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NewsCharlotte professionals back on the FastTracFebruary 18, 2012source: bizjournals.com Watching his 30-year career in corporate America end with a pink slip knocked David Wittmann to his knees. But on a recent afternoon in Charlotte, the former uptown banker stood up, clapped and cheered as he and 60 other mostly unemployed Charlotteans from all walks of life rebooted their careers with a jolt of entrepreneurial zeal. They became the first group of hopeful small-business owners to complete FastTrac New Ventures, a celebrated training course offered exclusively by Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation, a preeminent entrepreneurs' resource group. Kauffman worked with Gov. Bev Perdue's job-recovery initiative to bring the training to unemployed Charlotteans at no charge to help them create jobs by launching businesses. The program is also being offered in Detroit and New York. "I wanted to do this 10 years ago," says Wittmann, who is launching Delta Transitions, a life and leadership coaching service. "I'm putting it into action today." Wittmann's journey toward business ownership began years ago when he first dreamed of leaving his job to become a self-employed life coach. But he never pulled the trigger. Then early this year he suffered a double shot of adversity. On Jan. 15, Wittmann's wife was seated in seat 17C of US Airways Flight 1549, the now-famous flight that crash-landed into the Hudson River en route to Charlotte from New York. Like everyone else aboard the plane, she survived. But the incident and its aftermath shook Wittmann and his family.
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Working with David as a coach was an absolute joy. David coached me to look inwardly to gain clarity about my "values".
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