Jeff Lugerner, Principal and Executive Coach

Karen Cooley, Principal and Executive Coach

Karen Cooley has over 20 years experience consulting and coaching senior-level executives at both Silicon Valley startups and Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise ranges from employee and team performance to executive leadership assessment and development. Karen’s exceptional understanding of the impact of leadership styles, team dynamics and corporate cultures leads executives of companies to seek out her feedback and trust her perspective. Karen’s primary focus and work currently is centered around being a thought partner to female leaders and executives.

• Igniting a leader’s ability to generate followership.
• Developing cross-functional influencing skills.
• Creating a unique, powerful and credible leadership brand.
• Developing conflict competence.
• Helping female leaders find their leadership voice.

Karen has an M.S. in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Wisconsin and a certification in Industrial Relations at the University of Minnesota. She is certified in Team Coaching through Team Coaching International, as well as being certified in Meyers-Briggs and the Hogan Assessment Tools.

David Cooley, Executive Coach

Norm Arslan, MA, Executive Coach

Over the past 10 years, Norm Arslan has provided coaching and training in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, legal firms, financial services, high-tech, non-profit and educational institutions. He has also provided over 100 training seminars on such diverse topics as leadership development, effective management skills, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, stress management, effective communication and motivation. He is skilled at helping executives and managers at many different levels develop their leadership abilities. Norm works in a collaborative style with an emphasis on making both behavioral and mind set changes. He is solution oriented and practical in his approach, looking for the most effective strategies for success in each individual situation. Leaders at all levels find that he is able to quickly assess and to help them develop the best skill sets needed for optimal performance.

• Executive/Leadership Coach, Leadership Development Institute
• Executive Consultant and Coach, MYT Consulting Group, New York City, NY
• Executive Coach and Consultant, Leadership Development Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Leadership Versatility Index Certification
• EQ-I Assessment Certification

Abbott Labs, Ameritrade, Revlon, Knighted Ventures, Morgan and Lewis Law Firm, Mezzetta Industries, Vitasoy, Winston and Strawn Law Firm, East Bay Regional Center, San Francisco/San Jose State University

• MA Chapman University, Counseling Psychology
• BA University of California, Davis, Psychology

Nicole Stephen, PhD, Executive Coach

With over 18 years of experience coaching managers and executives, Nicole has worked in a variety of industries, with deep expertise in technology, healthcare, financial services, nonprofit, and energy sectors. While Nicole coaches leaders at all levels, many clients are newly transitioned executives, wanting to make business impact quickly or high potential individuals looking to move into the executive ranks of their current organizations, thus coaching engagements often focus on the behavioral changes needed to obtain and effectively transition into these high profile roles. In addition to coaching, her professional expertise is in succession management, assessment, talent management, and leadership development. Nicole emphasizes partnership, goal setting, and reflection in order to produce the greatest impact. Quick to build trust and identify what the key success factors are for a particular client, she uses a pragmatic, real-world approach to coaching, which enables her clients to find the greatest levers that will have the most profound impact on improving performance. Regardless of whether the topic is related to leadership effectiveness, communication style, improving relationships, prioritization, or having greater impact, specific tangible results can be reached through a strong partnership, motivation, and willingness to think and behave differently.

• Executive/Leadership Coach, Leadership Development Institute
• Director of Talent Performance Engagement and Exec Coach, EA, Redwood City, CA
• Director of Organizational Development and Exec Coach, Bose, Framingham, MA
• Executive Consultant and Coach, PDI Ninth House, Boston, MA and the Hague, Netherlands
• Senior Consultant and Exec Coach, Linkage Inc., Lexington, MA
• Manager and Consultant, Assessment Solutions, Linkage Inc., Lexington, MA
• Consultant, American Institutes for Research, Washington DC
• Instructor, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, VA

American Red Cross, Bose, Canadian Pacific Railway, Dartmouth Hitchcock, EA, IDEXX, Lowe’s, MFS Investments, Reebok, Royal Dutch Shell, UNDP PhD, I/O Psychology, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA; MA, I/O Psychology, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA; BS, Applied Psychology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA

Michelle King, Executive Coach

Michelle has 15 years of Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Human Resources Consulting experience with executives and their teams across diverse industries, organizational models, both domestically and internationally. She has worked with executive clients who have led Fortune 500 Companies, startups (both early and late stage) and non-profits organizations, across multiple industries.  In addition to coaching, she has designed and delivered multiple leadership development programs/workshops and managed transformational change management projects at a large scale. She has helped leaders, teams, and organizations to design and implement change – clarifying vision and values, shaping strategy plans, and building the practices that enable growth and success. She is well-known for the depth and breadth of her knowledge and experience with regard to leadership development. Michelle has a knack for helping leaders to advance their team’s ability to deliver on demands of fast-growth scaling and audacious goals. She has been instrumental in driving better business results and has established a proven reputation for her ability to develop leaders to their next-level potential, solve communication challenges and improve relational-dynamics.

• Executive/Leadership Coach, Leadership Development Institute
• Sr. Director, Global Human Resources at Machine Zone
• Head of Employee Relations and HR Business Partner, LinkedIn
• Executive Consultant and Coach

Kaiser, Altera, AAA, Service Channel, VMWare, StyleSeat, Symantec, Certified Professional Coach, Master Herman Brain Dominance Instrument, Certification Leadership Versatility Index, Global HR Certification

David Motto

With over 25 years performance coaching experience, David has helped business leaders, athletes, and performing artists learn and execute complex skills confidently and successfully. He consistently delivers the means for highly-driven individuals and teams to efficiently and effectively achieve their desired outcomes. David has coached leaders in a diverse set of industries, including finance, nanotechnology, executive recruitment, real estate development, entertainment, and health technology. In addition to leadership development, David coaches individuals and teams on presentation skills, strategic visioning (and effectively communicating that vision), skill mastery, goal achievement, trust and authenticity, and performance optimization. In his coaching David uses experiential learning and the deliberate practice process, enabling clients to translate knowledge into action and drive sustainable success. He customizes his coaching style to the specific needs and expectations of each client and focuses clients on small changes that deliver big results. David’s clients not only deepen their expertise but also develop the requisite mental agility and emotional resilience to use those skills effectively.

• Executive/Leadership Coach, Leadership Development Institute
• Executive Consultant, Performance Coach, and Presentation Coach
• Workshop Leader, Author, and Public Speaker
• Leadership Development Institute – Executive and Leadership Coach
• Performance Coach, Mills College, Oakland, CA
• Chief Communications Officer, Invincible Wallet, San Francisco, CA
• Instructor, San Francisco State University, CA
• Founder, Molto Music Publishing Company, Oakland, CA
• Leadership Versatility Index Certification

Visa, Softbank, Electronic Arts, Nanosys, Health Innovation for People, California Department of Transportation, Mills College, Pollinator Partnership B.A., University of California Berkeley, interdisciplinary degree: History, Philosophy, Music

David Cox

Dave leverages his 25 year career in explosive growth, technology companies to help aspiring leaders reach desired higher levels of leadership. In building global operations capabilities for several start-ups and very successful young public companies, Dave differentiated himself as the in-house executive coach for top performing, yet challenged leaders, on his direct teams and cross-functionally. As Dave rose to the senior executive level, he partnered with and coached dozens of co-workers, from Sr Managers to Sr Vice Presidents, to help them achieve the next level of leadership. Across nearly every corporate function Dave has formally and informally coached ambitious co-workers seeking that often elusive promotion. Coaching has been and continues to be the most rewarding aspect of Dave’s career to date.

COACHING APPROACH

Through his own in the trenches, real-world, senior executive leadership experience, Dave helps his coaching clients connect the dots…evolving job requirements, corporate culture, key functional and corporate deliverables, personal strengths and development areas, etc. Dave partners with leaders to help them identify their applicable challenges, both real and perceived, and collaborates with them to find actionable solutions. Getting to authentic self-awareness and acceptance of those blind spots typically limiting success is a significant dependency to achieving leadership breakthroughs. Dave then works with his clients to create goals to achieve the required improvements and coach them to success.

• External Coach, Leadership Development Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Senior Consultant, On Tap Consulting, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
• Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, Gigamon, Santa Clara, CA
• Vice President of Manufacturing and Operations, Lytro, Mt View, CA
• Senior Vice President of Operations, Blue Coat Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
• Vice President of Operations, Pluris, Cupertino, CA
• Director of Manufacturing, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS: Meridian, KBM-Hogue, First Republic Bank, Arctic Wolf Networks, Simons Institute at UC Berkeley, Nutanix

CREDENTIALS

• Certification, Leadership Versatility Index
• MBA, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
• BA International Relations, University of California, Davis, CA