Handel Group

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THE HANDEL GROUP EDUCATION DIVISION is on a mission to enhance traditional models of education by offering instruction on how to live life powerfully and effectively. We think education should address the important areas of life, including relationship to oneself and others, understanding one’s personality, time management, or simply; how to be happy. Generally left to their own devices in these areas, we believe it is extremely valuable to allow students to learn these crucial life-skills in an academic setting, where they are already hard at work learning and creating their futures. Our revolutionary work deals with universal personal issues and gives students the chance to “design their lives”, as opposed to just “letting life happen” to them. With a focus on developing Personal Integrity, honesty and communication, our methodology allows people to create and lead lives they can be proud of. THE HANDEL GROUP The Handel Group is a renowned international corporate consulting and private coaching company, founded by coaching pioneers Lauren Zander and Beth Weissenberger. We specialize in helping clients take focused and powerful action in every area of life and accomplish this through our Private Coaching, Corporate Consulting and Education Divisions. THE BEGINNING Looking to follow through on her ambitious goal to improve the academic model by offering instruction on universal life skills, in 2006, Lauren Zander created a course called Living an Extraordinary Life (now called Designing Your Life). Based on the methodology she had been developing over the previous decade, the course was listed as providing “an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life” and was offered during the IAP, or Independent Activities Period, at MIT. In the 2006/2007 academic year, Lauren led more than sixty students through this optional, non-credit exploration of their own lives. Participants included undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, alumni and MIT staff members. Feedback from the course was extraordinary and many students described it as one of the most valuable courses they had taken. CURRENT COURSES In January 2010, Designing You Life began its fifth year with over 50 students registered for the IAP course. HG Education Division President, Gabriella Jordan, who was instrumental in developing the course with Lauren over the years, now leads the class. Group courses have also been presented to the Sloan Fellows at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Residents of the Edgerton House at MIT, Middlebury College, Scripps Research Institute , Fordham Business School, at Rutgers Business School in a course called “Love and Money,” and at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP. In the fall of 2009, The Handel Group teamed up with tenured neuro-scientist Wendy Suzuki and began teaching a program at New York University entitled Empowering Women in the Sciences. This program is intended to support nascent scientists in designing their careers and lives.

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