QUALIFYING.ORG - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Executive Coach, Consultant

Beth Dixson is an Executive Coach, Consultant, and Trainer with over twenty-five years of experience in leadership training. She serves as Adjunct Faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC, http://www.ccl.org, and teaches and coaches executives throughout the USA.

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• Principal
• Consulting, Inc

Chuck is the principal of a training and consulting company located in Washington. His company provides customized training programs and individual executive coaching. He has extensively consulted with executives and leaders in government, business, and education in the United States. Chuck served in the US Coast Guard, with the last decade of service dedicated to leadership training and development. He specializes in training conflict management, dialogue, appreciative inquiry, and a variety of experiential techniques.

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• Trainer

Colllin Rustin is a trainer and an executive coach, Consultant, and Career Counselor with over thirty years of experience. He has been on the staff and faculty of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and now is in private practice. He serves as Adjunct Faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC, http://www.ccl.org, and works with executives and corporations throughout the United States.

Dan Parks has been training with the MBTI® and TAIS® tools for nearly two decades. A founder of Archetype Learning, LLC, Dan bring creative energies to the development of business simulations that promote leadership development. With twenty years as an executive as his background, he brings unique and direct applications to the classroom. He coauthored numerous learning applications for economic development efforts throughout North Carolina and the Southeast.

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• Award - Winning Researcher and Writer
• President and Principal of Qualifying.Org, Inc
• President, Qualifying.Org

Roger R. Pearman is the president and principal of Qualifying.org, Inc and Leadership Performance Systems, Inc. His company provides customized training programs and individual executive coaching. He has extensively consulted with executives and leaders in government, business, and education in the United States, Canada, and in Europe. Specifically working with entrepreneurial companies, his organization provides training programs that focus on: leadership development and change management, executive team development and team performance, succession planning and talent retention, and leading through company lifecycles and culture development for financial returns. Formerly a vice president of operations for a financial services company, Roger combines his academic knowledge with leadership experience to provide effective training and coaching. As a senior adjunct trainer, feedback coach, and adjunct research associate with the Center for Creative Leadership, his work includes delivering services to public enrollment and custom programs. In addition to contributing to the MBTI® Manual (1999), Dr. Pearman's recent publications include: Award-winning researcher and writer, Dr. Roger R. Pearman, created a company to meet the diverse qualifying and certifying needs of the professional community. Based on the research in adult learning, Dr. Pearman developed a format that blends web modules, chatroom interactions, and bulletin board information with a dynamic classroom learning event. Dr. Pearman wrote that "Our goal is to have every professional leave our programs with a profound sense of the importance of his or her work, and with specific "how tos" in the use of the scientifically sound tools we support."

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• Counselor Education from the University of Florida

Judy A. Aanstad has her Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of Florida. She began her career as a therapist and career counselor at VPI in Blacksburg, VA, and then at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC, where she helped start a Lifespan Center for women in transition. In 1988 she left the academic arena to work with Ziff and Associates, a qualitative market research firm. In 1990 she started her own consulting firm providing management development and training. She specializes in topics such as communication skills, career management, conflict management, managing change, team building, and coaching. Her clients span business, education, and government. Judy has been an adjunct faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC, for over twenty years. In addition, she is the facilitator for two community based leadership programs in the central piedmont area of NC. Her BA degree in Psychology is from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Judy uses a wide variety of assessment instruments in her work including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, FIRO-B®, CPI 260®, Benchmarks, Skillscope, Change Style Indicator, Campbell Leadership Inventory, KAI, and the Denison Leadership survey. She is committed to facilitating the personal and professional development of her clients.

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• Senior Adjunct Trainer and Coach for Qualifying.Org

Rita is a Senior Adjunct trainer and coach for Qualifying.org®, Leadership Performance Systems, Inc., and the Center for Creative Leadership and is the owner of and principal consultant at LEAP Enterprises. Rita's career spans both the corporate and nonprofit arenas, ranging from positions with the Hewlett-Packard Company, AT&T, the Food Marketing Institute, the University of Maryland, the Center for Creative Leadership and the American Symphony Orchestra League. Rita's functional roles have included those in financial, asset and education management, information technology, management of international projects, and change leadership. She has held leadership roles dealing with most of the prevailing issues faced by organizations including centralization of functions, increased competition, downsizing, acquisitions, globalization, startups, corporate splits, partnerships and alliances, customer loyalty, call management, performance development and account management.

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• Counselor
• Minister

Waite is a minister and counselor from Maine. He has been involved in ministry all of his professional career which expands 30 years. He applies various assessment for development strategies in his work and has become expert in using tools in not for profit settings. Combining his many years of practical experience and his thorough knowledge of the instruments he uses, Waite brings critical training information his our participants.