Your coaching helped me be more effective as a senior executive in two challenging positions, and what I learn from you has also contributed to my relationships with my family While I originally began working with you to develop and grow a part-time coaching practice, I found that our coaching sessions really affect every area of my life. Being coached by you has been invaluable and essential to my own development as a coach. As a coach, you provide a listening for me in a way no one else does. You are fully committed to me and what I am up to, always with empathy. You have provided me with structure and accountability to achieve a goal I just reached-fulfilling my dream to establish my own full-time coaching practice. During our sessions, your incisive questions always shed a whole new light on whatever I am working on. I've reached pivotal turning points as a result of certain questions you've asked me. In fact, I generated a fabulous new job as a result of a simple question that you asked me. Out of that conversation, I eliminated a three-hour commute and generated a significant increase in my salary. You coached me through the salary negotiation and supported me in creating what I wanted versus settling for something less. I recently chose to leave that position to devote my full attention to my coaching practice. As a result of our work together, I completed at my job in a powerful way, leaving all possible choices for the future and receiving a great deal of acknowledgment from the people with whom I worked. Coaching is really about learning. I have learned so much about myself in working with you. Your coaching provides a clarity that I believe I wouldn't have had otherwise. Through the generosity of your listening, you are able to cut to the chase when I am in the middle of something complex, so that I can see what needs to be done. Prior to our work together, I was not aware of the kind of preparation that is often necessary to be successful in meetings and important conversations. Through working with you, I have new tools that support me in preparing for critical communications and affecting the outcome.
Vickie Austin, Career Coach and Business Development Consultant
CHOICES Worldwide, Inc.

Jackie's ideas on shared leadership were very helpful to us. We went from a style of working around and behind several more dominant personalities to working with these personalities through direct requests and other communication tools. Her methods helped us to create a more harmonious working environment. I would recommend Jackie to anyone looking to better themselves through leadership and communications.
Sheryl Winger, Recruiting Manager
The Human Resource Store

Sloane Communications, Inc. helped us to reposition our company. As a result of working with Jackie, we realized that we were much more than a manufacturing firm. We are actually a service firm that helps clients increase retail sales - as much as 30% throughout a major mass-market chain. In the work we did together, we analyzed the time it takes us to develop more of the larger, creative projects we excel at, re-evaluated our sales process, worked with our sales team to refine our sales conversation and created literature that our sales staff is proud to share with potential clients. Our sales are up 25% annually. We have added a third shift to keep up with production.
Paul Scriba, President
W/M Display Group, Inc.

Your consulting with us has provided a deeper and richer experience for my department than I had expected. As a result of my work with you, I have become better at preparing for important meetings with the leadership of my company. I now prepare so that I effectively speak to the concerns of important audiences, in a way that produces satisfaction and desired results for everyone. You have helped me to develop a larger perspective, see more of the picture than I could see on my own. You ask good questions, and challenge my thinking. You have been a sounding board, helping me to gain greater clarity about what's really important to me so that more and more of my attention and energies are focused on those goals. You have supported me in becoming more effective in my role. Increasingly, I trust my own intuition and conclusions. You have helped me to articulate the value I provide to my clients. Your coaching about how I can be seen the way I want to be seen, in order to reach my goals, has been very powerful. Now, I realize that I have the power to influence how others see me. I was surprised by the depth of your questions, right from the beginning. You follow your curiosity, and call attention to things that others take for granted. You are not afraid to push, but you do it in a gentle, caring—not polite—way. I look forward to our conversations. Working with you is fun.
Donna Hapac, Senior Consultant
Organization Development Navistar/International Truck and Engine

My work with you has made a significant impact on my ability to articulate my offer as a coach. It has helped me to see that I can create my own identity to a large extent. In a relatively short time I felt comfortable sharing what was really going on with me. I feel strongly that you are there to serve and with my best interests at heart. You are willing to challenge me, say things that might make me uncomfortable. I respect your courage to stay in the conversation and work with me at very personal levels, even those that might produce anxiety. I have really valued your support in becoming more of who I really am in all areas of my life. We have had very generative conversations that have really helped me in my work. Your work in helping our department create an identity in the organization has been very useful and important. You bring a lot of value and knowledge. Our work together has supported me in keeping focused and in touch with what I am passionate about. My working relationship with you has been my best experience working with an outside consultant or coach. It has been a real joy to work with you and to get to know you as a person.
Robert Demaree
Senior Organization Development Consultant/Executive Coach

I have gained immeasurable benefit from working with Jackie Sloane. Our work together has sharpened my understanding of the value that we bring to our clients and helped me position us for much more satisfying and creative engagements. In addition, I have noticed a change in the way that I manage my business relationships—a greater sense of control, an improved ability to negotiate conflict and better communication overall, particularly with clients. I not only enjoy these relationships more; I have seen the result in terms of increased sales opportunities and client retention. Her support has helped me to take more risks by going after what I want and walking away from situations that don't meet my needs.
Toni Lesowitz, President
The Lesowitz Group, Inc.

You really helped us to clarify our positioning and core message. I realized that I wasn't effectively communicating the value I provide to clients. I would talk about the details of what I do, rather than the difference my work has made. You interviewed my clients and helped me to better understand how my work with them has made a real difference in their businesses. You helped us to speak simply and effectively about how we help clients produce important business results. As a result of our work together, I am much better at sitting back and listening to people, rather than overwhelming them with ideas and MBA-talk. People respond to me differently. Your work with one of my people has supported him in being much more confident and effective in the business development process.
Randy Rollinson, President
LBL Strategies

After spending just three sessions with Jackie, I was able to more clearly identify and act on personal and professional goals that previously seemed unreachable. Jackie helped my conscious mind acknowledge my dreams, envision them and lay out a plan for making it happen. Much more than an executive coach, Jackie's compassionate style, which carefully considers values and relationships, is the future of business.
Deborah Alexander
GuruToYou.com