Jamie Racklyeft (rack-left) has spent decades in pursuit of becoming an elite communication counselor, strategist, and coach. He specializes in helping ambitious professionals like you go from mildly to wildly successful, while living their dreams.

Wondering how to get unstuck and advance in your communication career more quickly?

Curious how communication can be the secret sauce for communicators like you who are looking to improve your skills, get a promotion, and leave a legacy?

Anyone who knows Jamie can tell you he has the answers to these questions and more, and that he is passionate about helping others find success and happiness more quickly.

Here’s more of Jamie’s story…

“I soon realized that even though I was the lucky one who was saved from drowning in that Great Lakes rip current, surviving that near-death experience didn’t necessarily mean I was going to live a long life. I also realized that what is more important than how long I live, is how I live.

Around the time of that fateful day, I was at the end of a failed relationship, out of shape, living paycheck to paycheck, owned a house that wasn’t worth what I owed on it, and was an emotional wreck with very little to live for.

Yet deep down, I knew I had further to fly. 

On the bright side, I still had Mackie, my wonderful dog. I still had my Mom who was living alone in her 80s and who I would soon ‘kidnap’ so I could care for her at my house. And, I had a great job at the University of Michigan with many friends looking out for me. 

My favorite quote was, “a setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback” and that was what I needed. My comeback came with a new purpose in life: to help make sure what almost happened to me in Lake Michigan that day didn’t happen to anyone else. 

Ten years later I have handed leadership of the water safety community I founded to a worthy successor, yet I will always be a drowning prevention advocate and always be looking for ways to give back – including wading into this exciting new online ‘knowledge industry’ with you.

I had been a goalsetter since fifth grade when I declared I would win the school spelling bee (and did). Later, working my way through college, I launched a photography business, a video production business, a graphic design business, and a deejay business.

Today, I still love my day job at U-M and am excited about revisiting my entrepreneurial roots by launching this new digital creator business while continuing to pay my good fortune forward – sharing the best of what I’ve learned over the years to help communicators advance, lead, and succeed in their jobs and find more fulfillment in their lives.”

For more on Jamie’s survival story, watch this news clip from WDIV-TV (with 2.7M views and 20K likes).