Jeff Altman

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter*is a career and leadership coach who worked in executive search for more than 4 decades assisting companies with hiring successful talent. Now as a career and leadership coach, he assists leaders to conduct effective job searches, career transitions, as well as helping people be successful with their organization.

Jeff holds an MSW from Fordham University and several years of post-graduate psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Modern Psychoanalysis. In addition, he is a Leader Emeritus for The ManKind Project, an international men’s organization that assists men with living lives of integrity, accountability, generosity, and service.

He is also the author of several books and courses about job search including his most recent, “The Ultimate Job Interview Framework,” is the host of the #1 podcast in Apple Podcasts for job search, “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” as well as JobSearchTV.com, available on YouTube, Amazon, Roku and through BingeNetworks.tv for Apple TV and 90+ smart sets.

Kerri Balliet

Milwaukee, WI

Kerri Balliet is a certified transformational coach. She works with clients to transform themselves from the inside out giving them the opportunity to live more meaningful, joyful, and authentic lives so they can achieve their bad-ass dreams instead of sitting on the sidelines.  After transitioning out of a 35-year corporate career, she started Red Baron Coaching in 2018, and has worked with many corporations and individuals to help people connect to their authentic self. That’s what creates freedom, alignment, joy, and fulfillment. Kerri brings decades of personal and professional experience, along with impressive training and credentials to her work as a transformational coach.

In 2019, she received her Transformational Leadership certificate from Cardinal Stritch, and her ACC transformational coaching accreditation from Coachville. In 2020, she received her certification as a Higher Ground Leadership® coach with The Secretan Center as well as her PCC transformational coaching accreditation.

Superpowers:

Life coaching, leadership coaching, DiSC and 5 Behaviors Authorized Partner; workshop facilitator, speaker. Helping you to find and harness your power; understand and build your authenticity and uncover your limiting beliefs.

Jodee Bock

Fargo, ND

Jodee Bock is a Thought Leader and a dynamic communicator and leadership expert who is committed to having REAL Conversations that matter with people who matter.

Jodee is a coach, consultant, speaker, author and facilitator, and everything she provides for clients and organizations has as its core the concept of REAL: Radical, Energized, Authentic, and Learning-focused.

Whether she is working with individuals or corporate teams, her messaging can be customized to address specific desired outcomes in the areas of Leadership, Communication, and Accountability.

She is the author or co-author of eight books including P.O.W.E.R. Tools @ Work, which creates a foundation for helping leaders build engaged and connected cultures. She offers both conversational tools and experiential tools to challenge and support people and teams to go beyond their current results to creating environments where people will feel honored and inspired.

Jodee is a Higher Ground Leadership Pathfinder, and also holds certifications in Life Purpose and Career Coaching, Extreme Leadership facilitation, and Job Relations facilitation.

Jodee hosts a weekly podcast, Circle Up & Get REAL, where she interviews thought leaders and offers new ways to consider common challenges and opportunities. She also leads a private Facebook group called Get REAL (https://www.facebook.com/groups/getrealmovement) where members share ideas and challenges. Jodee hosts a weekly talk show called the Orange Chair Dialogue where she interviews a guest or two on Tuesday evenings, and also the Drop-In Dialogues on Thursday evenings where anyone is welcome to drop in and share ideas without an agenda.

Jodee enjoys singing with her barbershop chorus and her position as head scorekeeper for the North Dakota State men’s and women’s basketball teams.

Superpowers:

Facilitating Dialogue; Leading Mastermind Gatherings; Engaging Audiences; Listening; Reflecting

Nancy Chrisman

Nancy is the founder of Emergent Resource Solutions, a certified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), specializing in strategic development consulting and leadership coaching. An ICF certified PCC, Nancy is passionate about transforming organizational culture through coaching. She brings more than 25 years of corporate, nonprofit, and hard-knocks experience to those she serves. She leads, lives and learns from her core values of dignity and love; striving to share both with everyone she meets.

Penny Cowden, MPA, CFRE, FAHP

Portland, OR

Penny has specialized in not-for-profit philanthropy for twenty-five years holding executive level positions at major health systems and institutions in Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Arizona. Specialty areas include strategic planning, leadership development and coaching.

Penny earned her bachelors from Portland State University and masters from Washington State University. She holds the CFRE designation and has earned advanced certification as a Fellow in the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy (FAHP).

Superpowers:

Not for Profit Board Leadership, NFP Strategy and communications, Counseling on NFP issues, opportunities and structure

Nick Devlin

I am a father, husband, life coach, entrepreneur and former Army Ranger.  My journey from hardcore punk rocker to engineer to military to corporate manager to life coach has been an incredible adventure. I am a lifelong student of transformation, well versed in the process of letting go and reinvention.

I coach individuals and leaders of organizations who are tired of going through the motions, and seek more adventure and aliveness. They want to create something bigger for themselves and others to create a better world. I facilitate deep connection and transformation with teams and organizations through connecting to heart and allowing all voices to be heard.

Life is an adventure. And we are here to come fully alive and explore it to the fullest, together. By bringing the spirit of love, play and adventure to our lives and our organizations, we can create a more loving, joyful and thriving world.

Margaret Dixon

Margaret Dixon is passionate about contributing to successful business and leadership transformations with CEOs and entrepreneurs through executive coaching and think tank facilitation. She is dedicated to helping successful leaders achieve breakthrough results for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.  Her 30-year career includes starting companies and growing them to extraordinary success. Margaret’s last start-up achieved over one billion in annual sales in just four years. She is a visionary thinker and dynamic leader dedicated to serving others. Margaret guides leaders to uncover clear vision and purpose and align with excellence and core values. She is dedicated to giving back and has been recognized for her philanthropic endeavors. Specialties: • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Think Tank Facilitation • Clarifying Vision and Purpose • Team Selection & Performance • Business Start ups & Growth Strategies • Social Entrepreneurship

Margaret loves learning, reading, photography, yoga and nature including hiking, horseback riding, kayaking and swimming/snorkeling.  She loves to travel and to return to her home in the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, where she enjoys all the natural beauty of Colorado.

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined!”

Lynnette Embree

Winchester, VA

Life and business coach Lynnette Embree started Success for Life Coaching in 2001. She gained her certifications through Success Unlimited Network® and CoachVille and carries the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) designation from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Lynnette holds an MBA from Shenandoah University, teaching at Lord Fairfax Community College as an adjunct instructor for fifteen years. Lynnette is a certified practitioner in: DISC, Motivators, EIQ-2, Hartman Value Profile, Learning Styles and Performance Gap Indicator from Assessments 24×7 with Dr. Tony Alessandra and the F.I.E.R.C.E. Entrepreneurs Program, designed for micro and small business owners to assist them in running a more effective and efficient business. Lynnette is the President-Elect of the Kiwanis Club of Winchester and will be President during the 100 th Anniversary of the Club. She enjoys reading, running and spending time with family and friends.

Superpowers:

Thinking of solutions outside of the normal options; detail-oriented; small business owner who has worked with many small business owners/entrepreneurs;  

Lorraine Esposito

Lorraine Esposito is a professional life coach, owner of The Center for Coaching Mastery at Westchester Community College in New York, and nationally recognized author of The Peacemaker Parent, Solving Problems for Today, Teaching Independence for a Lifetime,  Lorraine Esposito has been featured in broadcast, radio, print, and online media and is a public speaker regarding personal leadership to community and school-based audiences.  Lorraine lives in New York with her husband and two teenage sons.

Lauren Flanigan

Daniel Griffiths, Toronto, ON, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daniel is known for his courageous leadership, authenticity and compassion.  Daniel’s creativity, empathy and curiosity augment his ability to build inspired teams, partnerships and business.  With over twenty years of business leadership and sales experience, he is committed to inspiring wholeness in the world.

Certified as a Higher Ground Leadership® Pathfinder in 2010 and again in 2021, Daniel is an advocate and champion of values-based leadership.  Daniel weaves the CASTLE® principles into life to empower the people around him to realize the full potential of their gifts, which consistently delivers the right results.

Superpowers:

Leadership development; Operational effectiveness and efficiency master; Sales strategy and enablement; Culture transformation catalyst;

Kevork Garabedian

An entrepreneur of 24 years, Kevork Garabedian is a certified professional coach dedicated to helping people and organizations. Having built and operated multiple businesses he has inspired his teams by creating an atmosphere of trust and support. Kevork also has a passion for art. His studies of various partner dances led him to understand the importance of human connection and this led him to develop a non-profit which taught the basics of human connection to elementary school students.

Kevork believes corporations are an integral part of society and has dedicated himself to the development of empowering and joyful work culture. This led him to The Bellwether Effect. After reading Lance’s book he immediately saw the wisdom of The Higher Ground Leadership® techniques and now uses them to help people and corporations.

Susan Grindle

Ellensburg, WA

Susan holds a Masters Degree, Organizational Development and Analysis from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and doctoral studies in Organizational Behavior from The Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.  She has served as a professor at Michigan State University, Central Washington University, Western Washington University and Seattle University in undergraduate and graduate level business and organization development courses.  Susan has published three books, one for teachers in classroom teaching methods, one on human resource trends, and one on mergers and acquisitions.

Susan worked for twenty years as a consultant with a premier international consulting and training firm from Princeton, NJ. Her clients included companies such as CNN/Atlanta, Chrysler Motors, British Airways, Volkswagen/Mexico, Corning Glass, Red Lobster, In Focus/Proxima, VNU/Holland, Praxair/Canada, and National Petrochemical/Thailand. She is currently CEO of HopeSource, a private, non-profit, Community Action Agency in Ellensburg, WA.

Susan holds certifications in project management, organization diagnostics, change readiness, team building, leadership development, true cost analysis, strategy formulation, job-skill analysis, technical writing, and training-the-trainer.

Superpowers:

Realistic Organizational Alignment, Project Clarity, Rational Integration

Jill Haas

Howell, MI

After three successful careers in automotive, sales and nursing, Jill has extensive experience in several bodies of work, ranging from the auto body to the human body, and is now delving into the whole human: Body, mind, and soul. Her clients are “Sensitive”, heart-centered humans who may identify as empaths, intuitives, creatives, coaches and healers. They are not only serious about creating inner peace and freedom now but are also ready to do what it takes to unlock their full potential and experience what they truly desire.

Jill Haas, a Professional Certified Coach, Certified Equine Guided Learning (EGL) Facilitator/Coach provides therapeutic, multidimensional coaching in her programs resulting in an immersion of deep inner healing and transformation.

Superpowers:

Transformational Whole Human Life Coaching: Releasing limiting beliefs/behaviors, Veteran Life Coaching, 

Lynnea Hagen

San Jose, CA

Lynnea Hagen, MS, provides holistic coaching, teaching and retreat services to leaders and their teams. As owner of The Abundance Company, Lynnea is an international speaker, best-selling author, entrepreneur and collaborative leader. Lynnea is a featured guest for TV, radio, and online media, and hosted her own live-talk radio program, “Abundance Leadership”. She facilitated and coached  virtual boards of directors comprised of company presidents and CEOs.

She holds certifications in Life, Group, Small Business, and Executive coaching, as well as business planning and 90-day sales plans. She has coached CEO’s, directors and company presidents in a wide range of organizations, large and small.  Lynnea’s professional credentials include a management background with Disney and Pacific Bell/AT&T, and employee search firms. Clients include H.P., Cisco, Intel, The Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Club of America, and dozens of small businesses ranging from machining companies, construction, MLM, financial, and legal.  She holds undergraduate degrees in psychology and sociology, post-grad certificate in Info Systems management, and an MS degree in HR/Organizational Development.  Lynnea started coaching groups in 1987, which ignited her passion for helping others get out of their own way, and achieve their dreams

She loves music, dancing, traveling, hiking.  She resides in San Jose, CA.

Superpowers:

Liberator from "stuckness", Bringer of balance, Facilitator for success and sales plans, Clarifier of challenges, Grower of leaders, Partner for your journey, Guide for your growth, An objective, new pair of eyes, Booster from "mouse vision" to "eagle vision", Cheerleader for achievements

Nancy E James

Harlingen and Abilene, TX

Nancy E James, ICF-PCC is Chief Executive Coach of The BayPalm Groupe and she became a CoachVille Certified Coach in September, 2007.

Nancy has logged in excess of 2000 hours as an ICF-Professional Certified Coach (PCC) since November, 2007, which positions her in the top percent of International Coach Federation coaches both nationally and internationally.

Coming from the project management and software industries Nancy sold large accounts and was wildly successful in her game of sales and marketing. She worked with Fortune 500 companies like GE, TX Utilities, Texas Park and Wildlife, EDS, Nortel, TX Dot, and to name a few.

Nancy is a successful leader who inspires others with good communication, presentation skills, with the ability to gain the trust of the client.  Working with Businesses, Professional Development, Training, Facilitating, Assessments, Coaching, and Group Coaching Nancy’s desire is to inspire her clients to reach their greatness by designing their business and life by playing from their Strengths and using the CASTLE® Principles..

ICF – Return on Investment – Coaching generates learning and clarity for forward action with a commitment to measurable outcomes. The vast majority of companies (86%) say they at least made their investment back.

Superpowers:

An Excective Coach who came from a successful sales career in software. I have been coaching since 2003, and many of my clients are wanting to grow their sales territories and become highly successful. They seek leadership, Emotional Intellengence, Strengths, New Account Development, Marketing, use of Sales Software to put them at the top of their game. In this process they learn to live and use the CASTLE Principles which carries them well in to the future.

Sue Lindsay, Queenstown, New Zealand

Accidental researcher, startup survivor, professional director, Master Executive coach, retained by leaders as a mentor, coach and strategist, Sue Lindsay is the CEO of Real Insight Now, an insights and strategy consultancy working with clients in New Zealand and Australia.

The unique approach Sue’s team brings to research places them at the cutting edge of talent and customer insight. Their work informs strategy and focuses leadership. This unique level of insight combined with her wide experience including as CEO of a Top 200 organisation, cofounder and CEO of a tech-based startup and extensive Governance experience mean that Sue is the perfectly aligned with senior executives, entrepreneurs and company directors serious about inspiring the full potential of their people, their business and the impact that both can have on creating a more inspiring future.

A shameless advocate for advancing the role of women, Sue partnered with Bank of New Zealand in delivering her Women in Business program to over 5500 women. Her Feminine Perspective research project continues to challenge the way business thinks about brand and leading diversity across the gender gap. Sue is the Founding President of The International Women’s Forum in New Zealand and serves on the Presidents’ Global Council.

A true pathfinder Sue lives and breathes authentic and inspirational leadership– she believes that now, more than ever, we are all being called to leadership – that this is not optional, that it is imperative – and not for the faint of heart. Sue is the perfect mentor, coach or strategist for leaders committed to developing their potential and impact as inspirational leaders, who create cultures, brands and businesses that make the world a better place.

Simon Lee

Simon Lee is Managing Partner and Master Executive Coach of BRIEF Academy. He is one of Asia’s pioneer executive coaches specializing in Higher Ground Leadership® and Solution-Focused Brief Coaching.

As a leader in cutting-edge corporate coaching, he has helped many clients in Asia, including senior executives, business owners and entrepreneurs increase their effectiveness by using coaching as a development tool to drive business results. He leverages on his 25 years of corporate experience to help leaders and their teams align their leadership practices with their desired outcomes.

His dream is to illuminate the strengths of others to inspire the positive change they want to see for themselves and the people they touch.

Lynda Meeks

Destiny: To reveal the healing power of the divine feminine.

Character: An authentic masterful visionary healer.

Calling: To serve through empathy and conscious leadership.

Empathy, lifelong learning, development, mastery and conscious leadership enables Lynda to ultimately serve individuals that have been diagnosed with cancer. Lynda is an experienced Registered Nurse that specializes in oncology nursing and currently holds a management position at a Regional Cancer Centre.  She also teaches and coaches nurses in the specialty of oncology nursing, and works in the community as a lymphedema therapist, Reiki practitioner and health and well-being coach for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Advocacy and the empowerment of women ranks high on Lynda’s list of activities as she believes that it is the unlocking and power of feminine energy that will transform our world.

Lynda lives in Barrie, Ontario with her husband and two children and enjoys spending time at a vacation home on the coast of Portugal.

Eirini Metaxas

Milwaukee, WI

Eirini is a Transformational Coach who founded me2morph to offer the insights she has learned along her personal and professional journey. Eirini’s passion is to guide clients to achieve their dreams, with breathtaking results. Employing the spirit of play, she has led clients to overcome their struggles, clarify their goals, implement action plans and hold themselves accountable for their progress. The name me2morph derives from the Greek word metamorphosis and stands for the proposition that “I too can change.”

It was only in the process of overcoming her own challenges that Eirini learned to see life in a different light. Now she inspires others to do the same so they can tap into their inner resources and achieve their own personal breakthroughs.

Eirini received her CVPCC from Coachville. Peer Specialist Training with the Mental Health Association of Westchester introduced her to the use of engagement and reflective listening. This led to a professional position as director of life enrichment at an adult care facility, where she gave hope and joy to 74 residents, all with chronic mental health disabilities. For more than a decade, Eirini has volunteered to provide pet therapy, meditation, deep breathing, stress management and pastoral care services at local hospitals. Eirini’s first career was as a graphic designer, working with such major brands as American Airlines, Bloomingdales, Pierre Cardin, PGA Tours and Van Heusen.

Eirini created the “playshop” — Discover Your Inner Goddess — which she leads each summer in the Blue Zone of Ikaria, Greece. She presents her weekly podcast — Dancing through Life with Eirini — on Apple, Podbean and Spotify.

Superpowers:

Metamorphosis coaching, role playing, scenario planning, stress management, visualization, pivotal moment identification, Inner Freedom method, intuition, spirituality, retreat leading and change facilitation.4. With a little structure and a lot of imagination, I inspire my clients to bring their dreams into fruition.

Robin Mooney

Robin has 15 years of experience as a high performing Sales Executive in the Office Furniture Industry, with her most recent post at Herman Miller.  In addition to her role as Consultative Sales Professional, Robin has led numerous teams around the World of Work – the trends affecting businesses world-wide, including globalization, attraction and retention, generations at work, change communication and creating work environments as a business tool.  Her passion for inspirational transformation in the workplace led her training and certification in Higher Ground leadership including the CASTLE® Principles, 5 Dynamics, and ONE Dream®. Understanding the key business drivers of effectiveness, productivity and profitability, Robin connects the shift of learning one’s 5 Dynamics Profiles, team relationships and living the CASTLE® Principles in our day-to-day work with clients.  It is this connection that can make dramatic impacts on these and other business drivers.

Her entrepreneurial and corporate experience has provided deep insight into the hearts and souls of individuals, teams and communities that make up organizations of every size and scope. Robin’s mastery is using her relationship building skills to create a foundation for trust and permission space with teams and to engage them in respectful and authentic communication with each other. This foundation allows them the ability to begin creating inspirational and highly effective teams and loyal customers while living and passing on the torch of the CASTLE Principals.

Janet Palmer

Janet Palmer is an ICF Professional Certified Coach as well as a Board Certified Coach.  She holds a doctorate in psychology and is the owner of Dr. Janet Palmer International.  Janet is a retired school psychologist, and has been describes by many as an exceptional coach.  She has been a guest speaker at Winthrop University Hospital as a coach for families who are dealing with death and grief issues.  Janet has been featured on blog talk radio on many occasions, and has worked with companies recently utilizing Higher Ground Leadership® techniques learned in CoachVille’s™ Higher Ground Leadership® Coach Certification  with Lance Secretan. If you or your company wants to clarify your WHY, by all means look no more because Dr. Janet Palmer is the coach for you.

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Bill Richardson

Port Perry, Ontario, Canada

Bill’s calling is to foster kindness, collaboration and courage through inspiring leadership and lifelong learning. He comes by his nurturer voice naturally having spent the first 18 years of his life on his parent’s farm in southern Ontario, Canada. While the farm shaped his core values, his 50 + years of leading transformational change in both companies and individuals shaped his deep commitment to the idea that kindness, collaboration and courage matter, especially in today’s turbulent times.

Bill is a certified Higher Ground Leadership® Coach who naturally embodies and models the Higher Ground Leadership® sacred principles and Values-centered Leadership® techniques. He is particularly interested in persuading individuals in the last third of their life that, despite the outer evidence of aging, their inner authentic self can continue to evolve and blossom relatively unimpeded. By inspiring them to persist in manifesting their hopes and dreams, they will be able to live their life in a meaningful way with a genuine sense of peace, wisdom and fulfillment right up to the end. For Bill, Higher Ground Leadership® principles and values provide the blueprint for “a life well lived”.

Superpowers:

If you have spent a life accomplishing all your goals and yet feel incomplete or empty then I would love to meet you to discuss how to fill that void. Maybe you haven’t achieved all your goals and feel like you are constantly chasing that elusive feeling of satisfaction and joy, I can also offer you some guidance. 

Jim Rink

Naperville, IL

Jim owns a consulting firm focused on organizational effectiveness, business advising and coaching. With over 25 years in leadership, technology, and change management roles with a Fortune 100 company, he has an exceptional background as a personal mentor and coach, global industry leader, and active non-profit leader.  Combined with advanced degrees in education, business and engineering, Jim has a unique ability to help organizations clarify and resolve people, technology, and business-related issues. With many years spent supporting global teams, Jim is also an outstanding in-person and virtual meeting facilitator.

Superpowers:

Facilitation, business advising, operational improvement, executive / life coaching and career transition coaching

Len Rothman

Len owns an executive coaching and consulting firm, Leadership @ Work, in Atlanta and is a Certified Executive Coach and Certified High Ground Coach.  He coaches corporate leaders, executives and business owners to strategically address a variety of company, organizational and personal and professional objectives and issues.  Len’s 15 years of corporate diversity, equity and inclusion work are making significant impacts for organizations and individuals.  He applies his expertise in the neuroscience of conversation and leadership in his coaching work.

Len has an extensive corporate background with more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and senior leadership in large companies.  His experience includes international sales and marketing experience.  His ability to manage rapid growth, as well as reorganizing and re-missioning won him national recognition.

Len holds an MBA from Wharton Graduate School, an MA in psychology and organizational development from the University of West Georgia, and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Karen Senteio

Karen is a certified Executive Coach and Consultant with over 30 years’ experience in corporate and non-profit environments and owner of Karen Senteio Consulting where she specializes in courageous leadership. She works with leaders and organization ready to unapologetically harness and leverage their greatest power for their greatest good. She is a certified Brené Brown Dare to Lead™ and Daring Way™ Facilitator and partners with leaders and organizations looking to open their hearts and minds to a different way of leading. She works shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders and organizations to lean into vulnerability as a key lever to dramatically inspire their leadership practice and creating courageous organizations powered by connection, engagement and belonging. She believes in partnering with leaders to create their unique blueprint with dynamic toolkit for sustainable inspiration, resilience, advocacy, and impact so they can show up, be seen and lead brave.

Ellen Seward

Throughout life I have had a single-minded devotion to understanding what causes effective interaction. I spent seventeen years exploring and exercising that interest while holding various and leadership positions within two global research and development companies: Eli Lilly and Procter &Gamble. Stimulated by possibilities, in 1999 I founded an ethical think tank and review board, and, as CEO and leader through 2017 led the efforts to leverage global expertise and understanding in the industry, creating systems and processes for mutual exchange, effective decision-making, collaboration and engagement. My passion for the power of communication to create results and develop our self and others continues through several exciting activities.

First, since 2017 I have been Head of Knowledge Sharing at Knowledge Sharing and Engagement, a consultancy applying a development- and leadership-communication model to generate effectiveness and growth. Second, I provide leadership and development support and coaching for individuals and groups, and am creating development-communication tools and materials for publication. Third, I serve on the Board of Trustees for both The University of Cincinnati Center for Integrative Health and Beechwood Home for individuals with neurological injury/illness.

David Sherrod

Columbus, OH

David Sherrod’s 30-year career spans consulting and direct employment with start-ups, small businesses, government, and Fortune 20 companies.  Throughout these experiences, David has focused on helping individuals leverage their unique skills through significant improvements in their personal understanding and productivity.  He helps individuals and organizations of all sizes attain alignment between their purpose and actions to effectively impact their bottom line while strengthening their relationships with their team members and customers.  Client organizations include American Signature, Steve Smith & Associates, and Berrien | Faust Group, in addition to many individuals.  Partnering with Baton & Baton and Mindbeat, David is a coach to C-suite leaders of multinational organizations and their team members.

David holds professional certifications from Herrmann International (HBDI Practitioner) and the Project Management Institute (PMI-PMP).  He focused his Masters of Business Administration thesis on Learning Organizations, and has been applying his knowledge and experience to organizations and individuals ever since.  David’s other credentials include a CVPCC from the Center for Coaching Mastery at CoachVille, and a PCC from the International Coaching Federation.  He is also a Higher Ground Leadership® Certified Coach (The Secretan Center) and an instructor at the Center for Coaching Mastery at CoachVille.

Always challenging people to bring a spirit of play into their environments, Mr. Sherrod supports multiple charities with his bicycle — including century bicycle rides (100 miles) and antics like executing 10 daily workouts on a bicycle trainer sequentially in one day.  If the Columbus Crew SC or FC Barcelona soccer teams are playing, he’s loudly cheering them as near to the field as he can get.

Superpowers:

Helping you transform your world – change management for corporations, change resilience for individuals. Inner Freedom discovery of the real You. We align your environments, strategy, dreams and Destiny. 

Deanna Stull

I’ve been a disrupter for most of my life — a rebel in the anti-status quo revolution. I’ve had remarkable adventures and the great fortune of epic business journeys.

As an experienced professional coach who focuses on diving deep, facilitating fear, and challenging core beliefs—all in the name of making the world a more inspired and connected world. It is my goal to change cultures of fear within organizations and individuals.

My expertise comes from 25+ years of business development, marketing, branding, and professional coaching.

As a Senior Faculty Instructor and Chief Experience Officer at Coachville, LLC, and Certified Higher Ground Leadership® Coach/Pathfinder and Secretan Center Adjunct faculty member, I have mentored 4,000+ students taught more than 2750 coach training hours to aspiring professional coaches.

In my own practice, I have worked with more than 1,250 clients ranging from the Mayo Clinic to private entrepreneurs, and I have logged more than 22,500 coaching hours. My past experiences include:

• Launching the flagship location of School of Rock in Philadelphia, creating the foundation, marketing, and press which supported its growth into an iconic music school with 260 franchises and inspired a major motion picture, a television show, and an Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway musical
• Transforming the culture at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee through Higher Ground Leadership® coaching in partnership with The Secretan Center that improved staff communication, connectivity, and increased the number of children served by 15,000 within a year
• Inspiring an entrepreneur to break out of the mold to achieve the equivalent of one year of sales results in only six weeks by identifying roadblocks, creating an action plan, and making space for creativity and the spirit of play

I’ve believed, through most of this experience, that I was not enough. It was a deep survival pattern running underneath the surface of everything I did.

I am a creative, wild mind, I will challenge every belief you have about yourself and your business.

I believe all things are possible, and I encourage my clients to break free of old patterns and to see their own bright, rebellious futures. It takes time, practice, and innovative coaching techniques to make measurable progress.

Bill Todd

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Is your Prana swirling elegantly through your heart, your head, your voice? Are you living in a consistent state of grace and experiencing everyday magic in the full spectrum of life? Do you regularly experience Transcendence – when you pinch yourself thinking; “it’s hard to believe life can be this beautiful?”

To be a Transcendent Human Being means BE-ing Integrated. Joyful. Energized. Aware. Moment to moment. Achieving Transcendence is not necessarily complicated, but it helps to have a Soul Friend who will love you, support you, inspire you and guide you. I will be your Soul Friend and guide you to a Transcendent state of BE-ing.

Our journey is to Transcendent Wholeness. To experiencing your life on an entirely new and elevate plain. Together we will create a personalized journey to take you beyond goals and striving to a place of deep acceptance and harmony. A place where doors open before you knock. Oneness. Transcendence. When you are ready, I am waiting for you.

Superpowers:

Transformational business advisory and executive coaching of entrepreneurs; galvanizing and leading people in common cause; comprehending social complexity; quickly achieving trust and confidence from a diversity of people; open hearted and open minded; embodied spirituality and humility; engaging all people and animals with positive regard; even tempered, healthy mind wellbeing and resilience; consistent self care, self improvement and learning; passion, enthusiasm and discipline; inspiring people to take action.

Mia Turpel

Executive leadership takes finesse—a framework of relational empowerment and know-how strategies that really work. Mia Turpel knows both.

Her one-on-one inspired approach to teaching, coaching and mentoring lift you to higher ground. She walks you through the process of “letting it go”—shifting your perception away from the blocks that mire clarity and muddle goals. Mia then takes you step-by-step to claim your high-performance presence through engaging your key strategic strengths.

Right attitudes. Well-defined boundaries. Conflict solutions. Mia shows how these concepts come together to form a collective heartbeat—synergistic engagement—moving you from stressed out to streamlined, a joyful workplace and heady success.

The founder of Performance Support Partners, LLC, Mia has valuable experience in executive coaching, business consulting, project management, and corporate-culture logistics. Her clients appreciate her ability to break major undertakings into manageable bite-size pieces as well as her ability to surface a client’s underlying “super powers”—those prewired gifts that, once nurtured, catapult leaders to success. Mia’s specialty is assisting individuals within a team at tagging their core strengths, fitting these strengths together in a synergistic “puzzle” of interdependence—then moving the team forward in open/honest communication, enhanced efficiency and effectiveness toward a desired goal.

Sylvia Vogt

Drawing on 25 years experience as an international industry executive, Sylvia offers strategic organizational development that enables organizations, teams and individuals to succeed – through coaching, teaching and consulting. She serves as an adjunct professor of management at a top ranked US university with a focus on leadership and personality development, innovation culture, leading change, leading teams and organizations. An experienced program director, faculty, and classroom trainer, she has designed and delivered innovative, award-winning learning experiences for more than 2,000 international executives.

Sylvia is a Certified Coach (Psychology of Change | Emotional Intelligence in Coaching – training accredited by DBVC German Coaching Association); Certified MBTI® Practitioner; Certified Higher Ground Leadership® Pathfinder & Coach; Intercultural Awareness Profile (IAP) Licensee; and Change Pro Simulation® Facilitator. Sylvia volunteers as business mentor for early stage entrepreneurial companies at a nationally ranked startup accelerator. In 2005, she was named by Automotive News as one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry.

Sylvia integrates strategy, transformational change, and the people dimension in international business. Add some authenticity, love and inspiration – helping individuals and teams to thrive, together!

Based out of Pittsburgh, PA and Boulder, CO (USA), Sylvia works with clients internationally in English as well as in German.

Rachel Lauren Wade

Rachel Lauren Wade is the Co-founder of Heads and Tails Coaching, partners with the Coaching Revolution and owner of Rachel Lauren Wade Life and Business Coaching. With her passion and love, she inspires a courageous world through her public speaking and life/business coaching.

Rachel’s approach to coaching is all about living the example for her clients by living her dream of running her business while sailing around the world. With over 19 years of experience working with individuals, corporations and nonprofits she has the tools, expertise and passion to help clients to create, design, and achieve their desires. By being inspiring and practical Rachel supports a client’s fulfillment, productivity, and happiness.

Rachel holds an MBA in Global Business, BA Psychology, and is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)

Carlye Watson

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Carlye is a certified professional coach and process consultant who is passionate about the transformative potential of human-centred approaches.  She works with people and organizations who are inspired to make a positive impact on the world.  One of her main areas of expertise is effective and compassionate communication.

She has worked in a variety of organizational contexts including the United Nations, healthcare, the non-profit sector, and small business.  Her mandates have included leadership and career coaching (from volunteers to Directors), teambuilding, culture change, and designing/facilitating staff retreats.

She is an accredited member of the International Coach Federation, holds a Master’s Degree in Human Systems Intervention, is certified in Hogan workplace personality assessments, and in the process of completing her certification as a Higher Ground Leadership® Coach.

She lives in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada, where she loves being surrounded by nature and close to family.  She is fluent in English and French.

Superpowers:

Career Coaching, Effective and compassionate communication, handling difficult conversations, Organization design, Small and large group interventions/processes

Claudette Ward

North Richland Hills, Texas

Claudette Ward Holt, PCC, CLC is an Executive Leadership Coach offering over 30 years of professional experience and executive leadership in corporations. Her passion is making a difference and her practice is to provide the highest commitment to her partnerships. Her ability to lead, inspire and engage people, coupled with an insightful approach, escalate her effectiveness as a leader and executive coach. Claudette earned a BBA in Management and a Masters in Human Relations and Business from Amberton University. She holds a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University, is a graduate of Corporate Coach University, attended Coachville’s Graduate School of Coaching and holds several other professional certifications.

Superpowers:

Conflict Resolution, Employee Relations, Team Effectiveness

Arnie Wohlgemut

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Arnie Wohlgemut has over 25 years of experience working in and for various government agencies. Arnie helped aspiring peers and co-workers to become authentic service-minded leaders. He has devoted his life to inspiring others in environments that so often can be uninspiring. His first leadership challenge came from a college professor who asked him “What type of leader are you going to be?” This “Destiny, Character and Calling” question led him to the pursuit of deeper leadership experience and knowledge; however it was not until he read “Reclaiming Higher Ground” written by Dr. Lance Secretan that he really felt a connection between himself and the teachings. With this inspiration he founded KP Mylene “Building to Lead” in his home town of Waterloo Ontario Canada. Through mentoring and coaching, he helps his clients in their pursuit of purposeful change in their lives both at work and at home. Arnie is very pleased to be associated with Higher Ground Leadership®.

Superpowers:

Leading with integrity – where inspiration and empathy meet. A coach and consultant who is a people person and a systems thinker. Promotes decisions be made with integrity, Analytical, inquisitive visionary – understands the wider picture of processes, it’s affect on people, budget, organizational structure and staffing; Building science and facility operations expert – understands that without people, buildings would not be needed. facilities would not operate, be maintained or serviced and we would have no need to create safe healthy environments where inspiration and creativity can flourish.