TESTIMONIALS
Edward Nemec
I would not be where I am and have this much confidence if it wasn’t for Pete Kohlasch. Pete gave me the clarity and confidence to follow my dreams, to get in touch with and live my purpose, and to just plain GO FOR IT! He has an uncanny knack of asking the right (great) questions that elicit the right answers.
Pete personalizes his work exceptionally well. His is not a cookie-cutter approach. It’s a personal blueprint I can fall back on to make sure my life is in balance. He takes the time to get know his clients, how they operate, what’s important to them, what their hot buttons are—and he’s able to tailor his approach and conversations around them as an individual.
I think what separates Pete most is he cares. The guy lives it, breathes it, eats it. He practices what he preaches and his passion comes across like no other.
The greatest value I’ve gained from our work together is clarity. Clarity on all aspects of my life, not just my business. Pete has given me clarity in my professional and personal life and has allowed me to balance both.
I feel like since I’ve worked with Pete, I’ve found more time. All of us start our week with 168 hours. Pete has helped me to be deliberate and intentional about accomplishing more during that time without feeling hurried.
He is so good at what he does that often times you don’t need him. The beauty of Pete’s approach is he gives you a system. A system that is sustainable, repeatable, and that allows you through good times, through bad times, to plow through. The magic of his work is the system you take with you.
Pete changed my life. Personally, and professionally. That check that I wrote to work with him has paid for itself many times over.
Melanie Terry
Pete loves what he does and exudes so much passion it is infectious. Working with Pete provided me with a sense of direction in pursuing my personal and professional goals with greater intention, in a productive and easy-to-follow process. This is critical as a highly driven, working mother of a 2 and 4 year old!
I began working with him at a time when I needed something to change to move beyond my comfortable, yet stagnant production levels. I was doing well, but felt I could do so much better with the right systems in place. The week before our first session, my mother passed away. We were very close and she was the reason why I was in this business. Because his sessions included a focus on personal as well as business goals, I was able channel my emotions, in all of the most important aspects of my life to keep going. I dedicated the rest of the year in honor of my mother. At the end of the year, I attained levels that I had never reached before, most notably, I was among the top 10 agents in the office. The lessons, insights and systems I put in place from my experience with Pete made an exceptional contribution to this.
DEBORAH BAKALICH - As I look back on the past year I am overcome by joy, feelings of accomplishment and accelerated personal growth. What a year! My experience with Pete opened my eyes, my mind, and my vision on who I am, who I want to be, where I want to go and how to get there. He showed me how to dream again.
For the first time in a long time someone has believed in me and in return I have a renewed belief in myself. I am reading books in timeframes I never thought I would and being left with a yearning for more; more ways to improve, to do better, to be better with the only regret that I did not do this sooner in life. What an experience, what a God send awakening this was for me.
Michael Meily
Before I started working with Pete, I was juggling a number of priorities and the scale of the largest priority was buying the company that I currently own. It was a multi-million-dollar transaction. I put a large stake of my financial life on the line and felt I needed to do everything I could possibly do to ensure a high level of success. Fortunately, Pete came highly recommended.
The best way I can describe the value of working with Pete is from the perspective of "What if I hadn't?" What if I hadn't met a friend for lunch who recommended I give him a call? What if I hadn't called? What if I decided that it wasn't worth the investment or that I didn't need it? I learned more about myself, how to better myself, why I want what I want, and how to lay out a method of achieving things than I ever could have imagined. The last six months have marked the most dramatic growth I have ever experienced.
Professionally, I feel like I successful navigated a very challenging period in my career with a higher level of success than I ever could have imagined.
First, I have not walked into the office any day since being introduced to World-Class Strategist without a plan. I find myself asking each day, "What needs to be true when I walk out of the office today for me to feel like I've had a successful day?"
Second, I have a "need" to read, develop myself, and learn each day. I'm reading and consciously developing myself more now than I ever have, and it's become a habit that keeps me learning new ways to grow personally and professionally.
If I had to put a dollar value or a return on investment for what I invested to hire Pete as a coach versus the benefit received, I would say it returned somewhere in the range of 10 to 30 times my investment over the next year or two. Over a decade, I think that number moves into the mid to high six-figure dollar return on investment.
Pete lives what he teaches and coaches. While many of us fit growth and self-development into our lives in time slots, he treats growth and development in his life as his primary objective. He leads by example, demonstrating what and how to do things by the way he lives his life. There is 100% alignment between how he thinks, lives, and operates and what he teaches, trains and inspires his clients to do on their own. When you examine how he runs his life and what he shares as a coach, he comes to you with the ultimate set of credibility because he’s living it every day.
Pete is always prepared and always brings full engagement and full energy into every conversation, email, text, one-one-one and group training. He is always on time and prepared to engage. When you’re talking to Pete, he listens to you and has dialogue with you as though there is literally nothing else in the world that matters. He’s highly tuned in to his clients. He offers phenomenal perspective and has helped me to create a personal infrastructure and a set of systems that I can lean on to not only be a successful business person but also to have balance and make sure the vital areas of my life are well attended to.
The greatest value I took from his work is a system for running my life and shifting to more of a growth mindset. The infrastructure he teaches is priceless. That combined with a different mindset focused on gratitude, development, creativity and big picture thinking has made a tremendously positive impact on how I think and respond to situations and what I believe I’m capable of achieving.
Scott Canuel
Working with Pete was a lot of fun and tremendously impactful. I have achieved things I never thought I’d achieve.
Professionally, I have been more dominant in my space and have seen (performance) separation from my peers. I have learned to have confidence in my ability to leap for what I want, and after consideration, to take risks that lead to greater happiness and abundance for my family and I. Since working with Pete, I have left the comfort zone of 18 years at PNC and a great national leadership role to a role at J.P. Morgan to build the franchise in Baltimore. My career has exploded having been promoted 3 times at PNC and now the new role at J.P. Morgan, my salary has grown 2.5X since working with Pete.
My career and personal life have thrived. I am happier than I have been in many years and love my life every day. Pete's concrete, actionable and applicable advice, training and feedback helped me to build comprehension on key principles and the ability to apply my learnings to multiple aspects of my life using repeatable processes.
We first began our work together 5 years ago and my life has been outstanding since. I have the job I’ve always dreamed of, I’m leading a world- class business in my hometown, I’m building my team from scratch, my relationships with my family are outstanding and I have a new circle of friends that I’ve met because I’ve intentionally sought out the type of people I wanted to spend time with.
Pete’s work helped me to realize that:
1. I wasn’t setting the bar high enough.
2. I wasn’t as clear as I needed to be as to what I was trying to accomplish, and
3. I wasn’t clear enough on how to go about achieving what I wanted to achieve.
He is always energetic. He brings a lot of power, thought, insight and preparation to all of our conversations. It always amazes me, whenever we speak, he knows everything we said over the previous sessions, remembers everything, and is able to tie pieces together.
He really invests all of himself in you, all of the time. When you’re there with him talking to him, you’re the only person in the world. You feel like you’re the only one that exists. He remembers everything about you. He remembers the triggers, the things that drove you, the things that brought you here, ties it all back together, and is keenly focused on giving you a system that helps you achieve what you want to achieve in perpetuity. I’ve been using the systems I’ve had with Pete for over 5 years and they’re still going strong.
The thing that was most valuable working with Pete is the ability to systematize and prioritize. I’m able to routinely understand what I’m working toward, and not only how to set the goal but how to break it down and achieve it in manageable parts.
Stephanie Blair
Pete brings a ton of energy and makes his love of learning and operating with focus and efficiency contagious. He is fully committed to your development and goes above and beyond to celebrate your wins and makes sure you are building your own system of success. As a lifelong learner, he brings an incredible amount of proven techniques from his own studies on the topic of efficiency and operating excellence.
In business, he's helped me to completely revamp my path, put parameters in place for a new business launch and improved the way I approach each day, week and month. I am much more intentional with my scheduling and am more thoughtful and effective with how each hour is spent.
Assuming you're committed to the work, the results will definitely follow. Pete has not only helped me accelerate my progress but also gave me tools to make sure my foundation is solid and sustainable and that I’m confidently and enthusiastically charting my own course.
John Salina
For the 10 years prior to working with Pete I had been a top performer in my profession but was feeling mentally burnt out,
physically tired and personally unfulfilled. I knew that I needed better strategies around managing my time, energy and focus to reach my full
potential, personally and professionally. It was very easy, prior to working with Pete, to allow excuses to get in the way of doing what I knew I needed to be doing relative to my mental and physical health, relationships, scheduling and planning.
Pete’s combination of positive psychology and actionable strategies made an immeasurable impact in my life in less than 4 months of working
together. He helped me to gain CLARITY around what I truly want out of life and provided powerful strategies to identify, prioritize and execute on the most important drivers of my desired outcomes. I have a sense of CONTROL in my life that I’ve never sensed before.
Since working with Pete, I’ve seen a vast improvement in my personal health (mentally, physically and spiritually); developed a deeper connection
with my family, friends and colleagues; and have built tremendous momentum in my career. Most significantly, I’ve built the operating system and
foundation that builds consistency and connection in the different areas of my life. I’ve never experienced anything like the work I’ve done with
him.”
Barjes Angulo
Pete has helped me to get my business and practice to the next level. I had noticed I started to get complacent. Part of being successful is having the right people around you who can challenge you and hold you accountable to a higher standard. Enter Pete.
Working with Pete has been phenomenal as far as him bringing me the insights and ideas around high performance, taking everything that’s out there, and distilling it down in a custom way so that I can focus, execute on what’s important and ultimately, establish my own system so that I can raise my performance sustainably moving forward.
The thing I found most unique about Pete is his ability to take all the information out there and package it into a workable and actionable process. His process helped me to clearly identify what needs improvement which also helped me to raise the standard needed to achieve higher performance.
What I really appreciated about working with him is I felt he was going on the journey with me and not necessarily telling me, “Hey, here is what I did many, many years ago to be successful and here’s my program.” I felt like he was going through the process with me; like he was in the trenches with me. I felt like he was talking with me and not necessarily at me.
In the time I've worked with him, I feel I have achieved a level of mastery. One level in mastery, to me, is achieved when the game continues to move at a fast pace, but in my mind, I can slow it down to the essentials.
Dominique Duong
Pete’s impact has been invaluable. His program has provided a roadmap and empowered the team with the systems,
strategy and mindset to continuously get better. I can confidently say I would not be the same if I didn’t work with Pete. He has instilled in me the
desire to work at my best, which has me more focused and more productive. Our leadership team has built stronger relationships because of his
work and it has made a huge difference to the culture of our office. The relationships between agents and management has also improved. He
leaves a lasting impression every time he is in our office.
Warren Paugh
Working with Pete was the best money I’ve ever spent and I would do it ten times over.
Before working with Pete, I lacked a clear idea of what I really wanted out of life. I made a lot of fear-based decisions, really running hard and focused on producing at a high level, but ultimately, I never really knew why I wanted what I wanted or why I was doing what I was doing. I always had a high motor, I had always been very driven in terms of my profession, but I felt like I was lacking balance in my life and greater clarity.
Our work helped me to get clear as far as what type of life I wanted to lead, and then he helped me to build the foundation that made certain I stayed connected with that.
He isn’t a surface level coach. He really dug deep and challenged me in a way that I had never been challenged. He’s very good at calling you on the surface level items. For me, I have a very hard exterior. Pete did a good job of seeing through that and was able to help break me down and get to a point where I felt open and comfortable, and then he helped me to build a new foundation that propelled me to accomplish and be more in my life.
What separates Pete is how genuine he is. He doesn’t have an ulterior motive or any sort of agenda. It really is all about his clients. And that’s the most important thing about him. He asks a lot of questions. He wants to get to know who he’s working with, he really wants to get to know the challenges his clients are experiencing, and ultimately, he wants to get to know what’s important in their lives. And then what makes him truly special is he’s able to help craft a personalized system to achieve those things.
What impressed me most about Pete was his overall engagement. He would constantly check up on me. Whether it was a scheduled call or not, he would send me a text, he would take time out of his day just to make sure I was staying consistent with our work. And that was really important for me because life is busy. Pete took those extra moments away from his life to make sure I was continuing to do the things he knew I needed to do in order to get to the next level.
The greatest value I gained from our work is establishing the foundational items and a system in my life that I can lean on. Life gets busy. Sometimes we can get off course. What Pete has helped me to do is develop the systems and processes that I can rely on and lean on so I can redirect myself when needed and get myself back on the right track.
Our work has changed how I look at things. Before my work with Pete, I wouldn’t recognize or be aware of as much because in my mind, I was always busy. I never really took the time to step out of the temporary emotion I was feeling and look through a different lens. Pete opened my eyes to a totally different life and a totally different mindset, and I’m forever grateful for that.
Jeremy Walsh
I have been studying personal development, leadership, and achievement for the past 15 years of my life. Anything Pete Kohlasch
develops and creates is a must take. I would highly recommend all of his programs and his group and individual coaching. Pete speaks about the
combo between achievement AND fulfillment where most coaches speak of one or the other. He really helps his clients with their personal journey
of developing greater clarity and focus on their goals while finding their passion and purpose. He is a master at developing strategy and a personal
blueprint to make it real while strengthening mindset and feeling a greater sense of enthusiasm and energy. He is relentless in his own personal
growth, one of the most passionate people I have met, and wants the same for all of his clients. If you are looking to find your passion and are
committed to getting high level results, look no further. Pete is the real deal!
Deborah Kevin
Pete Kohlasch came into my life just prior to me making massive changes in many areas. He challenged me to examine how I
was living and if I was doing so in accordance with my values and dreams. I was doing all this "stuff" and filling my day, and I would have probably
been doing that moderately successfully for the rest of my life. Now I’m laser-focused on achieving what I want in all areas of my life, not just my
career. He’s like the secret decoder ring of joy — that coveted ring that we all want in order to find greater happiness in our lives. Through Pete’s
questioning and careful listening, he uncovered areas where I’d been holding myself back. He provided me with both a safety net and an umbrella
while encouraging me to step out into my life in a bigger way. I felt like I could push myself because I had someone simultaneously nudging and
inspiring me. It helped that I knew I had a safe place to land. His enthusiasm is contagious and his passion is infectious. Because of my work with
Pete, I’ve gotten more clarity, found my tribe and become more confident that I can make an impact in this world. Because of his impact, I’ve found
my WHY and the feeling is indescribable. He is a gift to me and to this world. Working with Pete will be a decision you’ll never regret.
Fred Johnson
The experience working with Pete has been amazing. Simply life changing. I remember after my first experience with Pete, I remember sitting there and saying to myself, “My life will never be the same again.”
Stop looking. If you want to accomplish the dreams that you have, if you feel like there’s more to life than how you’re living, if you feel like you have goals that you want to accomplish, look no further than Pete Kohlasch.
I had goals and aspirations but actually achieving them, I felt all over the place. Working with Pete has helped me to develop a clear plan of action and a course of activities to take to achieve my goals and also find more purpose in my life.
The greatest value I’ve gained from our work together is the ability to say, “I am living my life with PURPOSE”. His teachings have given me the blueprint from a mental, physical, and spiritual prospective to drill into the core of my full potential.
The thing I value most about working with him is his compassion, his commitment to excellence and his transparency. It’s never about him. Little “i’s” Big “you’s”. For Pete, It’s always about the client. He consistently puts the needs and wants of the client first. The compassion, the caring, the love, the commitment…I think that really separates Pete.
I can say with a 100% degree of certainty, today I am living everyday with purpose and that is the direct result of the training, the work and the many engagements I’ve had with Pete Kohlasch.
Al Johnson
Pete’s work has brought about a paradigm shift with many of our agents. Many agents now talk about their morning routines, and
what they are doing to plan and strategize better within their businesses. For me, the most valuable part of working with Pete was the training,
discussion and work behind becoming—as he calls it—a “World-Class Strategist.” I’m clearer on my priorities, more focused on how I’m managing
my time and structuring my schedule, and have seen an impact on my overall efficiency and execution. Pete cares about people, he’s passionate
about helping people achieve their highest level of performance, and he is someone you can trust.
Deborah Bakalich
As I look back on the past year I am overcome by joy, feelings of accomplishment and accelerated personal growth. What a year! My experience with Pete opened my eyes, my mind, and my vision on who I am, who I want to be, where I want to go and how to get there. He showed me how to dream again.
For the first time in a long time someone has believed in me and in return I have a renewed belief in myself. I am reading books in timeframes I never thought I would and being left with a yearning for more; more ways to improve, to do better, to be better with the only regret that I did not do this sooner in life. What an experience, what a God send awakening this was for me.
Jeff Ghergo
Pete’s dedication and passion to personal development separates him. But I think it is much deeper than even that. He is personally invested in everyone that he coaches. To me, it felt like I was his only client. It’s one of the things I value most about Pete…the personal relationship that we have developed, and him providing ongoing guidance and support.
The personal operating system that he has helped me create has been the most significant contributor to my personal growth. It has helped bring focus and discipline to the fundamentals and to what I need to execute on a daily basis. He has also helped me to create an ideal morning practice, and master the use of World-Class Strategist.
Tony Hill
Whether it’s more progress, success, money, health, clarity, strategy, productivity, personal growth, better relationships, happiness,
etc…Pete is your guide. When you’re done working with him, you’ll walk away changed on the inside, ready to take on anything on the outside.
You’ll be mentally prepared for the journey ahead, armed with the tools you’ll need along the way and a personal map that shows you how to get
there. This is the most concrete, specific and intentional I’ve ever felt about the direction of my life!
Lynne Zink
I came into Pete's program already well-read, attending at least 3 educational conferences each year, and with an
understanding of what I needed to do moving forward, but a lot of ideas and actions I learned slipped through the cracks over the years.
Pete's work provided me with detailed ways to ensure that my action steps are finally achieved. The lightbulb went off when I started to
see that for the first time in my career, I was finally doing something with the ideas I was learning in an organized way so that nothing
was left behind this time. In the past, I would attend conferences, come home with so many great ideas, and then only move forward
with a few of them. Pete’s work helped me to keep track of everything.
Ariel Rodriguez
Pete’s high energy, enthusiasm and passion for helping people is inspiring. He has helped guide our team and changed the way we approach our tasks and relationships. We are more focused and united. He provides all of the tools necessary for developing clarity of vision and then serves as a guide, helping you create a roadmap to achieving your goals. Pete is extremely knowledgeable, and professional. He genuinely cares about the people he serves and their personal success. If you fully commit to his strategies and principles you will undoubtedly see positive changes and success!
Max Bobrycki
Before working with Pete, I was feeling largely unfulfilled. The greater my success in business, the unhappier I would become.
Success in business was also having an inverse effect on my relationships and health. I saw that it was an unsustainable cycle (one that was even
affecting my ultimate success in business) and knew that I needed help from someone that took a holistic approach to life and growth.
What Pete proposed was comprehensive, process-based and a step-by-step blueprint for planning and taking action.
Simply put, this is the best version of me that I have ever experienced. And now, I have the tools to infinitely improve upon that. I am more present
more fulfilled and more hopeful for the future than I have ever been.
Our first session was worth the investment alone!
To say that I’m grateful for Pete and his mentorship does not express fully how I feel, and the impact that our work is having and will have on my
life. I have to say too, that I am excited for the opportunity to watch him progress and grow in the industry. I look forward to his first novel, and
also the day that I can brag about getting in with Pete Kohlasch before he started charging 1 million dollars a year for personal coaching. (I’m not
joking about that, and I also expect a discount when it happens.)
Catherine Turner
There is no way to fully describe how valuable working with Pete has been to me. In the most concise manner, Pete
Kohlasch shared words that literally changed my entire life! If you've ever wondered what it would be like to learn practical life changing systems
that will help you become a better version of yourself, then you need to meet with Pete! I enjoyed his expertise, his realness, and his
straightforward approach to helping me grow. His questions are thought provoking and his systems lead to real change, not just something you go
through and remain the same.
Danny Miller
Every aspect of your life will improve after meeting with Pete Kohlasch. My life has changed 100% for the positive since we met.
Pete will inspire you to be a better you in all areas of life.
I wanted more balance in my life when we worked together. The guidance I received was invaluable to me as a husband, father, son, friend,
businessman, etc. If you have any desire to explore the possibility of your life being better, reach out to Pete!
Alenn Nidea
Pete is the greatest trainer that I have listened to so far.
Each lecture he gave, connected, and very, very well. My attention was riveted to him and I hung on to every word he said. His effectiveness comes
from how he has organized his session talks, the order by which they were presented, and the precision in his choice of words and their
connections to one another, that gave out very clear, comprehensibility of the ideas that had to be delivered and communicated.
The content of his lectures are packed with many thoughts and important messages that I know will help me learn, and to master my process.
I want to send my wife and son to his future programs, so that they too can benefit from his work. My wife is running a small business enterprise in
the city, as an MWBE certified business owner, and my son, who is an accounting graduate helps her in Business Development and Finance. I told
them about him and they're quite excited.
I am beyond grateful for Pete’s work. Indeed, I am very fortunate to have been part of the recent group that attended his program.
Amy Hanrahan
At the beginning of January 2018 I made a declaration to myself to “take my life back into my own hands” and implement changes that would align with my values and goals for a more fruitful future. For me, Pete’s work came at exactly the right time!
Pete has helped me become more intentional with my time and how I spend it. I feel a heightened level of intensity with my work, and more focus and awareness in my personal life. I love the weekly scorecard and mapping out my quarterly, monthly and weekly goals. I find myself going back almost daily just to revisit what I set out for myself. The accountability of putting it in writing, and tracking progress makes me feel like I have a greater purpose and that these goals are more than just a “to-do” list.
I also really enjoyed “taking inventory”, mapping out my ideal scene, and working through the gratitude exercises.
I loved the overall progression of the program and following a formal plan. If I was told to pick my top 3 goals just out of thin air, I think I would still be pondering them, but the process of how we got there—based off the Major 8, to the Foundational 10, and then narrowing in on the most important goals was really eye opening and I loved the process.
Pete’s energy takes over the room! I love his intensity and passion! It really came through to all of us each week just how much he cares.
If you are looking to take a deeper look, rather than wider, at your personal and professional life, look no further! Pete’s work is a holistic approach to taking life to the next level!
Christopher Springer
