Alex Oliver has been coaching and mentoring for over 25 years, building teams and developing leaders. INSEAD MBA qualified, Alex has worked and travelled around the world and across industries, as a consultant and senior leader, including for the UK Government Cabinet Office, global insights and consulting company, Kantar, as well as earlier in her career, ground-breaking tech disrupters like Egg (retail banking) and Scoot (media).

Today as a professional coach, Alex works with ambitious leaders who want to get more out of life, achieve bigger goals, expand their horizons and truly transform their lives, businesses and communities. Alongside coaching, Alex works as a facilitator and advisor for a large global government consultancy. Alex has a large pro bono portfolio including mentorship of young women in business as part of INSEAD’s Balance in Business initiative, and for ZINC VC coaching entrepreneurs developing solutions to tackle society’s biggest challenges.

Angel has over 14 years of experience in learning, leadership development and coaching. He has worked for 500 Fortune companies across various industries where he has had the chance to partner with people at different stages in their careers to support their growth and development. He is passionate about helping others realize their strengths and potential through the design and facilitation of thought provoking experiences. Originally from Mexico City, he now lives in Toronto where he works as a SnR Manager, L&D at a tech company. He holds a degree in Psychology and a Masters in Education, as well as certifications in Virtual Facilitation by Insync Training and Coaching Mastery by Essential Impact. He is passionate about music and sings with Toronto’s Singing Out choir where he currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors.

Ariane Hunter is the CEO & Founder of Project She Went For Her Dreams; a personal branding & marketing firm in New York City and serving clients globally. She works with enlightened women who crave a more meaningful, impactful, and perhaps more unconventional way of leading and working. Ariane draws on over 10 years experience working for the top marketing and branding agencies in New York City and supporting high profile clients become key players in their industry. She has spoken for NYU Stern Women in Business, Emerging Leaders for NY Arts, and has been featured guest on numerous personal empowerment podcasts. Ariane is also a published writer whose work appears in Time.com, Levo League, Ivy Exec, and The Muse.

Ashli Akins is a cultural ecologist, human rights defender, storyteller, and National Geographic Explorer. She has over a decade of experience facilitating and teaching, both in-person and virtual. She believes in the power of (and need for) wholehearted and authentic leadership to co-create a more equitable and sustainable world. She has worked for over 15 years in collaboration with Quechua communities of the Peruvian Andes, to mitigate adverse effects of unsustainable tourism and development. In 2006, she founded Mosqoy, a charitable organization that is now a strong force for youth, women, and artisans of the region. Ashli graduated from the University of Oxford with a master’s in international human rights law, after receiving her bachelor’s degree in environmental studies, Latin American studies, and professional writing. She is now completing a PhD in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia.

Aurore is a coach for entrepreneurs and executive women that want to live their ambitions. She believes that women moving into executive roles are key to creating leaders, people and cultures who lead, decide and act with greater authenticity and courage.

Aurore has been working in international management roles in the automotive and healthcare industries with a deep focus on individual motivations and team dynamics. She has lived and worked in France, Australia and Argentina, and is passionate about the richness of intercultural exchanges.  She believes HUMAN will make the difference and is intentional about working closely with women to develop into their full potential.

After 15 years leading in challenging international environments in big companies, she has decided to dedicate her career to developing her natural abilities to coach teams and activate more conscious individuals.

Cara empowers future women leaders to realize their potential. She trains, mentors and coaches women to progress their careers in a successful and self-sustainable way. She shows them how to be a truly ‘human’ leader, one who is self-assured and inspiring, and who challenges, and is compassionate to, both themselves and others.

Cara graduated from the University of Cambridge and embarked on a professional services career as a Chartered Surveyor. However Cara eventually realized that people not property were her passion and she retrained as an Executive and Life Coach. She now holds the highly regarded Professional Certified Coach status with the ICF (International Coach Federation) and has coached many men and women to open their minds, think clearly and achieve both personal and professional goals.

Cara has her own private Life Coaching practice and also coaches Executives in major institutions. She is known for her intelligent insights and brings a warmth and care to everyone she works with. Cara has 3 sons and a gorgeous Springer Spaniel called Google

As an experienced Talent Development Consultant / Leadership Development Facilitator / Executive Coach, Cathy draws on her passion, expertise and business acumen to collaborate with leaders/teams to unleash their potential and support their growth in order to thrive in the VUCA world. Cathy is great at building highly trust & collaborative relationships with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.  Over the past decades, she has supported many executives and emerging leaders in their growth journey especially in a cross-cultural environment while global mindset and growth mindset are critical to success.

Cathy was also an HR leader with more than 20+ years of profound exposure in many aspects of HR. She was formerly the HR Director of Talent and Development & China Joint Ventures for General Motors China Group. Prior to that role, Cathy had a one-year international assignment at GM’s global headquarters in the US. Before that, in her various HR leadership roles at GM China, she has successfully led different transformational initiatives in the areas of talent development, mergers and acquisitions, cultural integration, joint venture start-ups, relationship building with joint venture partners.

Cathy is technically astute having held diverse cross-functional roles as an R&D engineer in the aerospace industry, sales and marketing and human resources.  She has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Beijing University of Aviation and Aerospace, and a Master of Economics degree from Renmin University of China. Recently, Cathy has attained Alumni Status from Harvard Business School by successfully completing the Program for Leadership Development (PLD).

Cecilia Juhlin specializes in organizational change, with a focus on leadership and team development.  She is a passionate educator and her pedagogical capabilities include workshops, facilitation and individual coaching. Cecilia has designed and launched big scale Organizational Health Programs on the topic of psychological safety, resilience, mental well-being.

She holds a MSc in clinical psychology and is a registered psychotherapist in Switzerland and Singapore. Additionally, Cecilia holds an executive Master’s degree from Insead, Singapore in Organizational Psychology. She is a certified Insead Coach and a certified Mental Health Instructor. In her early career, she studied English and Communication at Stanford University and Sacramento State College.

Prior to her work within HR at Roche, Switzerland, she was working as a psychotherapist at an outpatient clinic and in private practice both.  She is of Swedish origin with her work spanning over Switzerland, the USA and Singapore.

She engages in voluntary preventive mental health awareness work that is yielding towards a de-stigmatization of mental health challenges.

Known for her innate intuitive capacity, deep empathy, and wisdom accumulated through 20 years of therapy, coaching, teaching and workshops, Cheryl Breault helps people to live an inspired life.

In her practice, Whole Body Wisdom, she guides individuals and teams toward inner shifts of perspective, increased self-acceptance,  and a sense of greater possibility and freedom. Trained in Transpersonal Psychology at Naropa University, Cheryl is a licensed psychotherapist who has served many years as a therapist in Psychological Health and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado. An advisor and Power Circle facilitator for Emerging Women for the past 3 years, Cheryl is dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs, executives and creatives make a positive impact in the world.

Christy’s passion lives in the empowerment of you, both personally and professionally. Using progressive methods, clients are guided to discover their innate talents and are coached to bring those gifts forward to live a fulfilling life. Drawing from her former leadership roles in both for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, Christy uses her vast experience to empower her clients to identify relevant solutions as a life-long personal practice. A candid and compassionate consultant, Christy uncovers what is too close for clients to see for themselves.

Combining the study of human development with advance technologies and intuition, Christy can lead clients into a steady evolution of authentic self-expression and inspired action while lessening negative repetitive thought patterns and behaviors. Christy holds both a Bachelor’s (BSW) and Master of Social Work (MSW) degrees. She is certified in both the Leadership Circle and Leadership System. She is also a trained mentor in HeartMath.

Colette is a life coach, executive coach, workshop facilitator and team mentor. Her extensive knowledge and expertise has developed during her time in high level corporate HR and as an NLP Practitioner and coach trained through an ICF accredited training company.

Colette’s broad expertise spans across recruitment and retention, talent management, reward and team development. Her specialism is leadership and organisational development having worked through numerous, successful programmes dealing with all aspects of individual, team and organisational change management.

During an overseas posting, Colette developed a number of leadership and change management programmes and was involved in the rollout of coaching circles, a powerful concept that achieved fantastic results.

Today, Colette works as a coach, supporting women in their personal and professional lives; helping them to gain clarity on who they are, what they want and how to get there. She is passionate about people living their best life, being true to themselves and being clear about their priorities to make the most of their potential.

Cyndi has been helping leaders, leadership teams, and organizations achieve ambitious goals for decades. Her clients are changemakers—visionaries and leaders of organizational and civic work oriented toward the greater good. With a long history of leadership in the nonprofit sector, including educational systems and libraries, Cyndi knows that complex, systems-level change can happen — and is rooted in the mindsets and beliefs of leaders.

Cyndi helps people achieve meaningful results with clear purpose and strong process, resulting in lasting change. She is passionate about leadership development that centers social responsibility and women’s empowerment. She founded Colorado-based Only to Grow, a coaching and consulting business specializing in supporting educational leaders and offering Enneagram education. Cyndi is also a Principal at San Francisco-based Groupaya, focused on C-level leadership team transformation.

Prior to coaching, Cyndi served as a senior executive at EL Education, overseeing professional learning and program materials at a national level.

When individuals experience stress in the workplace, it is common for them to forget about self-care and self-advocacy. From an empathetic lens, Dimitria L. Cook helps build equity-driven leaders as they strengthen their relationships with themselves to achieve their goals and align with their inner soul. For over 15 years, Dimitria has been a noteworthy leader in the leadership development space. She is an ICF member coach. As such, she is a certified executive and leadership development coach, certified trainer, and speaker. Although you may know her from her work as an executive coach at Valence Enterprise, Dimitria has developed leaders for California School-Age Consortium, Los Angeles Better Educated Students for Tomorrow, and Sandy Hook Promise. In addition, Dimitria is an empowerment writing coach who is an international bestselling author in vol. 3 of the Business, Life and the Universe book series. She currently resides in the Los Angeles area.

Carol is a powerful advocate for women unapologetically living life on their terms and doing the work they were meant to do in the world. She empowers women to take control of their life and career.

As an executive coach and personal brand strategist, she serves as a catalyst for transformational growth and professional development. Leveraging an almost 30 year career in law and organizational and academic leadership, and training in applied and social psychology and human development, Carol utilizes a custom methodological approach to career coaching and career development to help her clients achieve greater confidence, clarity and success.

She is a TEDx speaker, three-time best selling author, international keynote and award winning consultant and has been the “go to” coach for Grammy Award Winners, Paralympic Gold Medalists, Fortune 500 executives, and 6-7 figure successful driven professionals and entrepreneurs.

She helps her clients to stop hiding in the shadows of their brilliance and step into the power of who they are, their vision, purpose and their life’s work.

Elayne Fluker is a leading voice in helping unapologetically ambitious women learn how to embrace support as a superpower for success and fulfillment, and her new book, Get Over ‘I Got It’: How to Stop Playing Superwoman, Get Support and Realize Having It All Doesn’t Mean Doing It All Alone will be released by HarperCollins Leadership on May 11, 2021. She has been a speaker at global brands, organizations and institutions, including LinkedIn, the United Nations, the Women’s President Organization, New York University, Spelman College, Columbia University, Howard University, The National Association of Black Journalists, the Essence Festival, ColorComm, digitalundivided and INBOUND, and she has been a featured guest on the Today show, Nightline, Inside Edition, Extra, CNN, VH1, Sirius XM Radio and more. Elayne is the CEO of Chic Rebellion, a content and consulting that helps dynamic Black women build their thought leadership, elevate their brands and grow their businesses. In 2019, Elayne created the online learning platform, SiS.Academy, that contains video workshops and courses that she facilitates featuring women leaders who teach their expertise to help other women navigate business, leadership and personal development. In addition to hosting the Support is Sexy podcast for women entrepreneurs and interviewing more than 500 diverse women entrepreneurs around the world, Elayne is also in production for her new television show, The Elayne Fluker Show, which will highlight innovative and inspirational Black women entrepreneurs — who are currently the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs in the United States.

Eugenia Karp is a self-development teacher and a certified coach with over 5-years of experience. She is also a successful leader and entrepreneur with a ten year track record in leading healthcare organizations. In her journey of self-discovery, Eugenia has transformed her life in a way that allows her to combine the passion for teaching self-development and self-awareness with her healthcare business career. Since becoming a coach, Eugenia has balanced her life from a place of self-approval and deep connection with her desire and sense of self. Eugenia specializes in helping people discover their potential through untangling the behavioral patterns and belief systems. She is deeply intuitive and her coaching style provides a precise insight into the workings of your mind. With Eugenia’s help, you will unleash your genius and dismantle the blocks that stand in the way to having a successful personal and professional life.

Gayle believes the world needs more leaders who are “able for” what lies ahead, who have developed the capacity to meet the complexity of global challenges. Working in the field of leadership for the past two decades, it has become abundantly clear to her that there are the visible, tangible, practical, and pragmatic aspects of leadership that need to be executed on a day-by-day basis, and then there is the work of caring for the the spaces between people, of seeing complexity and interdependencies, of understanding relationships and power and all the ephemeral things that still excise tremendous influence on the day-to-day behaviors of people. Thus it is the invisible work of leadership, the work of showing up, setting culture, and creating spaces for others to thrive that is the focus of her work. She believes in meeting people and systems wherever they are, and then developing people to work with the full range of who they are to meet the full complexity of the organizational system and operating ecosystem, working with the intangible but critically necessary human substructures to move a strategy forward.

Gayle Karen Young is a cultural architect and a catalyst for human and organizational development. She comes from a rich organizational consulting background with both corporate and nonprofit clients. She was in process of becoming a Zen monk when she became an executive instead, taking on the role of Chief Culture and Talent Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation (CHRO for Wikipedia and its sister free-knowledge projects) until early 2015 when she joined Cultivating Leadership. From high-level strategic thinking to practical implementation, her skills include leadership development, change management, facilitation, training, strategic communications, speaking, team building, and personal and organizational transformation.

Gayle holds a Masters degree in Organizational Psychology.

Gilly is an ICF Accredited (ACC) Coach.  Her focus is on helping people develop self-awareness, recognise their personal strengths and build both the skills and self-belief to achieve what they want.  Gilly draws on many years’ experience in both sales and people management roles in IBM working with C-Suite executives in corporate clients as well as managing young professionals to help them establish and progress successful careers.  She coached as part of various company talent and leadership development programmes designed to help individuals achieve both their personal and career goals and overcome any barriers to success.  Gilly was also an IBM Blue Core Coaching Supervisor, an Advanced Sales Coaching Advisor, and an active participant in the Womens’ BRG leading sessions focused on personal branding and leadership.  She therefore has a real understanding of the challenges often faced in progressing successful careers and achieving the balance and fulfilment we deserve.

Heidi Normandin is a certified NeuroCoach and certified Clinical EFT (Tapping) Practitioner. She specializes in helping women who appear successful on the outside but are held back by self-doubt, anxiety, or health challenges (e.g., IBS, fibromyalgia). She blends several research-based methods to help her clients create dithe careers, businesses, and lives they know they’re capable of. Heidi has a master’s degree in public policy and in her previous career she worked with university researchers and elected officials.

Heli Heartland is an action and impact focused, ICF-accredited Executive and Team Coach and NLP Master Practitioner with 25+ years of client lead, coaching and strategy experience from consultancies, creative agencies and client-side.

As coach Heli creates clarity and empowers leaders to activate their best selves, lead by example and drive the transformation of their working culture. Heli also coaches and upskills hybrid teams in agile ways of working such as virtual co-creation, involving customers and stakeholders, and working with pace and transparency.

Currently based in London, UK, but working globally, Heli’s recent corporate and public sector clients include HP, Novartis, UBS, IHG, Nokia, LEGO and the governments of Brazil, Kenya and Jordan. Heli also coaches disruptive start-ups and she is an Advisory Board member for the award-winning The Unmistakables (inside-out inclusion). Heli’s pro bono coaching work focuses on the Marketing Academy’s UK and US Scholarship programs.

Jacqueline Lawler is a leadership coach and organizational consultant. Over her more than 30-year career, she has been a change partner and leadership coach in both internal and external
roles. Jacqueline has worked in the energy, finance, home healthcare, government and non-profit industries. She has worked with small start-ups and in Fortune 500 companies and currently runs her own consulting company, J.Lawler & Associates, LLC

Jacqueline holds a master’s degree in Organizational Development and a certificate in Managing Change from the Harvard School of Business. She also holds a Doctor of Ministry Degree from United Theological Seminary with a focus on organizational effectiveness and leadership. She is certified in the Leadership Profile Assessment.

Jacqueline loves encouraging others, supporting her community, reading and gardening. She is a wife, mother and Nana.

Jamie Greenwood is a self-care and leadership coach who teaches big-dreaming, high-achieving women how to take exquisite care of themselves, without an ounce of guilt. With over 14 years coaching experience, Jamie specializes in helping women get really clear on who they are, how they want to live and then actually doing it on their own terms.

Jane is an executive coach specializing in helping leaders grow personally and professionally to help get the results they desire.

Jane’s coaching is informed by over 25 years of international business experience. Prior to becoming a coach she held a variety of global sales and marketing leadership positions in the technology and fast-moving consumer goods industries. She has lived and worked in Asia and led diverse global teams.

Her business and cross-cultural experience helps her provide practical insights for clients to achieve their potential. She helps clients build upon their talents and grow their capacity to overcome barriers hindering success. Jane offers fresh perspectives to clients in ways that are easy to understand and implement. Clients describe her as strategic, effective, compassionate, and pragmatic.

Jane holds an MBA in General Management and is a Certified Professional Integral Coach.

As an Executive Coach and team facilitator for leaders of global companies, Jane SK invests in understanding each client’s complex context and competing demands, having spent 11 years analyzing organizations and supporting solutions as a former finance professional (JP Morgan and Bankers Trust).

Her down-to-earth approach and “Why” questions prompt clients to re-assess how they navigate and influence their peers and stakeholders. Others’ perception of us is often different from our intended impact – understanding this improves one’s effectiveness and satisfaction. Given half of her life was spent in Europe and Asia, adapting to different styles while remaining true to self is a forte and a personal passion. Bringing the “Human” into our Team meetings is also a focus and increasingly needed engagement skill needed by successful leaders.

She invests in key communities: prior Chairwoman of the Compass Center DV organization, former Board member of the Hotchkiss School and refugee career-coaching. Her purpose as a PCC Business Coach is to prompt top leaders and their Teams to adapt and keep growing, themselves, the business and its people.

Joule L’Adara, MFA, is an experimental vocalist, holistic vocal coach, and sound facilitator based in New York City. She is the founder of Sounding Circles, offering sound-based practices that support well-being in the workplace and personal transformational development. She has worked with global companies including Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, WeWork Wellness, and Planned Parenthood, as well as training sound practitioners through live workshops, retreats, and online courses. Her vocal meditation programs have been featured nationally at the New York Open Center, Integral Yoga Institute, Donna Karan’s Urban Zen, Unplug Meditation, The Green Spa, Naturopathica, The Dorot Institute, New York City’s Community Healthcare Network, The WOOM Center, The Big Quiet, The Samadhi Center for Yoga and Meditation Denver, The Globe Institute San Francisco, Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Program in Los Angeles, and at Kalani Oceanside Retreat Hawaii. Additionally, Joule is a professional singer who has performed with The Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall.

Juliet is an insightful and pragmatic consultant, facilitator, coach and designer of learning interventions with considerable experience in a range of management settings.

Juliet mixes her operational experience and focus on customer relationships to deliver impactful organizational results. She has solid experience as a business leader, and has the ability to practically link leadership development needs to business performance. In the last 10+ years, her areas of focus have included organisational, team and leadership development for a range of professional levels in medium to large international companies from various industries such as high-tech, automotive, pharmaceutical, retail and finance.

Juliet is a certified professional coach (PCC) and a faculty member for Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) certification. She led the translation of Mastering Leadership into Chinese. She is native in Mandarin and fluent in English.

Juliet lives in Beijing. She is also a volunteer coach/facilitator for non-profit organisations such as Special Olympics, Career Intelligence and Women Alliance.

Karen Delk, M.Sc., is an executive coach who works with ambitious professionals who want to move from the cubicle to the C Suite. Her clients work primarily in Fortune 100 companies and she works with leaders in non-profit organizations. Her work with global leaders has given her keen insight on what companies seek in executive leadership.

Karen is a member of the Yale University School of Management Executive Education Program providing coaching on leadership skills, personal authenticity, and other essentials for success. She also provides group coaching to women from a variety of industries.

Karen has over 25 years of experience supporting and developing individuals and leaders in Fortune 50 organizations to reach their highest potential. Her expertise includes organizational design, strategic planning, change management, executive coaching, talent acquisition, and talent development for next-generation leaders.

Karin is a leadership development and career coach, a trainer and facilitator with an extensive background in the corporate sector gained over 16 years in senior positions in a global top 10 FTSE company. She has worked across many different industries, such as consultancy, tech, financial services/banking, law firms, retail, the entertainment industry, automotive and the charity sector to name just a few. Karin has a great passion for exploring and understanding life from different perspectives.

She has worked across many different cultures and lived in Germany, the UK and the US. She is infinitely curious about people, their views, their backgrounds and their ambitions, but also about what drives and constrains them. Karin believes there are few things more rewarding than helping people grow, develop and live up to their potential. Her expertise comes from her professional and personal experience combined with approachability, personal integrity and kindness. Karin was born and raised in Germany and lives in London/UK. She holds a master’s degree in business from Goettingen University. Karin is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and sits on the board of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS). She is a Certified Integral Development Coach™ through New Ventures West, an Accredited Strengths Profile Practitioner, a LINC Personality Profiler Trainer & Coach and a certified Social Styles & Versatility instructor.

Kate has been on a leadership and mindfulness path for over 25 years. Some of her education and training includes, Certified facilitator of the Leadership Circle Profile, Certified meditation and yoga teacher, a Certified Access practitioner, extensive training in Somatic Coaching work. Her 8 years in an Ashram community include studies with master teachers and daily meditation. She holds a BS degree from Penn State in Psychology and Gender Studies. Her career has included; department head at the Telluride Ski Resort, owning a retail and nutrition business, operating SpearVision consulting firm and Katespear.com. Her current work includes executive team and leadership coaching, leading retreats internationally, conscious business consulting and coaching individuals in personal transformation. She is the founder of Radiant Tribe. Hiking into the high country is a passion for Kate and when she’s not working on her memoir of her life in an ashram, she is spending time with her 3 daughters.

Lauren Streb is an executive coach and leadership consultant who helps women leaders achieve a deeper kind of success.  Her work is informed by 16 years of experience as a manager, mentor, and coach as well as her background as a meditation and yoga instructor.  Her private clients are emerging leaders through senior executives who want to leverage personal crossroads to up-level their skills and experience greater professional fulfillment.  In her signature program – 6-Week Confidence Accelerator for Women Leaders – she teaches a blend of practical tips and inner-awareness tools to overcome self-generated obstacles.   She also presents corporate leadership workshops, facilitates small team development sessions, leads women’s leadership circles, and hosts workshops in her backyard.

Linda Beitz is principal and founder of Solutions Through Dialogue, LLC www.solutionsthroughdialogue.com, a boutique leadership development firm that works with individuals, teams, and organizations globally and across sectors. As a well-trained and extensively experienced leadership development coach, consultant, facilitator, and conflict specialist – the throughline in her services is her commitment to growing her clients’ consciousness, capability, and action confidence to scale the challenges and demands they face in the systems in which they work and live.

Linda holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and is credentialed as an: Individual and Team coach, Mediator, Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner, Immunity to Change Workshop Facilitator, Leadership Circle Profile and Collective Leadership 360 Assessor, and Boss Whisperer – specialized coaching for leaders with chronic abrasive behaviors. More importantly, she brings an appetite for discovery and an accompanying openness of heart and mind to all client relationships – along with honesty, warmth, humor, optimism, and love.

Lois Shannon is the founder of TheWomansNetwork.com (TWN) a space of authentic connection where women reclaim our womanhood and engage in conscious living. She spent the last 4-5 years on an intensive path of self discovery training to facilitate Mindfulness and Family Constellations and engaging with Somatic Work, Five Rhythm Dance, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and numerous other approaches to self awareness. Lois spent 19 years in Europe, originally sent there to work for Apple Computer in Paris in 1995.

She was subsequently a Partner at Russell Reynolds Associates in London, an executive search firm, where she established and ran their Internet practice. She was in the Wall Street Journal in 1999 as one of the top 30 Business Women in Europe and she and her husband, Tom Virden, were in the WSJ in 2000, as the Internet Couple of Europe. Before leaving the US, Lois was with Apple Computer in Cupertino and prior to that was a Consultant at Bain and Company in Boston, MA. Lois is an intrepid explorer having travelled extensively covering all continents. She and her family (with three teenage children) moved to Boulder three years ago from the South of France after attending the first Emerging Women Live in 2013. Lois holds a B.A. degree in French and Economics from Duke University.

Mark Dawson is Founder and Managing Partner of Benton & Muse Consulting, a firm dedicated to digital business strategy, program management, enterprise solutions, and information technology transformation. He was named one of the “100 Most Important Blacks in Technology” by Black Engineer Magazine because of his consistency in making a positive and lasting impact on the clients, corporations, and communities he is committed to serving.

A graduate of Jackson State University and native Chicagoan, Mark grew up engaged in his community and believes education and action are the cornerstones of self and economic empowerment. To that end, the father of three Incorporated actively serves on the Board of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta. He also serves on the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Committee. Dawson is also an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Technology Association of Georgia.

When you work with Matt, you’re working with an ICF-accredited executive coach with over 25 years of management experience and expertise in building self-awareness, conscious communication, and mindful leadership. Matt has helped hundreds of leaders, founders, and entrepreneurs reach their full potential to optimize their impact on people, planet, and profit.

Melody is a senior leadership consultant, organizational coach and facilitator based in Hong Kong. Melody supports global clients to develop and strengthen their leadership capabilities through coaching, and designing, delivering and managing leadership development programs and workshops.

Melody is a certified organizational coach (IECL). She is certified in Hogan Assessment and the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP). Melody holds a Master of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Bachelor of Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) Charterholder.

Melody is a native Mandarin speaker and is fluent in English and Cantonese. She is a passionate scuba diver, having dived in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, and Maldives. She enjoys reading, fitness and music. She has worked and lived in Beijing, Hangzhou, Singapore, New York and now lives in Hong Kong.

Renée Dineen is a best-selling author, TEDx & motivational speaker, and founder of the Deep Tissue Living Institute, a coaching and consulting platform dedicated to doing the deepest work with those who never thought they could. Prior to launching her own coaching & consulting practice, Renée spent over 20 years in global senior leadership roles in the high tech and biotech industries, including five years working and living oversees in Switzerland.

Renée is deeply passionate about developing more conscious organizations, leaders, entrepreneurs, and human beings who love themselves, live their lives and lead their organizations and communities with greater presence, intention, care and flow.

In February 2020, Renée took her own story to the TEDx stage. Her talk titled ‘Authentic Inaction: Undoing the Doing in a Do Crazy World’ is an account of her own trials and tribulations as a “doing addict” and workaholic. Her talk has reached over 600K views and supports her mission to revolutionize the way we work, play & relate to one another and our purpose.

Renée holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology. Her coaching approach borrows from numerous coaching accreditations, including the gold-standard International Coaching Federation accreditation.

Renée lives in Sacramento, California with her husband, Sean, two teenagers and their beloved dog Atlas. As a family, they are fueled by their passion for travel, which includes 50+ countries and counting.

Robin guides leaders in fast-moving, high-pressure environments to get clear about their purpose, build stronger relationships, and shift deep beliefs and patterns. They develop greater inner strength, resilience and confidence. They make better decisions and become better leaders of themselves and others, as they navigate change in complex systems.

Robin brings 30+ years of global experience as an executive coach, facilitator, consultant and thought leader. Clients include ABB, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, Fujitsu and Banco Santander. She’s taught the core MBA leadership class at Simmons, been a fellow at Harvard University and worked in 29 countries.

Robin has served as Deloitte’s global thought leader on the human aspects of organizational performance; VP global production at Cole-Haan; and strategy & operations consultant with Kurt Salmon. She holds an M.A. in Int’l Economic Policy and a B.S. in Engineering from University of Florida; is a graduate of leading modalities of coaching, group dynamics and somatic psychotherapy; is a Purpose Guide™ and has practiced meditation & yoga for 23 years.

Sage B. Hobbs is a coach, speaker, author of Naked Communication: Courageously Create the Relationships You Really Want, and host of The Naked Conversations Podcast. She’s known for her bold, insightful, and dynamic approach to communication, relationships, and personal growth.

Sage works with both individual and groups to cultivate courage, self-expression, and freedom. With a quick ability to see the underlying challenges, she supports her clients to unleash their voice, take action, and transform their status quo. Sage is dedicated to working with people to make a positive impact in their communities and the world.

Sage holds a Bachelor’s Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Colorado Denver. Prior to creating her current work, she spent a decade working with teens and families to navigate the wild path of growing up. She’s also a mom of two, a cancer survivor, a proud teacher’s wife, a “retired” school counselor, a world traveler, a living room dance party aficionado, and a book lover.

I began my career in the Blue-Chip Consumer Packaged Goods world with Kraft Foods and then as a Strategic Communications Planner at WPP. 18 years ago, I joined marketing capability consultancy, Brand Learning, part of Accenture since 2017. I specialized in learning & culture and I championed our work in Learning, Personal Development and Facilitation. As well as flying around the world delivering learning programs myself, I trained and developed the global facilitator team to engage individually and inspire change organizationally. My experience spans capability, wellbeing and culture change where I’ve been privileged to work with wonderful clients from Novartis, Mars, Verizon and Unilever. To optimize the value I add in the personal space, I gained a coaching qualification 16 years ago and now my focus is on personal and corporate values and purpose. In summary, I stand for developing healthy high performance so people and brands can flourish.

Sarah is recognized as a coach and facilitator for her insight and warmth, as well as highly professional approach. She draws on a wide range of influences and resources, and her experience of over twenty years’ working to deliver learning and development with blue chip clients such as EY, Shell, BP, Linklaters, Lovells, OFT, and ACCA.

She has a particular interest in team development, as well as coaching within the team context, having chosen to investigate team coaching for her MSc research project. Sarah has been invited to work with senior leadership teams, and has designed and run numerous retreats and team awaydays, often for teams facing significant challenges, new teams, and those going through periods of change.

Sarah has been designing, facilitating and delivering learning events for over twenty years, and specialises in helping teams and individuals reach peak performance though her flexible yet focused approach. She has designed and delivered bespoke programmes in Leadership skills, Consulting skills, Facilitation, Communication skills, Influencing and Presentation skills. Most recently she has been involved in the delivery of a global women’s development program which includes a three day workshop supplemented by six 1-1 coaching sessions, and a series of masterclasses.

Professional Highlights 

• ICF Certified Master Coach
• 15 + years leadership and  organization and executive  search consulting
• 10 years CHRO for a national  real estate company
• COO for international service firm.

Previous Clients 

• C-Suite Executives & Corporate Leaders
• Not-for Profit Organizations
• Federal Agencies
• Education
• Management Consulting
• Career Transition Center of  Chicago
• Real Estate, Retail, Manufacturing, Marketing/Sales,  Technology, Financial  Services

Education 

• Leadership Coaching, Executive Facilitation, Georgetown University, School of Transformational  Leadership
• M.A. Communications, New  York University
• B.A., Bar Ilan University

Certifications & Trainings 

• Master Certified Coach (MCC)  – International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Leadership Circle Profile
• Emotional Intelligence
• EQ-i 2.0 & EQ360
• Hogan Assessment
• Search Inside Yourself
• DiSC Training
• TOP Facilitation & Strategic  Planning & Consensus Building
• Five Behaviors of a Cohesive  Team Facilitator

As an Executive Coach and Facilitator, I support leaders and their teams, helping them find clarity and chart their paths toward their envisioned future. I help my  clients maximize their strengths, draw from their experience and empower them to  break through obstacles to achieve their potential.

As Principal of Sharon Krohn Consulting, I handle executive coaching and facilitation  and Leadership Development engagements, and work with clients across the  management spectrum in areas including corporate and not for profit leadership,  technology, education, finance, real estate, insurance, and faith-based  organizations. Prior to establishing my consulting practice, I spent 10 years as a  CHRO with a national real estate firm and as COO for a hotel real estate company.

In working with my clients, I draw from my executive experience and from coaching and  assessing thousands of leaders. My coaching is practical and targeted and focused on  helping my clients connect to their strengths, set specific objectives and create and  execute a plan for success. My strength is in developing trusting relationships with  clients that provide a safe space for developing new awareness and insight for personal  and professional growth. I believe that success begins inside, and I support my clients to  appreciate themselves, enabling their strengths to emanate in work and life. As  executive coach I have watched my clients gain insights from the coaching process that  have been transformational.

Clients include leaders from such organizations as: Turner Construction, Wrigley/Mars  Company, Jones Lang LaSalle, CBRE, Adobe, Cushman and Wakefield, Navigant, BMO,  Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company, Mass Mutual, Federal Reserve Bank, ICSC  Foundation, JUF, Department of Homeland Security, Habitat for Humanity, Spertus  College, Elmhurst College, Chicago Booth and Chief. 

An interactive workshop facilitator and frequent speaker, I deliver engaging Leadership Development presentations, Lunch and Learn and networking events for  corporate clients, associations, universities and women’s initiatives, in the live and  virtual space. Recent clients include CIBC, Shorewood Bank, GTL, IWIRE, CoreNet, Spertus, CREW Chicago, Iowa, Cleveland & Pittsburgh. I facilitate ongoing  roundtables for C level executives.

Recent workshop topics include Effective Virtual Engagement, Harnessing Emotional  Intelligence for Career Success, Trust-Based Relationships and High Functioning  Teams, Career Development Planning, Consensus Brainstorming, Strategic Planning,  Negotiating Your Best Offer, Developing Effective Interview Skills, Onboarding,  Mindful Transitions, Understanding Your DiSC, Developing Executive Presence and Listen Better. 

In addition to working with private clients, I serve as Coach and Facilitator at the  Career Transition Center of Chicago. I also currently serve as Co-President of the  Board of the Georgetown University Institute for Transformational Leadership  Network and have served as Chair of the ITL Network National Conference.

Sheila has been working with wonderful, engaging women for the last 25 years supporting them through change and transition and helping them navigate the turbulent seas of organisational and personal life. She coaches leaders and executives across a range of sectors including the UK Civil Service and facilitates cross – cultural teams, large & small to engage and connect with each other. She has a Master’s degree in coaching and mentoring. Her research specialism is authentic leadership and how this shows up in the stories leaders tell. She is a trained and enthusiastic storyteller herself and runs regular Story Parties coaching people how to stand up and share their personal stories. Her clients describe her as ‘supportive and insightful’, ‘challenging with heart’ with a ‘searching and open determination!’

Sky Jarrett is a transformational leadership coach, mindfulness instructor, and pioneer of 21st century leadership. She is actively serving senior executives and emerging leaders in private, public, and non-profit organizations across multiple industries in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Sky specializes in helping leaders harness more of their authentic power to live and lead with more ease, impact, and a better quality of life. Her transformative approach to increasing leadership maturity helps leaders deepen their self-awareness, cultivate adaptive leadership skills, and build personal mastery in reprograming unconscious patterns to achieve higher levels of effectiveness and performance.

As a certified instructor, advocate, and change agent for mindfulness, Sky has been instrumental in helping leaders at Fortune 500 companies across the globe expand their capacity to deal with the relentless and fast-paced challenges of life in the 21st century through the integrated application of neuroscience techniques, mindfulness, leadership maturity, and adult development theories.

Sonya is an executive coach whose work is deeply influenced by her twenty plus years of experience as an attorney and business owner. She is a systems thinker whose approach takes into account the complexities and nuances of the client’s environment—both professional and personal—to support them in constructing and implementing a mission-driven vision of leadership that aligns with their distinct values. Sonya has a particular interest in working with leaders at their growth edge to enhance their understanding of their intersecting identities, inner critics, and saboteurs. In doing so, she empowers each client to lead with creativity, vulnerability, and authenticity.

Sonya is Founder and Principal of Affinity Coaching, LLC. She holds a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership and is certified to administer The Leadership Circle ProfileTM 360º assessment and the full suite of Hogan Assessments.

Stephanie is a first Chinese person to receive Master Certified Coach accredited (MCC) by ICF and Master Practitioner (MP) award from EMCC. She is also a qualified Coaching Supervisor, Mentor Coach, ICF Assessor and a Coach Trainer.

She has coached and facilitated workshops over 4,000 hours with 34 nationalities and 10 industries including Chemical, Finance, FMCG, Health Care, Luxury Retail, Oil & Energy, Professional Services, Telecom, Technology and Universities. Companies include BASF, HSBC, Dutch Bank, BNP Paribas, Nike, MARS, LVMH, Richemont Group, Exxon Mobile, Telstra, SAP, University of Hong Kong, Peking/Tsing Hua University, Keio University etc. A broad range of international clients from millennial, zillennial, young talents, individual contributors, startup, private bankers, hedge fund bankers, middle management to senior executives and C-suite level.

Stephanie Yost, CPCC, is the owner of GumTree LLC, a coaching and consulting company for executives and emerging leaders. She is one of the CEO coaches for the Techstars Accelerator Program in partnership with The Nature Conservatory; an Associate for the London based coaching organization of White & Lime LTD, and the Founder of WiNGs, the Women’s Network Group of PA.

Stephanie is passionate about personal, organizational and cultural change. Dedicated to helping both individuals and teams achieve purposeful alignment, she has spent the last sixteen years witnessing the power of authentic presence and how entire systems shift from the clarity any one individual brings to it.

Stephanie reconnects leaders in a profound, yet playful, way to their innate power and passion. She brings depth, freedom and focus to their highest capabilities, increasing the impact of their leadership and the satisfaction derived from relationships, both professional and personal.

Sweta Chawla PharmD, MS is a Former Professor of Pharmacy and Clinical and Residency Director turned Speaker, Author and Life & Leadership Coach. She has been called a “copywriter for the soul” and serves hardworking individuals and groups who want to step further into their potential without compromising their integrity and well-being. She supports her clients to liberate themselves and helps illuminate how to bridge from reluctant or dutiful leader to leading with joy by supporting them to reveal and own their authentic brilliance.

Tanis Frame is a sought after leadership coach, long time speaker and gifted facilitator who helps passionate people create the impact they are called to make in the world while thriving deeply in all aspects of their lives. She spearheads the LUMINOUS LEADERSHIP COLLECTIVE and the DECIDE TO THRIVE MOVEMENT as well as partnering with leadership development organizations globally. 

Tanis is relentlessly curious about what cultivates thriving in life and in leadership and what gets in the way. She is known for her ability to create powerful space for learning, and for making growth and connection fun. 

When she’s not helping everyday leaders live deeply aligned lives of meaning, impact and joy, you’ll find her playing in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada with her husband, teen girls, pup or horses.

Wendy May is a purpose coach, self-inquiry guide, and conscious business and leadership consultant. She is the author of “Regenerative Purpose: The Dynamic Nature of the Way We Choose Work,” which introduces a frame-breaking perspective on purpose work as dynamic, interdependent, and regenerative. She uses the Enneagram in private sessions, immersion programs, and personal development workshops, having received her teacher certification from the Enneagram Institute. Wendy is also the founder of GLITTEREVOLUTION, a purpose-based small business that uses biodegradable glitter as a vehicle for raising ecological awareness.

A Harvard alumna with a graduate business degree from UCLA, Wendy started on her own coaching and consulting business in 2015 after leaving a 15-year career in corporate management roles, and leadership and organizational consulting. Through her writing, speaking, coaching, facilitation and teaching, Wendy supports the creation of a world of work that works for everyone.

Yan is a social entrepreneur and leadership development coach. As the first Mainland Chinese who studied integral psychology in California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a cutting-edge school in the field of conscious studies, Yan was awarded with Diversity Leadership Scholarship. Yan then worked as a Human Resources professional in New York and trained in Ecosystem Leadership, Somatic Leadership, Growth Edge Coach Training and Leadership Circle Profile.  As a native from Beijing, China, Yan has lived in US, Canada, India, Tajikistan, and UK for the last 20 years, and worked for international organizations including Doctors Without Borders, and 100 Fortune company. She is currently the co-founder of Conscious Bridge, a San Francisco based organization that provides leadership coaching service and supports personal and team transformation of Chinese in both US and China. Yan also holds a personal passion in supporting women leaders to shine and live up to their potential.