About Arleah Shechtman
Arleah Shechtman is an Executive Coach with 30 years of
experience working with individuals, families, and groups. In her
practice she specialized in teaching people how to more effectively
use change and uncertainty as a means to enhance, rather than
encumber their lives. Specifically, this involved dealing with child
rearing issues, relationship issues, work-related issues, and
success and loss issues.
Arleah has also worked extensively with adolescents; first as a
psychotherapist to students at an alternative high school for
behavior disordered adolescents, and then continuing as clinical
consultant to the professional staff. In addition, Arleah has been a
consultant to Easter Seal Rehabilitation Centers, Hospice programs,
and education and law enforcement professionals. In 1989 she founded
the Life Skills Institute, which encompassed both her clinical
practice and educational programs for professionals and the lay
public.
Arleah's academic background includes an associate's degree in
business mid-management, an undergraduate degree in Organizational
Development and an M.S.W. with a clinical specialization. She also
has her A.C.S.W., the professional credential required for
independent practice.
Her continuing education has focused on work with adolescents, work
with small groups, and work with people experiencing grief and loss.
Currently, Arleah is Executive Vice President and Director of
Professional Development for Fifth Wave Leadership, a change
management-consulting firm. Her work with the firm focuses on
teaching people how to more effectively use change, uncertainty, and
unpredictability to enhance their lives both personally and
professionally. The thrust of FWL is culture change for a broad
spectrum of businesses. Arleah teaches groups of business people how
to initiate and facilitate their own culture change, through
utilizing the Fifth Wave Leadership program, and by certifying
client's to deliver the program internally. She also prepares FWL
facilitators to present and teach culture change in the business
place, as well as continue their own personal grow.
Prior to her professional practice, Arleah was involved in business,
first trading commodities, and then as owner/manager of her own
business. She has always been involved in a wide variety of
volunteer and civic organizations.
While in business, and before her career as a psychotherapist,
Arleah was a housewife and mother for eighteen years. She prepared
herself for her professional practice as her first family was
growing up. Currently she lives with her husband, and three dogs in
Kalispell, Montana.
