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Susan Cantwell is an award winning author and President of The Lifestyle Coaching Institute. She is a personal/corporate Lifestyle Coach, Personal Trainer and speaker with over twenty years experience in empowering people in making successful transitions to a healthy lifestyle. Her passion is collaborating with people to create a clear path towards total wellness. She was one of only a select few of Nike Sponsored Fitness Athletes in North America for over ten years and is an internationally renowned Personal Trainer. In fact, The Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals calls her “the guru of inspiration, motivation, and exercise adherence.” Her
work has appeared in many publications including: Natural Health, Shape, Self, Chatelaine, Flare, Smart Money, Salon, MSN
Health and Fitness, Readers Digest, Active Women Canada and Balance Magazines. Susan
has worked with Shape Magazine as a regular contributor; columnist and a member
of Shape Magazine’s Adventure Travel Team where she helped facilitate and
coach readers on eight one week adventure trips geared to empowering women. Susan’s
approach to Lifestyle Coaching is highly individualized. She helps clients
determine where their lives are out of balance and what “mental road blocks”
or beliefs are blocking their way to better health. Susan has helped hundreds of
people develop personal lifestyle strategies that work even when the demands of
everyday living seem overwhelming. When
Susan is not coaching or training her clients, leading seminars, and guiding
white-water rafting trips for Shape readers, she writes outstanding books. No
More Excuses: Breakthrough Thinking for Real Weight Loss has won acclaim
from real women and experts alike. No More
Excuses won the Mipa Book Award in the U.S It shows us how preparation
–not willpower- is the secret to permanent weight loss. Her first book, Policies
That Work for Personal Trainers, published by IDEA is in its eleventh year
of print, and is known around the world as “the personal training industry’s
business bible.” Susan’s
energy, humor, and knowledge have also put her in high demand as an
international educator, lecturer, and public speaker. She regularly presents at
the fitness industry’s most prestigious events: The International Personal
Training Summit, World Fitness Idea, Club Industry, the Canadian Association of
Fitness Professionals Conference, and the FitPro Conference in England. Susan
has been nominated five consecutive years for the International Personal Trainer
of the Year Award, and she sits on the Advisory Board for the Canadian
Association of Fitness Professionals, sat on the Idea International Personal
Training Education Committee for a five year term and served as Chairperson on
Lifestyle Coaching for Idea. Here are just a few of Susan’s accomplishments: §
Founded The Lifestyle Coaching Institute for Health
and Fitness Professionals to help train masterful lifestyle coaches. The
Lifestyle Coaching Institute has over 300 graduates in North America. §
Coined the tern, “Lifestyle Coaching” and
introduced Lifestyle Coaching to health and fitness professionals worldwide §
Helped craft ethical guideline for personal
trainers for Idea which has been adapted world wide. §
Developed the guidelines for Idea’s International
Personal Trainer of the Year Award. §
Has personally coached over 500 personal trainers
expand and strengthen their business. §
Developed the “No More Excuses” which has been
delivered across Canada by licensed facilitators. §
Has spoken to over 30,000 Health and Fitness
Professionals world wide on the topic of Personal Training Professionalism,
Client Communication, Marketing, Policies That Work for Personal Trainers,
Coaching the Client and specifically Lifestyle Coaching. Professional Affiliations and Board Membership § Nominated Five Consecutive Years for International Personal Trainer of the Year § Advisory Board-The Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals § The Personal Training Education Committee-IDEA/ The International Association of Health and Fitness Professional § Advisory Board Member/ The Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals § Chairperson, Taskforce on Lifestyle Coaching-IDEA / The International Associations for Health and Fitness Professionals §
Committee Member for Designing Ethical Standards for Personal
Trainers Internationally -IDEA / The International Association for Health and
Fitness professionals. § Committee Member to design criteria for Award, International Personal Trainer of the Year –IDEA / The International Association of Health and Fitness Association § Board Member-The New Council for Fitness and Active Living-New Brunswick § Contributing Editor-Canadian Personal Trainer Magazine § Contributing Editor and Columnist-Active Woman Canada Published Work § Author of Policies That Work for Personal Trainers § Author of Mind Over Matter: Personal Choices for a Lifetime of Fitness § Author of NO More Excuses: Breakthrough Thinking for Real Weight Loss § Authored hundreds and been quoted in hundreds articles of publications internationally including: Shape Magazine, Self Magazine, Family Circle, Readers Digest, Chatelaine Magazine, Living in Balance Magazine, Washington Post, London Financial Times, Smart Money, MSNBC.com, IDEA Personal Trainer, Canadian Personal Trainer, Can-Fit, Pro Quarterly, and many more. Certifications § Certified Personal Trainer-American Council on Exercise § Certified Personal Trainer- Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals. § Certified Group Exercise Instructor-Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals § Certified Club Management Specialist-Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals §
Certified Executive Coach- Excelerator Coaching Program § The Excelerator Coach Training Program –Licensed Facilitator She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada with her husband and her four children.
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