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SUZANNE MCFARLIN, CPC, ACC, is a certified professional coach, change strategist, educator, speaker and owner of Changing Tides Coaching and Consulting. Suzanne studied coaching and became a certified coach with Dr. Martha Beck, best-selling author of Finding Your Own North Star and monthly columnist for O Magazine. She also earned the International Coach Federation Associate Certified Coach credential with the International Coach Academy.
Through the American Society for Training and Development, she received professional certificates for training services. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from the University of Michigan. At the University of Arizona Eller College of Management, she is a career coach and has instructed MBA students in Management Communication at Eller Graduate School of Management. She is an executive career coach for Zelinka Prince and Parson’s Leverage For Lawyers™ program. |
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Suzanne brings outstanding interpersonal, presentation, networking and leadership skills to self-directed projects in industry, service and academics. She is experienced in life, executive and career coaching; organizational effectiveness; communication training; community development and marketing planning and implementation marked by creative, detail-oriented solutions. She builds connections with innovation and impact to enable individuals and groups to prosper and grow.
A combination of life experience, education and work history shaped Suzanne’s coaching and consulting practice. The ability and inability of people to handle change intrigues and challenges Suzanne to use her best skills to help a client shape his/her future. She is also fascinated with human potential and the spirit it takes to maximize it. Her style reflects a balance between intuition and practicality, in the various methods and techniques she uses to help people achieve their best.
Her client list includes Southern Arizona Leadership Council, Community Foundation For Southern Arizona, Tucson Unified School District, Raytheon Missle Systems, Managed Health Network, Business and Education Roundtable, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Southern Arizona, Intuit, Constellation Wines, Hollingsworth Law Firm, Breault Research Organization, University of Arizona College of Medicine, University of Phoenix, ABA Architects, Tucson Urban League, Pima Youth Partnership, DeGrazia Foundation, First American Title, St. Michael’s Parish Day School and many individuals whom she has had the privilege of coaching.
Involved in community organizations and causes, Suzanne has served as a national trainer for the National Charity League and on the local board of directors. She co-founded Desert Doula Childbirth Services and has served on the boards of Angel Charity for Children and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Tucson, as well as chaired committees for St. Michael’s Parish Day School. She has served as a volunteer facilitator for the YWCA Women’s Leadership Class and Conference and as designer/facilitator of their “Take the Lead in Your Life” coaching program. She is a graduate and board member of Greater Tucson Leadership and the 2005 recipient of the Brigadier General Ronald L. Kurth Merit Award for Leadership.
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