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July 15th, 2010
I am honored to take on the position as CEO of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). I’ve had the fortunate experience of working side-by-side with our founder, Bruce D Schneider, for more than 6 years now and have received more inspiration, benefits, and growth than can be listed here. I’m looking forward to continuing to work with Bruce as he remains our Chairman of the Board and an integral part of our strategic development, and also with the rest of the extraordinary team here at iPEC.
On a more personal note, I’m very fortunate to be a ‘product’ of iPEC – I started as a student, graduated and worked as a coach, and have been part of the team for the past 6 years. As an organization, we live and breathe our principles and our coaching methodology – it’s who we are and what we do, and it ripples throughout the organization. You’ll see it in our support team, our trainers, our admissions coaches, our leadership, and ultimately our graduates.
Being around a highly engaged and energetic team and the iPEC alumni community provides me the chance to continually develop while being inspired. This is what ‘work’ and life is supposed to be like.
I’m excited to assume this post and work with our Institute to provide a clear voice for the coaching marketplace as we support our graduate coaches and leaders in making a substantial difference in the lives, careers, and businesses of their clients and employees. Thank you for the difference you are making.
Live on fire!
D. Luke Iorio
President and CEO
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July 15th, 2010
D. LUKE IORIO NAMED PRESIDENT AND CEO, IPEC COACHING,
LEADING IPEC’S GROWTH INTO NEW DECADE
(Shrewsbury, New Jersey, July 15, 2010) D. Luke Iorio was officially named President and CEO of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (”iPEC Coaching,” www.ipeccoaching.com), promoted from President of iPEC’s Coach Training Division. The announcement was made today by Bruce D Schneider, iPEC’s founder, who will continue as Chairman of the iPEC Board and will work closely with Luke and iPEC’s leadership team to continue to enhance iPEC’s curriculum, develop new innovative programs, and shape the company’s strategic vision.
In this expanded position, Luke will oversee the organization’s strategic business growth and operations, as well as its expansion into the corporate and educational sectors.
“It is my proud honor to appoint Luke to this position. Luke has been a driving force in the growth of iPEC’s business over the past 6 years,” commented Schneider. “His passion for iPEC and the profession of coaching, coupled with his unbridled energy and enthusiasm, are exactly the ingredients needed to lead iPEC as it continues to grow its core business and expand into new directions.”
“I’m very fortunate to be a ‘product’ of iPEC - I started as a student, graduated and worked as a coach, and now have been part of the team for the past 6 years. As an organization, we live and breathe our principles and our coaching methodology - it’s who we are and what we do, and it ripples throughout the organization. You’ll see it in our support team, our trainers, our admissions coaches, our leadership, and ultimately our graduates. Being around a highly engaged and energetic team and iPEC alumni community provides me the chance to continually develop while being inspired. This is what ‘work’ and life are supposed to be like,” states Iorio.
“I’m excited to assume this post and work with our Institute to provide a clear voice for the coaching marketplace as we support our graduate coaches and leaders in making a substantial difference in the lives, careers, and businesses of their clients and employees.”
About D. Luke Iorio
D. Luke Iorio — masterful coach, speaker, and author — has directed iPEC’s expansion from 6 to 12 cities (and growing) over the past 6 years, and, in that time, has seen the school’s enrollment grow by nearly 250%. During this period of rapid expansion, Luke has guided efforts to grow and systematize iPEC’s infrastructure to maintain excellence in student support and other areas.
Prior to joining iPEC in 2004, Luke founded LINC Performance Group, a marketing and management consultancy. At LINC, Luke worked with entrepreneurs from various service-related businesses who experienced growth from 35% to 300% and more by engaging Luke to improve their marketing, advertising, and sales efforts.
While Luke was with LINC, he enrolled in iPEC’s Coach Training Program and met iPEC’s founder, Bruce D Schneider. Soon after the initial meeting, Bruce brought Luke on staff to act as a business consultant. That quickly evolved into a full-time position as iPEC’s Vice President in charge of marketing, and later operations as well. Luke left his own business and joined iPEC full-time, drawn to coaching and Schneider’s work on Energy Leadership (www.energyleadership.com).
Before owning his own business, Luke worked at Corporate Investment International as vice president of business development and as a certified business intermediary for mergers and acquisitions, specializing in working with entrepreneurs with businesses netting under $20 million in revenues.
Throughout Luke’s career, he has developed a keen understanding for the needs of the modern professional and entrepreneur. His insight provides him with a unique skill set that helps him assist individuals in the navigation of significant business and life transitions.
A sought-after speaker in the area of leadership and entrepreneurship, Luke is currently co-authoring the book Skillpreneur, which aids entrepreneurs whose skills and expertise lie within their profession, in understanding the unique challenges of learning to grow a business. Luke is also working on an eBook series on workplace engagement - the top issue identified by corporations as critical to sustaining growth, retaining top talent, and developing their next generation of leaders.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Luke attended Seton Hall Preparatory School and went on to Fairfield University, graduating with a degree in marketing. Luke currently resides in New Providence, New Jersey with his wife and two children.
About iPEC Coaching
Founded in 1999 by Bruce D Schneider, MCC and Ph.D., the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) is an Accredited Coach Training and Certification Program. The Institute graduates Certified Professional Coaches in the specialties of life, career/transition, health and wellness, relationships, sales, business, corporate, and executive coaching.
iPEC is the most comprehensive coach training program in the world, developing the most masterful coaches anywhere. iPEC’s Core Energy Coaching™ process is the most effective approach to professional success in the 21st century.
The methodology and Core Energy Construct are based on Bruce D Schneider’s decades of experience in the field and science of energy and consciousness. In addition to that, iPEC has built upon the very best of other paradigms, such as consulting, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), mentoring, quantum physics, metaphysics, adult and accelerated learning theories, emotional intelligence, and leadership development.
The coach training program lasts approximately 9 months, including four in-person 3-day training intensives, peer work, peer coaching, mentor coaching, practice development, tele-classes, niche development, self-study projects, and reading, in addition to a business development program. The 350+ hour program ends in written and oral examinations for certification.
The program is accredited by the International Coach Federation, and exceeds their standards for certification of coaches.
Press Contact:
Alan Cohen, iPEC Coaching
acohen@ipeccoaching.com, 646-489-4989
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April 15th, 2010
By Jeffrey Gitterman
Jeffrey Gitterman is a long time friend of iPEC and the founder and CEO of the financial planning firm Gitterman & Associates, LLC. (www.gittermanassoc.org). In these challenging economic times, Jeff recently co-founded Beyond Success (www.beyondsuccessconsulting.com), a consulting firm that brings more holistic values to the world of business and wealth management. His first book, Beyond Success: Redefining the Meaning of Prosperity, was recently published by AMACOM, the publishing house of the American Management Association.
As a financial advisor, money is a subject that’s certainly close to my heart. When I give group seminars, I often like to begin by asking people to give me definitions of what money means to them. And I always get a similar range of replies: freedom … security … opportunity … power. I’ve asked this same question to hundreds of financial planners over the last several years, and I rarely ever hear the standard dictionary definition, which is simply that money is a means of exchange.
What is important about their answers is that they illustrate something about our culture. The problem is not just that we think money can buy us things, but also that we tend to define money as an end in and of itself. My personal definition of money is “a means to satisfy a desire.” That may sound straightforward enough, but things get complicated when we tend to measure our satisfaction, happiness, or success by how much money we have.
Through the work I do, I see proof on a regular basis that having a million dollars in the bank has no relationship to happiness—but people continue to insist that it does, even when their own experience seems to show otherwise. Many of my clients who have reached this milestone tell me that they still wake up in the morning and feel as if they’re broke.
To be clear, I’m not arguing against the importance of money—but my point is that money itself is a neutral force—not good or evil, moral or immoral. Some Christians love to quote the Bible as telling us—it’s been said many times before—that money is “the root of all evil,” but I think it would be more accurate to say that “attachment to money is the root of all evil.”
Implicit in the statement “money won’t buy you happiness” is the idea that something else will, even though we don’t quite know what that something is. What do we mean when we say “happiness”? Usually it represents a certain emotional state—a feeling of peace, joy, contentment, satisfaction—that we may have experienced in brief moments of our lives and that we want to experience as often as possible.
When I got to a point in my own life where I found myself “successful” by common standards yet far from happy, I had to rethink what success was all about. For the previous several years I’d been chasing a dream, religiously visualizing my goals, and attaining them one by one. And I’d found a lot of joy in that process. I didn’t know then that my brain is wired this way, but I saw in my own experience that there was actually more joy in chasing the dream than there was in actually getting it. There was nothing wrong with having the money, and it sure was nice not to have to worry about paying the bills each month. But I had attained everything and then found myself missing the thrill that came from the pursuit itself.
Now, we could conclude from this experience, as many brain scientists do, that our evolutionary wiring is a kind of curse, condemning us to perpetual letdown. The anticipation mechanism can seem like a cruel trick of nature. But I looked at it another way. I realized that the problem was not that the goals I’d reached weren’t good enough. The problem was that I was standing still again. I had no journey anymore. So I started to turn my attention to the journey itself, to the sense of striving and reaching ever-higher, and decided to seek my happiness there, rather than in any particular outcome. I guess it’s a kind of “living in the moment,” but it is a moment that is always moving. This approach doesn’t try to short-circuit the process of desire, but rather to channel that powerful motivational drive outward.
When we really understand that there’s nothing we can get that will make us happy, we can stop striving to accumulate more and more. But because we’re not made to stand still, we need to redirect our “seeking system,” and enlist it in the service of what we want to express in the world, rather than how we want to feel.
That’s the key to this approach—we have to become less concerned with how we happen to feel moment to moment. When we begin to pay less attention to our feeling states as a measure of our success, we will find that we have a tremendous resource of energy and attention at our disposal to begin to have an impact—on our own lives and on others around us. This is what I discovered when I set out to find what lies beyond success and to redefine success itself in the process.
I say “beyond success” because success, I’ve discovered, is not an end point, a state of outer wealth or inner peace that we can achieve and then stop. We as human beings are not made to stop—we are creatures of change, curiosity, and creativity who need to always have our goals set a little beyond our reach. We thrive on challenge and engagement. I am convinced that this is what we are here for. We are designed to give of ourselves—of our energy, our unique creative expressions, our talents, our strengths. It is my deepest belief that we are each a unique vessel for the creative impulse that is animating life itself. And I feel that it’s only through aligning our individual strengths with that universal source of creativity, in such a way that simultaneously fulfills our own deepest desires and serves others, that we will we find what could be called lasting happiness.
For more information about Beyond Success Consulting and Jeffrey Gitterman please visit Beyond Success Consulting (www.beyondsuccessconsulting.com) and Gitterman & Associates (www.gittermanassoc.org).
Adapted from Beyond Success: Redefining the Meaning of Prosperity
Jeffrey L. Gitterman
© 2009 Jeffrey L. Gitterman
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www.amacombooks.org
A Division of the American Management Association
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April 8th, 2010
By D. Luke Iorio
So, admittedly, I’m not a fan of reality shows. However, I have to give kudos where they are more than well deserved. “American Idol,” “The Biggest Loser,” and “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” have used their popularity to give back. Their efforts deserve a round of applause and represent what our media and entertainment industry can be doing more of.
“American Idol” has brought attention to a variety of charitable causes involving Africa, raising millions of millions of dollars over the past several years. They have literally turned their “voting public” into donors.
“The Biggest Loser” has started the “Pound for Pound” effort to drive donations into the “Feeding America” program – the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization.
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” has brought ABC’s “A Better Community” movement to the forefront. This movement encourages getting involved and being a volunteer, putting who you are and what you do into action for the development of our communities. “A Better Community” regularly spotlights local and national non-profits that are aligned with its philosophy of giving back.
For those countless other programs on TV… how will you encourage and bring about positive change? How will you encourage your audiences to bring out the best in themselves and those around them?
For the viewing public… How will you use your influence? How will you make the difference you want to make?
Start simple. Whether it’s smiling at strangers, holding open a door, making it a point to say thank you and show your appreciation, or getting involved directly in non-profit and community development work, the point is to consciously choose to use your influence. Don’t sit on the sidelines, get involved however you can.
Tags: attitude, gratitude, reframing, self-improvement
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March 30th, 2010
by D. Luke Iorio, CEO, iPEC Coaching
The recent healthcare debate offers us a great opportunity to talk about change, and just how layered our responses to transitions can be.
Most people would agree that healthcare could benefit from change. But even with so many wanting to make changes, we can see that it does not come easily. So often people say they want change, but what they actually want is the positive results and feelings that they will have after the change happens - rather than to take the tough actions that implementing the change requires.
So what was it about this particular change that was tough? I think it goes back to the usual suspects - uncertainty, confusion, and attachment.
How well does the general public really know what these healthcare changes will mean? Everything is filtered through PR messages that get channeled through political rhetoric and party agendas that get filtered by news media that get edited down to sound bites. Not a whole lot for us to sink our teeth into, and so without knowing the real ramifications of what this means to us as individuals, families, and businesses, confusion sets in.
Confusion is the logical and emotional result of hearing opposing views and facts without knowing who really is presenting the information without bias. And, we have little time left in the day to sit down and read a healthcare reform bill that’s a little less user-friendly than the instructions for programming your VCR.
And, in the midst of uncertainty and confusion, we arrive at “well, the devil we know is better than the devil we don’t” - i.e. attachment to how things are. The fear of moving into the unknown can often be paralyzing because we tend to hesitate when we do not know what to expect OR, just as often, we don’t want to move forward unless the outcome is likely to be 100% on our own terms.
When we hesitate because we want it all our way, this is where our best excuses come out - “well I wanted to but…” We can firmly and confidently place the blame for the lack of progress elsewhere. We can feel good about ourselves in this scenario because it wasn’t us that gave into fear. We can successfully trap ourselves into living with what we know to be a much less than optimal situation. In this way, we do not have to take responsibility.
So, where do we go from here?
Re-commit to the goal and state the motivations for going after it.
Resolve that progress will be made - that the status quo is worth challenging.
Next, CALL IT OUT IN THE OPEN! Admit that you are uncertain and confused, and be willing to examine your beliefs about what is possible, and your ego’s involvement in holding on to the status quo. Acknowledge your fear about change.
Resolve to release judgment as you become aware of it.
Do your best to experience and absorb all that you can, and remain teachable and open to other possibilities that may seem to deviate from your current beliefs.
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