The following list includes the coaches–in–training available to provide individual coaching.
Each individual outlines information about experience and background that will be important for you, as client, to consider in choosing the best coach for yourself.
We highly recommend you take a look at the list with your coaching needs in mind.
Then choose TWO POSSIBILTIES and call these individuals and ‘interview them’, find out how they work, pay attention to how comfortable you feel with the discussion, the approach of the coach–in–training, the schedule of availability the is possible. Once you’ve talked with two coaches, make the best choice and proceed!
Phone: Email:
Coaching Specialty:
Business Experience:
Coaching Statement:
Vinita Srivastava Phone: 425-753-6491Email: vinita.srivastava@hotmail..com
Coaching Specialty: Vinita is a leadership and transitions coach. She works with aspiring and current leaders across the globe to:
a)proactively design and leverage transitions as a potent tool for professional and personal development
b)enhance interpersonal effectiveness and influencing capabilities
c)resolve success-inhibiting dilemmas
She particularly enjoys working on issues related to women’s leadership, socio-economic parity and cross-cultural transitions
Business Experience: Vinita’s professional experience has alternated between consulting and in-house HR roles across varied industries in very diverse organizations and socio-economic cultures. Most recently, she managed strategic talent planning for global leaders at Microsoft. Prior to that, she was the Chief Consultant for the South Asia operations of TMI A/s Denmark, (the company behind the turnaround of Scandinavian Airlines and British Airways), where she led wall-to-wall “soft” change programs for large organizations. Vinita brings with her an MBA and MS in Human Resources followed by several professional certifications in the human development field.
Coaching Statement: If you want to make a significant shift in your professional or personal life, I will be happy to coach you through the journey. Mine is a holistic, strengths-focused approach that enables desired transformation and capacity building for new challenges. As coach, I believe in ‘leading from behind’ – working closely by you, asking evocative questions and gently helping you define, navigate and effect desired shifts in life. I focus on the Three Ps– Purpose, Passion and Potential. Working with me, you will learn to effectively define your Three Ps and then develop and execute a change plan that successfully builds upon them to achieve your priorities.
Gerald Flake Phone: 8054504733Email: gflake@execpotential.com
Coaching Specialty: My areas of interest include coaching executives in transition, managers who have been recently promoted to the executive level, middle managers, and graduates just entering the business world and entrepreneurs.
Business Experience: Given my 30+ years of executive leadership as a change-agent in the business world, I am well positioned to assist you in making the changes you want. Throughout my professional and personal life I have coached and helped executives, middle managers, and individual contributors as they progressed through their careers and were confronted with problems, issues, opportunities and transitions. I am very sensitive to the impact of corporate change on individuals, groups, organizations and businesses.
Coaching Statement: My coaching approach is to create a safe environment in which we can work in a trusting peer-to-peer relationship. Within this environment you are free to explore, experiment, dream and have fun. The ultimate outcome is the creation and realization of your plan for accomplishing the changes you want. My role is to be there for you, to facilitate your transition through dialogue, feedback, reflection, caring, and sometimes nudging.
Linda Roderick Slack Phone: 403-988-6308Email: LindaRS@shaw.ca
Coaching Specialty: Linda is interested in working with leaders of all levels through various business challenges and life transitions including:
•Integration to a new role (e.g. promotion) or organization,
•Design and implementation of a new vision / strategy / organization structure,
•Exploring/designing the next career move,
•Increasing individual/team effectiveness, and
•Post assessment (e.g. 360-feedback) leadership/personal development.
Business Experience: With experience in all facets of human resources management, Linda worked as a strategic human resources leader and talent management business partner in several large corporations. She is known for building and sustaining productive teams and business partnerships. Linda is recognized as a role model for leading change, integration and collaboration, and for supporting leaders to meet and exceed complex goals in dynamic work environments.
Coaching Statement: For more than 16 years, Linda has worked in various organizations with leaders and their teams to increase both personal effectiveness and impact on business results. Her learning and results orientation has helped diverse clients to navigate leadership challenges and make intentional (and often courageous) decisions leading to personal and organizational success.
John Glanville Phone: 805-565-3334Email: jhg@athcap.com
Coaching Specialty: Start up and early stage companies, growth companies, team building, strategic planning, capital raising, and general entrepreneurship for profit and not for profit organizations.
Business Experience: Broad experience in starting, growing, exiting, investing, board of director, and other aspects of organizational growth from beginning to end, including several women owned and operated enterprises.
Coaching Statement: The importance of understanding why one is doing what they choose to do can not be understated. Coaching helps open the mind to that understanding. With experience in the early stage arena, it helps to have someone who has
Tricia Backelin, M.A. Phone: 805-450-0301Email: 2livelove@cox.net
Coaching Specialty: As a WEV graduate myself, I understand the challenges of maintaining one’s balance while shifting into a new direction –- kind of like doing life-yoga… Breathing is a key component of successful change, and so is a good plan.
My specialty as a coach is facilitating your process of passionately creating and successfully implementing a plan for change. I assist you in tapping into your inner resources, building up those “muscles,” and taking incremental steps toward your dreams. By creating a collaborative coaching partnership dedicated to your specific outcomes, you build the best you, at work and at home.
Business Experience: Earning my Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute deepened my profound respect for people in the midst of challenging life changes. Aside from private practice, I worked at U.C.S.B. in alcohol/drug abuse prevention and education, and as a professional liaison between teachers and parents of at-risk children. For ten years I ran my own specialized jewelry design business, and for another ten years was an Environmental Consultant. Throughout my life I have taken on new challenges and faced many changes – some I have chosen, some I did not. With both, the key to a sustainable transition has been to be present in the moment, and to take change one step at a time.
Coaching Statement: I believe deeply in our continual capacity to learn and grow. I look forward to meeting you along your path.
Julie Ash Phone: 732-618-6404Email: jash2@its.jnj.com
Coaching Specialty: Coaching new and tenured leaders on optimizing the performance of their teams, themselves, and ultimately business performance through exploration of goals, core values, and meaningful work/life balance.
Business Experience: I have over 10 years of Human Resources experience at Johnson & Johnson where I have supported sales and marketing clients throughout my career. I have broad HR experience supporting sales and marketing clients in leadership development, organizational development, succession planning, change management initiatives and in-depth consultative support to Sr. Leaders on critical organizational issues.
Coaching Statement: I draw upon a wealth of personal and professional experience, including my graduate degree in Counseling Psychology. Toward that end, my coaching considers the whole system and the whole person. I am passionate about coaching clients as they invent and discover their goals, passions, and life visions. A strong believer of Csikszentmihalyi , I believe in the possibility of creating flow in all areas of one’s life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology).
I am an avid runner, health nut and massage junkie!
Janice Brandon Phone: 865-567-9773Email: tnjbird@hotmail.com
Coaching Specialty: Life and Career Transitions
Focus on aligning a client's passions, skills and values with their work choices, career goals and life balance.
Organizational Changes and Development
Partner with organizations/small businesses to identify business challenges,employee issues and structural changes to meet the goals and expectations in todays economic climate.
Business Experience: Seasoned leader with extensive 30 year corporate history in the field of Communications for companies such as Viacom and E.W. Scripps. Experience includes sales, marketing, management, restructuring, employee development, public relations, advertising and budgeting.
Coaching Statement: I am committed to helping individuals and organizations discover their inner strengths, core values, passions and untapped talent to manage change and life challenges both professionally and personally.
Sandy Marshall Phone: 248-227-1922Email: sandra.marshall@eds.com
Coaching Specialty: Executive coaching; business coaching
She works with business leaders and professionals to: (1) Identify life-changing professional and personal goals (2) Achieve work/life balance (3) Be "inspired and excel in their work" and (4) Identify positive solutions to challenging business situations including achieving business growth and enabling high performance teams.
Business Experience: Extensive industry experience with corporate
clients in the automotive and information technology industries as a
consultant, account manager and technical leader. Sandy has delivered
results in market planning, business strategy, software development, corporate policy and law. Small business experience within a staffing firm. Attorney and member of State Bar of Michigan. Currently engaged in growth stage of her small business.
Coaching Statement: Sandy has a passion for helping people see new
possibilities, develop new ways of thinking and achieve life changing
results. She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Professional Coach Association of Michigan (PCAM). She is also active in supporting local and national groups by providing coaching to business owners and professionals undergoing career transitions.
