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MentorCoach Training Team Quick Jump To: PLEASE NOTE: email addresses are not live links. To send email, open a new message in your mail program and type the address with no spaces. Ben is a psychologist, coach, and a leading expert at the intersection of coaching and the new science of Positive Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and has been coaching since 1981. From 1987 to 2000, he combined his clinical and coaching work in a managed-care-free practice in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1997, he founded MentorCoach®, an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program—the first Coach Training Program ever to exclusively train helping professionals to build rewarding coaching practices. In public presentations and in its training programs, MentorCoach has trained thousands of helping professionals to become part-time and full-time coaches. Ben is a Master Certified Coach, the highest designation of the International Coach Federation and coaches a broad spectrum of clients (professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs). From 2003 to 2005, Ben partnered with legendary psychologist, Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., the founding father of Positive Psychology to co-found Authentic Happiness Coaching LLC. In those two years, AHC, a virtual university, trained 1000 professionals in 19 nations in the theory, tests, exercises, and interventions of Positive Psychology. He publishes Coaching Toward Happiness®, an eNewsletter focused on applying Positive Psychology to one's coaching, work and life with a current readership of 131,000 and The MentorCoach, an eNewsletter for helping professionals transitioning to coaching. Ben speaks on coaching and Positive Psychology throughout the nation and lives in suburban Maryland with his wife, Janice, their two children and Fenwick, their Norwegian Dwarf Bunny.
Anne Durand is an executive coach who specializes in life and business issues for executives working in corporate, non-profit, academic and small business spheres. Anne launched her private coaching career after 20 years as an executive for one of the world's major financial institutions where she worked directly for the CEO, coaching him and his staff through a delicate corporate cultural change. In addition, in 1985 she opened a gallery selling contemporary American glass art which has been featured in national magazines and the Washington Post, and filmed for the Travel Channel. She sold the gallery in 1999 and now exclusively focuses on her work coaching executives. Anne serves as CEO and coordinates the MCP Training Team, the group of senior clinician-coaches who lead our MentorCoach® Programs, and leads our Business/Executive Coaching Master Classes, which are part of the MentorCoach® Certification Program.
Kevyn Malloy serves as Director of Learning and is responsible for working with Anne Durand to provide leadership to the trainer team and to every aspect of the MentorCoach learning community. Kevyn enjoyed an active psychotherapy practice for 24
years specializing in family relationships and individual life
transition counseling. She closed that practice in December, 2004, to
devote full time to executive and personal coaching. Before receiving an M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Temple University, she taught high school English and then became the owner/manager of a popular resort area restaurant. She is the co-founder of Evergreen Seminars, a leadership development company that helps medical executives to recognize and develop leadership potential through coaching. She conducts workshops for members of boards of non-profits on leadership development and strategic planning. Through her company, Extremely Rare Coaching, she coaches partners in family owned restaurants to balance family and business needs, achieve restaurant success, and have great fun doing it. Kevyn is on a select executive coaching team that provides executive coaching to the senior business leaders who comprise the student body in the Smeal College of Business of Penn State University's Executive MBA program. Kevyn is passionate about teaching Foundations classes, and loves helping students to experience the excitement of coaching others to rediscover their dreams and act on them. She is energized by the enthusiasm that students display when they gain confidence in their level of skill and ability to attract clients. Kevyn brings a great curiosity about and love of people to coaching and is awed by coaching's power to change people's lives. She has a raucous sense of humor, enthusiasm for adventure, and a passion for encouraging others to live life to the fullest. Coaching allows Kevyn and her husband to live and work in Vermont for five months and in Bucks County, PA for seven months of the year. Training Team:
A luminary figure in Positive Psychology, Christopher Peterson, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and Templeton Senior Fellow at the Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Chris work and teaching has been a central influence for Ben and for the trainer team of MentorCoach since our initial contact in early 2003. Chris now teaches "North of Neutral One--The Master Class in Positive Psychology" and "North of Neutral Two-Positive Psychology Applications in Action by global teleconference from his office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Chris is widely regarded to be one of the seminal figures in Positive Psychology. He is a member of the Positive Psychology Steering Committee, a member of the board of directors of the Gallup Organization Positive Psychology Institute, a consulting editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology, and the positive psychology series editor of Oxford University Press. He is the research director of the Values in Action (VIA) project, the most ambitious undertaking to date from the explicit vantage of positive psychology; the VIA project describes, classifies, and measures important strengths of character. Chris' VIA Survey of Signature Strengths has been taken by more than a million people throughout the globe. It is currently being translated into Chinese and Spanish as well. Chris is an award-winning teacher at the University of Michigan and holds the Arthur F. Thurnau Chair in honor of his teaching accomplishments and considers himself to be first and foremost a teacher. Among the world's 100 most widely-cited psychologists during the past twenty years, Chris is the co-author of Character Strengths and Virtues (2004) and the author of A Primer in Positive Psychology (2006). Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D is widely regarded as the world's foremost expert in the study of gratitude. Dr. Emmons ("Bob" to his friends) teaches MentorCoach's Master Class on Gratitude ("Beyond the Letter and the Journal"). Bob was an early pioneers in the positive psychology movement. He continues to be a key leader. He serves as the founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology. His newly released, Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier is drawing strong reviews and his extensive research has been featured in dozens of popular media outlets including USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, Time, NPR, The Paul Harvey Show, The Dr. Laura show, The Osgood Radio Files, and Reader's Digest. He is also the author of nearly 100 original publications in peer-reviewed journals or chapters and has written or edited four books, including The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns (Guilford Press) and The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford University Press). Bob Ph.D. is currently a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is Past-President of the American Psychological Association's Division 36, The Psychology of Religion. His research focuses on personal goals and purpose, spirituality, the psychology of gratitude and thankfulness, and subjective well-being. Bob has received research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the John M. Templeton Foundation, and the National Institute for Disability Research and Rehabilitation. He received his Ph.D. degree in Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Southern Maine Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is author of the best-selling The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Penguin Press, 2008), which has been translated into 15 languages. Dr. Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Originally from Russia, she received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from Stanford University. Lyubomirsky currently teaches courses in social psychology and positive psychology and serves as the Department of Psychology's graduate advisor. Her teaching and mentoring of students have been recognized with the Faculty of the Year and Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards. In 2002, Lyubomirsky was awarded a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize. Currently, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and (with Ken Sheldon) holds a 5-year million-dollar grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. Her research has been written up in dozens of magazines and newspapers and she has appeared in multiple TV shows, radio shows, and feature documentaries in North America and Europe. She has lectured widely to a variety of audiences, including business executives, life coaches, retirees, students, and scholars. In her work, Lyubomirsky has focused on developing
a science of human happiness. To this end, her research addresses three
critical questions: For example, she is currently exploring the potential of happiness-sustaining activities - for example, expressing gratitude, doing acts of kindness, visualizing one's "best possible selves," and reflecting on happy moments - to durably increase a person's happiness level. She has been conducting research on happiness for 18 years and has published widely in the area. Lyubomirsky lives happily in beautiful Santa Monica, California with her husband, Peter Del Greco, and their two children, Gabriella and Alexander.
As a consultant, coach, educator, author and presenter, Alan R. Graham has over two decades of experience helping thousands of individuals, families and organizations navigate life's challenges, and gain the tools they need to manage personal and professional issues. Uniquely trained in business, education and psychology, Dr. Graham has taught at all levels of education from the elementary grades through post graduate courses. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) certified by the International Coach Federation. Dr. Graham's executive coaching and consulting experience has included contributing to the success of many individuals and organizations such as Deloitte Consulting and Magellan Behavior Health. With Dr. Bill Benninger, Dr. Graham created ADDvisor.com, a coaching organization for individuals with ADHD and their families. As a way of sharing his skills and experience, Dr. Graham serves in leadership positions with the American Psychological Association Business of Practice Network (BOPN) and Illinois Psychological Association. Recognized for his work by peers and clients alike, he presents and writes on ADHD, and business issues throughout the United States. Dr. Graham is married and has three young adult children.
We believe that a central element in training for helping professionals who coach must include a focus on ethics and risk management. And we are delighted to have one of the Nation's leading authorities on risk management and legal ethics as faculty for our Ethics and Risk Management Master Class. Eric is both an attorney and a psychologist. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1970, received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1969 and his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University in 1978. In addition to his part-time private clinical practice, Eric has served as the consultant to the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Division of the American Psychological Association Practice Directorate. Eric consults and lectures throughout the country on risk management and managed care.
Roberta "Robbie" Maller Hartman, Ph.D. is a psychologist, a personal and professional coach, and a personal and professional coach. She has a special interest in coaching people in organizations, businesses and in entrepreneurial ventures. Robbie has 20 years of experience working around high performance and leadership issues with senior professionals, and has a wealth of expertise in coaching career development. In addition, as the owner of Centered Coaching, Robbie has a particular interest in health coaching. This includes life-balance for overworked professionals, stress management, mindfulness meditation training, weight loss, and working with individuals considering weight loss surgery. Robbie is an expert on non-dieting approaches to emotional eating and travels to California several times a year to participate in retreats with Geneen Roth. She has led mindfulness and emotional eating awareness groups both in the Chicago area and nationally by teleconference. She has been a consultant to some of the best-known bariatric centers in the U.S.A, and has been on the faculty of the Chicago Medical School since 1989. Robbie is a proud carrier of the MentorCoach tradition of infusing coaching with positive psychology. In some sense she sometimes considers herself the intellectual grandchild of Marty Seligman, the founder of positive psychology, because for 3 years before entering graduate school she was a research assistant at Northwestern University to Dr. Lauren Alloy, one of Dr. Seligman's early protégés who did groundbreaking work on the limits of optimism. Robbie is a born listener and gifted coach. Robbie is blessed with an unusual gift: She has perfect recall of anything she hears. As a coach, she uses her unique listening ability to understand and remember people and what's important to them. Her extraordinary memory also carries over to her music. As a musician she can listen to any music and play it back on the piano or while singing. She loves to use her [professionally trained soprano] voice when singing in a choir and a jazz band, talking with coaching clients, and leading groups in guided imagery or meditation both by phone and in person. In her spare time, Robbie composes relaxing piano music and enjoys extensive travel and travel planning for herself and others. Robbie lives in the Chicago area with her two teenaged children and their three Cavalier King Charles Spaniels: Frasier, Niles & Maris.
Jan Hill received her PhD in sociology at York University, Toronto Canada where she specialized in the study of moral regulation. Her endless search for answers to questions like, "What factors lead a person to abandon what they want to do in exchange for what they are told they should do?" has inspired Jan's coaching career. Her client's are typically high achievers who have drive and ambition, but lack focus and joy in their lives. Executive and corporate clients also benefit from Jan's approach which integrates positive psychology with skills based training. Jan maintains her career as a professor at Brock University in St. Catharines where she teaches sociology courses in medical sociology, family studies, sexualities, and feminist theory. Jan hosts the television series Scared Silly currently under development where she coaches phobics to overcome fear and significantly enhance the quality of their lives. She is author of numerous workshop manuals and training curriculum for corporate and non-profit clients, and is the creator of the popular Rediscover Your Wunder Woman workshop series geared towards women making life changes. "Coaching is inspiring work - it is exactly where I love to be." Jan lives in Toronto Ontario with her giant dog Blue.
Paul Z. Jackson is an inspirational consultant, coach and facilitator, who devises and runs training courses and development programmes in strategy, leadership, teamwork, creativity and innovation.
His expertise in improvisation, accelerated learning and the solutions focus approach has attracted corporate clients and public organisations, ranging from Ashridge Business School to Procter & Gamble, from local authorities to top five accountants and Greenpeace UK.
As a journalist, a senior producer with BBC Radio and as the founder of the More Fool Us improvisation comedy team, he has prompted a lot of laughter, on-stage and off, mostly intentionally. Paul is a co-founder of both SOLWORLD and the Applied Improvisation Network.
A graduate of Oxford University, contributor to scholarly publications and international conferences as keynote speaker and workshop presenter, he lives in St Albans, UK.
His books include The Inspirational Trainer, 58½ Ways to Improvise in Training, and he is co-author of the best-selling The Solutions Focus – Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE.
Jeff Kaplan, Ph.D., is a psychologist, author, consultant, and trainer. He is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), the highest possible certification of the International Coach Federation. He is a MentorCoach Certified MentorCoach (CMC). And he has earned an Executive MBA from the internationally recognized Smeal College of Business at The Penn State University. As a personal and business coach, he has 20 years' experience in helping individuals succeed in all major aspects of their lives. He is founder and President of Interpersonal Growth Workshops, Inc. (IGW), serving as a consultant to various Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he maintains a managed-care-free psychotherapy and coaching practice in suburban Philadelphia. Jeff officially joined the coaching community in early 2000 with a desire to work with individuals from a “healthy functional” model rather than a “diseased dysfunctional” model. He quickly embraced coaching by “claiming” five clients during his first month of training. He facilitates “Building Your Coaching Practice” workshops and has been the subject of several articles on coaching in magazines and the Philadelphia Inquire newspaper. In addition to working with executives and entrepreneurs, Jeff maintains his commitment to helping parents to more fully express the love they have for their teenage children by empowering them with insight, knowledge, skills, & support. Jeff co-authored the book, Finding the Path: A Novel for Parents of Teenagers and teaches weekly teleclasses. His life passion is to create a world of nonjudgmental love and acceptance. “I envision a world of business managers and executives who lead with heart – seeing people as their most valuable resource, parents who act in the most beneficial and loving ways to their children, and intimate partners who hold their relationship sacred.”
A high performance business and executive coach since 1992, Christine Martin is Founder and Principal of Innovation Coaching, LLC. With over 6,000 hours of professional coaching as her background, she coaches decision-making individuals, forward-looking professionals, innovative and creative artists and scientists, media professionals, professional coaches, and high performance teams. As a member of the 4-D Systems Leadership Coaching Team, she presently coaches the next generation of leaders for NASA in a strictly team-based approach. She coaches for Informatica Corporation with programs created in the Pfeifer Coaching Model.
“Christine is known as a coach who works with a natural, rigorous style delivered with a velvet touch. Clients appreciate and acknowledge her unrelenting support, her sense of humor, her ruthless compassion and her lifelong appreciation for the potential of individuals and organizations.” A graduate of the University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, Christine taught ethics, leadership, organizational theory & development, organizational behavior, and human resource management at the graduate level from 1994 to 2005 when she moved from California to North Carolina.
Christine’s experience with groups includes over a decade of graduate and undergraduate teaching both traditionally and virtually, group mentor coaching, large group facilitation using coaching as the model, training managers and U.S. Air Force officers in the use of coaching techniques for managing, and high performance teams at NASA. Christine's contributions to the ICF include work as a 2004 and 2005 Vice President of the Board of Directors working on various initiatives and task forces. She chaired the Credentialing Committee in 2006 and was the oversight chair for the ICF global credentialing initiative during 2005 and 2006. Her past assignments included membership on the Ethics & Standards, Finance, Professional Practices Review, Portfolio Application, and (chair) Language & Distinctions Committees. She is active member of the ICF Raleigh-Durham (NC) Chapter and a founder of the ICF Los Angeles (CA) Chapter.
Christine is a Nationally-ranked swimming official with the NCAA and USA Swimming. She had major management roles at both the 1984 and 1996 Olympic Games. She was Competition Director of the 2004 U. S. Olympic Team Trials for Swimming where she staffed and managed over 600 volunteers who served 850 elite athletes, 250 media professionals, 350 swimming coaches, NBC Television Sports, and 107,000 spectators over 8 days.
Ann Marie lives and breathes George Eliot's quote, “It's never too late to be what you might have been.” As a result she leads a rich and colorful life pursuing interests and passions in her coaching and psychotherapy practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the 70's Ann Marie traveled nationally with the legendary Ken Keyes, author of Handbook to Higher Consciousness, facilitating workshops and conferences throughout the country. In 1979 she moved to Santa Fe and began working as a fiber artist. Her work was discovered by Lord & Taylor and led her to found CMD, Inc., which grew into an international texture and textile business with 40 full-time employees and distribution to 600 US retail outlets. Later as Marketing Director for New Mexico Magazine, an affiliate of the New Mexico Department of Tourism, she developed tourism initiatives which were implemented by the state of New Mexico in cities and communities throughout the state. Ann Marie has a rich and rewarding coaching practice. Her classes, groups and coaching sessions are mindful, skillful, playful and steeped in positive psychology. She is a graduate of Marty Seligman's Authentic Happiness program. She is a gifted, intuitive teacher who also uses her background in marketing and business development to help her students create thriving coaching practices. Ann Marie lives in the high desert country surrounded by pinons and junipers at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains outside of Santa Fe. She enjoys writing and painting, xeroscape gardening, hiking and biking the arroyos and mountains, and talking to the ravens and great horned owls.
Ellen is an "old-timer" in the MentorCoach community, having graduated from MCP 1. After having been in full-time clinical practice since 1987, she began her coaching practice in 1998. Now she is the founder and principal Lawyers Life Coach LLC, a firm providing professional development, career, business development and executive coaching services to attorneys and consultation to legal employers. Dr. Ostrow's experience assisting individuals making career transitions and strategically managing their careers extends back to before she received her Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Rochester in 1980. She was trained in career counseling during her internship at the University of Rochester Counseling Center. She served as Associate Director of Career Services at the University of Utah Counseling Center and worked with students, staff and faculty on career issues at the University of Maryland's and George Washington University's Counseling Centers before entering full-time independent practice. Ellen has a reputation as a warm and supportive instructor and coach. Students who have completed the Strategic Career Coaching class particularly emphasize her ability to create a safe learning environment where people feel free to take risks as they practice new skills. She consistently receives praise for the depth of her knowledge and coaching ability. Well-known as a lawyer's coach, Ellen has been invited to address the American Bar Association, the National Association of Women Lawyers, the National Association of Law Placement, the National Institute for Women Corporate Counsel and more than 20 state, county, city and women's bar association groups. A highlight of her coaching career was serving on the faculty of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession's Women in Law Leadership Academy. Her email newsletter, "Beyond the Billable Hour ® has been reprinted in more than 25 print and electronic legal publications. She has been widely quoted in the press, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Law Journal, Of Counsel, the ABA Journal and New York Lawyer. Ellen lives just outside Washington D.C. with her husband and 16-year-old son.
Dr. Neera Puri holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Southern California and an M.S.W. from the University of Houston. A member of the MentorCoach Trainer Team, she is the Principal of Bay Area Coach, providing executive and leadership coaching. Her coaching practice includes international clientele from Australia, Canada, India, and Nigeria. She is committed to multicultural training, being a founding member of the South Asian Psychological Networking Association, and member of the American Psychological Association and Asian American Psychological Association. With over 15 years of psychotherapy and program development experience, Dr. Puri has worked at the U.S.C. Career Center, U.C.L.A. Student Psychological Services, U.C. Davis Counseling and Psychological Services, and Catholic Charities. She was a faculty instructor and supervisor for the nationally renowned Multicultural Immersion Program at the University of California Davis. Dr. Puri was also involved with university women's centers and non-profit boards to address sexual discrimination, sexual assault, trauma, and crisis response strategies. Dr. Puri has taken on leadership positions with the San Francisco East Bay Coaches, and the International Coach Federation. Dr. Puri was the Marketing Chair of the 2005 ICF Annual Conference, the largest worldwide gathering of coaches to date. She consults with corporations, universities, and non-profits on marketing with print, television, and online technologies. Dr. Puri is an invited speaker for seminars on positive psychology and work life balance, strong women leaders, and team building using the Myers Briggs Type Inventory. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she enjoys going on hikes with her husband, sons, and two puppies, Smokey and Twixie. An avid animal lover, she is actively involved in shelter dog training and rehabilitation.
Bob Siegfried is a coach, consultant, and trainer who specializes in engaging individuals, groups, and organizations in embracing and embodying strengths-based change. He draws on appreciative inquiry, positive psychology, and narrative and solution-focused practices in his work. His most rewarding experiences come in the aha! moment when clients realize that not only is positive and appreciative change possible in their life spaces, they are already engaged in the process. He holds a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, and has worked as a psychologist and taught graduate courses in the areas of lifestyle and career development, psychology, performance enhancement, human organization science, planning, action research, and technology innovation. Throughout his career, Bob’s colleagues, students, workshop participants, and clients alike have consistently commented on his warmth, his respect for them and their ideas, his playfulness, and in his ability to communicate clearly and to spark interest and insight. Dr. Siegfried has consulted to, facilitated training for, or worked with clients from World Bank, General Motors, National Institutes of Health, Southern Regional Education Board, AICPA, Riggs Bank, General Electric, Carnegie Mellon University, Medical College of Pennsylvania and numerous of other public and private sector organizations. Bob appreciates engaging in activities with his family, making music with his friends and making friends with his music, fly-fishing, and tinkering about the Harmonyville, PA country home he shares with his wife and partner Lisa, his daughter Kirsten, his granddaughter Rayne, a dog, a few cats, and the occasional country critter daring enough to risk sneaking into the house. "The ultimate test of an approach to change is in the impact we've experienced from embodying that approach in our own life spaces. And, the more engaged we are in embodying and appreciating positive change in our own life spaces, the better able we are to support others in embodying and appreciating it in theirs."
Kim Kirmmse Toth is a business and life coach. She is also a
licensed clinical social worker. She has a wide ranging professional
background that includes 20 years of working with professionals. A licensed
clinical social worker, Kim found her work with Managed Care to be
increasingly less rewarding. This prompted her to begin coaching. And it is in
coaching that she has found her true home.
Janine Waldman is an executive coach, consultant and facilitator. She specialises in solutions focused coaching, an approach in which she has trained numerous coaches , introduced into organisations and presented at conferences worldwide. She is a partner in the change consultancy ‘The Solutions Focus’.
Janine is a graduate of the London School of Economics with a master’s degree in industrial relations and human resource management. Janine spent the first 12 years of her career working in-house for a variety of organisations in both the public and private sectors, where she led organisational development initiatives. She then set up her own company focusing on coaching and developing coaching cultures in organisations. In 2002 she discovered the solutions focused approach and inspired by its pragmatism and the positive results she achieved with her clients made this her core business and is now committed to developing the approach further and spreading SF practice throughout the coaching profession and organisations. Her clients range from independent start up companies to multi-national organisations such as Beiersdorf (Nivea).
A certified business coach and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD), she also teaches on Masters programmes at Birkbeck and Westminster Universities. Patricia Wheeler is Senior Partner in The Levin Group LLC, an international firm that provides pragmatic consulting and executive coaching for CEOs, Senior Executives and top Teams ranging from Fortune 500 companies through mid-sized businesses. A licensed Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Patricia ran a successful clinical practice before transitioning to her current role. Patricia helps successful people become better leaders, in ways that have high impact for the individual, team, and organization. This creates significant value and positive results for the entire culture. An often requested coaching area for Patricia is working with high performing and high potential leaders and their teams in technical, scientific and analytical fields such as engineering, high tech R&D and healthcare. Articles by Patricia have been featured in industry publications such as Healthcare Executive and Construction Financial Management. She has been heard on NPR speaking about leadership and career development. Patricia publishes the monthly E-newsletter "Leading News" in partnership with renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith.
As an English professor and writing specialist for a number of years, first at George Washington University and then at American University, Nancy Whichard gave generously and gladly of her time and expertise to help her students compose papers and become better writers. Now, as a coach, Nancy joyfully supports clients who make and meet writing goals and compose personally fulfilling lives. "Writers and teachers are my people," she says. Nancy coaches writers, academics, and women with new missions at midlife. Nancy has worked with blocked, struggling, and inefficient writers and with people at all stages of the writing process. Her research and publishing in composition theory provide a framework for her coaching of writers. Her graduation from the Authentic Happiness Coaching program has given her an additional layer of very practical theory to underpin her strengths-based coaching and to help her coach her clients toward greater resilience. Nancy is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), certified through the International Coach Federation. She also is a member of the Community of Coaches for the Women's Business Center of Northern Virginia. When writing her dissertation while teaching college English full-time and being the mother to two busy middle-schoolers, Nancy learned a great deal about prioritizing and letting go of the unimportant. In addition, she learned to ask for help; she hired a coach. Having experienced the power of coaching during that time, she eventually became a certified co-active coach through the Coaches Training Institute. Nancy is particularly talented in working with women with new missions at mid-life, such as coaching, as well as writing. As she did, her clients are reshaping their lives and looking ahead to what comes next. Nancy holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of
Maryland. She and her husband, Obie, live in the Washington, DC suburb
of Falls Church, Virginia. Their two children are now grown. Their
daughter lives in Brooklyn, New York, and their son lives in Alexandria,
Virginia. Margaret Wilkinson received her Ph.D. in psychology from The Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, CA and was one of the first psychologists chosen to receive a post-doctorate Fellowship in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Consulting Psychiatry at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She was also on the staff of the Meyer Friedman Institute during the Coronary and Cancer Prevention Project, the first study of its kind in the U.S. Project participants were from Wells Fargo Bank, Visa, Exxon, Bechtel, PG&E, and Charles Schwab. Also, Margaret has worked as an entrepreneur and as a member of a multi-media team that developed an interactive software program to improve the well-being and productivity of employees at Lockheed-Martin and GTE. Currently, Margaret is a coach specializing in authentic leadership and work/life happiness. Her education in the creative process began in her years as a dancer, which included an appearance with the Alvin Ailey Company. She is a competitive tennis player and equestrienne, and lives with her husband and teenage daughter in California's Santa Ynez Valley. "I believe that work- at home or in an office -can and should be a fulfilling experience. Using researched techniques from the fields of Positive Psychology and coaching, I help clients use their strengths to create the life of their dreams. My clients learn to deepen their passion and commitment to what has heart and meaning. As they become more authentic and discover their true leadership abilities, I am elated to find that my clients are better able to combat stress and avoid burnout. Decision-making improves. Relationships improve. Work becomes more happy and meaningful. I am inspired by my clients as their spirits soar, some for the first time in their lives. Using a strengths-based approach encourages the development of authentic greatness in others. I am thrilled and grateful to witness my clients' new-found abilities, which add so much of lasting value to the world around us." - MW
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Kevyn
Malloy, Ph.D., CMC
Chris
Peterson, Ph.D.
Robert
A. Emmons, Ph.D
Sonja
Lyubomirsky, Ph.D.
Alan
R. Graham, Ph.D. PCC
Eric Harris, Ed.D., J.D.
Roberta "Robbie" Maller Hartman, Ph.D., CMC 
Jan Hill, Ph.D.
Paul Z. Jackson
Jeff
Kaplan, Ph.D., M.B.A., CMC, MCC
Christine
Martin, MA, MBA, MCC
Ann
Marie McKelvey, PCC
Ellen
Ostrow, Ph.D., CMC, PCC
Neera
Puri, Ph.D., PCC
Bob
Siegfried, Ph.D. 
Kim
Kirmmse Toth, LCSW, ACC
Nancy
Whichard, Ph.D., PCC
