About Janita Friend
Janita Friend is a qualified life coach with a passion for assisting women to lead optimal lives.
Her own experiences in both her personal life and her career have given her a broad range of learnings and insights to draw upon, and with her desire to bring the magic and beauty of life coaching into the lives of all kinds of women, the establishment of Janita Friend Designer Lives is an exciting milestone in her life.
Janita’s qualifications include the Certificate IV of Life Coaching, Advanced Practitioner of Life Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming Practioner. Her coaching training was undertaken with esteemed training academy, The Coaching Institute, the most accredited coaching provider in the world. She is also a graduate of the Goldzone Leadership Experience and coaching program, which is a ground breaking curriculum delivered in Singapore.
As well as coaching credentials, she has a background and qualifications in communications, public relations, management, training and career education and has held senior managerial positions in both the public and private sector. She has managed successful teams and been a judge for the Victorian State Training Awards, assessing the effectiveness of industry training programs. In 1999, Janita was responsible for the running of career education sessions for over 2000 young people.
As a wife, mother, step-mother and step-grandmother – and former sole parent - her strongest belief is that anyone can be whatever they dream of if they identify and transform the beliefs that limit them and use the talents within them to soar and achieve whatever their heart desires – from quiet contended family happiness to the dizzy heights of business success.
“Several years ago, when I was a divorced, sole parent I discovered the power of a range of personal development tools and strategies that helped me to transform my life and led me to create a life I dreamt of. From being negative about what relationships had to offer and drifting along taking whatever life handed out to me, I learned to take control, create new empowering beliefs and develop goals and winning strategies to achieve them. Fast forward five years and those strategies and beliefs have led me to a wonderful marriage and a fabulous career as well as a swag of challenging and life-transforming goals I can tick off my ‘to do’ list. I experienced the feeling of what could happen to me if I continued to not take control and I now want to share what I learned with other women and give them the courage and faith to know that by just changing a few things and making some key decisions and acting upon them you can alter your destiny and totally spin your life into another dimension where love, happiness and achievements await you. This is why I became a life coach and why I am passionate about making a difference to all women who are ‘stuck’ in lives they don’t love with no plan to lead them.”
From climbing the corporate ladder to reshaping your life after divorce, Janita is the personal coach you need on your team, to inspire you to be the architect of the wonderful life you deserve.