Hi, I'm Jean Charles, your JustRight Coach.  Thank you for your interest in getting to know me. 

I came to the profession of coaching by way of a twenty year career in another helping profession, as a practitioner, administrator, and business owner.  The most important discovery I made during that time was that each person I worked with as a client, employee or peer was unique and needed to be treated as such.  When I discovered coaching five years ago, I realized that I had been coaching people all along.  I was guiding, supporting, and partnering with people to become all they were meant to be. I was helping them to discover and utilize their resources to build business and personal lives that worked just right for them.

As a business partner, I was the one who grounded the big visions of my entrepreneur partner.  I was the one who was able to put the structure around and the foundation under his "castles in the air" so they became real and the businesses thrived.  Over the course of my career, my partner (who also became my husband) and I have owned and operated six small businesses.  The largest of which was a successful multi-clinic physical rehabilitation company that was acquired in October 2000 by a national medical company for many times earnings.

Two years prior to the acquisition, coaching found me and I knew that I was ready to officially become a coach. So during the acquisition process, I enrolled in CoachU and coached our managers and employees to prepare them for the transition.  I also began coaching other small business owners and professionals, to design and build business and personal lives that work for them. I am now successfully continuing with my coaching practice, writing for newspapers,  managing three small businesses, and living my just right life.  I am living proof that when you find what is right for you, both professionally and personally, life is great.  I am committed to sharing what I have learned with others so they may also live fulfilling lives.
 

My Professional Affiliations:
 

• BS  -  Biology - City College of New York

• MS - Pharmacology - Saint John's University

• MA - Behavioral Sciences -Kean College of New Jersey

• Licensed Occupational Therapist, State of New Jersey

• CoachU Graduate

• Member International Coach Federation

• Member New Jersey Professional Coaches Association Board of Directors Member and Corporate Secretary   2000 - present

I grew up in New York City and gradually moved across the state of New Jersey going from city kid to suburbanite to farmer. I now live at Misty Meadow Farm in the northwestern part of this 'Garden State', with my husband and teen-age son.  We raise Polled Hereford Cattle,  have two horses,  a few dozen chickens and grow hay and corn.  We also spend several weeks/year at our oceanfront home on the Outerbanks of North Carolina (another of our businesses - we rent it out during the season).  In my spare time I like to garden, hike in the woods, beachcomb, read, and practice yoga.