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Sunny Yates is a founding partner in effective environments. She is a management consultant and executive coach, with experience in nonprofit management, small business development and commercial law. She has coached managers, business owners and individuals committed to breakthroughs in productivity and effectiveness for 18 years. Her coaching focuses on empowering her clients to be self-generating in applying fundamental principles for effectiveness and to design and use practices that support achieving extraordinary results.

Sunny has developed numerous programs that dramatically increase effectiveness and productivity at both personal and organizational levels. She has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles on subjects such as effectiveness, coaching, time management, project management, clutter management and daily steps to productivity. She is a co-creator of the audio tape, "Being Effective: Fulfilling Your Dreams." She has led workshops for thousands of people across the United States.

Sunny is a former lawyer and law professor who practiced corporate and consumer law for four years and taught commercial law for ten years. She also served six years as a Senior Manager for the US office of The Global Hunger Project, an international, strategic nonprofit corporation dedicated to ending world hunger. There she was accountable for volunteer training and development, community education and outreach, corporate fund-raising and event production. She has also held numerous positions on nonprofit Boards of Directors.

Sunny is a member of the Personnel Association of Sonoma County, BoardSource, and the California Association of Nonprofits.

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