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Our Team of Coaches at FocalPoint Business Coaching of New Jersey is ready to help you grow your business.
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Nick Mariniello
Business Coach - Area developer
Lincroft
Nick Mariniello is an accomplished entrepreneur, mentor, and certified business coach with over 30 years of experience and a passion for making a difference in people’s lives. Over the past several decades, Nick has started, built, and sold several businesses that transformed his life.
Today, Nick designs and delivers programs that make other business owners, corporate executives, sales organizations, and operational teams immediately more effective. He does this by giving guidance and feedback based on proven processes that have been developed over many years of working with companies all over the world.
Margaret Maclay
DIRECTOR OF TRAINING & CERTIFIED TRAINING
Edgewater
Margaret Maclay, a certified business performance coach, has more than 25 years of experience in global corporate strategic planning and process development. She has worked for corporations with worldwide reach to develop production efficiencies and strategies to maximize profitability and productivity.
Today Maclay applies her expertise in conjunction with the FocalPoint Coaching method to assist executives, managers and business owners apply emotional and behavioral intelligence to become more effective leaders; identify the most productive and valuable use of their time; develop the most efficient and cost-effective operations; and increase profitability for their companies.
Gerald Covella
Business Coach
Vineland
Formerly an award-winning journalist
and manager for Gannett, an internationally known media company, Jerry parlayed his formal education and work experiences in communication, business management and finance to become a successful entrepreneur who has launched numerous successful businesses in the past two decades.
Michelle Conway
Business Coach
Cranford
Michelle Conway is a certified business coach with over 30 years of experience helping business owners achieve their goals. She works with leaders to build relationships to attract new customers, retain current customers and manage reputation. Michelle’s holistic approach to business is to find balance for the business owner, both professionally and personally. She enjoys coaching leaders to achieve optimal relationships with customers, employees, vendors, members of community and family and friends.
John Brennan
Business Coach
South Orange
John Brennan is a Certified FocalPoint Business and Executive Coach where he works with Business Owners and Professional Executives in the legal, health care, financial and wealth management markets. John’s objective is to help those executives and business owners to evaluate their businesses current state, and then create a strategic business plan for growth. The final step is to help those executives and business owners then implement their plan and achieve the targeted goals and objectives for their business, their employees, and finally themselves and their families.
Fred Ewig
Business Coach
Jersey City
Fred Ewig is a Certified FocalPoint Business and Executive Coach, with a focus on helping youth sports organizations unlock their potential for growth and new opportunities. With more than 20 years of experience and FocalPoint’s proven curriculum, Fred helps his ideal clients gain clarity on their current position and create a manageable path forward to achieve their goals.
Before joining FocalPoint, Fred made a significant impact as General Manager of Iron Peak Sports & Events, a premier youth sports facility. He led a business that had to shut down just ten days after opening due to the pandemic into a multimillion-dollar property. In his four-and-a-half years at the company, Fred was instrumental in driving its growth and success. Since becoming FocalPoint coach, Fred has been using his expertise to help youth sports organizations thrive.
Joe Hliboki
Business Coach
Montvale
Joe Hliboki is a certified business coach with broad experience in several industries including manufacturing, technology and services. As a 17-year Enterprise Sales Team Leader at Cisco Systems Joe’s success was the result of working with business leaders to embrace change and organizational transformation as technology continuously evolved. His experience as a two-time business owner and working at small companies provides him insight into the challenges and the paths to success required to effectively collaborate with Business Owners and Business Leaders to facilitate change and accelerate success.