Patrick
Williams, Ed.D., MCC Founder and President
Dr. Patrick Williams, founder and President
of the Institute for Life Coach Training, and
a Master Certified Coach brings with him a wide
variety of training in psychology and professional
experiences, as well as training as a Coach.
His personal approach is eclectic, drawn from
his graduate education, life experiences and
other professional training. Read more about
Pat Williams in his biography or
his speaking
schedule.
Diana is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP),
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), and work/life coach.
She is an instructor for the Employee Assistance and Workplace
Coaching Specialist™ Program at The Institute for Life
Coach > Training, where her specialty is mid-management coaching.
She is also a certified trainer for the Peoplemap System™ training
programs.
Diana has been working nationally since 1992 as an employee
assistance management consultant and coach for Working Solutions,
which later became United Behavioral Health EAP. She is the
founder of Savvy Life Skills which provides coaching, consulting,
and custom-designed training programs for organizations. Diana
works with people at every level of employment and management
on the difficult personal and professional issues that face
employees and organizations. Her consultation services also
include the development of company policies on drug free workplace,
workplace violence and trauma, and organization change. Diana
holds advanced certifications from the International Critical
Incident Stress Foundation in Critical Incident Stress Management,
Preventing Workplace Violence, and Terrorism Response. She has
written a manual and multiple articles on workplace violence,
trauma, and grief. Diana also provides training advisement for
those who are candidates for Certified Employee Assistance Professional
(CEAP) standing.
Course List: Coach Training for Employee Assistance (EAP) & Workplace
Professionals
Lisa Kramer, founder and president
of Living with Intention LLC, is a professional
coach, coach trainer, author and speaker. As
a member of the faculty of the Institute for
Life Coach Training, Lisa trains professionals
to become life and relationship coaches. She
also serves as a mentor-coach for newer coaches.
She is the author of Coaching with Intention,
the first book in her Coaching Mastery series
and Loving with Intention: A Guide for Relationship
Coaching.
Lisa received her coach certification from
The Coaches Training Institute in 2001 and earned
the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential
from the International Coach Federation in 2004.
Prior to transitioning to coaching full-time
in 2001, Lisa was a clinical social worker and
a social work professor at Widener University
School of Human Service Professions. Lisa received
her Master's degree in social work from the
University of Pennsylvania and completed graduate
coursework in human resource management from
Widener University. She is also a certified
Imago Relationship therapist, having completed
post graduate training from the Institute for
Relationship Therapy. For more information,
visit Lisa's website.
Course List: Relationship
Coach Specialist Certificate, Foundational Competency
Practicum, Coach Training for Employee Assistance
(EAP) & Workplace Professionals
Lynn is a Certified Life Coach with over
twenty-five years experience in the human development business
as a nurse, psychotherapist and life coach. She is a graduate
of the inaugural class of the Institute for Life Coach Training
and now loves to teach other psychotherapists the art and
science of life coaching. Lynn has an abiding belief in the
magnificence of the human spirit and is in awe of each person’s
unique brilliance. Her private clients include coaches, psychotherapists,
gifted adults, individuals who want to focus on their spiritual
journey and adults experiencing various life transitions.
Lynn is also the Chair of the Life Coach Committee of ICF
and a member of the Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance (PACA).
Marilyn O'Hearne is a Master
Certified Coach with the International Coach
Federation. Marilyn's coaching clients report
breakthrough increased PEP (Performance, Effectiveness,
and Profitability, and/or Peace, Energy,
and Prosperity). For 30+ years, she has
facilitated development through coaching, counseling,
training, writing (Renewing Your Spirit workbook,
etc); teaching at universities, ILCT, and in
Brazil. Marilyn’s gentle strength ("the
Velvet Hammer") provides a secure foundation
while challenging clients (primarily leaders
and those in transition) to be their best.
Susie Strauss, MSW and Certified Life Coach,
is the founder and Executive Director of One
to One Women Coaching Women, a non-profit that
provides pro-bono life coaching to low-income
women in the US and Canada. She comes to life
coaching with a desire to assist people to live
the lives of their dreams, and has operated
from this purpose in her various careers of
therapist, life coach, knit shop owner, mother
and wife. She is a graduate of the Institute
of Life Coach Training and the Life Coaching
from Falling Awake program (the inaugural class).
She has conducted various Falling Awake: Creating
the Life of Your Dreams workshops and study
groups and created One to One after identifying
her dream on a 3 X 5 card! Susie is a fiber
arts lover and now is working towards becoming
a master weaver.
Course List: Falling Awake Success Strategies
I and II, Coaching with Spirit and Soul: Coaching
Through the Midlife Transition
Dr. James Vuocolo is an author,
speaker, teacher, ordained minister, and Master
Certified Coach who resides in Redlands, California
with his family. Jim is a Certified Behavior & Values
Coach, a Trainer at Coach University, and a
Master Certified Coach with the International
Coach Federation (ICF). He teaches others to
use DISC Language Behavioral and Values Assessment
Instruments for candidate selection, team building,
conflict resolution, and effective communications
in business, and in life. He hosts a local Coach
U Chapter, and is an active member of the International
Coach Federation. For more information about
Jim, visit his website.
Course List: Group Coaching,
Practice Made Perfect, Creating a Referral Based
Business, Foundational Competency Practicum
Professional
Christian Coaching Program Instructors:
Christopher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker
and Certified Sex Therapist. In 1998 he closed
down his private practice in Florida to fulfill
a dream of raising his children in the country
and moved to the family farm in Missouri. There,
he founded Coaching for Christian Living and
has built a fulltime Coaching business with
clients throughout the U.S. A conference speaker,
Chris serves on the adjunct faculty of Reformed
Theological Seminary and has appeared on radio,
television, and in print. A graduate of the
Institute for Life Coach Training,
Chris serves on the Advisory Board of the Christian
Coaches Network and is a member of the ICF.
For more information about Christopher, visit
his website.
Vicki is a Certified Life Coach and Certified Christian Coach who lives with her husband, Dr. Ben Corrington, in Camden, Maine. She is a faculty member for the Professional Christian Coaching Program, a Christian Coaches Network Advisory Board member, Women's Ministry Leader, member of her local Church Leadership Team, and International Coach Federation member. Life Coaching, combined with praying the Word, was the process God used to transform her life and to restore her excitement about making a difference through one-on-one and/or group coaching, temperament and strength assessments, coach training, workshops and retreats. She is committed to encouraging and equipping others to bear much fruit. Vicki is passionate about coaching and praying with you for great results both in leadership and in life. For more information about Vicki, visit her website.
Jory is Founder and President of Jory Fisher & Associates,
Inc., a coaching and consulting firm. She earned her law degree
from the University of Virginia, her master’s degree in
Spanish from Middlebury College, and her bachelor’s degree
in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Southern Methodist
University. Jory practiced law for fifteen years before joining
Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia, as
a charter faculty member. She served as the Director of the
law school’s Center for Lawyering Skills and subsequently
as Associate Dean for Career & Professional Development.
From 2003 to 2006, she also served as a faculty member for the
Virginia State Bar’s Mandatory Course on Professionalism.
Jory divides her time between her coaching and consulting business
and her part-time law practice. A candidate for ordained ministry,
she’ll begin her studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological
Seminary in June 2009.
Christian Program Course: Ethics, Risk Management & Professional
Issues
Fran is the President and Founder of Strategies for Greatness,
LLC, a consultative coaching practice that serves leaders of
organizations, individuals, and work teams to be more effective
at what matters most to them. Over the ten years she has been
coaching, Fran has established a niche with organizational leaders,
especially in the areas of business and life plan development.
Fran draws from her 25 years of business experience
in the areas of marketing, sales, finance, and
operations gained from leadership in several business
sectors including telecommunications, financial
services and consumer products. Before creating
her private coaching practice, she was the Director
of Marketing Public Relations and a Partner with
Ronald Blue & Co, a personal financial planning
firm dedicated to funding the Kingdom. She has
also been an adjunct professor at Psychological
Studies Institute, a program leading to a master’s
degree in Christian Counseling, where she taught
Leadership Coaching through Life Transitions.
Fran has been both an active member and officer
on the boards of several organizations such as
Ministry Ventures, The Lighthouse Family Retreat,
Psychological Studies Institute, Half Time of
Georgia, Whitefield Academy, The Christian Coaching
Network, Denver Ministries and her neighborhood
association.
Christian Program Course: Executive Coaching
and Development
After helping to start a church in Philadelphia,
PA and serving as assistant pastor for 16 years,
Michael founded Crossways Life Coaching in July
of 2002 and completed the Certified Life Coach
program from ILCT in September 2003. Michael holds
a Bachelor of Science degree in Pastoral Ministries
from Liberty University with an emphasis on Counseling
and Greek. Additionally Michael holds a Master's
degree in Education from Evangelical Theological
Seminary. Michael serves as the Ministries Director
for the Christian Coaches Network and had served
as the vocational coach for the Christian Counseling
and Education Foundation. All that this says is
that God has been very faithful to me and His
grace truly is amazing! For more information about
Michael, visit
his website.
Judy Santos is a Professional Certified Coach,
the Founder of the Christian Coaches Network
and a Certified Trainer for Coaches. Along with
her diverse professional experience, she brings
her passion for coaching in a light, ever pragmatic
style. As a coach in private practice, Judy
works in the areas of transitions, communications,
and creative development. For more information
about Judy, visit her website.
Christian Program Courses: Foundational
Course, Advanced Skills Practicum, Foundational
Competency Practicum
Gary Wood has more than 35 years experience and
expertise in business, non-profit and ministry
environments. Over that time he has played a part
in training and developing hundreds of leaders
who make significant contributions worldwide.
Since 1998, through his professional coaching
firm G.E. Wood Executive Coaching, Gary and his
staff have worked with an international clientele
of executives, leaders and professionals across
a broad range of personal, professional and organizational
concerns. Gary is frequently retained by organizations
to coach key leadership around concerns of overload
and burnout.
Gary is a designated Professional Certified Coach,
PCC, with the International Coaching Federation
and works from his office in the beautiful Muskoka
region of Ontario, Canada.
Christian Program Course:
Foundational Competency Practicum
Laura Cuttica Talice is Italian
and resides in Italy. She has been a Psycotherapist
since 1982. She has had her Master’s degree
in Sex Therapy and worked in that field since
1985. She has been NLP Certified Master Trainer
and NLP Certified Licensed Instructor since
1991. Her training is enriched by deeply spiritual
experiences since 1990. Her signature point
is to be deeply in contact with people in their
physical, psychical, mental, and spiritual fields.
She has written three successfull books about
the art of communication (edited in Italy).
Whenever she interacts with
her clients, her strenghts are to be welcoming,
intuitive and creative; she is enthusiastic
in her work and makes sure that her clients
discover it for themselves. She is the director
of her Italian School of NLP and Coaching and
you can visit her website.
Charles Hamrick is an executive coach, speaker, and trainer
with experience derived from an array of professional corporate
experience and multicultural consulting and coaching. Having
over twenty years experience in managing multinational corporations
in Asia and Europe, he understands the complexities that people
face in creating and meeting their goals in global settings.
He has coached hundreds of executives on both individual and
group bases, as they live and work across borders. He delivers
programs and briefings on global leadership and managing cultural
diversity for many of the largest international companies.
Dr. Jeong has a strong background in developing Asian leaders,
having trained more than 40,000 non-profit organizational
leaders. He is one of the pioneers of the coaching industry
in Korea, providing executive coaching services and coach
training to LG, Samsung and SK telecom.
Dr. Jeong also serves on the International Board of the International
Coach Association (ICA) and is the Korean chairman for NCD
in Korea. He has many success stories from his varied experiences
in cross cultural leadership and organization, stories which
serve to enrich his already unique background. He resided
in the United States for 20 years as a student and as a successful
business CEO, specializing in Asian American relations and
the Asian market system overall. Dr. Jeong now lives in Korea,
providing a number of services to his community that include
leadership coaching, organizational change, emotional intelligence,
executive coaching, and ILCT coach training.
Bobbie Burdett is the Director of
Training for HealthWorld Online, and a co-creator
of The Wellness Resource Center in 1975 with John
W. Travis, MD.; the first wellness center
in the U.S. She co-developed the wellness coaching
process for the Center and was instrumental
in the development of pioneering Preventing Burnout
programs for helping professionals.. She has also
been a featured speaker for large and small audiences
on the subject of wellness.
In recent years, she has focused
her studies on Positive Psychology with Martin
Seligman, PhD, and Social Neurobiology with Dan
Siegel, PhD. She co-organized The Mindsight Symposium
in Portland, OR, in 2005, on the subject of social
neurobiology.
Ms Burdett now brings her depth of experience
and broad knowledge base to the co-creation and
implementation of the Wellness Inventory Certification
Training for HealthWorld Online, as well as maintaining
her coaching practice, Authentic-Life Coaching,
in Asheville, NC.
Course List: Wellness Inventory Certification Training
Candia Dye is a Registered
Corporate Coach (RCC) with the Worldwide Assoc.
of Business Coaches®, and has been
a member of the International Coach Federation
(ICF) since 1997. She is a licensed and certified
Small Business Advisor for the One Page Business
Plan® and
a licensed facilitator for the Get Clients Now® Program.
Candia is ILCT's Director of Program Development
for the Employee
Assistance & Workplace Coaching Specialist
(EACS™) program
and the Corporate Coaching training track. She
is also an adjunct faculty member of The McKinley
Group. Candia has owned her own business for more
than fifteen years. Visit her website to
learn more.
Course List: Businss Planning & Development
for Service Professionals
Dr. Michael Lillibridge is
both a licensed psychologist and marriage and
family therapist. He is a professional speaker,
an executive coach and founder and president
of Peoplemap™ Training a training-consulting
company with certified trainers throughout the
United States. (Over 100,000 people have gone
through a Peoplemap™ Program.)
Dr. Lillibridge is the author
of ten books (five on the Peoplemap™ System)
and numerous workbooks, audio cassettes, CD
series and video series. Three of his books
are on succeeding in our business by being peak
performers and a system on how to achieve our
goals.
Dr. Lillibridge licenses companies
to use his materials and is on retainer with
numerous companies providing his services year-round.
He is also on the faculty of Institute for Life
Coaching and teaches a course practicum in executive
coaching.
Course List: Executive Coaching
Practicum, Overview: Using Assessments with
Coaching Clients
Dr. McKinley is the founder and director of
Associates in Family Care, Ltd. Since 1991, he has built a solid
group practice that is committed to providing a holistic health
model of treatment including spiritual, emotional, cognitive,
and physical growth. In 1999 Dr. McKinley expanded AFC by adding
personal and executive coaching and a speaking service that
provides seminars and retreats. Currently Dr. McKinley is focused
on leadership and organization of the three divisions of AFC:
Intervention (therapy), Prevention (speaking), and Development
(coaching). For more information about Doug, visit his website.
Course List: Executive Coaching and Development,
Registered Leadership Coaching
Dr. Lauree E. Moss brings
to life coaching over 35 years of experience
as a psychotherapist and a teacher of body-mind
work. She has been adjunct faculty at the Institute
for Life Coach Training for the last several
years. For the last 20 years, she has been a
core faculty instructor at the Institute of
Integrative Body Psychotherapy in Venice, CA.,
where she teaches psychotherapists, coaches
and allied health practitioners how to integrate
body, mind, and spirit into their work. Currently
her energy and professional interests are focused
on life coaching and the integration of body-mind
skills into training programs for coaches.
Dr. Moss is a Professional
Certified Coach from the International Coaching
Federation and a Certified Life Coach and graduate
from the Institute for Life Coach Training.
Her areas of specialization include health and
wellness, relationships, and transitions.
Her company, Cycles of Change
Life Coaching, provides personal and executive
coaching, training and mentoring. She is a Certified
Peoplemap™ System
Trainer and also holds certifications in the
Wellness Inventory and the Seasons of Change.
You can read more about Wellness Coaching, Mentoring
for Coaches, and Core Competency Prep Courses
at Dr. Moss' web
site.
Course List: Body-Mind Life
Coaching Specialist Certificate Course: Using
the Body to Deepen Awareness and Forward the
Action,
Introduction to Body-Mind Life Coaching,
Body-Mind Life Coaching Practicum
Sandria Simmons brings integrity, focus, and
a proven track record of sales management, leadership
development and executive management successes
to her clients.
In her 32-year banking career Sandria has held
a variety of management positions. She has served
as Senior Vice President of NBD Wheaton Bank
she managed personal banking, consumer lending,
all operations, marketing, personnel, and branch
banking. As Branch President of First Chicago,
Glen Ellyn, she successfully developed the banking
staff and improved sales by 35% over a 3-year
period. As First Vice President of Business
Banking for Bank One, she was recognized as
Top Sales Manager in the Midwest in 2000 and
led a team of lenders in sales, generating loans
and business products. Today she leverages her
experience as an accomplished sales manager
and bank executive to serve as the foundation
of her executive coaching business.
Sandria is a registered executive coach and
trainer whose clients include executives in
Health Care, Financial Services and Higher Education.
She leads her clients through a process of first
realizing their potential, and then equipping
them to overcome limitations to achieve personal
success. She enables clients to understand their
unique communication style and to use it positively
in communicating with others. She helps her
clients identify and develop their unique leadership
effectiveness.
An e-health pioneer and wellness visionary,
James has focused on bringing
fundamental principles of wellness from the
world's great healing and wisdom
traditions into mainstream cultural awareness
for over 25 years. He is CEO
and co-founder of HealthWorld Online,
the world's first
Internet network for wellness and complementary/alternative
medicine, and
co-creator of the Wellness Inventory assessment
and life-balance program and
certification training.
As founding Vice-President of Future Medicine
Publishing, he acted as
Executive Editor of the classic and influential
work, Alternative Medicine:
The Definitive Guide. He has co-authored five
books, including Natural
Healing for Depression: Solutions from the World's
Great Health Traditions
and Practitioners (Perigee, 1999), and has collaborated
on over 20 titles in
the fields of natural health, psychology, human
potential, yoga, meditation,
and world spiritual traditions.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University
of Tennessee in anthropology,
his interests have taken him from archeological
expeditions to Mayan ruins
in the Yucatan to years of intensive study of
yoga and meditation in India.
Strohecker has served on the numerous boards,
including the President's
Advisory Council for Bastyr University and the
Board of Trustees of the
American University of Complementary Medicine. Visit
his website.
Course List: Wellness Inventory Certification
Training
Michele Sutton, MA, CHES, is a professional wellness coach and Certified Health Education Specialist with degrees in Psychology and Health Behavior & Health Education. She is a Certified Wellness Inventory Coach, Wellcoaches certified wellness coach, and a Nia Technique White Belt (certifications currently in progress. Completion expected Summer, 2009).
A background in education, psychology, fitness, and lay ministry led Michele to explore the relationships between the physical body, mental health, and spiritual pursuits. What emerged was a profound belief in the mind, body, spirit connection. Michele is now guided by the conviction that any imbalance in these factors not only produces decreased wellness, but also can manifest as illness if left unchecked.
Michele subscribes to a holistic model that emphasizes wellness as a six dimensional concept. As owner of Well Refined, LLC, she coaches individuals and groups toward maximizing potential while utilizing her skill as a knowledgeable health educator to guide related program development. Michele considers it an invaluable honor to walk alongside her clients as they identify the power within and experience the joys of optimal living.
Janet M. Ver received her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development from the Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. She has done extensive research in the area of human motivation, creativity, cognitive development, and brain functioning in adults and children. She brings a wealth of experience and expertise as an educator, therapist, researcher, and Life Coach. She has over 10 years experience as an individual and family therapist. She has been an educator for over 20 years at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has served as a university Director and is currently a developing a holistic Alzheimer Day Care Center, where she is conducting an Action Research project.
Karen Colby Weiner is an
experienced psychologist, attorney, educator
and ethicist, who added life and business coaching
to her work as a therapist. She currently is
President of the Michigan Psychological Association,
and in the past served as president of both
the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan and
the Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.
In addition to teaching ethics for ILCT, she
has served on the International Coach Federation
Ethics and Standards Committee, been a adjunct
professor of ethics in a graduate program,
and chaired the Ethics Committee of the Michigan
Psychological Association. She also served
for 8 years on the Michigan Board of Psychology
and has published in the area of ethics, law
and psychology.
Course List: Ethics, Risk Management and Professional
Issues
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