Alfred J. Garrotto
Career Self-Renewal & Life Coaching
Al Garrotto enjoys a broad and diversified career. He is an entrepreneur, company founder, coaching specialist, an award winning author, editor, educator, and pioneer in e-learning. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Mr. Garrotto has recently joined our Coaching Faculty to prepare clients psychologically and spiritually to more effectively overcome the unfamiliar challenges of working in the global business environment.
Complementing our mission, Mr. Garrotto’s principal interest is in leading clients to identify their personal strengths as they safely determine their authentic versus apparent emotional readiness for doing business in China. He excels in enabling clients to build the resiliency required to take care of themselves as they explore new directions in life and enhance personal decisions.
Over the last 25 years, Mr. Garrotto has coached about the deeper human characteristics and attributes of personal resiliency, the ones that directly influence human fulfillment, personal success, and quality of life. Throughout his varied public life, he has delivered presentations to more than 30,000 people on a wide range of topics. Mr. Garrotto sees resiliency more as a spiritual commitment than as a mere psychological process or trendy method of solving problems.
Formerly, as the Co-Founder and President of Bridge Learning Systems, Inc., Mr. Garrotto pioneered E-Learning and Internet-oriented educational software. For relaxation, Mr. Garrotto is an avid writer having published seven books, including four novels. Enjoying a global presence, he had edited book-length manuscripts for clients in the USA, United Kingdom, Italy, and New Zealand. Mr. Garrotto has written extensively about topics as diverse as international adoptions, adult education, personal performance, the craft of writing, living an ageless lifestyle, and resiliency through spiritual integration.
Mr. Garrotto is intensely interested in people. He especially enjoys delivering presentations and coaching others on the art of making better decisions and the role that decisions play in capturing a more fulfilling life. He is known as an accomplished personal coach with an abundance of insight who enjoys leading others to mobilize innovation and change to attain personal transformation. A champion of striving for consistency in thought and action, Mr. Garrotto uniquely blends a repository of experience and knowledge to offer clients a well proven framework for finding the deeper meaning in life necessary to integrate their personal and professional pursuits.