncover the transformative power of tough transitions.

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Bonnie’s Personal Side

Summary of Bonnie’s Background

•  Formal Education
•  Additional Training
•  Certifications

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Bonnie’s Personal Side

• Favorite pastimes: gardening; exercising; doing yoga; being outdoors to work, walk, read and writing, exercise and sleep; dancing, singing and drumming; doing arts and crafts projects, including making jewelry, sewing, and making almost all presents; playing with friends and kids; and especially being in meaningful, inspiring, spiritual conversation with friends and family.
• Spiritual life: I aspire to do some yoga, meditation, reading and writing, and exercising every day. My lifestyle as a coach lends itself to supporting this lifestyle.
• Spiritual philosophy: I believe we live in a universe of abundance and well-being. When we think and feel otherwise, it’s our perception that’s off. But our ancient, unconscious habit is to react that way. By doing my spiritual practices on and off the mat, step by step I have been reprogramming my mind to stop reacting in the old, self-defeating ways and to shift my perceiving and processing of the world in and around me such that I proceed with faith that all is well in my world.

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Summary of Bonnie’s Background

• Certified Master Coach
• President, Strategies for Success, Inc., 35+ years experience helping individuals, businesses and organizations turn their dreams into reality through coaching, training programs and classes.
• M.B.A., People, Organizational and Business Development
• B.A., Psychology and Education
• Certified Yoga Instructor
• Areas of expertise:
• Life skills – effective communication, personal effectiveness, stress management, life planning, personal and spiritual development, psychology of success
• Business development and marketing
• Team and relationship building

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Work Experience

Success Coach, CEO, Strategies for Success, Inc. Melbourne, Tampa, 1979-present.

• Lifelines to Laughlines. I am co-authoring and presenting a group coaching program for people who are navigating tough transitions.

• Individual Coaching

• I have helped individuals who want to live healthier, more balanced, authentic, meaningful and satisfying lives.
• I have worked with hundreds of business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals and sales people who are committed to taking their businesses to the next level at an accelerated rate by being at the top of their game, personally and professionally.

• Group Coaching

  • I have worked with the leaders of businesses and organizations along with their key team members or their entire staff.
  • I served as a trainer and coach in Total Quality Management for a Fortune 200 Company.
  • Executive Roundtables. I facilitate groups of business leaders and professionals from different industries who come together as a mastermind group, for coaching, and to develop new business and life skills while fortifying existing ones.

• Business and Life Skills Training and Coaching. I develop, set up, market, and teach seminars and ongoing classes in effective communication skills for better business and personal relationships, goal setting and time management, organizational skills, values clarification, and stress and energy management.
• Coach for athletes and sports teams.
• Fitness Coach and Instructor. I developed, set up, marketed, and taught classes in water aerobics and exercise, yoga, and rebounding mini-trampoline.
• Coach for people recovering from injury, accident or surgery to help them gain confidence and feel better emotionally, while quickly increasing strength and range of motion without experiencing increased pain.
• Star and Producer of “Come Alive with Taruna,” an exercise program on Cable Television for two years.
• Public Speaker & Published Author. Many of the articles appear in this website.

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Formal Education

• M.B.A. Organizational Development, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

• M. Ed. Educational Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

• B.A. Education & Psychology, State U. of New York at Buffalo

Additional Training

Many of the topics which I have found most fascinating and helpful in my ability to work with others were rarely offered through conventional academic institutions. My need for further education lead me to study with many teachers, including Abraham through Ester and Jerry Hicks, Yogi Amrit Desai, T. Harv Eker, Ed and Maryann Reese. Topics have included personal and spiritual development, including yoga, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, coaching, business development and marketing.

• Coach Training Program, Coach U
• Income Builders International (IBI), practical education and training for entrepreneurs
• Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
• NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner Training
• NeuroLinguistic Programming Master Practitioner Training
• Challenge of Excellence Utilizing NeuroLinguistic Programming Practitioner Training
• Challenge of Excellence Utilizing NeuroLinguistic Programming Master Practitioner Training
• Hypnotherapist Training
• Team Leader, Team Facilitator & Team Problem-Solving Trainings
• Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership
• Increasing Human Effectiveness Training, Levels 1 & 2
• Time Management Systems Training
• Parent Effectiveness Training
• Developmental Play, Working with the Inner Child
• Program Management Skills
• Ongoing participation in teleclasses in business and practice development, marketing including Internet-based marketing, development of intellectual property (books, articles, podcasts, radio shows for hard copies and downloadable versions.)

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Certifications

While my degrees speak of certain qualifications, I am proud of the other credentials I have earned. They’ve contributed to who I am and, coupled with my education and personal and professional experiences, what qualify me to be your guide from Lifelines to Laughlines. Learn more about the certifications I have earned.

• Certified Master Coach, International Coaches Federation
• Practitioner, NeuroLinguistic Programming in Modeling. SUN Institute of NLP
• Master Practitioner, NeuroLinguistic Programming in Modeling. SUN Institute of NLP
• Practitioner, Challenge of Excellence Utilizing NeuroLinguistic Programming
• Master Practitioner, Challenge of Excellence Utilizing NeuroLinguistic Programming
• Amrit Yoga Teachers Training. Amrit Yoga Institute
• Kripalu Yoga Teachers Training. Beginners and Advanced Levels. Kripalu Institute
• Certified Hypnotherapist

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