George Beshara

George Beshara is a Career and Lifestyle Coach who has beeninvolved in his own practice since 1983. In addition to developing the Enhanced Lifestyle Planner, George has developed and published more than 25 training programs including:
Planning Your Retirement
Personal Financial Planning
Direct Approach to Employment
Building Win-Win Relationships
Achieving Excellence
Making the Retirement Decision
Careers for Heart and Spirit
Dynamics of Stress
Controlling Your Time

George's programs and materials have been used with more than 100,000 individuals in North America, in workshops, in one-on-one coaching assignments and on a self-study basis. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, with concentrations in behavioral science and marketing.

George will be providing certification training in using the Enhanced Lifestyle Planner to both Financial and Lifestyle Planners.

John Griffith

John Griffith is an entrepreneur and business executive with considerable financial and senior management experience. He has been or is currently on the Board of Directors of several organizations in the travel, transportation and not-for-profit organizations.

On the financial planning side, John has presented certification-training workshops from coast-to-coast to a large investment brokerage firm. The program, which was extremely successful, dealt among other things with lifestyle issues within a retirement planning framework. John is also very knowledgeable of the financial market. He has successfully managed his own portfolio and acted as a Trustee for a number of pension funds. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science and an MBA. John will be involved in certifying Financial Planners/Advisors in effectively using the Enhanced Lifestyle Planner.

Galina Coffey Lewis

Galina is a Senior Human Resources Consultant, an Executive Coach and an expert in the field of Lifestyle Planning. She is the author of six books including the bestseller, "Be Restored to Health", endorsed by the late Dr. Hans Selye. She has written a business column for several magazines and has been on a variety of television and radio programs discussing learning for the individual and the organization. She holds a Master's in Nursing Education and has studied in the Master's and Doctoral program in Adult Education at the University of Toronto. She also holds a certificate in counseling and in Expressive Arts Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Galina has been involved in presenting certification-training workshops to a large investment brokerage firm. The program, which was extremely successful, dealt among other things with lifestyle issues within a retirement planning framework.

Galina will be involved in certifying Lifestyle Planners in effectively using the Enhanced Lifestyle Planner.

Gilles Marceau, CFP,CLU, RFP, P.R.P

Gilles Marceau, is an accomplished Financial Planning, Retirement and Lifestyle Planning Consultant and Educator, with more than 30 years of professional and senior management experience in the Financial Industry.

He has held the positions of Director of Individual Insurance Marketing for one of Canada¹s leading life insurance companies; Regional Manager for a financial planning practice directed to high net worth individuals; Managing Partner, Marketing Development for Canada¹s largest Trust Company and Managing Partner in a fee based Financial Planning/Employee Benefit firm.

He is currently President of Gilles R Marceau and Associates Inc. His community involvement include being a board member of the Trillium Healthcare Foundation and serving on the Ontario Board of the Canadian Association of Pre-Retirement Planners.

Gilles Marceau has developed considerable expertise in the area of enhanced lifestyle planning. He is a Certified Enhanced Lifestyle Planning Coach.

Catherine Rahal

Catherine Rahal is a Financial Consultant with more than nine years of professional experience in advising clients to help them improve their lives. Catherine became a financial professional in part because of her own encounter with highly questionable professional advice subsequent to the 1983 death of her husband.

Catherine has a private financial services practice which includes both investment and insurance clients. Her approach is directed toward the client's overall lifestyle, rather than just the financial aspects. Consulting clients are handled through her company, CSR Consultants. Educational initiatives include workshops and personal finance courses as well as a weekly personal finance column published on the Canoe Money web site.

Catherine holds a B.A. in History, with a minor in Psychology, from New York University. Her professional credentials include licenses for mutual fund and life/health insurance products as well as successful completion of the Canadian Securities Course.

Bob Venafro

Bob Is an entrepreneur with extensive consulting, training and coaching experience. His extensive consulting practice has focused on organizational development working for small and larger organizations, in both the manufacturing and service sectors In the training and development field, Bob has conducted numerous workshops and seminars in the area of supervisory and management training to both the private and public sectors. He is also the co-developer of a highly successful workshop program entitled: Supervision - the Auto-Critical method. As a contract Instructor at the State University of New York, at the Center for Life Long Learning in the American Management Association program, and at Clinton Community College, New York Bob has also taught a wide variety of management courses. His academic background includes an M.A. in Coaching from Concordia University, and a bachelor degree in social work from McGill University and he is fluent in both English and French.