Client Results

"Dear Stephen,

Great article in Mass High Tech! Your words ring so true. I run the 128 Innovation Capital Group - a networking forum for entrepreneurs and investors. Your article echoed the sentiments of many investors. Thank you."

Annette Reynolds, Executive Director, 128 Innovation Capital Group

"Steve is a "sure-fire" experience. He is brilliant and tremendously insightful to the institutional and self-organizational business psyche. These attributes, coupled with a "no-fail" level of effectiveness, make him an asset of tremendous importance to any entity (group or individual) seeking to untangle and solve seemingly intractable psychological or emotional business problems, and move forward. "

David Steinbach, Director of Recruiting Services, CFS Consulting Services, LLC (www.cfscs.com)

"I really enjoyed hearing you talk about organizational conflict as it affects the solo consultant. I have already used the insights gained from hearing you within my own client relationships. Thank you!"

Kay Corry Aubrey, Usability Resources Inc.

"It was a pleasure meeting and hearing you speak at the Society of Professional Consultants Breakfast of Champions seminar: “Dealing With Organizational Conflict: A Seminar for Consultants” on Wednesday morning. You’re wonderful. I cannot believe how much I learned in 1 ½ hours!"

Manny Correia, former Chief Administrative Officer, Harvard Management Company, Inc.

"Steve is a master at what he does. I hired him to help me increase productivity. I sell auto, home, and life insurance in MA and it's easy to fall behind. Instead of trying to fit me into a particular mold or force me to adapt a certain ideology - he took the time to find out exactly what makes me tick. He used that information to help me understand precisely what it was that had been holding me back. I have since increased my close ratio from 42% to 60% and, at the end of the day, I leave the office with a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction for what I do. I have recommended Steve's services to other sales reps here in my office and to companies that I work with."

Jeremy Paradis, Liberty Mutual Insurance

"We worked with Steve during a restructuring period. He was able to help us identify the specific results that we wanted to achieve, enabling us to create a new development program that is helping us to better maintain consistency and helps strengthen our commitment to our clients."

Adam Scher, Arch Painting

"I really think you've changed my life! You seem to have given me back a part of myself that I'd lost along the way."

Barb Cooper, Author & Speaker

"I met Steve at MIT, where he proved his creative talents and showed an ability to lead. We became good friends, and even though he moved to CA, I suggested that we hire him to work remotely for a project at Turbine. This was long before telecommuting was common. Steve proved to be as successful as I predicted and surpassed the company's expectations."

Rickland Powell, Executive VP, Turbine Entertainment

I am writing to request a follow-up presentation to yet another one of my classes here at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Your implementation of the "Long Ago and Far Away" fairy tale game that you created for the students in both sections of my Industrial-Organizational Psychology (IO Psy) class last semester exceeded our expectations. Read full testimonial…

In just a few sessions, you were able to give us tips on both our individual effectiveness as well as to ways to effectively interact together in short, systematic bursts that increased our effectiveness while decreasing conflict and stress. Read full testimonial…

I am writing to describe my experience working with Stephen Balzac for personal and career coaching. I worked with Steve intermittently for a period of about four to five months, seeking advice and direction during a time when I was experiencing significant career dissatisfaction. We worked primarily via email, with occasional follow-up and feedback carried out by telephone. This arrangement worked very well for me.

Steve guided me through a lot of very valuable self-reflection exercises to help me determine what brought me the most satisfaction both personally and professionally, what my skills and interests were, and how all of those came together to define the kinds of questions I needed to be asking of myself and others, in order to determine which paths to consider. Ultimately I ended up with a much clearer sense of what I wanted to accomplish in my career and in my personal life, and how to work effectively toward achieving my goals.

As much as anything, what my work with Steve did was to help me learn new approaches, and how to identify and tap into the skills I already possessed, to think proactively about my choices. Having accomplished that, I feel much more prepared to make positive and effective decisions about both my career and my personal life in the future, even if my particular interests or goals should change. He helped immensely with self-awareness and the motivational challenges that were blocking me from getting where I wanted to go.

I consider the entire coaching experience to have been time and money well spent, to build a framework for thinking about decision-making and goal-setting that will serve me well throughout my life.

— Tara Smith, Ph.D.