Marcy Nelson-Garrison MA LP CPCC, President and Creative Director

Marcy is a certified professional co-active coach and president Coaching Toys Inc.

If you have spent anytime at all on the coachingtoys site you will have sensed her love of products and creative processes. A true renaissance soul, she is a creativity coach, visual artist, product entrepreneur and the product review columnist for Choice magazine. She is a strong advocate for creative and innovative processes, and sees products as an excellent way to facilitate transformation. As a coach, Marcy helps service professionals with creative leaping and creating products that make a difference. Her own products include: Q? Basics, a training tool for coaches; Mentors And Muses CD, The Product Land Planner, Passion to Product, a five-CD program on how to create tangible products; and The Beezer, a plush toy still in prototype form. Marcy is a creativity coach and mentor/coach for new product entrepreneurs. To learn more about her coaching business visit www.coachingtoyscoach.com  She can be Contacted at marcy@coachingtoys.com or 612-822-8720.

E. Peter Jacobs, C.A.E., Advisor (past editor)

My name is Peter Jacobs, and I work with Marcy as editor of The Unboxed Brain.  I am a coach, a trainer, a speaker, a writer, a poet and a photographer.  I also do a lot of the background work on our website, and other administrative areas of Coaching Toys.  I spent my high school and university years working with the YMCA in everything from scuba instruction to Camp Direction to Youth Leadership Development.  Following school, I spent three years in the photographic industry, and 25 years in top management of national trade and professional associations, working closely with senior executives from a variety of industries and fields.  Three years ago, my career took a shift when I discovered the field of personal and executive coaching.  I originally connected with the work as something to add to my toolkit as a manager and leader.  I fell in love with the transformative power of the work.  The rest, as they say, is history.  I am a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute, and of the yearlong leadership-training program through Co-Active Space (where I met Marcy).  To find out more about my coaching practice, visit www.balance-inc.com.  To view a selection of my photographs, visit www.jacobslightart.com.

Our Community
Coaching Toys Inc. enthusiastically serves professionals in the personal growth industry, specifically coaches, counselors, facilitators, and trainers who focus on personal and professional / business development. We are the premiere resource for professionals to access creative products, innovative ideas and opportunities for self-promotion.

Our Calling
Coaching Toys Inc. promotes and supports the use of creativity, expressive arts, play, humor, intuition and spirituality in personal growth work. These approaches expand the range of the practitioner, enliven the work, provide new avenues for awareness in clients, create space for deep learning to take place, allow for authentic self-expression and make work for both practitioner and client more fun and rewarding.

Cool Products
The Coaching Toys online store features the best in creative, innovative products. Whether products delight, generate creative thinking, inspiration or deep reflection you will find something that you can use in your practice, use for professional development or give as gifts. Many of the products featured are created by professionals like your-self and are listed on a consignment basis. It is part of our vision to make these products visible to a larger audience. Also our affiliation with Amazon.com allows us to bring you the best books out there aligned with our calling.

Brain Tinglers
Coaching Toys is the place to find fun, innovative ideas and creative approaches. Our ezine The UnBoxed Brain features articles by or about those in the field doing pioneering work. There will be a self-expressed corner featuring art or poetry and there will often be a spotlight on a community service project. In our regular segment called Sparkers you will find great ideas for client structures, homework or experientials, complete with how-to's. We will be continually creating and expanding to serve you.

Opportunities
This is one of the most exciting aspects of Coaching Toys Inc. We connect with other professionals who are aligned with our calling and create avenues for increased visibility within the community. If you have created a product that you think fits we would love to have a conversation with you. We also seek writers for our feature articles.

Coaching Toys Creative Team
Like any great idea, others are needed to make it real. I want to thank and acknowledge the “team” of people who have made it possible to create and launch this site.

• E. Peter Jacobs, Balance Inc., for writing, editing, being a sounding board, and providing ongoing operational assistance
• Laurie Gross, JG Studios., for giving the vision a concrete form via talented graphic design services
• Deb Cooperman, for brainstorming, book recommendations and fun, creative and enthusiastic co-hosting of the Coaching Toys booth at the ICF conference.
• Valerie J. Olson, for brainstorming, writing, editing and feedback
• Amy Egenberger, for reviewing content and providing feedback
• Carol Ann Braden, for reviewing content and providing feedback
• Jeff Staggs, George Johnson and the Entrevis Business Development Group for coaching, advice, support, and tools to clarify the vision, create a sound business plan and take action.
• The 23 members of the Corals leadership cohort from Co-Active Space, for creating a space for the seed of Coaching Toys to take root and energizing, empowering, reminding and inspiring

Peter Jacobs, Editor, Personal Coach

Toronto, ON  888-875-4208
epeterjacobs@balance-inc.com