Stress-Reduction Innovator HeartMath®, Inc. Joins American College of Lifestyle Medicine Corporate Roundtable

August 23, 2018 – ST. LOUIS – The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has announced the addition of HeartMath®, Inc. to its Lifestyle Medicine Corporate Roundtable, a group of individuals and organizations whose collective vision is sustainable human health, a sustainable health care system and a sustainable world.

Founded in 1991 by Doc Childre, HeartMath has developed a comprehensive system of effective, scientifically-based tools, online programs, technologies and coaching to help people self-regulate their emotions and behaviors to reduce stress, increase resilience and unlock their natural intuitive guidance for making more effective choices. This enables people to break through to greater levels of personal balance, creativity, insight and health. Over 300 peer-reviewed or independent studies utilizing HeartMath techniques or technologies to achieve beneficial outcomes have been published.

“HeartMath is honored to be partnering with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine as both organizations are dedicated to providing evidence-based approaches to prevent and reverse lifestyle-related health conditions,” says Deborah Rozman, PhD, CEO of HeartMath Inc. “Our organizations intend to collaborate on lifestyle methodologies that work ‘from the inside out’ to facilitate health and wellness.”

“Stress management is an important pillar of Lifestyle Medicine,” said ACLM President George Guthrie, MD, MPH, FACLM. “HeartMath is helping people build emotional resiliency and improve their ability to manage their stress. This is key to staying healthy. ACLM is pleased to have them in our Corporate Roundtable.”

The Corporate Roundtable of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine convenes health care and lifestyle thought leaders, with a keen focus on the power of Lifestyle Medicine to transform health and health care. Roundtable members explore effective Lifestyle Medicine clinical applications, strategies for accelerating reimbursement, and adoption and analysis of potential business-related opportunities. The Roundtable launched in 2015 and has grown to include more than 30 active member organizations.

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ABOUT THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE: ACLM is the medical professional society for those dedicated to the advancement and clinical practice of Lifestyle Medicine as the foundation of a transformed and sustainable health care system. Lifestyle Medicine treats, often reverses and prevents chronic disease. It is the combined use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches, such as a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substance use and other non-drug modalities.

More than a professional association, ACLM is a galvanized force for change. ACLM addresses the need for quality education and certification, supporting its members in their individual practices and in their collective mission to domestically and globally promote Lifestyle Medicine as the first treatment option, as opposed to a first option of treating symptoms and consequences with expensive, ever increasing quantities of pills and procedures. ACLM members are united in their desire to identify and eradicate the root cause of disease. Learn more at http://www.LifestyleMedicine.org.

ABOUT HEARTMATH: HeartMath, Inc. is dedicated to facilitating a fundamental shift in health, wellness and performance. The company provides evidence-based programs, assessment tools, products and technologies for significantly reducing stress while improving resilience and performance. For more than 20 years HeartMath, Inc. and the nonprofit research organization, HeartMath Institute, have demonstrated through clinical studies the critical link between emotions, the heart and cognitive performance. HeartMath methods for self-regulation and in-the-moment stress management have been published in dozens of journals and more than 300 independent peer-reviewed papers. Currently there are more than 12,000 citations referencing HeartMath’s work and research. Its clients include Duke Medicine, Stanford Business School, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, NASA and Boeing. Dozens of school systems, military and law enforcement agencies, Olympic coaches and athletes and thousands of health professionals around the world utilize HeartMath solutions for stress management, self-regulation, personal resilience and optimal performance. Learn more at https://www.heartmath.com/.

In Light of the Recent Natural Disasters throughout the U.S. and Abroad, HeartMath is Offering Free Resources to Help

Boulder Creek, California – September 14, 2017 – In light of the recent natural disasters, the HeartMath^® Inc. organization announced today that they are offering free emotional support resources in hopes that it will encourage people along the way as we work through this challenging time. The resources can be downloaded from their website with the links provided below.

Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma have left behind levels of destruction that many are still trying to wrap their minds around. These super-sized hurricanes, the countless wildfires across the U.S. and abroad, and the mammoth sized 8.1 earthquake in Mexico have exhausted many people’s mental and emotional stamina.

“When significant events happen, like what we’ve seen recently, our stress tolerance level depletes from the initial shock and the ongoing anxiety and emotional pain people are experiencing,” said Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., President of HeartMath Inc.

A behavioral psychologist, Rozman, added, “Many people are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress, uncertainty and overwhelm. Being displaced is tough enough, but many have lost everything except their lives- and in some cases, are feeling the traumas of others in addition to their own.”

Experts say that a lot of emotions are triggered following natural disasters. At first there is shock and disbelief and then as reality starts to sink in they may feel confused, angry or irritable.

“An array of feelings will surface, which is why tools that can ease the rollercoaster of emotions are so critical right now, said Rozman. This is why we want to offer free resources that can help,” she added.

With over 300 independent peer-reviewed studies, HeartMath Inc. and the not for profit HeartMath Institute are recognized worldwide for their research and scientifically validated methods for reducing stress, anxiety and overwhelm while helping to restore inner balance, self-security, resilience and a sense of well-being.

“There is much support needed now and in the months to come,” commented Rozman. “It is heart-warming to see so many people reaching out to help. People of different races, ethnicities and beliefs are putting all that aside to step forward with care and compassion for each other, their neighbors and communities. I believe, we will all grow stronger from this, she added.”

Resources for Adults from HeartMath Inc.:

The free emotional support resources for adults and children being offered by HeartMath can be downloaded at www.heartmath.com/freeresources.

This care package includes e-books and audio booklets as well as a video guide to walk people through a scientifically validated technique developed by HeartMath called the Quick Coherence® technique.

Chubu University in Kasugai, Japan is working with HeartMath and their Certified Trainers to employ the Quick Coherence^® technique to help anxious children and adults that have been enduring PTSD symptom ever since Japan’s massive 9.0 earthquake in 2011. These validated methods have been employed for disaster relief in many devastated areas – from helping Katrina survivors to people that endured the flooding in Alberta, Canada to adult and children refugees in Lebanon.

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About HeartMath
HeartMath Inc., provides science-based programs and technologies to improve health and well-being, while dramatically reducing stress and boosting performance and productivity. Based on more than 25 years of research, and more than 250 independent peer-reviewed studies, the HeartMath System is recommended by thousands of health professionals. HeartMath’s programs are used by hundreds of hospitals, schools, corporations and humanitarian organizations. Their clients include Duke Medicine, Veteran Administration Hospitals and Clinics, Stanford Business School, Stanford Hospital and Kaiser Permanente. HeartMath was the first recipient of the American Institute of Stress (AIS) Award for Distinction and Innovation. This award is granted to products and services that have been formally evaluated and validated as effective by AIS. HeartMath has a thriving community on Facebook (www.facebook.com/heartmath) where people from around the world come to enjoy daily posts with the latest HeartMath news and uplifting content.

About the HeartMath Institute^®:
The HeartMath Institute, www.heartmath.org, founded in 1991 by Doc Childre, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education organization and is a world leader in stress reduction and emotion management research. For more than two decades HMI has researched and developed reliable, scientifically based tools and programs through its research and education divisions that bridge the connection between heart and mind and deepen people’s heart connection with themselves and others. The HeartMath methodologies offer hope of new and effective solutions for the many daunting problems that face society by restoring mental, emotional and physical balance and maximizing every individual’s potential

Drawing on HeartMath’s rich evidence-based personal stress relief technologies, Thrive Global is adding HeartMath’s wellness products to help people and organizations thrive

Boulder Creek, Calif., November 30, 2016 — HeartMath®, Inc., is pleased to announce that it is an official core partner with Thrive Global as a member of their expert thought leaders team. Thrive Global is a new corporate and consumer well¬being and productivity platform that hopes to change how we work and live, founded and led by Arianna Huffington. The HeartMath organization was invited to partner with Thrive Global due to their effective methods for dealing with stress, overwhelm, nervous system health and other critical challenges related to emotional self-regulation.

Thrive Global’s primary aim is to help alleviate the overwhelming amount of stress so many people are struggling with and improve the overall health and wellness of people and organizations globally. HeartMath is an acknowledged world leader in stress and resilience technologies that train users to release and reset their response to stress in real-time, and achieve a state of inner balance and optimal functioning.

The HeartMath organization has spent over two decades researching an optimal physiological state called “coherence’, where heart, mind and emotions operate in harmony and synchronicity. Their award-winning technology, called the Inner Balance with pulse sensor for Android and iOS devices provides real-time feedback on the user’s HRV (heart rhythm) coherence level then guides the user into a more coherent internal state. Research has shown when the heart rhythm pattern shifts into a more coherent mode, user’s release stress and overwhelm in the moment. Spending just a few minutes in heart rhythm coherence with the Inner Balance app has been shown to have a positive carryover effect through daily activities and challenges. Users have easier access to inner calm, clarity in decision-making, and experience quicker recovery of emotional composure.

Pre and post assessments and outcome studies with thousands of people show significant improvements in sleep, energy levels and mood, along with reductions in anxiety, depression and stress-related conditions after just a few weeks’ coherence practice.

“I appreciate Arianna Huffington for her skilled commitment to curating evidence-based best practices and technologies that can help people empower their health and wellness,” said Dr. Deborah Rozman, President and CEO of HeartMath Inc., “Together we hope to improve the lives of millions of people worldwide.”

HeartMath HRV research has been validated in over two-hundred independent peer-reviewed studies and published in journals such as the American Journal of Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology among many others.

HeartMath was the first recipient of the American Institute of Stress (AIS) Award for Distinction and Innovation. This award is granted to products and services that have been formally evaluated and validated as effective by AIS.

 

The Sunshine Secret teaches children to recognize, express and self-regulate emotions and behavior

Boulder Creek, Calif., October 24, 2016 – Teaching kids about their emotions and managing their behavior provides an enormous advantage in navigating today’s unique challenges, according to the HeartMath® Institute (HMI), developers of a new e-Learning program, the Sunshine Secret. “Learning about your emotions, and how they can help you can be easy, fun and effective for children, teachers and parents,” said Jeff Goelitz, an HMI education specialist and one of the program’s chief developers

Officials at HeartMath, known for their published research and success in classroom programs that teach emotional skills, launched the program this month, are saying that the planning, development and testing of Sunshine Secret, for ages 3-7, resulted in a highly interactive learning experience that kids’ loved participating in.
The Sunshine Secret engages the whole child by involving their intellect, their creative abilities and by having children use their eyes, ears, hands and voice and what HeartMath calls qualities of the heart such as appreciation, kindness and care.
“Schools have been asking us to put our social-emotional tools into an e-learning format for years, and we are excited to be launching HeartMath’s first e-learning product,” said Goelitz. “We solicited and received lots of help from of parents and educators to make this very user friendly. These days children and parents want a lot freedom to choose what best suits their needs and interests, and I think that’s the program’s strength.”
Sunshine Secret uses current computer and tablet technology to engage boys and girls on multiple levels as they learn how to recognize, self-regulate and control their emotions.

 

Click to watch a brief overview of the Sunshine Secret.

 

The program’s variety of interactive activities are aimed at gently challenging young children while teaching them important social-emotional skills that research shows will aid them during their school years and into adulthood.

Sunshine Secret is an animated story set in a forest about the adventures of Gloria the glowworm and Leon the Chameleon. The pair long to learn the secret of glowing green and eventually discover that the secret lies in the ability to change their emotions. HeartMath calls this emotional self-regulation, a process researchers and psychologists say can renew and improve emotional outlook and behavior in addition to providing physical and mental benefits.

Within each story chapter, children complete support activities designed to achieve positive emotional outcomes. These include putting together virtual puzzles, coloring exercises with story characters and learning emotion vocabulary words.

HeartMath, widely known for the tools and techniques they have developed for lowering stress and managing emotions, included a children’s tool in Sunshine Secret called Heart Shine.
“This is a simple tool for teaching kids how they can replace negative emotions like anger and hurt with understanding, compassion and hope,” HMI President Sara Childre. “What it teaches them is how to activate, or think about the natural and uplifting qualities of the heart. It’s a wonderful way for them to get through any challenge.”

Other interactive activities in the program include:
•  Identifying and matching emotion faces.
•  Appreciation Board for promoting positive attitudes and feelings.
•  Sing-along songs to reinforce key program concepts and skills.
•  Animated videos with age-appropriate science content, including a frog’s life cycle, the sun and more.

Sunshine Secret has on-screen visual and audio instructions, separate Parent Guide and Educator guides and a number of other support resources. Children receive a certificate of completion after finishing the program.

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About HeartMath® Institute
HeartMath Institute (HMI), www.heartmath.org, is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit research and education organization headquartered in Central California. For more than two decades HMI has researched and developed reliable, scientifically based tools and programs through its research and education divisions that bridge the connection between heart and mind and deepen people’s connection with the hearts of others. The HeartMath methodologies offer hope of new, effective solutions for the many daunting problems that face society by restoring balance and maximizing every individual’s potential. 

HeartMath is a registered trademark of Quantum Intech, Inc.  For all HeartMath owned trademarks go to www.heartmath.com/trademarks

 

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The United States suicide rate is at a 30-year-high, and teens are facing more stressors than ever before – with social media, cyber bullying, and the pressure to be perfect. In Transforming Stress for Teens (August 1, 2016), leaders from the world-renowned HeartMath® Institute and Clemson University’s Youth Learning Institute team up to teach overwhelmed and stressed-out teen readers how to use proven-effective HeartMath® skills. These tools and techniques will help readers manage daily stress and anxiety and develop resilience by managing emotion. Scientists at the HeartMath® Institute discovered that your emotions affect your heart rhythms. The research showed that emotions such as frustration, anger, anxiety, impatience, worry, fear and sadness, for instance—the ones that drain your inner battery and that feel lousy—create a heart rhythm pattern that looks disordered and chaotic. That chaotic signal goes straight to your brain, causing a panic mode, preventing you from thinking straight. You can begin to recharge your inner battery by focusing on emotions that feel good to you. Emotions such as kindness, care, courage, appreciation, joy and patience create a smooth and ordered pattern in your heart rhythms. When your heart rhythm is even, you feel more centered, can think more clearly and have greater ability to handle the stressful situations with a lot less emotional drama. “At the heart of managing stress is how you respond to a situation,” the authors write. “Challenging situations, big and small, are a part of life, no matter how old you are. It’s how you handle those situations that counts.”

What people are saying about Transforming Stress for Teens:

Filled with research-proven, practical suggestions for transforming stress in teens, this insightful book can help you create clarity and calm in the face of the daily challenges of life. This is a step-by-step guide with accessible practices as well as interesting proposals about intuition and relationships, offering new ways of strengthening your mind and improving your life. Dive in and feel the power of this approach!

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Less stress, less drama, more true friends! Transforming Stress for Teens provides the skills and knowledge teens need to take back their power, and experience both acceptance and understanding. Fit in, be loving, and be loved, yet remain uniquely and genuinely you! A must read.

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About the Authors:

Rollin McCraty, PhD, is director of research at HeartMath® Institute Research Center. McCraty, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, is a psychophysiologist whose interests include the physiology of emotion. One of his primary areas of focus is the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, and health. Findings from this research have been incorporated by HeartMath® in the development of simple, user-friendly mental and emotional self-regulation tools and techniques. Sarah Moor is a HeartMath® master trainer and mentor. She is the instructor for HeartMath®’s coach/mentor certification training, assists in program design and development, and coordinates and mentors special HeartMath® projects. She has mentored thousands of individuals in learning how to incorporate the HeartMath® System into their daily lives. Jeff Goelitz is currently program developer, senior trainer, and education specialist with the nonprofit HeartMath® Institute. He regularly consults with education professionals, mental health specialists, and parents around the United States and Canada to help improve the well-being of youth, parent/child communication, and classroom climate and performance. In the last fifteen years, he has created and contributed to numerous educational curricula and programs designed to improve social and emotional learning, including The College De-Stress Handbook. Stephen W. Lance, MS, has over twenty years of experience in the field of youth development. Lance serves as executive director of Clemson University’s Youth Learning Institute, which serves over 25,000 youth annually in diverse programs ranging from innovative schools, group homes, camping programs, and academic field study experiences. Transforming Stress for Teens: The HeartMath Solution for Staying Cool Under Pressure (Instant Help Books, August 1, 2016, Paperback, 200 pages, ISBN: 978-1-62625-348-3)

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Science shows that the heart is an intelligence system, the topic of a new book, Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart

March 17, 2016 – BOULDER CREEK, CALIFORNIA –Recent discoveries show that the heart possesses its own intrinsic nervous system, referred to as the “heart brain.” This intelligence system has the ability to independently sense and process information. The HeartMath Institute demonstrated that one’s intuitive capabilities are closely tied to the heart-brain and the heart’s rhythms. In the new book, Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart, these new discoveries about the heart’s intelligence are clearly laid out. The book explains how a specific rhythmic pattern of the heart, referred to as “heart coherence”, can be intentionally created, thereby increasing one’s intuitive discernment and improving decision-making skills. The book has four authors: Doc Childre, founder of HeartMath, and HeartMath executives Deborah Rozman, Howard Martin, and Rollin McCraty. Their vision is to help create a heart-connected world through a deeper understanding of the intuitive intelligence within our heart. This combined with a growing global awareness that our heart’s intelligence is essential if we are to co-create a better world and future, sets the stage for the new release, Heart Intelligence. Updated scientific findings are presented in the first six chapters, and the last five chapters provide practical tools that readers can use to activate the intuitive connection between the heart and mind. Many know the struggle of quieting the mind to find that elusive stillness, hoping to connect with their intuition. Heart Intelligence de-mystifies this practice and grounds it in a user-friendly understanding, and provides methods for easier access to inner stillness. The benefits the book provides also include: how to connect with the intuitive heart for moment-to-moment guidance in simple or hard to make choices; techniques for easing the challenge of replacing patterns that drain one’s life force such as fear, stress and overwhelm; and practices that help the reader to exercise a deep compassion without the emotional fatigue. The authors explain how changing the heart’s rhythm to the coherence state helps sustain resilience and emotional balance. The intuitive heart, as the authors refer to it, creates access to more effective choices personally and collectively. Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., co-author of Heart Intelligence and President of HeartMath Inc., sums it up nicely: “Our choices are constantly determining our peace, happiness and self-security — or the stress and decline of our well-being. Learning to utilize our heart’s intuitive intelligence is a natural gift we can refer to, no matter what religion, personal growth, or spiritual path we may practice.”

Partnership Will Deliver World-Class Certification Programs To Aspiring Coaches, Mentors, Consultants, And Industry Titans

BOULDER CREEK, CA (January 26, 2015) — HeartMath® LLC, a leading developer in heart intelligence, today announced its collaboration with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), a top-rated coach training school dedicated to driving human performance and potential. This partnership brings together two proven methodologies and organizations and their innovative tools, principles, and industry certifications to develop masterful coaches and leading industry experts.  

For over two decades, HeartMath has zeroed in on all aspects of heart rate variability (HRV) and heart coherence. Through its research-based technologies, HeartMath is committed to empowering people to bring out their best selves in their personal, social, and professional lives via its Coach/Mentor and Trainer Certification Programs. Through the concepts of stress resiliency, emotional self-regulation, and optimal performance training, HeartMath has set the stage for individuals to become an expert in the mind-body-emotion connection, while guiding their clients to sustainable new behaviors (i.e. better decision making and problem solving, increased creativity and wellbeing, and improved cognitive performance.)

“We’ve wanted to connect the right partner to provide coaching skills training for our people,” said Howard Martin, Executive Vice President of HeartMath LLC. “Our criterion was to find a partner that would complement our mission and values while providing additional coaching skills for those who are becoming certified in the HeartMath programs. We feel we’ve found this with iPEC. Both organizations are deeply committed to helping people and to creating a better world. iPEC is extremely good at what they do – their programs are second to none when it comes to the skills required to be, not just a good coach, but a great coach.”

iPEC’s robust Coach Training Program certifies coaches in up to eight different disciplines and is powered by COR.E Dynamics™, a proprietary methodology that focuses on and reveals who an individual is at his or her core, helping that individual create change from the “inside out.” Scrupulously accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF), and founded on more than 10,000 hours of research and application with roots in psychotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), quantum physics, metaphysics, adult and accelerated learning theories, emotional intelligence, and leadership development, the program addresses the very basis of change (clearing blocks, challenging thoughts and fears, and understanding the power of choice) helping individuals achieve extraordinary results in their lives, careers, and businesses. In addition, iPEC’s proven Business Development System teaches the intricacies of building a successful coaching practice covering outer strategies such as branding/marketing and message development, giving graduates the most comprehensive and well-rounded education in the industry.

“iPEC is excited to be working alongside the HeartMath team, especially when you look at the shared mission between us – helping people live with purpose, strength, and heart,” said Luke Iorio, President & CEO, iPEC Coaching. “We are amazed by the science and forethought that enables HeartMath’s tools and applications to navigate an individual toward their best self. Their program complements any coach and/or consultant who is looking to add to their skills set combining theoretical concepts with tangible results. It’s all in their name – HeartMath is a true innovator for the enrichment of humanity.”

Combining the respected track records – HeartMath’s life-changing Coach/Mentor and Trainer Certification Programs and iPEC’s unsurpassed coaching, wellbeing, and leadership development programs – paves the way for a complementary alliance, one dedicated to raising the consciousness of the world on a national and global scale.

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ABOUT HEARTMATH:
The HeartMath team is committed to developing research-based, practical, and reliable tools and technologies that empower people to improve their experience of life and bring their best selves to their personal, social, and professional lives. A world leader in heart rate variability (HRV) and heart coherence, HeartMath and its sister company, the Institute of HeartMath, a nonprofit research organization, have spent over two decades researching and educating health professionals and consumers about HRV feedback and heart coherence training and its vital role in stress management, emotional self-regulation and optimal performance training, as well as increasing vitality and resilience. The HeartMath organizations have demonstrated through clinical studies the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance. This work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as The American Journal of Cardiology, Stress Medicine, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, Preventive Cardiology and Biological Psychology. 

Their organizational clients include Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, U.C.L.A. Medical Center, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Stanford University, Stanford University Medical Center, Fairfield Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, Intel, Lockheed, US Forest Service, US Military, VA Medical Centers, Alberta Health Services and more than twenty thousand health professionals.

ABOUT iPEC:
The Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) offers the most comprehensive and experiential
coach training program in the world. An ICF-accredited program, iPEC is the originator of COR.E Dynamics™ – coaches who are experts in helping clients break through limiting thoughts and emotional responses moving their clients to take powerful and consistent action. iPEC has graduated Certified Professional Coaches in the specialties of life, professionals, transition, health and wellness, relationship, small business, corporate, and executive coaching and operates in 17 major cities across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

In addition, iPEC offers the highly successful and powerful Coach Centric Leadership™ Engagement Program to corporations, organizations, governments, law enforcement agencies, and non-profit organizations around the world. iPEC is recognized by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the Top Leadership Development Programs, for 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. For more information, please visit www.iPECcoaching.com.

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