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Dr. Robin Schenck

Lead Coach / Executive Coach / Coaching Practice Lead

Executive Summary Robin Schenck is an executive leadership coach and facilitator with over 20 years of experience focused on human behavior, organizational functioning, and leadership development. Robin specializes in leadership development, assessment, high-potential coaching, and interpersonal challenges. She believes that leadership development is more effective when individuals intentionally focus on their own strengths and opportunities for growth with an eye toward organizational culture and expectations.

Background and Experience Robin began her career as a psychologist, providing therapy and assessment. She worked in healthcare organizations and educational settings where she focused both on individual growth and organizational change. Prior to leaving the educational setting, she served on the strategic leadership team as the senior director of admission, and then later as the head of a high school. In 2012, Robin established her own coaching and consulting practice. Robin honed her coaching skills as an executive coach for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). She also served as a community lead coach for CCL, leading a regional group of CCL’s professional coaches. She enjoys blending her knowledge of human behavior and neuroscience to help adults focus on growth and development in the business environment. She has demonstrated the ability to rapidly learn business knowledge through experience with over 250 leaders from over 150 different organizations.

Her coaching clients have ranged from newly appointed managers to senior level executives from diverse sectors including manufacturing, engineering, logistics, healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, finance, government, human resources, telecommunications, K-12 education, higher education, and nonprofit.

Qualifications and Affiliations

PhD in Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University
BA with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Licensed Psychologist in North Carolina
Credentialed Coach for the International Coaching Federation (MCC level)
Certified or qualified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), WorkPlace Big Five Profile™, Hogan Suite, Influence Style Indicator, Change Style Indicator, and FIRO-B®; Certified in the Center for Creative Leadership’s suite of 360 assessments

Industry Experience Some of her current and previous clients include:

University of North Carolina at Chapel hill
Duke University Medical Center
Washington University
Oak Ridge National
Laboratories
Shutterstock
ABC of NC Child Development Center
Wake Forest University
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Southern New Hampshire University

Areas of Expertise

Executive leadership coaching
New leaders and leaders in transition
Coaching for interpersonal impact
Assessment for selection and development
Team Coaching

Richard J. Walsh

Lead Designer & Facilitator / Executive Coach / Leadership Development Practice Lead

Executive Summary Rich is passionate about coaching and developing senior leaders, teams, and organizations to succeed in today’s dynamic environment. With proven experience as a senior leader and expertise in leadership, transformation, and communications, he delivers innovative solutions to address his clients’ most pressing needs. Walsh creates a strong and collaborative approach to help our clients achieve results. He has extensive experience working within and consulting to both private and public universities.

Background and Experience By building deep connections with our clients, Rich applies his unique combination of experiences in industry, consulting, and executive education. He generously shares hands-on experience as a senior leader with AT&T and GE, global consulting with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), and data analytics while directing executive education at top business schools. Rich leverages his strong network with other top leaders, consultants & senior faculty across the globe. As a result, he creates high-value and guides, designs, and facilitates leadership solutions. He challenges, coaches, and supports leaders. He naturally offers a global perspective from working across the Americas, Europe & Asia.

Rich believes that a strong mix of complex challenges and hands-on experiences ensure an optimum environment to learn, lead and grow. He applies a strategic approach to co-discover with his clients to ensure their greatest success. He then co-creates high impact and innovative solutions that are built upon the goals of his clients.

Rich is highly skilled in offering both face-to-face and on-line coaching, and brings hands-on experience working with individuals, teams & organizations. He is often asked to facilitate large and small groups, whether online or face to face, in business settings, off-site or in experiential venues. He also has many years of consulting and coaching with institutions of higher education.

Areas of Expertise

Leadership, Executive Coaching and Talent Strategy
Master Facilitator, Assessment & Change Management
Applied and Action Learning, Design and Evaluation

Qualifications and Affiliations

MBA, International Business:

Universities of Dayton, Augsburg, Toulouse, & Thunderbird
MS, Business & Social Ethics, Harvard
BS, Business & HR Management, Northeastern University

Certified in over 100 top assessments, programs, experientials, and simulations.
ICF - Professional Coaching Certification
Published over 30 articles and reference guides on topics such as leadership, coaching, mentoring, action learning, and leading with impact.

Industry Experience

Harvard, MIT, Wharton, UNC A&T
MiL Executive Institute - Sweden
American Express & AE Foundation
AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, GSK, McKesson
Novant, Cone, & Premier Health
Google, IBM, Microsoft, Teradata
US Air Force, and US Army
US Dept. of Labor, US FDA, USP, PhRMA
The World Bank, Bank of America
Volvo Group, Fiat Chrysler & Ford
Wal-Mart & Whirlpool

Chris Reece

President, Revolve Solutions LLC

Mr. Reese will serve as the Contract Manager for this project. Mr. Reese has implemented performance improvement solutions for government, commercial, industry and non-profit organizations. His work within the Federal government spans across the US Army and the Department of Defense, NASA, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Labor, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Reese retired from the United States Marine Corps, with his final assignment at the Office of U.S. Marine Corps Communication where he supported the Commandant’s public affairs and strategic outreach mission.

Johan Naudé, PhD BCC

CEO, Table Mountain Consulting Group PLLC

After serving as an Operational Psychologist with the US Army Special Operations Command, followed by over 10 years as a coaching leader and senior faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership, Johan founded Table Mountain to optimize human capital for the benefit of organizations, teams and individuals, through the application of talent assessment, talent strategy and culture, leadership development, coaching, DEI and best-in-class products and tools. A licensed psychologist, Johan is interested in the growth and development of individuals, teams and organizations. He is an expert in assessments and coaching in organizations and has published in this area.

Mel Asbury, MSIR BCC SPHR

Executive Coach

Much of Mel’s skill and capability was honed as Senior Vice President of Human Resources (HR), in various energy and healthcare related industries, including Exxon Mobil and Glaxo SmithKline. With more than 30 years of coaching, consulting, and HR-related experience. Mel offers a vast amount of expertise in helping leaders and organizations achieve their highest levels of performance in dealing with today’s business challenges. Mel has a particular interest and experience leading DEI programs. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and helped implement its first diversity initiative to assist members. Mel has been named “Human Resources Professional of the Year” in North Carolina (NC) by SHRM and was recently inducted into the NC HR “Hall of Fame.”

Rosa Grunhaus Belzer, PhD PCC

Executive Coach

Rosa is a multilingual (Spanish, English and Hebrew) and multicultural Executive Coach who brings more than 35 years of expertise in human behavior. She began her professional career as a Clinical Psychologist and transitioned into Executive Coaching in 2000. Rosa held a Coaching Talent Leader position at the Center for Creative Leadership for 10 years where she managed 140 coaches from Western North America and Central and South America. After retiring from this full-time role in 2020, Rosa refocused her career primarily on Executive Coaching. Rosa is passionate about assisting individuals to maximize their potential and obtain sustainable behavioral change.

Lize Booysen, DBA PCC

Executive Coach

Dr. Lize Booysen is an internationally recognized scholar-practitioner in the field of leadership, culture and diversity. She is a Clinical and Research Psychologist, Leadership Consultant and an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PPC). With 37 years of experience in leadership and research. Lize has served thousands of leaders in corporate, government, education and nonprofit settings. Prior to relocating to the USA in late 2008, Lize was full professor at the Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL), University of South Africa, where she also held leadership roles. Lize has a longstanding adjunct affiliation with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), where she worked on the 12 nation Leadership Across Differences (LAD) research project, as well as the multi-award-winning GLOBE 65-nations leadership research project, steered by Wharton Business School.

Kerry A. Bunker, PhD

Executive Coach

Kerry is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and a seasoned leadership development professional/practitioner with more than three decades of experience as a senior executive coach, leadership team facilitator, organizational consultant, designer/director of large-scale organizational change leadership interventions, leadership scholar, author, and keynote speaker. He has more than 2,000 hours of executive coaching experience and has coached/trained thousands of executives in Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, small business and education. His client list includes CEOs, Presidents, and Vice-Presidents from private and public sector organizations in the US, Europe, Canada, and Asia, as well as countless other middle to senior-level managers and executives in a wide variety of roles.

Maggie Dunn, DBA MCC

Executive Coach

Maggie’s breadth of experience and her collaborative, empathic approach enable her to quickly understand the relevant organizational issues and leadership implications in her coaching engagements. Maggie has over 20 years of leadership experience in the technology and aerospace sectors of the Fortune 100 and has served in global talent development roles with responsibility for leadership development across the globe. She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) and has provided executive coaching for hundreds of leaders from a wide range of industries including technology, health care, financial services, education, energy, automotive, retail, and public service. She also gets great fulfillment from providing executive coaching services for non-profit organizations.

Abigail Dunne-Moses, MEd

Executive Coach and Facilitator

Abigail is a skilled and trusted leadership advisor with 20+ years of experience and the reputation to successfully bring behavioral insight, innovative and critical thinking to investigate and solve complex enterprise and individual level challenges. As a business-minded change agent, Abigail has advised organizations on how to build and sustain leadership capabilities as well as diversity, equity and inclusion. Abigail has designed and facilitated sessions as well as provided coaching for several academic organizations (including across the UNC System). She also advised Cone Health and public health organizations and was recently named Senior Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership. Located in Greensboro, NC.

Candice Frankovelgia, PsyD

Executive Coach

Understanding, exploring, and often pushing comfort thresholds has been the force behind Candice’s long professional career. With a background in both business and behavioral science, Candice integrates these disciplines to design and deliver tailored programs for individual, team and organizational effectiveness. As a former coaching leader at the Center for Creative Leadership, Candice contributed significant thought leadership to the field of leadership coaching, through practice leadership, scholarship and publications.

Christopher Evans, DHA

Executive Coach and Facilitator

Trained as an applied management scientist and specializing in strategic operations and finance, Dr. Christopher Evans works in individual and systems decision-making spanning executive and team coaching, governing boards, and leadership facilitation across a wide variety of client engagements in the US and abroad. Truly a people person, Chris brings solid experience in the field and current organizational thinking for how people can create outstanding performance outcomes.

Angela Edwards, PhD

Executive Coach

Angela Edwards brings an experienced academic and practitioner’s view to leadership development and coaching. She has worked as an executive coach and organizational consultant across a wide range of industries, including government agencies. Angela was a coaching leader at the Center for Creative Leadership. Angela has coached executives in Fortune 500 companies, higher education, and healthcare, as well as in various branches of government, military, and nonprofit sectors at various levels and stages of leadership. Her coaching approach draws from her understanding of leadership development, business processes, and creating the right environment for high-performance.

Anika Gakovic, PhD

Executive Coach

Anika Gakovic is a Trusted Coach and Business Psychologist who helps leaders and their teams to achieve results for their organizations. Through advising leaders, building team capabilities, and advancing talent management, Anika has been enabling organizations to achieve their mission, and their leaders and teams better serve their customers. Distinctive ability to problem-solve and deliver learning and change solutions that create impact based on client priorities. Highly regarded for building long-term relationships, navigating stakeholder complexity, and adapting to ambiguity to deliver results. Expertise areas include Coaching leaders for peak performance, aligning teams for collaboration and inclusion, optimizing employee experience and talent management.

Latoya Jordan, PhD

Executive Coach and Facilitator

LaToya provides business and professional development consultation, executive coaching, training, and workshops to business leaders, employees, faculty and students, on topics relating to leadership, business theories and design, employee/team development, and overall human development. She has served in diverse corporate and nonprofit organizations in various areas such as talent strategy development, team diagnostic/development, DEI assessment, leadership development, and design thinking capability. LaToya has coached academic department chairs and tenured faculty aspiring to lead. She has extensive experience coaching female leaders in higher education, an area of particular interest.

Larry Lewis, PhD BCC

Executive Coach

Larry Lewis is a licensed psychologist with over 30 years of experience in the Department of Defense as an active-duty officer and a cleared government contractor. He has served as an in-house coach and consultant to frontline leaders and supervisors, and has advised senior leaders and managers, on matters such as training, research, organizational climate and operational issues. He has a depth and breadth of talent assessment and coaching experience. He has assessed and coached hundreds of leaders seeking positions in highly specialized organizations. In addition to his experience in DoD, Larry has extensive experience working with leaders in the corporate sector as well as leaders in higher education.

Vanessa Lujan, MSW

Executive Coach

Vanessa Lujan is an executive coach with over 18 years of experience coaching front-line managers to C-suite executives. She partners with leaders from a broad range of private and public industries to help leverage their strengths while developing new leadership capabilities that support their organizations and growth as effective leaders. In addition to her work with Table Mountain, Vanessa is an Adjunct Executive Coach at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), along with her own coaching and consulting practice.

Mike Travis, MBA

Executive Coach

Mike works with Executives and Senior Leaders and their teams, through coaching and facilitation, to fine-tune business and talent strategies and to create inspiring leadership environments that engage and grow all associates. Areas of specialty include Executive Coaching, Executive Team Strategy and Culture Alignment. Mike is located in Virginia, and has worked with many universities including Virginia Tech. He brings hands-on experience as a leader and consultant at AT&T, Center for Creative Leadership in Europe, & DDI in the US.

Maqsood Mamawala, MBA BCC

Executive Coach

Maqsood’s passion is about finding ways to assist leaders globally in reaching their own ‘next phase’ - using his varied background and cross-cultural experiences in Performance Management, particularly in Sales, Leadership, Marketing & Distribution. He is driven to help you find ways to identify and improve upon your skills and competencies to achieve your personal and professional Growth & Revenue goals. Whether you are a solo entrepreneur or managing a team of associates or even managers, Maqsood is committed to helping you enhance your practice, team, or company via 1:1 and team coaching, whether face-to-face or virtual.

Lynn Miller, EdD

Executive Coach and Facilitator

Lynn is an executive coach and leadership development designer and facilitator. She brings experience from successful careers that vary from human factors engineer to Learning and Development manager. She has collaboratively supported employees and clients as they develop in their leadership roles. She accomplishes this through both coaching and developing leadership development experiences that help individuals and organizations lead more effectively, increase their performance and that of their organization. In coaching Lynn works with senior leaders in their personal journey to be more effective individual and organizational leaders. Lynn is Senior Faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).

Angel Swindell-Nix, MA

Executive Coach and Facilitator

Angel is a former Director of Leadership & Organizational Development for a large healthcare system and leads a consultancy. Angel has leveraged her background as an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist with her talents in public speaking, coaching, and consulting to design and deliver dynamic professional development opportunities for individuals and organizations. Angel also served as an Adjunct Professor for The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Visiting Executive for UNC at Greensboro. Located in Charlotte, NC.

Kelly Hannum, PhD

Executive Coach

Kelly leads a consultancy focused on program evaluation and measurement. She also serves as a Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Community & Economic Engagement at UNCG. She was previously the Director of Global Research Insights at the Center for Creative Leadership where she helped establish their Evaluation Center in the late 1990s. She has spent over two decades working with a wide variety of clients across sectors and around the world.

Carmen Franco, MBA

Executive Coach

Carmen is passionate about finding ways to assist people in quickly reaching their own ‘next phase.’ She is driven to help people find ways to identify and improve upon their skills and competencies to achieve their personal and professional growth and goals. Carmen’s clients range from individual leaders to executive-level senior leaders in Academia to Fortune 500 US and global organizations. Whether an individual contributor or managing a team of associates, managers, or senior leaders, Carmen is committed to helping people find ways to enhance their practice, team, and/or organization via 1:1 and/or team coaching - face-to-face or virtual. Having lived and worked in other countries and with fluency in English and Spanish, Carmen uses her varied background and experiences coaching global leaders and teams in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa to assist and support others in their growth and development.

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