CALMING COACH - Key Persons


Chris Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
Chris Stewart brings twenty years of corporate management experience to GWC. She has managed a large call center and been both an account manager and project manager at the national corporate level for American Express. At the corporate level she has coached in leadership, skills assessment, team building, team efficiency, improved project management, and process improvement. She ran large national cross-functional project teams. Besides consulting, Chris also sells residential real estate in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the Willamette Valley of Oregon. She has coached individuals on achieving their goals whether it's achieving their next promotion, educational objective, or real estate investment. Chris holds a degree in Organizational Development and Behavior. At American Express she received the Diversity Award, Y2K Project Achievement, and the Outstanding Contribution Award. Her passions also include her bearded collies and riding her motorcycle.

Loretta J. Ross

Job Titles:
  • Professor
I'm so glad that Professor Loretta J. Ross is teaching a course on canceling Cancel Culture at Smith College!

Lori Gibson-Washington

Job Titles:
  • Founder GWC & C
Lori Gibson-Washington, AKA Lori GeeDub, is a laid-back facilitator, a calming speaker and coach, and a witty blogger. Those things together equals The Calming Communications Coach(TM). Lori is a former instructor for International Business Negotiations at the University of California, Berkeley's International Diploma Program. She also has over 20 years' experience consulting and coaching in the areas of differences in communications, conflict resolution, and leadership. A Sacramento Area-resident, wife, daughter, bonus mom of 2, Gigi of 2 grandsons, Lori GeeDub was educated at Georgetown University and UCLA. She is a certified Transformational Life Coach through the Life Mastery Institute. If you're interested in personality styles instruments, Lori is also certified to administer Myers-Briggs, LIFO, and FIRO Element-B. GeeDub, as The Calming Coach, consults with groups to improve morale and to better understand cultural differences within teams for better productivity and profitability. She coaches individual professionals and leaders to get along with folk who disturb their calm. Rhyme, Rhythm, and Reason Ella Fitzgerald embodies GWC's 3Rs of Leadership - Rhyme, Rhythm, and Reason. We call her a Jazzy Leader. Have you heard the rhyme of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"? Who can forget the rhythm of her scatting like as heard here? And do you know the REASON she began scatting?…

Paul M. Wood

Job Titles:
  • Creative Director
  • Storyteller & Creative Director

Vangie Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Consultant