Henry brings a wealth of experience to the leadership program, as a founder of the Co-Active Leadership Program, a designer of the program, and a program leader. For most of his adult life Henry has been designing and creating programs that put people into powerful learning experiences. The creative beginning was the Actors Information Project in New York. As vice president of program development he created a variety of workshops and programs to help new actors succeed in their craft and the business of acting. Henry was one of the first professional life coaches in the 1980's and in 1992 turned his creativity to training coaches. He is co-founder and creative director for The Coaches Training Institute where he brings his creative skills to workshop design. He is also co-author of the book, "Co-Active Coaching."

Karen was the founder and former director of the San Francisco Learning Annex, creating learning opportunities for adults in a wide variety of interests. If there is a theme that runs through Karen's career life it is a burning desire to help people live and love life to the fullest. She began coaching people to excel in their lives in the late 1980's and as co-founder of The Coaches Training Institute has been instrumental in the growth and development of Co-Active Coaching as a powerful force in the world. Karen is also a founder of the Co-Active Leadership Program, a designer of the leadership program, and a program leader. In addition, she is a frequent presenter at the annual International Coach Federation conference and is recognized as one of the profession's leading coaches.

Mary has over 28 years of management, training, human resources and coaching experience in a variety of diverse corporate settings. Her philosophy is to have others identify and cultivate the leader in them, to have the courage to follow their instincts, and the integrity and caring that enables them to mobilize a team. As a corporate coach, she is especially attuned to the demands of a changing, fast-paced environment and works with her clients to excel in whatever comes up in work and life. She offers breadth and depth to a partnership with sensitivity to workplace issues, knowing that individuals have what it takes to succeed, and the foresight to recognize that corporate cultures will change dramatically in the years to come.

Pat's passion and dream is to sail around the world with his family. This is one way he inspires others that cross his path to make choices in their lives that will allow them to truly follow their hearts. Pat is a leader for the Co-Active Leadership Program, and a Co-Founder of Dolphin Leadership Inc., a company dedicated to uncovering the passion that lives uniquely in every human being. Since 1998 he has coached and delivered programs inside companies like IBM, Mellon Bank, Google, Gulf States Paper, PAX Scientific, and others. His insight, energy, and humor empower individuals and organizations to take actions that are in line with the legacy they want to leave. Pat’s family’s departure date is the fall of 2008. He will be flying to the Co-Active Leadership Program from wherever he is on his circumnavigation, bringing with him the inspiration and courage of his personal “Hero’s Journey”

Hide is a natural born trail-blazer. He is not afraid to take risks for the sake of achieving his vision. He is also known for his persistence and perseverance. All of these qualities have culminated in his endeavor to take Co-Active Coaching to non-English speaking country when few believed it would be possible. He founded CTI Japan in 2000, which has become the most successful CTI business outside of North America. He now lives in Scotland with his family in pursuit of his bigger vision. He is a man of integrity and believes that one of the key ingredients of being a leader is about ‘walking the talk.’

Gwen began a life of play building Muppets for Sesame Street. Since leaving the "street", she has found countless ways to make transformation delightful. As a coach, writer, teacher and organizational consultant, Gwen offers an irresistible invitation to our unbounded true nature, enabling leaders to widen and deepen their playground. She has pioneered the field of transpersonal play which she teaches at numerous Bay Area institutes including Spirit Rock Meditation Center, JFK University and The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She has also enjoyed being published widely on the subject. Among other random distinctions (and getting more random everyday), Gwen wrote the official study guide for the popular film "What the #@$% Do We Know?" and sports an Emmy Award as a television writer. In all her spare time, she co-designed, and now leads, Come Alive! The Artful Play of Coaching. Gwen is happiest bringing de-light to (de)dark areas of our lives and world, which she has learned through her own frequent underworld journeys accompanied always by Garbanzo, the fearless wonder pug.

Since he was an 11-year old captain of the Campus School crossing guards, Sam has actively engaged in guiding people across the street and beyond for many years. As founder of Soulutions Leadership and Coaching, Sam provides customized, experientially based leadership development programs and coaching to executives, managers, teams and individuals around the world. A Master Certified Coach, Sam packs a wealth of coaching and coach training experience in his toolkit. He is a senior faculty member for the Coaches Training Institute, where he has trained people in coaching skills on three continents, from such diverse settings as corporate boardrooms, federal prisons, and everything in between. Formerly a psychotherapist and social worker, Sam has extensive experience in in-patient psychiatric settings, day treatment programs, counseling centers, and his own long-standing private practice, where he specialized in family and couples therapy. When not engrossed in his work, Sam can be found enjoying his family, messing around in boats, biking the back roads, or playing his guitar.

Jeff coaches and plays with people who yearn for bold, Technicolor lives. He has been involved in coaching and human growth work for the past 12 years. Prior to coming to the world of coaching and leading for the Co-Active Leadership Program, Jeff worked in the field of language teaching and Chinese/English interpreting. His experience living in East and Southeast Asia for three years ripped apart his world view and taught him to love things like seaweed, good directions and fine, fine storytelling. In addition to his own coaching practice, Jeff travels internationally for the Coaches Training Institute to teach coaching workshops.

Elaine is a coach, workshop leader and organizational consultant joyfully living out a "portfolio career" model. She is Director of Curriculum at the Coaches Training Institute and manages the training and development of CTI leaders. You'll find her at her most excited in front of Co-Avtive Leadership groups or CTI courses around the world. Elaine is particularly a champion of those leaders approaching the third trimester of their lives and committed to becoming the conscious wisdomkeepers of our future. Elaine's academic preparation and her bent is Organizational Psychology. Her corporate experience includes senior mangement positions at MCI Telecommunications and AMEX Life Assurance (as an American Express Company) and consulting postitions with numerous corporations and non-profit organizations. She is naturally powerful, insightful and sometimes silly celebrator of learning!

Anne Grete models the power of the feminine and brings this to her role as leader in the Co-Active Leadership Program. Her presence fosters tremendous safety and openness to individuals and groups and deepens their personal discovery process. She is passionate about the possibilities of people coming together and forming communities to effect immense positive change in one other and the world. Anne Grete is a workshop leader for the Coaches Training Institute, and prior to becoming a coach in 1996, she worked as a counselor in a variety of settings including a women's prison, secondary schools, and a mental health day treatment facility. She has also worked as a massage therapist and has held a life long interest in the healing arts.

Caroline is a workshop leader, coach, and author who works with individuals and corporations to unite passion, performance, and joy. As a leader of the Co-Active Leadership Program, her great joy is to witness participants come fully into their authentic selves--and into their creative power to lead change in the world. Caroline has led coaching workshops for Coaches Training Institute since 2000. Before becoming a coach, she had 20 years’ experience as a copywriter, journalist, and ghost author of 13 books, mostly for psychologists. Caroline would rather dance and sing than eat; she believes that ecstatic experience is as essential to human health as daily vitamins.

LA has been striding down a path of leadership all her life. She is an unconventional woman with a wicked sense of humor. She dazzles and surprises while leading her participants with grace and integrity. LA admits to being an intuitive introvert who works from the inside out. You can almost observe LA connecting to her inner voice….and boy is it powerful. She takes risks while being light, caring, and pushing hard. She will do whatever it takes for you to be your best and to go where you haven’t gone before. She has a stately presence that creates safety and trust. Her deep passion is for people to embody mastery and knows that mastery is unique shows up in fascinating ways. She is a combination of the Pied Piper and the Wicked Witch of the West. Everything she says is forceful, direct and evocative. Not one to waste words, her career has spanned 40 years of service in the field of human relations. Currently she is working with Fortune 100 companies around the world to help leaders own their own power and style from the inside out. Her mission is to identify and serve a new generation of global leaders.

Patrick is an author, coach and trainer working with executives and entrepreneurs on questions of personal effectiveness and leadership. Patrick loves leading leadership and coaching because he has found them to be incredibly effective as a method of interacting with people that has them learn how to be more of everything they want in their personal lives and careers. It has people learn how to live and lead at 100 %. Patrick brings with him twenty-five years of experience as the CEO, general manager and owner of several successful small businesses in a variety of industries. He has looked at human nature through the lens and experience of being a Buddhist monk in Asia for one year. He brings the integration of this experience, ancient teachings and modern applications with him as a coach and trainer.

Kyoko brings the power of subtlety, intuition, and truth-telling to her work in training leaders around the world. Her approach is symbolized by the moon, always reflecting the brilliant light of others back to the world, while directly influencing strong tidal currents everywhere. From this, she passionately engages leaders in embracing their own light and shadow as they are, thus enabling them to bring their true gifts forth as leaders. Kyoko is a senior faculty member for the Coaches Training Institute Japan, where she has developed leaders and coaches since 2001. Prior to her engagement with CTI, she was a human resources consultant, specializing in management assessment and leadership development. As a lecturer at several colleges in Japan, Kyoko specialized in intercultural communication, conflict resolution, and team building. She enjoys hiking in nature and traveling around the world.

Art's playful blend of humor and deep respect for all that's entailed in "being human" are at the heart of his work as a consultant and coach focused on putting transformative learning into action for individuals, teams, and organizations. Art has worked as a leadership and organization development consultant at a range of organizations including Fidelity Investments, Brystol-Myers Squibb, Princeton University. He is a founding partner of Coaching Hall International based in Bogota, Colombia (a venture that emerged from his own co-active leadership experience). Art earned his doctoral degree from Columbia University in 2006 from the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College. His doctoral research focused on essential aspects of the co-active leadership experience. Art is currently a Vice President at the Coaches Training Institute.

Rick is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and a Master Certified Coach (MCC) as designated by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Rick is a sought-after leader in the human development field and works internationally as an experiential keynote speaker, workshop/seminar leader, and as a personal leadership coach. He is a senior trainer for The Coaches Training Institute in San Francisco, a world-known coach training and leadership development global organization. As a co-founder of both It’s All Made Up, inc. and The Bigger Game, Rick has delivered over 300 Co-Active Coaching/Leadership workshops, Bigger Game workshops, and conference keynote sessions in both the public and private sectors, including Amtrak, BP Amoco, Disney, Fairview Hospitals, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, JPMorganChase, Korn/Ferry International, Marriott Corporation, The International YMCA, and Wells Fargo Bank. Rick’s personal “Bigger Game” is to develop and enhance leadership skills within individuals, organizations and communities, for the sake of a more fulfilled and sustainable world – something for which our entire planet hungers.

Okokon is a change management consultant, spiritual director, coach, educator and author. For over twenty years, Okokon has walked the spiritual path and in the process has discovered valuable insights to healing, transformation and wisdom. He has also journeyed with individuals, groups, communities and organizations on their own paths to spiritual discovery, healing and excellence. Five years ago, Okokon founded his own organizational effectiveness consulting firm. Its work is international in scope and covers several areas including leadership development, intercultural effectiveness, change management, high performing team development, conflict management, executive coaching, program design, organizational culture assessment and public speaking. Okokon’s experiences include tenures as Executive Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Health, assistant professor at two Universities, certified Clinical Pastoral Educator and chaplain in two health care systems, and pastoral leader in a wide variety of settings in the US and Nigeria.

John has led, designed and delivered leadership programs nationally and internationally for companies including Deloitte and Touche, Wells Fargo, Marriott Hotels and BP Amoco. Prior to his career in coaching and training, John spent fifteen years in corporations. John's vision includes work environments in which "co-workers call out the best in each other and are proactive, responsible, and willing to risk, moving themselves and the company to higher performance."

Sue is the Executive & Artistic Director of ImprovWorks, The San Francisco Center for Improvisation, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping the connection between play and learning alive and well. A skilled teacher in ImprovWorks' public workshop program, Sue is also a dynamic corporate facilitator, engaging speaker, author, delightful "playmeister" of both the public and corporate Recess! programs, and the director and a regular performer with San Francisco's longest-running improvisational theater company, "Flash Family."

Kulu's the "World Beat Rhythm Circle" is a dynamic, interactive community celebration. It utilizes the ancient elements of drumming, dance, song, and storytelling in a fresh and innovative setting. Kulu is a talented and engaging performer (he's provided the beat for Kenny Loggins, B.B. King, Cher, and Jimmy Buffet among others) and educator. His high-spirited presentations enhance team-building, create harmony and respect, and leave participants feeling uplifted and inspired. He has guided groups in settings as diverse as hospitals, schools, corporations, elder-care and correctional facilities across the country.
Learn more at www.worldbeatcircle.com.

Tom is the founder of The Next Level, an organization dedicated to serving groups, individuals, communities and organizations in consciously living life in harmony with the yearnings of the heart and soul. A powerful and dynamic leader, Tom is known for his ability to teach people to be with and step through their fears and unconscious limitations to a greater expression of self. Through his experiential workshops and ropes course programs, he brings people present in the moment, out of their heads and into their bodies, and opens them to a new dimension of awareness from which they can truly transform and live their lives.
Learn more at www.tnextlevel.com.