Founder of Agile Life Design™ –  a groundbreaking alternative to the “self-improvement, management, control, and goal-driven” paradigms of machine age thinking that has shaped the fabric of our everyday lives and work for the past century. “Controlism” in all it forms doesn’t work in the era of hyper-connectedness we live in today.

Agile Life Design™ is not just a new buzzword for managing life. It’s a whole new lens for seeing yourself, relating to your life, making navigational choices and self-organizing.

Agile is about cultivating personal agility. Agile Life Design™  is the “must-have” skillset for anyone seeking to continuously learn, grow and thrive in the age of unprecedented access to vast amounts of information, things, and choices of what to do with one’s time, attention, energy and money.

With over 30 years experience partnering with businesses, service professionals, non-profits and individuals to transform performance and get results, Ariane has had an extraordinarily unique opportunity to study human behavior, motivation and decision-making models, organic systems design, and the impact of human interface design on our ability to change behavior and habits in hundreds of corporate, educational and non-profit contexts.

Working one-on-one with over a thousand people from all walks of life in their offices and homes using the power of design thinking to heal the traumatic patterns of chronic disorganization led her on a journey to give birth to the Agile Life Design™ framework.

Agile Life Design™ provides everyone, but especially, neurodiverse people including gifted, creative personality types, ADHD and ADD with a revolutionary approach to cultivating personal effectiveness and success.

Ariane has been interviewed by and quoted in such notable publications as The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, and The Washington Times. Ariane also freely shares her expertise and views in the popular Neat and Simple Living Blog.

Working one-on-one with over a thousand people from all walks of life in their offices and homes using the power of design thinking to heal the traumatic patterns of chronic disorganization led her on a journey to give birth to the Agile Life Design™ framework.   Agile Life Design™ provides neurodiverse people including gifted, creative personality types, ADHD and ADD with a revolutionary approach to cultivating personal effectiveness and success.

Ariane holds a Masters’ Degree in Education (Adult Learning, Performance Improvement, Organizational Development) AND advanced specialist certificates in ADD organizing and chronic disorganization.

She has been interviewed by and quoted in such notable publications as The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, and The Washington Times. Ariane also freely shares her expertise and views in the popular Neat and Simple Living Blog.

Throughout her career Ariane has been known for designing and implementing ultra – creative, practical and efficient solutions to performance challenges. She has provided Organizational Learning and Performance Improvement consulting services to many of the Fortune 500 including UPS, Avaya, Lucent, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, Prudential, Ryder, GE Aerospace, PBS and others. She has designed, developed and managed hundreds of projects with budgets ranging from hundreds to millions of dollars.

Ariane has been a featured speaker at several international conferences. She has authored hundreds of workshops, self-paced instructional books, and web-based performance support programs. Her work has been published in professional journals. She has coached and led teams of 2-25 people to successfully accomplish a wide variety of performance development projects. In 1993, she launched her own consulting firm “Bridges to Performance” and has been the master of her own destiny ever since.

She is a member of the Self-Management Institute, ICD, CHADD, ADDA,  Attention Deficit Disorder Association, and the International Society for Performance Improvement.

 

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Credentials

Ariane is deeply committed to continuous learning . Highlights of her ongoing professional development include:

• Master’s Degree in Education (Adult Learning Psychology, Instructional Systems and Organization Design, Organizational Learning, Instructional Design, Instructional Technology) Combination degree in Business, Education and Technology,  University of Miami, FL, 1983
• Bachelor’s in Spanish (minors: Psychology, Sociology) University of Miami, FL, 1981
• Graduate, Denslow Brown ’s “Coach Approach” for ADD Organizing, 2006
• Over 60 hours of training in Cognitive Behavioral Psychology and Motivational Interviewing Strategies
• Over 40 hours in various coach training programs
• Group Process Facilitator Certification(Conexus and “Spirit of Facilitation”)
• Level 2 Specialist Designation in Chronic Disorganization
• Level 2 Specialist Designation in ADHD Organizing.
• 9 Certificates Awarded by NSGCD (Representing Over 140 hours of additional training)
  • Basic ADD Issues
  • Learning Styles and Modalities
  • Understanding the Needs of the Elderly CD Client
  • Basic Mental Health Conditions and Challenges
  • CD Client Administration
  • Basic Physical Conditions Affecting the CD Client
  • Understanding the Needs of the Student CD Client
  • Basic Hoarding Issues

 Additional Training

• Emotional Intelligence
• Values Clarification
• Diversity Training
• Personality Type Assessment
• Facilitating Change

• Performance Appraisal and Development
• Software Systems Design
• Instructional and Performance Support Systems Design
• Coaching for Employee Performance Development
• Rapid Prototyping
• Life Cycle Cost Benefit Analysis

 Certifications 

• Effective Listening. Communications Skills (Certified Instructor)
• Teambuilding Facilitator Certification
• Leadership, Management & Supervisory Development
• Creative. Critical  & Strategic Thinking
• Decision-Making Skills
• Creative Problem Solving
• Change Process Facilitation
• Accelerated Learning Systems
• Toastmaster’s Certificate

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