Coach a real goal-getter.

• Author: Louiseize, Kelly
• Position: News - Brief Article

Moving to Nipigon in February 2002, Shannon Cormier, 33, owner of Focus; Life Coaching and Consultative Services, could not find a job in her field of social work or recreation.

With the help of self-employment benefits from Human Resources Development Canada she developed a business plan and became an independent counsellor and program developer. In the last six months Focus has grown an estimated 50 per cent, she says.

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Cormier counsels for grief or critical incident stress debriefing, an area which she has specialized in, and works as a program developer. Both aspects of her business have taken flight with three new contracts from northwestern organizations.

One of the contracts was from a local heart health committee that hired Cormier to come up with an eight-week program based on resolution solutions. Understanding that people...