Kristie Bavaro, MBA, CPCC
President and Founder
Kristie is a Professional Certified Coach who specializes in career and executive leadership development. She has an MBA with a concentration in Human Resources as well as 20 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies. Her extensive background in the corporate world gives her a realistic grounding in the opportunities, challenges and politics that abound in large companies. Her experience working with both executives and employees gives her an understanding of the issues, obstacles, and culture in the corporate world.
Kristie’s passion is working with corporate leaders, managers, and individual contributors – empowering them with the tools, knowledge, skills and confidence needed to enhance their value to the company and deliver improved operational, organizational and financial results.
Kristie has coached a number of executives into senior management positions, as well as working with new graduates, and individuals in career transitions. Kristie conducts workshops and seminars on career development, as well as, leadership development. She is benchmark certified for 360-degree feedback, certified in targeted selection interviewing, as well as other assessment tools. Her experience in executive line management and human resources at Pfizer, Inc. and Abbott Laboratories has provided her with extensive knowledge in recruitment, career development and salary negotiation.
Her style is direct, challenging, supportive and insightful, and she coaches with both humor and heart.
Kristie is certified as a professional co-active coach through the Coaches Training Institute and the International Coaches Federation.
Shawn Snelgrove, TCC
Since 1989, Shawn Snelgrove has worked as a coach, facilitator and consultant to inspire innovative solutions for business challenges. With expertise in cultivating team performance, leading team systems and guiding career transition, Shawn delights in helping leaders and teams apply their innate wisdom to deliver results that matter with less stress. She has coached hundreds of leaders (at all levels) and teams (in all functional areas including IT, HR, Finance, Operations and Marketing) to achieve excellence, implement change, confront challenges, leverage team intelligence, grow profit and enhance well-being. Her work with team systems has resulted in a 10 percent to 30 percent improvement in productivity and engagement.
Shawn’s approach integrates practical business models, consulting methods and experiential learning theory with leading-edge human potential concepts, systems thinking and change paradigms to bring out the creative best in people. Her experience includes senior consulting positions with The SCA Group, Frontline Technology Center and WolfCreek Partners implementing large-scale BPR initiatives, e-learning projects, and “Play to Win” cultures. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Business from the University of Arizona and is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute in Co-Active Coaching. Shawn is certified in the Team Diagnostic Assessment™ and Team System Methodology from Team Coaching International. Her early career experience in international leadership development and corporate event/show production enlightens her work.
Organizations served include Blue Cross Blue Shield, Booz-Allen Hamilton, Centura Health, Chevron, CNA Insurance, Delta Dental, Emergency Family Assistance Association, Exempla Healthcare, Fresh Produce Sportswear, Gill Foundation, JP Morgan, Kaiser Permanente, National Wildlife Federation, Norgren, Procter and Gamble, Sheetz, Takeda, Waste Managment and WellPoint.
Shawn is also the author of Essentially You @ Work: A Career Transition Guide.
Phillip Sandhal, MCC
Phillip is a Master Certified Coach and international coach specializing in work with executive leaders and work teams. He is an author and senior faculty member for the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), the largest coach training organization in the world. He is co-author of the book, Co-Active Coaching, considered the leading textbook on coaching. Phillip is Principal of Team Coaching International and Co- Founder of Team Diagnostic International.
Grace Lyons-Beck, CPCC
Grace is a multi-disciplinary practitioner with training and experience as a leadership coach, human resources consultant, and facilitator with first-hand executive management experience. Prior to starting her coaching practice, Grace held Vice President and Director level positions at Trammell Crow Residential, Accommodations America and CNA Insurance, with direct management responsibility for Operations, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Finance. Her expertise allows her the unique ability to bring several perspectives to her work with clients. She has over fifteen years of professional experience and has provided services to a diversity of organizations including corporations, non-profit organizations, associations and religious institutions.
She champions individuals in their professional development, helps organizations support and strengthen their human resources, and facilitates problem resolution. Her skills include both intuitive reflection and analytical problem solving.
She is certified as a professional co-active coach through the Coaches Training Institute. She received a B.S. in Commerce from DePaul University and continues her education and training through continuing education courses and programs. She is also a participant in the Public Allies Tomorrow’s Leaders Today youth program. Grace is a member of the International Coach Federation, the Institute of Management Consultants, the Society of Human Resource Management, and the American Society for Training and Development.
Marsha Marsh, CPCC
For more than a decade, Marsha has been providing exceptional relationship coaching and team transformations through innovative programs for organizations like Exelon, Com Ed, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Grainger, Kraft, as well as small to mid-size businesses. With an extensive background in leadership training, psychology, and emotional intelligence, Marsha not only makes a difference in every individual she coaches, but is inspired by the opportunity to build high performing teams.
Through honest, rigorous dialogue with her clients, barriers and complex issues are broken down. Marsha is a proponent of embracing conflict and moving from “reactive” to “response-able.” A dynamic speaker who conveys powerful concepts with passion and purpose, she moves people to more highly productive and positive interactions.
Marsha is a certified professional co-active coach through the Coaches Training Institute, Licensed Facilitator of the Stellar Team Diagnostic through Team Coaching International, Certified Networlding Facilitator, Teams Challenge Course and Climbing Wall Facilitator.
Alexis Phillips, TCC
Alexis is a pioneer in the field of organizational and relationship systems coaching, an experienced organizational systems team coach, and lead creator and developer of the Team Diagnostic assessment tool. Alexis brings more than 15 years experience in team selection and development to her work with leaders and teams. A partial list of clients include: Johns Manville; Johnson & Johnson; Capgemini and Bank of America.
Alexis is a Principal of Team Coaching International and Co-Founder of Team Diagnostic International.
Scott Seagren, CPCC, ACC
Scott Seagren is a trusted advisor to successful business and organization leaders who are committed to developing a satisfying, highly productive culture and workforce. He is a Certified Professional Coach, team facilitator and mediator. He has multi-disciplinary training and expertise in helping individuals and teams communicate more authentically.
Scott served as the Executive Director of a non-profit organization, where he was responsible for hiring, budget setting, web-site creation and P&L management and helping state-wide members hone communication skills. He was also the co-owner of a commodities brokerage business on the Chicago Board of Trade. He was responsible for quickly, knowledgably and efficiently executing complex inter-market hedging transactions for multi-national agribusiness companies. He is a self-taught independent market maker in commodity options contracts—responsible for risk management, hedging strategies and multi-million dollar portfolio management. He also developed and successfully implemented proprietary option pricing software.
Scott is certified in organizational facilitation and team coaching from the Center for Right Relationship; individual coaching from the Coaches Training Institute and International Coach Federation; and mediation from the Center for Conflict Resolution and Northwestern University. He also has a B.A. in English Literature from Northwestern University.
Bill Shirley, MCC
Independent of the industry or the specific business, Bill discovered that shifting the organization’s culture was the key to a successful turnaround. Regardless of the initial appearances, the fundamental causes were never technical, or task-oriented, but always relationship-oriented. Once the organization’s culture elicited honesty, openness and trust from the top down, the performance measures of the enterprise dramatically improved simply because the employees were now working together as a fully engaged, loyal, enthusiastic team.
Bill graduated with a Chemical Engineering Degree in the mid-1950’s, completed his military obligation and earned his Professional Engineer License in 1960. He soon became a specialist in the turnaround of unprofitable operations in both the manufacturing and service industries.
Bill is a life-long student of modern management theory and practice. In 2006, the International Coach Federation (ICF) awarded Bill the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential. At that time, less than a 750 coaches in the world met the ICF standard for its highest credential. In 2009, he became an ICF Assessor of Coaching Competency.
He has walked in the shoes of those who lead businesses and professional service companies. He understands the leaders’ isolation, overwhelm and frustration, and their difficulty in creating a low-stress, fulfilling life adventure of their own design.
Susan Shirley, MBA, CPCC
Susan has worked at leadership levels in the nonprofit sector in a variety of fields for over 30 years. She’s developed an expertise with building from “start-up” to sustainability and with revitalization or restructuring of existing organizations that have floundered or been unsuccessful in sustaining growth.
She understands the critical steps necessary to success in any business by challenging the patterns which emerge and get in the way of progress. She well understands that success in one stage of a business cycle may bring its biggest problems in the next. She is curious about systems and people within them and brings a wide-range of knowledge and practical know-how to assisting in building or revitalizing organizations through the relationships, they have with the individuals within them.
She knows that organizations that value and respect the individuals within them create environments in which work is more fun, more fulfilling and brings great results to the bottom line. Susan earned her MBA in International Management from the University of Bristol in England. She is a certified professional coach and an associate member of the International Coaching Federation and a member of the National Council of Planned Giving, Colorado Chapter.