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Raleigh, NC ProgramProgram beginning Fall 2010:
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| Research Triangle Park Program Faculty | |||||||||
Carol Brainard, MBA |
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Carol is a consultant and coach who guides individuals and organizations through periods of significant growth and change. Since 1984, Carol's practice has focused on strategic planning and alignment and performance-driven organizational effectiveness. Her approach to change emphasizes broad-based collaboration and creativity to develop the outstanding leadership and teams required for measurable improvement and lasting results. As a coach, she is best known for her ability to provide a challenging yet safe exploration of ideas and feelings to help clients gain valuable new perspective and make important choices for increased impact. Carol's global experience includes a wide range of corporate, government, education, and non-profit clients such as Hewlett Packard Latin America, Procter and Gamble, Océ USA, Leo Burnett, New York City and US Departments of Education, US Navy, University of North Carolina, and the Broad Foundation. Contact Information: |
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| Diane H. Craver, BA, MA | |||||||||
Diane is the founder and president of Spring Forward Group LLC, specializing in coaching, consulting, and development. As an executive coach and career strategist, she brings more than twenty years of business experience to her work with leaders and organizations. Throughout Diane’s career, her roles included management with P&L responsibility, human resources, professional and technical recruitment, and business development. |
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| Joseph Diab, J.D., LL.M. PCC. | |||||||||
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Joe is a certified mediator and executive coach who for many years as a corporate attorney has worked with professionals, business owners and executives in Fortune 500 companies to resolve disputes and develop strategies for growth and change. As a coach, he provides regular, individual consultation to senior management executives for companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Verizon Communications, and Nortel Networks on issues related to business strategy, personal effectiveness, conflict management, negotiation and communication skills. He has worked as the Director of Coaching Programs for a national coaching company supervising and coordinating the work of 15 professional coaches on business initiatives in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America and Europe. He is a visiting lecturer at North Carolina State University's College of Management and holds a law degree and a Master's degree in International Law from Duke University. Contact information: |
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| Cindy Domanowski | |||||||||
Cindy Domanowski has a passion for success and utilizes her 30 years of successful sales, leadership and adult learning experience to help her clients propel sales growth to new levels. Cindy’s area of expertise is coaching and consulting in B2B sales organizations with specific focus on hiring, messaging and leadership development. Cindy landed in the world of coaching after earning her Business Coaching Certificate from UNC Charlotte. Cindy was successful in field sales and sales leadership roles before assuming responsibility for Sales Learning and Sales Support organizations, charged with supporting 1500 Sales Associates and over $400 million in sales. Cindy’s success included a 16% drop in turnover and record breaking sales during her tenure. She stepped down from her executive leadership role to launch Percio Strategies and have more time for her philanthropic interests. Cindy is the Principal of PercioStrategies Contact information: |
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Krista Fleet, BA |
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Krista is the President of K.Coaching an Executive and Team Coaching practice. She is known to many as a dynamic leader and mentor, with great passion and dedication to her cause. Over the past 20 years she has climbed the corporate ladder and is now applying her executive experience, knowledge and coaching strengths to helping others discover their own potential and to reach their personal and professional goals. Krista has a specialized education and certification in Business, Leadership and Team coaching and believes that by effectively coaching an executive leader and their team they can have remarkable, sustainable behavioral change and ultimately improve financial results. Krista compliments her coaching with learning seminars such as "Leadership with a Coach Approach", "Motivating Others," "Building a Go to Market Strategy" and "Sales Training for Results". Contact information: |
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| Sackeena Gordon-Jones, BS, PCC | |||||||||
Sackeena is the program manager for the internal Executive & Management Coaching Initiative at SAS. As program manager she develops oversees the process from enrollment to evaluation, and provides the orientation to Coaching for each executive and manager that participates. Sackeena is also a practitioner and provides executive coaching, leadership development and strategic planning consulting services to a broad range of clients. Her work with clients, often lead to engagements with their teams, particularly to build development plans aligned with strategic business priorities. |
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| Daniel Grandstaff, D.Min., CPCC, PCC | |||||||||
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Dan, the President and founder of Win With People, Inc. has over 20 years experience helping individuals, groups, and organizations work at their best. As a coach, he has worked with CEO’s, executive teams, managers, government employees, health care and sales professionals, entrepreneurs, and self-employed service providers. His collaborative approaches to human behavioral change were developed through extensive training and over 15 years in private practice as a therapist and career counselor. He has been an executive in both corporate and non-profit settings, and has worked with dozens of companies as a business coach and consultant. He is a graduate of the Coach Training Institute and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). Contact information: |
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| Fay Krapf, M.S. | |||||||||
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Fays career has spanned 20 years in coaching, training, and business. She brings over 10 years of experience in internal career development; over 7 years of career management and career transitions coaching; and 15 years managing her own business. Fay has been an internal consultant with a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, director of organization development for a utility, and owner of a pottery manufacturing business and craft gallery. As a full-time adjunct faculty member at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Fay taught Business Communications to undergrads and Career Development to MBA students. For the last 7 years, Fay has specialized in executive and professional coaching, career development, communication, training, organization alignment for talent utilization, and employee/manager development. She has served as a career coach in outplacement and career management firms. Fay has a keen ability to build rapport and establish trust with a wide variety of people, to listen to what people are really saying, and to facilitate development of practical plans to solve problems and address challenges. Contact information: |
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| Christine Martin MA, MBA, MCC | |||||||||
Christine is an executive and leadership coach who has worked primarily in NASA under contract with 4-D Systems since 2003. Her private coaching practice includes Fortune 500 executives and professional coaches who seek to be mentored on their coaching. She is presently the primary designer and trainer for Renoir Corporation on a private sector coaching and leadership program derived from the Contact information: |
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Mark has excelled in working with clients in dynamic environments, including two tertiary care hospitals, three universities, and the largest academic-based clinical research organization in the world. These types of environments require high levels of collaboration across functions and disciplines among individuals and teams that have high standards, diverse orientations, differing perspectives and unique competencies. Mark understands the complex leadership challenges that exist in fast-paced, high-stakes organizations and is skilled at matching the right solutions to the right problems and issues. Mark believes that coaching offers an ideal approach for developing leaders because one-to-one coaching and group coaching are highly adaptable to the needs of each client. He has earned professional distinction as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and holds lifetime certification for his body of work in the human resources profession. In addition to coaching leaders, Mark also teaches, writes and consults in the areas of employee engagement, organizational alignment, transition management, conflict resolution, and stakeholder communications. Contact information: |
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| George Smart, MBA | |||||||||
George is the CEO of Strategic Development and an award-winning consultant with proven experience with over 300 organizations nationwide. In addition to clients such as Harvard Business School, Nortel Networks, GlaxoSmithKline, and Duke University, he designed Corporate Mirror, one of the most recognized consultancy training programs in the Southeast. With an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, George has received training from the Center for Creative Leadership, the NTL Institute, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, and the N. C. State University Training and Development program. He served as a charter National Advisor for Chapters for the American Society for Training and Development, the world's largest HRD association. He has personally coached nearly 100 professionals over the last 10 years. He is a TEC (The Executive Committee) speaker to CEO's around the country on strategic planning and change. |
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| Karen Tax, M.S. | |||||||||
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Karen has over 15 years experience in high-tech industry and is well-versed in the challenges facing todays corporate leaders and workforce. Her diverse experience includes partnering with senior executives to develop leadership talent, designing organizations for improved efficiency and customer focus, leveraging global knowledge through networks, improving the effectiveness of virtual/geographically dispersed employees and leading technical teams to deliver software solutions. Karens coaching focuses on leadership development, career development and transition, work/life balance, transition from technical expert to technical manager and parenting. Karen has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California and an M.S. in Organization Development from American University/National Training Labs. Contact information: |
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| Ron Wilder M.Sc. | |||||||||
| Ron is President and founder of Aligned Action. He works extensively with business leaders who are leading significant strategic and organizational transitions -- including CEOs, Owners/Entreprenuers, Board members, C-level Executives, and high potential executives. As a strategic advisor and executive coach, Ron has worked with companies in a variety of industries (manufacturing, Internet & new media, software, pharmaceutical, financial services, business services, and non-profit organizations) and ownership structures (private equity and VC funded, family businesses, and public companies). Ron is certified in "The One Page Planning & Performance System"
and uses this tool extensively in his coaching practice.
Ron's prior experience includes strategy, sales, marketing, & business development roles with Yahoo!, eGroups, Vivecon, and R.B. Webber & Company, a boutique strategy and venture capital firm. Ron holds a Masters of Science in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Emory University. Ron is actively involved in the National Association of Corporate Directors. Contact information: |
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