Executive Functioning Coaching

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William B. Cole Consultants teaches cutting-edge mental strategies, tools and skills to improve executive functioning. Executive function has been called “the management system of the brain”.

 

Executive functioning revolves around a set of skills which underscores the ability to engage in self-awareness, self-management and self-mastery. We help clients reach a deeper understanding of how their mind and emotions operate so they can achieve more self-discipline, create better habits and reach their goals. A huge aspect of executive functioning is to master attentional control skills. Bill Cole has been a leader in this area for decades. Executive functioning is sometimes known as cognitive control and references the supervisory attentional system.

 

When our clients master the ability to clear their mind and to be present and calm, amazing things happen. They improve their critical thinking and problem-solving, planning and decision making. Excellence in behavior begins with excellence on the inside. We help our clients manage their mental processes so they can create within themselves the proper mental state that brings forth higher levels of functioning. Bill is a thought leader in the concept of flow and of helping people enter the zone.

 

Everyone wants to achieve their goals, in a timely fashion, with less frustration, and with excellence. Executive functioning skills facilitate the behaviors directly related to planning and achieving goals. These skills include self-monitoring, self-control, planning, adaptable thinking, working memory, time management and organization.

 

Executive Functioning (EF) coaching teaches people how to successfully navigate the challenges of school and adult life. We identify mental strengths and weaknesses, and teach skills that help clients organize, plan, prioritize, manage time, maintain focus, self-assess, study and work efficiently.

 

Executive functioning coaching improves emotional regulation challenges and improves social interactions. Executive function refers to skills that you use to manage everyday tasks like making plans, solving problems and adapting to new situations. The three main skills we focus on are working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibition control.

 

We help students and adults develop the higher-order thinking and self-regulation skills they need to succeed in school, in their career and in life.

 

Throughout his multifaceted career, Bill Cole has been a mentor to many young people. It has been his privilege to be a trusted advisor and guide to people starting out along their path of life. This professional mentoring program is designed to help guide young people through crucially important phases of their lives.


We have organized the executive functioning mentoring program into several categories.

 

  1. Executive Functioning Coaching
  2. Stress Management And Mental Wellness Coaching
  3. Studying, Homework And Exam-Taking Coaching
  4. Communication, Listening, Public Speaking, Writing, Leadership and Influencing Skills Coaching

Video And Telephone Coaching: US, Internationally

We do coaching all over North America and globally via telephone and video conferencing using Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime.


One on One Coaching: Silicon Valley Bay Area, Globally

For over 20 years we maintained first-class offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Cupertino, and Palo Alto, California. However, with the 2020 COVID-19 phenomenon, we have decided to move our business to a virtual basis.

We've been doing distance coaching all over the world each week for decades and the quality of coaching using video is completely equal to coaching done in an office.

It's also possible that we could come to your location in the San Francisco Bay Area to see you practice, to compete or for coaching in your home or office. We've done that for years. Please contact us for details. Travel fees may apply. We are based in Palo Alto, California.

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What You Will Learn In The Executive Functioning Program

  • Skill-based approaches to learning and mastering cognitive capabilities.
  • Strength based approach, leveraging natural gifts and talents.
  • Leading-edge strategies for managing ADHD.
  • Better attentional control strategies.
  • Improved attentional shifting and flexibility tools.
  • Improved problem-solving skills.
  • Better strategies for improved critical thinking skills.
  • Improved organizational skills.
  • Improved time management skills.
  • Better productivity, effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Improved energy management.
  • Strategies for having your best self show up more often.
  • Better self-control.
  • Quickly bounce back mentally when interrupted.
  • Stay focused despite distractions.
  • Better able to bounce back after mistakes.
  • Reduced self-critical attitude, manage the inner critic.
  • Remove self-limiting beliefs.
  • Better self-leadership.
  • Thrive amidst change and transition.
  • Learn how to play to win versus playing not to lose.
  • Understand how your mind works and how to become more flexible in its application.
  • Better self-awareness.
  • Better situational adaptability.
  • Better able to get into the flow state.
  • Improved Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
  • Stop self-sabotage.
  • Minimize perfectionism.
  • Learn visualization, imagery and mental rehearsal strategies.
  • Overcome the fear of failure.
  • Overcome the fear of success.
  • Better mental management.
  • Better concentration and focus on tasks.
  • Reduced procrastination.
  • Improved task initiation and planning.
  • Better task monitoring.
  • Better self-support and self-coaching.
  • Better self-encouragement and the ability to see progress.
  • Strategies for self-assessment.
  • Strategies for new habit formation.
  • Strategies for daily intentions.
  • Mindfulness strategies and tools.
  • Strategies and tools for personal development.
  • Better goal-setting skills.
  • Improved ability to work incrementally to generate success and confidence.
  • Improved self-confidence.
  • Better decision making.
  • Prioritization skills.
  • Reduced impulsivity.
  • Improved mental dexterity.
  • Improved forward and backward planning.
  • Better working memory.
  • Strategies for self-advocacy.
  • Improved accountability and sense of responsibility.
  • Better physical fitness and health.
  • Better management of life transition events.
  • Self-management when external accountability demands are not high.
  • Strategies for dealing with difficult people.
  • Strategies for managing bullies.

Complementary Books


When you purchase any executive functioning coaching package, you will also receive these books at no extra charge.

The Test Stress Success Manual
The Interview Success Guide
Interview Mistakes You Don’t Even Know You’re Making
The Mental Game Of Speaking
Free To Fee: How To Move Into The World Of Professional Speaking

Read These Articles on Executive Functioning


Over 120 of the 800 published articles written by Bill Cole appear in the article archive on this website. Many of these articles will give you insight into our areas of expertise and a few of the ways we can help you.

Stress Of Transitions In Life And Sport- How Both Stressors Impact Your Performance

Bill Cole, MS, MA

Transitions in life can be very exciting and energizing. But even life transitions that are positive can be challenging to deal with, because newness requires extra focus, better planning, improved systems and sharper mental organization. Life events that are positive and joyous can cause stress and can demand news ways of coping. For example, these are all "happy" situations that have caused plenty of people stress when experiencing them: a new family member, increased responsibility at work, moving to a new grade level in school, changing teachers or coaches, moving into a new home, and higher levels of difficulty in school work. This article outlines the many challenges in transitions and how to manage them.

The Mental Game Of Personal Achievement, Reach Your Goals Like The Superachievers

Bill Cole, MS, MA

How would you rate yourself on personal productivity? Top achievers have a systematic plan for motivation, self-coaching and focusing on successful behaviors. Learn the 10 special ways top producers are able to drive themselves up the ladder of success. 782 words.

Winning The Mental Game Of Project Management, How To Improve Personal Productivity

Bill Cole, MS, MA

What rating do you give yourself on personal productivity? Do you have a systematic plan for improving your effectiveness in your daily work? Superachieving business people and athletes know what it takes to motivate themselves, stay on track, maintain focus in the face of obstacles and drive forward to completion of their vision and dreams. Top ten tips of how superstars do this. 795 words.

Manage Your Mind To Manage Your Time, 28 Tips For Working Smarter, Not Harder

Bill Cole, MS, MA

Are you working longer hours but getting less done? Are you being asked to do more in less time? Productivity problems can make you feel incredibly stressed--and then you're just spinning your wheels. But there is help. You can use your mind. You can win the mental game of personal productivity. Peak-performing sales professionals work smarter, not harder, by using these 28 mental strategies for improving personal productivity. 610 words.

Stress Management and Mental Wellness

William B. Cole Consultants offers cutting-edge stress management coaching and mental wellness coaching to help clients learn and master the multidisciplinary skill-sets needed to identify stress, assess stress, and plan, and execute a comprehensive stress management and mental wellness program. William B. Cole Consultants founder and CEO Bill Cole, MS, MA is an internationally and nationally recognized peak performance mind coach with decades of experience in stress management coaching and mental wellness coaching.

Stress Management And Mental Wellness Program Benefits

  • Identify triggers for impulsive behavior and develop strategies for managing them.
  • Understand and manage the fight or flight response.
  • Improved patience and stress tolerance.
  • Better determination and persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Stop feeling overwhelmed and out of control
  • Reduce and eliminate stress symptoms.
  • Better mental toughness.
  • Learn affirmations
  • Create a positivity mindset.
  • Learn meditation to reduce stress.
  • Learn meditation to learn and perform better.
  • Learn advanced breathing techniques.
  • Reduced Type A behaviors.
  • Reduced burnout.
  • Better sleep and rest.
  • Improved sense of humor.
  • Improved anger management.
  • Improved resilience and grit.
  • Embrace the growth mindset.
  • Strategies for better self-regulation.
  • Strategies for self-care.
  • Strategies for building a positive mindset.
  • Reduce feeling overwhelmed.
  • Better self-regulation.
  • Better stress management skills.
  • Better self-discipline.

Bill Cole, MS, MA, Stress Management And Mental Wellness Expert

Bill Cole

Bill Cole, MS, MA is an internationally and nationally recognized authority on stress management coaching and mental wellness coaching. He has been interviewed by these media outlets -- MSNBC.com, Golf Magazine, the BBC, ABC-TV, Fox News, the Associated Press Radio, Sirius Radio, The New York Times, Success Magazine, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Yahoo! Sports, USA Today, ABC-TV, Entrepreneur Magazine, The San Jose Mercury News, The Denver Post, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and countless others.


Bill has been a featured speaker at state, national and international medical conventions. For years he's been an executive coach to CEO’s, business leaders, managers, engineers, physicians and other medical professionals across many disciplines.


Bill is an Advisory Board Member of Daytona Health, Inc., a medical startup focusing on personalized, functional medicine using AI and advanced mind-body approaches. Daytona Health is creating an advanced precision behavior platform for health coaching. Bill is also a contract coach for Daytona Health for executive coaching and performance psychology.


Bill has spoken to audiences around the world on stress management and mental wellness. He’s taught stress management and mental wellness at the college level. For years he has coached people individually on how to manage and reduce their stress and to improve their mental wellness He’s written about these topics extensively. He’s been interviewed in the media countless times. You will learn cutting edge and customized tools and mental strategies that will help you gain control of yourself so you can function at optimal levels. You will learn about positive psychology, positivity, possibility thinking, how to remove mental blocks, mindfulness, stress reduction, peak performance, coping strategies, advanced breathing techniques, visualization techniques, self-motivation techniques, and anti-anxiety techniques.

Media Testimonials for Bill Cole's Coaching


Bill Cole has been a leader in the field of sports psychology and performance psychology for decades. He is regularly interviewed in the print and electronic media. Here are some accolades from well-known media outlets.

 

"A world-renowned peak performance coach."
The BBC

 

"Bill Cole is a pioneer in performance psychology."
USA Today

 

"Bill Cole is a leading author on sports psychology."
Yahoo! Sports

 

"Performance psychology consultant Bill Cole has counseled many of the world's top athletes and knows how to combat stress and anxiety."
Forbes Magazine

 

"Bill Cole is a mind guru...he is among the elite mental game peak performance experts in this country."
American Society of Anesthesiologists

 

"Bill Cole, president and founder of the International Mental Game Coaching Association, says the key to achievement is enthusiasm for your goals. Cole coaches both Olympic and major-league athletes, and teaches his disciplinary techniques to corporate America."
WebMD

 

"Bill Cole is a thought leader in performance psychology."
www.foxsports.com

 

Please click here to see dozens of testimonials about Bill’s coaching in stress management and mental wellness.

Read These Articles on Stress Management and Mental Wellness


Bill Cole is a prolific book author and article author. He’s written extensively on stress management and mental wellness, among other topics. Here are a few articles on this topic.

Is Having Mental Wellness The Equivalent Of Being Happy?

Bill Cole, MS, MA

I’m a mental wellness coach, executive coach and performance psychology coach. I frequently have clients come to me asking to help them become happier. They’re not necessarily depressed or down in the dumps. They just want to be happier more often. When I ask them how much of the time they would like to be happy, they often reply, well, as much as possible. Some even say, all the time! I strongly recommend you use your unhappy bouts as growth experiences. I want you to view downtimes as potential uptimes. If you ask yourself, what does my unhappiness have to teach me, that can elicit some self-reflection and introspection that could lead you to a brand new place of self-understanding. Instead of being unhappy about being unhappy, and wishing you could get out of that space as rapidly as possible, dwell in that space a bit and engage in self-exploration of why you believe you might be unhappy. 1234 words

Seven Coping Strategies For Better Mental Wellness

Bill Cole, MS, MA

I’m a mental wellness coach, a performance psychology coach and an executive coach. When people first come to me they complete an extensive assessment that gives me an excellent snapshot of their strengths and capabilities and of the areas they need to work on. Often, they come to me with a very thin tool kit of coping skills. They just haven’t been introduced to critical mental strategies and stress control techniques that can help them with self-regulation. Because they don’t have these skills in place, they simply are unable to handle the stress, pressures and problems that come their way. There’s nothing innately wrong with them as people. They don’t have character flaws. They’re not lazy. They just don’t have the proper array of coping strategies that will help them handle the difficulties they face. This article describes seven coping skills you can put to good use immediately, in whatever performance arena you’re in, or simply in daily life. 1225 words.

Confessions Of A Stress Management Specialist, What You MUST Know About Handling Stress

Bill Cole, MS, MA

When someone calls me for stress control coaching they are usually at their wit's end. They are feeling out of control, overwhelmed, full of anxiety, and with no realistic plan or idea of how to right their foundering ship. I assess them, support them, teach them stress control and coping tools, and bring them out of their funk and help them re-engage with life, on new terms. Here are the top five most important things to know if you are about to embark on a stress management program. 505 words.

Speaking And Training Programs: Stress Management And Life Skills


Bill Cole Has traveled across the United States and internationally to present his popular training and speaking programs. Here are two of these programs, focusing on stress management and life skills.

The Winning The Mental Game Of Life Training Program

Winners know how to win. They know how to achieve. And they know how to transform seemingly impossible obstacles into blazing opportunities. You can do all this and more in your own life when you learn the mental game powers top achievers utilize to get ahead. The Winning The Mental Game Of Life program gives you the powerful mental skills superstar achievers use to win every day. You will boost your confidence, your achievement levels and your ability to sustain success for the rest of your life.

Mental Game of Life Program

Stop Stress And Banish Burnout

For Sustainable Self-Renewal™ Training Program

Superstar performers know one thing. How you handle stress either makes you or breaks you. Your attitude, energy, resilience after set-backs and ability to de-stress and stay centered sets you apart at the end of the day. Your ability to find calmness and focus under the pace and weight of the relentless monumental change and stress in today's world is essential.

Stop Stress And Banish Burnout For Sustainable Self-Renewal™ is a program with rich, proven, high-level customized stress control content that delivers a "whole person experience". Participants actually "try on" many stress solutions and they leave with new feelings of well-being and stress mastery.

Stop Stress & Manage Burnout Program

Audiobooks On Stress Management And Life Skills


Bring Bill into your car, home or office by listening to two audios he’s recorded on stress management and life skills.

Stop Stress and Banish Burnout
Stop Stress And Banish Burnout For Sustainable Self-Renewal - Audiobook

The core concept in stress management is to know what you can control, and what you cannot. This audio helps you learn a wide array of stress reduction strategies that can help you feel more in control of what happens to you. This audio program is for busy people who don't have time to have a bad day. Stress management thought leader Bill Cole teaches you immediately effective personal stress management strategies just as he has for corporations, professionals, state associations, top US collegiate athletic programs, and for international world-class pro athletes. Nationally-known mental game coach Bill Cole, MS, MA is recorded live, speaking to a national medical conference about stress and life resilience strategies.

Learn More About This Audiobook
Mental game Life Winning
Winning the Mental Game of Life - Audiobook

Internationally-known peak performance thought leader Bill Cole teaches you immediately useable learning and performance strategies just as he has for corporations, professionals, state associations, top US collegiate athletic programs, and for international world-class pro athletes. Bill is recorded live, speaking at a conference about strategies for more success in business, sports and life.

This presentation is an interactive coaching session, not a lecture. You will have an opportunity to experience these powerful peak performance exercises along with the audience, so plan to spend some active time as you follow this program. You'll need paper and a pen or pencil, and a comfortable chair.

Learn More About This Audiobook

Studying, Homework And Exam Taking Coaching

Using leading-edge educational psychology principles, performance psychology methodologies, project management strategies, and best practices in coaching, Bill Cole helps you study better, manage your homework better, learn better, and perform better on tests, quizzes and examinations.

 

Bill helps you craft the proper motivations and reasons for studying your various subjects so you can see how they will benefit you now and in the future. This reduces resistance towards a subject or a teacher and allows you to engage with it more fully.

 

Everyone has optimal ways of arranging their study systems. Bill will help you customize that set-up and process.

 

Some people love to take tests. They see them as a challenge and a puzzle to be solved. Other people see test taking as a threat and something to be avoided at all costs. Whichever camp you are in, test-taking does carry some stress. To minimize this stress, the smart test taker considers as many of the stressors that surround tests, both before and during, and devises ways to surmount them. Some of these can be avoided. Some can be changed. But many stressors simply have to be endured. That's where excellent preparation and mental toughness come in. Mental toughness is the ability to maintain focus, discipline and confidence in the face of stress. To perform to your potential in any test, you have to have this toughness. The key is to be comfortable while you are uncomfortable.

 

Many students find writing papers and essays to be distasteful and difficult. A large percentage of the population has writer’s block. Bill has a formal assessment you can take to determine the degree of writers block you have, and he will give you dozens of mental strategies for overcoming writer’s block.

 

If you need assistance in writing personal statements for college or graduate school or professional school, Bill has helped countless students with this over the years.

 

If you believe you have exam anxiety that is getting in the way of your studies, homework and test taking, Bill has created The Test Anxiety Peak Performance Program to resolve these worries.

Testimonials For Bill’s Coaching In Performance Psychology


"Bill Cole is a pioneer in performance psychology."
USA Today

"A world-renowned peak performance coach."
The BBC

"I worked with Bill when I was studying for my ophthalmology board exam, a huge career mile marker and one that was making me fearful and anxious. I knew that I needed to take control of my mindset in order to study effectively and perform at my peak level on exam day. I also knew that I needed some help. I turned to Bill and couldn’t be happier that I did. He is an extraordinary coach. Bill explains complicated concepts in easy-to-understand ways, and has a calm and confident demeanor that settles even the most anxious nerves. I drew calm and confidence from my phone sessions with Bill. And the skills that I developed during my conversations with him, including visualization techniques, paid off big time when I was studying for my board exam and when I arrived on exam day. The mental game that Bill helped me get a handle on filled me with deep-seated confidence when it came time for me to take the exam. I felt like I was “in the zone” during the entire 4-hour, 250 multiple-choice question endeavor. At times, I actually caught myself enjoying the experience of taking the exam. In my mind, passing was a foregone conclusion. When I found out that I did pass, it was one of the best moments of my life. And I couldn’t have done it without the strategies and insights that I learned from Bill Cole—I’m sure of that."
Stephen A. Blatt, MD
Board-Certified Ophthalmologist
Chicago, Illinois

 

Please click this link to read more grateful testimonials of how Bill helped people in their studies, practice exams and actual examinations, ranging from elementary school, middle school, high school to college to graduate school to professional licensing.

Test Stress Success Manual
The Test Stress Success Manual EBook

The Test Stress Success Manual, a 142-page expert guide of over 655 techniques, methods, checklists, and strategies for turning test stress into success, is provided in PDF form at no extra cost to all participants in the Test Anxiety Stress Reduction Program. This manual contains hundreds of test strategies for studying, taking practice tests, handling stress, mental readiness, in-the-test techniques for handling concentration, and post-test mental review suggestions so you leave nothing to chance in the test-taking process. It would take you hundreds of hours of research to find all the educational psychology strategies, techniques and methods for turning test stress into success. Bill has done all the legwork for you, and he's complied this voluminous research into this single, manageable, easy to use resource.

 

You will receive this study and test-taking manual, a $19.95 value, at no charge.


Learn more about the Test Stress Success Manual ebook.

Articles On Homework, Studying And Test Taking Success

Why You Choke On Tests: Know Why Test Stress Shows Up And How To Prevent It With Mental Toughness Training

Bill Cole, MS, MA

How is your poise under test pressure? Does your mind hold up? Do you choke? Your testing performance is only as good as your mental game. Where are your prime test choking arenas? Essays? Short answers? Multiple Choice questions? Timed tests? Does the pressure of the situation get to you? Can you handle the stress? This article explains choking and gives you and understanding of mental toughness, with three key strategies for learning it. 620 words.

The Top Ten Ways To Reduce Test Stress: Here Are The Best Stress-Busting Approaches To Use Before And During The Test

Bill Cole, MS, MA

Do you know the best ways to handle test stress? One critical reality is that if you wait until the test arrives to begin applying these stress remedies, it's already too late. You need to certainly have stress strategies in place for use in the test, but many of the stress methods that work best should be applied immediately prior to the test. That way you keep stress at bay, before it has a chance to amplify out of control. Here are my top ten stress control approaches for handling test anxiety. 608 words.

Articles On Test Stress Management And School Success Strategies

 

Bill has written and published over 400 articles worldwide on a variety of issues and topics in education, coaching, peak performance and stress control. In addition to having created numerous tests and assessments, for many years he has written about test-taking strategies from a stress-reduction perspective and how students can master their test-taking fears. See our collection of articles about test stress management.

Bill Cole

Bill Cole, MS, MA, Educational Psychology Consultant


Bill has been a teacher, coach and stress management consultant since the 1970's. He trained as a teacher and coach as an undergraduate, completed a student teaching internship, completed two graduate degrees, and has taught at all levels and avenues in education: Private schools, public schools, junior colleges, colleges, universities, and he has owned his own tennis teaching academy. He has held a lifetime teaching credential in California since 1989. He taught college for over 15 years, and one special area he taught was stress management. He was a master teacher and trainer of teachers in college for years.


Bill has devised hundreds of assessment tools, tests and exams that have been used by people around the world. He's been involved with educational testing, measurement and psychometrics since the early 70's. Since then he's had a special interest in creating tests that measure a variety of parameters, using such tools as surveys, assessments, tests, quizzes, questionnaires, skill tests, knowledge tests, and tests of attitudes. He creates, on average, more than a dozen tests each year. These tests have been developed and adapted for use in business, education, the arts, medicine and many specialized fields.

What You Will Learn In This Program on Studying, Homework And Exam Taking

  • Improved homework management systems.
  • Understand and manage the learning mind and the performing mind.
  • Devise pre-task mental preparation sequences.
  • Improved project management.
  • Improved working relationships with teachers and professors.
  • Better study skills.
  • Exam anxiety strategies and tools.
  • Improved test taking skills.
  • Better writing skills.
  • Remove writer’s block.
  • Better able to transition across academic levels.
  • Guidance for transitioning from high school to college life.
  • Career exploration and guidance.
  • Interviewing skills and strategies.
  • Job hunt campaign strategies.
  • Improved transition from college life to first job.
  • Strategies for becoming a trusted and valuable employee.

Communication, Listening, Public Speaking, Writing, Leadership and Influencing Skills

People who possess superior communication skills go further in life. When you speak well, people sit up and take notice. You are automatically perceived as a leader. When business executives are polled as to what was the game changer for them in their rise to the top, they consistently point to public speaking skills as the number one reason. These are speaking skills in front of a group, and also one on one communication skills. As we move through life, no person is an island unto themselves. We get things done through other people. We make a difference with other people. We are part of teams. We lead teams. It’s critical that we know how to build fast, trusted working relationships with people. Listening is one of the master people skills in life. You must demonstrate to others that you are indeed listening to them with respect. Bill shares with you the multiple levels and skills of listening. A person who writes with clarity has a clear mind. They go hand-in-hand. Bill takes his extensive experience as a writer of many books, over 800 articles and columns, in newspapers and magazines, for television and film, for industry, and shares with you insider secrets of authorship.

 

To see the range of Bill’s book publications, please click here.

What You Will Learn In This Program On Communication, Listening, Public Speaking, Writing, Leadership and Influencing Skills

  • Improved oral communication skills.
  • Improved public speaking skills.
  • Overcome stage fright.
  • Strategies for managing video communications.
  • Persuasiveness and influencing skills.
  • Better negotiation skills.
  • Conflict management strategies.
  • Rapport building and relationship strategies.
  • Better leadership skills.
  • Better voice quality and articulation.
  • Better assertiveness skills.
  • Improved listening skills.
  • Reduced self-consciousness and shyness.
  • How to be an excellent guest on Podcasts.
  • Learn the art of small talk and rapport building.
  • Learn how to network.
  • Learn how to use LinkedIn and other forms of social media to enhance your profile.
  • Improved writing skills for a range of styles.
  • How to start a blog and website.

Testimonials For Bill As A Communications Professional


"Bill Cole is a world-class coach... A speaker's speaker."
National Speakers Association

"a veteran professional communicator"
Linear Technology Corporation

"a true platform professional and veteran communications expert"
Central Coast Claims Association


To read over 50 testimonials for Bill’s speaking and communication expertise, please click here.

Books On Communication Written By Bill Cole, MS, MA

Mental Game of Speaking

Platform professionals consistently perform to their true potential. They connect with their audiences. They overcome stage fright, get into the zone and influence people in masterful ways. You can do all this and more when you learn the mastery secrets of professional speakers. This 400-page book will positively impact your platform confidence and speaking effectiveness.

Free to Fee Professional Speaking

Bill and his co-author, Dr. Michael Lee, wrote this book aimed at newer speakers who would like to become professional communicators. Bill and Michael have traveled the world as professional speakers and they want to help others do the same. This book is a complete personal roadmap to realizing those dreams of becoming a top professional speaker. Free To Fee is a 290 page success manual packed with speaking tips.

Speaking And Training Programs On Communication And Leadership

Coaching For Communication Excellence™

Success Strategies For Change Agents

Coaching For Communication Excellence™ is a master blueprint for coaching others to achievement and success. You'll discover the power of deep, respectful listening that helps you connect and work powerfully in a collaborative, continuous-learning environment. You'll learn how to be encouraging yet challenging, tactical yet strategic, and how to use nuanced feedback insights to catapult your coachees personal and professional growth.


Coaching for Communication Program

Influencing Skills For Leaders: A Critical Leadership Competency

Excellent executive communication skills are key to professional visibility and high-level success. Effective leaders have excellent influencing skills across a wide variety of arenas. They listen as well as they speak well, and they are able to deliver crisp, nuanced, action-oriented and motivating messages to a wide variety of audiences. Thoughtful, persuasive leaders frame their communications in strategic as well as tactical ways, to maintain alignment of organizational and personal values, goals and objectives.

Influencing Skills Program

Communication And Speaking Articles

How To Eliminate Speaking Jitters: 8 Sure-Fire Strategies To Help You Be More Natural On The Platform

Bill Cole, MS, MA

Do you fall victim to speaking nerves? Do you have so much anxiety about performing that you avoid giving speeches? Do you have a plan for conquering your nervousness before a speech? Help is on the way! This article gives you eight tried-and-true ways to overcome the jitters before every speech you give. 571 words.

15 Fatal Flaws Inexperienced Speakers Make: Avoid These Platform Gaffes And Start Presenting Like A Pro

Bill Cole, MS, MA

If you are a less experienced speaker than you'd like to be, you probably make some errors on the platform that could be easily fixed. If you just knew what they are!! Here we describe the 15 most common speaking mistakes made by people who are new to speaking. Once you know these, your confidence and effectiveness as a speaker will multiply many fold. 813 words.

Bill Cole

Meet Bill Cole, Your Expert Presentation Coach


Bill Cole, MS, MA, an award-winning presentation coach, consultant and book and article author, is a nationally-known presentation skills coaching and training expert. He is a speech writer and presentation coach to professional speakers and trainers, executives, business professionals, educators, politicians and everyday folks who just want to give a good speech and not break out in a sweat. He is an internationally-known expert in performance psychology, and specializes in helping speakers overcome stage fright. The British Broadcasting Corporation (The BBC) called Bill "A world-renowned peak performance coach."

Bill Cole, MS, MA, Executive Functioning Expert

Bill Cole

Bill Cole, MS, MA is an internationally and nationally recognized authority on 

performance psychology coaching, mental wellness coaching, stress management coaching, sports psychology coaching and exam anxiety coaching. For decades, Bill has also been an executive coach in business, and an executive functioning coach.


Bill Cole, MS, MA is one of the most prominent, prolific and successful performance psychology consultants working today.


He has been the mental game coach or consultant to Olympic athletes who have won Bronze, Silver and Gold medals. He's coached thousands of recreational, junior high, high school, college, professional, world champion and world record-holding athletes. Bill has been the mental game coach or sports psychology consultant with athletes or coaches of 25 world and national teams, 11 international and Olympic teams, 32 professional sports teams, associations or leagues, and of athletes who have won 40 world and national championships. He has been the mental game trainer for thousands of athletes, coaches and parents in over 100 sports, at all ages and skill levels. 

Bill's imaginative, visionary work has been profiled thousands of times in both the electronic and print media, and as a media personality Bill has developed, pitched and sold his ideas in Hollywood and has successfully worked in front of the camera, as well as behind it. Learn More at MentalGameCoaching.com >>

Bill has extensive experience coaching children, teenagers, young adults and adults from all walks of life, across many disciplines.

 

He has been interviewed by these media outlets -- MSNBC.com, Golf Magazine, the BBC, ABC-TV, Fox News, the Associated Press Radio, Sirius Radio, The New York Times, Success Magazine, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Yahoo! Sports, USA Today, ABC-TV, Entrepreneur Magazine, The San Jose Mercury News, The Denver Post, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and countless others.

Bill has been a featured speaker at state, national and international medical conventions. For years he's been an executive coach to physicians and other medical professionals and business leaders across many disciplines.

Bill is an Advisory Board Member of Daytona Health, Inc., a medical startup focusing on personalized, functional medicine using artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced mind-body approaches. Daytona Health is creating an advanced precision behavior platform for health coaching. Bill is also a contract coach for Daytona Health for executive coaching and performance psychology.

Bill’s Background As An Educator

 
Bill knew he always wanted to be a teacher from his earliest years. He has been a teacher, coach and consultant since the 1970's. He trained as a teacher as an undergraduate, completed a student teaching internship, and has taught at all levels in education: Private schools, public schools, junior colleges, colleges, universities, and he founded his own teaching academy. He has held a lifetime teaching credential in California since 1989. He taught college for over 15 years, teaching stress management, human development, theories of coaching and other education classes. He was a master teacher and trainer of teachers in college for years. Currently, he also trains and certifies teachers and coaches worldwide in his peak performance system: www.mentalgamecoaching.com

Bill’s mission is to help young people realize the potential they truly have and to help them create strategies to bring that potential out in academics and life itself.

With all his years of experience in teaching and coaching kids from ages eight to young adulthood, Bill has developed a special ability to create fast rapport and put them at ease in a coaching session. He’s a good listener, sincere, and he uses my sense of humor and intriguing questions to engage them in the process.

"Bill Cole, president and founder of the International Mental Game Coaching Association, says the key to achievement is enthusiasm for your goals. Cole coaches both Olympic and major-league athletes, and teaches his disciplinary techniques to corporate America."
WebMD

"Performance psychology consultant Bill Cole has counseled many of the world's top athletes and knows how to combat stress and anxiety."
Forbes Magazine

"Bill Cole is a pioneer in performance psychology."
USA Today

"A world-renowned peak performance coach."
The BBC

"Bill Cole is a mind guru...he is among the elite mental game peak performance experts in this country."
American Society of Anesthesiologists

With 25 years of coaching experience, Bill Cole defines coaching as 'an action-oriented art where I collaborate with the client and together we advance specifically where they want to go.' Cole...believes that in order to be coached, 'the motivation has to come from the person. They have to really want it as opposed to my selling it to them. The client needs to find a coach who has specific expertise and a deep knowledge of the defined area so that there is a matching up of the client's need with the coach's experience. I call this 'the wisdom factor', because then the coach can navigate these waters astutely, since he's either been there or has worked with a lot of clients in that area. This approach is critical."
Bill Cole MS, MA, as quoted in the article "How Coaches Give A Boost To Careers", The San Francisco Examiner

 

For more about Bill, see his full bio.

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