coaching concepts library

We hope you find this site to be both informative and fun.  We are both coaches and have considerable life and professional experience that informs our work with our clients.  We have individual coaching practices and we are the founders and co-directors of Empowerment Partners LLC, a group of coaches that provides focused coaching services to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

About Us

Jeannine Coyne, LCSW, MSW

As an educator, coach and therapist, I have helped hundreds of professionals and artists discover their hidden talents, develop their creativity and fill their lives with greater joy and purpose.  Along the way, I've developed a couple of areas of deep expertise and passion.  I focus on coaching individuals, couples and teams to:

• build leadership and team effectiveness skills 

• create greater satisfaction at work and in personal relationships by enhancing their relationship skills and sharpening their communications skills

• develop their creativity, hone their ideas and bring out their talents. 

With 30+ years of experience in the field of human development, I've worked with individuals from nearly every walk of life and of nearly all ages.  My educational background includes coach training through the College of Executive Coaching and the Coaches Training Institute, a Master's in Clinical Social Work and a bachelor's degree in education and psychology.  Besides my coaching, I've been a teacher of handicapped and emotionally disturbed children, faculty member at a teaching hospital, therapist and director of children's theater.

I believe that all of us have the capability of doing much more than we have ever tried and can bring much more happiness and fulfillment into our lives.  Coaching helps us recognize what we can do and helps us develop the skills by which we can advance our lives and achieve our goals.  If you are interested in experiencing what coaching can do for you, please Contact Us.

Gary Clayton, CEC

I like to partner with organizations and individuals to bring them into alignment with their mission, be it increased shareholder value or a community or societal goal.  In my work, I focus on helping individuals and teams to:

• develop clear and obtainable objectives and goals by strengthening the client's vision skills

• capitalize on the possibilities presented by the marketplace, technology, society and the client's own strengths by enhancing the client's innovation skills

• increase individual and organizational productivity and effectiveness by enhancing leadership and teamwork skills

I also like working with individuals who know - or want to know - what is their life purpose and who want to bring their lives into alignment with their life purpose.

My coaching is informed by my wide-ranging life experience, including travel in 36 countries and 43 US states.  I was raised in a rural area and have lived in large cities and small towns in six states.  I have supervised employees and work teams on four continents.  My experience includes line and management positions in management consulting, software services, direct marketing, manufacturing and electronics engineering.

I became a coach after years of employing a coaching leadership style to manage my team of up to 125 professionals working throughout the Americas.  I paid a great deal of attention to developing my team's skills around leadership, teamwork and creativity.  Each team had to work confidently and independently for days and sometimes weeks without much interaction with me - and high levels of creativity were essential in meeting our clients' expectations. 

With 30+ years of business experience, I have consulted with over sixty corporations and hundreds of individuals ranging from the executive suite to the warehouse and customer service.  In addition, I've directed numerous complex multi-year projects from inception to completion.  These consulting initiatives covered the range from strategic visioning, developing innovation skills and enhancing organizational  productivity and effectiveness.

I am a certified graduate of iPEC Coaching and a member of the International Coach Federation, the Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance and the Organizational Development Network.

I believe that all of us (individuals and corporations) are able to achieve much greater things than we have dared to imagine for ourselves.  We can create greater visions than we have dared to dream.  We have more capacity for innovation and creativity than we allow ourselves to believe.  And we can achieve greater productivity and effectiveness than we believe.  To achieve our potential, we must free ourselves from the limits we put on ourselves - and coaching is a great way to do this.