Michele Brown
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Michele has 25 years of corporate leadership experience focused on transforming individuals and teams to achieve superior strategic business outcomes.
Each program is customized to the special needs of the client, ranging from one-to-one coaching to overall performance and change management.
Michele brings extensive business experience from her corporate career to guide her clients through the IntuAction Coaching program. This expertise, combined with her training at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC), enables her to formulate strategies for excelling in leadership along with practical application of essential tools and techniques to help her clients achieve their desired success.
Michele is a Certified Behavioral and Values Analyst and TriMetrix ™ Specialist, which she uses in her executive coaching, leadership development, and skill-building programs. With unique assessment expertise, Michele specializes in leadership development and executive coaching. Her high-impact development efforts center on developing leaders by gaining an in-depth understanding of the skills needed to execute the role, the current skills of the leader, and the gaps that need to be addressed. Michele is known for delivering frank and revealing feedback with compassion and a focus on results. She provides assessments for a wide range of organizational needs.
Michele is a proud graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10.000 Small Businesses Program.
She's also the founder and Executive Director of WomEnpower Corp, a women's empowerment 501c3 non-profit organization. It's mission is to train, motivate, and empower women to become leaders in all aspects of their lives.
Carl Nielson
Carl specializes in coaching leaders. Clients include c-level executives, vice presidents and directors who typically perform well in an operational capacity but want to develop skills in driving organizational change, creating coalitions, developing vision and strategy, communicating more effectively and building and engaging teams.
During his professional career, Carl rose through the ranks in oil and gas exploration and production, snack foods (Frito-Lay), professional services (Haynes and Boone law firm) and technology (BMC Software). His success was built upon an ability to integrate business strategy with leadership selection and development initiatives through building rapport, credibility and impact with senior leadership.
Carl launched his executive coaching and consulting practice in 2000 and works with a variety of clients, including Fortune 50. He has coached executives at Medtronic, VTC Insurance, Torchmark Corporation (Globe Life), Walmart, Synergetics, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, Wise Consulting, Agrium and hundreds of individual clients across diverse industries.
Carl’s coaching approach helps clients deepen clarity with self, role and key organizational systems to create success. He is a recognized expert with a variety of assessments including DISC, PIAV (motivator/driving forces), Acumen, Emotional Quotient, Workplace Stress Quotient, Individual 360˚ Feedback and team/organizational surveys.
Daphne Mobley
Daphne is completely committed to making the world a healthier, happier place for people and she achieves that through her coaching. She assumes the responsibility of helping as many people as possible live their best lives – the lives that they are absolutely passionate about living.
She realizes that this begins with providing assistance to leaders so that they can live precisely this type of life and as a result their employees will also. Leaders that Daphne has worked with appreciate her innate ability to allow them to feel completely at ease and fully supported as they worked to achieve their goals.
Daphne was one of the 14% of female executives at Fortune 500 corporations and held numerous leadership positions at Pfizer including Vice President of Corporate Diversity and a unique position in which she was mentored by the CEO/Chairman.
Frank Faeth
As a former Fortune 500 senior executive, Frank understands exactly what it takes for leaders and managers to overcome challenges and seize opportunities. He applies his business background to coaching high-potential leaders and managers on how to perform at their personal best.
Frank partners with clients to turn powerful personal and interpersonal insights into positive action that advances their careers and the missions of their organizations. Frank has held senior positions for several of the most prestigious companies in the world, including JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard Worldwide and Marsh, Inc., and has undergone extensive training in executive coaching and assessment accreditation. Combining his business background with his coaching experience, he facilitates professional breakthroughs for executives
Laura Quiros
Dr. Laura PhD, has extensive experience in the area of Diversity & Inclusion. She works to find spaces to advance inclusion within the academic, corporate and non-profit sectors and helps connect leadership to missions and agendas of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Laura uses her relationship building skills as a way to foster inclusion by helping to increase awareness and forward moving action.
What began as work in the clinical arena has transitioned to working with organizational cultures in particular, executive leadership, in a consulting, coaching and team building capacity. Although she continues to train front line staff, she remains acutely aware of and in tune with the macro organizational culture.
Laura is also an Associate Professor of Social Work at Adelphi University School of Social Work. She teaches social work practice at the Doctoral and Masters levels.
Lisa Panarello
Lisa is a dynamic success coach and 'change action' partner. With more than 17 years of experience in professional development, her specialties extend leadership excellence, emotional intelligence, workplace dynamics, career succession planning, and public speaking excellence.
She has coached entry-level to C-suite professionals in a myriad of industries and developed and facilitated hundreds of training programs nationwide for major firms, including JPMorgan Chase, Enterprise, Mars Inc., Novartis, and the NYPD. Lisa is Certified in TTI™ DISC and Driving Forces, earned a BBA Degree in Marketing from Baruch College, and holds a Career Planning Certificate from NYU.
She is regarded for her resourceful, forward-thinking, no-nonsense approach to business balanced by an unwavering positive attitude and caring heart. She knows how to get things done efficiently with purpose and empower others to achieve beyond expectations.
Liz Stueck
Liz believes in the power of mentorship and sponsorship to fuel professional development, supercharge advancement, and increase leadership diversity. She helps organizations engage their talent by leveraging relational learning, support, and advocacy.
As a volunteer, Liz co-founded the widely acclaimed group mentoring program featured by the largest chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA); this program celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2018, having provided the benefits of a mentoring relationship to more than 1,000 women. She eventually joined the HBA corporate staff (2012-2018), rising to Senior Director of Education, where she worked with hundreds of volunteers on the development of chapter programming; led the association’s content committee and speaker selection for its annual conference, and served as mentoring program staff lead to chapters/regions in the United States and Europe.
Liz is a member of the International Mentoring Association and has spoken at its annual conference on topics such outcomes measurement. She received the Gold Medal, Learning in Practice Award: Business Partnership Category, from Chief Learning Officer for her leadership in mentoring program development, execution, and innovation. Liz is a magna cum laude graduate of Elizabethtown College (Pennsylvania) with a BA degree in Religion & Philosophy. She is a certified Everything DiSC Workplace® Facilitator.
Sydney Davis
An inspirational force of energy, humor and authenticity, Sydney Davis is a dedicated life changer. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit, Girls on the Run NJ, where she has been inspiring girls and impacting communities for 19 years.
Since 2009, she has been leading her own coaching practice, Lets RISE (Reach, Inspire, Succeed, Evolve) offering personal and professional coaching for a wide range of clients and industries. Sydney’s training in Conscious Leadership grounds her in a unique understanding of transformative principles that sets her apart from many. Her ability to see issues clearly and communicate next steps makes her both potent and practical. In service for over 25 years, Sydney’s range of professional experience as an entrepreneur, coach, educator and therapist, has helped her hone a direct and supportive style that creates a safe space for clients to get curious and gain new insights. With a Masters in Counseling and a certification in coaching, Sydney blends foundational learning concepts with dynamic, engaging exercises that are fun, educational, relevant and focused on adding value and creating lasting change. Sydney’s clients appreciate her powerful intuition and direct but supportive approach.
Amy Minkoff
Amy helps difference-making leaders take their results in work and in life to the next level – for even more success and even more happiness along the way.
Clients rave about her ability to inspire them to achieve results they once only dreamed of. In addition to her coaching credentials, Amy’s first career at a leading global healthcare company for 25 years informs her coaching wisdom. She has introduced new consumer products and led cross functional teams and now provides private and group coaching and team-building to individuals and organizations who value collaboration as a means to improve business results. Amy focuses on leadership and self-leadership at all levels of the organization to help optimize performance.