Scott Vinci is the Founder and Executive Director of Life Strategies Network, a Relationship Abuse Education and Recovery Support agency, a business and personal coaching, consulting, and mentorship network offering support and education regarding relationship abuse and judgment-free communication.
He is the author of recently released books "If I Had Known: What women Said They Wish They Had Known Before Their Worst Intimate Relationship", and "Bruised...Not Broken: Four Critical Steps to Begin Healing and Reclaim Your Dignity and Self-Esteem After an Abusive Relationship", both available on Amazon.com in digital and paperback format. Future books include "Red Flags to Roadmap: The Tools to Convert Abuse Into Collaboration", and "Do You Hear What You Are Saying?": an expose of self-defeating language that holds us in old patterns of helplessness and self-loathing.
Most recently, he spent 10 years as program manager and group facilitator for NOVA, the Non-Violence Alliance located in Middletown, Connecticut. NOVA offered domestic violence prevention education to criminally charged perpetrators of relationship violence and other forms of covert abuse, and their intimate partners, to change their abusive behaviors. The acclaimed program taught abusers how to recognize violent, controlling, and abusive behaviors and taught the tools for self-management including de-escalation techniques and more effective communication styles to improve their domestic relationships.Scott has developed a simple, powerful practice of Spontaneous Mediation™ that refocuses one’s awareness of the link between how we think and how we speak. Our communication, both internally to ourselves and externally with others can become more effective when we avoid reflecting judgment or criticism. The full program is available as an online self-directed training.
Scott’s gift is his ability to illustrate his concepts using understandable visual imagery in an informative and fun presentation. He conducts live online and in-person seminars on inner-personal and inter-personal communication eliminating judgment and criticism, and values-based relationships for both corporate and public audiences communicating the valuable role authenticity and positive expression plays in both professional and personal relationships.
Scott has been an international facilitator, mentor, mediator, inner-personal and interpersonal communications coach known for his unique and engaging teaching style. He created Innerview Technology™, a unique approach to becoming aware of the messages we send to our brain that directly affect how we feel about ourselves and the results we achieve.
Beginning in 1979, Scott worked in Law Enforcement related positions as a police officer, supervisor, administrator, trainer, consultant, and coach. Over the course of his career, he has counseled, trained, and inspired individuals to recognize their higher potential and realize their personal and professional goals by harnessing the power of their inner-personal communication and inter-personal communication to achieve greater results. He has become a pioneer in the field of communication without judgment or criticism, after years of study and experience.
In 2005, he volunteered with the Salvation Army Disaster Services as Liaison between the non-profit group and local and federal agencies providing services to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi, and along the southern coast of Mississippi.
Scott was highlighted in the Antioch University Course Catalog for the New England Campus in 2005 and by other organizations like CAREI (Connecticut Association of Real Estate Investors) and the Springfield Rental Property Owners Association. He produced his own cable-radio program in 2000-2001.
In 2000, he received the United Nations Peacekeeping Medal for service in the cause of peace in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Since 2000, Scott has volunteered as an election supervisor and monitor in Eastern Europe and Ukraine. He was present during the historic Orange Revolution in Freedom Square in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2000 for their first Democratic Presidential election.
Scott was chosen Mediator of the Year in 1995 by the Ct. Chapter of the Better Business Bureau, trained in mediation by the Better Business Bureau, the American Arbitration Association, and the Aetna Institute Peer Mediation Program. In 1998, he received the Maverick Award from the Windsor Marketing Group for initiative and innovation in management.
Formerly on the Board of Directors of the American Congress on Real Estate Investing in Connecticut, he was Education Coordinator and a featured Presenter for ACRE from 1987 to 1993, and an associate trainer for Challenge Systems, a Wealth development seminar program created by Robert G. Allen, author of No Money Down and Creating Wealth, held at Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Orlando, Florida; and San Diego and Del Mar, California in the 1980s and ’90s. He received certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in 1987.
As an exploring child in a judgmental world, a police officer in neighborhoods of the inner city, as a facilitator and negotiator during his international UN missions in under-developed post-war nations of Eastern Europe, and an observer of the devastation and poverty in post-hurricane Mississippi, all have shaped and inspired him to focus on discovering a technology for improving how we hold conversation with each other in our personal journeys and professional relationships without diminishing each other. "If I Had Known" and "Bruised...Not Broken" are the first fruit to come to bear from a lifetime of experiences that have shaped his focus and bring his insight and gifts to all who choose to hear his message.
