About

Who is Patti?

I am a forty something single mom of two awesome kids. In the past six years, I have: separated and divorced, finished a graduate degree with honor’s, started a part-time career as a writing instructor at a local college, opened up my own business as a transition coach, and as of November 2008, became newly engaged! In addition,  I  have finished my basic training to become part of a collaborative law team and can add published author to my list of accomplishments.

As a transition coach, I specialize in helping to navigate the waters of personal and professional change. Whether you are hiring new employees, adding new services, downsizing, or you want to jump-start your marketing program (that may have been dormant), changing careers, my job is to help you clarify those goals and come up with an action plan on how to achieve those goals. Whether you are facing personal transitions or your business seems a bit unfocused, I will help you find clarity on how to move forward.

One of my specialties (to helping my clients market their services), is social media marketing. This can be done by utilizing these platforms as a form of education, to seek new professional goals and reach relevant target markets with direct online interaction. 

Business coaching methods include (but not limited to): strategies on how to align your business goals, identify your professional brand, reach target market and use the world of social media to help you achieve these goals.

As a social media coach, I have studied the pros and cons of many social networking sites, such as Twitter, Linked In, Facebook and the various blogging websites. By assessing your business goals with a social media action plan, a personalized plan will be developed on how to achieve professional success.

With executive coaching (which combines personal and professional coaching), I assist clients in navigating the waters of change while creating an environment that enables you to move forward. Too often, professionals have a hard time aligning their business goals to the their day to day goals. As a solution, we will identify overall business and personal goals, and put together a step-by-step plan on how to achieve those goals. This will help you maintain personal/professional balance.

On a final note, think about your overall business plan and desire to expand your professional horizons. What are you doing today that will lead you one step closer to a better tomorrow? Staying in alignment (day to day) with you goals is the key.

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

Let’s get started!

www.positivelifetransitions.com

What material will we cover at your coaching sessions?

• We will find the necessary resources for you during this transition process.

• We will focus on creating a positive client-based relationship that will give you the ability to compartmentalize this transition process separate from your emotions.

• I will help you achieve your goals and find a balance between the transition you are facing (personally or professionally) and keep you moving forward.

• A step-by-step plan will be devised on how to come up with an action plan towards obtaining your goals.

• By creating a road map for you to follow during this time of uncertainty in your life, we can concentrate on empowering you with the peace, self-respect and hope that may have been lost along the way.

Background Information and Training:

B.A. English – Monmouth University

M.A. of Teaching – Monmouth University – (3.957 G.P.A.)

M.A. of Writing – Graduate Student Rowan University (4.0 G.P.A.)

Adjunct Writing Instructor – Brookdale Commmunity College

• specialty: collaborative teaching and process writing approach,  basic skills teacher.

• focus: instruction via academic coaching – my goal is to have the students feel academically enthusiastic and confident upon completion of the class while mastering the fundamentals of essay writing.

• areas of interest/themes of the lessons: modern-day heroes, laws of attraction, life lessons with Morrie from Tuesdays with Morrie, the Pay it Forward movement, how to stay motivated in an academic world.

Patricia Phelan Clapp M.A. LLC – Founder

• specialty - motivational speaker, consultant, coach – business and professional.

• focus - executive coaching, social media networking, finding professional resources for clients going through transition, working as part of a legal team on assisting clients to stay-solution focused and goal-oriented, utilize proactive methods on how to navigate the waters of change – both professionally and personally, how to encourage moving forward during times of transition.

• areas of interest - Collaborative Law. Social Media and Marketing, Strategic Planning, Success Principles for Entrepreneurs.

Mediation Training- as approved by AOC for CLE hours.

Basic Collaborative Law Training – completed 6/13/09

Favorite Quotes:

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if

we have waited in the darkness.”

Anonymous

“Anxiety is the hand

maiden of creativity.”

T.S. Eliot

“Always be a first-rate

version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version

of somebody else.”

Judy Garland

“Talk about a dream, try to make it real.”

Bruce Springsteen

Business Address:

Patricia Phelan Clapp M.A. LLC

Piff – Tomaro Professional Building

1704 Maxwell Drive

Suite 302

Wall, New Jersey  07719

(732) 865-5377

patti@positivelifetransitions.com

“Helping you find the resources you need to stay focused and balanced during professional and personal times of transition.”