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As a coach, Lee Ann is often described by her clients as a "strategic thought partner" -- bringing a unique combination of strategic "big picture" thinking, global understanding, deep personal effectiveness skills, and practical "results" orientation to organizational and individual challenges. Lee Ann is particularly skilled at helping clients identify, claim, and live their distinct personal brand, aligned with their natural strengths, personal purpose and legacy. Clarity around personal brand contributes to greater leadership presence and overall influence power... and can serve as a bridge across cultural differences. In any coaching engagement, Lee Ann strives to build on each client's strengths while challenging their thinking and actions in a supportive manner. This combined capability allows clients to achieve deeper levels of personal mastery and advance broader organizational objectives with greater clarity, focus and ease. Prior to becoming an executive coach and leadership development consultant, Lee Ann held a variety of positions in global organizational and leadership development. Formerly Director of Leadership Development at Sapient Corporation, and Senior Manager responsible for worldwide Global Leadership Development for the top 400 leaders at Avon Products, Inc., Lee Ann has focused her career on maximizing the power of leadership development and coaching as strategic levers for change within an organization. Global effectiveness is another passion and area of experience. Prior to working with Avon, Lee Ann was Program Design Manager at Windham International, an international global human resources consulting firm (now Berlitz). While there, her work in global management development and intercultural effectiveness supported clients such as: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Estée Lauder, General Electric (GE Capital, GE International, etc.), Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Merrill Lynch. Lee Ann holds a Master's degree in Intercultural Management from the School for International Training in Vermont and a B.S. in International Studies and Political Science from Miami University in Ohio. She speaks some Japanese and French and is just beginning to learn Spanish. She is certified and master-certified in numerous professional training programs and assessment tools, including: DiSC Personal Profile System, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Profiler 360 Degree Feedback, CCL's Benchmarks 360 Feedback, Situational Leadership, Interchange International's Change Cycle and TMC Cultural Orientations. Lee Ann has also studied coaching with the Center for Creative Leadership, CDR International, Inside Out, Interaction Associates, and Coach University. When Lee Ann is not coaching or consulting, you can probably find her enjoying one of Hawaii's beaches with her husband, two toddler daughters and her dachshund who thinks he's human.
Cassi is passionate about people and what is possible for them. She believes the majority of people are living life at around 45% of their full potential and she is dedicated to increasing this percentage through coaching. Her personal mission is to reach her highest potential by helping others reach theirs. It is a life she truly loves. Before coaching, Cassi spent 14 years in corporate America. She had a very successful career working her way up from an entry-level position answering the phone to become the first female Vice President and the first female to serve on an all male senior management team in a 100-year-old company. Although this still stands as one of her most significant accomplishments, an even greater achievement is creating a vision that aligned her gifts, talents and passions in a way that allows her to live a life of her choosing. Cassi works with all types of clients, both individually and in the corporate and business environment. She has a degree in psychology, has attained her SPHR certification, is a graduate of Coach University and is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation. She has been coaching in the business world for over 10 years and has specific experience with business leaders, family business, human resource teams, sales organizations and senior management teams.
Cheryl has led numerous initiatives requiring customized design and development to facilitate organizational and individual change. Her passion is helping individuals and teams survive and thrive during times of transition and increasing effectiveness through behavioral change. Cheryl has designed, developed and delivered classroom and self-study programs in the areas of in the areas of Leadership Skills, Management Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Coaching and Feedback, Communication Skills, Performance Management, Customer Service, Career Development, Goal Setting, Performance Review, Training and Facilitation, Flexible Work, and Sexual Harassment. She has also designed and delivered customized-content program for in-tact teams and business units. Certified in numerous professional training programs and assessment tools, including: DiSC Personal Profile System, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Profiler 360 Degree Feedback, Situational Leadership, Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument, Firo-B, Business as UnUsual and Employee Workshop for Organization Change from Pritchett and Pound, Presentation Skills, and TMC’s Cultural Orientations at Work. Cheryl is a certified Teacher of English as a Foreign Language and has served as adjunct faculty teaching English as a Second Language at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut and Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut. She has also designed and delivered Welfare to Work training for the State of Connecticut in support of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. Cheryl is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Management with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, earned a Masters in Education from Fairfield University’s School of Education and completed post-graduate certification in Organization Development Practices from Columbia University
Combining deep capabilties in communication skills, change management, and emotional intelligence with her background and skills in Human Resources management and Operational Management, Sarah brings a truly holistic and globally savvy touch to all her coaching work. Most of all, she is passionate about coaching and helping individuals and organisations achieve outstanding results in the most efficient and effective way possible. Qualifications
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Lee Ann Del Carpio is a leadership coach and organizational development consultant with over 12 years of global leadership and organizational effectiveness experience. Lee Ann works regularly with executives, professionals and organizational teams to maximize leadership effectiveness, sharpen global business skills, enhance personal mastery and navigate through change. Clients also frequently engage Lee Ann to forge unique leadership influence, impact and presence. As President of Inner Power International, Lee Ann offers integrated, custom solutions to business challenges through measurable executive coaching and organizational consulting. Having lived and worked internationally in Europe and Asia, and traveled to over 35 countries worldwide, she has the unique ability to develop culturally relevant coaching and learning solutions that address key business needs.
Cassi Christiansen is a coach dedicated to extraordinary leadership through individual brilliance. Every individual has the ability to lead, but only those who choose to lead from their inner brilliance will achieve extraordinary results. Through coaching, a leader can expect to discover and create their own sense of passion, possibility and purpose and then weave this seamlessly into their organization or business. They will also learn how to create powerful visions by aligning their heart and mind around what really matters to them and to their organization. When these things are in alignment, an inner power emerges that makes it truly impossible for extraordinary results not to follow.
Cheryl Etkin is a training design and delivery professional with over ten years experience designing and facilitating learning across a wide range of industries and cultures. Cheryl has taught classes from the “plant floor” to “executive suite” for many corporations including MasterCard International, Avon Cosmetics, Merrill Lynch, Grey Global Advertising and AOL.
Sarah Steele has over 12 years of business experience in both Human Resources and Operational Management, including recruiting, mentoring and coaching senior management. As Director of Human Resources for Sky TV (Latin America) based in North America, she gained invaluable experience in team dynamics within a multi-cultural environment, bringing individuals from the UK, USA and across the Latin American region together to work as a high performing team. As Group Director of Human Resources for a recruitment and advertising company she sat on the Mergers and Acquisition team with responsibility for not only the legal due diligence but also the post acquisition change management and culture integration issues across the UK, USA, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and France. Sarah regularly participates in coaching workshops in both the UK and North America. During her career, Sarah has successfully delivered projects across many sectors including media, banking, telecommunications, advertising, recruitment and government-run sectors as well as across many ranging disciplines from Finance Directors to schoolteachers.
Marie Young is an Organization Development (OD) professional and practitioner. Targeting transformation initiatives, Marie works with organization leadership to clarify the future state, isolate change levers, identify gaps and build a transition strategy that delivers results. Using a varied approach, including structured interviews, facilitated group sessions, systems analysis, process mapping, survey data and document reviews, Marie derives the current state and platform for change. Marie earmarks policies, procedures, practices and organization structure requisite for Alignment and integration. 
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