Associates

Philadelphia, PA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

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Lindsey is a consultant and coach specializing in the design and delivery of Emotional Intelligence-based leadership programs. Prior to becoming an independent contractor, Lindsey worked in-house at Teleos Leadership Institute as a coach, consultant and manager of the Teleos Coach Development Program.

As a coach, Lindsey partners with clients to create an energized and compelling vision and engages their hearts, minds, and bodies to make the changes needed to execute their vision. Lindsey integrates a somatic approach to coaching and uses body-based practices to help clients build mindfulness and greater embodiment as they identify and move towards who they need to become to fulfill their goals. She supports leaders in developing self-awareness to maximize their leadership potential and to create positive workplace climates where people grow and thrive.

Pittsburgh, PA

Ann L. Begler helps individuals and organizations create the vision and structures essential to forward movement. She is the founder and principal of the Begler Group, a Pittsburgh consulting firm that helps clients build and restore human connection, foster individual accountability, support personal development and culminate in energized and aligned systems.

The insight and skill Ann brings to her clients is built on a long career of personal and professional training and growth. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, followed by her law degree from Duquesne University’s School of Law. After working for many years as a practicing lawyer, Ann completed initial and advanced training in mediation, and later, in various other forms of conflict management processes. In addition to her work in mediation and conflict management, Ann acquired basic and advanced training in gestalt therapy through the Gestalt Institute of New England. She has completed internationally acclaimed certificate programs in both Organizational and Systems Development, and Group Process, each developed by the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. While Ann’s work has always included support on an individual level, she decided to bring her one-on-one work with individuals more into focus by completing the International Coach Federation’s certified training program offered by Teleos Leadership Institute, a consulting firm in Philadelphia. Teleos is recognized as a thought leader in the field of emotional intelligence. Ann is certified through the International Coaching Federation.

Ann was a long-time managing partner of her law firm. Her professional recognitions include being elected as a Zone Governor to the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Chair of the Dispute Resolution Committees of both the Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations, and an appointment as Chair of a Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission Advisory Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ann has served as the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s sole mediator for the Western District, serves as a member of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC’s) Mediation Panel, and is a member of the mediation panel for the U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. She is an active member of various other professional organizations.

The Pennsylvania Bar Association has recognized Ann for her career of accomplishments by honoring her with the Ann X. Alpern award for her life long support of women in the legal profession, with the Francis Bacon Award for her leadership in the field of Dispute Resolution, and a Special President’s award for her pioneering efforts in mediation. Most recently, the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania has selected Ann to receive the Conflict Resolution Day Award for her long history of contributions to the field of dispute resolution. The Women and Girls Foundation of Western Pennsylvania has included Ann with a small group of women it has recognized for lifelong work in the field of justice.

Ann left her practice of law in 2000 to devote her full attention to organizational consulting, executive coaching and conflict management. She has consulted to, coached and advised for a range of family enterprise systems, closely held businesses, educational institutions, professional practice groups, health care systems, non-profit organizations, corporations and various segments of municipal government.

England / Bahrain

Leadership Development, DEI

Isa Buencamino is a Leadership Development Specialist, Coach, Facilitator and Diversity and Inclusion advocate. She founded What’s Inside Ltd. 4 years ago, born out of a desire to help others find their purpose, accomplish it and be happy. She bases her work on believing that most of what one needs to succeed is already in them.

Originally from the Philippines, Isa has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Bahrain. Thirty years doing leadership development, she has worked for multinational organisations across sectors that include consumer goods, construction, facilities management, healthcare, mining, government and education. In the last 4 years, Isa has focused on coaching leaders in Africa and South America and running the Women of the World Group Coaching Programme.

She is an ICF accredited coach (PCC) and Resilient Leader Consultant.

Philadelphia, PA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Anne Callan, MPH, PCC is an accredited executive coach and consultant whose career has spanned a range of organizational development functions, including talent and people strategy, change management, employee engagement and strategic planning. Anne is particularly passionate about individual and team effectiveness at the senior level in order to align relationship-driven leadership with the needs of the business and the system(s) at play. Until 2017, she held a dual role as Managing Director for Organizational Development and Learning at Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) and Chief Operating Officer of the Public Health Fund, PHMC’s public charity. In addition to her private practice, Anne created and currently oversees PHMC’s in-house management coaching and consulting function. Her background includes training and credentialing from Teleos Leadership Institute, the Academy of Executive Coaching, and the International Coach Federation, all world-class organizations with a global footprint on human development in business settings. Anne has a BA in English from Georgetown University and a Masters in Public Health from Drexel University and lives outside Philadelphia with her husband, kids, and a massive lego collection.

Edinburgh, UK

Executive Coaching, Leadership Development

Lee has been working in Learning and Development for 17 years. She has worked with senior and mid level leaders in a range of industries such as Banking, FMCG, Financial Services, Energy and her Third Sector clients include The Obama Foundation, V&A, Royal Exchange Theatre, Mary’s Meals, ZOA and Comic Relief. She has facilitated multi-modular Leadership Programmes in Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australasia and Africa. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer at Chicago Booth Business School in London and at University of Edinburgh Business School and she is an Executive Coach at London Business School.

Prior to going out on her own Lee worked in Retail Management as a General Manager with full P&L responsibility for several multi-million turnover Borders Book and Music stores in the UK. She was responsible for all site operations and earned recognition for highest growth and operational excellence. She led store turnarounds and opened new sites, as well as taking on cluster manager responsibility. Her business and leadership experience informs how she supports leaders to turn theory into practice and make learning relevant to organisation needs.

As well as running her own leadership company she founded a national not-for-profit organisation focusing on increasing gender equality in UK politics. She has presented at the UK House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament. She also has Board experience, having served 3 years as Board Vice-Chair of UK women’s rights charity The Fawcett Society. Leadership is a practice not just theory for her and she has taken this into the political world with a run for the Scottish Parliament under her belt.

In her client work she integrates theory and practice with a spirit of play and lightness to produce breakthrough results for her clients. She is accredited in a number of personality assessments (NEO, EQi 2.0, Hogan) and systemic intervention tools (Organisational Constellations, The Oshry Organisation Workshop, Barratts Culture Transformation Tools) all of which informs her work with clients.

She has recently set up a new project called Midlife Revolution in order to provide support and coaching specifically to women in midlife who she feels are a force to be reckoned with.

Lee has a BA in Philosophy from University of Stirling, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Leeds, an MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities from the London School of Economics and is currently completing a Research Masters in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She also has a Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Regents University, London. Her coach training comes from The Newfield Network (ontological approach) and the Teleos Leadership Institute (Gestalt approach).

Lee is a member of the International Coach Federation, through which she holds the Master Certified Coach (MCC) accreditation, the top tier accreditation available and is also an ICF Mentor Coach.

Stamford, CT

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Carroll is an experienced and passionate coach for senior executives, women leaders, technical leaders and high potentials – leaders who are compelled to make a greater difference – as they transition to a new role, re-invigorate their influence in their current role, or look to discern what is next. She helps leaders achieve their desired change while bringing out the best in themselves and the people they lead.

Over the past 20 years, Carroll worked as an executive consultant, and in executive roles ranging from HR leader for IBM’s Analytics business, Global Executive Succession & Development director, and director of IBM’s portfolio of global executive leadership development and assessment programs. She advanced IBM’s approaches to identify, assess and develop current and future leaders through design, development and delivery of action learning based change initiatives, core leadership programs, assessment centers, and custom solutions.

Carroll has coached and consulted with hundreds of executives and many senior leadership teams around the globe to elevate their leadership impact as they transform their businesses. Her experience includes leaders and teams in IBM’s Software, Consulting, Technology, Research, Services, Sales, and Financial Services organizations, in locations across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. She has further experience with leaders and teams in healthcare, market research and industrial, as well as small business, higher education and non-profits.

She is empathic and insightful, creating a results-oriented environment of joint exploration to help clients create and sustain their desired growth, impact and well being. Her coaching is grounded in intentional change, emotional and social intelligence, adult development, neuroscience research, and her deeply held value of service.

Carroll founded Connacher Coaching & Consulting LLC, building upon her corporate career, and creating her own intentional change to more fully live her purpose. She is an Associate at Teleos Leadership Institute, serves as an executive coach for Weatherhead Executive Education at Case Western Reserve University and is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. Carroll earned her BA in Computer Science at Boston University, her MBA at New York University, and her MA in Community Counseling at Fairfield University. Carroll loves yoga, the outdoors, cooking for family and friends, travel, and helping to make the world a better place.

Rockville, MD

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

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Kaye Craft is an organization development consultant, a master facilitator/trainer, and an executive coach. For each engagement and work assignment, Kaye keeps her eye on each level of system: individual, group, team, and organization, knowing that sustainable change, the best project and business results, and the best work relationships come from the integration and alignment of the work throughout the system.

Kaye’s current work engagements are focused in four areas: building relational cultures; diversity, equity, and inclusion; leadership and team development; and executive development through coaching. Her work engagements have been in a variety of cultural contexts including US, Asia, Africa, Caribbean, and Europe. Some of the organizations that she has worked with are: Air Products, MTV Networks, HealthNet, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Open Society, Viacom, Nickelodeon, US Justice Department, BP, SEIU, John Jay College, National Skills Coalition, and NIH. Also, Kaye founded and maintains her own consulting firm. Prior to starting her own firm, Kaye was employed as an OD Consultant at ExxonMobil Corporation.

In the area of building relational cultures, Kaye’s work focuses on using various forms of engagement and relational practices to build or rebuild connection, relationship, and engagement with and among all stakeholders. Strengthened relationships help build organizational wellbeing and can become a leverage and launching point for advancing strategic priorities. In the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Kaye helps clients move from the diversity activity level to the strategic level, ensuring that all diversity activity including workshops and coaching are aligned with broader business and organizational goals. In the area of leadership and team development, a theme that runs through many of the leadership and team experiences that Kaye designs is the accountability of the leader for the work climate, and the work culture, as well as for the work products and business and organization results.

As an executive coach, Kaye works with Mid-level to C-suite leaders. Together they address such topics as: accountability vs. control; creating an inclusive, relational, positive, and achieving climate and culture; leading the new generations of workers; leading, coaching and mentoring across differences. She helps increase the client’s resilience and willingness to change by heightening the client’s strengths and by clarifying their goals for change.

Kaye holds a B.A. from Hampton U, an M.S. from Columbia U, and an M.B.A. from NYU. In addition, she completed the Certificate Program in Organization and Systems Development at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. She now holds the ICF designation of Professional Certified Coach as well as the designation of Board Certified Coach. Kaye received her coaching certification through the Teleos’ Coach Development Program and is thrilled to be one of the faculty for Teleos’ cutting-edge, extremely timely, Coaching and Race Workshop. Kaye is a Certified Wellness Inventory Facilitator; certified in the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator; and qualified in the use of the Strength Deployment Inventory and the StrengthsFinder inventory. Kaye is a Past Chair of the Board and a faculty member of NTL Institute, and a member of the National Organization Development Network.

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Org Development

Francesca Della Monica, Senior Consultant in the area of Managerial Development and Coaching.
For thirteen years Human Resources Director at Anglo-Saxon multinationals. She has dealt with managerial development, coaching, staff selection, training, definition of people strategy, reorganizations.

Graduated in Modern Literature at the Catholic University of Milan, she attended in-depth courses in the field of Personal Development, Communication, Conflict Management, Leadership Development and Human Resource Management. Specialized in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and expert in the use of “Voice Dialogue”. She has experience in the use of Psychodrama applied to emotional maintenance. She studied at the Teleos Leadership Institute (Philadelphia – USA), specializing in the use and development of Emotional Intelligence and Leadership.

She is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF – USA) and a certified Executive Coach of the method MBTI® Practitioner with OPP Limited Europe (UK).

She has a certificate and specialization in Mentor Coaching and Supervision.

She is specialized in carrying out Assessment Centers with a focus on the evaluation of personal and managerial potential. She has a solid experience in the management and development of talents, in team building, in the enhancement of diversity. Expert in the expression and management of emotions through movement. As a consultant and coach, she is appreciated for her concrete, empathetic and competent approach that allows clients to achieve greater awareness and accelerate their personal and professional development path.

She has been collaborating for many years with MIP Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan) as an Executive Coach and Lecturer in the Personal Development and Organizational Behavior area; is Adjunct Professor, member of the Faculty of the Business School.

Port St. Lucie, FL

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Org Development

Matt is an experienced, Teleos-trained coach who enjoys serving as a trusted advisor to executives and team leaders. He excels at helping leaders develop deep personal insights to help them more effectively and safely navigate complex organizational and team dynamic issues. Matt has a particular passion and interest in working with leaders moving up to the enterprise leadership level. After nearly three decades as a consultant and thought leader at Hay Group (now Korn Ferry), capped off by his tenure at Teleos, Matt enjoys bringing to his coaching deep insights into organizational and power dynamics, and operating and business models to help current and emergent leaders have the impact they desire while staying true to their best selves.

Philadelphia, PA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

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Dr. Heck is a licensed psychologist and ICF-certified executive advisor practicing in in the Chestnut Hill and Center City areas of Philadelphia. She specializes in psychotherapy and coaching/advising for adults and executives with a wide range of concerns, including: feeling “stuck,” finding work-life balance, being a working parent, resolving work or personal relational problems, and confronting career and life transitions…as well as disruptive mood symptoms such as depression, anxiety, grief, overwhelm, or stress. Dr. Heck has extensive training in a variety of psychotherapy and advising approaches, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, existential, gestalt, relational, and humanistic techniques. Although she tends to favor a psychodynamic approach, she likes to combine what she knows in a way that suits each person’s character and circumstances. She will work with you to find a style that is simultaneously comfortable and effective, so that you can face your challenges with grace, ease, honesty, and insight.

Raleigh, NC.

DEI, Change Management, Leadership Development, Executive and Team Coaching

Harold Hill is an Organization Development (OD) consultant and Leadership Development (LD) facilitator and coach, with the passion and expertise in enabling organizations, teams and leaders to improve their effectiveness and increase their capacity. With over 20 years of relevant LD, coaching, cultural alignment, OD and change management experience, Harold’s clients range across many professional services including health care, technology, hospitality, financial services, insurance, entertainment, government and utility. Clients include, The Walt Disney Company, The National Football League, Ralph Lauren, Zebra Technology, Cox Automotive, Disney Institute, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Advent Health, FLEX and Texas A&M University among others.

Harold was a Senior Consultant with North Highland Consulting and prior to that he was an OD manager with Walt Disney Parks & Resorts (WDP&R) in Orlando, Florida for nearly 10 years. He was responsible for coaching and developing executives and providing consultation in business assessment, strategic planning, organizational design, cultural alignment and change management. Harold also worked for a Chicago area utility for over 15 years in the areas of OD, Diversity & Inclusion and project management.

Harold earned a BS from Bradley University and holds an MBA in Operations Management from DePaul University. He earned a Professional Human Resources (PHR) certification from SHRM and has completed the Principles & Practices of Organization Development program at Columbia University. Harold is a faculty member and practicum supervisor at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the International Organization and System Development programs. He is also a facilitator and trainer for the National Training Laboratory (NTL). Harold completed his ICF ACC Coaching Certification with Teleos Leadership Institute. He also has an Emotional Intelligence certification from Korn Ferry Hay Group. With these for profit and non-profit organizations, Harold delivers coaching and work sessions in South Africa, The UK, Portugal, Germany, Singapore and The Netherlands on topics of strategy, leadership, diversity & inclusion, change, conflict, communication and culture.

San Diego, CA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

Judy works with individual leaders and intact teams to improve leadership effectiveness, align people and processes, identify emerging issues, and assess the sustainability of organizational interventions. She works directly with executive teams, senior staff, and line managers facing diverse strategic business challenges such as unprecedented growth, dramatic market shifts, mergers and acquisitions, and developing the next generation of leaders. Her passion is to build people’s capacity to ask better questions—of themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations.

Experience
Over the past twenty years, Judy has worked in multiple industries and multiple sectors. She works with internal and external clients eager to align organizational structure to emerging business needs, improve global implementations, define improved strategies for effective transitions for both individuals and organizations, and fine tune business integration processes. Her work experience includes Global Management Training and Organizational Development roles at Apple, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Agilent Technologies.

As an independent consultant and executive coach she is focused on providing Assessment, Leadership Development, Organizational Change, and Executive Coaching. Her clients include Gigamon, Quidel Corporation, Cardinal Health, FairIsaac, NetGear, ARC, GE, BP, The Honor Foundation, and the United Nations. In her spare time, she owned and operated a fine-dining restaurant.

Judy holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Masters in Education from Northeastern University and a BS in English Education from Boston University. She is ICF-certified, as well as certified to facilitate Myer-Briggs Type Inventory, Team Management Systems, Thomas-Kilmann Response to Conflict, Emotional Competency Inventories, Judgment Index, Leadership Agility, and various 360 assessments.
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New York, NY

PsyD

Bukky Kolawole, PsyD is a trainer, facilitator and executive coach, with over 14 years experience working with leaders, teams and organizations, including NYC Department of Education and New York University (NYU). Fondly known as Dr. Bukky, she* is dedicated to the design and delivery of dynamic, evocative coaching and learning experiences that enable clients to increase their knowledge, skills and ability to make meaningful changes that not only have professional impact but reverberate personally as well.

The combination of Bukky’s background as a psychologist, her* capacity to help clients access their own internal wisdom through her* deep and empathic listening, and her* strong value for effectiveness are some of the elements that set her* apart from other coaches and facilitators. Her* engagement style as a coach and facilitator is racially sensitive, culturally informed, emotionally engaging and captivating of clients’ hearts and minds. In fact, she* is often described as gifted at creating an emotionally-attuned environment that enables clients to feel seen, accepted and optimally challenged.

Dr. Bukky identifies as Black, Nigerian-American, Queer, and gender non-conforming, and holds a strong value for justice, equity and belonging. Her* purpose is to boldly disrupt systems of oppression with love, in service of an equitable society that permits and supports all people to show up in the fullness of their humanity (i.e., with authenticity and vulnerability).

She* is the Founder and Executive Director of Relationship HQ, a place that exists to nurture vibrant human connection so that anyone served feels whole, seen and celebrated in the mirror and in the world. Relationship HQ proudly centers the healing and growth of people of color and queer folx through a menu of offerings including psychotherapy, coaching, workshops and organizational wellness and transformation programs.

Dr. Bukky holds a doctoral degree (PsyD) in clinical psychology and currently lives in New Jersey with her wife and two young children.

Judy Lohmar – Little Rock, AR

Leadership coach

Judy is certified as a coach through the International Coach Federation. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of South Dakota and a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from Illinois State
University. She is certified in the Emotional & Social Competence Inventory (ESCI), the Hogan assessment, and the Birkman. She is also a certified instructor in Crucial Conversations for Dialog, Crucial Conversations for Accountability, Development Dimension International (DDI) learning systems, and Achieve Forum leadership programs.

Judy has spent more than 25 years leading and implementing learning and talent management solutions that have a measurable impact on business performance. She is currently the Director of Enterprise Learning & Development at Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, where she leads all aspects of leadership development, talent management, succession planning, and learning management. She is also highly engaged in transforming workplace culture through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Outside of Arkansas Blue Cross, Judy maintains a focused leadership coaching practice. Her coaching methodology, which is grounded in emotional intelligence, uses a partnership approach to help leaders leverage their strengths, overcome barriers to success, and increase their impact on business performance. Areas of coaching focus may include helping leaders to transition into larger roles, lead across functions, build team cohesiveness, champion change, and provide more inclusive and influential leadership.

Judy’s proven abilities in navigating and influencing across functions in a complex work environment inform her capabilities as a coach. She is a collaborative communicator skilled in building trust, credibility, and relationships with C-suite leaders. While she has worked in a variety of industries, most of her experience is in health insurance. She also has experience in board leadership within the non-profit sector.

Philadelphia, PA

    

Deb Lane has spent 30+ years running a successful construction business that ranged in scope from small residential projects to work with multi-level large commercial systems with major construction projects. At each level, my particular talent was holding the big picture, and coordinating all of the elements harmoniously and skillfully, no matter the level of system.

Also, for the last 30+ years, Deb Lane have studied, trained, practiced and taught in a philosophy and psychology of human interaction and effective management. These two disciplines have informed, influenced and supported one another—the integration helps me to see, hear, understand and support work at every level of system with practicality, empathy, emotional intelligence and purpose.

The beliefs that guide Deb Lane’s coaching are clear. She sees the coaching client as the ultimate expert on their own experience, values, desires and goals. She works to build trust in one’s own process.

Her careful intent is to cultivate and support the coachee’s awareness of the congruence of those desires and aspirations with developing the strategies to achieve them, and effectively addressing the obstacles, internal and external, that get in the way.

Philadelphia, PA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

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Erica T. Mahady (she/they) is a resolute postmodern leader who strategically partners with others to design and facilitate change that produces positive results. She has 17+ years of experience as an organizational & leadership effectiveness consultant, educator, researcher, keynote public speaker, mindfulness practitioner and credentialed executive coach. Erica works intentionally to bridge the fields of leadership effectiveness, education, organizational science, and well-being.

Erica’s mission is to help leaders and aspiring leaders engage in a thought-provoking, heart-centered, creative process that inspires and challenges clients to maximize personal and professional potential. With a consulting and coaching philosophy grounded in key fundamentals of business and resonant leadership, Erica specializes in fostering cultural transformation through intersectional diversity, equity and inclusion, emotional intelligence, and intentional change. She supports leaders and their teams by facilitating leadership development, creating pathways to leadership/organizational effectiveness, and designing dynamic learning experiences.

For 10 years, Erica provided consulting and coaching services as an internal member of an organizational effectiveness team at a large academic healthcare system in southeastern PA. She was instrumental in the design and management of the Institute for Healthcare Leadership. Additionally, Erica engaged in the development of SELECT, one of the first accredited medical education programs focused on leadership competencies. Holding a faculty appointment at the University of South Florida, she also served as the leadership course director, designed curriculum, and provided coaching to medical students and physician faculty.

Additionally, Erica enjoys partnering with clients to write publications on leadership effectiveness. Her team was awarded the American College of Healthcare Executives award for an outstanding contribution to the healthcare management literature on cultural awareness network implementation. She has also co-presented with senior executives at national conferences on strategies for developing leadership capacity. As an associate with Teleos Leaders in Philadelphia PA, Erica appreciates serving as a faculty member and mentor for ICF accredited coaching development programs. She held a multi-year faculty appointment teaching graduate courses on leadership and communication at Marywood University in Scranton, PA. Erica also enjoys inspiring others and has been invited as a keynote speaker on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Lastly, Erica is a PhD Candidate completing her degree in leadership studies from Alvernia University in Reading, PA. She earned a graduate degree in interdisciplinary communication from Marywood University in Scranton, PA. Erica resides in the greater Philadelphia area with her playful rescue cat Sir Winston. She appreciates spending quality time with loved ones and advocating toward achieving social justice for marginalized communities.

Chicago, Illinois

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

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Shirley has a passion for development and transformation, her clients include Fortune 100 companies, small businesses and Foundations including L’Oreal, Color of Change, Open Society Foundations, Civil Rights Corp, IBM, the Clinton Foundation, UN Foundation, BP, the NFL, the Global Alliance for Clean Cooking, Shell, KPMG, Takeda, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, and Windsor Leadership Trust.

In 2017 she designed and Chaired the very first ‘Inspiring Black and Asian Leader’ Windsor Leadership program delivered at Windsor Castle in September 2017.

Shirley’s successful Chicago based coaching, consulting practice and online training business works with senior leaders, and C suite executives, with a primary, not exclusive, focus on senior women including Women of Color.

Her coaching has an ontological underpinning and is grounded in developing active listening skills, improving emotional intelligence, Gestalt
Theory, working with systems and mindful reflection. Her work includes both individual as well as team coaching.

She is PCC accredited by International Coaching Federation and Faculty on one of only 50 fully accredited ICF programs globally. She has also designed an ICF program on Race for coaches continual development with CEUs. She is trained in Helliger’s Systemic theory, EQ, Gestalt, and an accredited Intercultural Development Inventory Assessor (IDI).

Over the years her diversity work has included supporting the launch of the Soros Equality Fellowship and coached Fellows who are leaders influencing the racial justice field. Delivering Diversity Engagement Sessions to the top 1000 leaders in Shell. She led an award-winning organizational change diversity program, called People Matter, at M & S leading suppliers. She also designed and delivered the diversity and Inclusion program called ‘Daring to be Different’ for all Partners in KPMG UK.

She has spent the last 10 years providing leadership and coaching services to the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives to support the expansion of their critical work.

Dallas, TX

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development

Dr. Michael McElhenie has deep expertise in guiding big changes around the globe. With a foundation in neuroscience, emotional intelligence (EI) and crucial communication, Michael helps leaders navigate the dynamics of executive team and board relationships, and he is often called upon to help leaders scale, merge, integrate and evolve their organizations. His deep neuroscience background launched him into applied emotional intelligence in the early 90’s, and he served on the research, writing, and consulting teams of Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, and Frances Johnston. For over three decades, Michael has supported executives around the globe in developing emotional, social, and decision-making intelligences. Michael and the Teleos team led the United Nation Development Program’s most successful global intervention called “Leadership for Results” aimed at developing emotionally intelligent leadership while creating solutions to critical challenges such as HIV/AIDS, women’s empowerment, and food/water access. Currently, Michael advises global leaders in times of crisis and change, and he works with them to develop empowering, innovative cultures and the emotionally intelligent leadership required to sustain success and navigate our VUCA world. Michael continues to evolve EI-concepts and practices, and his book “Responsive Intelligence” is on track to be published in Summer 2022.

Bethesda, MD

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Spirituality and Leadership

Michael Mellen, PCC, rabbi, is an executive and organizational coach and facilitator, who works with individuals and values-driven organizations to create space for growth, innovation, and possibility. His work with top executives, high potential team members, entrepreneurs, clergy, educators, and boards moves people to see their work, organizations, and lives more holistically, enabling them to better tap into the strengths that can propel them towards a vibrant, equitable, and impactful future. Michael is interested in the knotty problems of leadership, the power of vision, and the joy of creativity.

Charleston, SC

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development

Jennifer S. Moyer is an executive coach and leadership development consultant for JSMoyer Consulting, LLC. She provides executive coaching to all levels of an organization including senior executive rank, mid-level and first time managers, and medical students. Jennifer is certified by the International Coaching Federation and currently has a collection of local, national and international clients. Past and current clients have varied backgrounds including: academic medicine, higher education, technology, banking, energy, hospitality, and charter schools.

Her professional roles have included: director of a service leadership camp, senior administrator in academic medicine, and developer of leadership curriculum for various entities. She was instrumental in the creation of a unique and new medical education curriculum that incorporates emotional intelligence training at the University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine. She is a facilitator for coaching clinics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Jennifer is part of the Teleos Coach Development Program’s faculty as a mentor coach.

Jennifer Moyer is certified in the use and administration of the Emotional & Social Competency Inventory (ESCI) a 360- assessment tool, DiSC, and MBTI, Prism. She is a MBTI Master Practitioner and has been qualified to administer MBTI for over 15 years and is one of approximately 200 people in the world qualified to administer MBTI Step III. Jennifer graduated from Penn State University for her undergraduate education and completed her masters of education degree at the University of Virginia.

Jennifer has a rich volunteer portfolio. She is the Coordinator for International Programs for Spark the Wave in Moldova, past Board Member for The Junior League of Charleston, Executive Chapter Advisor for Alpha Delta Pi sorority at Charleston Southern University, curriculum designer and presenter for multiple national leadership programs for Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and Past Chair of the Four Diamonds Advisory Board at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. Jennifer lives in Mount Pleasant, SC with her husband, Lance Tavana, and their very spoiled westie, Finley.

Little Rock, AR

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Jennifer Milwee partners with Teleos Leadership Institute as a consulting associate in addition to her role as the Head of Global Leadership Development and Executive Coaching at RWS (formerly SDL). With 25 years of experience across a variety of industries, Jen has spent her career providing practical leadership, learning and talent management solutions that are grounded in emotional intelligence and make a measureable impact on business performance. In addition to previously leading Global Leadership Development at SAP and Learning and Talent Management at Acxiom, Jen is an International Coach Federation (ICF) PCC certified coach and holds certifications in the Emotional & Social Competence Inventory (ESCI), the Clark/Wilson 360, and Myers Briggs. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Arkansas with a B.A. in French and Marketing, she is passionate about partnering with individuals and teams to leverage their strengths in identifying and overcoming barriers to success so that they can realize their full potential.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Carolyn Murphy is an expert in helping leaders discover and ignite their authentic leadership style. She works with leaders at all levels across tech, finance, pharma, biotech, government, and nonprofit organizations.

Throughout her decades of coaching, facilitating, leading teams, teaching, and working as a psychotherapist, Carolyn embraces the “paradoxical theory of change” — which is that transformative and sustainable change occurs when an individual truly becomes what they are, not when they try to become what they are not. She uses a variety of dynamic assessments and customized resources to help each leader understand their authentic talents and realize their highest potential.

Carolyn is a master at creating engaging and highly applicable learning programs that inspire teams across even the most complex systems. She helps teams build a solid foundation of trust and collaborative skills so they can achieve remarkable and sustainable results.

Carolyn has over 25 years of experience working in corporate leadership roles, including as Director of Operations at Cisco Systems. She holds a clinical master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and is certified by the International Coaching Federation. She splits her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierras and loves hiking with her husband and their dog, Roxy.

Elkins Park, PA

Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Org Development

Eddy Mwelwa, brings over 40 years of corporate culture change and leadership development consulting experience. As a recognized leader, coach trainer, coach mentor and developer of top talent he has impact at the C-suite level. Eddy partners with his clients to become more effective and navigate the complexity of today’s challenges by helping them focus on what it takes to overcome obstacles, and ready themselves for increased visibility and responsibility.

Prior to retirement in 2017 when he became a Teleos Leadership Institute Associate, he worked in Teleos Leadership Institute, an international boutique consulting company, as a managing director, leadership and management development consultant, executive coach and coach trainer. In his role in the company, Eddy worked closely with the C-Suite leaders to review strategy, manage and hold staff accountable for their work responsibilities. Eddy served as the director of a coach development program conducted in USA and Europe. He was also involved in the design and delivery of large scale organizational culture change programs as well as Emotional and Social Intelligence based leadership development programs.

Eddy was an active member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) of Philadelphia and served on the board for three years. He is originally from Zambia and obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology in UK before moving to USA in 2000. He is a Chattered Member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the American Psychological Association. Eddy is a graduate of the Cleveland Gestalt Institute where he studied Organizational and Systems Development and was also a member of the Cape Cod Gestalt International Study Center. He studied Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) with the late Judith Glaser organized by WBECS Group.

Eddy moved from UK to Elkins Park, PA, USA in 2000 where he now lives with his wife Annie Mckee.

Oakland, CA

Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, DEI

Bill’s coaching, facilitation and consulting link business results to corporate culture and process with attention to individual action, integrity and transformation. He has extensive coaching, consulting and facilitation experience in cross-cultural settings in Abu Dhabi, Angola, Australia, Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Republic of Georgia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey, United Kingdom and Vietnam.

Organizational Development and Coaching Philosophy
Leadership requires presence, authenticity, courage and the ability to manage one’s self and others in the face of ambiguity – as well as what may seem like chaos. Changed ways of being lead to changed ways of doing, i.e., getting results for individuals and groups. Organizational development depends upon systemic recognition of stages of development: Orientation, Differentiation and Cohesion. These stages are iterative and best occur in an atmosphere of trust in which understandable models, usable tools and practice transform awareness into action.
Thoughtful attention to diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism is essential.

Coaching and organizational development. Desired changes must be pinpointed, practiced and performed, ultimately in the workplace. Bill’s interventions do this with rigor, reframing and reflection in both individual and team settings.

Rigor: precise and targeted feedback that speaks to enhanced leadership, followership and management skills – and that also have a positive impact outside of work. New behaviors require practice in a safe environment.
Reframing: clients view people, situations and processes in new ways that dovetail with corporate and personal goals.
Reflection: rational models and simple practices show action-oriented, quick thinking, fast paced individuals and groups the professional and personal benefits of reflection as a way of reinforcing new learning and actions.
Individual and team coaching experience in a variety of organizations: Discover X, L’Oréal, Beigene, BP, Saudi Aramco, Gilead Sciences, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Kiva, Digital Green, Shell, United States Air Force Special Forces, Veterans Administration.

Relevant educational, affiliation or publication information
–Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
–Certified in Systemic Team Coaching by the Academy of Executive Coaching
–Organizational Systems Development, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
–Group Process, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
–Teleos Coach Development Program, Teleos Learning Institute
–BA History and Communications, University of Connecticut.

Dorset, VT

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Jennifer specializes in leadership development, feedback support and strengths-based coaching. She has dedicated herself to supporting leaders to build awareness, align personal values and purpose to organization culture. Outcomes are focused on motivated leaders, customer commitment and bottom-line performance.

She is deeply dedicated to listening, getting to know her subject and often pulls her clients into uncharted territories. Jennifer’s approach to coaching begins with establishing a foundation for each client in clarifying personal and professional values as well as creating a long term vision. She combines this insight with her client’s strengths and learned skills to create a purposeful mission statement which they can use as a filter for their decision making. Jennifer’s mission is to help create meaning in people’s work by connecting who they are to what they do. Her breath of experience in Global Fortune 500 Corporations and personal life challenges have served to hone skills in empathy, system level awareness, curiosity, and learning – as an internal change and strategy leader and later as a coach.

Milan, Italy

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Francesca Romana is an experienced team and executive coach -psychology since 1993 working for Big Companies for more 4000 hours with individuals and group facilitation. She knows Brands/Business in Telecommunication, Pharmaceutical, Finance, Mechanical, Luxury, Fashion, Business School, Hotels, Public Administration, Media&Telco, Tv.

In her programmes, she uses methodologies based on Neuroscience, Bio-Energetic, Voice dialogue, Immunity to Change, Gestalt, intentional Change. She is certified with MBTI® OPP Europe (Mayers Briggs Type Indicator) Hogan Profile Assessment. These are Psychological Diagnostic Instruments for talent management skills.

She is certified as a Master coach MCC by International Coaching Federation since 2018.

Her clients enjoy her coaching approach combining presencing, challenging with practical action plan.

She is Associate of Teleos Leadership Institute (USA) and of Mindgym (UK). For 15 years she worked as Senior Educational Architect for Centro Elis (Italy), Cefriel Politecnico di Milano. She is Founder of the Performative Leadership Approach to better integrate intention-attention in the body, having impact on leadership, for less ego-systemic and more eco-systemic behaviors. She is authored of Pillole di Leadership Performativa (2021). Member of International Society Coaching Psychology (UK).

She is Organizational Psychologist and Adjunct Professor of School Of Managment Politecnico di Milano where she has been teaching Organizational Behavior and Change Managment.

Phoenix, AZ

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Michael Rynex has over 25 years of experience as a coach, facilitator, and leader with responsibility for the growth and development of executives, teams, and whole systems. His practical and results-based approach to consulting and coaching, which emphasizes the unique strategic opportunities found in every engagement, has directly added value to hundreds of leaders, executives, teams, and managers. Working effectively with cross cultural teams and leaders in numerous multinational corporations on 5 continents, Mike has challenged, supported, and partnered with teams and leaders to optimized organization and team effectiveness in the delivery of compelling strategic goals. He knows the pressures placed on executives and skillfully guides them in a process of discovery, prioritization, and action. He specializes in helping sophisticated leaders navigate complex human systems to have greater impact. Hundreds of clients, including CEOs and other C-level executives and mid-level managers, consistently commend his ability to enable them to make sense of conflicting data and create strategies that have a positive long-term impact on them and on their organizations. He has helped clients with integrated and sustainable change-efforts, leadership assessments such as MBTI and FIRO-B for team and leadership development and organizational effectiveness with record profitability increases. Michael started his career in consulting and organization development with Commonwealth Edison in Chicago and has most recently been the Global Director of Talent and Organization Development for Cytec Industries, Inc. where he led a portfolio of projects for Aerospace and Mining divisions resulting in high performing leaders and teams, and record stock performance. He completed training at National Training Labs (NTL) and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland where he was on faculty for a number of years. Mike brings humor, deep expertise, and an eye for building on strengths to his work with executives, leaders and managers. He has successfully served on and led not-for-profit boards and he pursues a genuine passion for spiritual growth and development. Mike lives in Phoenix Arizona with his wife Carolyn and Jackson the Super Poodle.

Philadelphia, PA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Dr. Schmelzer is a senior associate with Teleos Leadership Institute with 20 years of experience in transformational leadership development, executive coaching and management consulting, and 30 years of experience in working with individuals, groups, organizations and countries to help them achieve the change they want to make. She is a subject matter expert who provides Teleos with leadership designs that attend to all areas of adult development, traumatic stress, mechanics of behavior change, and individual and group dynamics. She is an ICF certified senior coach and licensed psychologist who provides the internal supervision to the Teleos Executive Coaches and is a Core Faculty member of the ICF Certified Teleos Coach Development Program. A two-time National Champion in Rowing, Gretchen also has extensive experience in performance enhancement for individuals and teams working with Olympic, Master’s and Collegiate level coaches and athletes.

She has designed and led large-scale leadership development programs around the world for multinational corporations working with senior executives and corporate teams during rapid expansions, change processes, new product implementation, and merging cultures. She has an expertise in the area of adult growth and development and uses this knowledge in her program design work and her coaching. She has been faculty at Northeastern University in Boston and at the MCI Innsbruck in Austria, as well as at the Masters in Medical Education at the Penn Graduate School of Education.

She is the author of Journey Through Trauma (Avery, 2018) and the founder and editor of the web mag The Trail Guide at www.gretchenschmelzer.com, a website dedicated to healing from repeated trauma.

Brooklyn, NY

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development

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Jenna Shapiro (she / her), MST/MEd, is an ICF Associate Certified Coach who works with leaders in the public and social sector to facilitate difficult conversations, solve complex problems, build better teams, and treat one another with more love and kindness.

Jenna began teaching in 2001 as a New York City Teaching Fellow and then served as a Fellow Advisor, mentoring incoming teaching fellows. Through those early professional experiences she discovered a love for adult learning and team facilitation. In 2005 Jenna joined the founding team of KIPP AMP Academy as the school’s founding writing teacher. The next year, as the staff and student body grew, she became KIPP AMP’s Dean of Teaching and Learning. She oversaw instruction and curriculum and created the school’s approach to professional development, collaboration and learning. She served as a School Director at Teach for America’s NYC Institute, and as an Education Pioneer Fellow with DREAM Charter School.

Jenna spent the last decade working with school districts and non-profits across the country on system-wide change initiatives, implementing broad reforms and balancing the priorities of diverse stakeholders. These days, much of Jenna’s work is with leadership teams in the social and public sectors who are looking to build stronger relationships with each other in order to do better work together. She coaches 1:1, helps her clients gather and examine feedback on their leadership, and facilitates otherwise scary conversations infused with as much love, joy, and humanity as possible.

Jenna holds a BA from Syracuse University, an MST from Pace University and an MEd in Policy and Management from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Allentown, PA

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Dr. Orlando serves as the Chief Medical Education Officer and ACGME Designated Institutional Official (DIO) at St Luke’s University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA.

Dr. Orlando earned his Doctor of Education (Ed.D) in Corporate Learning Leadership from University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education and The Wharton School. He earned his Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Organizational Development from Temple University and Bachelor of Art (B.A.) degrees from Moravian College in International Management and American Political Thought. He studied abroad for a semester in Dijon, FRANCE and played baseball for Moravian College and L’Université de Bourgogne de Dijon.

Dr. Orlando is appointed as an adjunct professor at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, where he serves as Coaching Clinic Director since 2014 for Penn’s Masters of Medical Education, Dissertation Chair for Penn’s Chief Learning Officer executive doctoral program, and lecturer in Penn’s School Leadership Program. Dr. Orlando also serves as an adjunct in Moravian College’s M.B.A. program. He is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation.

Dr. Orlando volunteers on two national boards, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Institutional Review Committee and on the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC) Board of Directors. Dr. Orlando volunteered previously as Treasurer and Commissioner on the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for Physician Assistant Schools (ARC-PA), 2011-16.
He served in the United States Army Reserves for 10 years, is a volunteer youth coach, and lives with his wife, Missy and three children in Allentown, PA.

Washington, DC

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

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Matt has been developing leaders for fourteen years and teaching and leading in the K-12 education sector for twenty-five. Matt has coached or trained hundreds of education and non-profit leaders across the leadership pipeline, from CEOs to principals to teacher leaders. He is also a meta-coach, program faculty member, and content contributor for Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification Program.

His 5 Square methodology is used as an anchor leadership development tool in charter management organizations, school leader development programs, and executive coaching programs across the country. Prior to starting Noble Story Group, Matt served as the founder of The Achievement First (AF) Residency Program for School Leadership and then AF’s Senior Director of Adaptive Leadership. Matt began his leadership career at Amistad Academy Middle School after ten years of teaching. During Matt’s tenure as principal, Amistad distinguished itself as the #1 middle school in the state of Connecticut for African American student achievement.

Matt is an ICF ACC-certified executive coach. He earned his Ed.M. in Administration, Policy and Planning from Harvard Graduate School of Education, a M.S. in Elementary Education from Barry University Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in History from Carleton College. He received his executive coaching training at the Teleos Leadership Institute in Philadelphia. Matt is also a father of two teenagers, the partner of an incredibly talented early childhood policy maker, a choral musician, and an aspiring triathlete.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Miri is a consultant and coach specializing in emotionally resonant leadership.  As a coach, she supports clients and teams to lead meaningful lives and show up at work as their best selves through the exploration of values, identity and interpersonal dynamics.  Miri believes that the coaching process provides people with a supportive space to come to their own realizations- after all, we are experts in our own lives.  Critical to this work is the relationship between a coach and client.  Miri prioritizes building trust with each client so that she can both support and push them towards growth and development.

Prior to becoming an independent contractor, Miri led School Leader Lab, a nonprofit that supports school leaders in technical, adaptive and antiracist leadership. She spent twenty years working in education as a teacher, administrator and organizational leader.  Throughout these experiences, Miri learned about the conditions that support people to thrive and make positive change in the world.

Cape Town, South Africa and Berlin, Germany

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Chantelle has many years experience as a trainer and facilitator of leadership development and organisational development, and in the design, planning, facilitation, and implementation of socio-economic and people development interventions. She has worked with multicultural groups from developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and companies and institutions in Africa and Europe. Her expertise is in supporting leadership in contexts of societal change and transformation, and where diversity and cultural difference, and issues around trauma and social justice are present. She works as a coach of individuals and teams, and facilitator of small and large group processes.

In addition to her work with Teleos, Chantelle is co-founder of Baobab Consulting and Training, based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is on the faculty of the international Gestalt Organization and Leadership Development (iGOLD) Program South, and is a founder of Gestalt Africa, a facility enhancing African professionals’ work with groups and human systems, using sound psychological research and practice.

Prior to her work in coaching, leadership and organisational development, Chantelle was a project manager with South African development resource and capacity-building training agencies. She defined herself as an information and community empowerment activist, working for transformation, even in her previous role as academic research librarian and advisor at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Chantelle received her Bachelor of Arts (History and Economic History) and a Masters in Information Studies at the University of KwaZulu Natal. She further trained in development project and program management with the German development cooperation agencies, and became a project/program management trainer for international German funded development initiatives. In this, she became interested in leadership and coaching, leadership-followership, and individual and people empowerment. She has extensively studied Gestalt organization and systems development, an approach enabling appropriate and powerful interventions with individuals, teams, organisations and workplace systems. She publishes and teaches internationally in this field.

Chantelle lives between Cape Town, South Africa and Berlin, Germany. She is a first language English speaker, has a working knowledge of Afrikaans and German, and reads French. She has a strong interest in alternative health and holistic personal development through nurturing of body, mind and spirit.

Washington, DC

Jessica Wodatch is a coach, facilitator, and educational leader with a passion for creating engaging learning environments and growth opportunities for children and adults. Throughout her career, Jessica has nurtured and supported leaders and helped groups of people come together to reach ambitious and meaningful goals. Jessica is the founder of Wodatch Coaching & Consulting and is delighted to partner with her clients on their journeys of growth and discovery. As a coach, Jessica helps leaders uncover their hopes and dreams and empowers them to use their strengths to achieve them. She is supportive and kind and gently pushes clients to explore, take risks, and grow.

Jessica is a co-founder and was the long-time Executive Director of Two Rivers Public Charter Schools, a network of high performing, progressive, in-demand schools in Washington, D.C. As Executive Director, Jessica led the expansion of the school to quintuple in size while earning awards for student achievement and staff satisfaction. Jessica has a track record of creating a vision, hiring and developing excellent teams, facilitating collaborative work, leading teams to solve strategic problems, and launching and building new ventures.

Prior to her work at Two Rivers, Jessica served as a school leader at two special education schools and as an education researcher. She began her career as a teacher in the Bronx through Teach for America. She serves on the board of the DC Charter School Alliance, was appointed to the Mayor’s Bullying Prevention Task Force, and has been a guest lecturer at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Jessica a Pahara-Aspen Education fellow, a lifelong learner, avid reader, and ceramist. She and her wife have three children and live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood where she grew up in Washington, DC.