Themes

Career Development – Discover Your Competent Advantage™

Transitioning into Success

Making Your Net-Work

Self-Marketing

Stress Management – Coping with Work & Family Stress™

Reduce Stress – Focus Energy

Creating Balance in a Fast Paced World

Is Your Stress Weighing You Down?

About

Colette Ellis, Founder of InStep Consulting LLC, helps people and organizations discover their competent advantage™. Skilled at learning her client’s needs, Colette bases her intuitive approach on over 10 years providing professional development services to leading Fortune 500 companies. She has trained executives and managers in oral and written communication, leadership principles and teambuilding. Her business and consulting experience spans the Consumer Products, Financial Services, Not-for-Profit, and Professional Service industries. In 2008, Colette joined a select group of national facilitators for Turning the Page: Building Your Library Community, a unique leadership development program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Colette encourages innovative and continuous learning as an Adjunct Professor with NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, teaching courses on Managing Diversity as part of their Nurse Leaders program. She also has served as Adjunct faculty with Long Island University C.W. Post (Communication Skills for Managers), the City and State Universities of New York (Business Writing & Business Speaking), and a Business Writing Instructor with Gotham Writers’ Workshop. She has been a featured speaker for the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Career Gear, Citibank at Work, Downtown Women’s Club, Grace Institute, International Association of Administrative Professionals, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, NextGen Network and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Colette earned her BA in English from Dartmouth College, and an MPA in Public Finance from New York University. In 2006, she completed certification at the Consultation Center of Yale University School of Medicine in Coping with Work & Family Stress™, a work-life balance program. She also is certified by FranklinCovey to teach 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® and FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities.

Assets

I believe that the more you know about your motivators, personal drives and values, the easier it is to find opportunities that will truly inspire you to perform. There always will be “naysayers” who present negative outlooks about the economy or prospects for the future. YOU have a choice of how YOU respond and react as it relates to YOUR life. The best analogy I can think of is a chameleon – chameleons are skilled at changing themselves to adapt to their environment. You can do it too – the trick is to do it while staying true to your personal goals and values.
As my client, you can expect an honest, responsive coach who offers feedback, plus a safe space to ask the difficult questions and explore new possibilities. Specific areas include:

Career Development – Discover Your Competent Advantage™
Transitioning into Success
Making Your Net-Work
Self-Marketing
Stress Management – Coping with Work & Family Stress™
Reduce Stress – Focus Energy
Creating Balance in a Fast Paced World
Is Your Stress Weighing You Down?

Deep inside, you know what you’re really good at. You just may not have had the chance to fully realize it. Let’s partner to tap into your strengths, surface your passion, and open new doors to your ideal path.

Rave Reviews

“I wanted to say thank you for your help to get [me] ready for the job hunt and the interviews. I hope to get a good job and make you … proud. Continue to help and teach others, you’re very good at your job.”

“I just wanted to thank you again for the superb training you gave us. I look at my resume before and after and the difference is startling. It's more professional and I couldn't have done it without your guidance.”

“Colette was enjoyable to work with. So often facilitators are not well spoken and cannot keep the group going. Colette was both well spoken, kept the group going and interacted well with the group.”

“Colette was clear in her instructions and explanations but never tried to dominate the discussion as some facilitators do.”

“Colette was clearly an expert and a professional.”