Our Coaches

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Shandel is an executive coach with a proven track record of helping business professionals realize their personal and professional goals. For over a decade, she has worked with everyone from entrepreneurs to employees of Fortune 500 firms.

Philosophy

Shandel believes that seeking clarity on the right thing, the right way, while focusing on key relationships, leads to faster growth that breeds long-lasting results.
Shandel coaches professionals who want to better define and execute their mission, strengthen their leadership skills, and hone their self-awareness. She is passionate about helping leaders achieve the next level of success in their professional and personal lives.

Experience and Qualifications

Shandel is a Master Certified Coach who holds a Summa Cum Laude degree in Psychology from Vanguard University.  She is a Coach U Graduate and holds certifications in Behavior Analysis, Professional Values Analysis, and Trimetrix. She is also a speaker and author who has shared her wisdom via the Ask Shandel radio and podcast segment on a popular talk show. She is affiliated with the National Speakers’ Association, International Coaching Federation, The Graduate School of Coaching, Target Training International, Pinnacle Forum, and the Entrepreneur’s Organization.

 

Lauren Clark joins True Life Coaching as a coach dedicated to results. Lauren is inspired to influence business leaders, professionals, and passionate individuals alike who are ready to discover and utilize their personal truth for great success.

Philosophy

Lauren helps her clients see the truth in themselves in order to live with intention and achieve focused results. Her unique skills create a coaching atmosphere for her clients to purposefully inspire their life, business, finances, relationships, and health to a new level.
She looks forward to impacting your life/business with the same passion she exudes in her business, coaching, and personal life.

Experience and Qualifications

With over 4 years of international personal and professional coaching experience, she’s also earned her BA in Communications from Sonoma State University, studied the mindset in relation to personal power and performance from various local and international training and development schools, has traveled extensively around the globe encouraging her many clients toward tremendous results, and has recently made quite the lifestyle transition by swapping the hectic jungle of Los Angeles for the serene forests of Reno/Tahoe.

 

Deborah Griffing, PhD., is an accomplished professional with 25 years’ experience in the human development business as a psychotherapist, advanced-practice nurse, college professor, executive coach, and speaker. For the last 19 years, Deborah has enjoyed a thriving private practice in psychotherapy where she has counseled hundreds of individuals, couples and families.

Philosophy

Deborah applies her knowledge and experience by helping individuals and teams to risk reaching beyond their current level of functioning in order to create their desired future. A passionate advocate of the practical application of Emotional Intelligence capacities,The ‘Heart’ of Smart™, she is energized by helping individuals and organizations develop their  EQ (Emotional Quotient) to improve their personal/professional performance. Her expertise includes helping individuals become more self-aware, manage their emotions and behavior in positive ways, develop increased social awareness of others, and improve interpersonal relationships.

Experience and Qualifications

Dr. Griffing is principal and founder of innovative Leadership, LLC, a professional services firm. Certified as a Leadership Coach by the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, Deborah is affiliated with the National Speaker’s Association and Target Training International. She is also a certified consultant with Learning in Action Technologies.

Deborah is happily married to Lee, her husband of 25 years, and has two children: Kathryn and John.

 

Melinda has been mentoring entrepreneurs, business owners, young professionals, students, and others, for over a decade.  She worked in the fitness industry for years, inspiring and equipping clients with tools to reach lifestyle goals.

Philosophy

No matter your goal, Melinda aspires to uncover the greatness in you.  She will help you embrace who you were created to be, spiritually, emotionally, and relationally.

Experience and Qualifications

Melinda holds a B.S. from Central Washington University.  She has spoken throughout the United States and Mexico at conferences and mission outreaches. Her certification in True Life Coaching’s Leading from Your Strengths course, as well as her proven leadership skills, brings a rich, solid quality to her coaching style.

In February of 2000, Melinda became a senior pastor with her husband Jeff following the tragic loss of his parents on Alaska Airlines Flight 261.  Since that tragedy, their work has been featured on numerous television and print publications, both local and at the national level.

Melinda and Jeff have one daughter. Melinda is a recording artist who enjoys triathlons, fashion, and the outdoors.