Balancing Changes is a performance company that taps human potential to achieve exceptional results. Using a tailored approach, we have been facilitating growth of management and staff at all levels of an organization to achieve their desired goals. Measurable outcomes include increased sales, reduced turnover, enhanced productivity, improved management skills, and company-wide strategic plan implementation.

As one of nearly 500 worldwide affiliates of Resource Associates Corporation (RAC), Balancing Changes uses proven methods and programs that have helped thousands of organizations and individuals achieve their desired goals. Balancing Changes is the only RAC affiliate providing these services in Vermont, offering a distinct and unique approach to creating desired changes. Being a part of this large network provides the opportunity to collaborate with other RAC affiliates ... which means Balancing Changes can service any size request. We also have the capacity to facilitate performance anywhere in the world. Contact us for more information.

Our Vision:

Balancing Changes is renowned for providing world-class performance coaching for entrepreneurs, athletes, and performing artists of any age. Our clients maximize their potential to continually achieve personal bests; to live balanced, enjoyable lives with clarity of purpose; and to share their talents, creativity, and ingenuity with the rest of the world.

Heather Finley, Ph.D., founding owner of Balancing Changes, loves to help people take their performance to the next level and experience personal and professional fulfillment.

Beginning in Iowa, her eastward journey began by first earning a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, then Master's and Doctorate degrees in Counseling Psychology at the Ohio State University. After (finally) graduating, she moved to Vermont, where she has built a private practice. As a psychotherapist, she specializes in life transitions, optimal performance, and behavioral medicine, which bridges the gap between medicine and psychology.

Dr. Finley brings her expertise in human behavior, the change process, and motivation to the business world, providing a distinct advantage to organizations that aptly choose an expert in human behavior to help develop the potential of its greatest asset: its people.

Enjoying variety and balance, she maintains a part-time psychotherapy practice in Burlington, Vermont, provides diversity training to schools through A World of Difference, and coordinates Vermont's Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award. In her spare time, she cultivates musical creativity through a contemporary a cappella group - Random Association.

Heather Finley, Ph.D., founding owner of Balancing Changes, offers presentations on a variety of topics in multiple formats. Content and format can be tailored to your needs.

• Keynotes
• Seminars
• On-site workshops
• Multi-day intensives
• Retreats

With over 14 years of experience, Dr. Finley effectively balances participant involvement with information and application. Workshop evaluations consistently state that over 90% of participants rated the workshop "very good" or "excellent" overall. Click here for testimonials.

Examples of topics covered in the past include subjects such as:

• Creating a compelling vision
• Outlasting the competition by embracing change
• Winning at sales
• Strategies for increased productivity
• Getting and maintaining peak performance
• Keys to effective communication
• Flow to your competitive edge
• Get out of your own way
• Creating a balanced life
• How to make your wildest dreams come true

Click here for additional topics.

If you would like a topic to be presented that is not included on this list, contact Dr. Finley to discuss possibilities.

If your organization employs people, Balancing Changes can help you efficiently achieve the results you desire. Because Balancing Changes facilitates the development of human factors such as motivation, communication, possibility-thinking, goal-setting, and attitudes, companies of any size within any industry could benefit from our collaboration. If you prefer to work one-on-one or in small groups, we certainly can facilitate the development of those same human factors, especially useful for top level executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, and performing artists.

Partial client list

• Karen Maxon, Usana Health Sciences, Essex, VT
• Carl Frenning, Carl Frenning Architecture,S. Hero, VT
• Rutland Regional Medical Center, Rutland, VT
• Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, VT
• Visiting Nurses' Association, Colchester, VT
• American Management Association, Saratoga, NY
• Lane Press, Hinesburg, VT
• Sports and Fitness Edge, Essex Junction, VT
• Sports and Fitness Edge, South Burlington, VT
• The Ohio State University, Varsity Synchronized Swimming Team, Columbus, OH

Balancing Changes incorporates programs to develop human performance that have proven effective for over 25 years. Click here to see the wide variety of clients served worldwide by other Resource Associates Corporation Affiliates like Balancing Changes.

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