COMMON BOUNDARIES - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Founder
• Member of the Business and Leadership Team
• Member of the Project Management Team
• President of USA Climbing

Debra J. Gawrych, MBA is the CEO and founder of Common Boundaries, a company whose purpose is to promote effective leadership skills at both the individual and organizational levels. She is a nationally known consultant with large corporate clients such as Procter & Gamble and Wachovia, as well as smaller local and individual clients. She has been a dynamic change agent for over twenty-six years. Corporate experience includes Business and Management consulting, system sales, systems analysis and design, process improvement, trading floor investments, and executive coaching, organizational change, leadership training and development. After several years of working with a leading consulting firm, Debra started her own company to bring the idea of leadership to a more personal level. She engages her clients to discover their authentic selves in order to take charge of their lives to achieve their highest potential. Through personality assessments, dynamic experiential work on power and purpose, as well as respectful confrontation models, clients come away with practical tools to lead more powerful lives. Debra offers two publications: best-selling book The Seven Aspects of Sisterhood: Empowering Women Through Self-Discovery and Lead From the Inside Out, which is available on CD as an audio book. Lead From the Inside Out was produced by Emmy award-winning Radio-TV personality Monica Pierre. She has been quoted in numerous newspaper and magazine articles including Today's American Woman, The Business Journal, BizLife, ForeWord Magazine, Cincinnati Enquirer, most recently on issues of power, authenticity and integrity. After three years serving as President of USA Climbing, Debra stepped down to devote time to new endeavors. She is currently involved with efforts to bring climbing into the Olympics, and meets extensively with international leaders in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. The lessons she has learned and communicates about power and transformative change are firsthand and timely for any organization wanting to go to the next level. She currently resides in Weston, Florida after moving from North Carolina, which had been her home for over 24 years. Like many of us, she faces daily the challenges of balance between demands of three children, husband, work, and new volunteer adventures. She hopes that the hurricanes will pass South Florida by this year and that the alligator she saw recently in the lake in her backyard will find his or her way back to the Everglades.soon.

Job Titles:

• Founder of Remodeling Your Life

Joyce Welsh is the founder of Remodeling Your Life, an online organization that supports people and organizations as they make small and large changes. Remodeling Your Life provides convenient tools for change that fit easily into a busy schedule. Before you know it, your perspective on life changes regardless of your life circumstances. Live your life in the peaceful "eye of the storm" rather than trying to keep up with the hurricane of daily activities!

Job Titles:

• Member of the Business and Leadership Team

Karen Dugan has worked extensively in the consulting and training arena, specializing in organizational behavioral change. She was the highest rated facilitator on the Wilson Learning Task Force for Office Depot. After a nationwide course roll-out of The Counselor Salesperson, Office Depots target sales increased by 56 percent. Karen was the lead facilitator in the market launch of Inbound Sales Excellence. She led the Signature Customer Service roll-out for Baltimore Gas and Electric- Home Division, which began in September 2001. B.G.E.-Home has seen a 43 percent reduction in turnover rate for their Customer Service Representatives. Signature Customer Service competencies, which increased staff comfort levels with challenging customers, were a key contributing factor. Starting her career in the insurance industry, Karen moved from sales to management and ultimately became the Corporate Director of Training. She was responsible for the training of the 450-person field sales force, and designed their training manual and developmental programs. In the 80s, Karen was a partner in a training and consulting firm, where she designed and conducted intensive workshops constructed to share innovative and practical techniques for mastering, honing, and maintaining top-notch presentation and communication skills. Karen is affiliated with Toastmasters International, the American Society for Training and Development, and the National Speakers Association. Karen is a magnetic and compelling workshop leader with an enthusiastic style. She has a delivery that comes straight from the heart. Karens track record has established real-world organizational changes that reduce stress while increasing sales productivity, customer loyalty, and employee fulfillment.

Job Titles:

• President

Ken Jacquot is the President, of Blue Ridge Learning Centers, Inc., a company dedicated to providing high-quality experiential education for all ages: school-aged children, university students and adults. His quiet, thoughtful approach to facilitation helps to balance the natural challenges that exist outdoors and within the organization taking the program. Ken has extensive experience in the outdoors with Pecos River Learning Centers, the Morgan School and as a ranger for the National Park Service. He brings the added dimension of continual learning within a safe, intensified experience and encourages each participant to seek the wisdom they carry within. Ken has worked internationally in diverse areas as China, Fiji, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Venezuala, Canada and across the 50 states of the U.S. He has been climbing for 30 years and helps create the adventure-based mountain top experience whether on site or in the wilderness. Ken enjoys mountain-biking, carpentry and lives in Boone NC with his wife and their two children.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Business and Leadership Team
• Member of the Project Management Team
• Founder and CEO of Enlightened Paths Consulting

Kenneth J. Schaefer, founder and CEO of Enlightened Paths Consulting, is a Business Consultant and Coach with 25 years of experience within the Engineering, Service, Operations and IT disciplines. His professional career has spanned the Local through the International Arenas, holding such positions as CIO, CTO, International Technical Liaison, EVP of Operations and Service, and Board Member. Through his highly effective consulting, training and coaching practice he has helped guide and foster positive, lasting change in organizations of all sizes. His main focus is on the IT, Service and Operations disciplines from individual team members through executive management. His personal mission is to: "Value people above all else and treat them with dignity: they are the greatest resource and asset in your life and your business." Additionally, Mr. Schaefer has spent a great deal of his life studying human interaction, psychology and spiritually based teachings and has employed this knowledge in his personal and business dealings with great success. Perhaps because of this caring, holistic philosophy, he has been characterized as a passionate, highly effective communicator, business & team coach and consultant, as well as an expert bridge builder within and between individuals, teams and companies. He has also been widely viewed as a deeply insightful mentor to individuals looking for positive, lasting change. Kenneth has lived in South Florida for 12 years, after moving from New York City and traveled extensively internationally for business for over 15 years. He is a frequent visitor to South America where he has family in Columbia. Additionally, Ken is an adjunct consultant with Common Boundaries.

Mary Ellen Lorello has developed a wellness program which addresses three areas which can hinder a person's progress: focus, exercise, and diet. Through coaching, Mary Ellen helps clients identify where their thoughts and behaviors might be hindering their ability to meet their wellness objectives. Her personal and professional experiences with weight management have instilled in her a great compassion for clients who struggle with weight, and have inspired her to try to make a difference. Ms Lorello created The Balanced Gourmet in 2007, a catering business specializing in whole, healthy, customized meals for clients with special dietary needs and wellness goals. Her culinary services range from consultations and organization to cooking and classes. In 2009, Mary Ellen completed a training program with Pilates Certification of North Carolina for beginner and intermediate mat classes. She offers private instruction as encouragement to deepen a client's connection between body and mind. Mary Ellen has resided in Chapel Hill, NC, for three years. She is a NJ native and mother of two young children. Prior to her education in coaching, cooking, and pilates, she was Vice President of The Conditioning Co.,Inc, an HVAC contracting business in Newark, NJ. She can appreciate the challenges in sticking to wellness objectives in the face of a hectic life!

Job Titles:

• Coach
• Member of the Business and Leadership Team
• Member of the Project Management Team

Michele Brant is a consultative coach in her own practice, Coach Michele. She is also the director of operations for Common Boundaries and Remodeling Your Life (an online organization that supports people and organizations as they make small and large changes). She is a professionally certified coach and brings more than 20 years of corporate and consulting experience to her endeavors. This includes project management, training and development, online marketing, leadership and life coaching. She has a great passion for being the catalyst for change, especially in supporting others in seeing their value. She truly enjoys standing for people's brilliance. Due to her diverse background both personally and professionally, she works with clients in the following areas: Leadership Development Career Transition Overcoming Challenges Time Management Wellness Living in many different states and countries throughout her life has been exciting. It has given Michele the ability to be flexible and a quick learner. She currently lives with her family in Tega Cay, SC (a suburb of Charlotte, NC) with two adopted dogs and a cat. Her perpetual dilemma is "too many interests, so little time"!

Job Titles:

• Member of the Project Management Team

Ms. Outland's leadership, management skills and systems knowledge have provided employers and clients with an expert in executive and project management coaching, software implementations, financial management, corporate strategic planning, product and services sales and marketing, and developing of new technologies. She is highly experienced in managing, developing, implementing and maintaining management information systems in many diverse areas with a special emphasis in Public Sector Financials and Human Resources systems, Retail, Manufacturing, and Criminal Justice, including extensive Police, Courts and Fire experience. Her systems experience includes project management, business process re-engineering, project planning, analysis, design, development, training and implementation. She has extensive management experience, from controlling large, multi-million dollar implementations to smaller, focused process change consulting, project management coaching, and Staff Analysis & Team Effectiveness consulting. As the contract Project Manager for Maricopa County's Peoplesoft implementation, she was jointly responsible (with the County's project manager) for the integration of all the county departments and direction of the county's implementation consulting firm. She has served as an independent management consultant for the past 8 years, providing consultative coaching services to such companies as Maricopa County (for their Peoplesoft implementation), SRP-MIC as their HRMS Systems Manager, DSO Renovations, Homesmart International, Foundation for Blind Children and USA Climbing. She served as Regional Coordinator for USA Climbing, and on the Board of USA Climbing from 2002 through 2007. As the contract Project Manager for Maricopa County's Peoplesoft implementation, she was jointly responsible (with the County's project manager) for the integration of all the county departments and direction of the county's implementation consulting firm. Ms. Outland served as VP/Chief Technology Officer of Rural/Metro Corporation until February 2000. Rural/Metro is a recognized national leader in the private ambulance and fire protection industry, with 12,000 employees worldwide. As the Regional Vice-President of Business Information Technology's (BIT's) South Central region, Ms. Outland was responsible for PeopleSoft sales, consulting and client management, specializing in the Public Sector. She worked with the parent company's senior management to mold BIT's direction as a newly acquired subsidiary of CIBER. She also worked with the marketing department to develop marketing and sales programs. She has been a contract change agent for several public sector companies, usually brought on board in response to reestablish automation direction. She has developed and implemented strategic plans, and energized tired companies into future directions. As part of her love for the outdoors, she has been on the board of USA Climbing from 2002 - 2007. Now she leads destination coaching retreats for executives and adults in need of life turnaround.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Business and Leadership Team
• Senior Executive Vice Presidents

Wayne Gerber has more than 17 years of consulting experience and is the founder and president of Sungate Advisors, a private practice consulting firm focused on Human Systems Processes. The range of services include organizational and team-based interventions, organizational restructuring processes, executive and leadership coaching and training, large and small meeting facilitation, team building, and the teaching of innovative thinking processes. Wayne has helped a variety of organizations ranging from the US Government to family-owned businesses. With a focus on conflict management, Wayne assisted senior executive vice presidents of a power generation company to disengage in a political turf war over the implementation of a resource enterprise software program that required shared decision-making using sensitive, proprietary information. A large textile manufacturing company was experiencing what could be a sharp downturn in sales and called upon Wayne to help refocus its corporate staff to stem the decline. In the process, Wayne helped the managers generate new enthusiasm. When tension was mounting at an IT organization due to faulty communications that meant management decisions were unclear and not consistently supported by associates, Wayne was brought in to help employees air concerns surrounding the implementation of the corporate vision and mission - creating a collaborative environment and fostering open communications. Wayne brings a wealth of research and practical experience to the Common Boundaries Consulting team.