• Try a session at no risk: If you are not satisfied, your total payment will be refunded upon request within 10 days after the session.
  
• This is a half-hour individual coaching session by phone with Dr. Brookes. Within 24 hours after payment, you will be contacted to schedule your session.
  
• Prior to the scheduled coaching session, you will assess your strengths using an online tool.
  
• In the coaching session, Dr. Brookes will use the strengths assessment results to help you clarify your life purpose and the steps you can take to achieve it.
  
• You will leave the coaching session with a plan including specific next steps you can take towards achieving your goals.
  
  

• Others Recommend: 
   

  “Bernard’s listening skills are excellent. Regardless of whom he is interacting with, his discussions are productive and open. He actively listens, responds intelligently, probes and remains engaged. He learns from his interaction with others and is a model for how to actively listen…Bernard builds highly effective teams made up of the right mix of skills. He makes sure that everyone understands their roles and expected contribution and gets them to work together as one.”

  -         Barbette Weimer-Elder, Executive Director, Education Institute, Adventist Health Care

   

  “His thoughtful questions and contributions added considerably to the quality of the experience for me and other participants…I found Bernard to be honest and kind yet direct in providing feedback.”

  -     Nancy Gentry Glenn, Assistant Director, Business & Executive Programs, University of Maryland University College

   

  “Dr. Brookes has extensive expertise in designing and overseeing projects in the field of higher education, private business, and in human service delivery systems. His knowledge of the pertinent issues of today, as well as ability for thoughtful perspectives into those that will be of future interest, particularly those of which I am most familiar with through my work and association with him at the Center for Health and Development, continues to serve as the prevailing foundation for the current work of the center, as well as for our vision and aspirations for the years to come. “

  -         Ken Spicer, CEO – Center for Health & Development, Inc.

 Dr. Bernard Brookes, the founder of SOPPHIA Leadership Development:

• Principal Consultant and Leadership Coach, SOPPHIA Life & Business Coaching.
• Doctorate in Psychology and Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Boston University. Bachelor in Music from Berklee College.
• Former Professor and Leadership Coach with the Graduate School Management & Technology at University of Maryland, University College.
• Former Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School; and also taught at Boston University and University of Lowell.
• Experienced providing leadership development and other consulting services to businesses and government for twenty years.
• Flute player in a band and in church.