Dr. Norah Njuba Bwaya

An Organization Development Consultant, and Facilitator/trainer with working experience across 4 careers (Accountancy, Marketing, Insurance, Coaching) in 21 countries across 3 continents (Africa, Europe, America). As a coach, she has served top executives in over 100 organizations. She is the Founder of the first coaching firm in Eastern Africa–Coach Africa Ltd.

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Jancy Castro

Jancy Castro is a Finance controller with over 25 years of experience working at multinational companies. As a leader of large finance groups, Jancy has been coaching other leaders and managers since 2008. In 2017 she decided to step into the world of executive coaching, completing the one- year Executive coaching program at New Ventures West.

Jancy believes that human beings are born with a  light within, a talent, a gift we are meant to contribute to our world. In spite of life’s vicissitudes, we are meant to live full and rewarding lives. Jancy’s coaching was born of her desire to help others unlock their light. She finds working with people to define their goals, conquer their challenges and go after their dreams to be a rewarding experience. She is committed to helping her clients grow with a balance between compassion and challenge.

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Renée Cooper

Renée is a nationally sought-after executive coach and leadership expert with 20 years experience working with Fortune 500 companies, high growth start-ups, and not-for-profits. With her warm, insightful and results-oriented style, she partners with top executives and their teams to enhance leadership skills and improve individual and team performance. In addition to her own practice, she is affiliated with 3D Leadership Group and The Goodstone Group. From 2002-2008 she was an adjunct coach with the Center for Authentic Leadership.

In her spare time you can find her near the ocean, running, reading, kayaking, or hunting for sea glass.

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Dr. Michele D’Amico

With 10+ years as a leading-edge executive and leadership coach and a Doctorate in Psychology, Michele is a valued expert in resilience, emotional intelligence and conscious communication. Using a strengths-based, whole-person approach, she excels at transforming high-level leaders and emerging executives to bring their “A” game to meet business and personal goals.

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Howard Goldman

Partner at Management Associates, an international management consulting firm which he founded 39 years ago. Prior to that served as the Director of Artist Development for Capitol Records/EMI, developing such artists as the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Band, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt.

Additionally, Howard was a venture partner with Outlook Ventures in San Francisco. He is a Board Director, investor, and strategic advisor to numerous technology start-ups. He was the Chairman of the Faculty of the Center for Management Design, a corporate university for senior executives. He received the “Breakthrough Award,” and “Leadership Award” from Transformational Technologies, his peers in the global consulting industry, in recognition for outstanding accomplishment.

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Sally Grisedale

Sally Grisedale coaches extraordinary leaders through life changing transitions into personal and professional fulfillment. As a former product design executive, she learned to design her life the way she wants it and now she helps others to do the same.

Sally has created and led cross functional product design teams at the world’s leading technology companies, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and CEO of ClearChannelCoaching.Com, a bespoke coaching company. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), Sally is also a student of Chinese Medicine and Neuroscience for Leadership Development.

Based in Campbell, California, Sally is a keen doubles tennis player and shares her home with Michael and pet cat Tiggy.

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Wilbur Harrington

Wilbur’s passion about coaching comes from a lifelong curiosity about people’s stories and how these stories manifest in their interaction with their world. Coaching for Wilbur is a symbiotic relationship. He takes their trust and the gift of their stories very seriously as he attempts to be of service. Wilbur finds that the work he does with clients also contributes to his own professional development and growth as a person, including learning from both successes and setbacks.

When asked about his outside interests, Wilbur shared that during the last year he has been working with incarcerated and recently released men through the Jericho Circle organization. Wilbur helps these men develop their emotional intelligence, and use tools to come to terms with their inner struggles and the walls that separate them from their loved ones, communities and themselves. Finally, although it doesn’t sound like he allows himself much free time, Wilbur’s hobbies include diverse musical interests, gardening and baking; he finds all three relaxing, and they enable him to share his results with friends.

wh@cambridgehill.com

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Darell B. Jackson

Darrell B. Jackson is a Vistage Chair. He brings 35 years of experience in the banking industry, where his titles included President and Chief Executive Officer of Seaway Bank and Trust Company, Executive Vice President of the Northern Trust Company, Deputy Head of Private Client Services, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Trust Company’s Illinois Suburban Region. He was also a Senior Vice President and Division Manager in Private Banking at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago.

Darrell received a B.A. degree from St. Xavier University in Chicago, and a M.B.A. degree from the Kellogg Executive Master’s Program at Northwestern University.

Darrell serves on the Boards of the Illinois Banker’s Association as the Immediate Past Chairman, the Morton Arboretum as Chairman, the 100 Club of Chicago as President-Elect and the Kellogg Alumni Council. He is a member of the Union League Club of Chicago and The Chicago Club.

Darrell received The Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Award from The Boys and Girls Club of Chicago in 2004. He was honored as one of the 40 leaders of color by Chicago United in 2003. He was elected to the Mendel Catholic Hall of Fame in 2008 and was awarded The Distinguished Alumni Award by St. Xavier University in 2010. Recently, in February 2014, he was awarded the Reverend John Phelps Humanitarian of the Year award by Life Directions.

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Charlotte Kells

Charlotte has over 20 years’ experience coaching and developing executives and managers in diverse leadership roles and across many industries. Her coaching has helped clients make the transition from Manager to Leader – developing Leadership Presence.  She has addressed challenges such as increasing leadership influence and agility, developing new workplace cultures, fostering team / peer collaboration, and improving communication skills. Adept in process facilitation, she helps clients build on their business expertise and focus on developing processes and relationships to meet both personal and professional goals.

Charlotte spent 20 years with the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, NY. She taught in their Facilitating Creative Leadership Program for 11 years using the Osborn Parnes Creative Problem Solving model and other tools and techniques that encourage creative thinking and the skills to create high performance, innovative teams.  

Charlotte holds a B.S. in Education and English from the University of Michigan and Master’s Degrees in both Education and Business from the University of Michigan and Lesley College.

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Hamira Latif

Hamira is an experienced personal development and team performance coach. She has worked in corporate for over 10 years. During this time she realised the greatest assets of any organisation is their people and the great potential they have to thrive. She focuses on developing individuals from diverse and ethnic backgrounds towards high performance and growth. Hamira works towards empowering people to maximise their strengths and become best versions of themselves. Removing limiting beliefs and blocks that prevents them from attaining goals and purpose. She has a degree in Business and holds a number of diplomas in Executive coaching and organisational relationship coaching.

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Julie Levin

After a successful 25-year career as an executive and entrepreneur, Julie found a new passion while volunteering to help women entrepreneurs at a Boston non-profit organization, The Center for Women and Enterprise.  After coaching, mentoring and advising countless women pro-bono at CWE, she became certified with The John Maxwell Team as a Leadership and Executive Coach, and subsequently received certification as a Martha Beck Life Coach. She then created her own Coaching & Consulting business to expand her services to a larger community of entrepreneurs and business leaders. Using her experience, skills and intuition, Julie coaches and mentors entrepreneurs and executives, providing them with tools and strategies to achieve success along with a satisfying work-life balance.

What sets Julie apart is her ability to guide entrepreneurs to a clear understanding of what success means to them. Through her mentoring, people learn that business success goes hand in hand with personal fulfillment.

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Cindy Lima

Cindy is passionate about coaching innovative leaders to maximize their impact in improving lives and the world around us. As a former hospital executive, Cindy oversaw hundreds of staff and managers as well as diverse policies and programs over three decades of service.  She successfully led the development of a $1.5 billion children’s, women’s and cancer medical center in San Francisco.  She applies her professional acumen, results-orientation, astute listening and warm humor to create coaching relationships that fuel leaders’ growth, confidence and effectiveness. Cindy holds a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) certificate from the International Coach Academy, an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coach Federation, and a master’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In addition to The Gratitude Network, Cindy provides pro bono coaching to international aid organizations through the Humanitarian Coaching Network. She lives in Bend, Oregon where she enjoys hiking, kayaking, singing in a rock choir and travel.

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Johanna Macis

Senior Professional, Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in International Business. Functional experience in Human Resources, Finance, and Procurement.

More than twenty years’ experience in Fortune 500 companies with demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Proven ability to inspire Vision and Mission objectives and to develop high-performance teams.

Executive and Career Coach Certified. Her coaching style combines analysis, intuition, and experience to create lasting change in individuals. She has worked with people from different places and cultures with different personalities. She genuinely wants each and every one of her participants to experience a profound and positive change in what they do and who they are.

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Cindy Mascheroni

Cindy Mascheroni is an Executive Coach for CEOs and senior executives of privately-held companies who are passionate about creating sustainable growth. Clients are often focused on relevant drivers such as customer success, profitability, scale, high-performing leadership teams, and high-engagement cultures. They believe that effective leadership is paramount to not only to collectively achieving desired outcomes but also to being fulfilled and healthy in the process. Cindy coaches CEOs across diverse industries, stages of growth, size, and ownership structures.  Many clients are also in the midst of high-priority family life.

Cindy earned an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University and a BA in Psychology from UCLA. She holds certifications with CTI (Professional Co-Active Coach) and The Leadership Circle (TLC 360 Profile and Culture Survey). Outside of work, she enjoys mountain activities including skiing, hiking and biking with family, friends, and dogs.  She’s a lifelong learner in the areas of recreational sports, coaching, business, future trends, personal growth, and meditation.

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Steve McCoy-Thompson

Business Development

Steve  has 25 years of leadership and capacity building with business, NGOs and government throughout the world with such organizations as Business for Social Responsibility, Deloitte Consulting and Bechtel Corporation. He has a passion for aligning businesses and communities to enable sustainable social impact and has developed successful programs in urban water and rural electricity delivery, health access, community development and education in more than 30 countries. Steve leads the NGO mentoring program at Gratitude Network and specializes in helping organizations plan, execute and report on positive impact as part of a partnership effort with corporate and institutional supporters.

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Alicia McLain

Alicia is a certified coach, public speaker, trainer and an entrepreneur.  She is an Organizational Transformation & Leadership Coach with over 20 years of experience within the software development and IT domains. As an agility coach, her expertise is in the change management aspects of Agile transformation. Alicia coaches, trains and transforms mid-size to large companies both domestically and internationally. Known as the “Organizational whisperer,” Alicia has a focus is on using coaching to build agility and accountability in organizations and on teams.  She has a keen sense of connecting individuals to their purpose and helping them build leadership agility and resilience to tackle the challenges of their daily work.

Alicia holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, a Minor in Spanish from San Diego State University and Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University. Alicia lives with her family in San Diego, California and enjoys hiking in the US National Parks, travel home crafts and colored pencil art.

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Bart Miller

Bart kindles the vision and expands the possible for leaders via thought partnering and coaching. Bart is an executive coach, group facilitator. and entrepreneur who works with founders, C-levels, teams, and focused professionals.

Clients include Facebook, PwC, Wells Fargo, Stanford University, Pinterest, Cisco, Visa, HP, Slack, Pure Storage, Open Door, Harvard Business School, Blue Shield, TPG, and Johnson & Johnson.

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Paul Miller

Paul is a Silicon Valley tech industry veteran who has held a variety of executive positions in both VC-funded startups and large global organizations such as Applied Materials and Kobe Steel USA.  He is an entrepreneurial leader with broad expertise in marketing, business development, finance, corporate development, IT systems, new product marketing and global program management.  Earlier in his career, he started a successful semiconductor materials business from an idea and built it to become an important supplier to major companies such as Intel and Texas Instruments.

From an early stage of the Gratitude Network, Paul has contributed in a number of capacities including coaching, corporate partnerships, the Gratitude Awards, and the Gratitude Soiree.  Paul has degrees in business and engineering from the Harvard Business School, Stanford University and Claremont McKenna College,  When not working, he enjoys playing tennis, snowboarding and surfing.

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Amy Moore

Amy Moore is an executive coach who specializes in leadership development and helping individuals and teams achieve their goals through a holistic approach – partnerships, sustainable personal and professional practices and targeted goal setting. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College, received a Masters from the London School of Economics and is a certified PCC through the International Coach Federation. Amy has worked in the States and Europe. For the last 20 years her focus has been in southern Africa where she is a professional associate of the leading African business school, GIBS, and works across the MBA and executive education programmes as a coach, lecturer and content developer. Amy lives in Johannesburg with her husband and three children.

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Ray Nieto

Ray is a seasoned leader and coach, helping individuals and teams grow to peak performance.  He has held multiple engineering and program management roles in large high-tech companies. He has developed multi-level agile teams working together around the globe. He helps his organizations establish the balance between structure and agility as they grow. Ray’s approach is to help define and drive a culture to create a drama-free workplace. He is a founder and former executive for a professional development non-profit company and has been a member of multiple boards serving various community needs. In Ray’s career, he has been recognized for his work with executive leadership of a Fortune 500 company to define and drive their diversity strategy throughout the organization.

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Lucy Njoroge

Lucy is a certified coach, mentor and trainer. She began her profession as an audit apprentice and has over 20 years + track record in Financial Management, having worked up the ladder to head the finance department of one of the top ten Financial Institutions in Kenya. It was while she was working for the financial institution that she developed a passion for governance.

She runs Business Deepening Hub, governance consultancy firm, which is one of the SNDBX experts and provides audit, training and implementation of governance principles to businesses so that they can achieve sustainable success.

She is a Fellow Certified Public Accountant , Certified Public Secretary with a Master of Business Administration from Maastrict School of Management /Eastern Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI).

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Carol Salloway

Carol Salloway is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development Consultant. She is known for her warm, insightful and direct approach which enables her clients to get clear on what they want, what gets in their way and what they can do to enhance their leadership brand and their influence and produce impressive results. Carol has coached hundreds of leaders – smart, high performing individuals who are interested in continuing their leadership growth. Her clients are in knowledge-based professions including health care, biotech, high tech, financial and professional services and not-for-profit organizations.

Carol earned an MBA with a concentration in Organizational Behavior from Boston University and a BA in Psychology from Simmons College. She is a certified executive coach, earning that designation through New Ventures West. Carol serves as a Supervisor Coach for the Executive Coaching Graduate Program at William James College. She also coaches in the executive education programs at Harvard Business School and Bentley University.

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Catherine Shimechero

Catherine Shimechero is a personal performance coach who helps clients bring out their hidden treasure – potential. Her strength lies in Inspiring and motivating people through confidence building to see opportunities and possibilities open to them. Joy and pride fill her when she sees the sparkle in her clients as they embrace their new selves during and after the coaching journey. Face to face and online soft skills training is something she also does with ease as she utilizes her 20 years’ experience gained at different points in her life as a Finance Manager, Consultant, Trainer and Coach. She holds a Master degree in Strategic Management, Degree in Bachelor of Commerce, a Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching, E- Moderator Certificate and Training of Trainers certificate. She loves to serve and her mission in life is to put a smile on someone’s face every day. She appreciates beauty, travelling, adventure, cooking, tasting different foods, carrying out research, having a good laugh, meeting new people, story- telling and listening, observing, horse riding and spreading kindness.

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David O. Silber

David Silber is a Vistage Chair who has spent over 35 years in the business community in positions ranging from Product Manager through Chief Executive Officer. He has been the chief executive of three different organizations. His diverse industry experience includes advertising, grocery manufacturing, specialty retailing, business-to-business services, real estate, book publishing, graphic arts and not-for-profit association management. Mr. Silber’s corporate experience includes both Fortune 100 corporations (General Mills, United Technologies, Time-Warner) and smaller more entrepreneurial environments. He served as a senior executive in three organizations both immediately before and immediately after their acquisition by a much larger parent.

Mr. Silver holds both B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a Barrister-at-Law degree from London School of Law. He was awarded the Vistage Chair Excellence Award in 2005, 2013, and 2016, and the Vistage West Coast Chair of the Year Award in 2017

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Katsuko Sugiyama

Katsuko Sugiyama is an independent Bilingual (J/E) Facilitator and Leadership Coach specialized in global leadership competences development as well as global business communication skills development for the executives, next-generation leaders, associates, and the team members to maximize their effectiveness as global leaders.

Katsuko is a practitioner and a Senior Facilitator of Personal Leadership — Malcing a World of Difference ®, a framework and day-to-day practice to enable as to discern the best way forward in the face of difference, uncertainty and change. She often incorporates the Personal Leadership framework into her leadership coaching to enable the client to discern the best way forward in the facing the ever-changing and uncertain world.

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Bill Sumerlin

Bill assists start-ups, small and medium size businesses in developing and executing early, mid and late stage business, engineering and operational strategies, plans and procedures in a business and technical capacity. He enjoys challenging problems and taking businesses to the next level. He has worked world-wide.

• 30+ years in management, enterprise architecture, technical and product development, business consulting, sales and customer support;

• 10+ years working with start-up companies with leading edge ideas and technologies;

• Extensive knowledge and world-wide experience in the high technology, business intelligence, telecommunications, networking, and financial services industries;

• Developed more than dozen products and services, written more than a million lines of code, developed numerous business plans, papers, articles, manuals and patents; and

• Developed a number of company and product specific call/contact centers, web sites and business processes that helped reposition organizations to better communicate and serve their customers.

Some key clients: 3Com, Adobe, Airtouch, Aspect Telecomunications, BancOne, BofA, Cadence Design Systems, Candle, Cisco, CSAA, Deluxe Checks, General Electric, GNA, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, NASA, Neckermann (Belgium, Netherlands, France), Pacific Bell, PBA, PeopleSoft, PG&E, ProBusiness, Progress Software, Raychem, Siemens (US & Germany), Sun Microsystems, Unisource, Wells Fargo

Specialties: CRM/ERP/SFA/Contact Centers/Real Time Analytics/Business Intelligence

Business & Product Assessment

Financial Modeling

Project/Budget Planning & Management

Rapid Prototyping

Cloud Computing

IP Creation & Management

Team building

bill@mmcad.com

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Jill Talvensaari

Jill Talvensaari is an executive coach, digital experience industry leader and speaker, CEO of Ajillity, and non-profit board member. Her passion is helping leaders thrive and lead with confidence, becoming the best version of themselves, uplifting their teams, and having lasting impact on their organization, community and the world. She brings over 20 years of senior leadership experience in product, marketing, sales, and operations at global technology companies and startups alike. Her 15+ years of Board and volunteer service includes co-founding Women Speak Tech, mentoring at Women Unlimited and The Gratitude Network, and serving on the OMPT Board. Jill holds an MBA in International Business and Marketing from Seattle University, and degrees in Cognitive Science and Quantitative Economics from UCSD. She lives in California with her family and dog and enjoys hiking and travel.

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Laura Traxler

Laura developed a long career at Bank of America, where her last role Senior Vice President and Managing Director Bank of America. Laura was also COO and Marketing Manager at Insight Resource Group, a marketing services organization. She also serves on boards for-profit and non-profit, including Teach for America, Education Foundation of Orinda, and Miramonte High School.

As an empty-nester, Laura enjoys her work in the non-profit world and seeing the difference she can make.

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Dr. Archana Upadhyay

Dr. Archana Yemeshvary has over 25 years of experience as a Human Resource professional & Strategist with a fortune 500 company where she continues to work. She is an expert in the domain of HR, strategy implementation, Balanced Scorecard, Leadership development, Organization Development and Executive Coaching. She has been a coach for over 12 years now and supported leadership development programs of many leading corporates. She holds Ph.D. in Strategy implementation using Balanced Scorecard and M.A, in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India.

Her mission is to contribute via coaching to make this world a place full of love, light and laughter, where everyone can experience their true limitless nature and have a fulfilling experience of life on this earth. Converting this vision into reality, she constantly coaches organizations as well as individuals for Leadership, Happiness, Wellbeing, Success and Prosperity.

A yogi at soul and a nature lover at heart, yoga, meditation and mindfulness is her second nature. She has always believed in the magic of simple joys of life. With trekking as a hobby, she finds her solace and ultimate joy in the Himalayas.

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Rajiv Vij

CEO at 33. Regional MD at 36. Left it all at 39 to pursue his calling, embarking on a journey of personal growth and of helping others in theirs. Rajiv Vij is a life and executive coach, author and speaker. He is a coach to senior leaders of several Fortune 500 and other large organisations across Asia/India. He also voluntarily coaches many leaders in the social sector. He is the author of Discovering Your Sweet Spot: A soul-searching guide for creating the life you really want. Prior to finding his calling and starting his coaching practice, he served as MD, Asia for Franklin Templeton Investments.

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Karen Walker

Karen Walker is an executive coach and consultant who advises CEOs and senior leaders on thriving in hyper-growth. She has worked with clients including Aetna, AWS, Pfizer, JPMorganChase, and BMC Software, as well as Inc. 5000 startups. Karen is also a board advisor, keynote speaker, and the author of No Dumbing Down: A Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth. As employee 104 at Compaq, Karen helped lead the then-fastest growing company in American history, growing it from $0 to $15 billion in revenue.Karen is a contributor to Forbes and to Harvard Business Review’s Ascend, and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Karen has a B.S. degree in engineering from Texas A&M University and graduated from the ODHRM program at Columbia University. She has served in an advisory capacity to startups, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and on the executive board of The Alley Theatre. She resides in Jupiter, FL, USA although (pre-pandemic!) she can most often be found aloft in seat 2C.

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Faith N. Warui

Faith N Warui is a Certified Executive Coach by the Academy of Executive Coaches Uk. For twenty six years she harnessed her People Management experience in the energy sector, working in Human Resources and Customer Relationship Management at Kenya Power & Lighting Company. She retired early to pursue a full-time Coaching Career, since 2017.

Having a wealth of experience in life challenges informed her Coaching niche in Self leadership. To lead others, as a positive influencer demands the mastery of leading the self first, through self compassion and empathy.

From October – November 2020 she participated in a Positive Intelligence coach training program, by Coach Shizard Chamine, which further reinforced the power of self leadership.

Faith organises coaching group programs with a greater focus on one on one coaching sessions and is solution focused. A Motivational Speaker and a Toastmaster since 2017. She is passionate about supporting the youth become self leaders.

In January 2020, she started by helping twenty needy girls access funding for high school education by connecting them for sponsorship and mentoring them. The year 2020 has brought the meaning of the word CHANGE home as we navigate through corvid 19. It calls upon our innate abilities to adapt and rethink the way we operate. It is a season of self leadership and self regulation to make it beyond the now.

In adjusting to the new normal, she has socialised globally with like minded people in Coach training by Coach Shirzad Chamine , 21Days of writing with Mike Dooley and Author Challenge with Chandler Bolt. Though it took a slow start, she has shifted from physical to virtual coaching which has enabled her coach beyond Kenya.

One of the little big things she has discovered is the therapeutic aspect in gardening, and now sells homegrown vegetables. She enjoys travelling too.

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