About Us

The Eldering Institute® is about what we can do, and more importantly, who we can be as we grow older. We are committed to creating a new interpretation or paradigm for the second half of life—one that allows us to experience love, health, happiness, creative self-expression and being valued and to have as much possibility on the last day of our lives as we had when we were born.

We offer courses, products and tools that guide people to create satisfying, fulfilling lives and to demonstrate their wisdom in action.

James C. Selman | Chairman (Founder)
Shae Hadden | Community (Co-Founder)
Sharon Knoll | Programs
Linda Robinson | Enrolment & Registrations
Adib Saikali | Technology (Co-Founder)
Dr. Marc B. Cooper | CEO

JAMES C. SELMAN

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Jim is CEO of Paracomm Partners International, a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a Huffington Post blogger, and principal contributor to the Serene Ambition blog. He has been instrumental in building new theory and practical techniques in the field of management (including the concepts of “organizational transformation”, “coaching”, “the Merlin method for designing the future”, “breakthroughs” and “breakdowns”) and in introducing new approaches to producing broad “paradigm shifts”. Jim was privileged to work in education and research with some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of transformation and management, including Fernando Flores, Warren Bennis, Peter Senge, Richard Pascal, Werner Erhard and Ken Blanchard among others. In 2006, he was involved in a groundbreaking coaching conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Forty-three key thought leaders from 14 nations gathered to discuss the current challenges facing the coaching industry and to invent new possibilities for moving the profession forward. In early 2008, Jim participated with 22 other transformational leaders and officials in the United Nations to begin a dialogue to distinguish the emerging paradigm and how transformational leadership principles might offer a breakthrough in empowering developing nations and assisting leaders in those countries to undertake full-spectrum responses to their most pressing issues and intractable problems.

Jim is a former member of the California Commission on Aging, a past director of the Breakthrough Foundation, a founder of Growing Older (a non-profit for seniors’ education) and a Founding Member of the Legacy XXI Institute.

SHAE HADDEN

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Shae Hadden is committed to multigenerational collaboration towards peace, sustainability, and the health and wellbeing of people of all ages. Since 2007, she has been developing strategies and designing programs to encourage purpose, mastery and contribution in later life. In her view, everyone has the potential to be a leader—at any age—and the epitome of leadership is being ‘wisdom in action’ (sharing the best of who we are and what we know in a way that empowers others). Shae has successfully communicated as a performer on stage, an executive administrator behind the scenes in the theatre, film and television industries, and as a project manager for website and multimedia projects. As an associate of Paracomm Partners International, she specializes in coaching senior executives on accelerating the development of young leaders through commitment-based relationships. With New Leaf Communications, her marketing consultancy, she also coaches and works on special projects with young entrepreneurs and seasoned leaders who are transforming the prevailing paradigms of our times. Shae is currently a member of the Elders Council of the David Suzuki Foundation, the Sage-ing® Guild and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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SHARON KNOLL

Sharon has consulted with organizations in the U.S., Europe and Japan for the past 25 years in the areas of change management and leadership and organizational development, and has conducted multi-year transformational programs inside such organizations as Intel, Nordstrom, Fisher Companies, and the Weyerhaeuser Company. She has supported effective change not only in the boardrooms of corporations and institutions, but also in the assembly halls of rural villages in the developing world. Over the past four years, she has consulted within the United Nations system. She has worked in Africa, Papua New Guinea, and the Caribbean countries with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with her most satisfying work being the design and facilitation of a Coaching Capacity Development Program inside the UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Group. These programs in Ethiopia, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, and countries of the Caribbea varied in length from 3 months to 3 years. They have provided a platform for beginning to develop hundreds of South-based facilitator/coaches and have been expanded to all development issues.

LINDA ROBINSON

Linda excels at enrolling people in what is possible and empowering them to achieve breakthrough results. With over 17 years experience in corporate finance, Linda has immersed herself for the last decade in helping individuals master leadership through workshops, training and coaching. She has led and facilitated over 20 different leadership workshops to groups of up to 250 participants. Since 2000, she has also delivered introductory personal development seminars to over 1,000 individuals and successfully implemented senior leadership programs for large organizations in both the U.S. and Canada. She has not only helped executives, managers and entrepreneurs become recognized leaders, but she has also coached, mentored and led over 100 coaches to success. Linda has been a senior program leader for Landmark Education, is certified with The Coaches Training Institute®, and is a member of the International Coach Federation.

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ADIB SAIKALI

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Adib has trained and mentored over 500 developers at organizations throughout Canada, USA and Europe through his company Programming Mastery. His substantial technical knowledge, extensive project experience and ability to look at technical problems from a variety of perspectives allow him to create innovative solutions to 'real world' problems. He has contributed his work as a technical author to many publications such as Oracle Magazine, and has also spoken at several industry conferences including JavaOne. Adib holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from University of Waterloo.

DR. MARC B. COOPER

Dr. Marc Cooper's professional career includes experience as a private practice periodontist, academician, researcher, teacher, consultant, coach, trainer, seminar director, board director, author, entrepreneur and inventor. He has studied with masters in many disciplines, participated in formal business educational programs, worked as an independent contractor with top-flight consulting companies, and developed a suite of online business assessment tools. Dr. Cooper's client experience includes solo private practices, healthcare entities, large hospital systems, Silicon Valley start-ups and Fortune 500 Companies. He currently works with clients throughout North America and with a few select clients in Europe and Dubai through The Mastery Company. Marc is the author of five successful books:

Mastering the Business of Practice
Partnerships in Dental Practice: Why Some Succeed and Why Some Fail
Running on Empty: Questions Dentists Have about the Recession
SOURCE: The Genesis of Success in Business and Life
VALUOCITY: A Fable for Dentists.

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December 16, 2007