The LCI Team

Susan Cantwell – President –The Lifestyle Coaching Institute

Susan Cantwell is President of The Lifestyle Coaching Institute and is a personal/corporate Lifestyle Coach, personal trainer and speaker with over fifteen years experience in empowering people in making successful transitions to a healthy lifestyle. Her passion is collaborating with people to create a clear path towards total wellness. She is one of only a select few of Nike Sponsored Fitness Athletes in North America and is an internationally renowned Personal Trainer. In fact, The Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals calls her “the guru of inspiration, motivation, and exercise adherence.”

Susan is also Regular Contributor for Shape Magazine and a former member of Shape Magazine’s Adventure Travel Team where she helps executives, managers, and individuals change their beliefs about what they are truly capable of, both physically and mentally.

Susan’s approach to Lifestyle Coaching is highly individualized. She helps clients determine where their lives are out of balance and what “mental road blocks” or beliefs are blocking their way to better health. Susan has helped hundreds of people develop personal lifestyle strategies that work even when the demands of everyday living seem overwhelming.

When Susan is not coaching her clients, leading seminars, and guiding white-water rafting trips for Shape readers, she writes outstanding books. Mind Over Matter: Personal Choices for a Lifetime of Fitness is her latest success. It shows us how preparation –not willpower- is the secret to permanent weight loss and lasting change. Her first book was Policies That Work for Personal Trainers, published by IDEA. It was acclaimed as “the personal training industry’s business bible.”

Susan is an Associate Editor for Canadian Fitness Business, Lifestyle Editor for Active Woman Canada and is currently working on her third book.

Susan’s energy, humor, and knowledge have also put her in high demand as an international educator, lecturer, and public speaker. She regularly presents at the fitness industry’s most prestigious events: The International Personal Training Summit, World Fitness Idea, Club Industry, the Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals Conference, and the FitPro Conference in England.

Susan has been nominated five consecutive years for the International Personal Trainer of the Year Award, and she sits on the Advisory Board for the Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals, the Idea International Personal Training Education Committee and is the Chairperson on Lifestyle Coaching for Idea.

Carollyne Conlinn – Director of Coach Training - The Lifestyle Coaching Institute

Carollyne Conlinn is the Director of Coach Training for The Lifestyle Coaching Institute. Carollyne works with leaders in organizations to create healthy and productive workplaces by coaching through strategic processes. As president of Full Spectrum Coaching, Carollyne created the Excelerator Coaching Program©, to provide experts and leaders with practical ways to use a coach approach with their clients.

She provides executive coaching for individuals and international organizations in diverse sectors, specializing in vision creation and implementation, organizational change, quality improvement, and leadership development.

Carollyne is Senior Faculty Advisor for Royal Roads University’s Graduate Executive Coaching Certificate Program, and is on the Faculty of Corporate Coach U, Corporate Coaching Business Program. She has been a facilitator of the Coaching Clinic, and is currently delivering the University of British Columbia’s MOST program, teaching university managers to add coaching to their managerial skill set.

Carollyne is a received the designation PCC, from the International Coach Federation in 2003, and received her certification as a Health Executive from the Canadian College of Health Service Executives in 1994. She has a Masters in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, a Master in Public Health, Loma Linda University, and a Bachelor of Arts, Atlantic Union College, 1968.


Susan Cantwell is represented by the Atlantic Speakers Bureau.

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