LEADING VISIONS - Key Persons
Debbie Petropoulos is a Career & Life Coach, Inspirational Speaker and Facilitator. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from National Louis University, professional coaching training through the International Coach Federation -accredited Coaching Training Institute, Co -Active Coach Training Program, and is an ICF member. Debbie is also a volunteer Family Ambassador at the Ronald McDonald House near Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.
Debbie provides inspirational coaching to men and women experiencing transition in their careers and lives. Debbie has over 30 years of corporate leadership and management experience in the pharmaceutical healthcare industry. Her coaching engagements with senior level management and employees in various information technology and finance positions have resulted in compassionate guidance through challenging team dynamics and diverse organizational cultures. In addition to her corporate contributions, she is an advocate of enhancing the leadership in others. She served as a founder and board chair of an IT women's leadership network which grew to 400 members during her ten years of leadership. She has broad insight and understanding of the issues and barriers that the clients she works with may be experiencing in their corporate roles. Throughout her corporate tenure, Debbie held positions of increased leadership responsibility. Her leadership accomplishments at AbbVie and Abbott included staffing and establishing collaborative teams, developing employee strengths/skills for improved team engagement and productivity, vendor/contract management and negotiation, facilitation, communications, and strategic planning. She also held positions leading IT operations management, portfolio/program management, compliance, and business systems analysis. Her passion for coaching and desire to foster forward movement, change, and successful outcomes in the careers and lives of others, resonates from her own personal life experiences. Her inspirational and intuitive coaching style is focused on engagement, exploration of possibilities, and commitment to achieve positive outcomes.
Job Titles:
- Executive Leadership Coach
Talented coach, insightful, creative, and strategic thinker are descriptors clients use when describing Frank. He has a broad background that includes executive leadership, management consulting, meeting facilitation, sales, author, radio show host and seminar leader. He has both domestic and international work experiences.
As a skilled coach, he has assisted executives to achieve high levels of success on a professional and personal level. His coaching clients are able to make better decisions, take more and smarter actions and grow their businesses. With his guidance, executives create corporate cultures that open the door to engaged employees. Frank's coaching skill, combined with his capa city for strategic thinking, result in his clients making significant contributions to their companies with less effort and greater impact.
Frank has coached at multiple levels in organizations including, CEO, CIO, VP, as well as managers at many different levels. Some of the industries he has coached in are; pharmaceutical, engineering, construction, training, consulting, wireless communication, medical, printing, financial, benefits administration and manufacturing.
For over 30 years he has been building a base of knowledge on what is required to be an effective leader. Frank is extremely knowledgeable in the areas of leadership, teams/teamwork, total quality, coaching, performance management, sales and strategic planning. His insights on leadership come from his personal experience as a successful executive as well as his years in the leadership development field. Frank has designed and delivered training programs on many topics including; strategic planning, sales leadership, sales presentation strategy, and personal development.
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Washington & Jefferson College. He has received extensive training in the behavioral sciences and industrial psychology including graduate courses at Illinois Benedictine College. He is a graduate of Coach U. He is the author of "Practical Wisdom - The Seekers Guide to a Meaningful Life". Frank was the host of "Creating the Energy of Success" a successful web-based radio show. He has presented at several international coaching conventions. He is active in several service clubs in his community.
During his career he has held executive positions in the following companies:
Development Dimensions Intl.
Zenger-Miller Inc. (now Achieve Global)
Blanchard Training & Development
Arthur Andersen & Co
In 1996 he founded THE LEARNING INSTITUTE; a company dedicated to partnering with organizations that are committed to generating success by creating and sustaining a culture of engagement.
Job Titles:
- Executive Leadership Coach
Job Titles:
- Organization & Individual Development Consultant
Joe is seasoned veteran in organization & team building. Joe has spent 20 years in IT leadership & has excelled in creating extremely high performing teams. He is a pragmatic leader that understands how to create a strategy and an execution plan to achieve the strategy. He excels at team alignment and is known for achieving significant improvements in team and individual productivity. Joe has worked for 4 fortune 500 companies in IT Management.
His expertise on organizational & individual development helps to provide a positive bottom line by providing leaders with the tools and techniques to lower attrition rates and build an environment conducive to learning and accountability. He has been a trusted adviser to CIOs and is trained in the Co-Active model for personal & organizational enrichment. In addition, he is an expert in process & process re-engineering.
Job Titles:
- Professional Certified Coach
Kristie is a Professional Certified Coach who specializes in career and executive leadership development. She has an MBA with a concentration in Human Resources as well as 25 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies. Her extensive background in the corporate world gives her a realistic grounding in the opportunities, challenges and politics that abound in large companies. Her experience working with both executives and employees gives her an understanding of the issues, obstacles, and culture in the corporate world.
Kristie's passion is working with corporate leaders, managers, and individual contributors - empowering them with the tools, knowledge, skills and confidence needed to enhance their value to the company and deliver improved operational, organizational and financial results.
Kristie has coached a number of executives into senior management positions, as well as working with new graduates, and individuals in career transitions. Kristie conducts workshops and seminars on career development, as well as, leadership development. She is benchmark certified for 360-degree feedback, certified in targeted selection interviewing, as well as other assessment tools. Her experience in executive line management and human resources at Pfizer, Inc. and Abbott Laboratories has provided her with extensive knowledge in recruitment, career development and salary negotiation.
Her style is direct, challenging, supportive and insightful, and she coaches with both humor and heart.
Kristie is certified as a professional co-active coach through the Coaches Training Institute and the International Coaches Federation.
Job Titles:
- Executive Leadership and Team Coach
- Team Coach
Executive Leadership and Team Coach Kristy Braden is a seasoned facilitator, coach and organizational effectiveness consultant who specializes in helping organizations transform individual talent into team results. Kristy is known for her ability to provide bold insight and ask tough questions with uncommon warmth and presence. Kristy's nearly 20 years of experience in organizational effectiveness and leadership development roles spans several industries with a focus in the pharmaceutical and life sciences areas. She has led organization-wide initiatives focused on employee engagement, leadership development, and career development, and has acted as a trusted advisor to executives and their leadership teams. Kristy brings a pragmatic, immediately applicable approach to her clients that is grounded in solid, research-based theory, resulting in simple, powerful solutions that help leaders and teams reach their full performance potential. Kristy holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and education from Michigan State University and a Master of Arts in adult education from Vermont College. She was trained and certified as a professional coach through the Coaches Training Institute and holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coach Federation. Kristy is certified to deliver a variety of psychometric assessments including the MBTI, the Everything DiSC Workplace Profile, the Benchmarks Multi-Rater Feedback survey, and the Leadership Versatility Index. She lives and works outside Chicago, Illinois.
A consultant and coach for over 14 years, Lyndee Berkley is experienced in creating and implementing innovative solutions that improve organizational performance. Lyndee has held positions in program and account management, consulting sales, team coach and trainer and strategic advisor. Leveraging consulting and team coaching methodologies, Lyndee provides organizations with the tools, process and skills to tackle complex business and team challenges.
Her experience includes consulting positions with Accenture and Avanade. She holds a Masters of Business from the University of Denver and is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute in Co-Active Coaching.
Scott Seagren is a trusted advisor to successful business and organization leaders who are committed to developing a satisfying, highly productive culture and workforce. He is a Certified Professional Coach, team facilitator and mediator. He has multi-disciplinary training and expertise in helping individuals and teams communicate more authentically.
Scott served as the Executive Director of a non-profit organization, where he was responsible for hiring, budget setting, web-site creation and P&L management and helping state-wide members hone communication skills. He was also the co-owner of a commodities brokerage business on the Chicago Board of Trade. He was responsible for quickly, knowledgeably and efficiently executing complex inter-market hedging transactions for multi-national agribusiness companies. He is a self-taught independent market maker in commodity options contracts-responsible for risk management, hedging strategies and multi-million dollar portfolio management. He also developed and successfully implemented proprietary option pricing software.
Scott is certified in organizational facilitation and team coaching from the Center for Right Relationship; individual coaching from the Coaches Training Institute and International Coach Federation; and mediation from the Center for Conflict Resolution and Northwestern University. He also has a B.A. in English Literature from Northwestern University.