Ely Zimmerman, M.Ed., M.P.H., CMC is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified Life Coach based in Los Angeles, California.
His academic degrees are in Psychological Education (U.Mass, Amherst), and in Public Health Education (UC. Berkeley School of Public Health). His professional training includes 360 hours of clinical training in Humanistic Psychology (AHR, Concord Mass) and his CMC and ACC certification as a coach is from MentorCoach (Bethseda, Md).
Ely’s diverse 40-year career spans a full range of his interests and talents. Throughout his career a central theme has been working with individuals, organizations and systems to make changes toward healthy physical and psychological development.
His easy manner and sense of humor inspire trust and open communication. His most powerful assets are his highly attuned listening skills, an intuitive sense of personal and organizational dynamics culled from his broad experience and his ability to offer clear reflection.
He is widely traveled in England, Europe, the Near East and Asia and is culturally sensitive to different cultures and backgrounds. He is also extremely creative in helping clients define and solve problems.
Ely’s early career focus was in prevention and health promotion where he served as a direct service provider with at-risk youth for a drug education/prevention project. He then became the regional co-coordinator for two counties for the Department of Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health for the State of Vermont. Ely later worked on the design of large scale prevention and health promotion projects at the Kaiser-Permanente think-tank in Oakland, CA and then developed the prevention / health promotion strategy for Contra Costa County’s pre-paid health plan.