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Laura Sari Geduldig is a certified Life Coach, a Life Worth Living Instructor and a teacher at JFK University. She received her formal training from The Coaches Training Institute in 2001 and has since been in private practice helping a diverse array of clients -- from artists to CEO’s. Laura began her coaching career in 1995 at the California AIDS Ride where she held many titles including Associate Director. Laura also worked as the Volunteer Coordinator for Pathways Hospice where she trained, supported and supervised volunteers who sat alongside patients at the end of their lives. The unifying theme in Laura’s career has been a commitment to helping people face challenging situations and accomplish monumental change. Throughout her years of service she has provided coaching, motivation, resources and support to thousands of people.

In her ten years of helping people move towards their goals and dreams, Laura has developed a unique coaching practice which includes action-oriented homework, attainable yet challenging goals, and a supportive environment where risk-taking is encouraged. Through the Creating a Life Worth Living process Laura specializes in working with artists and entrepreneurs who seek fulfilling yet sustainable creative careers. Her clients describe her as enthusiastic, insightful and bold in her ability to ask powerful questions and to get desired results.  She is dedicated to living a balanced and creative life and enjoys exploring the Bay Area, world travel, yoga, hiking, dancing, cooking, and spending time with her husband, Paul, and baby Elijah. 

Laura offers free sample sessions, individual client work and group courses. Those living outside of the Bay Area are welcomed as clients via phone and group tele-courses. For more information please visit www.gotherecoaching.com and contact Laura at laura@gotherecoaching.com or 510-339-8111.

Marion is a certified Creating a Life Worth Living instructor with a lifelong commitment to helping people find meaningful work and to facilitating energized and creative workplace environments. Her experience as a career coach, researcher and leadership consultant in corporate and governmental workplaces has given her a broad knowledge of the career struggles and transitions that beset most working people. She has worked as a researcher in workplace stress, an oral historian of women’s work history, and a manager of government-funded literacy and work experience programs. She has facilitated numerous leadership and career workshops for leaders in the education and social service sector, and consulted for numerous government executives, public health units and professional associations in improving human resource systems, processes and workplace relationships.

In addition to her passion for facilitating learning with individuals and small groups, she loves working with color in her painting, textile and garden design. In her own consulting and coaching practice, Creative People Solutions, Marion’s clients and workshop participants repeatedly comment on her ability to listen deeply; her clarity and insights into people’s unique strengths, abilities and career conundrums; and the practical resources that she brings to this work. Marion has a Master’s of Education (Adult Learning) from the University of Toronto.

For more information:  m.langford@sympatico.ca  or 416-463-0889

Janet is a career counselor at the Bay Area Career Center, a private career services organization in San Francisco. Since 1997 she has helped 100's of people -- from exhibiting artists to downsized copywriters and disenchanted attorneys-- to design their careers and creative lives. She has a strong understanding of the unique challenges creative people face in acknowledging and executing their dreams and brings a strategic mind and a wealth of career and resource information to her work.  

In addition, she is highly experienced at addressing the career dilemmas of recent college graduates, mothers re-entering the workforce, persons with disabilities, and others with specific career obstacles.   

Prior to working in career and life planning, Janet worked professionally as an adult education instructor, business writer and copyeditor. Her counseling work is influenced by her own practices in process painting, expressive dance and meditation. She holds a Masters Degree in Career Development from JFK University.

To contact Janet about classes and individual consultations:
- phone: (415)370-8253
- e-mail: jlwhitesf@yahoo.com
- website: bayareacareercenter.com

Erika has taught and facilitated in numerous settings in both California and New York, including an organic farm, an Artist’s Way cluster, a rock-climbing gym, and the Girls’ Economic Power Day conference. She has worked as a strategist, project manager, and facilitator for both large corporations (Cisco, Intel, Liz Claiborne, SGI, Wells Fargo), and small non-profits (Earth Celebrations, New York Women’s Baseball Association). A lifelong passion for learning has led her to explore a variety of industries, from financial services to fashion design.

Her expertise lies in inspiring people to work together to find solutions to all kinds of problems, from optimizing a process to discovering a creative path. She also organizes and facilitates a monthly networking event for freelancers in the San Francisco Bay Area – the Freelance Free-for-all – and an occasional Brainstorming Brunch, where each member takes a turn presenting an issue for the group to brainstorm solutions to over crepes.

Erika holds a BA in English and two teaching credentials from UC Davis. She currently divides her work hours between freelance writing, career coaching, and creating and facilitating workshops like Break-up Boot Camp.

For information on classes and individual consultations, contact erika@lifesprout.net.
 

  
Carol Lloyd

Carol has led workshops in the Life Worth Living process for the past 12 years, helping hundreds of individuals attain their dreams. Since Creating a Life Worth Living was published in 1997 with Harper Collins she has traveled around the country, lectured on creativity and the arts at a host of public and private universities and professional organizations including San Francisco State, Berkeley Theological Union, UC Berkeley, Yale, Wesleyan, Columbia, Barnard and NYU School for the Arts, training deans, counselors, theologists and students. Lloyd was featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation, KALW's Career Talk and NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge as well as numerous commercial radio and television shows. Her fiction, essays, and feature articles have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, Salon Magazine, SF Focus and the SF Weekly. Her weekly column Surreal Estate about the Bay Area's land battles and housing crisis currently appears every week in sfgate.com.

As theatre writer and director she received grants, awards, and critical acclaim for her productions, plays and educational innovations including an Audrey Skirball-Kenis Fellowship for Playwriting, a San Francisco Foundation Theatre Grant, a San Francisco Education Innovator's Award, and the Marin Headlands Artist-in-Residency. She has designed and led theatre and dance workshops for at-risk youth and was founder and director of The Flying Buttresses, a theatre arts summer school for children. In 1991 she founded The Writing Parlor, a San Francisco literary arts center and theatre that taught writing, creativity, and artistic self-sufficiency to thousands of students.