Facts & Media

Exec + Business + Personal Coaching and Reputation Mgt + Repair Facts & Media

MORE BIO ON YOUR COACH / REPUTATION MANAGER AND TEAM:

From age 19 through age 57, I founded six corporations, delegated authority, and built them competently. I eventually combined them into two companies under Spray-Lining and Spray Lining and Coatings. Our target markets included agriculture, monuments, automotive, landscaping, waterscapes, retail outdoor gear, earthquake retrofitting, and, most recently, industrial preservation systems.

Our professional relationships include leaders whom you may speak with, from multinational, multibillion-dollar public corporations to managers and owners of private businesses earning under $2 million in revenue. They agree that Jules and his group follow few of the standard protocols used within the coaching and reputation-management industry—especially the LinkedIn profiles and websites portraying people as big, busy, wealthy, powerful, and exponentially experienced. Many of those presentations expanded with LinkedIn, which appeared in 2003.

For practical purposes, reputation management, reputation repair, and coaching—especially for executive, business, and personal issues—form a relatively new industry. Jules and the team consider themselves part of that evolving field. Regardless of our experience, we do not assume that our programs already contain the answer to your particular situation. They may, but we still learn every day.

You’ll find that most advertised coaches and reputation managers’ accolades do not share these, “specialized” certifications, course completions, diplomas, endorsements, accreditations, etc. amongst staff or leaders. We usually find during your intake appointments that our team’s on-site, on-the-job career and life experiences—all of which are provable and verifiable—supersede any of these so-called accreditations.

When an endorsement—usually a set of alphabet-type letters—is displayed on coaching websites, you have more than a right to ask which person they belong to because they cannot belong to a whole company (unless the company is only one or a small number of people). That’s impossible, as if everyone in the company shares a diploma of some sort. Only people take these classes or sign up for these memberships which are for fees. You have a right to ask if their actual coach is the one that’s actually certified, and proof of such. Also, if you look carefully, you’ll find most of these credentials or classes are operated by competing coaches themselves. The reason why is fairly obvious to us; it’s a profitable business in itself.

All team members have earned bachelor’s degrees; three have earned master’s degrees, and one has earned a doctorate. Remote team members also have formal education in fields including business, psychology, education, and engineering relevant to client matters. This is why questionable or contrived courses, credentials, certificates, and diplomas did not fit our team.

This was the main reason we decided against any of these courses or accreditations. You can ask yourself, can hard-core, bottom-line, real world, experience (notwithstanding, overcoming our own professional issues or personal mistakes) or can coaching or reputation-management classes teach how to help you with your issues to get you to succeed?

Assuming you wish to be confident about what my organization or any competing coaching or reputation-management entity does, I'm advising: Request (respectfully demand) proof. Names and contact info of graduates. Why not? Ask for contact information for clients they helped. Communicate directly with people who can provide clear proof of what they achieved, how they achieved it, and why it succeeded.

The “privacy pitch”: Of course we understand privacy matters. Does that mean that none of these graduates or their clients are ever available as referrals? One step further: If they are listed somewhere, can they be looked up and reached to confirm the above?

The following link displays consolidated lists of the various accreditations discussed. It includes major coaching, reputation-repair, and reputation-management credentials, certifications, organizations, assessments, diplomas, and titles used throughout the coaching industry.

I STRONGLY ADVISE PROSPECTS & CLIENTS TO CONFIRM THESE ENTITIES (our competitors also) ESPECIALLY TOP KNOWN GIANTS AS TO GOOGLE REVIEWS (no other reviews compare, see truth here – link to why google reviews supersede…), REQUEST ACTUAL CONTACT INFO ON MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS WHICH YOU MAY SPEAK WITH. SEARCH, PROVE LEGITIMACY, ETC… AS YOU’RE ADVISED TO DO WITH OUR OWN CLIENTAGE.

Various Coaching and Reputation Management Credentials