Aligning inspiration with an action-oriented enthusiasm, Monica Pelayo combines her own successful career as a high level Sales Executive with her mentoring talents as a Personal Coach to support personal and professional success for her clients. Her good humor, gentle spirit, and genuine compassion in tandem with her hands-on experience, allow her to deliver excellence for the clients and companies she has worked for along each step of her professional journey. Demonstrating dedication, ingenuity, knowledge, and skill, Monica acts as a guide and mentor to those who seek to unite visionary goals with authentic, achievable outcomes.

Currently, as a Personal Coach, Monica supports her clients in reconnecting with the inner wisdom that allows the clear formation and tangible attainment of goals. Recognizing that success can be defined in broad brush strokes, and having followed her own distinctive path, she capably guides her clients to use the tools inherent in their unique aspirations to break through resistance and surmount obstacles. Monica accomplishes this through individual and group coaching sessions while reaching broader audiences through radio and television broadcasts and community events. When presenting her notable lecture, “Say good-bye to fear and give a warm welcome to joy,” (“Dile Adios Al Miedo y Bienvenida La Felicidad” ) on the radio show Hogar Dulce Hogar (Home Sweet Home) and at a MANA sponsored event at the Bowers Museum in Anaheim, she reached a wide and diverse audience. Additionally, she was invited as guest speaker on Telemundo to speak on “How to Lift our Spirit in the Middle of Chaos," ("Como Levantar Nuestro Espiritu en Medio del Caos”) and on KVEA Los Angeles, where she spoke on “How to Attract the Man of your Dreams," ("Como Atraer al Hombre de tus Suenos”). Her energetic personality allows her to have open positive discourse with her audiences founded upon humor, compassion, and the deep seated personal wisdom gained through conquering her own personal struggles.

Continually dedicated to community leadership and contribution through service, she can be found strengthening women across California, Mexico, and South America. She spoke at the ACIM conference in Mexico City. Monica also serves on the Board of Directors of MANA, a California-based community-oriented Latina association. Additionally, while interviewed by Telemundo, she empowered Latinas to step up to their own call of leadership, community service, and advocacy through MANA.

While asking and answering the same challenging, empowering, and vital questions of herself that she now asks of her clients, in her earlier career, Monica cultivated professional success for IBM (previously Filenet Corporation) as a leading sales producer. Leveraging her dynamic style and ability to win an audience, Monica secured top revenue—exceeding individual and company-wide benchmarks.

Promoted from an Administrator / Technical Support role to Channel Sales Executive with IBM, Monica knows what it takes to move step-by-step to goal attainment. Able to work across all levels from support staff to executives, a hallmark of Monica’s success lies in her ability to empathize with everyone—across professional, personal, cultural, and linguistic barriers. Fluent in Spanish and English, she was selected to coordinate account sales to IBM’s clients in Central and South America. Partnering with international sales teams, she developed her presentation talents through spearheading seminars, product proposals, and presentations. Her engaging spirit repeatedly won her audience and secured her account relationships.

The Touchstone for Life Coaching Institute in Los Angeles awarded Certification as a Professional Practitioner Life Coach to Monica and she completed the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching 2 year program. As a grateful, lifelong student of A Course in Miracles, she transforms the lessons of life into professional and personal potential evident in the authentic path of fulfillment she walks for herself and leads her clients along today.

A visionary guide, Monica delivers a message that inspires all who hear her to take the next step to realize their own unique, full human potential. She empowers her audiences by providing the tangible tools necessary to focus on one’s inherent divinity and worth, cultivating the authentic sense of self-value that is necessary to truly achieve success.

Monica has enjoyed the opportunity to travel the world for both business and pleasure. She cherishes her extensive network of professional contacts and so many great friends! Today, Monica is happily married and lives in the City of Orange with her baby Esteban and husband, Jay.