"Biz Sherpa" Peggy Mengel believes in discovering and capitalizing on your natural strengths while diversifying your skills to keep a competitive edge in a rapidly changing corporate environment. As a result, during her 25-year career in the financial services industry, she has focused on her innate sales and training abilities-yet continues to "reinvent" herself. Her broadly based experience in management, marketing, sales, operations, and technology has helped her develop training courses and a coaching practice filled with practical, "real world" techniques. She has customized and delivered training courses nationwide to thousands of financial advisors in Sales and Presentation Skills, Marketing, Management, and Office Efficiency. Peggy also teaches these same courses for various corporations through the Extended Learning Symposiums at University of California San Diego and Cal State San Marcos. Whether in group or individual sessions, Peggy has coached both sales and management executives to new levels of success.

Peggy speaks from the heart and has the conviction to deliver only the highest-quality programs. She inspires her audiences and clients with enthusiasm, passion, and a true desire to make a difference in their lives. She is an expert in helping her clients identify what they want, create a plan to achieve their personal growth and professional goals, and enable them to keep their energy and focus sustained over time as they move toward those goals. Peggy likes to develop ongoing relationships with her clients because understanding their challenges at a more complex level helps her to codesign more creative solutions. Above all, she maintains a lighthearted environment with them on the way to realizing their dreams-have fun, not stress!

Peggy and her husband, Scott, live in San Diego and enjoy sunsets on the beach, playing tennis, and relaxing with a good movie. Health and beautiful surroundings are important priorities; she makes time for regular exercise and yoga as well as decorating her home and trying out gourmet recipes. These are all part of maintaining a balance between her personal and business life. Peggy is a graduate of the University of Illinois and has received specialty Certificates of Achievement in Presentation Skills. She received her formal coaching training from Coach U and keeps her skills fresh by participating in many coaching education classes and special interest groups. She is a member of the San Diego Professional Coaches Alliance; is actively involved in Mentiuum, a mentoring program for businesswomen; and holds the National Association of Securities Dealers Series 7, 63, and 24 Licenses.