WHAT IS IT?

InventureCoach is a 12-month one-on-one coaching process to help executives build and sustain an authentic leadership presence. Richard Leider provides the framework, the tools and the support to help you create your personal development plan and practices. He provides thinking partner support for your challenges throughout the year.

WHY DO WE NEED IT?

Complex change makes extraordinary demands on executives. To thrive, mastery of business issues is not enough. Managing ourselves becomes a necessity. Being a trusted leader, today, demands that we develop ourselves first. But, it is difficult to go it alone. It requires accountability and practices.

WHO ARE GOOD CANDIDATES FOR COACHING?

InventureCoach is a whole person approach to development. Richard's clients are executives who wish to lead whole, balanced lives from an authentic sense of purpose, values and strengths. InventureCoach is for you if you want a disciplined process that asks the right questions and puts a plan and practices in place to support balance, wholeness and natural productivity throughout the entire year.

WHAT ARE THE RESULTS?

InventureCoach helps you to:

• Develop a solid development plan and practices.
• Clarify your purpose, vision, values and goals.
• Increase balance and energy.
• Reduce stress.
• Master these skill areas: Speaking, Coaching, Leading Meetings.

WHAT IS THE PROCESS?

Richard meets with you one-on-one, on your schedule over a 12-month period. Techniques include initial face-to-face intensive sessions, monthly telephone meetings, quarterly check-up sessions and year-end review.

WHO IS THE COACH?

Founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, Richard is a respected pioneer in the field of executive coaching. Forbes named him one of the five "most respected" coaches in America. Author or co-author of eight books, including three best-sellers, he is an internationally recognized coach, speaker, writer. He has a master's degree in counseling psychology and is a Master Certified Career Counselor.

"InventureCoach" is a registered trademark of The Inventure Group.

WHAT IS IT?

What's next? Periodically we need to review and revision our lives. Every decade of the life cycle brings new challenges, goals, pleasures, and possibilities. Every life transition—success, failure, illness, divorce, retirement—requires us to unpack and repack our bags, and look for renewed purpose and direction.

The Midlife Checkup offers seasoned guidance, fresh perspectives, and solid practices to support you through your midlife transition.

WHY DO WE NEED IT?

The Midlife Checkup fills a new gap. Money, medicine and meaning are essential to a vital second half. The checkup is designed to sharpen your focus on meaning. The core focus is this: purpose dramatically impacts second half health and fulfillment!

WHO ARE GOOD CANDIDATES?

The Midlife Checkup is for executives and professionals who feel the need for a trusted, confidential thinking partner who can provide fresh perspective to help them answer "what's next" in their lives. Many of us spend more time planning our vacations than we do planning our lives. We just never quite get around to planning it until age 50, 60 or 70 arrives—unannounced, unplanned and unwelcome. Major transitions are not easy to undertake alone. Isolation can be fatal! Many of us do better with a coach.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Midlife Checkup process uses a variety of life-learning tools and practices to create a second half game plan. Steps include:

• Pre-work
• Two half-day in person coaching sessions
• Three, one hour phone coaching sessions
• Life Map
• Six-month checkup

WHAT ARE THE RESULTS?

The Midlife Checkup is a seasoned coaching process built on a well-researched, whole person model to help you:

• Reduce midlife transition stress and isolation
• Clarify "what's next?"
• Discover new purpose and passions
• Uncover new dreams and goals
• Avoid the drain of indecision

WHO IS THE COACH?

Richard is consistently rated as one of the top executive educators and coaches in the world. He is ranked by Forbes as one of the "Top 5" most respected executive coaches and by Linkage as one of the "Top 50" executive coaches in America.

Founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm in Minneapolis, MN, Richard has a worldwide practice working with many leading organizations such as Ameriprise, Caterpillar, Habitat for Humanity, MetLife, Pfizer and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

He is on the faculty of executive education programs at Duke Corporate Education, the University of Minnesota Carlson School's Executive Development Center and the Harvard Business School's General Management Program. As a speaker and seminar leader, he has taught over 100,000 executives from 50 corporations worldwide.

Richard is the author of eight books, including three best sellers, and his work has been translated into 21 languages. Repacking Your Bags and The Power of Purpose are considered classics in the career development field. Claiming Your Place at the Fire and Something to Live For, have been touted as breakthrough books on "vital aging." He is a contributing author to many leading edge coaching books, including: Coaching for Leadership, The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching for Results and The Leader of the Future.

Richard holds a Master's Degree in Counseling and is a Nationally Certified Master Career Counselor. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing where he is a founder of The Purpose Project. As a commentator on work/life issues, Richard appears in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today, and on television and public radio.

A pioneer and leader in the field of coaching, Richard is widely recognized for his breakthrough thinking on how to help people discover the power of purpose in work and life. His work received recognition from the Bush Foundation, from which he was awarded a Bush Fellowship to study "purposeful aging." Believing passionately that each of us is born with a purpose, he is dedicated to helping people to "discover the power of purpose." Along with his professional pursuits, Richard has led Inventure Expedition walking safaris in Tanzania, East Africa for 25 years.