Meet Our Team of Certified Coaches
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LYNDA SILSBEE, Owner & Founder of Alliance for Leadership Acceleration, Performance Dimensions Group, and Creator of LEAP® the Leadership Acceleration Program
Lynda is a leading facilitator, executive coach and consultant with over 30 years experience creating and leading high-performance organizations and teams. She has broad leadership and industry experience having worked with an extensive roster of great organizations including; Nordstrom, Genie Industries, Starbucks Coffee Company, Jones Soda, Tommy Bahama, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Vulcan. Her diverse experience gives her valuable wisdom, knowledge and skills which bring measurable results and benefits to her clients. Lynda is passionate about creating GREAT leaders at all levels. She created and facilitated the prestigious Future Nordstrom Leaders Program, and the Genie Industries Lean Mfg Start-Up Training Program. In 2002 she launched the LEAP® Program to provide small and mid-sized organizations with the same level of leadership development as a fortune 100 company. She also has developed and implemented performance management systems, compensation systems, and is an insightful negotiator, and professional coach. Read Lynda's full bio. Contact Lynda |
SOUTH PUGET SOUND
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KIM LEIFSEN, Hiring Strategies
South Puget Sound area LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach since 2014 Kim formed her company, Hiring Strategies LLC, and her management and leadership philosophy around an idea shared with her by a former employer and local leadership legend, George Russell of the Frank Russell Company. George said, “If I hire people who are smarter than me and I take care of those employees and make them my priority, then they will take care of my customers and my company.” Kim has 20 years of combined experience in benefits, corporate recruiting, executive search, employee assessments, and leadership development in companies varying in size (2 employees to 1000 employees), and industry (retail, financial services, distribution, warehousing, construction, manufacturing and consulting.) This breadth of experience in varying cultures across the United States provides valuable insight as to what works and what doesn’t when recruiting top performers, creating effective hiring processes and systems, and developing a strong leadership bench. Read Kim's full bio. Contact Kim |
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DENEEN GRANT, Progressive Leadership Group
South Sound area LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach since 2016 Deneen has witnessed firsthand the impact leadership can have on business outcomes. That’s why she’s on a mission to equip companies with the leadership practices that foster growth and long-term success. Her experience and observations were the motivation to develop a consulting solution that marries leadership strategy with business strategy. She helps CEOs and senior executives develop the leadership teams and culture that drive growth and high performance. She has close to 20 years of HR business partnership, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness experience in banking and financial service industries. She holds certifications as a Senior Professional in HR (SPHR), and SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). Read Deneen's full bio. Contact Deneen |
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KAITLYN DANIEL, Learn to Lead
South Sound area LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach since 2020 Kaitlyn is a resilience and performance expert that helps people and organizations perform and thrive using simple and easy to implement strategies. Kaitlyn spent over six years as a Master Resilience Trainer and Performance Expert training Soldiers in United States Army before starting her own business to provide custom training for high stress professionals like women in business, cybersecurity and first responders. Her expertise includes Leadership and Development Design/Implementation, Human Performance Improvement, Resilience and Wellbeing, Burnout and Stress Management, and High Performance Teams. In addition to her LEAP certification, Kaitlyn is also Dare to Lead trained, a Certified Mental Performance Coach through AASP, and Critical Incident Stress Management Peer Support Trained by ICISF. Read Kaitlyn's full bio. Contact Kaitlyn. |
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GREATER SEATTLE - BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON
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PAULA FITZGERALD BOOS, Fitsbow
Puget Sound area LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach since 2014 Paula loves to build trust and help clients achieve greater success and fulfillment in their work. Her commitment is to exceed your expectations -- most often clients comment that they got more than they anticipated in unexpected and inspiring ways. She helps you achieve clarity in your vision of what you want in your work life, and then works with you to define the most productive path. For over 20 years she has worked with thousands of professionals from the “C” suite to the production floor, big companies to small, CFOs to scientists, and welders to accountants. With a combination of strategic direction, supportive challenge, energetic empathy, and practical and tactical ideas for execution, she is dedicated to working with her clients to get to desired results most quickly. Contact Paula |
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JOAN HUNTER, Co-Founder & Owner of Novaré Solutions Group, an IT/Business Consulting Firm and Founder of JMHunter Group, a Leadership Development & Coaching Firm
Puget Sound area LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach since 2016 As co-founder and managing partner at Novaré Solutions Group, Joan helps clients create strategies, organization, structures, and processes that align diverse stakeholder groups under a unified vision and strategic plan. In her 30 years working in and with highly technical organizations, she’s helped companies orchestrate significant operational change yielding increased revenue, effectiveness, and employee satisfaction. Joan founded the JMHunter Group to deliver her personal mission to build effective, high-performing senior and mid-level leaders, to enable them to achieve their full potential and align that potential with career opportunities. As a coach, she customizes client engagements using either one-on-one or collaborative group approaches, leveraging a suite of tools, assessments, and structured development programs such as the LEAP leadership program. Read Joan's full bio. Contact Joan |
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DAN KENNEDY
As one of the first coaches in the Northwest to be certified by the International Coach Federation, with other pioneers, Dan Kennedy co-founded the local ICF chapter, now known as ICF Washington State. Dan speaks and facilitates on issues regarding coaching, leadership, and career development. He has conducted hundreds of effective presentations, workshops and seminars for various Seattle and national organizations including AARP, Costco, Adobe Systems, Campbell Soup Company, and King County, Washington. Dan's focus has always been to support leaders to be doing work that engages them and to do it by leveraging their strengths, values and purpose for the best impact for themselves, their people and their organizations. Read Dan's full bio here. Contact Dan. |
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TIM RILEY, CEO Masters Forum
Tim Riley has led or been involved with a number of leading organizations ranging from high technology to bricks and mortar. Known for strategy, innovation, quality and leadership, Tim’s track record includes two appearances on the Inc 500 list and 9 appearances on the Seattle areas fastest growing company list. Tim is a third generation native of the Seattle area and an avid snow and water skier. He has served as president and board member of the Seattle Entrepreneur’s Organization and an alumnus and former board member of the Young Presidents Organization. Read Tim's full bio. Contact Tim |
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JULIAN YAEGER, Rise 8 Consulting
Julian has 10+ years of experience in coaching, teaching, training, organizational effectiveness and change, and leadership development. Julian is also an executive coach and founder of Rise 8, a coaching and consulting company that helps managers and leaders influence the world around them. Julian believes that all people have unlimited potential and that leaders and managers have a unique platform from which they can help unleash that potential. He also believes a world in which more people have unlocked their passion is a brighter, more energetic place for society to thrive. Read Julian's full bio. Contact Julian |
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OLYMPIC PENINSULA
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NANCY MAKI, LMHC, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Open Gate Resources
Puget Sound area LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach since 2016 Nancy is managing partner of Open Gate Consulting - a firm dedicated to helping small and medium business create their best teams through leadership development, human resources support, and employee assistance services. Nancy has a long history in leadership, management, and performance development. In her early career, Nancy honed her leadership skills as an Army officer, eventually moving on to open her own insurance agency. Nancy has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Puget Sound and her experience as a mental health practitioner and human resources business partner insures solid consultation for her clients. Contact Nancy |
INLAND NORTHWEST
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MARY LARSON, Performance Dimensions Group
LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach since 2016 Mary brings over three decades of experience to her clients. She has held organizational effectiveness and end-to-end HR leadership roles in companies ranging from high tech to healthcare and financial institutions. Mary’s professional passion is helping leaders at every level be their very best. Her career includes building and leading multiple learning & development and organizational effectiveness functions. In addition to Mary’s client work, she is very passionate about preparing our leaders of tomorrow for the business world. She teaches business classes in the University system focused on contemporary business issues, professional development, and leadership development. She was also an advisor, designer, and instructor for the University of Washington’s Learning & Professional Development certification program. Read Mary's full bio. Contact Mary. |
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GREATER DALLAS, TEXAS
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ZAIN A. ALI, Skyline Group
Dallas, Texas LEAP Leadership Development Certified Coach With over 25 years of experience as a business consultant, industry executive and entrepreneur, Zain coaches leaders to better understand themselves, their values and the leadership skills they can access to increase their success. He also helps leaders identify the patterns that have made them successful and the new patterns they need to adopt to achieve their full potential as a leader. As a business leader himself, Zain defined a strategy, assembled a team and then nurtured the team as it successfully delivered a defined vision and strategy. As an entrepreneur, he has taken three companies from inception to profitability while achieving all the objectives defined in the business plan. Recognized as a master facilitator, Zain helps clients lead training sessions to increase sales, build leaders and improve team chemistry. Contact Zain |