The Handel Group is a corporate, private, and educational coaching company based in New York City and founded by life coaching pioneers and sisters Lauren (Handel) Zander and Beth (Handel) Weissenberger.

In the Corporate Division, our methodologies have been implemented with top executives and management teams in organizations such as BASF, Sony-BMG, Diptyque, BP, The New York Times, NYU Medical Center and the executive team of Vogue’s Publishing Director, Tom Florio. From company-wide initiatives to corporate seminars, even addressing the performance of a single individual, The Handel Group Corporate Division will design a program to meet your company’s specific needs.

The Private Coaching Division has over 15 years experience coaching thousands of individuals, groups, entrepreneurs, couples, and families, and specializes in helping individual clients take focused and powerful action in any of the important areas of life such as career, relationships, and heath/vitality. We offer a results-based, fast-acting alternative to marriage counseling, couples therapy, family counseling, career counseling or any other kind of “talk therapy.” We regularly lead life coaching workshops in New York City at Equinox Fitness and in California at the Esalen Institute.

In 2006, our Education Division partnered with MIT to develop and teach our groundbreaking course, Living an Extraordinary Life (now titled Designing Your Life). This class 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. In January 2009, the course is being offered for the fourth time, enjoying rave reviews and ever-increasing student interest (watch a video about the course). In addition, our courses have been taught to the Sloan Fellows at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the residents in the department of anesthesiology at NYU School of Medicine, and the undergraduate students at Rutgers University Business School.

We have provided life coaching and commentary on nationally syndicated radio shows including Up All Night on 5 Live-BBC and Advice for Living with Mel Robbins on Sirius Satellite Radio on topics such as relationships, career and health. The Handel Group 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, 2009, Shape magazine began a 12 month feature that follows the progress of the writer on a weight loss journey to slim down and become healthy again. Lauren Zander is her personal life coach for the entire process.