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| | The Power of Paradox | | | | Successful leaders balance opposites - like making decisions alone and making decisions with others; telling it like it is and being tactful. Receive a free article by Coach Betsy Pickren on how to change your paradoxes from stressful to strategic. Enter your name and e-mail below, and we’ll send it and occasional other articles of interest.
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| | Meet Us | | | | | | | | BETSY PICKREN, M.Ed, CPCC Professional Certified Coach Betsy Pickren, President of Facilitated Learning, Inc. brings 30 years of corporate experience as a people development professional, and training executive. She was VP of client services for Zenger Miller, an international consulting, educating, and skill development firm. Zenger-Miller, winner of Training magazine's first Annual Achieving Performance Excellence (APX) award, has contributed to the success of nearly half of the Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
For over 10 years, Facilitated Learning Inc. has helped organizations expand performance capabilities through individual and group learning and coaching. The FLI Team consults with organizations to implement learning solutions and develop internal coaching cultures. |  | | |
Betsy is clear about her calling - creating safe spaces for people to learn, grow and develop their strengths. She brings to any project a wealth of experience with high-level global companies; state-of the-art tools and processes; and a network of professionals from around the world. Her areas of expertise are:
| | | - Leadership Coaching
- Assessment for job suitability
- Team coaching
- Group/team facilitation
- The Power in managing Paradox
- Developing internal coaching cultures
| | | As a Certified Professional Coach through the International Coach Federation, she ignites the spark in people so that they can excel in life through authentic leadership of self and others. Most of her clients are successful entrepreneurs or in middle to upper management positions. Her assignments have been with organizations such as GTE, Turner Broadcasting, Cox Communications, the US Department of Agriculture, Emory University Libraries, CompuCredit, Spa Sydell and AKZO Nobel. Before launching her own business, Betsy helped create the Client Services division at Zenger Miller. As Vice-president for Client Services, she managed a segment of the company responsible for serving the needs of more than 3,000 clients worldwide. Previously, she had firsthand experience on the “client side” through in-house management positions in private industry and government. Betsy was graduated from Young Harris College and the University of Georgia. She then earned a Masters Degree in Adult Education Program Management from Georgia State University. In addition, as a Certified Professional Coactive Coach through the Coaches Training Institute, she has completed over 30 professional education seminars from some of the nation’s leading experts in change management, team development, personal growth, and organizational development. Another personal accomplishment is her achieving a Black Belt in Taekwondo. Ms. Pickren has been active in a variety of community and civic organizations. As a volunteer, she promoted cross-cultural learning between Americans and Russians. She was a member of the Leadership Team for Advancing Authentic Leadership through her church, a mentor for PathBuilders (a mentoring program for women in business), and past President of the Georgia Coach Association, a chapter of the International Coach Federation. She served as Chair of the first Georgia Coach Association PRISM Award for Outstanding Corporate Coaching in 2006 and Lead Judge for the 2007 event.
| | | STRATEGIC PARTNERS The FLI team includes a broad resource network of professionals, carefully chosen and vetted, who are skilled in many specific areas. Through our network of professional coaches, consultants, learning designers and trainers we provide solutions to a number of people development needs.
Strategic Executive Coaching Alliance www.seca-1.com Words That Work - www.maggieanderson.com
Identify your target market and attract them to you with marketing communications that work: speechwriting, PowerPoint, Websites, articles and brochures. | | | | | | 
| | | | | | The Facilitated Learning logo has its roots in the history of the Cherokee tribe of Native Americans. Betsy Pickren is a descendant of the Cherokee through her Mother’s family. When she became interested in the history, she found that in ancient times the number seven was sacred to the tribe. There were seven clans: the Panther, Long Hair, Bird, Paint, Deer, Wolf, and Wild Potato. Each clan had a specific area of focus in which it excelled. Clan affiliation was inherited through the Mother’s line. (Betsy’s ancestor was a woman of the Wild Potato clan) When the clans came together, they met in a seven sided council house divided into seven sections of seating, giving each clan a place for its representatives within the government structure. In the middle was the sacred fire. Each clan brought a different type of wood to put into the fire. The combining of the wood symbolized equality and the mutual respect due each clan as they entered into dialogue. In coaching organizations and teams, the symbolism of our logo represents our philosophy: When individuals come together in a spirit of equality and mutual respect, they are more likely to work productively as a unit. The same concept applies when teams work with other teams to accomplish the goals of the organization. |
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