The Handel Group is a Corporate Consulting, Executive Coaching and Personal Life Coaching company based in New York City and was founded by life coaching pioneers and sisters Lauren Zander and Beth Weissenberger.

In the Corporate Division, we have worked with top executives and management in organizations such as AOL, Sony-BMG, BASF, BP, The New York Times Company, Boardroom, NYU Medical Center and the executive team of Vogue’s Publishing Director, Tom Florio. We offer the highest quality executive coaching, leadership development seminars and management training programs.

The HG Life Coaching Division has a roster of professional Life Coaches providing the finest personal life coaching, life coaching seminars over the phone and in-person coaching workshops and courses in NYC, NJ and California. Our specialties include career coaching, couples coaching and weight loss coaching, but we help our clients accomplish any goal, even simply wanting to live life more fully. Visit our life coaching services for a wide range of options to fit any budget.

The Handel Group Education Division was created when we partnered with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006 to develop and teach our groundbreaking course, “Designing Your Life” (previously titled “Living an Extraordinary Life”). This partnership began the journey to fulfill one of our greatest missions: to revolutionize formal education to include and address how to live life powerfully and effectively. The course is now in its fourth year; enjoying rave reviews and an ever-increasing student interest (watch a video about the course). In addition, our courses are being taught to the Sloan Fellows at the MIT Sloan School of Management, undergraduates at NYU and to the students at Rutgers University Business School.

We are featured Career Coaches on businessweek.com (in the “Managing” section) and provide life coaching and commentary on topics such as relationships, career and weight loss on nationally syndicated radio shows including: Up All Night on 5live BBC Radio and Advice for Living with Mel Robbins (Mel was trained in the Handel Method). Lauren Zander writes monthly articles for Bottom Line Health Secrets and has been a featured expert for Forbes magazine, Match.com, Divorce360.com and The New York Times. In January of 2009, Shape magazine began a 12 month feature that follows the weight loss journey of the writer as she slims down and becomes healthy again. Lauren Zander is her personal weight loss coach for the entire process.