Meet The Sages
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Sage of Self
Michael Stratford
Michael is a champion of uniqueness and specializes in unorthodox thought leadership. When presenting it’s been said he’s a blend of wise elder and wickedly irreverent comedian. But that doesn’t include the business savvy, range and depth of experience garnered from 56 different jobs, and the mastery born of over 3 decades of coaching clients from rock bands to Fortune 100 company executives and their teams.
He has created an International Coach Federation Level 3 Coach Training Program called “The Coach Mastery Program: Designed with Mastery in Mind.” He’s been delivering that course and others in China since 2014.
In field of Executive Coaching, he has earned a reputation for helping others achieve a level of excellence in communication, leadership, and team performance. Michael’s business client list is an exercise in diversification. It includes Finance/, IT, Energy, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Social Media, the Online Gaming World, Transportation and even other consulting/ coaching providers. He has coached people to performance success at every level in every industry.
Michael is masterful in the Art of Provocative Inquiry for Leadership Development. His creativity, love of language, and sensing acuity have helped his clients align with emerging trends and personally congruent solutions.
In the field of Coaching, he was an early adopter (1992 was his first course), attaining the Master Certified Coach designation from the ICF in 1999. In addition, he has created curriculum for 4 training organizations, has trained over 8,000 coaches worldwide. He continues to love the privilege of working with people wanting to have a better life, while being congruent with whom they truly are.
Sage of Creation
Sage of Vitality
Farcia De'Toles
Within the work that Farcia De’Toles presents, she consciously incorporates multiple elements of the vision which guides her work. Her aim is to make the joy of movement within one's body accessible to all people, moving past age, experience, health status and body type. She equips her clients with tools which empower them to continue the experience of her work in their daily lives. Through her work, Farcia celebrates and honors not only the body, but also the mind, soul and community which we exist in. Her objective is to not only shape and align the body but to help her clients find peace and harmony within. Healthy attitudes toward self become healthy interactions in community...natural rhythm.
Sage of Participation
Paul Jeong
Dr. Paul Jeong as a Korean American became a pioneer in the coaching industry in Asia. He introduced professional Coaching in Korea for the first time and start the coaching movement and influence the China Coaching industry in 1999 according to Dr. Vikki Brock’s coaching history book. Dr. Jeong has been dedicated to developing leaders in Asia and has coached more than 40,000 executives of organizations. He has provided executive coaching and coach training services for many Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, HP, GM, Ericsson, Citibank, Air Liquide, ING, Bayer, LG, Samsung, Tesco, Tencent, Hyundai, IBM, GS Holdings, SK Communications, etc. Paul was teaching coaching at Regent University in US and Seoul National University and various universities in Asia. Paul published more than 20 books about coaching, leadership, organization, and personal development. He is devote to the mindfulness movement since 1989. First Master coach from both ICF and IAC and trained professional coach by his ICF ACTP – CPCP course over 130 times. His office is located in Beijing, China, and train more professional coach than anyone in China and Korea. He has a passion for participation in Asian Wisdom and SEA-centering practice.
Sage of Relationship
Adriana Reid
Her area of expertise focuses on public and human relations. Due to her integrative career path, she has acquired a great social sensitivity and spirit of service, allowing her to expand her capacity for action, synthesis, and analysis in political, economic, and social integration processes coming to one conclusion: There is a GAP between our personal development (who we are being) and our roles/functions as humans (what do we do & what we have). Her background and Master’s degree in Education specializing in counseling has given her the experience to work with families, children, and adults, by helping them overcome crisis and difficult situations. Her advice is always directed toward finding an effective resolution to problems and/or challenges and turning them into opportunities, regardless of the circumstance. Her mission is to walk people through the wonder of new possibilities, by helping them discover and solve their inner fears by becoming responsible for their actions and deeds despite any circumstance -their background, nationality, and/ or invisible wounds.
Sage of Wealth
Morgana Rae
MORGANA RAE is the international #1 best-selling author of “Financial Alchemy®: Twelve Months of Magic and Manifestation.” She is regarded to be the world’s #1 authority on transforming relationship with money. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, all the major television networks, Coast to Coast Radio, and hundreds more. Morgana’s fans call her a “Money Goddess” because of the many documented examples of clients making unexpected income of 4, 5, 6, and even 7 figures within hours of changing their relationship with money. A pioneer in personal development for 28 years, Morgana has guided tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, innovators, healers and humanitarians to heal the rift between heart, spirit, and money… to save the world as only they can.
Sage of Co-Existence
Sarah Wang
 Sarah Wang is one of the first a few professional coaches accredited by ICF in China. She owns Fortune 500 companies experience in executive management capacity, coaching and transformation experience and holds ICF Master Coach Certification. She believes that the path to growth starts with a strong sense of self awareness and system awareness, has created an advanced coaching program “Essence Dialogue” which brings coaching and growth into a new dimension. Having a strong passion in people, team and organization that driven by purpose and a common vision and shared value, she converts her rich life experience, strong professionalism, profound reflection, consistent spiritual growth practice into energy and wisdom, which enables her keeping clear and stable coaching states, achieving clients’ transformation as a trusted growth partner.