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Carroll Connacher
Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development
Stamford, CT
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.
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Ann Begler
Pittsburgh, PA
Marco Bertola
Lindsey Bingaman
Philadelphia, PA
Isa Buencamino
England / Bahrain
Anne Callan
Philadelphia, PA
Lee Chalmers
Edinburgh, UK
Carroll Connacher
Stamford, CT
Kaye A. Craft
Rockville, MD
Francesca Della Monica
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Matt Gurin
Port St. Lucie, FL
Stephanie Heck
Philadelphia, PA
Harold Hill
Raleigh, NC
Judy Issokson
San Diego, CA
Deb Lane
Philadelphia, PA
Judy Lohmar
Little Rock, AR
Erica T. Mahady
Philadelphia, PA
Shirley McAlpine
Chicago, Illinois
Michael McElhenie
Dallas, TX
Michael Mellen
Bethesda, MD
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.
