Instructors: Coaching for Successful Schools and Coaching for Student Success
Marcia Meislin
Marcia Meislin is President of MCM Management Consultants, a company specializing in training, coaching, and developing leaders by enhancing skills in management, communications, team-building, customer service, change, and consulting. MCM clients include: AT&T, Ford Foundation, Greater New York Auto Dealers Association, John Hancock/Manulife, JPMorgan Chase, Life’s WORC, Medco Health, Tempo Clinic, UJA-Federation of New York, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Marcia is author of The Internal Consultant: Drawing on Inside Expertise, published in 1997 by Crisp Publications. She has authored or been featured in numerous professional articles including “The Auditor as Internal Consultant” in Internal Auditor Magazine. In addition, Marcia has taught at Pace University Graduate Center, College of New Rochelle, and the New School Leadership Center. Prior to forming her business in 1987, Marcia was Vice President of Human Resources at NatWest Bank, where she served as Retail Training Director. Before that, Marcia worked in counseling and teaching functions for various not-for-profit organizations, primarily in the Boston area. Marcia holds a B.S. from Cornell, an M.Ed. from Cambridge College, and psychotherapy certification from the Gestalt Center of Long Island. She is licensed as a Mental Health Counselor in New York State.
Chaya Abelsky
Chaya Abelsky founded Triumphant Journeys in 2007, after receiving certification in Life Coaching from New York University. She took a wandering journey to find her own career, having started as a computer programmer and software marketing for the Davidsohn Group, a consulting firm that worked with brokerage firms. She then moved to the NonProfit HelpDesk, where she started in a technology position, but one that required her to do a lot of individual training. She found she enjoyed the more people-oriented work.
From that point on, Chaya gave herself the gift of taking classes every year (while she worked and raised a family!). She focused on the topic of healing, a passion of hers. She learned to develop her sense of intuition, and to strengthen her natural tendencies in listening to people and accepting them for who they are. Chaya found that empowering other people was the most rewarding thing she could do.
She moved into a managerial role at the NonProfit HelpDesk and focused the organization on empowering the staff at other nonprofit organizations with skills and tools that let them run their organizations more effectively. She expanded her own capabilities by taking management skills courses. Her path eventually led her to the Life Coaching Program at NYU.
In addition to her certificate in Life Coaching from NYU, Ms. Abelsky is an Associate Certified Coach of the International Coaching Federation. She received a certificate in data processing from the COPE Institute, and attended Beth Rivka Teacher’s College.
Rochel Lieberman, MA CCC-SLP
Ms. Lieberman is a Speech Language Pathologist and a professor of language development. She is the founder and director of Ariber Speech, where she provides speech related services, including accent modification and vocal strength treatment. She works continuously with professional speakers and sales professionals to enhance their ability to communicate with the “sound of success”.
Elki Rosenfeld
Elki Rosenfeld is a long-time Torah educator, who has been a teacher, guidance counselor, assistant principal and principal. She currently runs teacher-training programs and is a sought after lecturer on Judaic, educational and psychological topics.
Elki has studied creative writing and poetry on the post-university level and is a published writer. She is also passionate about psychology and has studied under master psychologists in classroom and individual counseling settings.
Elki helped open a shelter for homeless Orthodox teens in Brooklyn, and was involved in writing state-required manuals, interviewing applicants and inaugurating programs.
She is presently a columnist at The Jewish Press.
Elki studied under Dr. Jackie Black, Ph.D. at CTA, Coach Training Alliance, and graduated as a Certified Life Coach in September of 2008.
