Miriam Reiss

Education and Professional Experience

• Twenty five years experience as corporate marketing director, consultant/facilitator, and career transition expert for wide range of businesses and industries from financial services and health care to non-profit.
• Received Executive Management Program Certificate (MBA equivalent for executive leaders) from Boston University.
• Highly trained specialist in marketing, human behavior and communications, leadership development, teambuilding, and organizational transition.
• Earned Master's degree in English and Communications from Columbia University and Bachelor's degree in English from Cornell University.
• Certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE)
  
• Master Certified Coach, Highest Ranking Accorded by the Intenational Coach Federation

Coaching Related Experience, Education and Certifications

Over 275 hours of coach training from diverse professional coach training programs and over 4,000 hours of private practice coaching:

• Coach University graduate 1998, where currently lead teleclasses for TeleClass.com
• Corporate Coach University International (CCUI) certified trainer, 1998
• The Coaches Training Institute, 1997
• Attraction Program graduate 1997

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• Chair, International Coach Federation (ICF) Small Business Coaching Committee, 2000 - Present
• Leadership Team, ICF Puget Sound Coaches Association, 1999 - Present
• Regional Director (8 state region) for Coach University Chapters, 1997-8
• Founded the first Coaching Special Interest Group in the country for the American Society for
  Training and Development (ASTD), 1997
• Instructor, Discover U, Bellevue, North Seattle and Highline Community Colleges
• Member, International Coach Federation (ICF) and Puget Sound Coaches Association (PSCA)

Other Training

• Master of Spiritual Science, Peace Theological Seminary, 2001
• The Process Toward Peace trainings, Institute for Individual and World Peace, 1996-7
• Brain Gym, neuropsychological training, 1996
• Peace Awareness Trainings, Peace Theological Seminar, 1994-7
• IMPAQ Organizational Improvement Systems, facilitator training and certification, 1993
• Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), core training, 1991
• Human Awareness Institute, 1991
• Hoffman Quadrinity Process, Hoffman Institute, 1995
• Powerful Choices (women's survival & defense training), 1995
• Essential Peacemaking (Dannan Perry & Geralyn Brusseau, founders), 1995
• Landmark Forum, 1993-4
• Insight Seminars, 1988-91
• Kundalini Research Institute, Certified Kundalini Yoga instructor, 1989