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Laura Berger, Executive Coach, The Berdéo Group

COLUMN = EXECUTIVE COACHING

An executive advisor and founder of The Berdéo Group, Laura Berger has 15 years’ experience as a consultant advising leadership in the areas of global operations management and strategy, project and change management, solution development, and implementation. She is a confidant of CEOs and senior executives who consistently realize their potential as leaders to see their companies flourish.

Having worked with many Fortune 500 companies, her clients include leaders at JPMorgan Chase, State Farm Insurance, United Airlines, General Motors, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, McDonalds Corporation, American Hospital Association, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Starcom MediaVest, and Walt Disney World. She takes great pride in assisting captains of business to bring value and creativity to their organizations.

Laura is generous in spirit when sharing what and whom she knows. She helps clients to achieve clarity and weigh alternatives, while they see and own obstacles and opportunities from the outside looking inward. Her ease and zeal for building lasting relationships, acquaintances, and productive introductions between people is her personal trademark. She has stretched her own spirit and will to combine her passions with her professional pursuits, and she shows others how to live true to their core.

Laura exemplifies this commitment to the life path in a book she is co-writing with her husband, Glen Tibaldeo, to be released in the near future. The book chronicles the humorous side of the successes and challenges they experienced living in the remote jungles of Costa Rica.

For more information, visit www.berdeogroup.com.

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan