About Us
Coaching Circles is your place for professional and personal
development. We have gathered the best coaches and thought
leaders in the world to assist you in reaching your goals. If you
are looking for one-on-one coaching, group coaching, coaching
in-person or via phone, individual coaching or coaching for your
team or company -- we are here for you. We also have audio and
video downloads, articles, events, PowerPoints, worksheets,
programs, eCourses, etc. -- all centered around your professional
and personal development. So explore or drop us a line. Let us
know how you are doing and how we can assist you in reaching your
goals.
Our Team
Coaching Circles' team is comprised of dedicated and loving people passionate about personal and professional development. It is with great honor that we have created a way in which people can achieve greatness - in their career and professional areas of their life, personally and in their relationships.
We are here to serve you, so if there is anyway in which we can help you succeed, just let us know.
Janice Gjertsen - Caillet
"Be the change you want to see in the world" ~ Gandhi
Sherry Lowry
"Discover Your Best Self" ~ Sherry Lowry
Malgorzata Bochnak
"Happiness depends upon ourselves" ~ Aristotle
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Janice Gjertsen Caillet
CEO & Chief Catalyst
Janice is a leader and a pioneer in the new media industries; in 80's with video walls, early 90's with CD-ROM's and starting in 1994 with the Internet. She was on the founding leadership team of Total New York; one of the first city-based websites. Total New York which was sold to Digital City and then to AOL. While on the Business Development team at AOL Janice found her life purpose:
"To be a bridge connecting people together
or connecting people with opportunities"
In May 1999, Janice left AOL to build a company that was aligned with her purpose. She found coaching to be one of the most amazing industries since the Internet and the combination of the two might actually catalyze a huge positive change in this world. With this possibility, Janice started CoachingCircles.
A few highlights of Janice in the News, as an Advisor, as a Speaker and in the Community.
IN THE NEWS
- Fast Company, 6/05 "Tracing Our (Grass) Roots"
- AlleyCat News, 4/00 "The Women of Silicon Alley"
- Wall Street Journal, 3/00 "Janice's new venture"
- Fast Company Magazine, 6/99 for being an "Experienced Role Model & Leader"
- Fast Company, 11/98 as a "Woman in Power"
- Wired, 8/98 "Read Me" Re: my favorite books.
- The New York Times, 5/97, Re: Roundtable dinner series
- Forbes Magazine, 8/97. Re: Roundtable dinner series
- @NY, industry newsletter 1996, Top Ten Women in NY New Media
AS AN ADVISOR
- 2004-2006 Executive Advisor to Accompligroup.com, a company whose members partner with executives in complex organizations to bring in human functioning expertise.
- 2002-2003 Executive Advisor to Direct Help, a nonprofit organization looking to make giving easier and more personal. "Sold" to NetworkforGood.org
- 2002-2003 Executive Advisor (founding partner) to SendWordNow. Created right after 9/11 to ensure rapid and reliable mass communications to and from any device.
- 1999-2000 Co-hosted quarterly "Janice and Alexander Partnership Dinner Series" with Alexander Caillet, Janice's life partner.
- 1996-1999 Co-hosted bimonthly "Janice and Jon New Media Roundtable Dinners" with Jon Guttenberg, a leader in the Internet arena.
- 1999 Partnership Initiatives Roundtable with Riane Eisler
- 1997 Partnership for a Drug Free America New Media Advisory Board
- 1996 NYNMA Selection Committee for Venture Downtown, Venture Capital Conference
- 1996 & 1997 Coopers & Lybrand Advisory Board for the Analysis of New Media in NYC
- 1996-97 New Media Roundtable for the Economic Development Corp. of New York City
- 1996-97 New Media Initiatives for the Empire State Development
...(the economic development entity for New York State)
AS A SPEAKER
Speaker at conferences regarding how to create community online, women in new media and the Internet in general.
- 2/99 Seybold Conference, Boston, MA
- 4/99 Inc. & CCX's Strategy Summit '99, San Francisco, CA
- 11/96 Forbes Technology Symposium, Seattle, WA
- 10/96 Online Expo, NY, NY
- 10/96 Cowles Business Media, NY, NY
- 9/96 Women on Wall Street, NY, NY
- 8/96 Academy of Women Achievers, NY, NY
WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
Over the past several years Janice has created a partnership with a woman from the South Bronx of New York, Lynnette, through an organization called Student Partnership. This partnership consisted of sponsoring, mentoring and encouraging her brilliance through high school so she can see college as a possibility. Lynnette attended St. Bonaventure University and is now an amazing working woman in the fashion industry in NYC. She is also a fabulous mother of a little boy named Daniel.
Janice served on the Board of Directors of New York Cares for over 8 years starting in 1994, a nonprofit with over 10,000 volunteers working on over 150 meaningful community service projects every month.
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Sherry Lowry
Executive Producer
Sherry is a skilled and dynamic coach with direct impact on a diverse group of companies and individual professionals internationally. She has gained experience, expertise and leadership skills in a variety of career activities, including family therapy, education, consulting and training. She has been an entrepreneur in creating both a product oriented and service-related business, founded a nonprofit organization which she directed and, most recently, used her keen sense of focus and sensitivity toward the needs of others to become a professional mentor. Sherry believes coaching is a process of adventure and discovery--a magical partnership between people in exploring personhood, starting where the client is and moving exponentially beyond that point. A results and catalyst coach.
Sherry's multifaceted training as a coach includes graduation from Coach University and participation in a number of coach-training workshops and seminars independently provided throughout the United States. She is the VP of Professional Development as an officer/board member of the International Coach Federation oversees the ICF's Ethics-Standards/Credentials groups of 6 committee's, including the ones that have created her industry's first independent credentialing of personal and business coaches. She's also a charter member of Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. Sherry is also active internationally within several ICF chapters and participates in Coach University's community program locally, as well, and chairs and leads the CyberCoach Special Interest group call that meets quarterly world-wide by group tele-call. She is also affiliated with the National Entrepreneur's Hall of Fame.
Sherry is extremely networked in the coaching arena. She brings to Coaching Circles a very experienced MCC eye in mostly all aspects of the company. Her major role is to seek out the most talented coaches in the field globally. She assists them in preparing their services and tools for the CoachingCircles.com platform. Also within her role as Executive Producer she works on business development deals with third party media, technology and other organizations where win:win relationships are created for the betterment of all.
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Malgorzata Bochnak
Marketing Assistant
Malgorzata is assisting Coaching Circles in all aspects of product and service marketing. For seven years prior to coming to Coaching Circles, she assisted VBH, a large distributor of business to business housing goods in Poland, in the areas of logistics and customer relations. Goga also worked for Zolte Strony the largest Yellow Page company in Poland. She assisted the organization in publicity and marketing for company. Goga graduated in business administration and marketing from Akademia Ekonomiczna in Krakov. She is currently in Paris, France studying French, International Public Relations and assisting Coaching Circles. Her hobbies range from dancing salsa and traveling to the Internet and early childhood education.
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