PATRICIA CLASON

Patricia has enjoyed coaching individuals, guiding them in emotional intelligence, defining their goals and manifesting their dreams since 1975.

First to receive the Registered Corporate Coach designation from the National Association of Business Coaches (now the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches), Patricia has been helping others become coaches for eight years.

In 2005, Patricia founded the Business Coaching Certificate program at the University of Wisconsin - where she teaches coaching, ethics, emotional intelligence and other related topics. She also teaches at the College of Professional Studies at Marquette University.

Her work in coaching has included executive coaching in Fortune 50 organizations, business coaching with owners, management teams and solo-preneurs (the solo entrepreneur), plus fun clients who are expanding their lives into a life-style or career that fits their life passion.

As a professional speaker, Patricia has traveled across the continent for over 30 years. doing speeches, workshops and media appearances as a professional speaker, trainer, consultant, writer, and coach giving over 4,000 presentations for corporations, associations, government agencies and non-profit organizations.

Patricia created Taking It Lightly a weekend emotional intelligence intensive in 1986. Since then thousands have healed their emotional beings and found joy in living, fully feeling and safely expressing their emotions.

An author, Patricia wrote the 12 workbook series "Claim Your Unlimited Potential" and "Speaking of Success" with Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey and Jack Canfield - both can be purchased at http://patriciaclason.com/resources/index.html

In case you are wondering, it was many years of parochial school training that taught me to write about my accomplishments in third person - too many "I" statements were frowned upon!

It also makes it easier for someone else to read this as my bio!