STEPHEN FAIRLEY, M.A., RCC professional speaker best selling author BUSINESS COACH Stephen Fairley is a professional speaker, best selling author and President of Today's Leadership Coaching (TLC), Inc, one of Chicago’s premier business coaching and leadership development practices. He has nine years of experience speaking to, coaching, training, consulting with and counseling executives, professional service providers, entrepreneurs, managers, and business owners. Prior to founding TLC, he was CEO of TechMaven, a boutique organizational development consulting firm in Virginia serving local area business leaders and executive teams at non-profit organizations. Since moving to Chicago, he's served as a therapist and consultant to Alexian Brothers Hospital and Glen Oaks Hospital. After which he worked as the CEO and Principal Investigator at WorldCast Technologies, a B2B startup in the health sciences field focused on developing new prevention methods for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) using wireless sensor technology. In addition, he was a Marketing Consultant to Touch Media, a hi-tech, start-up company using touch screen technology designed to increase the profits of high end restaurants prior to being asked to serve as the President and Vice-President of Marketing. Stephen began his career after graduate school as an instructor of psychology teaching over 1,700 graduate students in a graduate psychology program. 
Stephen regularly speaks at regional and national conferences on topics related to leadership development, team building, strategic business development, small business marketing, and practice management strategies. Click here for a partial client list. He is the best selling author of three books including: Practice Made Perfect (2002), 6 Keys for Successful Leaders (2003) and his newest book Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching (2004), which became a best seller less than two months after release. Stephen is a Registered Corporate Coach through the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC), has earned a Masters’ degrees in Counseling from Liberty University and a second Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College where he is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology. When he is not speaking to a group of business leaders, coaching an entrepreneur or working on a new book, you will find Stephen either traveling all over the world (he's visited over 16 foreign countries in the last 3 years), fishing in the Caribbean, off-roading in the Colorado Rockies, or relaxing on a cruise ship (4 cruises in the last 2 years). His personal philosophy of running a business is, “If I'm going to work hard, I have to play harder to stay focused.” For availability and bookings, you can contact him at Stephen@StephenFairley.com or by calling 1-888-588-5891. Interesting Facts About Stephen Fairley Stephen is the author of a best selling book. In less than two months, his third book, Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching (2004), hit the best seller list. The first printing sold out in only four months. He is the author of two other books: Practice Made Perfect (2002)—which he wrote in four days on the back of a cruise ship getting a tan in the middle of the Caribbean and 6 Keys for Successful Leaders (2003)—which he wrote while traveling through the Colorado Rockies. (Yes, there is a pattern here). In 2002, he was the invited Professor of Marketing and Organizational Leadership at the Kazak-American Free University in Kazakhstan. He began his professional career right out of graduate school and by age 25 was working as a professor of psychology teaching five subjects to more than 1,700 graduate level students with an average age of 38. Stephen knows what it’s like to overcome obstacles and achieve success through persistence and hard work. He grew up in a trailer, off a dirt road, in the back woods of Maine. Neither of his parents ever graduated college and they raised three children on a combined income of about $30,000. Stephen has earned two Master’s degrees—one in Counseling from Liberty University and another in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College. Stephen is a hard-core business owner and entrepreneur having already owned and operated 4 businesses including his current one, Today's Leadership Coaching. Stephen loves to travel. He's been to more than 16 foreign countries in the last 3 years. He even sometimes gives speaking discounts to groups who are holding their meeting in a special location.
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