Paul Conley

Together Achieving Dreams Foundation

Managing Director 

The Conley Group 

- Built a Men’s Mastermind that has helped 17 individuals launch or transform their businesses
-Coach Executives around excelling in leadership, business planning, and significant personal and business growth
- Lead dynamic team leadership workshops and trainings helping create higher quality results for small and mid sized businesses.

Founder/Coach

7 Figure MSP™

Accountability Coach

Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA

-Mentor and manage a high-performing team of 130+ people, fostering a collaborative and results-driven work environment.
-Transformed and re-organized key operational pieces that has led to a 22% increase in retention and 37% revenue growth since 2021.
Reimagined and developed financial and board development which has led to an increase of 45% in fundraising since 2019.
Launched a leadership development program that aims to increase retention and redesign organizational training

District Executive Director

YMCA of Greater Cleveland

Executive Director

Continuously take on new responsibilities within 100+ year old Cleveland institution. 
Strategically plan and manage all aspects of youth, adult, and family programming for the 12 branch association.
•	Oversee 12 program departments within the YMCA of Greater Cleveland Association.
•	Manage a budget of over $900,000.

Director of Operations Youth Sports

Continuously took on new responsibilities within 100+ year old Cleveland institution. 
Strategically plan and manage all aspects of youth, adult, and family programming for the 50,000 sq. ft. facility that hosts over 11,000 members.   
•	Boosted revenue by 21% with ~ gross profit margin of 30% over prior year
•	Only director of 12 branches to be ahead of 2015 budget year to date
•	Streamlined new marketing strategies within the department
•	Hired 4 part-time employees who have been promoted to full time positions

Program Director, Athletics

Successfully assisted in management and planning of all aspects of youth, adult, and family programming for the branch and supported the Regional Program Director.
•	Increased program registration by 10% from prior year
•	Helped develop youth sports partnership with Cleveland Cavaliers
•	Implemented new communication system that was modeled throughout 12 locations
•	Successfully hired and trained 3 part time staff

Program Coordinator

JPMorgan Chase

Identified customer needs and worked in a team setting to find the best solution to ensure the customer felt comfortable and understood their financial options.
•	Successfully added and maintained over $1 million of deposits annually  
•	Serviced and simplified client needs that attributed to branch being ranked 1st in customer satisfaction
•	Consistently referred business to licenses specialists

Personal Banker

Start a Side Business Not a Side Hustle

I was on the search for something. 

A group for guys where you could develop friendships, learn from one another, help each other. 

A group where people could share their dreams and put actual action behind them. 

A group where experts from all sorts of fields came together to educate and learn from one another. 

And most importantly, a replacement of traditional networking, where true friendships were made. 

Oh yeah, and by the way the group wasn't stuffy, it was filled with fun and social events. 

There was one little problem in my search though....I couldn't find it.

So, I decided to build it.  

If this sounds like what you have been missing, we invite you to apply on my profile, it will be a decision you'll never forget.

Effectively lead a diverse team of 130+ associates and 100+ volunteers in leading a $2.8M operation. 
•	Led the Tampa market in sales in 2019 and improved sales by 15% YTD.
•	Fundraising of $300K cumulatively and highest fundraising year in 2021. 
•	Increased revenue by 10% in 2019 and improved net margin position by 8% YTD.

Lauren Lefkowitz ☕️

Lauren Lefkowitz Coaching

Executive Coach who works with clients to break the work, sleep, repeat cycle and escape the trap of being ‘fine’. 

Partner with individuals and small-medium businesses to support professionals who want to find 
joy, excitement, challenge, and balance in their careers...and still have a personal life to love. 

Making it comfortable to get uncomfortable, create powerful goals, and create real, sustainable career (and life!) transformation.

CEO - Executive Coach

Fractional strategic human resources and operations services for small to medium US-based businesses. Services include strategic planning and implementation planning for organizational structure including structure strategy and implementation, compassionate job eliminations, recruiting, policies, employee relations and business management.

Fractional Strategic Human Resources / Fractional CHRO

Pulmonary Hypertension Association

When I joined PHA in 2015, the CEO told me he wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, but that he knew PHA needed me. As the first Vice President, Human Resources & Operations, I was given the latitude to build the organization's first true HR department during an initial rapid growth phase, through the retirement of the CEO, participating in onboarding a new CEO, managing transitions as we restructured and worked closely with the leadership team to build an HR structure, develop the employee culture and create team-driven strategies. 

This freedom to thrive allowed me to: 
* create new policies, communications and workflow processes 
* offer support and flexibility during COVID-19
* improve our hiring and promotion philosophy and processes
* implement a more competitive compensation and benefits package
* effectively work with staff to manage change
* oversee PHA's office move and from-the-studs construction
* fill in as interim just-about-everything at different times (as interim VP, Communications & Marketing and interim management of Finance, Development and Program employees and processes during related leadership transitions)

What a ride this position was!

Vice President, Human Resources & Operations

I began writing resumes for family and friends, just as a favor here and there. Eventually, I learned I had a special skill set that allowed me to help job seekers see themselves in new and different ways. 

Over the years, as my skills and experience developed, I realized I really had a knack for helping job seekers with resumes, cover letters, job search strategies, interview skill building and career pathing. 

During the past several years, I’ve developed these tactics and strategies and continue to discover new ways to help professionals take their next steps forward, whether it’s deciding what direction to go in career growth-wise or helping to build confidence or managerial skills or executive presence.

Human Resources Career Consultant

Calvert Research and Management

This position offered me all kinds of opportunity to build, build, build. I implemented the full cycle recruiting process, improving proactively recruiting a diverse candidate pool, for all positions, entry level through executive.

When I joined, I saw a missed opportunity to build relationships with the parent company’s Human Resources team, and subsequently was invited to work with parent company on a variety of projects, including implementation of a new applicant tracking and onboarding system and creating and delivering new training materials and workshops.

I also got to audit, audit, audit, and report, report, report. This included a full audit of more than 100 job descriptions, building an affirmative action plan, and reporting on time to hire and other recruiting measures. I also creating new training programs, both with partners and professional materials and from scratch. I loved being able to create in this area.

Because I made relationship management a priority, the parent company invited me to collaborate on training, developing, writing and/or editing and subsequently communicating consistent, fair policies and processes and I was asked to lead the RFI process for the company’s new ATS.

Human Resources Business Partner

Enterprise

Enterprise was my first toe-in-the-water in HR. I was tapped on the shoulder to join the HR team by the DC area General Manager and after a short time in the smallest HR role in the region, I was selected to establish the human resources department in newly created region of company. And after a couple of years in that office, I was asked to move to an underperforming office to organize and make the HR team thrive. 

As a generalist, I managed benefits administration, HRIS database updates and changes, new hire and termination processes and employee complaint resolution, performance management and progressive discipline processes, from coaching and development to termination, and conducted one-on-one training with all levels of management based on individual needs.

My first opportunities to train and develop HR people was here - I trained and managed human resources staff and other administrative employees and served as a peer advisor to human resources generalists in several other regional offices.

Human Resources Generalist Supervisor

Fine is a Trap | Execs partner with me to figure out why their careers aren’t fun anymore and fix it | Executive Coach | Keynote Speaker | Laughter Yoga | Fractional HR

You're not fine. I don't believe there is any such thing as being FINE.

Fine is giving up on the idea that your career-your life-can be AMAZING.

Fine is a trap.

Fine is not speaking up for what we need OR want.

Fine is not setting boundaries, not following our dreams, giving up on better. 

Fine is the trap of complacency, overworking, ruining our mental health, slowing progress.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀–𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻-𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲-𝗼𝗳–𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁.

You know who’s not fine with it?

>>> Me <<<

Lauren Lefkowitz.

I’m not fine with you being ‘fine’.

I know that you imagine, but can't ACTUALLY imagine:
* Having boundaries so you have some real personal time
* Stopping having things come up at work that make you cancel plans
* Saying no to…anything…so you’re not always feeling like you have to do more
* Getting the promotion, money, title, environment, boss, career you want without sacrificing your whole gall durned life

Instead, you feel:
* Freaking exhausted, which means you’re going home at the end of the day with no energy
* Burned out, leaving you unexcited about the actual work that you’re doing
* Like you’re failing – at work and home
* Oh, and if you’re in a toxic workplace? Double that feeling of not ‘fine’

My clients struggle with this and have convinced themselves they are ‘fine’.

Spoiler alert: They. Are. Not. Fine. With. That.

They want MORE. They DESERVE more. 

YOU deserve more.

How do I know?

I was ‘fine’ for far too long and it cost me:
* I had a limited social life
* The chronic illnesses I already had got worse-I was sicker all the time; I ‘saved’ my energy for work
* I had no hobbies. Zero. I worked, slept, repeated

Finally, I was done with 'fine'.

I decided my life would be full of CHOICE and FUN and SUCCESS and ACHIEVEMENT.

𝗡𝗼𝘄, 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲’𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 ‘𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲’.

I coach high-achieving executives and rising executives to find their versions of AMAZING.

I partner with you to create the career and life you think is only possible for others.

We’ll craft a program for you, digging into what is no longer working for you, create a picture of what you want, and together, we’ll build you the life you actually want to have!

Book a call with me here: https://laurenlefkowitzcoach.as.me/letschat or DM me to learn more.

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CEO - Executive Leadership Coach

Executive Leadership Coach who works with clients to break the work, sleep, repeat cycle and escape the trap of being ‘fine’. 

Partner with individuals and small-medium businesses to support professionals who want to find 
joy, excitement, challenge, and balance in their careers...and still have a personal life to love. 

Making it comfortable to get uncomfortable, create powerful goals, and create real, sustainable career (and life!) transformation.

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