ActionCOACH Business Success Seminar to Benefit Cardinal Shehan Center

Trumbull, CT, August 27, 2009 --(PR.com)-- "Ways to Grow Your Business Now” is the topic of an ActionCOACH of Connecticut seminar set for Wednesday, September 23, from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Marriott in Trumbull, with all net proceeds going to the Cardinal Shehan Center in Bridgeport.

The cost of attending the meeting is $45 a person and includes breakfast. For information and reservations, call 203 210.7003, email officeops@optonline.net or go to www.actioncoachnow.com. Space is limited.

This seminar is designed to help business owners, executives and professionals learn new ways to grow their organizations and increase profitability—with special emphasis on the most effective techniques for today’s challenging economy.

Sponsors for the charitable event are: ActionCOACH; The Bank of Fairfield; Bernstein Global Wealth Management, Manhattan; Brody Wilkinson PC, attorneys and counselors at law, Southport; Marriott Trumbull; and MJK & Company, CPAs, Fairfield.

Founded in 1962 and located in Bridgeport, The Cardinal Shehan Center (www.ShehanCenter.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching lives through learning. The center offers a variety of programs and activities that address the educational, recreational, cultural and social needs of moderate- and low-income families and young people.

Speaking at the event will be Terry O’Connor, executive director of the Cardinal Shehan Center, television and radio personality, with over 20 years of coaching experience at Fairfield University, Harvard and the U.S. Basketball League. Terry has been the recipient of a number of awards for his volunteer efforts over the years and serves on many boards.

The program will be led by successful businessman and Certified Action Business Coach Jim Malski, who says: “Savvy business owners aren’t waiting around for the economy to improve. They are growing their businesses right now with techniques that work in tough times as well as in good.”

Malski (jimmalski@actioncoach.com) began his career as a CPA with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Since then he has bought and sold 16 businesses and held a number of senior management positions, including president, COO, CFO, controller, and coached entrepreneurs on how to profitably grow their organizations through proven financial and business-development practices.

Malski, an international speaker and trainer, is the founder of Westport-based ActionCOACH of Connecticut, repeatedly recognized as one of the top ActionCOACH offices in the world. ActionCOACH of Connecticut is one of the largest ActionCOACH offices in the U.S. For 2008, it ranked as the second most successful office in North America and fifth worldwide. Malski is the author on a number of published columns on business leadership topics.

The world’s largest business coaching firm, ActionCOACH has more than 1200 offices in 26 countries. Its coaches work with business owners, executives and professionals using ActionCOACH proprietary business development methods to systematically and consistently grow their profits, free up their time and build winning teams. ActionCOACH is a member of IBCI, the International Business Coach Institute, the largest professional association for accredited business coaches.

For more information about ActionCOACH’s programs and business leadership materials, call 203 210.7003 or visit www.ActionCOACHnow.com. The firm’s blog is at www.youractioncoaches.com.

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