PeopleTek Coaching provides executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational development services to the Fortune 500 as well as small to midsize companies. The company's clients include global leaders such as American Express, IBM, Gannett, and Merrill Lynch. PeopleTek's services are sought after by top brands around the country seeking to perfect and polish the leadership skills of their top managers as well as individuals newly indoctrinated into the world of management. PeopleTek Coaching was founded in 1996 by a veteran of American Express with a focus on helping technology organizations develop their leadership talent and overcome many of the same problems endemic in the IT management ranks. Today, the company's offerings are also provided to organizations outside of the technical spectrum - in the finance, publishing, transportation, and service sectors. PeopleTek's flagship program, the Journey, helps individuals and teams identify and pinpoint critical shortcomings in their leadership and interpersonal styles. By working with seasoned expert coaches with years of high-level management experience in the Fortune 500, individuals and teams learn how to transform their styles to become superior managers and coworkers in highly proactive and collaborative teams. In short, many participants describe their experience in the following manner: "It was a life changer - it deeply changed my professional life and my personal life as well."