The Portable Coach, Byron Laursen
The Portable Coach, Byron Laursen
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The Portable Coach
Twenty-Eight Sure-Fire Strategies for Business and Personal Success

Author: Byron Laursen, Thomas J. Leonard

Narrator: Jesse Boggs

Abridged: 2 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/1998


Synopsis

Thomas J. Leonard is the father of personal coaching, an explosively growing movement, as well as the founder of Coach University, a virtual university that has trained thousands of personal coaches in thirty countries.

Now, in The Portable Coach, Leonard presents his 28-step Principles of Attraction program -- an exciting, profoundly transformational system that will reorient your approach to life and help you attract success, happiness, and fulfillment as surely as a magnet draws steel. Originally developed for the professional coaches at Coach University, Leonard's set of strategies draws on wisdom from psychology, career counseling, management consulting, personal growth programs, motivational training, and good old common sense. By employing the strategies in The Portable Coach you will:

Discover What Matters Most to You
Stop Chasing Success and Let it Find You
Get that Promotion You Deserve
Clean Up Your Personal Finances
Organize Your Life

The Portable Coach is the closest possible thing to having the inventor of the personal coaching movement in your corner. A vigorous, highly encouraging blueprint for success, this audiobook will teach you a lively new way of honoring yourself and remaking the world on your own terms!

Copyright © 1998 by Thomas J. Leonard.

Performance copyright 1998, Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

About Thomas J. Leonard

Thomas J. Lleonard (1955-2003) was the founder of CoachVille, the world's largest association and training school for personal development and corporate coaches. Through Thomas's leadership, CoachVille has grown to 9,400 members in more than seventy countries across the globe. With input from over 1,000 members of the CoachVille Research & Development Team, Thomas originated The 28 Laws of Attraction -- a comprehensive program composed of top coaching models, e-courses, and teleclasses on personal growth and development. Thomas's work has been featured in more than 200 media outlets since 1996, including Newsweek, Time, Fortune, NBC Nightly News, Los Angeles Times, and The London Times.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Celine on February 01, 2021

There‘s a lot to unpack in this book. I initially really liked the repeating lists of 10 things to consider for a topic but then it got repetitive and tiring and towards the end I was glancing through it rather than fully taking it in. Might be better to read a bit. Set aside for a while and come ba......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl Cooper on May 07, 2008

My conversations with Thomas (by email) in the mid 1990s transformed how I thought about coaching forever. I started coaching seriously in a business context because of him. He was at the source of the spread of coaching as a creditable profession. This book summarises some of his best points but ca......more

Goodreads review by Chuck on March 31, 2020

Really enjoyed this read (with significant caveats). The principles are solid, and many takeaways (as evidenced by the 30 pages of notes I took, and the plan to regularly review those notes). However, some of it is a bit humorous because it was written at the dawn of the internet, and had to simply......more

Goodreads review by David on September 08, 2022

Verdict:Let's get something out of the door first: I don't believe in self development books with a magic formula. I think it's very subjective. This book is that. It may offer a few pearls of wisdom, but nothing you haven't heard before. Read it if: You are interested in formulaic paths to success......more

Goodreads review by Honoree on March 14, 2018

I read this book when it was first released years ago, and my revisit was just as powerful. Highly recommend.......more