For media inquiries and interviews
Dave Buck - CV CEO & Head Coach
Ginger Cockerham - Visionary Coach - The Power of Groups

Dave Buck BIOGRAPHY

Dave Buck MBA is the CEO of CoachVille, the largest online business and personal coach training organization in the world. The CoachVille vision is to unleash the greatness in all people everywhere through coaching. As CoachVille’s lead trainer he has delivered coach training programs to thousands of coaches.

He started his coaching career in 1997 and has worked one on one with nearly 1,000 individuals.  Dave is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). 

Dave worked with Thomas Leonard - widely acknowledged as the founder of the life and business coaching industry - for five years until he passed away in February 2003.  Together they founded CoachVille and the CoachVille Certified Coach Program.

He worked for 10 seasons (1995- 2005) as the assistant coach for the Seton Hall University Men's Soccer Team under Head Coach Manny Schellscheidt who is acknowledged as one of the top soccer coaches in North America.

Dave has revolutionized the coaching profession by creating the Coach-Two-Win method™ that dramatically reduces the time required to become a masterful coach and Pattern Language Coaching™ – a masters tool kit for the craft of coaching.

In 2004 Dave was awarded the first annual International Coach Federation (ICF) Peace Maker award for bringing CoachVille and the ICF together.

Dave has taught an MBA program for the Seton Hall Stillman School of Business called "The Joy of Business". He has appeared on The Coaching Show, has been interviewed by Choice Magazine (a leading coaching publication), Entrepreneur Magazine and has been a presenter at four International Coach Federation conferences. Dave graduated from NJIT with a Computer Science degree and Monmouth U with an MBA.

Dave has a love of personal growth and world travel.  He spent two summers playing soccer in Bolivia and the famous Tahuichi soccer academy. He explored the most sacred temples in the southern tip of India accompanied Sri Guruji (of Dr. Wayne Dyer's Meditations for Manifestation fame)  He is still an active soccer player.  In his younger years, Dave sang jazz in coffee houses and has fronted a big band. He occasionally weaves a capela performances of Jazz standards into his presentations.  Dave is also a member of Jack Canfield’s (Chicken Soup for the Soul) Transformational Leadership Council.

Dave Can Provide Expertise in the Following Areas:

• Bringing a Coaching Culture into organizations
• The theories of the coaching profession
• The history of the coaching profession
• Social capital, living networks, virtual communities.
• The role of coaching in free agent America. Why every free agent should have a coach fast. All business problems are really personal problems.
• How to run a virtual company that is successful, profitable, and does not have a physical location. Coachville presently has over 25,000 Active members/customers, most whom have never met each other before. This is a very profitable business model that does not need a physical location to make money.
• How to use teleconferencing and the teleclass (tele-coaching) methodology to create a learning community for employees and customers. You also can use this model to build your business, increase customer satisfaction, and serve your network. This is a very profitable business model that allows companies and business owners to reach a large audience for a low cost.
• How to take over and run a company that was built by someone else who was loved by thousands of people. Dave took over CoachVille in 2003, and previously the company was run by a Thomas Leonard who created the coaching profession. Dave can discuss the challenges with being called to be a leader for a large organization when you are used to running a smaller one, how to step into this role and not take away from what the previous president had accomplished, how to not be afraid to bring yourself and your ideas to the table, and how to create a vision of your own that your customers will buy into. Thomas was the classic charismatic leader and typically companies run by charismatic leaders don't survive that loss.
• Personal Brand Strategy - how to increase revenue, credibility, and visibility by being you. This includes being irresistibly attractive, marketing your talents fearlessly & easily, and being personally evolved as a leader.
• The role of coaching in the future. What is this thing called coaching and why is everyone talking about it? Dave can discuss trends in the coaching industry and where the profession as a whole is going.

Ginger Cockerham BIOGRAPHY
Visionary Coach of the Power of Groups Program

Ginger Cockerham is the Power of Groups Visionary Coach at CoachVille, the largest and fastest growing business and personal coaching organization in the world. She is also the CEO of the Cockerham Coaching Group. Ginger is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, and serves as on the ICF board of directors.

Ginger's diverse international coaching business includes executives and professionals in the financial services, real estate, high-tech and coaching industries. Her specialty in coaching is coaching groups. Her clients include Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Brinker International, Fired Up Inc., Merrill Lynch, Women in Insurance and Financial Services, and State Farm Insurance.

Ginger's background includes teaching journalism and English, real estate investment and development, and CEO Property Tax Specialist, a Dallas real estate tax company. Her family is a high priority and joy in her life. She and her husband, Steve, have four children and five grandchildren. She loves hiking and jeeping in Colorado, writing poetry, and is an avid sports fan.

She writes for magazines and journals including the GAMA International Journal, in WINDOW, a quarterly publication of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, and in Women in Insurance and Financial Services national newsletter. Ginger's monthly coaching column appeared in Today's Dallas Woman for over two years, and her e-mail newsletter, Life Upgrade, provides inspiration and motivation to over 2,000 subscribers internationally. She is featured in the e-book, Ten Super Coaches by David Wood.

Ginger has been featured in articles nationwide in newspapers and magazines such as the The Chicago Tribune, Fort-Worth Telegram, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Health Magazine.

GINGER CAN DISCUSS:

• Group Coaching for Financial Services Companies for retention and increased production of producers. The retention of star recruits is a problem and the companies who are creating groups of representatives with coaches are those who retain great people and increase productivity.
• How to build a successful financial services business. There are systems and tools that make it much easier and enjoyable.
• How to build social capital, vibrant networks, and connected communities.
• How to create and grow an entrepreneurial business.
• Market trending and expanding possibilities for professionals and businesses.
• How to develop passive income for professionals and business owners, using intellectual property and expertise.
• Visionary expertise in the coaching and financial services industries.
• How women can maintain a successful business while having a fulfilling personal life.