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Home What is the E-P system? Other FAQs The Forest About Blog		Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain... Oh! Wait! That's me! My name is John Seiffer and I'm known as the small business coach because I'm only 5ft 6. I obviously couldn't make it as a comedian so I had to find some other line of work. I've been an entrepreneur since 1979. That's when I opened my first company. In 1993 I became an Extra-preneur (though the word wouldn't be invented till a decade later by my friend Ron Hart.) It refers to someone who runs a company from living in a different place: kind of like an ex-patriot. To do this, you have to run the company so well it can thrive without your personal presence. In other words, you've developed systems for the organization to capture the skills of the people and infuse them throughout the company, so it can keep growing. When I first moved away (from Texas to Connecticut) the company was only 2 years old. 11 years later I'm still involved, and the company is still quite profitable. In 1994 a client of mine recommended I look into coaching because, she said, I was a natural at it. I'd never heard of it before, it was a brand new profession back then. But when I checked it out, I found I liked it and was good at it. Since then I've been coaching and helping other business owners to do what I've done - systemize their companies so the organization becomes a support to getting what they want, rather than a hindrance. For a while in the late 1990's, I was also pretty involved in the coaching profession. I've served on the Advisory Board of Coach U and as Treasurer and President of the International Coach Federation.
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