ALTUS GROWTH PARTNERS - Key Persons


Amy Vodarek

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Amy holds a PCC from the International Coaching Federation, an NCC from Newfield Network, and coaching certifications from the Institute of Generative Leadership, the Leadership Circle Profile assessment, certified Whole Person Process Facilitation, and Organizational Health and Wellbeing. She is also a coach trainer and teacher for The Coach Partnership. Amy cares about transforming systems and organizations to support people to thrive. She has been an Advanced Practice Nurse, lecturer, curriculum designer, and published researcher, and she has worked across all healthcare sectors. Amy holds a Bachelor of Nursing Science and a Master of Science in Nursing from McMaster University In Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Angélica Del Carpio

Angélica believes that true human connection is one of the biggest challenges (and opportunities) facing organizations around the world. She cares about engaging with people to create meaningful connection and helping them evolve and grow so they can design a good life for themselves and for others. Angélica shares the Altus vision of impacting leaders and organizations through excellence, ambition, and care. By acting as a growth partner to clients, Altus opens up new possibilities for playing a bigger role in human evolution, consciousness, and global connection. Angélica has a BA in communication science from the University of Lima in publicity and corporate communication and a graduate degree in marketing consumer goods and services. Angélica holds coaching certifications from Newfield Network, and she is a master trainer for the Institute for Generative Leadership. She is the co-author of OBJETIVO: CONFIANZA, which tells the powerful story of a mountain climber's journey of inner growth.

Bob Dunham

Job Titles:
  • IGL Founder, Author
Bob has worked since 1981 as an executive, consultant, educator and coach to executives, management teams, and coaches worldwide in leadership, communication, teamwork, and people process redesign. Prior to founding the Institute Bob was a VP at Motorola Computer Systems, COO of Action Technologies, and VP of Consulting for Business Design Associates. Bob was twice selected as one of the top coaches in the world to be a speaker in the World Business and Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS). Bob Dunham is founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership (IGL), which delivers the action-based discipline of Generative Leadership and management in the Generative Leadership Program (GLP) (www.generateleadership.com).

Dan Winter

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Successful Leaders around the world facing their most challenging situations work with Dan to generate new insights and innovative approaches to reach new levels of results. Dan's diverse, international clients have leveraged his deep expertise in coaching, team and organization development, strategy, and culture change to thrive in dynamic markets and create high-performing cultures as they capitalize on global opportunities. Dan holds an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Business and a Masters in Organization Behavior from the Claremont Graduate University. He is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and holds an Integral Coaching Certification through New Ventures West. Dan is an experienced facilitator of Hogan, LPI, DiSC, and numerous 360 instruments.

Dorothy Lingren

Dorothy Lingren partners with high-potential leaders and visionary organizations to facilitate growth. She is committed to deeply understanding the environment her clients inhabit and co-creating solutions to build on strengths and expand capacity. Dorothy uses her extensive expertise in strategy development, facilitation, and coaching to cultivate holistic, sustainable change. Dorothy holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration, a Master's in Management, an Organization Development Certification from National Training Labs (NTL), an Integral Coach Certification through New Ventures West, and a Professional Coach Certification (PCC) from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She holds additional certifications from Cornell for Diversity and Inclusion and from UC Berkeley for the Science of Happiness. She is also certified in the Enneagram (iEQ9) and numerous leadership assessments, including Leadership Circle 360, Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) 360, Hogan personality, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and Korn Ferry 360. Dorothy is actively involved in her local community by supporting executive directors and boards who are addressing issues of homelessness, food scarcity, refugee resettlement, and unemployment. She is grateful for National Parks, libraries, and numerous opportunities to experience international culture through conversation and travel.

Elayna Alexandra

Elayna Alexandra partners with individuals and organizations navigating uncharted territories and, through discovery conversations, helps them to access their courage, reflective capacity, resilience, and wellness. She focuses her work on people and organizations who know now is the time to disrupt the status quo and build what matters.

Eva Orbuch

Job Titles:
  • Organizational Consultant, Leadership and Life Coach
Eva Orbuch is an organizational consultant, leadership and life coach, fierce advocate, and effective facilitator, supporting people and organizations of all backgrounds to move through inertia towards the meaningful results that they desire.

Heather Neely

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Heather is respected for facilitating organizational transformation and demystifying high-performance with individuals and teams with a single mission in mind: to help people and organizations be excellent through radical authenticity. There's an art to getting results, and Heather is passionate about revealing the mystery of high performance in teams and in life. She understands human motivation and is deeply passionate about helping people tap into their own agency and aliveness. As a corporate coach, she teaches leaders to access mind, heart, and body intelligence. Her approach allows leaders to access their strengths, improve their communication skills, build more satisfying relationships, speak powerfully, and take appropriate action.

Jan Irene Miller

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Jan Irene's clients have included entrepreneurs, executives, scientists, managers, engineers, government officials and consultants. Before founding Fit for Leadership LLC and collaborating to launch Altus Growth Partners, she developed global management expertise building software development and professional services teams for Control Data, Silicon Graphics, AtosOrigin, and GTSI. Through exploratory conversations and assessments, Jan Irene takes a deep dive into the way in which leaders and teams relate and work together. She shows clients how their current ways of relating, thinking, coordinating, and creating conversations both support and hold back intended outcomes and affect the value they want to create. By uncovering blindnesses and introducing new learning and practices, Jan Irene helps leaders bring new conversations, moods, and behaviors into relationships and to articulate shared standards for performance to become a cohesive team of their own design. Jan Irene received her MBA from Indiana University, Bloomington. By continuously learning leadership skills, she advanced from software developer to director of professional industrial and technical solutions. She's certified as a professional development and somatic coach and coach supervisor through the Newfield Network, Strozzi Institute, and Sandton Coaching Centre. She's also a graduate of the 3-year Generative Leadership Program, a program coach, and an affiliate instructor for the Institute for Generative Leadership. Jan Irene is passionate about leadership responsibility and how it contributes to a beautiful and healthy community - including all aspects of environmental, social, and economic health. As a performing artist, painter, swimmer, mother, and outdoorswoman, she thrives in the beauty and power of nature. Her dedication with helping others began with volunteer work at the age of 12 in the camps for migrant farm workers in Minnesota. Today, she is the President of the Board of her local watershed council, she mentors MBA/JD and high school students, and she serves as a member of Rotary and Chamber of Commerce. After having lived and worked in South and Central America and Africa, she and her husband settled in Oregon, where they've and restored and rebuilt a large woodland property in partnership with many organizations and craftsmen. Their three adult children and large extended family enjoy frequent visits to Bird Haven.

Jon Osborne

Jon coaches and facilitates transformative learning experiences for leaders that help them achieve meaningful growth. With expertise in corporate strategy, innovation, and cultural change, he helps distill complexity and develop ways forward that are aligned, effective and sustainable. Jon has helped professional services and construction firms implement organization-wide change, including digital transformation and shifts to agile practice.

Juliana Vergara

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Psychologist
A clinical psychologist by background, Juliana coaches senior and emerging leaders in Latin America and the US. She helps them produce real change by leading based on understanding themselves and listening to others' concerns and intentions for the future. She helps people become more aware of their habits, tendencies, and choices, so they can engage in more effective practices and conversations for success. Her clients have transformed their ways of leading and living to experience greater levels of satisfaction and results, improved relationships, and better work/life balance. Juliana helps teams to build trust and operate from a place of commitment rather than overwhelm.

Kobe Bogaert - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Kobe focuses on making a significant contribution to the performance of companies and their people through improved collaboration. He provides conversational skills, business process methods, and strategic tools that allow CEOs, C-Level executives, and their senior cross-functional teams to transform their organizations.

Lara Otte

Coaching at the intersection of psychology and business, Lara's approach combines a deep understanding of human behavior with practical wisdom to help clients reach their goals. Drawing on a wide range of research-based methodologies and frameworks, Lara helps leaders find alignment and success at the individual, team, and organizational levels. She is known for being insightful, pragmatic, intuitive and compassionate. Her coaching brings her clients into contact with the meaning in their work, helps grow the skills required to be effective, and leaves them with the self-awareness to navigate the growing complexities of work and life.

Lynette Winter

Lynette Winter partners with leaders and executives who prioritize personal growth, understanding the importance of embodying exceptional leadership in their teams, organizations, and businesses. She grasps the complexities and isolating nature of leading in today's world. Lynette is a compassionate listener and provides clients with astute insight and practical approaches that support leaders and their teams to grow their capacity for long-term excellence. She helps leadership teams build the competence to have high-stakes conversations, navigate conflict, establish clear strategies, and inspire and mobilize employees. Lynette holds a BBA in Marketing, and an MBA in Operations Science from the Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico. She is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC-level) and is certified through New Ventures West and has been trained in Adult Development Theory, Strozzi Somatic Coaching, and Alethia Integral Unfoldment Coaching. Lynette is certified and skilled in multiple leadership and psychometric assessments and has extensive experience using 360-degree data collection processes to inform individual and team development. Lynette is also the creator of the Leadership Fitness Coaching Program (LFC) which was pivotal for Intel Corporation to win the ICF Prism Award for Organizations in 2022.

Marc Smith Sacks

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Marc Smith Sacks partners with business leaders and organizations to create scalable, high-impact team transformations designed to accelerate performance and build long-term business impact into the cultural DNA. Marc is a hands-on, strengths-based, results-focused practitioner who breaks through chaos and complexity with strategic clarity and unlocks team momentum.

Nolitha Tsengiwe

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Nolitha Tsengiwe is an experienced Executive coach and registered Psychologist with over 20 years of collective work experience in leadership development, team coaching, executive coaching, lecturing, and psychotherapy. Nolitha is the director and founder of Courage to Lead. This leadership development consulting company assists organizations by assessing the climate and culture and assisting leaders in aligning them with its strategy. She was also a joint founder of Leadership Pathways. She contributed to managing CCL leadership consulting company as a partner and director for the five years she was part of the team. She has recently launched her work on an internationally renowned meditation app known as Insight Timer.

Pam Fox Rollin

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Pam Fox Rollin partners with visionary leaders in Silicon Valley and around the world to accomplish transformational growth that changes the course of their industries. With deep expertise in leadership effectiveness, corporate strategy, and organization/culture change, Pam coaches C-levels, top teams, and leaders of key initiatives to step up to their biggest challenges together.

Richard C. Eppel

Job Titles:
  • Business Leader
Richard Eppel has been a business leader in the high-tech industry for over 35 years. Specializing in corporate turnarounds, he has brought his high energy, results-oriented approach and powerful analytical, strategic and communications skills to bear on a wide range of organizations. His consistent focus is on developing team-based, strategically oriented organizations capable of effectively responding to a rapidly changing marketplace. Leveraging his experience as a turnaround CEO, Richard partners with CEOs and their teams to unlock the enterprise value obscured by organizational misalignment and dysfunctional conversations.

Steven E. Jones

Job Titles:
  • Principal
Steven partners with cross-sector leaders from government, business, and the community to take actions that dynamically support systems change. He works with leaders, executive teams, and high middle managers to create better conversations with their peers, partners, and direct reports. He brings rich expertise in leadership effectiveness, organizational change, and results-based leadership to his coaching work. Steven is committed to deepening the experiences of belonging and contributions to improve the lives of children and adults by helping facilitate race equity for coaches and leaders within the US and abroad. His work as a mentor and facilitator supports inclusion across the spectrum of human identity. He is a proud husband and uncle, who enjoys traveling, jazz, theater, Pilates, spin class, reading, and visual and performance arts.