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Learning about personalities broadens our horizons and gives us a base of wisdom for self-discovery and a positive approach to relationships.
WHO NEEDS A Certified LINKED® Personality COACH?
Anyone who values relationships and wants to strengthen them.
People who engage with others on a regular basis in any setting:
home, work, church, community, corporations, and more . . .
Pretty much everyone!
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Meet our Coaches
Aaron Zook – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
Aaron M. Zook, Jr.—an award-winning author and speaker—entertains with a purpose in his books and presentations. He’s thrilled thousands of readers through his YA Christian mystery/adventure Thunder and Lightning series about two inquisitive brothers and their dogs who solve one crisis after another around the world.
Aaron’s books include The Secrets of the Castle, The Salt Mines Mystery, The Phantom of the Fortress, The Isle of Intrigue, and The Crashin’ Coaster Mystery. He’s working on book number six in the series, tentatively entitled The Olympic Enigma, in preparation for a Fall 2021 release. Additionally, as a ghost-writer, Aaron’s produced one non-fiction biography called Our Dad The Hero.
Aaron is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and lives with his wife, Joyce, in Holly Lake Ranch, TX. He loves being a husband, father of their two married sons, and grandpa to four wonderful grandchildren.
Speaking Topics:
Character Research – The Masterful Mix
The top attribute of a good fiction novel is your characters. How can you make your characters stand out? A key to this process is doing a detailed analysis of their personality. I recommend the LINKED personality system along with other methods to create memorable characters that stick in a reader’s mind.
Research: A Love/Hate Relationship
To create a fictional novel that competes for top honors, research is key. Is your personality suited to doing research or do you hate the process? Using the LINKED personality system, I’ll help you determine your personality traits and recommend various strategies to make research an enjoyable experience.
Writing for YA – One Author’s Perspective
Using the example of my first fiction novel, The Secrets of the Castle, I’ll provide insights into the use of the LINKED personality system. This powerful tool allowed me to create characters that hooked Young Adult readers not only for the first book in the series but kept them wanting more throughout each of the subsequent books.
Calvin Richard – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
Calvin “Go Hard” Richard (re’shard)
- He is a man of faith, husband, and father of 3 amazing kids.
- He is a Peak Performance and Mindset Coach
- Founder and CEO of LIONHEART Men’s Peak Performance Coaching for ambitious legacy-driven men of faith
- Founder and CEO of Verus Fit Transformation Lab Team Personal Training Studio.
- 25+ Years of experience in sports medicine, strength & conditioning, fitness coaching, and peak performance coaching.
- He enjoys coaching/teaching, travel, participating in Tough Mudders, other OCR races, basketball, football, and strength training.
- He is a JV comedian and intramural legend
Talks:
Elevate Your Greatness – Authentic Leadership – Faith Over Fear
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Courtnaye Richard – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
Courtnaye Richard (re’shard) is the founder of Inside Out Media Group, LLC – a faith-based PR, Marketing & Mentorship Agency. In her 15 years of experience, she has worked with platforms such as PBS, CBN, & TCT Networks, as well as local television and print publications. Courtnaye is also the founder of Inside Out with Courtnaye, a ministry that helps women grow in their walk with Christ from the heart and equips them to fulfill their God-given purpose. Courtnaye is also an author and contributing writer for ibelieve.com, Women’s Ministry Tools, YouVersion, and is a speaker of a host of women’s conferences that include She Speaks, FlourishWriters, and Entrusted Women’s Conference. Her blog, Inside Out with Courtnaye reaches thousands of women across the globe and was listed as the Top 50 Christian Women Bloggers Every Woman Must Follow. She’s passionate about helping women make a greater impact in their personal lives, homes, church, community, and purpose.
Topics:
Team Building 101: Hiring and Managing Effective Teams
The Power of Servant Leadership
Collaboratives: Linking Arms with Like-Minded Women
To find out more information or to book Courtnaye for your next speaking engagement, please visit Inside Out Media Group and www.courtnayerichard.com
Deb DeArmond – LINKED® Certification Course Director
Deb DeArmond is an author, speaker, and certified writing coach. Her experience includes 25+ years as a certified business and life coach—helping others improve their interactions at work and at home. Her first book, Related by Chance, Family by Choice: Transforming Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Relationships released by Kregel Publications.
Family dynamics are Deb’s passion, and her writing explores marriage, grandparenting, in-law and extended family relationships. Abingdon Press released I Choose You Today: 31 Choices to Make Love Last and her book about marital conflict, Don’t Go to Bed Angry. Stay Up and Fight! written with her husband, Ron.
Bumper Sticker Be-Attitudes is a humor-tinged devotional for the busy believer seeking deep truths with a chuckle on the side. Each chapter bears the title of an actual bumper sticker say collected by the author over several years.
Deb takes a different approach in the upcoming book, We May Be Done, But We’re Not Finished: Making the Rest of Your Life, the Best of Your Life. The book is a compilation as Deb wrote half the chapters and teamed up with 22 authors to share their amazing stories in living life fully after age 50. It touches on both the magic and the sometimes tragic – but God is the hero in each woman’s story.
Her work has been featured in several publications including Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Woman, and her monthly column in Lifeway Magazine Mature Living, now in year seven. Her on-air experience includes interviews with Dr.James Dobson’s Family Talk, and several television appearances with Cornerstone Broadcasting and Focus on the Family, which included an award for one of the twelve most-watched programs in 2019.
Deb is wife to Ron, her high school sweetheart who showed her the path to become a Christ-follower 48 years ago. Mom to three incredible sons and daughters-in-law. Gigi to seven perfect grandboys and (finally) a gorgeous granddaughter. But Jesus is her favorite, and the others have learned to live with it. Deb and Ron are native Californians, grateful to be residents of the Lone Star State – Texans since 2005.
Author Topics on which I speak:
LINKED® Personalities: Certified Linked Coach Workshop (Train the Trainer)
Invest to Increase: Building Your Writing Opportunities – Time, Talent, Treasury
Defining your Path: Stepping into Your Calling as a Writer
Be Yourself! Everyone Else is Already Taken: Finding your Authentic Voice
Can We Talk? Connecting with the Writing Community
One Sheets, Pitching, and Proposal Writing
Six Power Plays to Beat Procrastination
Planning for Success: Mind-Map Your Book
Business Topics on which I speak:
Executive Leadership Development:
A sample of the course offerings:
Coaching for Peak Performance
Embracing Change
Driving Change
Debbie W. Wilson – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
Debbie W. Wilson, Bible teacher, life coach, and former biblical counselor, mixes insight and encouragement to inspire others to trust Christ with their lives. Her books include Little Faith, Big God, (first place Kudos Award winner for nonfiction book of 2021), Little Women, Big God, and Give Yourself a Break. She and her husband Larry founded Lighthouse Ministries, a nonprofit biblical counseling, coaching, and Bible study ministry. She is an Advanced Writers and Speakers Association certified speaking and writing coach. Debbie enjoys dark chocolate, a good mystery, and the antics of her two standard poodles. Find free resources to refresh your faith and connect with Debbie at debbieWwilson.com.
Topics:
Cracking the Code to Understanding One Another
God Made us Different to Make a Difference
Dr. Evelyn Johnson-Taylor – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
Speaking Topics:
Heather Greer – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
Heather Greer is a speaker and author who is passionate about helping others grow in their faith. Whether through her talks or in her stories, her desire to encourage others to live their faith in the middle of the messes of life shines through.
Speaking Topics
Karynthia Phillips – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
Karynthia Glasper Phillips a speaker and author whose workshops, coaching, and blogs, integrates the importance of effectiveness in life by beginning with self-care of spirit, mind, and body. She is bi-vocational as a minister, internal medicine practitioner, and conference faculty. She is an adjunct professor at American Baptist College in Nashville. Karynthia is an advocate for decreasing the disparity of cancer among women as demonstrated in her work with Echoes of Hope, Inc., and Founder of Beyond Boundary Consulting formerly known as Trinity Wholeness Ministries.
Karynthia is a spiritual director whose coaching style is visible in her passion to see clients connect the dots and step beyond their boundaries into the fulfillment of goals and dreams as speakers, business owners, leaders, and authors. Her unique ability to combine wellbeing with dreams helps client’s goals materialize. In online group coaching, client’s skills become enhanced, strengthen emotionally and spiritually to shine bright as they journey forward achieving their vision as God designed.
Karynthia is a monthly contributing writer and faculty for Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer’s Conference, a contributing author in Bishop Vashti M. McKenzie’s book, Not Without a Struggle: Leadership for African American Women in Ministry. Karynthia is also a contributing writer for Our Daily Bread devotionals. Other collaborative projects Blessed Is She released 2019 with Discovery House, published in Today’s Purpose Woman Online Magazine. Book release compilation Black Voice of Wisdom 2021 published by Redemption Press.
Undergraduate Bachelor of Arts Fisk University dual degree in Biology and Religious Philosophical Studies, Master of Arts in Biology Tennessee State University, Master of Science and Medicine as a Physician Assistant from Trevecca Nazarene University, and Master of Divinity from Central Baptist Theological Seminary. She is passionate about integrative optimal health and spiritual maturity with bible reading and intimacy with God ( 3 John 1:2).
As a wife and mother in her spare time, she enjoys crocheting, horseback riding, color painting, and playing the flute. Her desire to see a revival of Scripture reading is her prayer. She and her husband and adult children live in Nashville, Tennessee.
Karynthia’s motto: “Self-care is not by chance it is a choice”
LINKED® Personality training will be used to train women in leadership ministry, business, and community activism. Workshop at the Beyond Boundary Institute and during coaching/ spiritual direction.
Twitter: Karynthia Phillips@ QT_HisTime
Facebook: Karynthia Glasper-Phillips
Linette Rainville – Certified LINKED® Personality Coach
TALKS:
Linda Gilden – Co-Founder LINKED® Personality System and Co-author of the LINKED® Quick Guide to Personalities series.
Linda Gilden is an experienced, bestselling writer, speaker, award-winning editor, and writing coach. Author of more than 20 books including Called to Write, Called to Speak, Articles, Articles, Articles!, the LINKED Quick Guide to Personalities series, and many ghostwritten books. With over a thousand magazine articles, Linda Gilden loves to share a great story. As a freelance editor and writing coach, she encourages others to make their writing the best it can be. As a personality consultant, Linda loves her front-row seat helping others discover their personalities in a way that builds and strengthens relationships. As Director of the Carolina Christian Writers Conference, Linda loves to see writers have that “aha!” moment when it all starts to fit together.
Linda Gilden’s experience includes co-founding the LINKED Personality System, frequently presenting at national writers conferences, freelance editor and coach for publishing houses and individuals, judge for prestigious contests, co-teaching “Writing to Expand Your Ministry” in the Women’s Ministry Program at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and being a regular columnist for multiple websites and magazines. Her days are immersed in writing-related activities and her favorite times (after spending time with grandchildren) are encouraging new writers and helping other writers learn how to take their writing to the next level. She truly believes writers can make a difference in the world one word at a time.
Linda Gilden is a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her greatest joy is time spent with her family. Her favorite activity is floating in a pool with a good book surrounded by splashing children! www.lindagilden.com.
Speaking Topics
The Writer’s Personality
The Writer’s Personality? What does my personality have to do with the way I write? Your personality affects the way you see the world. Therefore, everything you write is influenced by your point of view. How can a Mobilizer writer organize his or her checklists for the most benefit? What are the healthy habits of a Socializer writer? What can encourage a Stabilizer writer? Why does an Organizer writer seem to get more projects done? Upon examination, we find we all have characteristics of more than one personality. Our writing will be stronger if we understand our personalities, the personalities of our characters, and our readers.
How Personalities Affect Family Relationships
Have you ever wished there was more peace in your home? Do you wonder why one of your children heads outdoors every morning to play while another grabs a favorite book and finds a quiet corner to read? When you and your husband decide to have “date night,” do you immediately gather a group of friends and your spouse looks for nearby hiking trails? Have you often wondered if your free-spirited, energetic child will grow to adulthood or if your opinionated, we-can-fix-anything child will ever have any friends?
Marriage and parenting are life-long journeys and understanding why each person does the things he or she does will make things go more smoothly. In order to create a home in which your children can thrive, there must be a loving understanding of each person under the roof. God made each one of us different and unique and we need to celebrate that.
Writing Articles As a Marketing Tool
Articles are a great way to build your platform and establish yourself as an expert in your field. Article writing can also create publicity for your book and other writing. Learn how to use article writing to take your writing to the next level, increase your visibility as an author, sell books and so much more—an overview of article writing and how it can benefit authors of all genres. Learn how to write and market your work as you target each individual personality.
Linda Goldfarb – Co-Founder LINKED® Personality System and Co-author of the LINKED® Quick Guide to Personalities series.
Linda Goldfarb is a bold communication expert whose passions include teaching about personalities and helping others take their next best step personally and professionally. She believes in the power of relational transparency as a wife, Mamma, Maw-Maw, and friend. Her frequently quoted mantra, Transparency Leads to Transformation is an inspirational catalyst for her readers, audiences, and clients.
As an award-winning multi-book author, international & inspirational speaker, certified personality consultant, podcast host, a professional stage actress, board-certified Christian life coach, audiobook narrator, and former radio talk show veteran, Linda has logged thousands of hours influencing lives, impacting families, and igniting hope around the world.
Linda’s inspirational communication skills encourage performance improvement and increased decision-making with her audiences, clients, and readers.
Studying and teaching the personalities for more than eighteen years has grown me relationally, professionally, and spiritually as a powerful Mobilizer. By listening more and talking less I invite others to speak out with confidence, says Linda.
She’s the owner of Live Powerfully Now LLC, the Digital Communications Coordinator for the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writer’s Conference, a board member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, and the co-founder of the LINKED Personality System. She has eight published books, over 200 published articles, writes for online blogs and family websites. Linda’s book, LINKED® for Educators is utilized by Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC as a curriculum for their, Teaching and Learning, MEd program.
Linda and her hubby, Sam are empty nesters leading full lives. With four adult children and grandbaby #15 on the way– life is a new adventure every day. She loves sipping frothed coffee with friends, traveling the countryside with Sam, and sharing transparent truth to help others take their next best step—personally and professionally.
Experience includes keynote, television, radio, workshop, and podcast guest expert for in-person and virtual events
Personality Based Talks
The Science of Personalities for Writers – 1 or 2 sessions
Personalities matter to the reader, the writer, and the characters in every good book. You will learn: Personality-based character development tips to enhance your reader’s experience. How to increase readership via your readers’ personalities. How to maximize your writing productivity unique to your personality.
Building a Cohesive Team in a Hybrid World
Description: What the world needs now is a sense of belonging. This is truer today based on the literal separation of peoples in this pandemic age. Board-certified life coach and personality expert, Linda Goldfarb brings her barrier-busting-humor and get-it-done strategies to help divided teams reclaim and maintain a cohesive mindset whether engaging online or in-person.
Managing Conflict in a Changing World
Description: Everyone views change through unique-to-self lenses. Personality expert and board-certified life coach, Linda Goldfarb shares how clarifying our perspective can move moments-of-conflict into a season-of-progress.
Leadership Communication Skills That Encourage Employee Engagement
Description: Creating an environment of “Intentional Communication” for leaders is what personality expert, Linda Goldfarb recommends when growing employee engagement beyond instruction and delegation. This edutaining and interactive presentation is based on Linda’s award-winning LINKED® personality series and years of coaching professionals to achieve their next best step.
Parenting With Personality
Getting LINKED at Work