About OnTrack Coaching & Consulting

Marilyn Edelson, principal, is an International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach (MCC) as well as a certified Co-active coach (CPPC).

Her career as a Business and Leadership Development Coach is a natural evolution of thirty years experience in human services, fifteen in private practice. In 1996, having achieved success in business as a real estate broker, Marilyn shifted her career path from family systems counseling to coaching. Over the past seven years, she has worked with entrepreneurs, executives, professionals and family business owners who are committed to their own personal and professional success. Her focus is on helping clients create powerful mindsets and actions that maximize their results.

She has worked with a range of corporations and closely held companies, and has privately coached clients from diverse companies including The Minute Maid Co., Fleet Bank, Intel and Bose. Marilyn also trains and mentors human service professionals, business people and non-profit leaders in coaching.

Marilyn is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute and holds a M.S. in Social Services from Boston University. She received advanced training in organizational development and family business consulting at the Cambridge Center for Creative Enterprise. She is an active member of the International Coach Federation-New England Chapter and belongs to the New England Women’s Business Owners.

Marilyn is a Best Year Yet® Partner in Massachusetts, offering both personal and business Best Year Yet® strategic planning programs.

OnTrack Associates

David Herron has more than 25 years experience in software development and, for the past 10 years, has served as consultant to Fortune 500 companies in the areas of software metrics and risk management. He is a noted author and lecturer and has addressed audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe on IT performance and governance. Original co-founder of David Consulting Group, a widely respected software firm, he "retired" and sold DCG and is now doing senior level consulting and coaching on matters related to organizational change management, team, and individual mentoring. David is about to launch a "Are You Ready to Retire" workshop (Nov. 19, 2008) in the Medford, NJ, area. He can be reached at .

Susan Abuza Ghosh is a certified Best Year Yet® Coach with a background in teaching, Licensed Clinical Social Work and meditation. Her lifelong passion has been transformative learning and helping others transform inner obstacles into openings. She has been a small business owner, counselor, and personal change consultant. She works with individuals, couples, families,and small business owners. Her interests include helping couples and families to communicate about goals and dreams and to become co-creators in achieving them, coaching small business owners to get the results they desire, and partnering with people whose lives are in transition. She holds Master of Arts degrees in Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education and in Social Work from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

Lloyd Franke has been working with businesses for over 18 years to improve performance, profits, and value. Using proven business development approaches tailored to specific company needs and issues, he assists to clarify business direction and goals, to identify places to improve, to establish management teams, and to achieve desired results. He has facilitated planning sessions to develop companies’ vision, mission, and goals and coached management teams to achieve superior results.

Lloyd grew up in Kansas City, MO, received a BS Degree in Electrical Engineering from Christian Brothers University and an MBA from Northeastern University. He “transplanted” to New England after serving in the Air Force. He is married to his wife of 35 years, Patricia, and they have three grown children. Lloyd has been following and promoting the Best Year Yet® for several years and was recently certified as a Best Year Yet® Program Leader.

Network Partners

Evangelia Souris is president and founder of OPTIMUM, International Center for Image Management and Boston's sole Certified Image Consultant (AICI,CIP). Winner of the Association of Image Consultants’ Rising Star award in 2003, Evangelia has private, corporate and academic clients in the U.S. and Europe. She holds extra specialties in business and social etiquette, political image, children’s etiquette, international protocol, communication and branding, executive and professional image, career and image, illness and image, wardrobe/personal shopping and makeovers for men and women. She is dedicated to the power of image through self-discovery, authentic expression, self-declaration, recognition of self worth and love of life.