Want to improve your media skills?  Or, do you want to gain more tools to reach the goals you are committed to achieving as a business leader?  Either requires a specific skill set.  How do you gain these skills? Elaine Long, founder and owner of Coaching Action, has spent more than 10 years helping her clients achieve these skills through media/communications and business/executive coaching.   Whether it's learning how to successfully field questions from the press, taking one's presentation skills to the next level, or learning how to overcome resistance to achieve powerful results, Elaine's clients consistently achieve breakthroughs. She has coached and trained lawyers, politicians and business executives as well as thousands of other people in their quest to improve their communication skills and to move beyond insight and into action to accomplish their goals.  Her work has also included coaching senior executives at major technology companies in the U.S. and globally to make presentations to key U.S. Audiences.   Elaine's work has earned her glowing reviews from a variety of companies.  testimonials Part of Elaine's success is based on her media-rich background as a broadcast news and media/communications coach.  She also anchored and reported in several major U.S. Markets, including KABC-TV in Los Angeles.  Taking these skills to the next level, Elaine now has years of experience providing business and executive coaching., coupling her education and passion for exploring the gap between people's commitment and the results they achieve. Elaine holds a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a certified life coach.  She is a board member of the Association for Women in Communications and a member of the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce.