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ABOUT
GINA MOLLICONE-LONG
Gina
Mollicone-Long is a one woman powerhouse who has spent the last
17 years trail-blazing new paths for the modern female entrepreneur.
She is an expert on peak performance and the best-selling author
of The Secret of Successful Failing. Her breadth of business
experience ranges from big corporate to start-from-scratch entrepreneur;
from high tech to not-for-profit. In each and every endeavour,
personal or professional, Gina brings her ferocious energy and
her firm belief that the "impossible" is always possible.
She is an empowerment expert.
Gina
lives her beliefs. Her outside-the-mold career started with an
Honours Engineering degree from the University of Toronto. From
there, was a non-linear leap to the corporate world, in brand
management roles starting at Procter & Gamble and leading
to Molson Breweries, where as Brand Manager she re-directed the
brand and company culture. Next up was a senior strategic role
with the NRG group, a high tech venture capital firm, where Gina
worked in a fast-paced environment to help channel passion into
entrepreneurial technology businesses. Her work with non-profits
included being the Executive Director for proMOTION plus, which
advocates gender equity in physical activity for girls and women
as well as serving on various boards and committees.
During
this time, she simultaneously launched her first business, Goddess
Concepts, a personal development company that focuses on helping
women and girls reveal their inherent brilliance. Goddess Concepts
also helps organizations and individuals understand and leverage
the unique perspective of girls and women. In 2009, Goddess Concepts
launched its biggest series ever called Awaken the POWher®.
In
2000, with her husband Andrew Long she co-founded two multi-national
companies that focus on developing people in the workplace. Critical
Pathfinders is a high performance team development and training
company and Scavenger Hunt Anywhere runs corporate team building
events in cities all over North America. Their programs are innovative,
energetic and effective at increasing productivity. Their hundreds
of Fortune-500 clients include companies such as The Body Shop,
Microsoft and KPMG among many others.
Since
Gina believes that nothing is impossible she constantly sets herself
challenges to overcome. For instance, she managed to get her self-described
"anti-runner's" body over the finish line at the Nike
Women's marathon in San Francisco (6 hours and 9 minutes of "challenges"
but she did it!), conquered a long time fear of heights by plummeting
earthward in one of the highest bungee jumps in the world and
even used her own techniques to she over forty pounds!
She
manages all of this while being mom to her energetic children
Molly and Simon, who have inherited their mom's enthusiasm and
exuberance. She has also been a Big Sister since 1997 and currently
volunteers much of her time with the Canadian Women's Foundation.
She is a fully certified Trainer of the following: Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy, Time Line Therapy and NLP
Coaching. There is no straight line with Gina; all of her varied
experiences have shaped her unique perspective as an entrepreneur,
speaker and human being. Being in Gina's presence is to feel the
unstoppable force of her passion, excitement and most of all her
ardent belief that others can achieve their "imPOSSIBLE"
too.
She
maintains a private coaching and therapy practice at the beautiful
Xiaolan Health Centre in Toronto. She lives in Toronto with her
incredible husband, Andrew and their two children and can often
be found walking along the shores of Lake Ontario in the mornings
when she is not traveling around the world delivering her programs.
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