Education

Ditzler studied at Omaha Central High School in 1954-1956. In 1958-1962 she studied at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, United States, where she got a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, Secondary Teaching, and Speech.

Career

Jinny S. Ditzler started her career as a teacher of English and American Literature at Fort Collins High School in 1963-1970. In 1970 she became an owner of Happy Face Montessori School and worked there for the next 6 years. During 1977-1990 she was a board, a volunteer and a trustee in The Hunger Project, in 1978-1980 she was a staff member, center manager and seminar leader at Erhard Seminars Training. In 1980 she had been a Creator of Personal and Executive Coaching in Results Unlimited, United Kindom for ten years. Also, in 1980 she created her company Best Year Yet, where she performed as a Founder and the CEO until 2011. She worked as a Board Chair, Consultant and Trainer in Executive Service Corps of Aspen, Colorado, United States (1997-2010) and Board Member and Consultant at Spellbinders (2004-2008).

Jinny S. Ditzler has taken her twenty-five years of experience as a workshop leader and personal development consultant for people seeking help in reaching their life goals and transformed it into a manual that anyone can use. "Your Best Year Yet!: A Proven Method for Making the Next Twelve Months the Most Successful Ever" provides a framework to help readers sort out their values, identify their goals, and direct their energies at the “little steps” necessary to meet those goals. The book takes readers backward and forward in their own lives: backward to analyze how they have achieved goals in the past, and forward to using their self-knowledge to more effectively achieve future goals. Ditzler has designed a series of questions and list-making strategies to help readers discover a life “vision” or “mission,” and to “focus your power in a laser-like way” to achieve that vision.

A Publishers Weekly reviewer gave the book high marks, noting that, although many self-help books offer questions and planning objectives similar-to Ditzler’s, she “offers a deep understanding of some of the internal and external obstacles to the reaching of these goals, and offers commonsense advice for overcoming these obstacles.” For instance, Ditzler encourages readers to give up commonly espoused goals, such as dieting down to an ideal weight, that are so often made and so seldom met, in order to focus energy on more individual and ultimately more satisfying ones.

Achievements

• Jinny's purpose is to support people to use their gifts to have dreams come true and to know that they matter. She is one of the first founders of the modern coaching movement, and a regular contributor to Thrive Global and LinkedIn, having written eight years for The Huffington Post. She’s the first to say none of this could have happened without her family, the clients, and the global team, all of whom contributed valuable knowledge, skill and talent to bring the program to its worldwide status. Jinny started coaching business leaders and executives 37 years ago, and in the early 1990’s her work evolved to include top business teams and organization-wide programs, designed to transform the way people work together to achieve better results and build happier companies. The Best Year Yet Partners have worked with such organizations as Zurich Insurance Group, NatWest Bank, Bank of the West USA, Heineken, Pepsico, and such nonprofits as The Hunger Project, Wounded Warriors, and the Humane Society, as well as smaller businesses, schools, and charities around the world. Jinny is currently writing a new book and coaching leaders.

Works

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  • Your Best Year Yet!: Ten Questions for Making the Next Twelve Months Your Most Successful Ever 2000

Views

Quotations: “Inside each of us is a deep well of wisdom that is underutilized because we haven’t learned how to tap into it in a consistent and inspiring way. My passion is to help people bridge this gap easily in a way that brings fulfillment and a more meaningful life.”

Connections

Having lived and worked in the UK for 18 years, Jinny Ditzler and her husband Tim now live in Denver, Colorado. They have two sons and four granddaughters.

husband:

Tim Ditzler

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 194
  2010