Dolly Garlo, RN, JD, Professional Coach became known as The Mid-Career Reinvention Expert after her own journey from critical care nurse, to attorney and business owner, to coach and consultant, speaker, author, environmental advocate, philanthropist and champion of women’s leadership.

Are you frustrated with your current career path? Looking for something ‘more’ or ‘diifferent’ – ready to step into greater leadership? Do current circumstances or a significant life event have you re-thinking how you want to work… and live? Do you have the desire to professionally pursue something that you are passionate about – to move in a more satisfying career direction, build your own business or take the lead in areas important to you AND enjoy more of the life you’ve worked so hard to create?

If any of that sounds like what you’ve been thinking, you have found the right place!  From her own experience combining preferred skills and changing course, and working with clients to do the same, Dolly ‘cracked the code’ on how to create greater fulfillment in life and career quickly, easily and comprehensively.

Here’s what she most wants to share:

I’ve been where you are…

You, too, can achieve your version of an ideal life – and I’d love to help you do it…

As the President and CEO of Thrive!! Inc., I work with accomplished professionals, small business owners, and senior level executives in business or government service who have reached that  mid-career frustration or dissatisfaction “pivot point” and are ready to “reinvent” – even, and maybe especially, if they are not sure what that entails, where they want to go, or how to get there. If you want to create more meaningful work, move into entrepreneurship, reawaken set-aside interests, deepen relationships, focus on health, pursue new adventures, and make legacy level contributions to experience greater quality of life – or your own personal version of that: YES, it is ALL possible!

With the highest integrity, and using all of my background in health, law, business development, strategic marketing, personal peak performance, professional coaching, legacy planning and philanthropy, I have a treasure chest of skills, resources and referrals to help clients:

• Develop deep insights into more satisfying options, and choose exciting new opportunities
• Take the leap of faith with courage to declare what they want next, and produce a plan to realize it
• Address the challenges that inevitably arise with change, and
• Create a roadmap to confidently move beyond where they might go on their own – and stay on track

The MASTERFUL LIFE Redesign program is a “whole life” system I designed to help make that happen faster and easier, with less effort, uncertainty and angst. It’s time to “have it all” – YOUR all.

If you are ready to explore what that might look like for you, I invite you to schedule a no obligation complimentary consultation. Click here, and let’s explore if there is anything I can do to help: www.DollyGarlo.com/invitation

Education & Background Experience

Earning her BSN from the University of Michigan, and her JD from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Dolly practiced as a critical care registered nurse in Medical and Shock/Trauma ICU, followed by 16 years practicing civil and administrative law. She built, successfully operated and eventually sold her law firm advising professionals and health care businesses, Garlo Ward, P.C. in Austin, Texas, which is still operated by her former partner. Dolly then transitioned to coaching and consulting work, graduating from CoachU, one of the first coach training programs in the world. She obtained the Professional Certified Coach credential through the International Coach Federation in 1997, and co-chaired the committee that created the ICF Code of Ethics for coaches. Dolly also received a founding Board Certified Coach credential from the independent global Center for Credentialing & Education in 2011. She is certified in the Money Breakthrough Method, Overcoming Underearning©, Life / Retirement Options, 2 Young 2 Retire coaching programs. She has been coaching professionals and business owners for 20+ years, and developed expertise in comprehensive legacy planning as a result of her legal education, experience creating the Garlo Heritage Nature Preserve in Bloomville, Ohio from the family farm, creating the Renaissance Lawyer Society and helping to found the Integrative Law Movement, serving on the board of directors of numerous nonprofit organizations, and assisting with the operation of a family foundation.

Dolly is the creator of the “MASTERFUL LIFE Redesign” program, as well as the developer of “Creating Legacy,” her signature legacy planning program to help people design their unique blueprint to best make a lasting positive impact in the world for the people, places and things they care most about – to “Make a Difference Now, that Lasts for Generations.”

Your significance may be obscure to you,  but you may assume  that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself  to converting your experience  to the highest advantage of others.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

What I believe…

My experience has taught me that you have special gifts only you can realize and share with the world.  These are the things you do very well and easily, and love doing — things  you do so naturally you likely think it’s “no big deal.”  These gifts emerge in your personal life as well as within the organizations and communities to which you belong. But this only happens if you are positioned in the right place with the right “fit” for your strengths – at whatever phase you are currently in on your professional journey.

I choose to encourage that expression of talent one person and group at a time because I know that it will make the world a more abundant and beautiful place. It’s the basis for all of my coaching work with my clients, as well as in my own life. Everyone, including me, is a teacher and a student concurrently. I love learning as much from my clients as, hopefully, they do from me.

Where I come from…

A first generation American, my parents immigrated to the US from Poland and Lithuania settling in the Midwest in the 1950’s. (That’s my family when I was about age 6, the littlest.) I have lived all over the U.S. – New York, Ohio, Michigan, Utah, Texas and Florida.

Just as varied are my education and experiences as a Registered Nurse in critical care, an Attorney & Counselor at Law, a Mediator, Health Care Consultant, Writer, Speaker, Workshop Leader and Professional Coach. I choose to work with professionals and executives in business and government because I understand the path: from years of study and skills development… to mastering the business of practice or climbing the ranks with a service focus… to managing debt and maximizing earning potential… to creating real wealth with a focus on family, health and spirituality… to maximizing leadership influence and impact… to living a fully satisfying life and using your capacity to make a positive difference for the people and communities you serve.

It is an amazing and fulfilling path – and you CAN have your own satisfying version of it.

I also know that those who exercise such capacity with grateful hearts and a generosity of spirit are a force to be reckoned with: they also have the greatest capacity to create positive change. Giving back for the gifts you’ve received, to benefit who and what you value – that professional evolution becomes the journey of a lifetime.

The journey is not without its trials and tribulations – choices between work, family and fun, experiences of self-doubt and personal growth, challenges of financial management and wealth mastery, caring for and losing the elders who have guided you …. It’s not about work/life balance so much as about integrating the best of it all and letting go of what really doesn’t matter or serve for true life harmony. Putting that altogether is not always clear without guidance…

“Languages” I speak…

In my experiences along the way, I have learned a lot of different modalities to communicate with clients and meet with them in a way that is comfortable and transformative.

In no particular order, they include the following “languages”: nursing and medicine, mind/body/spirit health, law, mediation and negotiation, ethics, professional coaching (business, money, life and retirement), conscious business and professional practice development, strategic marketing, legacy and philanthropy, network marketing in natural products, immigration and assimilation, English as a second language, fitness and athleticism, nature, plants and animals, Pilates, nutrition and physical therapies, neuroscience, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), communication, behavioral assessment, team building, planning and goal-setting, peak performance, eastern and western philosophy and religions, metaphysics and mysticism, addiction recovery, quantum physics, Human Design, Hand Analysis, A Course in Miracles, psycho-neuro-immunology, psychology, epigenetics, energy medicine, yoga… and ultimately, love. (Others, I am willing to learn!)

I do my best to tell the truth with compassion, and above all first to understand. Then I utilize any or all of the above as appropriate for what a client needs and wants to accomplish, because facilitating that is my mission: to help others realize the greatest possibilities for their whole lives, to “have it all” as they define it.

What I do…

In 1997, after nearly 20 years of active professional nursing and legal practice, I formed Thrive!! Coaching, Consulting & Training to help others successfully navigate this journey of professional evolution – with all its change, choices, transition and amazing personal transformation. Together, we work to

• realize clarity and fulfillment in your professional work and personal lives
• grow and leverage business to improve profitability and streamline service delivery
• make significant career changes, authentically, as needs and opportunities arise
• begin the process of comprehensive legacy planning, to give back in a meaningful and significant way

It is a multi-faceted journey. My clients tell me they value my positive, holistic and integrated approach to coaching, inclusive rather than exclusive.  My work is a combination of humanistic, practical, scientific, and spiritual perspectives that helps my clients experience results in their business, personal and family lives, and in the impact they want to make at the individual, family and group, community and even global levels.

Why I do it …

My purpose is to assist great people to add value and do great things, creating success for themselves as well as for the people they serve. That’s my unique gift – helping you to transform: to be all you can be, experience an abundant and fulfilling life, and make the biggest impact possible for what you care about.  I believe I’m uniquely qualified to offer professional business owners like you the collaborative and supportive coaching services that meet you where you are, whether you need help in your current work, assistance with proven and practical ways to leverage and grow your business, are ready for a career transition, or in finding meaningful ways to create legacy now.

I do this work not only because I know I can help you, but because it is my own personal journey of transformation and another way to leave my own legacy.

Wishing you all your heart desires,

Dolly Garlo, RN, JD
Professional Career & Business, Leadership and Legacy Coach
President & CEO, Thrive!! Inc.