Linda Cassell, certified executive coach, recruiter, workshop facilitator, and speaker, teaches executives how to jumpstart their careers to create new and exciting professional possibilities. Her clients learn customized personal development techniques and smart business strategies that help them make quantum leap changes in their thinking, habits, and focus. Social media, marketing, resume writing, interviewing and networking techniques are included as part of her coaching packages.
Linda uses an “inside-out” approach, believing that external change is an internal process. When clients have made the "mental shift" necessary to accomplish their goals, they have full access to their natural creativity. That is when the "magic" begins and the million dollar ideas surface. As a result, they create “inspired action plans” which lead to career and business opportunities that previously seemed unattainable.
As an entrepreneur and the product of a family business, Linda understands the environment and culture in which executives operate. Most importantly, she is results-oriented and has the experience and skills to facilitate positive change.
Prior to her work as an executive coach, Linda spent more than twenty years leading non-profit organizations. In addition to managing the operations of Quantum Leap Coaching and Training, Linda is president of Managing Partners II, LLC, a Delaware based company that provides coaching, development, and recruitment services to non-profit organizations. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees in education from Kent State University in Ohio. Linda received her certification from the Coaches Training Institute, one of the world’s premier coaching schools.
Two themes that I developed are prevelent throughout my work:
External change is an internal process
Clean breaks lead to new breaks
That is what I help individuals accomplish: external change through a customized internal "mental shift" process and helping folks to make a "clean break" from situations (external or internal) that no longer serve them, which lead to "new breaks."
There are many quotes and bodies of thought that continually inspire and renew me. Here are a few:
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"Leaders must attend to one key growth question: How authentically am I showing up in the world and in my organization?" Tom Gegax "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said "- Peter Drucker
"Things do not change; we change" - Henry David Thoreau
First you have to fail, then you can improve - Seth Godin
"I dream for a living." Steven Spielberg
“But, if you ask the right question—not why is this happening, but what is this here to teach me?—it puts you in the place and space to get the lesson you need.” Oprah Winfrey
"No problem can be solved from the
same level of consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein
"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” -Catherine Ponder
"Seeking enlightenment is like looking for the car keys that are already in your hand. Assume that you are complete, and then get in your car and drive." Author unknown
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." Lenedra Carroll
"True nobility is being superior to your former self" Lao Tzu