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Dan Bolsen

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Leading with Strengths

“Gaining more understanding of how to leverage my strengths and more self-awareness around my blind spots has helped me produce maximum results for our team.

I utilize lessons I learned from my time with Jerri Ann on a DAILY BASIS.” ...
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Brian Morgan

Co-owner of The Future Malls & Couch Potatoes

“The COSMO training we received changed the game for me and our leadership team. I can’t think of a better way you could equip yourself and your leaders for success… We had problems with no solution until we found COSMO.”

Sandra Black

Founder & CEO, Sandra Black Coaching

“COSMO is an intuitive technique that helps leaders influence people and obtain insight. As a coach, I utilize this model as a supplement to my own frameworks and as a separate one to help others grow, develop, and enhance their circles of influence. COSMO training was experiential and provided great peer discussion that aided in learning, understanding, and applying COSMO to varied markets.”

Bill Mason

PCC & Executive Coach

“COSMO training 10-20x’d my investment and results in my business.”

Tom Herrick

Founder of XP Leadership and former Senior VP for Fidelity

“I wish I had this COSMO framework 20 years ago. It codifies everything I ever did as a leader… I can’t think of a more collaborative way to hold conversations around strategic planning.”

Dr. John Francis

Trauma Center Director, Coach and Professor of Clinical Surgery

“After 40+ years of research and developing systems for teaching – I found COSMO is, by far, the simplest and most effective approach to coaching and facilitating effective change.”

Dr. Kenitra Hendrix

Indiana ADDL & Clinical Professor at Purdue University

“Leadership can be hard. You’re often faced with difficult challenges that you’ve never seen before. Instead of feeling lost and ill equipped, COSMO provides a consistent framework for tackling those challenges with confidence and grace. COSMO is an essential tool for leaders.”

Sara Barber, DVM

Co-Founder, Foundation Livestock Services

"These classes are absolutely essential for any leader or coach. You will learn a framework that simply yet powerfully sheds light on the complete process to achieve any desired outcome. This is the best training I have taken in many years. It has changed the trajectory of my personal and professional life. I use it with my clients to help them achieve their goals more quickly and with clear purpose." ...
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Scott Frickenstein, PhD

Founder and CEO of Leading By Design

“We gained a lot of clarity and a whole lot of momentum. Simplify your leadership, family, and team's success with COSMO™.”

Melissa Breyette

Life & Leadership Coach and Founder, Flourish Coaching

“I sought COSMO training to improve my abilities and help my clients, but I’ve found its uses are unlimited. It’s excellent for anyone who desires to grow. COSMO outlines the five elements of human achievement. COSMO is worth the investment since it’s wisdom-based and adaptable. Don’t miss out on a tool framework that works with all your other tools.”

Dave Mead

CEO, WeAlign Coaching Firm

“I experience Jerri Ann as a coach who is a gifted listener with incredible insights into helping others succeed in their design and purpose in life. She quickly establishes rapport, provides clarity, and helps clients move forward. If you want to be true to yourself, feel fully alive, and achieve more than you ever have before, get with Jerri!”

Tom Morley

COSMO Certified Leadership Coach, WeAlign

“We wanted a better way to evaluate company and client opportunities. Using COSMO reduces miscommunications and the need for reworking mistakes, accelerating ongoing progress. COSMO has helped clarify each person’s perspective and problem-solving approach. Simply put, COSMO is the gift that keeps on giving!”

Jyl Hutchins

Pre-Service Manager, Optum

Due to the meaningful impact of Jerri Ann’s leadership on my life years ago, I hired her as a coach. My relationship with her has been one of the most impactful in my life. I left each coaching session excited and eager to learn more about myself and my potential as a leader. One thing I appreciated the most about our time together was how each conversation provided time for reflection as well as information on how to practically utilize the knowledge gained in day-to-day interactions. As a result, I have been able to build trusting relationships with my staff and have meaningful conversations around growth and development.

Mark Case, PhD

Founding Partner, Invita Consulting

“The best kind of coaching is a unique blend of compassionate curiosity with clear-eyed, practical insight. Jerri exemplifies this masterfully in her coaching. Over the last several years I’ve watched her provide tremendous benefit to the complex organizational world of nonprofits. Whether working with leaders, field directors, or volunteers, she does an exceptional job of getting to the root of people’s concerns or issues and providing invaluable help with effective steps forward. I can’t imagine a better coach for your organization.”

James Madison

Founder & CEO, On Purpose Life

“I LOVE COSMO! It’s a simple way to help my clients get clear, take action, and achieve results! Once you start seeing the world through the COSMO lens, everything changes and you will never go back!" ...
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Charles Hooper Jr.

Executive Coach

“When time is money, clarity is imperative in providing leadership to any organization. Clarity Training (COSMO) has provided me with a versatile tool to use in various settings to help my coaching clients gain clarity faster.”

D.G. Elmore

Chairman, Elmore Companies, Inc.

“Jerri Ann brings incredible insight and wisdom to all coaching situations. She is able to quickly build trust and speak into situations for the mutual benefit of the individual and the organization."

Andrew Patton

Director of Ministries, Covenant Church

“Jerri Ann’s ability to listen, ask timely and probing questions, be present with me in the moment, and encourage me along the way, has led to a clear picture of where I want to be vocationally and empowered me to take specific steps toward making this vocational picture a reality. Additionally, I am more confident as a leader to take greater risks in my communication with others to see them grow and develop. This is an encouraging process!”

Caleb Quinones

Entrepreneur, Honest Travel

"As an entrepreneur, I am constantly overwhelmed at the number of responsibilities and roles I am forced to juggle. Jerri’s coaching brought specific, focused wisdom and showed me how I ought to think about my best contribution to the company I am building. Her actionable insights and meaningful questions pushed me into a robust understanding of what I do best in the world and who I should find to help me do it. The investment of time with Jerri as my coach has already paid dividends as I start and run my business. I would recommend her strengths coaching to anyone who wants to maximize their impact as a leader."

Erin Bader

PhD., LMFT, RN, ACC

"COSMO is an adaptable framework. As a coach, it helps me take clients through uncomfortable dialogues by clarifying huge concepts or ideas. My husband and I use this approach to future-cast our business, which helps us see important outcomes."

Jason Hess

Campus Director - Texas Tech, The Navigators

“I certainly have a deeper understanding of my talents and how they impact my work and leadership. Jerri Ann helped me lay a foundation of awareness that will continue to help me assess my future opportunities and guide career decisions. Her questions in helping me sort through my strengths and how they impact my daily life and decisions were invaluable.”

Alice Matagora

National Leader Development Initiative Program Coordinator, The Navigators

"Being coached through my strengths and talents by Jerri Ann has given me a vision for my best contribution in the workplace. Rather than lead out of a profile of who I thought a leader was supposed to be, she has helped me to lead more confidently out of my strengths and design, and just as important, to understand where my blind spots are. ...
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Dan Baker

CoFounder of Foundation Livestock Services, LLC.

“We wanted a better way to evaluate company and client opportunities. Using COSMO reduces miscommunications and the need for reworking mistakes, accelerating ongoing progress. COSMO has helped clarify each person’s perspective and problem-solving approach. Simply put, COSMO is the gift that keeps on giving!”

Kendra Goering

Collegiate Director - Chicago, The Navigators

“Receiving coaching from Jerri Ann was so impactful that upon finishing my introductory sessions, I immediately referred my team members to her! Jerri offers deeply insightful and thoughtful coaching that brought me and those whom I lead great practical clarity to our individual roles, as well as, great relational understanding that then benefited our organization as a whole. Understanding my personal strengths through coaching sessions with Jerri gave me great freedom in my work and personal life to live out of those strengths and enable those I lead to do the same.”

Lindy Black

Associate U.S. Director, The Navigators

"Jerri Ann is a truth speaker and trust is built on the foundation of truth. As a person who can bring perspective, the right questions, and strategic input, Jerri Ann is the real deal.

Jerri Ann has both brought wisdom and discernment to processes in our organization. Her ability to see reality and coach the future can be an asset to any movement or organization."

Mark Richardson

Correctional Chaplain & Pastor, Celebrate Recovery

“In my role as a Correctional Chaplain and Pastor, I consistently use the COSMO Framework and illustrations to help inmates grow and develop. I’m truly grateful for what I’ve learned about myself and others using the COSMO Framework. I will continue using this framework for all of my endeavors and continue enrolling in VitalStrengths Coaching & Training programs so I can better serve my family and community.”

Megan Colabrese

Atlanta City Director, The Navigators

“Jerri’s coaching was transformational to both my personal and professional life. She did an amazing job helping me to unpack, understand and embrace my talents. The questions and deep insight she gave helped me learn how to begin to utilize the talents I have in order to maximize my leadership.”

Shayna Wildermuth

Collegiate Director, Build a Better Us

“My goal with strengths coaching was to unapologetically offer my talents to the world. Coaching with Jerri has done just that! I now have greater self-awareness and can effectively lead and make decisions out on my strengths.

Jerri is very skilled at questioning, asking, and guiding people into important self-discovery on their leadership journey. Through her coaching, I gained confidence in my decision-making and a greater understanding of how I lead most effectively. I also became more empowered to make my business and leadership dreams a reality.”

Gina Lokken

PCC, GinaMarie Coaching, LLC

“I was blown away after I received the COSMO training manual… I couldn’t believe how expansive and timeless the content was. For both my personal and professional development, this training program and framework was life-changing." ...
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Sheryl Bullock

Life/Business Coach, sherylbullock.com

“Whether it’s for me personally or a client, this tool is invaluable and I’ve put it to use with great success already. I believe the application of this course will be strategic in the lives of clients and bring great value to your coaching abilities.”

Tara Chamberlain

Minneapolis City Staff Trainer, The Navigators

“At a critical time of transition in my leadership position, Jerri Ann helped me gain a deeper understanding of my impact and gifting. It enabled me to step more confidently into my leadership role and to operate from a healthier place. It was a necessary step in my growth as a leader and greatly benefitted our team.”

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