Professional Coach Spurs Protégés on to Greatness

Are you like Kerri Strug, just needing your own personal Bela Karolyi to cheer you on to greatness?

Professional coach Jim Gahen is ready to help—for a fee.

Whether you seek more job fulfillment, more love in your life or more personal enjoyment, Gahen will help you to find what you’re looking for.  Along the way, the founder of the International Coaching Society will be your cheerleader, adviser, mentor and best friend.

“We help people who are looking for more of something,” said Gahen, 33, of San Francisco. “We take what we call a snapshot of their lives, breaking it down into different areas, rate the categories from 1 to 10, and then decide how we can improve areas they aren’t happy with. It’s very fulfilling work.”

And lucrative.  Gahen charges $150 for the initial consultation, and then $250 per month for four 30-minute phone conversations. He puts clients through an intensive self-examination process, mental exercises and soul-searching.
His clients are “executives and entrepreneurs from the Carolinas to San Francisco,” and he also has begun coaching people who want to become coaches themselves. The idea of coaching careers is catching on nationwide, Gahen said.

“We have a manual that gives people everything they need to know on how to successfully coach people, “ Gahen said. “It’s a great way for people who care about other people to reach out and help them.”

The Detroit News
By Jeff Barr
September 11, 1996