Stephanie Barbour is a Leadership Coach who accelerates and deepens leaders’ ability to envision, strategize and implement their vision and goals. By facilitating leaders to clarify important commitments and corresponding values, she helps leaders identify and develop congruent competencies to accomplish their objectives. Stephanie’s leadership coaching expertise is grounded in over 25 years of human resource and marketing experience in the energy, biotech, and financial services industries. Growing a career as an individual contributor to a leadership role including Fortune 500 companies and fast-growth startups, Stephanie now has her own company as an Executive Coach. Her client list includes PG&E, Schering-Plough Global Pharmaceutical, and WageWorks. She is certified by New Ventures West and Strozzi Institute, and is an adjunct coaching faculty member for NVW and Pepperdine University Northern California Alumni. She holds a B.S. in Business from the University of California, Berkeley.

Peter Jacobs coaches successful business professionals to build fulfilling and rewarding careers that fit their values, skills, interests, and needs. Peter’s clients achieve a desirable and sustainable changes in their career; better work-life balance; more interviews and job offers; more fun and success in the workplace (in the form of better interpersonal relationships, promotions, and more interesting projects); and the satisfaction of knowing that they are being paid what they’re worth. Thanks to 14 years cumulative business experience up to the manager and director level at Arthur Young, Price Waterhouse, Intel, and a high-tech start-up, combined with a MA in Career Development and coaching training from the Newfield Network, Peter offers his clients a combination of the analytical, marketing-oriented approach of a consultant and the ability to coach people around the obstacles that separate them from success. Peter is a Registered Professional Counselor in the State of California, a Master Career Counselor, and National Certified Counselor.

Julianna Hynes, MA

Julianna is a phenomenal and gifted motivational speaker, author, teacher, and life and career coach! With more than ten years of education and experience in Organizational Development and Training, she used those talents to become the Founder and CEO of DE Consulting - a consulting firm specializing in assisting individuals, professional groups, non-profit organizations and corporate teams in realizing their vision, setting goals and executing strageties for success!

Most recently, Julianna published the highly anticipated and best selling book, Living onPurpose! Keys to Discovering Your God Given Destiny.

While facilitating customized seminars, workshops and coaching sessions, Julianna’s talents further demonstrate her vast knowledge in management training and development, career management, professional coaching and performance management.

In addition to professional opportunities, she volunteers her time and services to a number of non-profit organizations that focus on the needs of women and at risk young women in the Bay Area.

Julianna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Master’s degee in Organizational Consulting and is expecting to receive her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology in June, 2008.

Additionally, Julianna serves as an Online Faculty Member for the University of Pheonix teaching various topics in Psychology.

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R. Karl Hebenstreit

Karl’s career spans Organization Development, Employee Relations & Communications, Recruitment & Staffing, Training & Development, Compensation & Benefits, and Career Management, Development, & Outplacement in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, professional services, high-tech, and real estate services industries. He has worked at Merck, Bellcore, AT&T, Lee Hecht Harrison, Cushman & Wakefield, served as vault.com’s “Manage Your Career” Expert, and is currently a Leadership Development Consultant at Kaiser Permanente. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from CSPP/AIU, an MS in HR Management from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management and Labor Relations, and a BA in Psychology, French, and Political Science from Rutgers College. He is also qualified in the Myers Briggs assessment instruments and is an Enneagram aficionado.

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Patrick Reilly

Patrick Reilly is President of Resources In Action, Inc. an Executive Coaching and Consulting firm. He has more than twenty years experience helping people define and solve important executive development and business problems. His focus includes executive coaching, executive onboarding coaching, talent management and change management. He has worked extensively with leaders in the technology, utility, healthcare, telecommunications and financial services sectors. Patrick holds a BA in Psychology from Tufts University and an MA from the John F. Kennedy School of Management. Coaching certifications include Master Business Coach through Leadership University and through Lore International. Clients include:

• Advanced Micro Devices
• Applied Materials
• Cisco Systems
• Genworth
• Hewlett Packard
• Kaiser Permanente
• Pacific Gas and Electric
• Sutter Health
• SBC

Currently, he serves on the Board of the Professional Coaches and Mentors organization of Northern California as the Vice President of Marketing. He is the author of “Business Systems Coaching” included in the new PCMA book on executive coaching (March 2004).

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Greg Gillis

Greg Gillis combines real-world wisdom, gathered through years of high technology corporate experience, with solid coaching expertise and training – to help top performing people become even more successful. He helps his client’s transition from manager to leader, enhance their leadership skills, better work within political infrastructures, delegate effectively, and collaborate wisely. He often increases their awareness of power in the organization, how it is acquired, manifested, held and diminished. He enhances their influence skills--critical to a leader’s growth in managing cross-functionally. He increases their awareness about emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness while helping them shift to a more encompassing outlook resulting in more successful performance.

Here are some of Greg's focus areas:

• Emotional intelligence, empathy and interpersonal effectiveness
• Working effectively with others; collaboration
• Executive presence – how to acquire, manage and manifest it
• Managing up effectively
• Political savvy and awareness
• Delegating and empowering others
• Communication; interpersonally and organizationally
• The value of healthy conflict
• Difficult conversations; conversations that matter
• Transitions: new roles, new challenges. How to embrace the new and let go of the old
• Leadership balance and wellness

Education & Certifications:

• Experienced leader and executive with over twenty years experience in the technology industry, working in high-growth, dynamic environments in sales and marketing roles; executive positions with Xerox, Silicon Graphics (SGI), Netscape Communications, and CommerceOne.
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC) – International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Integral Coaching Certification – Professional Coaching Course, New Ventures West
• Adjunct Coach Certification, Right Management Consultants
• B.S. Business Management, High-Technology Concentration, San Jose State University

Professional Memberships:
International Coach Federation, Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (former board member), Churchill Club, Commonwealth Club.

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Randy Block

Randy Block offers prospective clients over 35 years' successful coaching and staffing experience ranging from general management to key individual contributors. Combining years of career content with effective tools that can translate into pragmatic career solutions, Randy is today fully engaged in his coaching practice. In the role of recruitment partner, he assists small start up companies establish sound team building strategies and performance management evaluation practices. With the senior professional, he has helped clients with career advancement strategies for management consulting. The CPAD Network certified him in 1999 (IJCTC). He received a second certification (CCMC) from Career Coach Academy in 2002. In 2005, he received is CPRC as a Certified Professional Retirement Coach. He is also a licensed “Now What?” counselor, helping people define new direction in their lives. His associations include: Member, Career Management Alliance, Member, Career Planning and Adult Development Network (CPADN), Member, National Career Development Association (NCDA) Member, California Career Development Association (CCDA) He has been a Seminar Leader with 6figures.com (networking and interviewing) and has been a requested speaker with several Bay Area Networking Groups.

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Sally Gelardin

Dr. Sally Gelardin helps clients manage life/work challenges by integrating career, caregiving, and self-care. In a unique portfolio or e-portfolio process, clients (a) identify strengths (skills, interests, values, personal style, family influences, environmental and learning preferences), (b) research options, (c) set intentions, and (d) implement a strategy of action. Gelardin is author of The Mother-Daughter Relationship, Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy, and an upcoming National Career Development Association (NCDA) monograph on career and caregiving. Through her business, EntrepreneurKits.com, she created a series of Entrepreneur Kits and the Job Juggler’s online, self-paced lifelong employability course. She is guest editor for the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal and runs a series of monthly tele-interviews with leading career entrepreneurs, sponsored by the California Counseling Association. Gelardin is a national speaker on workforce trends and serves as a small business consultant and trainer. She received the NCDA merit award for significant contributions to the field of career development. Gelardin earned a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education and two Master of Arts degrees, in Life Transition Counseling and Education.

• Certifications: National Certified Counselor, California Registered Professional Counselor, Active Living Model Counselor, Job and Career Transition Coach, Distance Credentialed Counselor, Global Career Development Facilitator and CDF Instructor
• Professional Memberships: National Career Development Association; American Counseling Association; California Counseling Association; California Career Development Association (former President); Career Planning and Adult Development Network; Former Board Member, Redwood Empire Small Business Development Center

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Katherine Ziegler

Since 1980, Katherine Ziegler has taught early-, middle-, and late-career professionals in a range of industries to recognize their own best-fit career criteria and leverage skills, talents, values and personality strengths into higher-paying positions with rewarding levels of responsibility and recognition, doing work they truly enjoy. Based in San Jose, with 16 years of experience in the Silicon Valley and three years in Los Angeles (aerospace, telecommunication, entertainment)), she is a certified executive coach, an affiliate of Steve Heckler Associates, and a licensed Want-ology™ coach with The Organization Zone.

Katherine assesses clients individually via skilled interviewing and such instruments as the Career Design Guide, the MBTI, the Highlands Ability Battery and the Bar-On EQi, coaching clients through their next best career move and development of needed competencies on the job. She is a California-licensed psychologist and a member of the American, California, and Santa Clara County Psychological Associations, with a special interest in how adults use work to develop over the life span and fulfill their highest potential. Katherine is an active member of the Northern California chapter of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association and a past member (2005-2007) of the Board of Directors of its Los Angeles chapter.