I have had the opportunity to take three courses from Nicole and Michael based upon John Maxwell’s books The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, and Everyone Communicates, Few Connect.
While the books provided solid information, the greatest value came from Nicole and Michael. Their skill in facilitating group discussion brought life to the material and elicited the wisdom of the experience within the group. Directed discussion coupled with their ability to cull the main points out of the material was instrumental in moving from head knowledge to application. And, they made the process fun and energizing.
If you want to bring concrete experience to the concept of leadership, if you want to gain clarity on developing productive relationships, if you want to expand your self-awareness and enhance your personal influence – Nicole and Michael will be instrumental in enriching both your personal and professional effectiveness.
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I have taken several classes from Metamorphosis CCT and have truly been helped with life long challenges. Some example of these are: punctuality, intentionality, letting go of annoying habits. I feel like the choices that I am making are now very intentional and line up with my core values (which I learned from Michael and Nicole’s classes).
have produced the results I was craving.
Michael and Nicole have helped me understand how to lead myself better and held me accountable to apply leadership principles to my life. This caused me to take huge steps in the right direction for total health and balance. Their classes have helped me to prioritize what’s important! Thanks Michael and Nicole for making the classes phenomenal! You are terrific presenters and really care about people and results!
I would highly recommend Metamorphosis CCT. They will teach you the foundations of good leadership to help you be successful in life, family, and business.
Impact of Metamorphosis CCT On Our Personal Lives (Leadership Training):
My wife (Julia) and I (Paul) struggled to make progress as a team in our financial goals. After taking the small group (mastermind) course on Intentional Living we could identify the steps to take to see change. The seemly small, but powerful principals were easier than we thought! The small group (mastermind) was a fun and helpful setting. Now we are working together in a budget and reaching our goal to be debt free!
However, I (Julia) wasn’t sure what to expect from the Intentional Living course at first, but I am so thrilled I said yes. It was so encouraging and helpful — well worth my time!! It was a real aid in giving focus to my day and I really enjoyed the set time to grow and the safe, warm conversation.
Now, I get of out of bed and know the seemingly small, but powerful things I can do to make a difference in the lives of those I love. Nicole was always well prepared, ready to highlight the growth points, and leads a well thought out discussion by asking thought provoking and challenging questions. I feel I have some real tools and directives for my day to day life that I wasn’t as aware of before.
We would recommend this course to anyone considering taking it and describe it as a course that can help you move forward with things that you may have had trouble with for a long time.
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I highly recommend this course to emerging leaders to help prepare them to lead themselves and their teams well.
The most noticeable impact at this time is that this course has inspired me towards being a greater leader and provided many tangible and applicable ways in which to do this. It has given me hope for dreams that I have set aside due to frustration. It has given words and definitions to concepts that I understood on very small levels and has helped me better understand these concepts and allowed the now future opportunity to master these concepts (laws) or at least grow much closer to mastery of the them. The group discussion was helpful in understanding the material within divers perspectives and applications and to be able to fully process the materials.
Additionally, I have been discussing this course with my wife and plan to implement what I am able to within our family. I have found that for the past several years I have been semi-intentionally floating through life. Some of this has been from the necessity of survival due to life circumstances. Some of this has been due to the fear of the cost of chasing vision. I have for several years found my vision for the future too broad, ambiguous and not well understood.
Michael and Nicole facilitated bringing clarity to my vision by asking great questions that guided my thinking in a fruitful direction and helped me see how it relates to leadership and leading myself well. Thank you both for your time, efforts, and dedication!
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Yana Stockmanreviewed Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski—
5 star
Great knowledge and motivation Nicole & Mike offered at 5 weeks Mastermind group “Developing the Leaders Around You”, so much to take for personal and business growth. I find discussions & engagement with other participants and business leaders very inspiring and wonderful collaboration.
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Noreen Nelson Petersonreviewed Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski—
5 star
Completed a great class with this power couple. I highly recommend any of their classes as they ask questions that have you reach deep and grow! Thank you!
Noreen A. Peterson, Indep Dist Young Living Oils
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Katie Miller Marturanoreviewed Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski—
5 star
Love Nicole & Michael! They have inspired me to keep moving forward in my personal and professional development. A great duo teaching amazing things – so much to learn and you will love it!
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DISC Results
Nicole, Thank you, and your husband, for being great members and c…o-collaborators in your consulting business aimed to get people more productive and happier in their lives!!! Kim and I loved the day-long DISC training last month. It was the one of the most memorable and best days of my Chamber tenure since I began my role in March 2018.
I have a better understanding of working in team environments because of your and Mike’s DISC training! I better understand that every workplace has many personality dynamics constantly in play. (I suppose if you work solo you just have to get along perfectly with yourself!) Kidding aside, the training helps the individual learn key personal drivers and motivations — whether working solo or in team settings!
I know I have increased my productivity! (including having more time to write glowing FB fan posts like this…..) You inspired me so much and I cannot wait to take another session with you two. The training helped me remember to be more patient and kind as we understand where others are coming from.
I really enjoyed learning how some of us are more motivated by tasks and how others are more tuned into the emotional aspects of an interaction. Some of us are driven list-makers — others are the creative dreamers. At a recent physician visit, the wisdom I gained helped me understand the care providers’ perspective better.
I became a better patient in what was busy hospital day after reflecting more fully on my new DISC tools. You and Mike are great facilitators. We cannot wait to have you present to our Chamber members at some point in 2019! Kim and I both feel you elevated our work environment. We are the happiest team on the hill ;0
Dylan Merrimanrecommends Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski.
5 stars!! Have taken the DISC training and it was such a great training and I learned a lot about myself, as well as my relationship with my girlfriend.
I now have Michael and Nicole working with my office staff to better our relationships and learn how to better serve our clients. The office staff LOVES the training so far and are excited to learn more. I would recommend Michael and Nicole to anyone. Great experience, they are truly a wonderful team!!
Lisa Petersonreviewed Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski—
5 star
I attended Nicole and Michael’s DISC training, and it was fantastic! Participants learned about their personality style and how to relate to others with differing styles. Nicole and Michael were entertaining and related well with participants. I also had the opportunity to hear Nikki present “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect”, and it was very relatable to the audience. Nikki and Michael are excellent presenters.
Lisa Peterson, Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota Regional Coordinator
Jennifer Watkins-Pucel recommends Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski.
I gained SO much insight while at Nicole & Michael’s DISC workshop. I gained insight into myself, my relationships with my children, husband, and coworkers.
My mind has been opened to the ways that our minds and hearts are wired. I will carry these valuable tips, tricks, and lessons in my back pocket for the rest of my life- they’re THAT valuable. I cannot recommend this experience enough. It’s life changing.
Nicole DuMarsreviewed Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski—
5 star
What a great training! Thank you so much for coming and teaching us how to communicate better as a team. I also learned great tools to relate to listeners and business partners. Thank you so much!
Nicole DuMars, Life 97.3 FM Business Development Manager
Jill Widness recommends Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski.
Thankful for Micheal and Nikki for the first annual couples DISC training. Jeffrey and me like the enthusiasm creativity and inspiration for a better communication experience. Understand your mate and your self for a a deeper level of enriched and enhanced intimacy.
You and Michael show a level of professional training, which creates a safe environment that encourages better relationships. Grateful for the experience in helping improve our relationship based on each others unique qualities.
Wonderful to have new tools for a wonderful life of communication with my lovey❤️.
Angela Reasorreviewed Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski—
5 star
Nicole and Michael are very skilled and educated in the DISC personality assessment, and in coaching as well. They are a great team, and I’ve found tremendous value in every training I’ve had with them. I couldn’t recommend them more, whether for business, or for just getting more enjoyment out of life!
Nicole Schaerreviewed Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski—
5 star
So enjoyed the day of training with Michael and Nicole. Personal development in an area that will help you with all relationships, whether business, ministry or personal, is an important tool in life. The DISC training is that and you will not be disappointed.
Coaching Results
Kirsten DesMarais
I had no idea what coaching was until I met Nicole. I was in a place in my life where I felt stuck, life just kept happening around me and I was constantly trying to play “catch up”. I was a newer mom of two little ones and had also realized I had no idea who I was anymore.
I also had aspirations to continue to grow professionally but was forging my own way. I had a faint idea of who I had hoped to be but hadn’t a clue or plan on how to become her. Through the work I have done with Nicole I now live by the values that define me, change things that need to be changed, and own all parts of my life.
I cannot recommend Metamorphosis or their coaching services enough. It has been life changing for me.
TMP-Duluth MN
Having a chance to work with Nicole has helped me greatly, she has helped me go through, pick apart and let go of old mindsets and thinking habits that wasnt doing me or anything in my life any good. As well as rethinking my priorities, giving me clarity as to what I truly wanted out of life and setting appropriate boundries without the guilt. Highly recommend her to everyone!! She is Aweome!!
Then I got connected with Metamorphosis CCT. I’ve read books and listened to podcasts, but I knew in my situation I needed more than information, so I signed up for a month of personal coaching with Michael.
Coaching with Metamorphosis CCT wasn’t about selling me on products or giving me information or cheesy self-help tips. It was all about exploring myself and finding the truths God had already placed inside of me. Michael was a fantastic listener, and even better at asking strategic questions that forced me to dig deep, discover things about me I didn’t even know, and expose what was preventing me to walk in my calling.
Michael and Nicole are incredibly encouraging, and you’ll know they care about YOUR growth and clarity from your very first conversation. Any person or organization who has recognized that there’s more for you than what you’re walking in, and you’re struggling to articulate who you are or where you’re going:
I would highly recommend working with Metamorphosis CCT.
Angela Staubs recommends Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski.
Excellent, well-trained coaches!
Sheena Guzzo recommends Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski.
Excellent training and perspective to help you achieve your personal/professional goals. Nicole understood the time commitments of my “normal life” and was able to work with me to recommend action steps that authentically worked into my routine while helping me to work towards my desired outcomes. Thanks again and look forward to working together again!
Ben Dullum Physical Therapist
Prior to meeting Michael the only emotions that I was capable of experiencing were happiness, contentedness, and anger. I was happy when I was running, I was angry when asked to drop what I was doing to help others or to talk on the phone with my girlfriend, and the feeling of being content with life filled the rest of the gaps. I never questioned why I felt those ways; I simply accepted it as the truth. I assumed everyone felt the same way I did.
I never once considered that those could be secondary emotions, protective emotions, hiding the deeper concepts that were at the time beyond my grasp. Michael helped me find those deeper concepts, and in turn, my primary emotions. I have lost countless significant others and close friends throughout my life, I was never close to my father, and I was not being nearly as open and emotionally connected with my current girlfriend as I wanted to be, to name a few of my life complications.
You would think that I would have eventually assumed that I was the issue seeing as how I was the one consistent factor in all of those scenarios. However, my ego always got in the way and the walls that I had set up to protect myself made it easier and more natural to point the blame at everyone else. Michael helped me explore those secondary emotions that were consuming my life. Some of those experiences brought us way back to my childhood, but that allowed for me to find the root cause to my walls that were set up.
More importantly it allowed for me to then tear down those walls and accept responsibility, it helped me become a better person. It helped me become a better me. The change was immediate within my life, and I can honestly say that for the first time in my life I love myself. People close to me have told me consistently that I seem like a new man. They say I seem more sure of myself, more confident, and that is easily the truth. I will say that I was extremely hesitant to try coaching with Michael at first. The whole coaching concept seemed like a façade to me. Also, my ego told me that I did not need help.
What made me initiate the coaching with Michael and Nicole was a combination of knowing that they are phenomenal people who only wanted to try to help someone in need mixed with the realization that I had nothing to lose. Coaching made me become way more confident with every aspect of my life, allowed me to tear down barriers, and accept responsibility for the results in my life even outside of physical therapy. It helped me become a better person.
What I enjoyed most about the experience was not even the results that came from it, but the sense of knowing that Michael was doing these things for me because of how invested in me he was. I could tell that he cared for me as a person and that I was not simply another number to him.
I felt beyond valued, and that allowed for me to be very open with him and speak my mind. I can honestly say that Michael and his wife, Nicole, are one of the best things that have ever happened to me. Without their help I would not be the happier, more true, me.
Transitioning from Youth Pastors to leading a church we needed someone to help us define our goals and vision both personally and professionally. Michael and Nicole are a unique team, well trained to guide you together. It was easy to engage in the coaching process that brought insight into our lives and put words to some more ambiguous thoughts at the time.
Every meeting was well constructed and very useful bringing clarity to our thoughts and the direction we needed to travel moving forward. They listen intently and are trustworthy, patient, and inspiring. We have made meaningful connections in our job and experienced healthy growth.
Prior to being coached by Metamorphosis CCT there would be things that would take me years to deal with that I now have overcome in two weeks. There were a few lids on my leadership that I have now discovered came from past events and circumstances. The coaching process allowed me to identify and rectify those limiting factors showing up in my leadership in various ways and because of that my leadership has improved in quality with those I am leading noticing immediately. My time management, priorities, and ability to narrow the focus to what matters most at work and at home has dramatically improved.
Before I started this process there were many untruths I had believed people perceived about my leadership and myself. I went to numerous seminars, leadership trainings, and had coaching in the past from others, but it left me feeling overwhelmed and worse than before. I had good reason to be apprehensive to start a coaching relationship with Metamorphosis CCT and looking so carefully at myself.
However, the coaching I received from Metamorphosis CCT was unlike anything I had experienced before. There was never any pressure to give a certain answer nor did I feel led or manipulated by a predetermined agenda. Every follow up email or conversation started with encouragement and a compliment from my coach about the progress I was making along with some reminder that the pace of this experience was entirely up to me.
My experience with Metamorphosis CCT can be summed up in that they truly want to help people find the maximum expression of who they are supposed to be and unlock each person’s potential within them. I can’t believe stubbornness, pride, and fear almost kept me from the amazing growth I have experienced in such a short time.
I am very grateful for this growth and so are my family and the teams that I lead. Insecurity, fear, and ineffective leadership are diminishing as I am growing in owning who I was created to be, obsessing less about people’s opinion of me, and leading more authentically as the real me.
If I could go back in time to talk with my past self that was contemplating whether or not to engage with Metamorphosis CCT I would give myself one piece of advice, “Do not wait to engage with Metamorphosis CCT’s products and services because they will help you to become the best version of yourself and grow your leadership potential in a fraction of the time it would take you alone.” I highly recommend Metamorphosis CCT and would give you the same advice if I were standing right next to you.
Consulting Results
Paul And-Julia Rivard to Metamorphosis CCT with Michael & Nicole Karnowski
Impact of Metamorphosis CCT On Leadership Development
Michael & Nicole have been a reliable, trustworthy leadership resource for our church and that is a real gift. We have been to many leadership courses over the years, but they are generally focused on only one aspect of leadership leaving it up to you to put it together for yourself and organization.
Through coaching, leadership workshops, and small group (mastermind) courses they provide a leadership track for growth that gives our people a well rounded foundation of leadership skills and principles that are tailored for our organization’s need. This has really saved us the headache and time of not having to find and schedule several individual leadership courses that we would have to tailor ourselves to the needs of our organization.
We love that they have a well rounded system of leadership development that they link with the heartbeat of our organization and its staff. We believe in developing people to their highest potential and love seeing how much our people have grown and the success they’re having in their leadership as a result of engaging in this leadership training with Michael & Nicole.
Impact of Metamorphosis CCT On Our Organizational Systems and Processes
Organizationally, leading our staff through change has been both exciting and productive with Michael & Nicole! We’ve had meetings for years to address changes in our organizational structure, but something seemed to hold us back from implementing the ideas generated during those discussions.
Our organizational structure and systems of development have increased because of how they facilitated the meetings and their ability to coach us by asking the right questions at the right time. They listened intently never rushing the process and taught us how to delegate and communicate more effectively in our meetings.
They helped clarify and give structure to thoughts while fleshing out new ideas during our meetings that allowed us to see a clearer picture of what we needed to do next. Through their organization and knowledge we have even begun running our other internal meetings in a similar fashion! Their hearts were in it and that made all the difference.
We have seen real change and real results! Metamorphosis CCT is there when we need them!