COMPAS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Consultant, and Author
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach and Consultant
Betsy Cole, Ph.D. is an experienced and sought after executive coach who is dedicated to helping clients translate strategy into action. Her coaching is grounded by over 25 years of management, leadership, and organization development experience in a global medical device company. Betsy specializes in helping technically oriented executives develop and transform their capacity for solid interpersonal relationships so that they can create satisfying work environments and bring sustained results to their organizations. Betsy has extensive background in developing leadership teams through a combination of consulting, coaching, training, and team development activities. She has been credited for creating a cadre of high performing global leaders able to step into country manager roles around the globe.
Coaching: For the last 10 years, Betsy has coached hundreds of leaders from Directors to C-level including scientific, IT, and other technically oriented roles. She has helped them develop their strategic leadership presence and expand their understanding of work to include the significant role that building and maintaining authentic relationships play in their ability to achieve results. Betsy is intellectually astute. Her style is direct, compassionate, and results oriented. She supports leaders by helping them clarify how they want to move forward, and by finding simple ways for them to gain confidence, by practicing new skills to translate their insights into action.
Betsy has been a past-president of the Life Planning Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating professionals who help people navigate the second half of life. She is also an active member of the Human Resources Leadership Forum. She has served as co-chair of the Professional Development Committee for the New England HR Association and has taught Performance Management in the Bentley College HR certificate program. She is currently a Board Member for TriYoga Boston.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach and Facilitator
- Expert
Bill Hawkins is an expert in leadership development and executive coaching. In association with Marshall Goldsmith Partners, he has worked with over 20 Fortune 500 companies in seventeen countries. Bill began his career with a division of Johnson & Johnson. He then joined Boston Scientific Corporation as director and then V P of Sales and Marketing.
For the last 15 years, Bill has worked with organizations to identify and develop high-potential leaders. He has designed and facilitated leadership-training workshops for corporate clients on 5 continents.
Training: Bill brings an energetic, high-engagement facilitation style coupled with deep knowledge of leadership and team development. His experience as a leader in large companies grounds him in the participants' realities. Being seasoned, he adapts well to audiences in many functions, from sales to engineering, as well as from different countries, cultural backgrounds, and industries.
Coaching: Bill coaches individual leaders, from C-level to front line, to increase personal effectiveness. With his blend of consulting and management experience, Bill brings a breadth of understanding and insight to "real world" situations.
Job Titles:
- Advanced Coach for Executives
- Executive Coach, Consultant, and Facilitator
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Facilitator, and Instructor
- Founding Member of the Learning Network
Christopher is a founding member of The Learning Network and has published several articles on the topic of successful organizational change initiatives.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant
- Member of American Psychological Association
Daniela is an executive coach, organizational consultant, and multifaceted business professional with 20 years of practical work experience in industry-leading global companies, including Cisco, Boston Scientific, and EDS (acquired by HP). Daniela utilizes her multidisciplinary expertise in strategy, economics, and psychology for solving complex business problems and leading change. Her multicultural background and awareness facilitate meaningful collaboration with teams around the globe.
Daniela is a member of American Psychological Association, Division 38 - Health Psychology and Division 13 - Society of Consulting Psychology. Daniela is a published author and a thought-provoking speaker on topics of personal power, leadership, work-life balance, and health.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Consultant, Author, and Speaker
- Executive Coach, International Consultant
Larry is a Visiting Academic Fellow at Henley Management College where he was Founding Director of Research of the Future Work Forum. He is co-author of Creating Tomorrow's Organization published in the Financial Times Management Series. Coaching for Leadership: How the worlds greatest coaches help leaders learn (2000) and The Practice of Leadership Coaching (2005), co-edited with Marshall Goldsmith have become acknowledged reference works in the coaching industry.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Master
- Contributor in the past to the America Society of Training
- Executive Coach and Instructor
Elaine Morris is a master level executive coach and organizational consultant who brings more than 26 years experience to upper level executives and their teams. In addition to her work with clients, Elaine co-developed a leading edge technology tool for tracking ROI of leadership learning. Earlier in her career, she was a sales and marketing executive with a worldwide training and development company.
Coaching: By building trust and rapport, Elaine takes clients beyond surface-level conversations to access deeper growth and personal awareness. Her coaching process assesses needs, targets goals and maps progress to expedite performance breakthroughs. Her success is measured by behavioral changes and business metrics that generate financial growth, heightened communication skills and employee engagement.
Consulting and Facilitating: Elaine is a highly experienced facilitator of strategic planning retreats and team performance off-sites. Her approach involves an integrated method that includes traditional management skills such as strategy and execution with more personal behavioral changes that focus on communication, relational skills and conflict resolution. She shows clients how to connect authentically, inspiring team insights and decisions that produce winning strategies.
Elaine has been a regular contributor in the past to the America Society of Training and Development's newsletter. She is a regular contributor to the business section of Dallas Family magazine. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and Association of Strategic Planning. She has spoken at the Southwest Human Resources Conference.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Executive Coach and Instructor
Frank has been a full time consultant in the field of leadership since 1981. Frank's consulting career began when he joined the staff part time at The Center for Leadership Studies with Paul Hersey in the late 1970s. He then became a partner and director at Keilty, Goldsmith & Boone and later co-founded Prism Ltd in 1986.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Consultant, Facilitator
Job Titles:
- Coach, Instructor, and Speaker
For more than a decade, Heather has been focused on developing leaders and managers. She has helped hundreds of managers hone their skills that bring greater ease and efficiency to their leadership roles. Heather has a unique ability to work effectively with individuals, as well as with large groups.
Coaching: As a corporate coach, Heather has 2 areas of professional expertise: leadership development for emerging to mid-level managers and leadership coaching for women who want to balance their roles as professionals and mothers.
Training and Keynote Speaking: Heather has spoken and facilitated workshops all over the world on the subject of generational diversity. She receives rave reviews from workshop participants and has helped hundreds of teams become more effective in their ability to communicate and manage across the generations.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Consultant, and Speaker
Janice is the founder of a leadership development firm and for many years served as faculty member of New Ventures West, one of the most prestigious coaching schools in the US.
Janice has been invited as speaker in many corporate events and at the largest management and leadership forums in Latin America. Janice enjoys dancing, tai chi and photography. Some of her photographic work was presented in an exhibition presented by Mary Ellen Mark in Oaxaca, Mexico. Janice is a student of the Ridhwan School.
Job Titles:
- Certified Coach
- Executive Coach and Consultant
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive Coach & Organizational Consultant
Jonelle is an executive coach and organizational consultant and facilitator whose approach combines her expertise in personal and organizational development and her experience living and working globally. Over the past 23 years, she has worked with leaders at various levels from C-suite executives, vice presidents and directors to managers and individual contributors in large, global Fortune 500 companies.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant
- Professional Certified Coach
Julian is a Professional Certified Coach both through the International Coach Federation as well as International Coach Academy. He is also a certified Coach for Stakeholder Cantered Coaching by Marshall Goldsmith. He earned his Master Degree in Public Relations at Boston University, MA, USA. And he has earned his Bachelor Degree in Journalism and Political Science at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Julian is also a DDI certified facilitator.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive Coach, Consultant, and Facilitator
Julie Engel, Ph.D. is an executive coach, organization development and team development consultant, facilitator, and researcher working with executives and managers to be more resourceful, grounded, and wise as they navigate the ever-changing, fast-moving, uncertain, challenging, and demanding circumstances of their work and the world. A focus of her practice is working with clients across private, public and civil society sectors who are committed to being catalysts for change. Julie has coached leaders and managers as they grow or scale their organizations, balancing vision and operations, as well as technical staff as they move into management and leadership roles. Julie works with staff at all levels to cultivate their ability to lead from wherever they sit in their organization.
Julie is on the faculty of New Ventures West, an International Coach Federation accredited coaching school, a core team member at Babson College Social Innovation Lab and a founding faculty member for the Master in Design for Social Innovation program at the School for Visual Arts (New York). Julie was Senior Research Associate at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship for five and a half years supporting executives and managers in effectively catalyzing change toward more responsible and sustainable business practice through applied research, consultation, coaching and facilitating a peer-to-peer learning network of corporate responsibility executives from fourteen Fortune 500 companies.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant
- Member of the International Enneagram Association
Consulting and Facilitating: Over the last two decades, Karen has served the semiconductor, computer, software, internet services, e-tailer, digital gaming, green/clean tech, biotech, household products and non-profit sectors. At organizations ranging from Fortune 100 to Silicon Valley start-ups she is known for facilitating clearly articulated strategic purpose and direction, fostering effective executive teamwork and transforming managers into inspiring organizational leaders. She has designed and delivered training programs that helped build the leaders, teams, processes and culture required to grow the business.
Karen holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MBA in finance from Washington University. Karen is an accredited ToP® Facilitator and a certified Integral Coach who mentors, certifies and trains coaches. Karen leverages the Denison Organizational Cultural Survey, a number of 360 and personal assessment systems, and a full toolkit of strategic planning models and facilitation methods to aid her in coaching and developing clients and teams. As an accredited Enneagram teacher, she provides EnneaGuide Leadership Development programs focused on social and emotional intelligence.
Karen is a member of the International Enneagram Association and has spoken at three of their recent International conferences. Karen hikes, camps and occasionally back-packs. She studies the ongoing developments in Neuroscience so she can apply them in coaching leaders. She's been excited recently to see how building core competence in Strategic Narrative and storytelling helps leaders be the inspiring visionaries we need in today's world.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant
Ken Durbin is an experienced facilitator and executive coach who has trained and coached hundreds of leaders around the world. His passion for leadership development started during his time in the U.S. Navy where he experienced, first hand, the impact focused leadership development had on the operational success of organizations. He has carried this passion through more than two decades of advising leaders across many industries, with a particular focus on leading organizations through times of rapid change. At Ernst & Young, Ken led the development and rollout of global leadership programs on five continents. For the past 12 years, Ken has run a successful coaching and consulting practice during which he has worked with a breadth of organizations and individuals in the high-tech, publishing, real estate, legal, health care, not-for-profit, and military sectors. Ken has helped his clients:
Lori is trained/certified to administer the DISC, Enneagram, Firo-B, HBDI, Hogan, LJ Map, Lominger Leadership Architect, MBTI, StrengthsFinder, Strong Interest Inventory, Thomas Killmann Inventory (TKI) Conflict Tool, and Values Technology. She is also certified in various 360-feedback assessments, such as, CCL (Executive Dimensions and Benchmarks), Clark Wilson (Booth Co.), Hay, Lominger (Voices) and PDI. She has also completed career counseling training.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant
- Executive Coach, Instructor, and Consultant
Therese is an executive coach, consultant and strategist with 18 years of corporate experience including country, region and worldwide sales, marketing and strategic planning in the U.S. and Asia. She has executed in complex business and diverse cultural environments, delivering top- and bottom-line growth. In her role as Chief-of-Staff to the Senior Vice President of a US$17+ billion business in a Fortune 500 company, Therese provided leadership from strategic development to operational excellence.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Instructor, and Consultant
- International Management Consultant
Maya Hu-Chan is an international management consultant, certified executive coach, speaker and leadership development educator. She specializes in global leadership, executive coaching, and cross-cultural business skills.
Coaching: Maya has directly coached over 3,000 leaders in Global Fortune 500 companies as well as other major corporations throughout North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Australia. Most of her coaching clients are C-level executive, VPs, Directors and managers.
Instructing: Maya has designed and delivered numerous management training programs in both English and Mandarin Chinese. She has lectured at the University of California, San Diego, University of Southern California, and International MBA Program at University of Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Consultant
- Executive Coach and Consultant
Melinda is a coach and consultant with over 22 years of experience in human development on an individual, team and organization level. She draws on her knowledge of neuroscience, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence to help leaders and teams improve their effectiveness.
Job Titles:
- Professional Wellness Coach and Facilitator
- Wellness Coach
Melissa has been a Wellness Coach for 19 years and provides seminars, training programs and workshops that teach individuals how to recognize health risks, achieve optimal energy and total wellness.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Consultant, and Facilitator
Miri holds an M.A. degree in Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, and a B.A. in English Literature and Applied Linguistics, from Tel Aviv University. She also completed an intensive one-year program in Executive Business Administration at Tel Aviv University. Additionally, Miri is a Certified Mediator, having completed Advanced Mediation Training offered by Israel's Ministry of Justice.
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Facilitator, and Coach
Paul Wiegand provides consulting services, facilitation, training, and coaching to significantly enhance clients' capabilities in leadership, sales, and client relationships. Leveraging his expertise in the field of ethics, he helps clients to meet their ethics training requirements.
Earlier in his career, Paul was a VP of Humanics, Inc. and worked 14 years for Xerox Corporation as a Sales Representative, Sales Instructor, Training Manager, Sales Manager, and Manager of International Training Evaluation.
Facilitation: With solid business acumen, Paul facilitates executive and management teams in strategic planning, change management, and process improvement. He has extensive experience in leading and coaching action learning teams to accomplish business goals and develop leadership capability.
Training: Paul custom designs and facilitates training on various topics including leadership, finance, ethics, customer service, performance management, and sales. He also develops computer-based interactive reinforcement products.
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Facilitator, and Executive Coach
Job Titles:
- Coach, Business Consultant, Leadership Development Specialist
- Coach, Consultant, and Facilitator
- Member With the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association
Rita has been a coach, business consultant, leadership development specialist, and seminar leader for individuals and businesses since 1989. She has worked with thousands of people in the U.S. and internationally in discovering their unique contribution, authenticity, and power. Rita has coached over 350 entrepreneurs, including directors in major corporations, in being successful and achieving their visions, both professionally and personally.
Rita is an active member with the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (PCMA). Rita created the workshop, "Women, Power and Body Esteem: Being a Woman in the 21st Century" which she lead for 11 years to over 2000 women all over the US and in Canada. Her work was featured in numerous publications and on national television. She is on the Board for Unity Christ Church of San Francisco where she is also the Worship Assistant to the Minister and serves on the Prayer and Healing Ministry team. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two cats.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Executive Coach and Consultant
Ron has been an executive coach to senior business leaders and brings 35 years of coaching experience. His current clients include CEO's, Presidents, and Senior Managers in the oil, chemical, high tech, financial, marketing and telecommunications sectors.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Consultant, and Facilitator
Coaching: Ruben has coached leaders, from front-line Manager to VP levels, in major global corporations for increased leadership impact. Proficient in several assessment methods, he specializes in collaborating with leaders to identify critical issues and develop a business-focused developmental roadmap. He brings personal presence, insight and compassion to his work with clients.
Consulting and Facilitating: Ruben helps clients develop their leaders through training of critical skills and facilitation of strategic conversations. His content expertise in performance management, team development, communication, and transition management enables pragmatic learning sessions for leadership staffs and intact teams.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Instructor
Shana Nielsen is passionate about helping others achieve professional success. She has experience spanning over 10 years dedicated to coaching, facilitating and consulting in the technology, energy, and education industry settings. Her main focus is around identifying, training, developing, and evaluating leaders and talent through various organizational behavior practices.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach and Consultant
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach and Management Consultant
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive Coach, OD Consultant, Leadership Trainer
Steve Levin is an Executive Coach with over 15 years experience in coaching executives and senior leaders to extend their influence, address difficult dilemmas, and develop advanced leadership skills. Why do clients recommend him so highly?
He is rigorous, yet creative. He engages leaders to think about persistent problems in new ways.
He is challenging, yet supportive. He is clear and direct in addressing limitations, but he also provides a safe place to expand self-awareness and experiment with new approaches.
He is a Master Trainer of leadership skills, yet he focuses on practical behaviors that produce results. "My clients are already smart, ambitious and motivated to excel. I guide them to be more effective and more efficient while building enduring relationships."
Steve brings a deep background in organizational design, strategic thinking, advanced facilitation, and teambuilding. He regularly designs and facilitates custom meetings to build stakeholder alignment, develop strategy, resolve persistent conflict, or reconcile competing interests.
In a prior career, Steve managed a $100 million business and developed new products in the consumer packaged goods industry.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach and Consultant