Staff & Interns
Maureen Breeze
National and international speaker, co-author, lead trainer, and coach
Maureen Breeze is committed to sharing her passion for mathematics, the arts, and writing with students of all ages. She has worked with LifeBound for five years as a facilitator, coach, and curricula developer, and is the co-author of Critical and Creative Thinking for Teenagers and Leadership for Teenagers with Carol Carter. Prior to working with LifeBound, Ms. Breeze was a professional dancer and the founder and director of JUMPSTART Productions, a dance and video arts organization. During her 20 years in the arts, she traveled throughout the country as a performer and choreographer while also developing and implementing extensive outreach arts education programs serving students of all ages in schools, juvenile detention centers, and correctional facilities. She also wrote and directed Women of Today for Tomorrow, a five-part video mentoring series that was distributed to middle schools throughout the five metro Denver counties in Colorado. Ms. Breeze graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Claremont McKenna College, where she studied international management and mathematics. In 2010, she spoke at the Tri-Association Conference in Mexico and has also been a guest speaker in Germany.
Jim Hoops
Coach and trainer
Jim taught mathematics and coached football for 34 years at the high school and college levels and saw many of his students and student-athletes go on to success at top schools. After a long and successful career in education, Jim went on to found Peak Learning and Performance, a personal coaching organization dedicated to empowering people to reach their full potential. Jim's present focus is on efforts to empower schools through staff development and building teamwork in educational systems. Jim has worked with many different educational programs, including Colorado Outward Bound, camps for children with diabetes, and a whitewater rafting program that he developed for students at East High School. He is also a leader of the Bigger Game Project that is bringing personal coaching training into prisons.

Michelle Stout
Sales Representative, Trainer 
Angelica Jestrovich
Editorial Assistant

Gina Ballesteros
Bilingual Spanish, Life Coaching, Parent Coaching and Students Scholarships Leadership 
Jeremy Pape
Web Designer

Renee Brown
Office Manager 
Michael Desantiago
Editorial Intern, Community Outreach Assistant
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Jun 03, 2011

