I help you grow your ideas into a strong vision and then make that vision real. I also help you cultivate the qualities of leadership so you can communicate your vision to other people to get them on board, and then plan, organize, and direct the resources you need to make things happen.
I help people with authentic living, living in alignment with the core of who you are. Authentic living leads to authentic work, authentic relationships, and real fulfillment. To do this, I coach on self-directed careers, self-employment, and small business ownership using a Life and Work Design model.
Basically, I’m a people cultivator. I was trained in psychology and counseling and spent several years working as a therapist. I transitioned business co-owner, overseeing the daily operations of a preschool and child care center for ten years, then sold it. I work with people who are ready to grow, stretch their wings, and realize more of their potential.
Sandi Mitchell is CEO of Apex Catalyst Group. She works with leaders from small businesses to major corporations and nonprofits to help improve and/or accelerate in areas such as: leadership, new manager transitions, team alignment, communication, emotional intelligence, strategic planning, negotiations, work place stress and employee engagement. Sandi has over 25 years working in the corporate world, as a business owner, as a Professional EOS Implementer, and as a certified Executive Coach. Her experience is in learning and development, business operations, sales, and management. She is a bestselling author and has written Coloring Outside the Lines: A Grown Up’s Creative Guide to Increasing Emotional Intelligence.
Beena Kavalam, MBA, PCC, CPCC is a leadership consultant based in New Jersey. She has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and her executive coaching certifications from the International Coaching Federation and Coaches Training Institute. She is also a certified consultant of The Leadership Circle Profile and TLC Collective Leadership Assessments.
Brooke O’Shea is a Leadership Coach and OD Consultant, focusing on accelerating the performance of executives and their teams. Brooke focuses on 4 primary areas: 1) Coaching leaders in the development of behaviors that improve performance. 2) Consulting leaders in new roles to create the foundation for success. 3) Partnering with clients to identify fulfilling career paths that match their talents, skills and interests. 4) Advising executives leading significant transformational efforts on change management techniques to advance their initiatives. She is a CPA with over 20 years experience in coaching and OD work.
Debbie Mrazek is a sales guru and author of 13 books about selling, including the bestselling, The Field Guide to Sales: The All Weather, All Terrain Guide to Selling. She is a seasoned C-Suite executive bringing over 30 years of problem solving, innovation and leadership ability to her positions, largely in the technology industry. She is a highly sought-after motivational speaker that absolutely loves empowering people to sell and achieve more. Debbie turned her Top 1% sales career into in-demand sales consulting where she engages sales teams and individuals in creating predictable sales success. Debbie works with entrepreneurs, privately held companies, foreign governments and Fortune 500 companies like technology giant Texas Instruments, Alcatel, State Farm, Merrill Lynch and Chevron.
Deborah “Deb” Degner brings passion, experience and commitment to her clients. Deb works with business and academic leaders, emerging leaders as well as executives and corporate teams to help them reach their full leadership potential. She is a certified executive coach with training in several programs including Emotional Intelligence, Energy Leadership and Conversational Intelligence. Deb’s “game on” approach invites participants to interact, collaborate and have fun. She spent most of her career in communications, public affairs and government relations. Deb worked many years in the oil and gas industry, in the telecommunications industry, in federal and state government and the non-profit sector. One of her legacy projects was the development of an Oil & Gas Associates degree program at three community colleges. Deb is a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin and is married to her husband, Dennis. They are proud parents of their 16 year-old daughter, Madeline.
Desiree Perez is a Certified Professional Leadership and Career Development Coach with an international client base of highly motivated professionals who are looking to reach their next level of personal development and success.
John Cockburn-Evans is a consultant specializing in Sustainable Operations including Lean, Asset Productivity, and Process Safety Management Systems. Based in Great Britain, John has 25 years operational experience within the chemical and automotive industries for companies such as BASF, Total and DuPont. He believes in keeping things simple, and that unnecessary complexity is one of the large incapacitators of today. John focuses on transformational change with C-Levels, Vice Presidents, and Corporate High Potentials.
Jude Olson, Phd, PCC is an executive coach who specializes in leadership development, executive transition and enhancing emotional intelligence– especially for technical leaders. Jude has coached over 100 individuals including senior and middle managers, Directors and VP’s in the retail, manufacturing, oil and gas and healthcare industries. Her clients include: Lockheed Martin, Alcon Laboratories, BNSF, Bell Helicopter, Baker Corp, Cook Children’s Hospital, L3 Technologies, and the TCU EMBA program. Jude’s background includes being the SVP for a global career and change consulting firm with P&L responsibilities for local and regional offices. Private practice since 2001.
Judy Owen is focused on coaching executives to achieve peak performance and business results. After 30 years in the live events and exhibitions industry she is now focused on her passion of developing leaders through coaching. Judy possesses a multifaceted skill set having held executive roles in Sales, Services, Operations and most recently chief talent development executive for Freeman.
Kim Keefe Pisolkar is leveraging 20+ years of experience to bring the Best of Fortune 500 to companies large and small so that they accelerate performance, productivity and profits while maintaining their entrepreneurial spirit. Her areas of expertise are implementing change, developing high performing teams, sales training, HR process and program design, strategic planning facilitation, talent acquisition, development and retention, and organizational development.
Lin O’Neill is a consultant with in-the-trenches experience. She was VP of Inflight Service and Corporate Officer at Continental Airlines. Today, Lin helps her clients solve the stickiest people problems. As a coach, consultant or keynote speaker, she brings extensive experience in strategy, culture change, turnarounds, business process definition, and multi-level cross-functional team building to her engagements. She does much of her work with the SBA and SBDC.
MiShon Landry, CDP is a Certified Diversity Professional. She is dedicated to bridging the gap between inclusion and leadership. She cultivates talent and builds global leader capacity in today’s organizational culture through comprehensive inclusive leadership workshops and consulting services. MiShon is a diversity champion and has a passion for leadership, diversity and inclusion, supplier diversity, STEM, and relationship building principals. She functions as a change agent and influencer with over a decade of experience in people, program, project management, and leadership expertise. She has been interviewed by Working Mother Magazine and has been featured in Talent Management Magazine, “Steps to Create a Culture that Embraces Diversity.” She has been published by Mortgage Compliance Magazine, “Inclusive Leadership: Traits and Behaviors that Impact Organizational Growth” Talent Economy Magazine, “5 Best Practices to Create an Inclusive Transgender Culture” and The Connect Magazine, “How to be Inclusive in the Workplace (And Win)!” MiShon is faith and family oriented, she is deeply involved in the community through her volunteer efforts with the City of North Richland Hills, Keep NRH Beautiful Commission Board, Tarrant County Food Policy Council, Advisory Board for Iron Dallas, Volunteer Event Lead (Rise + Dine) for the Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival and Leadership ISD of Tarrant County.
Mary Mattson Quagliana is a bilingual coaching and development expert. She has created a unique method to transform an individual to be influential, a team to be renowned, and a company to be admired. Mary has experience in sales and marketing, operations, training, management, and learning and development in luxury hotels from Dallas to China.
Quinton Rodgers specializes in executive leadership development, coaching and consulting. His clients have re-focused and energized their leadership and management teams, improved bottom line performance and increased employee engagement. Quinton Rodgers’ leadership background spans the corporate range from Manager and Director to Executive Vice-President of a multi-national Corporation with international P&L responsibilities. Quinton was also a decorated US Air Force officer.
Shakenna Williams, Ph.D. is the Director of Global Initiatives for the Center of Women Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College. She leads the Women’s Innovating Now (WIN) Lab operations and expansion efforts for formalizing the Diana International Research Institute. Shakenna is an adjunct in the areas of Organizational Behavior and Leadership. Some of her areas of expertise include: hiring and development, curriculum development and enhancement, and competency evaluation and review. 
Siobhan O’Leary is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development expert who integrates Core Energy Coaching with a design thinking process resulting in programs that drives solutions. A Chief People Officer in the luxury hospitality industry, Siobhan gained international experience in developing leaders’ shared common corporate goals. She is certified as an executive coach and she completed a Harvard Executive Education program. Siobhan recognizes that values underpin success in every culture. She is committed to an innovative approach toward achieving results.
Tamara Trummer is an accomplished HR Consultant with extensive experience in the corporate world as an HR Director and Sr. Business Partner. She engages with Leaders and their teams to achieve organizational objectives through people. She has worked for large, global organizations and with companies in the healthcare, legal, commercial real estate, marketing, and transportation industries to create structure, process, policies, and compliance in the absence of formal or expert HR staff. Tamara also teaches HR certification classes at UTD and the University of Dallas in Irving.