Biographical Information

KAREN JORE  (pronounced "your" ) is the principal of  Life Track Professional Coaching Services.

She is a professional coach who works with both individual and business clients to achieve their desired life changes and goals.  With individual clients, she focuses on the issues of fulfillment, life balance and working through important life transitions such as career change, retirement, separation and divorce.  She also provides guidance and instruction to clients who wish to develop a regular meditation routine.

With business clients, Karen coaches executives and managers to optimize their effectiveness in the work environment.  She can also work with business teams to foster peak performance and effective communication among team members.  She is versed in the use of assessments in a variety of business applications, including team building, enhanced communication, employee performance and career coaching.  She has successfully coached entrepreneurs in starting a new business venture.

Karen has received coaching training from both the Coaches Training Institute and Corporate Coach U International.   Prior to becoming a professional coach, Ms. Jore practiced law for 12 years in New York City, concentrating in the areas of environmental law and commercial litigation.   She also holds a masters degree in landscape architecture and was involved in landscape preservation work for not-for-profit organizations such as the Central Park Conservancy and the Sunnyside Gardens Foundation.   Karen is an outdoors person, enjoying sailing, camping, cross-country skiing and gardening.

 

MICHAEL ERKKINEN has supported organizations  as a consultant, coach, and trainer for the past 15 years. He has worked with many service organizations such as Morgan Stanley, American Express, JWHenry, and Deloitte and Touche, and also with manufacturing organizations such as Pratt Whitney, and UTC.  Michael was a core staff member of the Foxhollow Leadership Center, whose mission was to integrate Eastern, wholistic values and methods into mainstream corporate culture. He has worked extensively with the French, systems based consulting company, Metasystem. 

Michael's success in supporting the transformation of organizational culture is largely the result of deep insight, effective models, and the ability to confront "what is" in an honest and compassionate way.

 

Client Raves & Testimonials

A. KOZLAKOWSKI  (Internet Services Executive)

"My coach is a gentle guide who leads me into deeply hearing myself.  She then tasks me to set a course of action, all the while leading me with questions." 

 

LISA   (Psychoanalyst)  

 "Karen has the great gift of being able to single out the essential elements contained in the issue at hand and to gently help you focus on the goals you have set -- and that continues to expand as your work unfolds together.  In sum, Karen is smart, intuitive and able to create a powerful collaborative problem-solving atmosphere to move you from one point to another." 

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M. LANIK (Print Media Career)

"Having Karen Jore as my coach was a great learning and growing experience.  She guided me to focus, make a plan and begin the process to get more out of my life, both personally and professionally.  I think everyone could greatly benefit from a coach like her."  

 

L. BRINKERHOFF (Business Owner/Consultant)

"Karen has been the eye of my storm for some years now, as coach, friend, witness;  she has done this with such grace, wisdom and due challenge.  I honor her work, how much I have accomplished and who I have become while being engaged with Karen's work."  

 

A. LAPIERRE  (Jewelry Artist)

"I didn't really think I needed Karen as my coach. I was of the mindset that if I really wanted to do something I'd do it.  But I gave it a try and here I am 9 months later after starting to work with Karen and I've gotten more done,  in terms of changing my career from 9-5 corporate zombie to almost being a self-employed jewelry artist, than I did in my 29 years previous to that."      

"What you concentrate on, what you talk about and what you plan for with Karen is what you can actively do to make your life the one you want, starting with today... it's about making practical, positive and effective changes that you put in place in your life.  Karen is there to guide you through that process... and will support you in reaching for your goals and your vision of yourself...." 

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