H. Les Brown
MA, CFCC
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H. Les Brown, MA, CFCC, Work-Life Balance Expert
H. Les Brown Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Men's Midlife Issues, Life Coaching, Entrepreneurs, Balance, Business Coaching, Career Development, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Coaching, Goal Setting, Leadership Skills, Personal Development, Spiritual Growth, Success Coaching
- Career Focus
- Certified Life & Entrepreneurial Coach, Author, Trainer and Speaker
- Affiliation
- ProActivation® Coaching, International Coach Federation (ICF), Worldwide Association of Businesses Coaches (WABC)
“The solutions our most baffling problems appear only when we’re willing to reframe our questions.” Les Brown has been challenging men and women torndiscover new approaches to their personal and professional lives for over thirty years. Les is more than just an insightful change strategist. Hernpartners with his coaching clients, inviting them to embrace change with personal integrity and professional accountability.
Les has managed a successful coaching practice since 2003. His clients are highly-motivated entrepreneurs from a broad range ofrnbackgrounds. He’s also a writer and a regular contributor to Businessr Coaching Worldwide, the online magazine of the Worldwide Association of Businessr Coaches. Over the past few years, Les has been developing a program for publication that introduces seven key awarenesses that are essential for creating purposeful change in book and CD formats. Les has also joined Lynr Christian of SoulSalt, Inc. as a coach in her Inspired Entrepreneur program. In addition to holding certification as a Certified Franklin-Covey Coach, Les is also holds a Certificate of Initial Mastery in Marshall Goldsmith Behavioralr Coaching and also holds one in Adele Lynn’s (A Different Kind of Smart) Applying Emotional Intelligence.
Les is an active member ofrnthe Internationalr Coach Federation (ICF), the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC), and the Coachville Communities. Les has offered several personal improvement teleclasses through Coachville’s teleclass.com system and PlanetTeleclass.com.
With over fifteen years of corporate experience, Les served as Executiver Vice President of a mid-sized Northeaste manufacturing company. Atrnvarious times, he was the lead in the critical business functions of Information Technology, Accounting, andr Human Resources. As a certified ISO-9000 lead auditor, he headed the 5-year acquisition program for both ISO-9000 and QS-9000 quality certification. His leadership was instrumental in transforming a 1950’s-era family business into a high-commitment, team-based, 21st Century “tier two” automotive supplier. Before entering corporate management, Les managed his own software development company, building custom inventory and order management software for small businesses.
Although Les has spent much of his career in entrepreneurial and corporate leadership, his primary focus has always been on the individual. During his ten years in the active ministry, Les was recognized as a popular speaker and was a sought-after spiritual counselor. He was also involved in adult education on both the local and regional levels.
Inrnaddition to his various certifications, Les holds a Master of Arts Degree in philosophy and an Master of Arts in theology, both from the University of Ottawa.
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Is The Man in the Mirror a Fraud?
For the past few days, I've been reading Dr. Jed Diamond's newest book, The Irritable Male Syndrome with rapt attention (in advance of interviewing him on my upcoming internet radio program). In my estimation, this book is required reading for anyone in the helping professions. It explores a ...
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The Boomer Survival Guide
What an absolutely amazing time to be a 'Boomer! If you're a person who likes a challenge, you'll absolutely love 2009! There's nothing quite like the fear of financial insecurity to stress every system in your life (your career, your relationships and your health) to within an inch of its ...
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Sliding Downhill from Commitment to Denial
You see all those fancy letters after my name? The 'MA' (at least one of them) is the result of my fascination with Western (Greek) philosophy. These ancient brilliant minds, after all, laid the foundation for our entire cultural perspective. What to us 'sophisticated' contemporary thinkers ...
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How Deep Will Your Midlife Crisis Go?
I was determined not to have a midlife crisis. I had one. The scary part of it all was that the results lasted over a period of about 20 years. By 'results', I mean there were unresolved issues that hung on for that length of time. That's one of the most uncomfortable aspects of a midlife ...
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The Only Way to Win the Battle of the Sexes
Here's a double spoiler for you, first for the 1983 movie, War Games, then for this article: as the computer, Joshua, comments at the end of this picture: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." It works as well for global thermonuclear war as it does for the age-old conflict ...
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More Than Muddling Through
Unpleasant surprises don't necessarily have to be a necessary part of the process of midlife transition. 'Shock and awe' may have have some usefulness in military operations, but they clearly don't belong in a well-managed life. Although it's impossible to predict all the eventualities of ...
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Xenophobia And You
"Xenophobe: A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples" [Wikipedia]. Regardless of where you fall personal on the spectrum of political opinion, you have to be at least a little awestruck at the recent US presidential election. ...
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No Little Pill Will Fix It
Over the past number of years, there has been an explosion of advertising around pharmaceuticals that are designed to alleviate problems with ED [erectile dysfunction] in men (for the drug companies and advertising agencies, the embarrassment of ED has apparently replaced the heartbreak of ...
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Sorry, Guys - Time's Up!
You know what they say: "Time and tide wait for no man." And, you know, they're right. Time's up, guys! Tide's gone out, and there's not enough water left to float your boat. For the past four months, I've been focusing my energies on addressing the single most critical time in a person's life ...
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Vision Correction As A Metaphor For Midlife
Yesterday I went for my biennial eye exam. I had all the drops and the blinding equipment scanning my cornea and retina. I read the charts so often that I had the bottom line memorized by the time I was finished: O V T C Z 2. Naturally, my eyes were a little worse than they were two years ago, a ...
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The Endangered Working Male
Several years ago, my friend, Dr. Jed Diamond explained how masculine acculturation was creating a huge obstacle for men in the workforce: both young and old. As the world moves from an industrial model to a "post-industrial" (or knowledge-based) economy, the skill sets most in demand evolve ...
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What If I Get Sick?
This is my first day back in my home office since I left on my Vancouver trip last week. In the meantime, something unpleasant happened to me: some kind of nasty, lingering stomach virus that has left me wanting to do nothing more than just sleep. Getting sick is one of life's most unpleasant ...
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The Spirit in Crisis journal
Our mission is to present spiritual responses to some of the greatest challenges that life has to offer: events like death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, serious accident or illness, crises of identity, recovery from addiction, loss of job or career, retirement, and other life-altering events.
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Midlife Matters Radio Show
Commentary, interviews, chat, and online discussion with H. Les Brown, MA, CFCC and his guest experts on issues that affect men (and women) in the midlife transition. How do you keep a midlife transition from becoming a crisis???
February 4, 2009
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Midlife Mastery
Home page for the Midlife Mastery programs: access to Midlife Mastery Blog and Midlife Mastery Community. Focus is on successful men facing or experiencing the midlife transition.
August 20, 2008
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from H. Les Brown
- "The only constant is change."
- "If it's not on your schedule, it won't get done."
- "Life-work balance is a moving target."
- "If nothing changes, nothing changes." - 12-Step Programs
- "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." - Albert Einstein
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H. Les Brown, MA, CFCC
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How to get started
Here are my suggestions for getting started with Les and ProActivation® Coaching:
1. Get to know me:
Read some of my (free) articles at Evan Carmichael's site.
Read my daily blog, Midlife Mastery, at www.MidlifeMaster.net
2. Tell me about yourself
E-mail me at info@ProActivation.com and let me know:
- Who are you? What accomplishments are you most proud of? What are your chief skills? What experiences most shaped the person you are today?
- What do you do? What do you most enjoy doing? Who are the people who help you to get by, day-to-day?
- What are your dreams? What are your passions? What will life look like in five years? In ten years?
- What are your conce s? Are there obstacles? What are they? Where would you rather be than where you are now?
3. If work-life balance is an issue
Join the Balanced Life Project by signing up for my Life Balance Web-Workshop
Purchase and read The Frazzled Entrepreneur's Guide to Having It All
4. If you're a man facing midlife
Explore the Midlife Mastery series of projects at www.MidlifeMaster.com
5. If you're interested in working one-on-one with me
Contact me about personal life coaching at Coaching.FrazzledEntrepreneur.com
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