Coach Training Faculty
Chuck Allen, CPCC
Chuck is the Co-Founder of Organic Communication (http://www.organiccomm.com), a consulting firm that provides coaching and training in persuasive communication, leadership and conflict management. He is also an Executive Coach for the Executive MBA Program of Loyola Marymount University. For ten years, Chuck has coached and trained leaders in sectors ranging from non-profit to aerospace, medicine, technology and the federal government. Prior to his coaching career Chuck worked in such diverse fields as information technology, public relations, public health, technical writing, journalism, event planning and child development.
Gail Barrie, CPCC, PCC
Celebrator extraordinaire of the fullness and diversity of life, Gail founded BOLD MOVES, a dynamic international portfolio company through which she offers customized coaching, consulting, training and creative services for individuals and relationship systems. Gail’s devotion to expanding the range of human potential has served people in private and corporate sectors, from prison inmates to CEOs, from her own backyard to Siberia. An avid spiritualist and metaphysician, Gail enlivens and calls forth ‘practical magic’. Specializing in relationship, sexuality and creative expression, Gail champions people toward crafting sustainable experiences filled with the pleasure and splendor of being truly alive. Gail is the author of Unwrapping Your Presence: Living Life in Celebration.
Tony Barton, CPCC, PCC
Tony is Mr Red Kite – or at least that’s how many people know him through his coaching business ‘Red Kite World‘. After a successful 20 year career in marketing, Tony left his ‘velvet rut’ and discovered some really interesting products to market through coaching – like aliveness, joy and courage. He is an authorized Team Diagnostic Facilitator and an MBTI assessor. Tony brings many ‘red kite’ qualities to his work as a coach and front of room leader and is known for his great sense of play, fun and groundedness. In addition to his work with CTI he also runs his own ‘Simply Inspiring’ workshops and adventure holidays. Married with 3 grown children, Tony lives in the UK.
Dori Ben-Chanoch, PCC, CPCC
Dori specializes in Executive Coaching, working closely in one-on-one settings with executives in order to hone their skills. Dori is a certified behavioral coach, who has worked in training and development for the last 15 years. He specializes in executive presence, interpersonal communication skills, and emotional intelligence using a model of open and honest communication. In the past, Dori served as a president of a successful financial services company, and has extensive experience as a top sales producer and sales manager.
Ann Betz, CPCC
Ann has a passionate commitment to people living lives beyond their wildest dreams. She believes that this is not only possible, it is absolutely crucial in creating the kind of world we all want to live in. The wandering road of Ann's own life includes extensive work on leadership development with young leaders engaged in community service, as well as many years of training in both corporations and non-profit organizations. Since 2005, she has lived on a 55-acre farm in Costa Rica with her family, where she coaches, works with women in the local community, and commutes to the United States to lead workshops on spiritual development.
Eileen Blumenthal, JD, MA, CPCC, PCC
JD, Hastings College of Law
MA, Education, Harvard University
Eileen founded Rocket Science Coaching & Consulting in 1995 and works at the intersection of humor, insight and ease. She comes to coaching after careers in non-profit management, employment law, and higher education administration, always favoring work with individuals finding their way. In addition to serving on CTI’s faculty as an examiner and supervisor, Eileen provides coaching and consulting internationally, most recently with PEPFAR-funded agencies in Mozambique combating HIV/AIDS. She is the co-designer of, and lead trainer for, the Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute peer coaching program for emerging public health leaders. Eileen is a Bikram yoga enthusiast, and she and her partner are the humble guardians of a very smart cattle dog, Gracie.
Sandra Cain, CPCC, PCC
Sandra coaches individuals, pairs and teams. Her background includes 15 years experience in large organizations with a variety of leadership and personal development roles. Her stand for this work is that while we are here, we might as well be conscious and intentional about who we are, what we do and how we live. Sandra also has a strong belief that life is meant to be a fun adventure and that just about everything is funny, given enough time. When not coaching or training, she loves rollerblading, hot yoga and cruising in a vintage speedboat with her husband and their beagles.
Leslie Clark, CPCC, PCC
Although known for her calm and steady presence, Leslie may surprise you with her lust for an extraordinary life and bold choices. In 2000 she abandoned a successful 15 year career in the hospitality industry for exotic simplicity and tranquility in the Mayan Riviera town of Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Over the span of 8 years Leslie learned Spanish, built a home with 3 apartments, acquired two dogs, made lifetime friends, and survived 3 hurricanes. In 2008 a new dream called her back to the US. Leslie resides in Florida near family and hopes to create a family of her own in the near future as she pursues the international adoption of an older child. Self-sustainability in times of chaos, is a theme in her private coaching practice where she customizes rigorous individual and small group coaching programs primarily for social entrepreneurs, green technologies, and green revolutionaries.
Veronica (Ronnie) Clifford, CPCC
Ronnie spent 20 years working in sales, marketing and commercial roles and 10 years working as a software engineer. She coaches corporate executives and coaches in training and a variety of people in between. Ronnie delivers leadership training and personal development coaching for IBM UK, working at all levels within the organization to maximize the human potential that is available. Ronnie splits her time in the UK between London and Devon. She is a keen traveler and loves to work with people. Ronnie is never happier than when she is with her close friends & family or singing in the Choir!
Deborah Colman, MA, CPCC, MCC
MA, Education, University of Toronto
Deborah loves to laugh and believes that when we cultivate joy in our lives we are better equipped to embrace the darkness. She believes that powerful learning occurs when people are having fun and values play as a powerful medium for generating learning that sticks. Deborah is passionate about humanizing the organizations in which we work and she inspires executives and high potential managers to think in possibility and embrace and excel in purposeful leadership. Prior to becoming a coach and trainer she worked in healthcare as a physical therapist and organizational development consultant. In her down time, Deborah enjoys the rhythmical life-giving movements of walking, conversation, wilderness canoe tripping and playing her guitar.
Nancy Conger, CPCC, PCC
Nancy is a spirited blend of fierceness and fun. She has run her own coaching practice since 1998, inspiring people to cultivate and express creativity in business and personal arenas. Nancy does plenty of creative stretching herself as author, playwright, musician and budding visual artist. Before coaching Nancy spent a decade in financial services management and Human Resources, and now enjoys bringing coaching skills into organizations to help them become more productive and alive.
Maria Danly, MA, CPCC
MA in Intuition Medicine
Known as “The Money Magic Coach,” Maria not only helps her clients pass their CPCC examinations, she offers them easy, simple systems to brand, package and price their services so they can move away from ‘dollars-for-hours’ work quickly and create more money, time and freedom in their businesses. “Whatever business my clients may be in, they are all in the business of marketing themselves. I help my clients to achieve their dreams and financially support themselves so they can get on with their greater purposes in their lives.”
Cynthia Loy Darst, MFA, CPCC, MCC
Master of Fine Arts, University of California, San Diego
As one of the founders of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and one of the first to gain the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC), Cynthia is internationally known as a pioneer in the world of coaching. She was one of the first leaders for The Coaches Training Institute. Cynthia also serves as the Director of Leader Development for The Center for Right Relationship (CRR). Passionate about raising the bar on the coaching profession, Cynthia has been developing new ideas for advanced coaches who are ready to take their work towards artistry and mastery. Playful and provocative, a day with Cynthia is guaranteed to bring new juice and fun to your coaching.
Steven Filante, CPCC, PCC
Steven Filante works with clients to uncover their truest expression and bring their unique vision into reality. He coaches small business owners and executives who need a coaching ally to translate their vision of change into the world. In addition to experience in men’s work and Earth-based initiation, Steven developed Awakening the Soul-Body Connection work which helps people experience and use the many energetic strengths available in their body. He brings passion, intelligence and play to training and coaching. When not working, Steven loves bicycling, skiing, backpacking, kayaking and snorkeling. Steven lives in rural northern Pennsylvania with his partner Virginia where they cultivate earth awareness and organic flowers and vegetables.
Grace Flannery, MS, CPCC, PCC
MS, Chemistry, University of Illinois
Grace is an executive and team coach, trainer and facilitator dedicated to the cultivation of exceptional leadership for individuals, teams and organizations. She is the founder and president of Leading Spirit, Inc., providing strategic services for leaders of non profit organizations since 1999. Grace applies her expertise in organizational development, relationship dynamics and change management to build clients’ capacity for skillful execution of their leadership agenda. She works with senior executives to ensure that their actions are grounded in wisdom and powered by purpose. Grace has 25 years experience in coaching, management and board positions in philanthropy, the arts, education, health and social services.
Kim Fowler, CPCC
Kim is Principal of MESA Coaching. She ignites individuals, executives and teams into mindful, efficient, spirited action. Kim combines her inspiration from the natural beauty of the Southwest to lead her clients to discard limitation and create professional and personal paths of growth, challenge, acceptance and joy. She has twenty-five years of management experience in the government, nonprofit and academic sectors. Kim also coaches individuals and family systems that have loved ones living with dementia. She focuses on opening new ways of communicating with themselves and the person(s) they have known for so long, whom it seems they now don’t know at all.
Anne-Marie Gonçalves Desai, CPCC
MA in Communication and Linguistics, Lyon University, France
MA in International Relations, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Anne-Marie is a multilingual executive, team coach and trainer. She runs workshops in leadership development with a strong focus on emotional intelligence and trains managers to use coaching as a management style. She is passionate about growing leaders and helping organizations to create sustainable relationships across cultures. Before coaching, Anne-Marie’s 15 year career in communications consultancy included team and project management. She has lived and worked in France, England, America and is currently based in Brussels where she is an accredited coach and trainer to the EU institutions. Outside coaching, she finds immense joy in dancing with her daughters.
Wendy Gutin, CPCC, PCC
Wendy loves to work with people who are making transformational changes in their lives - be it creating a non-profit, starting a new business, racing in a triathlon or moving across the world. She loves to work with motivated folks who want to expand their creativity, take more risks and go for what they really want. She coaches executives and business owners/companies on leadership and life, and also works with new coaches in training. She brings warmth, wisdom, a sense of humor and a varied background that includes being a journalist, a teacher, and a mother of five amazing children. Wendy believes that coaching creates opportunities for transformation, self-awareness and discovery for those who are willing to believe in and commit to the pursuit of their dreams.
Caroline MacNeill Hall, MA, CPCC, PCC
Master of Arts, Human Development, St. Mary's University
Caroline is a senior CTI faculty member, executive coach and author who works with individuals and organizations to build leadership grounded in respect and fascination, authenticity and authority. A sunny soul who believes that laughter lubricates leading, Caroline is as elegant and fierce as she is funny and friendly. Caroline is all about the joy; it’s her covert agenda for client organizations. Before becoming a coach, she was a journalist and ghost author of 13 books, mostly for psychologists. Along with CTI co-founder Laura Whitworth and colleague Rick Tamlyn, Caroline is co-author of the book The Bigger Game.
Akasha Halsey, CPCC
Akasha combines her gift for congeniality with a steely emphasis on excellence. Using wisdom gleaned from a varied background of sales, education, marketing and spirituality, Akasha’s expertise is evident in her communication skills and her ability to connect with your uniqueness and vitality. Her bold humor and quirky outlook make her a sought after speaker. As an author and performer, her focus is on advancing our ability to claim our greatness and understand each other. Akasha is the owner of Life Force Coaching and a long-time contributor to the coaching community. She lives with her cats, Sid and Nancy.
Leni Christine Jebsen, PCC, CPCC, ORSC
Leni comes from a background of law and graphic design prior to choosing a new career as business developer and coach. In 2003 she founded C-MOMENTUM AS, a Norwegian based business and leadership coaching company that is successfully helping organizations and individuals navigate change and embrace dynamic improvement. Leni’s particular skill is empowering people to make powerful, value based choices. With her direct and straightforward manner of engagement Leni works with clients from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds. She is a leadership and team coach, trainer and facilitator dedicated to inspire people to have healthy relationships in work and life. As a mother of four she spends her time with her family and friends, and is passionate about dancing Argentine Tango.
Athena Katsaros, CPCC
Athena is passionate about people living lives they love and doing work that is deeply fulfilling. As a co-founder of IdeaTribe she works with individuals, teams, and organizations. Athena is a partner who listens, challenges, encourages, and guides her clients to reach beyond what they thought was possible to what they truly want. Athena has extensive experience in the corporate arena as a marketing strategist and in the non-profit world as a board member and team coach. She is a committed advocate for peace and as a member of the Business Council for Peace, Athena co-develops and delivers training and mentoring programs for businesswomen in post-conflict countries, including Afghanistan and Rwanda. She regularly leads workshops at Esalen Institute, which she considers her spiritual home.
Bill Kegg, CPCC, MCC
For the past 14 years Bill has coached, mentored and trained over 6,000 coaches and leaders from 20 countries through his firm NOW Coaching & Training. He specializes in working with “Ripplemakers” – individuals committed to being their best to ripple forth the change needed in the world. Whether they are high-potential executives, entrepreneurs, or stay at home parents, Bill grows their self-awareness, competences, and unique style to effect the greatest change at work, home, and life. Bill uses his humor, insight, and rigor to inspire excellence. He lives just outside New York City where he grew up. He is an award-winning video producer and Boston marathoner. Bill feels blessed to be collaborating with CTI’s founders, leaders, staff, and international partners – extraordinary individuals committed to co-activating humanity.
Dorcas Kelley, MBA, CPCC, PCC, CMC
Master of Business Administration, University of California, Los Angeles
Dorcas has a driving passion to transform the world of coaching, one coach at a time, by helping each one discover their power and confidence as a leader in their coaching work, business and life. She balances a grounded presence with a wry sense of humor, playfully illuminating both our greatness and our humanity. In her roles of author, coach, trainer and consultant, she works with executives, business owners and entrepreneurs to reach the next level of success in their professional and personal lives. In addition, her book The Business of Coaching® is a popular resource for coaches, now in its 4th edition. When she’s not consumed by her work or her writing, you’ll find her hiking with her dogs, digging in her garden, or volunteering at local non-profits.
Virginia Kellogg, CPCC, MCC
Virginia is a founding partner of Leadership that Works Inc. where she designs coaching and leadership training programs that help leaders become more authentic, productive, and responsive to the needs of the world. Virginia holds a big vision for the coaching field, helping coaches to find ways to make coaching skills and orientation become a “positive virus” in the world. Through her work, she holds the vision of coaching skills being integrated into the work of activists, educators and nonprofit professionals. She is passionate about creating a new face on the coaching field, one that includes all humans and one that provides services for all humans. With Hide Enomoto and Sam House, she has co-designed The World is my Client, a program that creates a deeply personal intersection between coaching and the world. She works with nonprofit leaders, community organizers and other leaders to create soul-connected and powerful change with ease.
Trudy Kendall, CPCC, PCC
Trudy coaches individuals in organizations, cultivating conscious and powerful leadership in all aspects of work and life. Her background includes over 20 years of corporate leadership in international organizations, and coaching teams and individuals. For nine years Trudy served on CTI’s executive team holding a variety of positions including Director of Strategic Initiatives and Co-President. She was and still is dedicated to high-quality coaching around the world. She has also served on the boards of non-profit organizations supporting women in transition. In relationship with Trudy you will encounter an endearing combination of grounded warmth and quirky, playful humor. For Trudy, life is a grand adventure and she has a passionate interest in exploring with others the deeper questions of life and leadership.
Milne Kintner, CPCC, PCC
In her private coaching practice, Milne works with executives and managers at all levels of corporations, lawyers, physicians, symphonic conductors (people who are expected always to be right); poets and artists (who try to be true); scientists (who test for truth), and entrepreneurial people who purposely don't pay attention to “true” or “right”. Previous to coaching, her most compelling work was as a performance artist and mixed-media artist; in Mentoring, Intuition, and Leadership Development at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; and as a parent to two daughters. She has always been interested in what it means (and takes) to live a life well, be grateful, and feel satisfaction. Milne lives in Minnesota in the USA and Provence in France.
Kat Kehres Knecht, CPCC, PCC
Kat is a co-founder of The Relationship Coaching Company along with her husband Curtis. Together they have developed a program that uses the “7 Keys to Relationship Success” to teach and coach individuals and couples how to create extraordinary relationships. Kat combines her passion for romance with her co-active coaching and leadership skills in a way that is unique and powerful. She specializes in helping women entrepreneurs who are looking for a fulfilling love life. Kat has her own weekly radio show and makes regular contributions to the media including Choice Magazine. Kat’s favorite downtime activities include meandering by the ocean, digging into an art project just for fun, and getting lost in juicy conversations with her family and friends.
Roxane Loiseaux, MA, CPCC
MA, Philosophy, University of Amiens
Roxane works with senior executives in multinational corporations, directors of small companies as well as on systems within organizations, both as a trainer and as a coach. She brings her focus and rigor, together with warmth and lightness, at the service of individuals’ self-awareness, empowered choices and full presence. She supports individuals in aligning their lives by integrating the personal and the professional. Her holistic approach incorporates her philosophical background and her belief in the wisdom of the body. Roxane’s intent is for individuals to invest in themselves and in their lives, and by doing so, to contribute to the various systems they belong to—families, communities, organizations—to co-create a more sustainable future now.
Fernando Lopez, CPCC
Dual degree in Management and Technology from the Wharton School and the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Fernando’s passion is helping leaders, teams, and organizations create the space for powerful collaboration. He takes this passion beyond the business world with Project Bridgespace--a nonprofit project that advocates for innovative conflict resolution at a local and global level. Having lived in Toronto, New York, Mexico, Hawaii, Munich, and Brazil, Fernando is comfortable operating across different cultures. Before coaching, Fernando was a product manager where he bridged business and technology teams.
Leslie Lupinsky, CPCC, MCC
Leslie has provided over 5000 hours of professional coaching to small business owners, solo entrepreneurs and coaches for over 14 years. Her passion for business development from the heart has inspired her to develop five successful business development programs. Her most recent popular program is called Inspired-On-Demand and she has co-facilitated over 500 participants in this fun approach to growing a small business and has been sponsored by CTI in her business development programs since 1998. Leslie is the co-author of The Inspired Business Approach: Building Your Business From Inspiration, not Perspiration.
Joni Mar, CPCC, MCC
Joni excels in coaching high performance individuals, leaders and corporate teams to generate more powerful results and increase engagement. By focusing on authentic leadership, innovation and relationship management, Joni inspires her clients’ to live their lives purposefully and passionately. Joni brings to her coaching 20 years as an award winning television journalist and entrepreneur. She is a newspaper columnist on workplace issues, creator of a business development program for executives transitioning into entrepreneurship, and co-author of the Inspired Business Approach. She is certified in The Leadership Circle, designs and delivers internal coaching programs and corporate workshops. Joni cherishes her active family life, salsa and gardening.
Nick Martin, MSc, CPCC
Master of Science, Management Development and Training, University of Bristol
Following a first career as a chartered accountant with one of the major accounting firms, Nick has been working in training and development since 1994. As a trainer he works with leaders in organizations from local charities to large multinationals. As a coach he works with owners of small businesses, and with people with brains who are realizing that they have a body and emotions as well. His vision is of a world where we live more lightly with one another and with our planet. He is accredited to use a range of psychometric instruments, including MBTI, FIRO-B, the Leadership Circle and the Team Diagnostic Assessment.
Pamela Mattsson, CPCC, PCC
Pamela is a model for living a passionate and balanced life. She specializes in what she calls Life Leadership and is deeply committed to her clients’ success, happiness and wildest dreams. Pamela firmly believes that life leadership is about taking responsibility for what you are creating in your life, reconnecting to your inner core, your humanness and authentically honoring your values. She is a co-founder of eKCosystem a corporate training company committed to bringing the Human BEING into Business. Pamela’s coaching style combines her immense entrepreneurial and business experience with her intense compassion and powerful intuition. She works magic with individuals, couples, and businesses as they realign their daily actions with their deepest desires and values in order to unleash powerful potential. Pamela currently splits her time between Sweden and the US. She is a proud mother of four, an avid chef and world traveler.
Nina McGuffin, MS, PCC, CPCC
Master of Social Science, University of Chicago,
Nina works with leaders and teams to maximize their success by helping them develop new leadership and interpersonal skills. Her expertise includes leadership development, organizational and relationship systems, emotional intelligence, and personal effectiveness. Known for her warmth and insight, Nina has a proven track record in coaching and developing leaders for client companies. She has designed and co-led a variety of training programs for leaders and teams with outcomes ranging from developing up-and-coming leaders to building trust within a cross-functional team. Nina is passionate about increasing emotional intelligence so leaders and teams can achieve more with less effort.
Michele McHall MA, CPCC, MCC
Master of Arts, Depth Psychology, Pacific Graduate Institute
Michele is passionate about coaching the Whole IQ, the Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences, and the respective energy, feelings, thoughts, and forms that each intelligence governs. She coaches individuals, groups, and leads retreats with a focus on a path of intentional transformation that support people to transform from the inside out by discovering the depth and dimension of their naturally, creative, resourceful and wholeness. In coaching the Whole IQ, Michele inspires people to connect with their soul’s dream—a state of harmony, divine connection, and balance. As a former actress and figure skater, Michele loves the arts and is a wild and crazy sports fan.
Sarah Medlicott, CPCC, PCC
Sarah is a dynamic international trainer, who engages people in living into their personal and professional potential. With a focus on leadership and legacy coaching, she works with visionary leaders and entrepreneurs to gain mastery in their lives. Sarah founded her company, Affinity International, in 2000. Sarah leads a Women’s Leadership Program based on the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine to assist women to engage in discovering their authentic expression of powerful feminine leadership. With a background in international economic development, Sarah has worked closely with the Silicon Valley Center for International Trade Development (SVCITD) to assist small and medium-sized businesses to develop trade globally, and served as Interim Director from 2004 - 2005. One of Sarah’s passions is to assist greater cross-cultural awareness and understanding in the world.
Jonelle Naude, MSc, CPCC
Master of Science in Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Jonelle coaches individuals in their journey to become self-aware, authentic and responsible leaders. In addition to personal coaching, her coaching practice is focused on personal and leadership development as a medium for constructive work with offenders and general social upliftment, especially in the context of South Africa. Jonelle is also involved and committed to the professionalization of coaching internationally and the building of a scientific-practitioner based coaching culture. A passion for human development and the belief that any transformation or healing is possible in the presence of big love, lies at the heart of Jonelle’s work.
Antony Parry, CPCC, PCC
Antony worked for more than three decades as a news reporter, editor and a trainer of journalists on four continents. He now coaches individuals, teams and relationships, and specializes in writers, consultants and financial experts—or anyone else who turns up with a sense of fun and adventure. He still turns his hand to writing and course design and can be found dancing Morris on the streets of England—complete with bells, stick and hankies.
Doug Peck, MS, CPCC
MS in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology
In addition to over 30 corporate years as a senior executive, software pioneer, and engineer, Doug is a yachtsman, chef, opera-lover, diver, art historian, musician, mechanic, and world traveler. He is curious about everything, pretty good at most things, and always looking for unusual adventure—which is how he came to coaching. Doug is passionate about finding how to make things work, especially the lives of his executive clients and the teams that he coaches. He celebrates the discovery and use of your full, unique potential, and the adventure of the journey, with enthusiasm and compassion. Co-owner of North Star Coaching, Doug is certified in The Leadership Circle and other tools, and trained in Relationship Systems coaching.
L.A. Reding, M.Ed., CPCC, MCC
M.Ed. Masters in Educational Psychology, University of Florida
L.A. is a partner and co-founder in Artful-Leadership, LLC. She specializes in working with global leadership and has spent the last 3 decades engaged in the exploration of cutting-edge technologies for change. Her specialties are: long-term excellent performance, sustainable self-motivated change and leadership development. L.A. engages with leaders to have them see and think in new, clear and powerful ways. Her clients are able to focus their creative energy in ways make a profound, measurable difference in their lives. She specializes in creating powerful alliances designed to forward and enhance the lifelong process of human learning, effectiveness and fulfillment. L.A. is both wildly fun and profound. She can make learning simple, quick and lasting.
Ron Renaud, CPCC
Whether speaking to hundreds, coaching or training someone one-on-one, Ron’s style is fun and rigorous. He believes that holding the tension between the two is where growth, productivity and life satisfaction occur. It is with this approach and from this perspective that Ron engages his audiences and creates lasting results for both individuals and organizations. Ron’s most fulfilling work takes place at home in upstate New York, where he and his wife are raising two boys to be good men. A student of history and success principles in every area of life, Ron thoroughly enjoys discussing and teaching the principles that promote individual liberty and prosperity.
Sandra Richardson, PCC, CPCC
Sandra is passionate about unleashing the unique potential that lies within people and particularly enjoys working with people on confidence building. She has run Chrysalis Coaching for almost 10 years and prior to that worked in-house as a career coach and HR manager for a blue chip organization, having transitioned from an earlier career in public relations. Sandra has a warm and insightful style. She is open, honest and passionate about people. Sandra is an Authorized Team Diagnostic Facilitator, is MBTI qualified and has a diploma in Solutions-Focused counseling. She also runs Simply Inspiring Retreats, which are coaching-led time-outs to help people revitalize their lives. Sandra lives in the UK.
Kate Roeske, MA, CPCC
Master of Arts from Cambridge University
Kate brings over 15 years experience to her coaching, training and consulting work. She works with Fortune 500 companies and non-profits providing inspirational and action-oriented coaching and training. Kate is dedicated to working within organizations and helping individuals step into their own unique style of leadership. She believes strongly that these individuals and organizations both benefit as a result of focusing on individual leadership and creating more work-life balance. Kate’s earlier work as an Account and Planning Director for Fortune 500 companies has given her a deep understanding of the issues that leaders, teams and individuals in corporate environments face. She currently is living her own dream in Boulder, Colorado.
Chuck Roppel, CPCC, MCC
Chuck was trained and functioned as Catholic Priest in the early years of his career and from this role evolved into health promotion and disease prevention work within the framework of Community Mental Health Centers in Kentucky and California. He has been Director of the San Francisco Mental Health Association and the Director of the California State Department of Mental Health’s Office of Prevention and Mental Health Promotion. Since 2000, Chuck had been a faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute, maintaining a private life coaching practice and training Co-Active coaches throughout the world. Chuck’s mantra focuses on right relationship with self and other as the underpinning of a life well lived.
Jeaneen R. Schmidt, CPCC, PCC
Jeaneen thrives on coaching female executives and professionals who are committed to realizing and achieving their deepest potential in their professional and personal lives. She holds the vision that professional success, fulfillment and sustainability can co-exist. Prior to founding her coaching practice in 2000, Jeaneen spent 15 years as a leader and executive in the corporate world productively building businesses and motivating employees to create success for themselves and their organizations. Jeaneen is a world-class sailor, having placed 17th in North America on an all female crew. She has practiced meditation since 1991 and brings a strong intuitive sense to everything.
Lorry Schneider, MS, CPCC, PCC
MS, McGill University
Lorry has been co-leading workshops with CTI since 2000 and he has been a Supervisor in the Certification program since 2002. He is passionate about the Co-active Model and feels incredibly blessed to be so involved with the transformative work of CTI. Lorry’s primary focus as a corporate coach is around effective leadership based on the Co-active Model. His personal life coaching approach based on the expression: “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him/her drink”; Lorry likes to say that his clients are all “thirsty thoroughbreds”. The most fulfilling aspects of Lorry’s life are his work, gardening, and road biking and; most of all, his wife Wendy, and his 4 daughters: Hillary, Becca, Tanya, and Emily.
Beth Shapiro, MA, CPCC, PCC
Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School
Beth is passionate about working with individuals and organizations seeking to solve problems and create community both locally and globally. She coaches, trains, and consults on leadership development, teaming, and workforce engagement. Beth is also trained as a Relationship Systems Coach. Her background includes 20 years of leadership in the private and non-profit sectors. In addition to coaching, Beth designs and delivers powerful, custom experiential trainings aimed at increasing workforce engagement and mission effectiveness.
Andrew Sheridan, CPCC
After an invigorating career with Deutsche Bank, Andrew chose to leave the corporate world and undertake in-depth study and research in the fields of social science, psychology and management theory. Currently completing a BSc with the Australian College of Applied Psychology, Andrew has lived and worked in Luxembourg, the UK, Germany and Australia. British by birth, his upbringing in central Europe has shaped his strong interest in cultural diversity, and he is fluent in both French and German. Andrew’s vision of people living their lives fully at choice led him to found On The Up Professional Coaching, a business that works with select professionals wanting to have a bigger impact in the world. A self-confessed agent-of-change, Andrew loves working with people who know that the status quo is not enough. Andrew is currently based in Luxembourg.
Mary Beth Shewan, MS, CPCC, MCC
Master of Science, Career Counseling, Georgia State University
Mary Beth is a Certification Program Leader, Client Game Leader, and Orientation Call Leader for CTI. She is a Lifestyle Entrepreneur who has been a professional coach for 13+ years, and owner of Wholelife Coaching. Mary Beth inspires her students and clients to create their lives and businesses in accord with their essence; a real life example for those who are looking to expand their consciousness through self-love, compassion, and intuition, awakening the grounded, integrated leader in each individual. A teacher of teachers, Mary Beth’s greatest joy is to facilitate the growth in those who are here to serve humanity.
Abi Shilon, MBA, CPCC, PCC
Master of Business Administration, University of Derby
Trained as an engineer, Abi has 27 years of experience in high tech. During this career Abi managed teams that developed equipment and software for international telecommunication companies and managed R&D, marketing and business development groups. Abi is an entrepreneur, coach and a leader who founded CTI-Israel in 2003. As a coach, Abi works with entrepreneurs, high tech organizations, executives and mid-level corporate managers, and community leaders. He also facilitates groups in effective leadership, communication skills and vision creation. Abi is a seasoned clarinet player, playing mostly classical chamber music with amateur ensembles.
Andrea Sigetich, MS, CPCC, MCC
Master of Science in Human Resources Management from the University of Utah.
Andrea brings more than 3 decades of management and leadership development experience to her work as a consultant, coach, author, and mentor. Before opening SageCoach in 1997, she held senior leadership positions in Fortune 500 technology organizations. Andrea coaches leaders, develops leadership strategies, and trains coaching skills in both large and small organizations. She enthusiastically pursues hiking, kayaking, and skiing from her home in Bend, Oregon. To bring balance to her life, Andrea has twice stored all her belongings to go on the road—once for four months and once for nine months. Her future will include more long-term hiking adventures and springer spaniels.
Inge Simons, MBA, MsC, CPCC, PCC
Inge brings close to 20 years of international corporate experience to coaching and training engagements and is currently running three companies. Being passionate about bringing more diversity to the boardroom, Inge works with both Fortune 500 and leading edge companies and to make a difference. She dances in English, French, German and Flemish. Inge is the Chief Wizard of a clan which includes daughter Lola, son Louis, and her husband along with 3 flatcoated retrievers and 4 cats. The family is on the move in Switzerland, Austria and Belgium.
Marla Morein Skibbins, CPCC, MCC
Marla has been coaching and training since 1996. Marla is a passionate advocate for entrepreneurs, managers and leaders in organizations thriving in their work and in their lives. Her coaching is an unusual blend of business savvy and spiritual perspective. She knows the ins and outs of being a successful business person and the pitfalls a professional may encounter while developing their business. She is founder of MyFullPractice.com a company dedicated to coaches building a thriving coaching business. Marla resides in Sea Ranch on the Sonoma coast in California and coaches and trains internationally.
Pam Solberg-Tapper, MHSA, CPCC, PCC
Masters Degree in Health Services Administration, University of St Francis
As an internationally experienced coach and consultant, Pam provides the tools and spark to help her clients articulate their vision, and improve their performance as well as their quality of life. Pam is the President of Coach for Success, Inc., which provides coaching and consulting in the following areas: visioning, executive level leadership development, on-boarding, 360 administration/action planning, transition and change, and organizational development. Pam is dedicated to working with leaders that make a positive impact with humanity, the environment or with animals. Her quest is to run a marathon on all 7 continents. As of 2009, she has completed North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Antarctica. Only Asia and Africa left.
David Storkholm, CPCC, PCC
David is specializes in coaching and leadership training. He creates powerful spaces for learning that explores the potential, talent and self leadership. David combines his artistic background as a musician, his education at the internationally acclaimed leadership program KaosPilots and his CTI training into a cocktail of hands on experience, intuition, curiosity, knowledge and creativity. As a team leader at the KaosPilots, an organization where the aim is to create the frames where young, creative minds become leaders, David enjoys the opportunity to support young potential step into their dreams. David lives in Denmark with his wife and two children.
Jeremy Stover, CPCC
Jeremy has a special talent for working with young, visionary leaders, new managers, and executives in the high-tech and software industry. He provides a fresh perspective to individuals and teams working in fast-paced, high-stress environments. He understands the challenges of leading or being a member of a virtual team that spans the globe and is able to help his clients communicate more effectively and achieve tangible results. Jeremy is a principal in IdeaTribe, a company focused on helping companies communicate more effectively and develop stronger relationships, and is on the faculty at the Coaches Training Institute. Jeremy currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, Elyse.
Anat Treister-Goren, Ph.D., CPCC, PCC, ORSCC
Anat specializes in executive coaching, individual and collaborative leadership development, relationship and team coaching. Her diverse background includes an extensive academic career in the field of brain and language processing, communicative deficits in schizophrenia, serving as an executive in technology R&D, and marketing and business development, and professional acting and singing. Anat created the Hebrew version for the Co-Active Coaching book leading a local team to clearly rewrite the model for the local culture. She is a full time coach and leader with a focus on executive coaching, women in leadership positions, people in crossroads, and personal development.
Susan Valdiserri, MS, PCC, CPCC
Master of Science, Managerial Communication, Northwestern University
Susan’s professional career has spanned various line and management positions in engineering, sales, consulting, information technology services, marketing, and HR business units with a Fortune 100 Information Technology Company. Her current focus is coaching sales leaders and teams and developing and delivering learning programs for the same audience. She brings her leadership and coaching experience from various business disciplines and academia to help her clients develop higher emotional intelligence and leadership impact. Susan is passionate about unleashing the power of teams through collaboration, and revealing the heart of leaders through authentic connection. Susan believes that holistic health and wellness are key to staying present and engaged in life.
Mai Vu, CPCC, MA
Masters in Management from John F. Kennedy University
Mai is a combination of Eastern and Western cultures. She is one of CTI’s senior leaders and the first female Asian certified co-active coach in the world. As a natural born pioneer and entrepreneur she has founded two coaching and leadership development companies and is currently the Chief Inspiration Officer for www.youplus.com. Mai has exceptional ability to grow people. Her belief and approach is that knowing how to lead is not enough, rather one must also grow others into leaders. This is the key to creating a dynamic, thriving, and high performing world.
Emma Wheat, CPCC
Emma is a highly skilled developer of people, facilitating the growth, learning and well being of individuals and their teams. Emma works with teams and individuals in the corporate world to identify strengths and challenges together with understanding and addressing issues that hold them back from outstanding performance. The result is an increase in both positivity and productivity, creating relationships that produce inspiring results. Emma blends her past experiences of teacher and corporate management in the events arena, with powerful coaching to create changes within leaders at all levels. Her background as an educator, board director, leader, and facilitator of workshops allows her to work towards synergy and change for her clients to lead their lives from a place of conviction, not fear.
David Wikander, CHT, CPCC, PCC
David is always one for adventure, exploring and diversity. Having studied and practiced in a wide range of disciplines has given David a renaissance spirit. With over 25 years experience leading personal growth workshops and leadership development as the focus of his previous whitewater rafting company, David works with individuals, couples, and teams, and is trained as a relationship systems coach. David’s work is about helping his clients feel empowered in their lives, and maintain healthy conscious relationships, while being in balance with body, mind and spirit.
Signy Wilson, MIR, CPCC, PCC
Masters of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Queen’s University, Kingston ON
Signý brings her dynamic enthusiasm and focused directness to her work as a coach and workshop leader. Placing high value on honoring people and their life paths, Signý has developed diverse experience in identifying and working with human potential, drawing out excellence in all people. A visionary, Signý has presented illuminating workshops in an authentic and engaging way for over 10 years. In speaking from her heart, she encourages and inspires both groups and individuals to see how they are capable of amazing things. Signý’s passion for people coupled with her survival of cancer, sparks her fiercely held perspective that every human life is precious. She combines the power of fun, faith and ease to create and re-establish focus and balance in people’s personal and business lives.
Elizabeth Woodbridge, CPCC, PCC
Elizabeth’s specialty is working with individuals and teams to develop effective communication and leadership skills to consciously create their desired results using practical tools for a fast-paced and rapidly evolving world. She has been developing and leading workshops in personal development, wellness, leadership and coaching for the past 15 years. Her professional experience includes Executive Director of non-profit organizations, board development, special events coordination, sales and public relations. She is grateful to her own coach for his support in going forward to fulfill a dream of moving from the USA to Paris where she is joyfully based.
Sabina Wyss, MCC, CPCC
Lehrerpaten (Degree) in Education, Language, and Psychology from Lehrerseminar University, Bern Switzerland
Devoted to supporting clients and groups in finding and living their life purpose, Sabina coaches with warmth, fierceness and humor in Europe, America and Africa. She has trained in Europe and the U.S. as a coach, vision quest guide, holistic health professional and teacher. Sabina divides her life between her homes in Switzerland at the foot of the alps, in Colorado in the Redrock-Sandcanyons, and near the ocean in San Diego. She leads groups into the Sahara desert by camel back on vision quests and on foot into canyons of the U.S. Southwest for life changing coaching-nature-adventures. Sabina leads a foundation for the nomads of the Sahara desert and co-stewards Sage Canyon Ranch in Southwest Colorado, a place for nature based consciousness evolution.
