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I have had the benefit and pleasure of attending multiple leadership training courses conducted by Monica. Her ability to help people succeed resonates through her compassion and knowledge of the subjects she is teaching. She has said that she "geeks out" on understanding people and what drives them and is always looking to learn new concepts and ideas. Her strengths come from her ability to have a well thought out and intelligent response. She has helped me personally by providing options when handling situations and providing guidance on ways to grow as a manager and leader. She is always on point and very energetic.

/  James moreau, manager information systems, aaa northern New england  /

Experience

Monica is a coach/trainer at heart. Influenced and encouraged by her experiences with great coaches and teachers as a youth in Southern California, she aspired to teach and develop others from a young age. She began coaching as a math tutor at her university, helping students overcome their challenges and blocks with understanding math up through calculus. She applied this love of coaching in her sales careers, stepping up as the team trainer while working on multiple teams in pharmaceuticals. She jumped at the chance to educate and encourage patients with a rare lung condition (Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency) while working in plasma sales. She coached new sales representatives from all her teams in pharma and biotech.

In 2013, she took this love of training and development to a new level when she got certified as a trainer with Dale Carnegie and Associates. From 2014-2017, she traveled around the US, developing leaders from AAA in communication, coaching, hiring/onboarding, public speaking, and driving performance, using Dale Carnegie and Associates’ curriculum.

Since 2007, she has spent tremendous time and effort managing chronic pain and the neurologic effects from a major motor vehicle accident. Once again in the role of “learner” rather than coach, in this area of her life, Monica has devoted up to four hours per week exploring treatments to alleviate or heal her symptoms. Gaining the most long-term traction with a form of trauma therapy called Somatic Experiencing, this has been the focus of her last 4 years. Using a customized version of Somatic Experiencing that addressed her physical and emotional symptoms, Monica has achieved pain reduction, anxiety reduction, reconnection to parts of her body she couldn’t feel, control over unplanned movements, and greater well-being.

This journey has brought her to the point she can teach others to use the process as she learned it, and intends to pass along this information and these skills to help others prevent traumatic experiences from getting stuck in their bodies and minds, and to help others to heal from the effects of traumas that already impact them. She has created a workshop to transfer these skills to others.

This process also is highly useful to manage the normal stresses of day-to-day living in today’s busy world. Working with professionals as a trainer and coach, she has adapted these skills into a stress management process that uses body awareness and positive psychology practices to help professionals thrive in their work and personal lives.