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Persephone Zill, Career and Life Strategy Coach

Persephone Zill has the kind of success in her own life that is a model for her clients. She is fulfilling the role that she recognizes as her true purpose - to be a Career and Life Strategy coach, a communicator, and a contemporary woman experiencing all the fullness of work, the connections to her intersecting communities, and the love of her husband and two children.

She has had her own business since 1997 as a coach, now based in Westchester, New York. Her practice is the fruition of many years of work in business, entrepreneurship, and training. With a firm grounding in the basics of business models and career search techniques, she is now able to follow her passion -- to ignite the passion in others by coaching them through transformational change in their careers and in their lives.

Prior to establishing her own practice, Persephone was the Director of Training at the American Woman's Economic Development Corporation (AWED) in New York City. There she developed a new framework for guiding women entrepreneurs to success. Through her work, she gained valuable hands-on experience in helping people to become focused in the nuts and bolts of building a career out of their dreams.

Persephone has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Baruch College of the City University of New York and an undergraduate degree in American Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University. Among her many professional affiliations, she is a co-leader of the Westchester/Rockland County Chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF), and also serves part-time as a Program Specialist for the Women's Enterprise Development Center in White Plains, NY. In recent years she has been head of the Barnard Business and Professional Women Career Roundtable as well as an Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at New York University and The New School. Persephone is the winner of the 2004 American Woman's Economic Development Corporation (AWED) Achievers Award for growth in small business.

In addition, Persephone volunteers for The Forge Institute alongside Robert Forman, its founder, in building The Forge Institute up from its roots as an organization of nearly 200 spiritual leaders, teachers and writers working to create quality spiritual resources and community for the seeking public in the United States and Europe.