Kathy Caprino Profile

Empower your life and work with positive change

Kathy Caprino, M.A. is a career and life coach, women’s empowerment expert, author, and speaker specializing in helping all professionals gain empowerment and self-mastery to navigate successfully through major transition.

Kathy is the author of Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose (Berrett-Koehler, November 2008), which presents inspirational real-life stories and powerful coaching advice culled from work and research with hundreds of women who’ve overcome professional crisis and transformed their lives and work.

In her work, Ms. Caprino demonstrates and teaches her new Guide for Empowered Living -- complete with three essential steps for empowered life change -- based on the key findings from her national research study Women Overcoming Professional Crisis: Finding New Meaning in Life and Work. Kathy is a former corporate Vice President who has successfully reinvented her own life, directly applying the principles she teaches and coaches

Drawing on her extensive training and life experience in business, coaching, communications, systems psychology, spiritual development, and the performing arts, Kathy assists her clients in successfully unlocking their potential, and bringing them to their highest level of empowerment and contribution.

Ms. Caprino also utilizes findings from her research with women, her therapeutic training with families and systems, and her foundational coaching work with hundreds of professionals to provide effective, targeted approaches that help clients achieve desired growth in all areas of professional and personal life.

Kathy works with clients both one-on-one and in groups nationally and internationally. She is a frequent invited speaker and workshop presenter in the areas of women’s professional development, empowerment, overcoming adversity and challenge, navigating successfully through transition, empathic relating, and healthy family dynamics.

Kathy is Founder/President of Ellia Communications, Inc. and former co-founder and partner of Living in Harmony—The Center for Emotional Health in CT. She is also a career transition coach for Women@Work Network LLC (www.womenatwork.com) and a featured contributor for www.fiftyandfurthermore.com, the website of nationally recognized aging expert, Dr. Dorree Lynn.

Previous to owning her own coaching business, Kathy built a successful 18-year corporate career in the publishing and book club and membership services industries, serving in various directorship roles in direct marketing, product development, research, and product management.

She received her M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fairfield University, her B.A. from Boston University, and earned other educational certifications and training from New York University, University of London, and the Institute for Life Coaching Training. Her private practice is based in Norwalk, CT. She lives with her husband, world-renowned jazz percussionist Arthur Lipner (www.arthurlipner.com), and their two children in Fairfield County, CT.

2008 News

	Nationally-recognized “professional women’s empowerment guru,” women’s career coach and women’s life coach, CT
	Author of Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose (Berrett-Koehler, November 2008) and other resources
	Dynamic, engaging coach and speaker, applying coaching, communications, systems thinking, and therapeutic modalities to help women address and resolve disempowerment in life and work
	Corporate Women’s Leadership Seminars, including Breakdown, Breakthrough: Reclaiming Your Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose
	Developed new Guide for Empowered Living – applying coaching and therapeutic modalities in new ways to address professional women's issues

Credentials

Education:

	International Study Program, University of London, England (1980)
	B.A., Boston University, Boston, MA (1982)
	Publishing Certificate, Publishing Institute, New York University (1982)
	M.A., Marriage and Family Therapy, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT (2005)
	Foundational Coaching Training, Institute for Life Coach Training (2005)
	Life Purpose Institute Facilitator Training, 2007
	Researcher, Women Overcoming Professional Crisis: Finding New Meaning in Life and Work, in association with The Esteemed Woman Foundation

Other Training:

	REIKI Level I, II and Master Certification
	Facilitator, NY Disaster Counseling Coalition, NY, NY

Past and Current Professional Affiliations:

	President, Ellia Communications, Inc., CT
	Co-Founder, Living in Harmony LLC--The Center for Emotional Health, CT
	Member, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
	Member, Connecticut Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
	Board Member and Membership Committee Chairperson, International Coach Federation-CT Chapter (2004-5)
	Member, International Coach Federation
	Facilitator, New York Disaster Counseling Coalition
	Contributor, Women at Work Network (www.womenatwork.com)
	Facilitator, Women’s Business Development Center, CT
	Contributing Expert, Smart Women’s Coaching Café (www.smartwomenscoaching.com)
	Columnist, FiftyAndFurthermore.com
	Member, Entrepreneurial Woman’s Network
	Member, eWomen’s Network

Specializations

Kathy has several areas of specialization as a life coach and career coach, speaker, and coaching resource developer, including:

Overcoming Crisis and Claiming Your Passion, Power, and Purpose in Life and Work

Kathy has conducted a national research study with over one hundred professional women nationwide on Women Overcoming Professional Crisis: Finding New Meaning in Life and Work, co-sponsored by The Esteemed Woman Foundation. Through her research and work as a women’s life coach and career coach with hundreds of women in the past several years, she has developed a deep understanding of the 12 common disempowerment crises professional women face. These crises can strike mid-life women with great force. Kathy has extensively studied and explored the traits, characteristics, and societal trends that contribute to these crises, and developed an effective coaching model to understand and address them. She works with her clients to uncover the significant personal meaning beneath the crisis, and to help them get to the other side of transition with greater purpose, joy, and fulfillment. As a corporate Vice President turned helping professional and thriving entrepreneur and author, she has lived through this crisis herself, and successfully reinvented her life and work.

Thriving Through Change

Kathy specializes in assisting individuals who are currently in a major transition period, or who wish to bring about significant change. From helping clients change their careers, start a new business, move through a new life stage, reinvent after divorce, deal with trauma, grief and loss, or achieve desired movement personally and professionally, Kathy utilizes her therapeutic and coaching skills, as well as successful practices from other change-oriented fields, to help individuals thrive while making dramatic life changes.

Empathic Parenting

Kathy’s training and work with families and children, and her own parenting experience, have given her a unique understanding of the ways of being that foster children’s growth and potential to the fullest—empathic ways that facilitate children to become self-reliant, self-confident, joyful, and strong as they develop their inner compass to direct their own lives fully.

Marriage and Family Relationships

In family life, each of us participates in a wide range of roles and interpersonal interactions and patterns of communication that may, at times, generate conflict and emotional distress. Kathy helps you access your own inner resources, strengths, and solutions while discovering new ways to address and resolve interpersonal issues and dilemmas that may have emerged within your relationships.

Arts and Creativity

Kathy has been singing and performing for over thirty years, and performed on numerous recordings and at appearances at Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, and other large and local venues. She has also performed and recorded with her husband world-renowned jazz percussionist Arthur Lipner (www.arthurlipner.com). As an accomplished singer, performer, and author, she has valuable personal insight and experience in understanding the power of integrating your creative self with other dimensions of your life. Kathy assists both professional and nonprofessional artists and creatives in bringing about beneficial change in their careers and personal lives.

Samples of Kathy’s recordings:

Ellia Communications

Ellia Communications serves as a reliable source of superior coaching and communications products, services, and resources that help individuals and groups break through to lasting positive change and empowerment. It offers coaching, consulting and training tools, services, and resources in the form of books, products, study guides, workshops and seminars for individuals as well as corporate groups. Read more about our services.

Ellia Communications is founded on one key desire – “to be part of the solution.” In our professional and personal lives today, there are so many challenges and obstacles to contend with that many people feel overwhelmed and confused as to the “right” direction to pursue for themselves, either interpersonally or professionally.

Rather than contributing to factors that maintain and exacerbate struggle in our world, Ellia Communications seeks to be part of the solution, by helping people connecting more deeply to themselves, one book or seminar at a time, to find their own authentic way. This reconnection fosters breakthrough. Challenges and limitations become more manageable, and once we break through, we’re guided to a more expansive, fulfilling, passionate, and joyful way of living.

Ellia Communications, Inc. new offerings in 2008:

Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman's Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose (Berrett-Koehler, November 2008)

Breakdown, Breakthrough Study Guide (Ellia Communications, November 2008)

Breakdown, Breakthrough Personal and Professional Assessments (Ellia Communications, November 2008)

Clients and Testimonials

"Kathy is a personal trainer for the mind, body, and soul."

- Norwalk, CT client, March '03

About “Professional Women Reinvented” Workshop for IBM Women’s Diversity Network:

“I enthusiastically recommend having Kathy Caprino visit with your groups. We hosted her today, and she was very well received by our group. Kathy presented key findings from her national study involving women overcoming professional crisis and coached us on ways to avoid professional crisis. Our group spoke candidly with Kathy over a lunch roundtable. I have received a lot of positive feedback regarding Kathy’s visit. Overall, it was a very insightful experience.”

“We are still talking about your visit on Friday! Thank you again for sharing your experiences and advice with us. I have been beating the drum with other networking groups around the company. I think you will hear from other IBMers soon.

“Please accept my belated note of thanks. You did a terrific job! I have heard nothing but positive feedback. You have a way of reaching each audience member. I think each participant internalizes your message and leaves with a personal takeaway. I hope our paths cross again, Kathy. I have learned a lot from you.”

“Kathy Caprino is an author, speaker, and life coach. She has a message on how to find fulfillment in one’s professional life. We hosted her in Yorktown and again at our quarterly networking event. She was very well received at both events. I highly recommend her for your highly active and enthusiastic groups.”

– Dr. Michelle Steen, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

I just wanted to say thanks again for spending so much time with our networking team last week. I've gotten lots of great feedback. It's always terrific to get an outside perspective on some of the choices we make and impact we are having in our personal and professional lives. Thanks again!

– Marie L. Wieck, VP, Middleware Services, IBM Global Technology Services

About “Professional Women Reinvented Workshop” for General Electric:

“Just wanted to write a quick note to thank you SO much for your discussion with us last night. I really feel like I learned a TON. You are such a wonderful speaker and have such a connection with people. You seem to have truly found your calling in life! I am planning on buying The Four Agreements book you spoke about, as I’d really like to learn as much as possible about this type of “life.” Also looking forward to your book’s release next year!! Thanks again so much!

– T.S, GE Commercial Finance, Danbury, CT

About Research Study Women Overcoming Professional Crisis: Finding New Meaning in Life and Work:

“The work you have done is just brilliant and your article is so spot on in terms of what women can focus on to make positive change a reality. You are really out there making a difference in the world and that is awesome!!”

– Jennifer Sherman, C.E.C., Certified Business Coach, Trainer & Speake, Envision Coaching, Inc

About Other Recent Caprino Events/Seminars/Book:

“Kathy, it was great to finally meet you. Your seminar gave me a clear understanding of my role as mom and to support me in that role, you provided many insightful examples of cause and effect. I have read through your research summary of women in crisis and change… I would like to have a copy of this when you have completed it. I find your work fascinating and evolving into a wonderful resource for women of all backgrounds.”

– Laura Hughes, President, President, The Riverview Group, Inc., Greenwich, CT

“This work is really wonderful, Kathy. I think that you are making an incredible contribution for those of us who want so much to be in the flow of our lives, to be valued, appreciated (by others and ourselves), and to do what’s best for ourselves and others. I look forward to the book!

– Ina Jubert, Coach, Shaman, Herbalist, Human Design Specialist, and President of Wisdom Happens, MA

“I think this is taking shape in such an exciting way. I can see your book being incredibly successful, and I think the timing is perfect for a program and book addressing this issue.”

– Suzie Galler, President, MUSE Entertainment, and Founder of The Esteemed Woman Foundation

About Caprino’s Empathic Parenting Workshop:

“Most impressive. Patent it, publish it, share it with prospective parents as well as new/current ones. Truly a comprehensive and meaningful workshop. I wish my kids could attend personally. In lieu of that I am sending it to them. I wish it had been available when I was struggling as a parent. At the very least your workshop will heighten the awareness of parents to the incredible responsibility of being a parent. That how a child is raised has such far- reaching ramifications for the rest of his/her life let alone the dynamic of the family while they are at home. It’s truly a great service to both parents and children.”

– Anne Dobbs, Naples, FL Business Owner, Parent, Grandparent

About Caprino’s One-on-One Coaching Services:

“Kathy's intuitive nature gives her an amazing ability to get to the heart of any issue. She is passionate about helping others and it is evident in her unique approach to coaching. I have watched myself transform over the last several months working one-on-one with Kathy and know that I could not be doing what I am doing today without her continual guidance, wisdom and support. I am grateful for what she has helped me to achieve and look forward to what is to come.”

– T. R. Fairfield, CT

Kathy has this great ability to immediately put you at ease. The sense of trust that I felt allowed me to fully participate in our work together without hesitation - in her presence you are in a safe place. She is empathetic, yet able to cut right through to the heart of the problem to the things that were right in front of me but couldn't see myself. She is encouraging, sincere, supportive, as well as practical - all of which helped me untangle the options and choices I was facing."

– G.M. Elmsford, NY

"Kathy sets the stage for you to expand your world and meet your dreams."

– P.A., Brewster, NY

“I first began my work with Kathy a month ago; prior to that, I would not have thought it possible to guide someone so positively in such a short amount of time. Kathy has helped me become more self-aware and has guided me toward mending my inter-personal relationships. She knows how to direct an individual toward finding his or her own answers which I have not found possible up until now. Kathy's sensitivity and insight are just two of the characteristics that make her truly gifted in her field."

– S.I., Norwalk, CT

“Working with Kathy, I was able to see my long-standing issues in new ways that allowed me to move forward and make changes in both thought and action."

– C.J., Chelmsford, MA