Michael Costuros

Principal at Costuros Coaching and Consulting

Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Industry: Professional Training & Coaching

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Michael Costuros's Overview

Current

Principal at mCosturos Business Consulting

Past

Co-founder, Director at The Transformation Collective (non-profit)
Founder | liveBooks, Inc. at liveBooks, Inc.
Artist/Designer/Creative Consultant at Kitchen NYC

Education

San Francisco Art Institute

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Connections

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IWho I work with are successful entrepreneurs and executives who are facing problems that have them feeling stuck, bogged down, or frustrated.

I lead them to discover new solutions that enable them to move forward with confidence and enthusiasm.

If you have a big challenge you are ready to turn into an opportunity, give me a call.

- Michael

Specialties

marketing strategy, sales strategy, leadership and communications.

Principal

mCosturos Business Consulting

Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry

January 2010 – Present (2 years 1 month)

I am passionate about helping entrepreneurs, executives, and business teams achieve their full potential.

I achieve this through one on one coaching, team coaching, and strategic consulting.

I owe my success to my direct business experience as the founder of a successful software company, liveBooks.com. At liveBooks I held many key leadership rolls as the company grew to over 60 employees and 14,000 customers between 2004 and 2010.

My unique approach yields out of the box solutions that truly work.

Here are some outstanding companies and individuals I have worked with recently.
Photographer: http://warwicksaint.com
Beauty Products: http://www.loveInsideOut.com
Agent: http://www.kateryaninc.com
Fashion designer: http://www.funkshuifelt.com

If you have a big challenge you are ready to turn into an opportunity, give me a call.

Co-founder, Director

The Transformation Collective (non-profit)

Health, Wellness and Fitness industry

2005 – 2010 (5 years)

Founded by my wife and I, The Transformation Collective offers life coaching and weekly classes that teach practices to support the transformation and healing of life's challenges, (physical, psychological, interpersonal or spiritual), into insight, compassion and opportunity. All of our classes are focused on teaching skills that one can directly apply in their daily life.

www.TRANSFORMATIONCOLLECTIVE.NET

Founder | liveBooks, Inc.

liveBooks, Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

January 2004 – June 2010 (6 years 6 months)

liveBooks.com is a website and design services company serving the creative professional market.

Since founding liveBooks in 2004, I have held many key leadership roles as the company grew to a leading brand with over 50 employees and offices in the US and EU serving over 10,000 customers world wide.

Artist/Designer/Creative Consultant

Kitchen NYC

1997 – 2001 (4 years)

New York City at the end of the millennium was a thriving global center for the fine art, fashion, and design communities.

As conceptual artist I regularly participated in collaborative group exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, and Europe during this period.

As a website designer, I worked on many sites and special projects for the design and fine art communities, as well as commercial projects for clients such as Random House Books, Consult Paul, Women Model Management, Wonderlust Industries, and VH1.com.

As a creative consultant I worked on projects for Me.net, Duggal Digital, The New York Municipal Art Society, and Excite!.

I am infinitely grateful that I had the opportunity to fully submerge myself in this environment as a freelance creative at this historical period of unbridled optimism and cash flow.

It was out of this experience that my vision for the software that became liveBooks was born.

San Francisco Art Institute

BFA, Visual Communication

1993 – 1997

Thanks to the process of rigorous peer critique, I learned how to evolve my ideas to maturity, select the most appropriate medium to express them, and present them to the public in a visually compelling way.

Activities and Societies: Student union president, undergrad representative to the board of trusties.

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Interests:

Bioneers, NVC, conflict mediation, Zen Buddhism, traditional shamanic medicine, conceptual art and photography. I am inspired to support the creation of sustainable business, communities and people.

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