Critical Life Skills
- Parents always exhort their children to excel at school and work hard, yet academic achievement and diligence, although extremely important, do not always translate to success in career and life. Why?
- Many of the wealthiest people in the world never attended or dropped out of university. How did they succeed anyway?
- There are many paths to success, but all the paths require a fundamental set of skills. What are they?
Our institute is a perfect compliment to an elite academic education. We focus on critical topics such as interpersonal communication, resolving differences with others, public speaking in small and large meetings, decision making, relationship skills, managing emotions, healthy living practices, personal money management, managing your time and energy, leading others in day-to-day operations, persuasion and sales skills…and more.
Families, religious institutions and private schools seek to fill this gap with their best efforts, but have fallen short. True success is rare, mediocrity is the norm. But every person can reach their full potential and live a more successful life, by learning proven thinking skills and interpersonal skills that bring about success. It does not need to be rare for one to succeed when the ways of success are proven and known.
Over 70% of the wealthiest people in the world are entrepreneurs, intelligent risk takers, company builders.
• They were fully committed to succeeding
• They were able to lead other people in executing their idea
• They took enormous risks
• They were able to sell their idea to investors and the world
How to Thrive in Any Economic Environment!
This project endeavors to produce well-rounded individuals with the essential life skills to survive and thrive in any environment. Our training course supplements traditional classroom coursework with practical life skills that will make an individual successful in everyday life and work. We designed our course to be perfectly complimentary to an elite classroom education.
This course is a collaboration between John Lin, Jim Cathcart, and Katherine Chen. After five decades in private industry and coaching elite performers, we are convinced that success has certain common traits and characteristics. We know these characteristics can be taught and cultivated in a strategic way. We have put all of our research in this training program to help you better achieve your goals.
It is said that a Classic Traditional Education will get you hired, but these success skills are what will get you promoted to higher positions.
In this course, an individual can expect to learn proven foundational skills that are essential to success in any field. Some of these skills are:
Mastering your Emotions, EQ: “Emotional Intelligence”
About Our instructors
Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE is one of the top 5 most award winning, best known, most admired and influential people in the field of self-improvement and business skills worldwide. He has written 27 books published in multiple languages, delivered over 3,500 convention speeches, taught at multiple universities and been honored with the top awards in his field. He served as President of the National Speakers Association USA, and has lectured throughout China, Asia, Australia, The Americas and in Europe. He has been inducted into the Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame in London, England.
His son and his grandchildren have followed his teachings and succeeded in their own careers. In other words, what Jim Cathcart teaches, he also practices in his own life and has proven that it works in three generations. Jim is admired by his peers and has been repeatedly selected as one of the Top 30 Global Gurus in Sales and Motivation. In 2025 his Professional Experts Mentorship was selected as #5 worldwide among motivational programs. He was awarded an Honorary Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration by High Point University (North Carolina) in 2021.
Katherine “Kitty” Chen is a leadership and motivational speaker and trainer. She has nearly 10 years of experience as an international translator for world renowned speakers and authors and has travelled to 18 different cities for various speaking and translating events.
Some notable people whom she has worked with are Joe Girard, Guinness Book Greatest Salesman for 12 consecutive years, Motivational Speaker, Book Author; Terry Paulson, PhD psychologist, professional speaker, trainer and author, as well as the former President (1998-1999) of National Speakers Association and former President (2002-2003) Global Speakers Federation; and Jim Cathcart, the former President of the National Speakers Association, TEDx Top 1% 2019, Golden Gavel Award 2001, Author of 27 books, Speaker Hall of Fame, Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame.
And other well-known speakers such as Mark Victor Hansen, Roger Dawson, Jay Abraham, Bob Proctor, and Tom Hopkins.
Enthusiastic for public welfare, she has served as Secretary General of Chengdu Hi-tech Zone Social Organization Service Park, providing 3 years of service to high-tech zone charity organizations and is the founder the "Chicken Soup for the Soul Campus Ambassador" charity brand. Based on the original American book "Chicken Soup for the Soul", she led the team to shoot micro-films, edit books, and conduct English charity teaching. Two of the micro-films she shot were "Sister Lisa" and "Silent Angel".
John Lin, a very successful 25-year veteran of wall street, is currently the Chief Executive Officer of New Manna Partners, a company which Mr. Lin founded in 2014 with a small investment that returned over 2,000 times its initial investment in less than 10 years. New Manna Partners specializes in the turn-around of struggling hospital systems and construction of new boutique hospitals. New Manna Partners has successfully leveraged its management expertise with hospitals in Oklahoma, Ohio, and Wyoming. Mr. Lin has also been chief executive officer of a successful commodity trading company, as well as a multi-billion-dollar investment firm where he led the firm to diversify and expand globally.
Mr. Lin was born in Wenzhou, China, and immigrated to the United States when he was young. His family had no financial resources and no advantages other than a hard-working spirit, belief in a prosperous future, and emphasis on the value of education. Mr. Lin learned the lessons of diligence and perseverance well and graduated at the top of his class in high school. He went on to study at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, one of the most prestigious schools in the United States. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1996. Mr. Lin is a believer in life-long learning, and in his spare time enjoys reading about monetary history, especially Roman financial system and taxation.