About Us

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."
—Rupert Murdoch

Facilitators

Each of our facilitators brings the empathy of years of real world experiences to our lively and interactive workshops. 

Suzanne Aptman

Suzanne brings eight years of experience as an executive coach, facilitator and corporate trainer. She has helped close to one thousand working professionals to enhance their leadership and communication skills, enrich their working relationships, and uncover their hidden passions and potential.
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Gaurav Arora

Gaurav is highly enthusiastic and a go-getter and is known for his high energy levels and contagious positive attitude. His facilitation style and presentations are powerful, intense and are delivered with zest and passion. He is trained in Executive Coaching, undergoing a complete Professional Certified Coaching Program.  For more about Gaurav



Christina Bark

For over 20 years, Christina has been a catalyst for change through her multi-faceted career as corporate leader, attorney and entrepreneur. Christina’s proven talent for leading teams and organizations through dramatic change, including rapid business growth, organizational realignments and consolidations, and merger and acquisition integrations fortifies her effectiveness as an advisor and trainer.  For more about Christina



Alain Bolea

With more than 25 years as a banker, management consultant, international CFO and board member of corporate and family businesses, Alain’s career spans large corporations, small businesses and not-for-profits in sectors ranging from telecom to education. He understands that while organizations and cultures may differ, individuals naturally seek to align their work and their personal values. When they find congruence between their inner aspirations and their daily activities, individuals naturally create greater outcomes.  For more about Alain



Christian Brown

Christian's expertise in the financial service and investment management industry included progressive roles of responsibility at Fidelity Investments and Affiliated Managers Group, as a consultant to 2100 Capital Group an Old Mutual PLC hedge fund of funds manager, DR Pensions, Market Research Services, and as an employee of State Street Global Advisors, and as a business development, relationship management, and sales executive for Wealth Engine, a wealth identification technology firm. For more about Christian

Caroline Burke

Throughout her 15 year career, Caroline has been highly successful in defining core business issues, building executive consensus for resolution and then delivering outstanding results. Caroline has a strong background in selling and conceptualizing technology and training services using creative problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills. For more about Caroline



Nancy Eckert

Nancy’s career spans multiple industries and roles, but paramount in every endeavor has been her underlying personal mission: helping to improve relationships inside and outside of work. Both professionally and personally, Nancy has a wealth of life experiences that enhance her ability to relate well with people leading and managing change. 
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Peter Feer

Having spent nearly 20 twenty years in mergers and acquisitions, the last ten of which were in leadership positions for two highly successful middle market investment banking firms, Peter realized abruptly that he desired greater connection and authenticity in the second half of his working life. Thus began a process that led Peter to the world of executive coaching and leadership development.
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Diane Gallo

For over  25 years Diane Gallo has been trying to bring heart into the workplace through innovate HR practices.As a senior HR executive, her goal was to show people that there is value in organizational trust, honest dialog, and being human. She spearheaded multiple employee initiatives that led to one of her former employers being named one of the “best places to work”.
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Lisa Hendrickson

Lisa has created award winning entrepreneurial ventures, served as a Director of Business Strategy at a professional services firm, written and presented corporate trainings for global audiences as well as being an adjunct professor and lecturer.
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Rebecca Hoskins

Over the past decade, Rebecca has led strategic initiatives that involve significant change – from sweeping organizational changes to “bet the farm” strategic opportunities. She excels at helping corporations leverage their abilities and evolve. An experienced educator and facilitator, Rebecca has led dozens of seminars and workshops with whole departments, intact work teams, and diverse audiences.
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Eliska Meyers

Eliska partners with leaders & work groups in designing a path of their choice in service of business strategy and growth. She facilitates a big picture view enabling discovery and execution towards preferred futures that honor collective wisdom, results and relevance. Her emphasis is to coach leaders and groups in service of simply raising capability within complex systems. For more about Eliska




Tracy Stevens

What began as a career in traditional teaching edged its way into a niche in corporate training and facilitating and a decade of sales and marketing experience in the telecom world. Tracy has been training internal personnel, partners, channels, distributors, reps, engineers, and C-level executives on the topics of complex processes and products for the last 12 years.
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Carolyn Thomas

With nearly 20 years in corporate finance and capital markets, Carolyn has enjoyed working with people from all walks of business life from middle market to Fortune 100 companies in a wide array of industries in the US and Europe. 
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