Lay Off Leads Entrepreneur to Diversify Business Interests
Warren's Elements Therapeutic Massage salon marks a move away from IT for Jim Coleman.
For Jim Coleman, owner of the new Elements Therapeutic Massage salon in Warren's Pheasant Run Shopping Center, opening a new business after years as an IT professional was a natural response to being let go from a corporate position. "That was the first time I'd ever been laid-off and I decided to take more repsonsibility for my career," Coleman said. He had been working for pharma corporations, and his first instinct was to launch his own consulting business to capitalize on his experience. "I found it was difficult to get into corporate businesses with a small consultancy," Coleman said. His Coleman Group company was able to take over the IT business of a Swiss-owned company pulling out of the U.S., but rather than keep all of his eggs …
