Here are a few of the reasons our colleagues have distinguished us as leaders in the field of educational and personal transformation.
Our Founders
Jeannie Crowell, MA, CMC and Sue Harless, MEd, CMC bring more than 50 years experience working with young adults and their families to College Excel. They formalized their coach training at the International Graduate School of Master Coaches, where they graduated as Certified and Licensed Master Coaches, and studied with award-winning scholar Srinivasan Pillay, M.D., a Harvard professor, brain-imaging researcher and psychiatrist who specializes in neuro-coaching practices. Based on their breadth of experience, depth of knowledge and the impact they have had in their field, Crowell and Harless are regularly sought after to train educators worldwide.
Our founder, Sue Harless, is on the forefront of developing and training teachers on a groundbreaking educational model that uses the power of informal learning environments, collective intelligence and social networking to solve problems that simultaneously strengthens right brain processes.
Our neuro-coaching model is the most advanced form of coaching available and founder Jeannie Crowell is directly involved with developing this groundbreaking technique with her mentor and teacher Dr. Srinivasan Pillay. In 2010, she became one of the first Certified Neuro Coaches in the world through Dr. Pillay’s training program.
Our Neuro-Coaching Model
Our coaching program isn't life coaching. Our model goes well beyond the standard "accountability" model, which basically involves goal setting, action planning and relying on a student's commitment and motivation to move forward.
Our coaches are certified in an advanced, graduate level degree of coaching. We only apply the best-researched, and validated coaching practices that create sustainable, measurable changes. It is the same model used with today’s finest professional athletes in overcoming barriers to achieving higher performance.
Our Revolutionary Education
In the next decade, higher education will need to be reconstructed to catch up with how technological advances have changed the way we learn and do business.
We constantly research how to teach our students so they're prepared with the skills they'll need to compete in a workforce that is outsourcing left-brain jobs and hiring people with well-developed right-brain competencies.
Our Award-Winning Practices
We were selected by the Neuro Business Group as one of the 15 best coaching practices in the world. We believe this honor was given to us because we are dedicated researchers who are open to learning more, getting better at what we do and collaborating with the best and brightest minds in education and personal transformation.
Our Whole-Student Approach
We're concerned with the whole college student’s well being. For example, each student works to develop a balanced, mindful meal plan with a registered nurse who is a certified nutritional coach, and is required to work out with our fitness coaches who have trained NFL players and other professional athletes. Students are also taught how to meditate and practice emotional regulation skills while being supervised by a licensed social worker who specializes in stress management.
