Gail Cassidy Biography
Who
am I?
In essence, I am a writer, teacher, and coach with a basic
philosophy: Success begins with the discovery of your passion and
is enhanced with the mastery of great communication and
interpersonal skills.
My passion is finding ways, through researching and developing
training programs, to make life better for me and for my
clients.
My love of training and program development started early in my
career when I sought creative ways to teach high school English. I
suspected that this was my niche when, while working for IBM
Corporation, I received their prestigious “Outstanding
Contribution” award for a self-paced training program used
nationwide that I had developed. I was especially proud to have
been the first female and youngest person to have received this
award.
While my husband and I were raising our two children, I continued
developing programs through my extensive involvement with my local
community, where I had the opportunity of being president of seven
organizations, positions which enabled me to continue finding
easier and better ways to fulfill our mission statements. I also
researched and collaborated on numerous education issues for our
local school board.
Later, as an instructor and manager of instructors for an
international training organization, I continued doing what I
love--developing and teaching programs that enable people to
maximize their potential.
In the mid-1990's I founded Tomlyn Publications, a home-based
business dedicated to empowering clients to recognize the strengths
in themselves and in others and mastering the skills to present
themselves as they desire to be seen. I had already written and
published
Discover Your Passion and
its accompanying workbook for students. After starting my company,
I authored five more books and 13 e-books and booklets plus
seminars and workshops to utilize the information in the
books.
One of the questions in my book,
Discover Your Passion,
is "What do you do naturally and effortlessly?" What I have found I
do naturally and
effortlessly is
create programs and teach; and as a result of that realization, I
have steered my business down that path of helping entrepreneurs
and small business owners to create seminars for their clients in
order to master their niche and increase their client base and
income.
For the past 18 years, I have had the opportunity to teach and
coach many people toward the discovery of their passion, which has
culminated in my latest endeavor, the completion of a book,
entitled
The Validating Mentor and
The Validating Mentor Workbook to
help “at risk” kids maximize their potential. This
mentoring program assists young people in crisis in their search
for a direction in life, who need help to discover their personal
gifts and talents and who need to learn how to use them. The book
can also be used as a tool by coaches when mentoring their
clients.
Over the years, I have narrowed my passion further. I have found
that working with and helping "at risk" teens and young adults
through the use of three of my books (The
Validating Mentor, Profit From Your Passion,
and
You Cannot NOT Communicate) provides
them validation, direction, and communication skills. I've trained
teachers from 15 prisons in NJ and worked in a Juvenile Detention
Center--experiences leaving an indelible impression on me. I
believe that the combination of validation, direction, and
communication skills provides a solid base from which to grow for
this group of kids who, like anyone else, wants to be successful in
life.
Although I did not consciously plan to be where I am, that’s
the road that I believe was meant for me to follow in life.
That’s true satisfaction--doing what I love and knowing
others are benefitting from what I do.