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Susan Barrett Kelly
Janet E. Blum
Gerry Brannan
Cynthia Cobb
Debra J. Crawford
Pat Dahmen
Jim Di Loreto
Ken Helman
Linda S. Hughes
Ann Houston Kelly
Christopher Hunter
Daniel F. Jones
Kate Lanz
Chrys Kasapis
Suzanne Levy
Eddie Marmol
Karen Meyer-Ponzi
Craig Miller
Agnes Mura
Maria Nardone
Tom Nelson
Stuart L. Ralsky
Dennis Redding
Bob Rook
Susan Steinbrecher
Diana Sullivan
Terry Trayvick
Terre Tuzzolino
Karen Tweedie
Lucy Visceglia
Sally Waters
Andrew Wilson
Anna Zaltz
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Kathleen Dewey
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We provide experienced business professionals who deliver a proven coaching process and methodology. Our highly skilled coaches and consultants are well versed in a wide variety of assessment tools and techniques to best meet your needs.
We know what it takes to build, lead and sustain strong results-driven organizations. Many of our coaches and consultants are former Fortune 500 executives with first hand knowledge of the challenges senior leaders and organizations face.
Because we’ve led people, processes and results inside large corporations, we know how to help our clients get the results they need. Your goals become our goals. We will help you meet current needs. And, we will partner with you to leave improved, sustainable skills and capabilities in individual leaders and in your organization.
Clients tell us that our Team’s expertise and practical partnership approach gain quick credibility and trust. We have a reputation in the industry for thought leadership, use of best practices and outstanding experienced coaches and consultants.
“We came away realizing our strengths and having clarity about who we were as an organization and our ability to work together.”
“This coaching process improved performance, focus and teamwork in our organization. ECC is a valuable business partner that clearly ‘gets it.’”
Meet Our Principals
Kathy Green
Kathy Green, an organization effectiveness consultant, is a founding partner and the president of Executive Coaching Connections, LLC. Having performed as an officer in Fortune 500 companies, Kathy is familiar with the challenges that executives face. She has more than 25 years of experience in leadership, team and organization effectiveness. She spent many of those years leading human resources and organization development efforts at Baxter, Kraft Foods and Ameritech where she worked both domestically and internationally. In 1995, Kathy established her own executive and organization consulting business.

While working toward individual, team and organizational effectiveness, Kathy is most widely known for her expertise in coaching senior executives and their teams. Kathy’s client list is comprised of leading companies across multiple industries including; Charter Manufacturing; ConAgra Foods; Forsythe Technology; Harris Bank/Bank of Montreal; Information Resources, Inc.; ITW; Kraft Foods, Inc.; Lancaster Health Group; PepsiCo; University of Chicago and US Foodservice.

Certification:

Benchmarks®, Executive Dimensions® and 360 By Design® from the Center for Creative Leadership, PDI feedback questionnaires, HayGroup’s®Emotional Competence Inventory, Leadership Styles Inventory & Climate Survey, Lominger's VOICES®, Hogan Assessments and Heartmath®.

Education:

BA: Psychology and Business Administration, University of Wisconsin; Studies in Cognitive Restructuring at the Harvard Mind/Body Institute; extensive experience in emotional management, mental modeling, voice dialogue, change management, and advanced facilitation.

Affiliation:

Membership in the following professional organizations: World Association of Business Coaches,  International Coaching Federation, International Consortium of Coaching in Organizations, Human Resources Management Association of Chicago (HRMAC), Organization Development Network and New Talent Management Network.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Business Consulting, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategic Planning.
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Cassandra Mitchell
Cassandra Mitchell, executive coach and organizational consultant, develops great leaders and teams. She has more than twenty years of experience in helping clients achieve their business goals by delivering a range of services from one-to-one leadership coaching to large-scale organizational design.

Cassandra has provided coaching, needs assessment, leadership development, strategy creation, program design and development to large corporations, government agencies and educational institutions. Most recently, her coaching and development work has helped leaders and teams at Baxter International, Kraft Foods, Follett Corporation, Classic Residence by Hyatt, Office Max and Sara Lee Corporation.

Prior to consulting, Cassandra worked for Bank One, the sixth largest bank-holding company in the U.S. with over 75,000 employees. During her 14-year tenure at Bank One, she held a variety of positions including assignments in the Commercial Banking and Credit Card Divisions. As first vice president and national learning design manager, she oversaw a team of instructional and web-based designers responsible for management, leadership, and professional development curricula based on leadership competencies and organizational business goals. Prior to Bank One, Cassandra worked in training and organizational development at Loyola University and Medical Center, impacting employee and student development.

Certification:

Benchmarks®, Executive Dimensions® and 360 By Design® from the Center for Creative Leadership; PDI’s Profiler; Peer Empowerment Coaching Process from the Wright Institute; Lominger's VOICES®; Myers Briggs®Type Indicator®; Emotional Competence Inventory, Climate Improvement Accreditation,  Inventory of Leadership Styles from the HayGroup® and Hogan Assessments.

Education:

MA, Curriculum and Instruction; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illinois State University.

Affiliation:

Member of the Chicago Advisory Board to Youth About Business, which runs financial literacy camps for Chicagoland High Schools; Board Member for SHAREcircle, which provides aid to war-torn Angola.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Instructional/Program Design, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategic Planning.
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Kathy O'Doherty
Kathy O’Doherty has a solid track record of enhancing individual and team performance to support bottom-line business results. A founding partner of Executive Coaching Connections, Kathy is a highly respected coach of senior executives and leaders.

With more than 20 years of experience in human resources management within the financial services and retail industries, Kathy has held executive human resources management positions at First Chicago/Bank One and Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Kathy’s clients include Baxter Corporation, Classic Residence by Hyatt, Follett Corporation, HSBC, LaSalle Bank, Northern Trust Company, and Sara Lee Corporation.

Certification:

Benchmarks®and Executive Dimensions®from the Center for Creative Leadership; Leadership Effectiveness Analysis and Personal Directions from the Management Research Group®HayGroup’s®Emotional Competence Inventory, Leadership Styles Inventory and Climate Survey;  Lominger’s Voices®, PDI’s Profiler and the Margerison-McCann Team Management Profile®.Kathy earned a lifetime Senior Professional in Human Relations from the Society of Human Resources Professionals.

Education:

MBA: Benedictine University, BA, Education: Loyola University

Affiliation:

Served on Board of Directors of the Elgin, Illinois Chamber of Commerce; founding member of the Elgin Child Care Initiative; board member, president and chairperson of the United Way of Elgin; recipient of the Willis A. Reed Humanitarian award in recognition of her long-term commitment to the community and United Way; recipient of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award for her support of and commitment to diversity in the workplace.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation.
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Meet Our Coaches
Our coaches have a first-hand understanding of leaders, the cultures they work in, and the challenges they face. This diverse team features highly talented professionals from across the country, enabling us to serve both centralized and geographically dispersed organizations.
We invite you to meet our coaches...
Susan Barnish
Susan Barnish’s professional human resources experience spans 25 years in the service industry with an extensive generalist background and specialization in organizational development/training. She has held leadership positions in hospitality, retirement living and health care. Her most recent work was leading organizational development for Vi (formally Classic Residence by Hyatt) and Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Susan’s expertise is in identifying opportunities and implementing creative, targeted solutions in leadership and executive development, management and sales training, and customer service. 

Susan served on the Board of Directors for the Association of Junior Leagues International, was Past President of the Junior League of Evanston-North Shore (Winnetka, Illinois) and was on Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Chicago Foundation for Cancer Research Board.

Certification:

Acumen International's PRAXIS 360 tool, DiSC Profile, Gallup Perceiver Interviewer, DDI - Service Plus, Interaction Management, Techniques for High Performance Workforce and Pritchett and Associates Change Management.

Education:

B.A. in Speech Communications from Westminster College

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, Team Coaching and Facilitation, 360-Degree Feedback and Leadership Development, Instructional/Program Design and Meeting/Program Facilitation.
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Susan Barrett Kelly
Susan Barrett Kelly has over twenty years of experience in training, human resource and organization development roles with Kraft Food, Inc.  She’s held a variety of assignments supporting field and headquarter based clients in multiple functions.  In these roles, Susan has had the opportunity to start up three departments; hiring, managing and supporting OD talent.  She’s worked with leaders from the C Suite to first line manager levels through numerous organizational changes; start ups, turn arounds and mergers.  She was the first global lead for Organization Development, designing the first global Succession Plan and Performance Management processes to work in 26 languages.  In her last assignment, she was a Senior Director of Organization Development, Leading a team of fifteen to support the eight business units and Sales/Customer Service function in Kraft Foods North America.  The group had primary responsibility for Talent Planning (via Succession Planning) Development, Performance Management, Change Management and Team Development for approximately 20,000 employees in all functions. Susan began her career in Sales with Kraft Foods, with responsibility for stores and headquarters accounts in Cleveland, Ohio.  Her early experience working independently in a field location helped her to realize the importance of connecting the work of the organization to employees they may never know, but will impact.  Susan’s first Human Resources assignment was as Sales Training Manager for Sales.  She’s held subsequent assignments as Manager, Sales Training and Manager of Training for Kraft North America, HR Director for Foodservice and Director of Global Leadership Development and Sr. Director Organization Development North America.  

Certification:

Benchmarks® from the Center for Creative Leadership, Myers Briggs®Type Indicator®, Lominger's VOICES®, Hogan Assessment Instruments and Prosci Change Management Tools.

Education:

Master’s Degree in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University.  She holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Roosevelt University in Chicago and a Bachelors of Science degree from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, Team Coaching and Facilitation, 360-Degree Feedback and Leadership Development.
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Janet E. Blum
Janet E. Blum, organization development and training consultant, specializes in personal coaching, change management and team processes. She places great importance on helping individuals and teams reach their business objectives by assisting them in identifying goals, and recognizing and addressing strengths and weaknesses and developing strong relationships and clear, smooth processes. She has a broad base of experience and serves clients who reflect her multi-industry knowledge.

Certification:

Carlson Learning Company’s Profile Learning instruments, Benchmarks®from Center for Creative Leadership and Lominger's VOICES®.

Education:

MBA with concentration in Behavioral Science: University of Chicago; concurrent MA with concentration in social policy and administration: University of Chicago. BA, Social Psychology: University of Michigan

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation.
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Gerry Brannan
Gerry Brannan has over twenty years experience consulting to large organizations internationally. For the last seven years he has specialized in coaching senior executives, and 'high potentials' across the public and private sectors.

Gerry brings an empathic and challenging style to his coaching work.  He has an excellent track record of success, building rapport quickly and facilitating productive conversations early in the coaching process. His approach combines a pragmatic focus on his clients' business goals alongside supporting them to develop greater insight into their values and longer-term priorities. Gerry has particular expertise in cross-cultural coaching with individuals and teams.

Management consulting is at the heart of Gerry's business background, having worked with Deloitte and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, where he held a senior management position with European responsibility.

Gerry has worked with a wide range of public and private sector organisations including, O2, EDF, The Competition Commission, Fujitsu, WPP, Credit Suisse, Lloyd's Register, Masstock, DTZ, The Prudential, Hay Consulting, The Natural History Museum, Glaxo. BT and a number of privately owned medium-sized businesses.

Gerry is based in London and represents ECC in Europe.

Certification:

Gerry is a certified executive coach, a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and a member of Faculty at the School of Coaching.  He is qualified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) and FIRO-B psychometrics.

Education:

Diploma in Applied Psychology from London University
MBA from London Business School.

Practice Areas:

Business Consulting, Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Leadership Development, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Collaborative Change, Visioning & Strategic Planning.
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Cynthia Cobb
Cynthia Cobb, SPHR, has over 20 years of human resources generalist and staffing experience, most of which was built at Baxter Healthcare Corporation. She has held both corporate and divisional assignments where she has led HR strategies and initiatives across multiple functions. She has a strong track record of bringing resources together to accomplish business goals. Cynthia excels at creating communication bridges; working collaboratively and effectively at all levels. Her partnering approach is a valuable asset to former employers and current clients.

As an external coach and consultant, Cynthia has coached employees and managers at all levels using various feedback tools and coaching methods. Other consulting engagements have been in recruiting, policy development, employee relations and training.

Certification:

Certified in PDI Profilor and qualified in MBTI and Lominger's VOICES®.

Education:

MBA: Indiana University; BSE, Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Management: Purdue University

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Collaborative Change, Instructional/Program Design, Meeting/Program/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategic Planning
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Debra J. Crawford
Debra J. Crawford has coached at all levels of organizations focusing on creating a partnership based on trust, openness, honest feedback and integrity. Her 25-year career has provided experience in sales, human resources and extensive training and development leadership accountability. She has received awards and recognition for personal and team performance. Her expertise includes a strong background in the retail and healthcare industries, including assisted living. Debra has worked in rapid growth environments including mergers and acquisitions as well as more stable and mature organizations. Most recently, she was vice president of corporate education and training for Alterra Healthcare Corporation.

Certification:

Benchmarks®from Center for Creative Leadership, Lominger's VOICES®, Team Management Profile and PCCCA - Certified Christian Life Coach.

Education:

BA, Business Administration and psychology: Notre Dame College; graduate classes toward masters in adult education /instructional design: Alverno College.

Affiliation:

American Society for Training and Development, Marquette University College of Professional Studies, Advisory Council and two Milwaukee organizations for female and minority professionals and executives, Professional Dimensions and the Leaders Forum, Society for Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning Society, Lutheran Living Services, Core member of Women in Ministry and Family Life and Ministry Instructor of Christ the King Church. She is also a member of Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Instructional/Program Design, Meeting/Program Facilitation.
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Pat Dahmen
Pat Dahmen is an experienced organizational effectiveness professional with a tenacity for helping managers define and develop the core competencies they need for accomplishing individual, team and organization goals. Beginning with an understanding of and full appreciation for the corporate culture in which his clients work, Pat builds relationships based on trust, openness, honest feedback and integrity. Having coached and facilitated feedback sessions and organizational development initiatives for a wide variety of corporations, Pat has proven effectiveness with senior and middle level management.

His diverse background spans years of extensive experience facilitating and engaging teams in workshops, administering psychological assessments and studying the behavior of people in groups. He has engaged in various change management initiatives including helping to uncover one organization’s "core values" based on the results of an Appreciative Inquiry interview process. Most recently, he helped design, develop and implement the leadership development and coaching program for the executive leadership team and management for a Chicago-area municipality.

Certification:

Benchmarks®and Executive Dimensions®from the Center for Creative Leadership; Emotional Competence Inventory, Organizational Climate Survey, Leadership Styles Inventory from the HayGroup®, Leadership Architect Suite of integrated tools from Lominger Ltd, Lominger's VOICES® and the Myers-Briggs®Type Indicator and MBTI step II

Education:

Masters degree in Clinical Psychology: Roosevelt University; BA Sociology: University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation
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Jim Di Loreto
Jim Di Loreto has been helping clients address their needs in strategic planning, strategy implementation, organization effectiveness, executive coaching and team development for more than 25 years.

Jim’s consulting practice represents a marriage of traditional analytic disciplines (strategy development, business planning) with a broad range of people development approaches.

A typical coaching assignment will also involve business planning or direction setting; and Jim’s approach to helping his clients address a business problem often involves executive coaching or team development.

Jim has worked with clients in a wide range of industries and disciplines. Current and recent clients include Abbott Laboratories, BorgWarner, Inc., Federal Signal Corporation, The Kellogg Company, Kraft Foods, O C Tanner Company, Prestige Brands, Inc., R. R. Donnelley, and Sanford Brands.

Jim is a member of the American Management Association as well as other professional groups. He has been a frequent speaker at cross-industry forums on subjects ranging from change management to sales effectiveness to collaborative business partnerships.

Jim was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He was educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University. He resides in Chicago and on Gull Lake, outside Kalamazoo, Michigan.   In his spare time, he serves as the volunteer Executive Director and Board Chair of the SPCA of Southwest Michigan, a pet rescue and adoption organization.
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Ken Helman
Ken Helman is the President and principal of his own Executive Coaching firm, providing executive coaching for executives and leaders independently since establishment in 1997. A partial list of companies that Ken has provided executive coaching includes The Dial Corporation, Henkel of America, Wells Fargo, Mayo Clinic, Kraft Foods, Discover Financial Services, Edward Jones, Carter Burgess, Doubletree Hotels, Willis, Snell and Wilmer, Salt River Project, Central Arizona Project, Highlands Management Group, State and County governments and Banner Health Systems. Ken capitalizes on his more than thirty years of experience working with executives and managers in multifaceted industries and businesses. Individual clients range from CEO’s to managers in large corporations, small business owners and professionals.

Prior to establishing his executive coaching practice Ken was a senior executive with Coca-Cola Enterprises and a General Manager for a management consulting company. He has also held executive and managerial positions in the electric utility, nuclear power and musical instrument industries.

Ken has built a solid reputation of providing candid coaching and feedback for his clients with a high degree of integrity and credibility. Pragmatic and results oriented he enables clients to take ownership of their own development as well as positively impacting those around them.

Certification:

Benchmarks and Executive Dimensions from the Center for Creative Leadership, Lominger’s VOICES® and Predictive Index.

Education:

Ken has a BA in Management from the University of Phoenix and has additional education in the area of change management, facilitation skills and leadership.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-degree feedback, Collaborative Change and Leadership Development.
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Linda S. Hughes
Linda S. Hughes, an organization consultant and coach for leadership effectiveness, has nearly twenty years of Human Resources management experience within the insurance and manufacturing industries. Linda held the senior human resource positions at GE Reinsurance and Kemper Reinsurance Companies and was on the HR management team at Square D.

She has extensive experience coaching executives and line managers through change leadership initiatives, restructuring and M&A activities, as well as performance management and improvement processes. She has also established mentoring programs for high potential performers.

Certification:

Benchmarks®from Center for Creative Leadership, Certified Compensation Professional, certified facilitator of GE’s Change Acceleration Process and Work-Out programs

Education:

BA, Education: Montana State University; additional graduate courses: San Jose State University, University of Santa Clara in California; Green-belt training in Quality at GE

Affiliation:

Linda has served on the Board of Directors of the Barrington Career Center, a non-profit agency helping individuals in job transition. She has also served on the HR Advisory Committee for Shelter, Inc. and has been a volunteer and advisor to Holy Family School, serving inner-city children in Chicago.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Collaborative Change, Communication Consulting, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation
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Ann Houston Kelly
Ann Houston Kelley enables international executives in global organizations to act on the ‘things that matter’ with authenticity, integrity and passion. She leads a successful executive development firm based in the Netherlands and operating across Europe and the Middle East.  She has coached and consulted with corporate leaders from 57 countries across 6 sectors (pharma, financial services, fast moving consumer goods, energy & petrochemical, consultancy, UN & European agencies).
 
She specializes in:

·  High Impact strategic focus and change management
·  Creating high performing executive teams
·  Unleashing creativity and innovation
·  Building resilience
·  Expatriate excellence and cross-culture effectiveness

Her international background (American-Dutch in the Netherlands for 21 years), her diverse professional background (economist and family systems psychotherapist) and work experience (marketing analyst, IT manager, HR specialist, psychotherapist for international executives and their families) all help her relate more effectively to her clients and their situations. She is a senior associate of the Insead Global Leadership Center and the Center for Creative Leadership. She is the author of the chapter “Coaching Executives across Cultures” in Coach and Couch The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (Kets-deVries, 2007).

Certification:

Consultant Training Group (Tavistock Group Relations), On-going professional development in executive coaching (Insead Global Leadership Center and Center for Creative Leadership).

Education:

BA in Economics and Public Policy Studies from Duke University and a MA in Counseling Psychology from Lewis and Clark.

Practice Areas:

Business Consulting, Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, Expatriation & Cross Cultural Effectiveness, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Collaborative Change, Communication Consulting, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Organizational Effectiveness, Team Coaching & Facilitation and Visioning & Strategic Planning.
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Christopher Hunter
Christopher Hunter, an organization development and leadership consultant, has over 20 years experience across manufacturing, service and government sectors. Chris specializes in leadership development, high potential development, change management and personal insight through assessments. His approach focuses on the alignment of individual actions with business strategies to achieve outstanding results.

Before launching his own consulting practice, Chris held senior-level human resources positions at Ameritech and RR Donnelley and human resources generalist roles at Mobil Oil Corporation and Sverdrup Technology.    He earned the President’s Award at Ameritech and the Encore award at RR Donnelley, both for his work in the area of leadership development.In his consulting practice, Chris has worked with clients such as Harris Bank, McDonalds, Hewitt, RR Donnelley, ADP, Sara Lee, Berwick Offray LLC, Motorola, True Value and Comcast.

Certification:

McBer Behavioral Event Interviewing Trainer, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Forté Communication Style Survey, Situational Leadership II and PDI's 360 Assessments.

Education:

MBA with an emphasis on Organizational Development: University of West Florida

Practice Areas:

360-Degree Feedback, Business Consulting, Communication Consulting, Conflict Resolution and Team Intervention, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation and Team Coaching and Facilitation
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Daniel F. Jones
Daniel F. Jones, Ph.D. has been providing management and organizational consultation to a wide variety of clients in both the profit and not-for-profit sectors for more than twenty years. He has considerable experience providing expert consultation services to the financial, insurance, retail and publishing industries. His consulting experience to Fortune 500 and multi-national corporations is extensive. Dan’s work is aimed at producing pragmatic results for both the individual and the organization to maximize organizational and personal effectiveness, increase self and organizational awareness and clarify vision and purpose all leading to a better alignment and fulfillment of personal and corporate goals.

Dan has specialized in management assessment, executive coaching, leadership training and organization development. Organizational consulting activities have included the introduction of a performance management/management excellence system, organizational assessment and team development, assessment and development of potential internal candidates for a CEO position and design and delivery of workshops and retreats. His consultation often leads to organizational initiatives in succession planning, team development and strategic planning. Dan has provided coaching to entrepreneurs and family owned and operated businesses. He also has conducted competency model consultation.

Dan represents ECC in Italy.

Certification:

Certified psychoanalyst and licensed clinical psychologist and Lominger's VOICES®.

Education:

PhD, Clinical Psychology: New York University; BA: Wesleyan University Completed four-year postdoctoral specialization program to become a certified psychoanalyst and is a licensed clinical psychologist.

Affiliation:

Dan has served on faculties of Rutgers University and New York University.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategy Planning
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Kate Lanz
Kate Lanz has built a reputation as a first-class executive coach, combining 12 years of corporate experience with psychological training to help senior business leaders achieve lasting behavioral change. Kate is based in London.

Kate specializes in coaching senior individuals, teams and undertakes Board Development work. In 2002 Kate helped develop a highly successful and fast-expanding practice, Sandelr Lanz. In March 2007 she became Executive Director.

Kate's corporate career has centered on blue chip organizations, notably Diageo. She successfully held senior roles in marketing, sales and general management. In the course of her international business experience, Kate has lived and worked in six countries, including Holland, Hungary, the US and 8 years in Latin America. She speaks Spanish, French and German and coaches clients across Europe as well as in the UK.

Kate's direct, robust, and compassionate coaching style draws on both her in-depth knowledge of business and her extensive psychological training. One of her trademarks as a coach is an ability to help clients to convert a new insight into action. Knowing the commercial realities of business herself gives her the experience and skills to get right inside client issues and add value while her psychological expertise enables her to understand what may be going on 'below the surface' and help clients make sustainable changes to their leadership.

Kate's international background enables her to bring a particular expertise to cross-cultural issues and the performance coaching of virtual teams.

Kate has coached leaders across a broad spectrum of sectors from Board Directors of large multinationals to start-ups. Her clients include Diageo, Pfizer, John Lewis Partnership, Hasbro Toys, L'Oréal, Smith & Nephew, IKEA, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, Time Warner and large not-for-profit organizations.

Certification:

Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI ®), FIRO-B and the California Psychological Inventory.  Experienced in using 360 degree feedback.

Education:

BA in Modern Languages, an MBA and a BSc in Psychology.
London University, Bristol University and Open University.

Affiliation:

Kate was invited to join the panel of 50 coaches worldwide as a founding member of the WABC (World Association of Business Coaches).  Kate is also an accredited member of APECS, the Association of Professional Executive Coaches and Supervisors.

Kate coaches and tutors on a wide range of general and tailor-made executive programs at INSEAD, France's leading business school with the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre. Her work with INSEAD includes coaching on the 'Executive MBA' in Europe and Beijing and on company specific programs in the USA at Wharton University.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategy Planning
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Chrys Kasapis
Chrys Kasapis has an extensive background in providing executive coaching and assessments to senior level, mid-level and high potential professionals at many Fortune 500 companies. She has consulted in a wide range of industries including pharmaceutical, banking, entertainment, manufacturing, insurance, publishing, and financial services. 

Chrys’ background as a Clinical Psychologist has led her to specialize in the assessment of personality characteristics and behaviors that both enhance and diminish the individual’s ability to lead most effectively.  As well, her understanding of how to modify the individual’s role within the larger system has allowed her to provide guidance to executives in terms of how they function within a team and within the larger organization.  Chrys is fluent in Greek.

Certification:

Benchmarks® from the Center for Creative Leadership, MBTI, Hogan, 16 PF and NEO-PI.

Education:

PhD in Clinical Psychology: New York University
BA in Psychology: Barnard College/Columbia University

Affiliation:

American Psychological Association

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback and Leadership Development  
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Suzanne Levy
Suzanne Levy has over 20 years of coaching and corporate business experience.While at The Walt Disney Company, Suzanne launched and managed a division that oversaw all business development, marketing, consumer goods, publishing, online and promotion for the department’s properties. Prior to Disney, she was at HBO in production management and earlier in advertising at Ammirati and Puris in New York City.

As an executive coach, Suzanne focuses on inspiring leaders to think big, take risks and uncover their purpose, enhancing leadership presence to reach the next level and increasing production and business development.  She also works with clients to develop a toolkit to manage teams effectively. As a coach she helps executives to develop strong communication skills and assists organizations to implement culture shifts

Suzanne’s clients include Accenture, Citigroup, Diageo, KPMG, Lane Five Hedge Fund, Merrill Lynch, Monster, Morgan Stanley, MTV Networks, ONIT Digital, Prudential, PT&Co. Public Relations, RBC Dain Rauscher, Smith Barney, Scholastic, Travelers and UBS.

Suzanne is a member of the Executive Coaching Summit and its planning committee, an elite worldwide network of senior executive development experts researching and integrating best practices in the field. She was the career coach for Vault.com, an investment and legal industry leader in career support; was featured in NY Matrix with an “Ask the Coach” column; and recently presented to “100 Women in Hedge Funds”.

Certification:

Certified in DiSC, the Center for Creative Leadership’s Skillscope and Benchmarks® and Lominger's VOICES®

Education:

BA from Washington University in St. Louis and studied in Paris, France.

Affliations:

Executive Coaching Summit

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategy Planning.
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Eddie Marmol
Eddie Marmol is a bilingual executive and organization coach with an engineering background. He led several successful projects during a 15-year engineering career in the high-technology defense industry, spanning software architectures, embedded systems and wireless technologies.

Eddie has coached CEOs, senior executives and professionals on projects that include leadership development, onboarding and career development for leading firms.

Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Eddie coaches in both English and Spanish. Having coached clients in the United States, Canada, Central America, Caribbean, Europe and Japan, Eddie brings a multicultural perspective to his coaching.

Certification:

Benchmarks®from the Center for Creative Leadership, Lominger's VOICES®, TMC's Cultural Orientations Inventory (COI), Coach certification from Coach Training Alliance with whom he taught their Certified Coach Program in both English and Spanish.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering: University of Central Florida; Master’s degree in Computer Engineering: University of Illinois.Eddie is a graduate of the Coach University Coach training program and the Newfield Network graduate program in ontological coaching. Most recently, Eddie has immersed himself in Ken Wilbur’s Integral Institute and the application of integral theory in leadership and business.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, Leadership Development
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Karen Meyer-Ponzi
Karen Meyer-Ponzi is a well-respected leadership and organization effectiveness consultant with nearly 20 years of diversified experience in the real estate, technology, energy and retail industries. Karen specializes in executive coaching and leadership development.

Karen’s expertise includes working with newly formed and established leadership teams as well as individual executives. In addition to her strong leadership development skills, Karen has co-led large scale change initiatives, lead organization redesign processes, facilitated strategic planning and consulted on team effectiveness. Karen has also designed and implemented organization-wide succession planning processes, which have created organizational bench strength and enabled organizational growth. Karen’s corporate experience includes leadership positions with Equity Office Properties Trust and Automatic Data Processing.

Certification:

Certified in various assessments 360 instruments, organizational development interventions and learning programs as well as leadership and organization assessments, including MBTI, 16PF, BarOn Eqi, Benchmarks®and Executive Dimensions®, Lominger's VOICES®, PDI Profiler, Hogan Leadership Forecast Series and Hay EQI.Integral coach certification from New Ventures West, an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified coach training organization.

Education:

MA Organization Development: Loyola University

Affiliation:

Karen has designed and delivered Executive Coaching workshops for Loyola University Chicago Center for Organization Development, where she is also a guest lecturer.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Leadership Development
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Craig Miller
Craig Miller combines coaching and leadership mentoring to support already successful leaders who are dissatisfied with the outcomes they’re producing. He has coached CEOs, senior leaders and professionals on leadership development, team building and career development.  He has worked with leaders and managers in the United States, Europe, Middle East and Africa.  Craig’s ability to coach in both English and Spanish has enabled him to offer services in South America and in Spain where he resides.   

Prior to coaching, Craig spent 22 years as a corporate line executive leading and managing sales teams of advertising and marketing companies.  During these years he built client relationships in multiple sectors including CPG, banking, automotive, government, real estate, telecommunications and professional services.  Working in three different organizations, Craig was responsible for firm wide sales, building and managing teams, and providing impeccable leadership, influencing not only sales decisions, but also strategy and development.  He has a demonstrated track record of success spanning a number of continents, including North America, Europe and South America.

Craig’s recent clients include:  Vodafone, General Mills, Telefonica, Johnson & Johnson, Capgemini, CB Richard Ellis, USAID, Ermenegildo  Zegna, Eurocopter, Stratco and Kimberly Clark.

Certification:

Executive Coaching certification from Newfield Network

Education:

BA: University of California, Davis
Masters in Professional Management: Institute of Generative Leadership

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Leadership Development, Change Management and Influencing in Global Environments.
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Agnes Mura
Agnes Mura, MA, is a globally experienced Master Certified Coach (MCC) to senior executives and emerging leaders. She has special expertise in coaching leaders through successful cultural transitions of all types, including changes in assignment, location or geographic reach, integration into new corporate or departmental cultures, and how to successfully shift the culture of a function or a department. Executives turn to her at the critical junctures in their career to strengthen skills (e.g. managing global virtual teams) or to vastly expand their leadership abilities in the face of steep challenges. She is a founding director of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, the founding president of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations, and prominent in the coaching community as an expert practitioner and advocate of the profession. Ms. Mura is a coach and partner to leaders who deal with the complexities, uncertainties and turbulences of today's global business world - while having to deliver ever better business results. She understands organizational (and national) cultures and how best to navigate them.

Agnes Mura has taught Coaching and Assessments to global executives in the Advanced Executive Program at the Anderson School of Business (UCLA) and to new coaches in the Cal State University Long Beach professional coaches training program. She was a regular and frequent guest lecturer in Pepperdine University's doctoral program in Organizational Leadership. For many years she evaluated coach training institutions and certified individual professional coaches on behalf of the International Coach Federation. 

Education:

Masters Degree in philosophy and applied linguistics from Cologne University in Germany and a Bachelor of Arts from Edinburgh University, Scotland.  She speaks six languages.

Certification:

FIRO B, MBTI, Hogan Suite, DISC, FEBI, Workplace Motivators (TTI), Learning Styles, Leadership Practices Inventory, Thomas Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument, Conflict Dynamics Profile, Hay Emotional Competencies Inventory 360, Benchmarks 360 (CCL), Compass 360.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Organizational Effectiveness, Collaborative Change, Executive On-Boarding, Leadership Development, Team Coaching & Facilitation,Visioning & Strategic Planning.
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Maria Nardone
Maria Nardone is a psychologist and organizational consultant.  She has extensive experience in healthcare and industry in the US and Europe.  Her consulting experience includes coaching senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, executive assessment, stress management and team development.  Her clients are corporate leaders, doctors, engineers, family business owners, investment bankers and  entrepreneurs. 

Maria has written a chapter on her approach to executive coaching, which was published in Mind-ful Consulting, by Karnac, London 2009.  Her work demonstrates that executive development programs are an effective intervention for improving organizational and business performance.  Maria has lectured on emotional intelligence, executive coaching and stress management in numerous academic institutions both in Europe and the US including Fordham University's Transnational MBA program and the Tavistock Institute's Advanced Organisational Consultation Society. She has studied and lived in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.  She is an expert in cross-cultural issues and immigration.

Education:

BS: in Mathematics with honors in Psychology, Bucknell University
M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Fordham University

Certification:

Certified in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis by William Alanson White Institute; Qualification in Advanced Organisational Consultancy from the Tavistock Institute, London; New York Licensed Psychologist; Accredited Evaluator of Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Styles and Organizational Climate by the Hay Group®; Accredited Administrator of the Highlands Ability Battery; Accredited Administrator of the Team Management Profile System; Licensed One-to-One provider of the Heartmath® Stress Management Program and Stop Emotional Eating Program; and Certified Administrator of Hogan Assessments and 16 PF.

Affiliation:

APA, NYSPA, Academy of Management, NYHRPS, IPPA, White Psychoanalytic Society, Tavistock’s Advanced Organisational Consulting Society

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Organizational Effectiveness, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Visioning & Strategic Planning
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Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson is a consultant, facilitator, and coach with more than 20 years experience in strategic planning, organizational and leadership development, executive coaching and change management. He has extensive experience with companies undergoing change related to increased competition, major growth and expansion, technological innovation, restructuring, reorganization, mergers and acquisitions. He works with boards, management teams, work groups, and individuals to improve performance, accelerate change, solve organizational problems and implement strategic initiatives.

During his career, Tom has held senior management positions in business and non-profit organizations and has served as an internal and external consultant to both. In addition, he was Vice President, senior management development at U.S. Bancorp, and associated with The Performance Consulting Group in Portland, the Center for Executive Options, and The Kennedy Group, Ltd., an international organizational consulting firm. Tom has worked with a host of leading firms.

Education:

BA: Boston University

Affiliation:

Member, Association for Psychological Type and The Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum; Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.

Tom also has taught nearly 100 college-level courses in leadership, management, communications and coaching for results.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Organizational Effectiveness, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Visioning & Strategic Planning
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Stuart L. Ralsky
Stuart L. Ralsky, Ph.D. has a career spanning over 30 years, Stuart has held a variety of academic, corporate and consulting positions including Chairperson, Department of Management Sciences, St. Bonaventure University; Manager, Training and Organization Development, Chemicals Group and Corporate Manger, Management Planning and Development for PPG Industries; and Director, Training and Development for Montgomery Ward.

For the past 22 years, Stuart has been a Leadership and Management Development consultant for companies including Kraft Foods, ITW, La Petite Academy, United, and W.W. Grainger. Stuart’s practice focuses on executive and leadership assessment and selection, and coaching and development.

Stuart’s assessment and selection services help his clients match candidates against positions across organizational levels. In selection settings, Stuart helps his clients evaluate and identify candidates who are most likely to succeed in their organizations. He draws together results from appropriate validated instruments, information gathered in structured interviews, and his considerable experience, to select “best fit” candidates. Stuart also helps clients assess current associates and has worked with many companies to identify and accelerate the development of their high potential talent.

Stuart’s coaching and development services cover a full range of situations including working with high potential individuals, assisting solid performers in finding ways to enhance their effectiveness and helping people experiencing difficulty get back on track. As a coach, Stuart assists clients in examining their past experiences, establishing realistic stretch career goals, and gathering information regarding their current working environments and their effectiveness in them. He then helps his clients develop and implement actionable plans that leverage their strengths and allow them to make demonstrable progress against defined targets.

Certification:

Benchmarks®from the Center for Creative Leadership, Lominger's VOICES®, PDI Profilor.

Education:

B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Labor and Industrial Relations, from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, and the Human Resource Management Association of Chicago.

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Dennis Redding
Dennis Redding has over 25 years experience as a management consultant, OD and Human Resources executive. His practice includes: Executive Development, Executive Coaching and consulting in Organization Development.

Dennis is currently Academic Director of the Woodruff Leadership Academy, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, at Emory University. Prior to this role, he was Executive Director of the Goizueta Institute for Corporate Learning, Senior Lecturer in the department of Organization and Management, and Assistant Dean of the Modular Executive MBA program at the Roberta C. Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta. His corporate experience includes Senior Vice President of Organization Development and Human Resources at PeaceHealth, Director and founder of the AMOCO Management Learning Center, Vice President of Organization Development and Personnel Research at BATUS, consultant at General Motors Institute, and Director of Education at Ralston Purina.

Certification:

Lominger's VOICES®

Education:

MA, Personnel Services: University of Denver;
BS, Psychology: Illinois Wesleyan University

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching
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Bob Rook
Bob Rook is a consultant with extensive experience in strategic human resources management. His focus has been in corporate-wide organizational development helping clients create culture as a competitive advantage. Bob has a strong background working in various organizational settings including Fortune 500, Mid-Cap, Software Development, Engineering/Technical and e-commerce organizations.

An ECC coach since 2001, Bob has worked with all levels of management with assignments working in software development, distribution, manufacturing and early stage start-up business models. In addition to individual coaching projects, Bob has worked with various Executive Teams developing strategic clarity and leadership processes to create successful transformational initiatives within company-wide and business unit settings.

Bob has served in various executive HR roles including the senior HR leader for two software development firms where he was responsible for creating innovative HR strategies and equity programs. While at Caremark he launched a major Organizational Development effort to connect multiple independent physician practices.

Bob was a featured speaker on creative equity compensation strategies at the Business Week CFO Conference in February 2000 and co-authored “Building a High Performance Company” published in Managing Change in Healthcare; M.K. Key, McGraw-Hill 1999.

Certification:

Benchmarks®from Center for Creative Leadership, Lominger's VOICES®, HayGroup Leadership Styles and Organizational Climate product.

Education:

MS, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Illinois Institute of Technology. BA, Psychology: Marquette University

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Business Consulting, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategic Planning
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Susan Steinbrecher
Susan Steinbrecher is an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, executive coach, speaker and author.  She is president of her own management-consulting firm that provides professional development services in the areas of executive coaching, group facilitation and leadership training.

Susan works with senior executives and their organizations to develop and implement innovative, life-changing and profit-building solutions to address the global and day-to-day challenges of leadership, operations, human resources and training.

Susan’s expertise has positively impacted companies worldwide such as BNSF Railway, Bank of America, Diageo, Capital One, CVS/Caremark, Brinker International, Dave and Buster’s, Gaylord Entertainment, Gold’s Gym International, Friday’s Restaurants, Hilton, Miraval Spa and Resorts, Red Lobster, Restaurants Unlimited, and Seneca Gaming, to name a few.

Prior to founding Steinbrecher And Associates in 1992, Susan was a rising star with one of the country’s best-known hotel chains for 14 years.   She went from entry level to the chain’s youngest general manager in history to leading the strategic training and development initiatives.

Susan has written three books:
Heart-Centered Leadership: An Invitation to Lead from the Inside, Roadmap to Successwith Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchardand Straight Talk from America's Top 10 Speakers.

Certification:

Myers Briggs, Benchmarks®from Center for Creative Leadership, Lominger's VOICES®, Heartmath Licensed Coach, Master Certified in NLP and HOGAN.

Education:

BA in applied arts and sciences from Southwest Texas State University.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Instructional/Program Design, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategic Planning

Affiliation:

Susan is a member of the International Coach Federation, Women’s Foodservice Forum, HRPS, and CHART, the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers, of which she is past president. For four consecutive years, she has received the Business Leadership Center’s Teaching Excellence Award at the SMU Cox School of Business. Susan has been featured on Fox’s Good Dayshow in DallasandAtlanta, KXAS Morning News (Dallas) and numerous radio shows, as well as several print pieces, including Forbes Small Business magazine and Strategy magazine.
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Diana Sullivan
Diana Sullivan is a global leadership specialist working with organizations and senior teams to transform culture, align performance and improve business outcomes. Diana brings over 20 years of general management and leadership development experience, leveraging her expertise in running a global consulting business. Her ability to translate business objectives and outcomes into organizational, team and leadership behavior allows her to speak the “language of business” with her clients.

As an executive adviser and consultant, Diana counsels board members and executive teams on issues of succession, leadership assessment and individual development.  During her career, Diana has worked with Global 2000 organizations in North America, Europe and APAC to structure executive assessments, coaching and leadership development initiatives aligned with business deliverables. Her work with inter-cultural teams to help them leverage their strengths and develop more effective global leaders has been a particular area of success in her own leadership.

Clients include organizations in the professional services, technology, telecommunications, financial and consumer sectors of the Fortune 500, as well as selected education and non-profit organizations.Prior to starting her own consulting and coaching practice, Diana was co-founder and leader of Lee Hecht Harrison's global Leadership Consulting business. In these roles she led strategy, solution and product development, service delivery, and was hands on with global expansion of business. In addition she led National Sales and Technical Distribution channels for AT&T. Diana has successfully created unique alliances with organizations such as The Wharton School to increase thought leadership and global presence for many of her clients. Diana is a frequent speaker on leadership and has authored several pieces on leaders and development, as well as been featured in numerous global coaching articles

Education:

MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of San Francisco, School of Education and a BA in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business.

Certification:

Management Research Group (MRG) Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360™, Cambria Leadership 360™, Critical Behavioral Interview 360 Protocol, Myers Briggs® Type Indicator®; Emotional Competence Inventory, MRG Role Expectations™, Strategic Directions™, Personal Directions™; Team Coaching International Process & Team Diagnostic; Strong Interest; DISC (use, no certification required); Campbell; 16PF

Affiliation:

ICCO, New Talent Management Network, Menttium mentor and Leading Coaches Center.

Practice Areas:

360-Degree Feedback, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Executive On-Boarding, Business Consulting, Visioning & Strategic Planning
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Terry Trayvick
Terry Trayvick has business experience with industry leading companies including General Motors, Procter and Gamble, Sara Lee and R.R. Donnelley. Most recently, he was President for several strategic business units at R.R. Donnelley. Prior to attaining the President’s role, he was head of strategy for the $4 billion Donnelley Print Solutions business.

Terry has also been the senior finance leader on many business teams. In this role, he coached many general managers and senior sales, operations, technology, service and marketing leaders. He has facilitated projects including strategic and operations planning, translating strategy into action, re-organizations, change management, performance management, consolidations, off-shoring, financial budgeting and planning, organization alignment and business turn-arounds. Terry is very comfortable working with company CEOs, board members and senior executives on path for greater management responsibilities.

Education:

MBA: Columbia Business School; BS, Industrial Management: University of Cincinnati

Affiliation:

Terry is an advisory board member of Arizona State University’s Center for Services Leadership, neoIT and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council and Leadership Greater Chicago.

Practice Areas:

Executive On-Boarding, Business Consulting, Visioning & Strategic Planning
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Terre Tuzzolino

Terre Tuzzolino, an executive coach and communication consultant, capitalizes on insights gained during a management career that spans three decades at one of America’s leading financial services firms.  Prior to joining the coaching profession, Terre successfully rose through the ranks at Allstate Insurance Company to her last position there as Assistant Vice President:  Marketing.  Having held senior level positions in direct marketing, corporate relations, advertising and branding/marketing communications, she has first-hand experience with the challenges executives face.  She has managed people, processes and bottom lines.  She’s led successful change efforts, spun off divisions, launched departments, directed award winning communications, appeared on television and met with irate consumer groups.  She’s had successes, made mistakes and learned from them both.

Named one of the 100 Best and Brightest Women in Marketing and Advertising by Advertising Age magazine, Terre now brings her business savvy to helping others reach their full potential.  Her first-hand executive experience and broad education result in an approach that helps executives and others increase their effectiveness by capitalizing on what they’re already good at and building new skills.

Certification:

Terre has been trained and certified in Hay Group’s ® Emotional Competence Inventory and Lominger Voices® 3600s.  She is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute’s Co-Active Coaching program.  She also completed the Coaching to Excellence program with New Ventures West and Personal and Professional Coaching with Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Education:

B.A. in Sociology/Psychology from Purdue University and an M.A. in Communications from Northwestern University.  Terre completed a Leadership Studies program at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and participated in the Summer Institute in Negotiation at Northwestern University.  A student of communications in any form, Terre studied American Sign Language at Roosevelt University and the Center on Deafness. 

Affiliation:

Terre is a member of the International Coach Federation and is a Certified Volunteer Mediator with the Center for Conflict Resolution.  She is also a member of the Council of Communication Management.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Conflict Resolution, Collaborative Change, Communication Consulting, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Visioning & Strategic Planning
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Karen Tweedie
Karen Tweedie, with a passion for loyalty, learning and leadership has a life-long interest in seeing people at their best.  She holds herself accountable for being her best as well.  Karen takes up the challenge by maintaining her own personal and professional development and by practicing her own leadership in her work. She has experience in navigating change with courage, coupled with a keen sense of the ridiculous and an infectious sense of humor.  Karen is based in Melbourne, Australia.

As a result of her experience as the first non-North American global president of the International Coach Federation Board in 2009, Karen is part of a worldwide network of coaches, and continues to contribute to shaping the coaching profession. 

Karen’s professional life began in the Education sector – where she worked at all levels, from primary school to University. This was followed by 20 years of experience consulting and coaching in the area of Leadership and workplace Communication. In this capacity Karen has worked within the Private sector, with the major utilities companies, Universities, Not-for-Profits and the Government sector. Karen works with leaders, leadership teams and Boards with a focus on organizational effectiveness/change, communication and leadership. Her experience of leading a global board and facing the challenges of managing multicultural relationships in a dispersed team and between the Board and the Executive has been most valuable for her clients. Karen is an experienced educator, coach and mentor, facilitation and coaching professional, a leadership and team coach, and a trainer of coaches. 

A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 2000 hours' experience coaching individuals and teams. Karen brings a wealth of professional and personal development tools to her work with coaches and clients in groups and as individuals.

In addition, Karen’s work with individuals and organizations utilizes Narrative Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Solution Focused Conversations, Hypnotic patterns in language, and Systemic Constellations.She is a contributing author to the Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching published by Jossey-Bass, and the Australian Standards Organization’s Handbook of Coaching in Organizations (HB 322 – 2011) both of which were published in 2011.

Certification:

Myers Briggs Type Indicator®

Education:

Bachelor of Education, Melbourne University.  Certified Professional Coach and NLP Master Practitioner.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development
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Lucy Visceglia
Lucy Visceglia, an organizational consultant and coach, has more than twenty years of experience in building high-performing organizations, with special emphasis on executive development, enhancing top team impact, acquisition integration, and leading change.

For ten years prior to joining ECC, Lucy directed organization and leadership development efforts for Kraft Foods, as Kraft grew from a $9 billion to a $31 billion business with operations spanning 40 countries. Her work included one-on-one coaching with Executive Team members to help define and implement comprehensive HR solutions to achieve long-term portfolio transformation and growth strategies.

Prior to Kraft Foods, Lucy held internal organization development and talent management positions with two other global multi-billion dollars firms, Texaco (oil and gas) and Rohm and Haas (specialty chemicals). She also provided management training services as an independent contractor with community college business outreach programs after serving as a project administrator at the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, a nonprofit organization representing 2000+ US colleges.

Certification:

Benchmarks®, Profilor®, the Lominger Tools Suite (VOICES®, Choices®, Team Architect®, Learning Profile®, Cultributes®), the Myers Briggs Type Indicator®, and the FourSight Breakthrough Thinking Profile®

Education:

MS, Organization Development: The American University. Bachelor’s Degree: Temple University.

Practice Areas:

Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, 360-Degree Feedback, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Collaborative Change, Leadership Development
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Sally Waters
Sally Waters is a Conflict and Relationship Systems coach and consultant, helping individuals, partners, groups, and organizations build strong and enduring connections with self, purpose, and others.

Sally founded and directed Organizational Development Services at University of California, Davis, where she specialized in helping leaders and departments increase their resilience for moving through conflict, change, and uncertainty.  For three decades, she has worked as internal and external OD consultant, team and leader coach, meeting and retreat facilitator, interpersonal skills trainer, and instructional designer. She has also worked as a workplace, family, special education, and community mediator in a variety of settings.

Past clients include: Alegent Health Systems, California Department of Justice, Call Interactive, City of Davis, California, Creighton University School of Law, First Data Resources, First National Bank, Howe Elementary Teaching Staff, Medical Board of California, Profit Starm, University of California, Davis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Veterans Association - VISN Mental Health Group.

Certification:

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC - CTI) and a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR – HRCI). She is certified with MBTI, Strong Interest Inventory, Achieve Global, and Enneagram. She has trained with Center for Right Relationship (ORSC curriculum), Nebraska Office of Dispute Resolution, Lombard Mennonite Peace Center, and the Institute for the Study of Alternative Dispute Resolution (Humboldt State University)

Education:

MA in Psychology and a BA in French from University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Practice Areas:

360-Degree Feedback, Collaborative Change, Communication Consulting, Conflict Resolution & Team Intervention, Executive Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, Instructional/Program Design, Leadership Development, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Team Coaching and Facilitation.
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Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson is passionate about helping companies build successful businesses through organizational coaching and the development of great managers.  He brings an intuitive grasp of how to unlock people's potential and intellectual rigor in evaluating new practices and trends. 

Andrew has lived and worked in Asia since 1995 and is currently based in Singapore.  He is the founder and managing partner of his own management consulting firm.

Andrew's 16 years of experience as a senior manager, in the software and telecommunications industries, spans all aspects of running and growing an international business;  including the management of a start-up, rapidly growing companies, managing in mature organizations and the successful turn-around of a regional organization.  Andrew is known for the ability to bring new and innovative solutions and rapidly introduce change.

In his role as a management development consultant, Andrew has worked with senior managers and teams from a wide variety of industries including, advertising, banking, finance, manufacturing, non-profit and NGO, retail, pharmaceutical, public sector, recruitment, trading, and media. Andrew has recently served the following clients: BDP, Cellmark, CIBA VISION, CIMB Investment Bank, Covidien, DSCO Group, Discovery Asia, Hill & Knowlton, Metronic, MindShare, Mitsubishi Electric, ModusLink, Novartis, The RSA Group, Singapore Prison Servise, Singapore Police Force, Tetra Pak, Timberland and Woh Hup.

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering: University of Queensland
MBA: Queensland University of Technology.

Practice Areas:

Business Consulting, Collaborative Change, Executive Coaching,  Cross-Cultural Coaching, Executive On-Boarding, Leadership Development, Team Coaching & Facilitation, Transition Coaching, Visioning & Strategic Planning. 
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Anna Zaltz
Anna Zaltz is an organizational effectiveness consultant specializing in customized organizational, team and individual solutions that deliver impactful and rapid results to the organization.  Through global and domestic roles in multiple Fortune 500 organizations, Anna has helped businesses build organizational capability and improve overall performance by providing expertise in leadership development, organization design, talent management, curriculum development, strategy and delivery, change management and executive coaching. She has successfully led enterprise-wide organizational change and large-scale initiatives from strategy development through implementation partnering with all organizational levels. Working closely with executives and high potential mid-level managers, Anna has proven her ability to gain trust quickly with her empathetic, yet firm coaching approach. Her understanding of today’s rapid pace environment, team dynamics and expectations of individuals, enable her to quickly assess and integrate into new cultures while establishing high levels of trust with her clients and delivering exceptional results. Anna spent 15 years in human resources positions with Kraft Foods, PepsiAmericas, Motorola and Schawk, Inc. She has held leadership positions in organizational development as well as leadership development and learning.

Certification:

Lominger VOICES®, PDI Profilor, Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Certification, MBTI-Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Personal Effectiveness Identity Mapping.

Education:

Anna earned a B.A. in Psychology from Indiana University- Bloomington and an M.S. in Human Resources from Loyola University- Chicago.

Practice Areas:

360-Degree Feedback, Executive Coaching, Organizational Effectiveness, Meeting/Program Facilitation, Team Coaching and Facilitation, Conflict Resolution and Team Intervention, Leadership Development and Instructional/Program design. 
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Meet Our Staff
Susan Barnish
Project Consultant
Susan Barnish's professional human resources experience spans 25 years in the service industry with an extensive generalist background and specialization in organizational development/training.  She has held leadership positions in hospitality, retirement living and health care.  Her most recent work was leading organizational development for Classic Residence by Hyatt and Hyatt Hotels and resorts.  Susan's expertise is in identifying opportunities and implementing creative, targeted solutions in leadership and executive development, management and sales training, and customer service.

Susan serves as a project manager at ECC providing a personalized, consultative approach to our client engagements through:
  • supportive client project management
  • customized survey and evaluation design
  • tailored program design and solutions
Her attention to detail, innovated solutions and strong client relations provide an added support to our highly professional and personalized approach at ECC.

Susan served on the Board of Directors for the Association of Junior Leagues International, was Past President of the Junior League of Evanston-North Shore (Winnetka, Illinois) and was on Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Chicago Foundation for Cancer Research Board.

Certification:

Acumen International's PRAXIS 360 tool, DiSC Profile, Gallup Perceiver Interviewer, DDI - Service Plus, Interaction Management, Techniques for High Performance Workforce and Pritchett and Associates Change Management.

Education:

BA: Speech Communications from Westminster College.
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Joanne Straughn
Organizational Manager
Joanne is our Organizational Manager.  She manages the finances along with project organization and timeline management.  Joanne has been an office manager for over 25  years, working 10 years for the Variety Club of Illinois Children's Charities and 10 years with the house management team of Straughn & Straughn.
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Kathleen Dewey
Operations Manager
Kathleen's professional expertise in marketing, sales and administration comes from experience in the cable television field and the not-for-profit arena. Kathleen has a wealth of knowledge in both client and affiliate relations from her 10 year tenure with the popular cable network, American Movie Classics.  She held many leadership positions, including Vice President-Central Region where she was responsible for all sales and marketing for the network in a 16 state, mid-west region.  Prior to joining ECC Kathleen served as the Office Manager for the Junior League of Evanston-North Shore, a volunteer based, not-for-profit organization.  Kathleen managed all administrative operations for the organization.

At ECC, Kathleen provides administrative support to our affiliates and clients as well as lending her expertise to our website, sales and marketing processes.

Education:

BA: Communications from DePauw University.
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Dan Lewis
Technology Synergist
Dan’s professional expertise in information technology, internet strategy, and visual design comes from over 20 years of experience in both nonprofit and for profit, mission-driven organizations.  He has held various publishing, communications, and IT positions in nonprofit organizations such as the American Library Association and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). At HIMSS he was the Director of Web Services where he was responsible for the web presence and strategy of the organization and its affiliates. More recently he has consulted with a number of organizations in developing their web presence, content management, and online communities.
 
At ECC, Dan assists the organization in developing online tools, products, and communities.

Certifications:

Certificate in E-Business, Graham School of General Studies, The University of Chicago. NLP Practitioner, Master Practitioner, NLP Institute of Chicago; Certified NLP Trainer, NLP University.

Education:

MA, Divinity, The University of Chicago Divinity School;
BA, Biblical Studies, Trinity College.
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Meet Our Alliance Partners

Our network of experts helps us deliver an even broader array of services to meet your needs.

The Axelrod Group

The Axelrod Group is a Collaborative Change Consulting firm that works with clients to design collaborative systems which enable people to construct an organization that is profitable and worthy of pride.

Sandler Lanz

Sandler Lanz is ECC's alliance partner delivering our services in the UK and throughout Europe.  The firm has a highly successful track record specializing in executive and team coaching.

TalentGenesis

TalentGenesis creates and customizes the best practices in talent management in five key practice areas: Selection, Performance, Development, Succession and Measurement leveraging the LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT®technologies.

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