Experts

Life can be challenging at times, and some will say the search to find the right mate can be stressful... With the IYS established experts you'll have helpful coaches in various categories to help you find the perfect mate. Whether it's learning how to express yourself, learning what the opposite sex is thinking , or how to present yourself on-line , if you have questions, our experts will have the answers.

Taren Sterry is a writer, performer and teacher in NYC. While working with Taren, if you’re not learning, you’re laughing. She is an exciting, entertaining presenter and a dynamic facilitator with ten years of corporate, non-profit, and performance experience. Taren knows how to build upon individual and team strengths, how to engage groups at all levels of business, and how to transform every interaction into a teachable moment.Taren excels in creating challenging yet nurturing environments for all. The nicest thing anyone ever told her in a class? “Taren, I bought you some M&Ms during the break.” The second nicest thing? “Taren, working with you has changed my life.”

Jack Barnard is Your Storytelling Coach. He is a master presentation coach, and a media trainer and writer. His technique emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual, focusing on the permission to bring forth one’s distinctive style. He is also the developer of SourceWork, a playful technique of dynamic expression. Jack has facilitated over four-hundred SourceWork events in both the US and Europe. Jack is the author of We Get Our Cue From You: The Communion Approach to Public Speaking and three CDs: The Soul of Speaking, Mesmerize Your Audience and Storytelling.

Barbara Niven has been one of Hollywood’s busiest actresses for 25 years, shooting over 2500 commercials, TV shows and movies. She’s also a speaker and best-selling author, and served on the National Board of Directors for the Screen Actors Guild.

Now Barbara’s passion it to help other people unleash their star power and reach their potential. She created her Unleash Your Star Power! system to teach Hollywood skills and secrets to help people shine in the media…and to show up better in their life. Her clients include entrepreneurs, authors, CEOs, business owners, corporate training groups, show hosts and speakers – anyone who wants to get a competitive edge in their niche.

She shows them how to excel in four key media areas: Videos (talking to camera), TV Interviews, Radio and Face-to-Face Presentations. They learn specifics for speaking in sound bites, handling nerves, making a heart-to-heart connection with the audience, preparation, performance, developing the voice, creating talking points, how to “hook” people, appearance, body language and more.

Barbara also offers video production services, and coaches and directs clients on camera in her Los Angeles studio to create dynamic videos for their website and internet marketing. Her “Unleash Your Star Power!” home study course can be ordered on her website.

Sunday at Noon was founded by Marni Galison, a Georgetown University and Emory University Law School graduate, who successfully practiced law in New York for almost ten years before being inspired by the dating experiences of friends and colleagues, as well as her own, to create a company that brings truth, quality and fun back into dating!

As a former prosecutor, Marni Galison has a keen instinct for people and knows how to ask the critical questions to make the right introductions. Having also worked at one of Manhattan’s top law firms, Marni understands the professional and appreciates that New York singles are busy people whose time should and must be respected.

Marni also brings a fun, informative and thought provoking touch to her matching through her lectures, her immensely popular “Sunday at Noon Blog” and her radio program “Love in The Morning” where she interviews distinguished guests on the topics of dating and relationships. Giving advice to her clients whether it’s though dating and relationships coaching, image consulting, or being a personal dating guru an resource, has always brought Marni tremendous gratification.

Dave Elliott, the founder of Legendary Love For Life, is not only on our panel of experts, he’s also a contributing blogger for If You’re Single. When it comes to making sense of the often mystifying topic of relationships, Dave is an international Relationship Coach and human behavior specialist who breaks down complex concepts into easily understandable principles and practices.

His relationship advice is right on target because he tells it like it is – yet at the same time, he provides people with the awareness and strategies for success that they need. With his deep understanding of human motivational psychology, Dave helps people pull back the curtain in a non-judgmental way on why they and their partner do what they do over and over again. That process is not only fascinating and enlightening – it’s incredibly liberating. That’s because when you take away the guilt, shame, unpredictability and fear that causes people to self-sabotage their relationships, his clients are free to focus on what they want – instead of what they fear. That’s where the breakthroughs happen!

Whether you’re reading his blog, using his products like “The H.U.G. & K.I.S.S. Hierarchy” or coaching with him one-on-one, Dave’s sole focus is on the rapid transformation that helps you freely give and receive all the love you deserve.