coach directory

Alice Cooper has more than 35 years of leadership experience in a large academic institution, offering consultative services, coaching, and team building. She has built a reputation of trust, of confidence, in her compassionate and inspirational approach, and in the belief from those she works with in her genuineness and caring.

Her clinical practice in women's health has taught her the importance of powerful moments — through the experiences of grief, joy, unexpected events, and the importance of true connection — all of which fosters the fullest potential of each moment. 

It is through Alice’s professional experiences, both in clinical and coaching scenarios, that she has learned the foundational importance of truly listening to "hear" the message of those moments from her patients and her clients.

Dr. Amanda (Mandy) Termuhlen is a pediatric hematologist oncologist and former senior associate dean of faculty affairs, now retired, with over 34 years of experience in academic medicine. She is passionate about her work coaching faculty members and administrative leaders in academic healthcare and higher education to grow professionally, cultivate resilience, and create supportive spaces for team members and colleagues.

An ICF-certified coach (ACC) since 2018, Mandy’s coaching practice focuses on leadership development, career transitions, difficult situations or decision making, and working in complex systems. Her coaching philosophy is to engage clients as co-creators of discovery and insight that will inform actions propelling clients towards achieving their goals. Mandy fully endorses and follows the ICF Code of Ethics in her coaching practice.  She trained with Damian Goldvarg, PhD, through the Goldvarg Consulting Group’s ICF Accredited Training Program and the University of Southern California.

Amy Burkhalter is a practical and strategic executive leadership coach with 25 years of experience. She has worked with a wide range of health care leaders, C-suite and rising executives, entrepreneurs and change-makers. Her work is informed by an advanced degree in psychology, decades of living in multiple countries, and experience working with culturally diverse teams. She works with consulting firms serving academic medical centers across the U.S. She has supported physicians and other health care leaders in achieving personal goals and professional advancement goals in clinical, research, educational, and administrative careers. 

Ann Brown believes coaching is a powerful way to partner with clients as they navigate their lives. Through coaching conversations, she works with clients to clarify choices that honor their identity, find their path to impact, and create a positive culture for those around them.

Working with trust and integrity as a foundation for the coaching relationship, Ann works with clients on issues they bring to clarify what is most energizing for each person, whatever their profession or goals. She aims to empower her clients to engage their strengths, live with integrity, communicate effectively, and embrace their challenges. A
primary driver of her coaching is to support the career development of her clients and build confidence in their leadership skills through reflection, insight, and skill development.

Ann is a credentialed professional coach and member in good standing of the International Coaching Federation. She received formal professional coaching training through the Business and Professional Coaching program through Business Coaching Institute at Transformation Edge in Raleigh, N.C., and she brings 30 years of experience as a physician and institutional leader in academic medicine to her practice as a professional coach.

Becky has over 20 years of experience providing organizational development services that include executive coaching, talent management, team development, and leadership development to diverse organizations. She has expertise in custom-designing programs that support and align business strategy and enhance senior team interaction. In addition, she has extensive coaching experience with C-level executives.

In her years of coaching, Becky has observed (and experienced herself) that we all tend at times, to sleepwalk through our work and careers. Coaching serves as a wakeup call and hopefully, provides for greater and deeper awakening.

Her coaching work helps individuals to ACCESS — through discovery, reflection, and tools — a deeper sense of self-awareness, and to CREATE what matters most in their lives as expressed through their work. The coaching process is designed to help individuals move from a problem-reacting structure in life (this approach is fundamentally based on fear and comes from early messaging, mindsets, habitual and limiting belief structures), to an outcome-creating structure that is fueled by love, possibility, and the deeper desires in each of us. The outcome-creating structure is available to all and comes from a sense of vision and purpose that sits quietly in each of us. Helping individuals access this inner vision and sense of purpose is the essence of Becky’s work.

Cathie Siders is a psychologist specializing in organizational consulting and executive coaching. Her professional experience reflects a strong interest in the issues affecting women's private and professional lives and the leadership challenges of setting direction in organizations.

As an early adopter of the executive coaching concept in academic medicine, Cathie transitioned from psychotherapy to applying psychological principles in organizations and groups. Her expertise from many years as a therapist provides an invaluable understanding of human behavior and the importance of making well-informed judgments and healthy choices.

Cathie has served as both consultant and faculty member in nationally recognized leadership programs, and she has provided executive coaching support to many well-known institutions of higher education. At the onset of the pandemic, Cathie transitioned to an intense focus on the immediate needs of health care leaders. Her consultation to leadership emphasizes sustaining personal well-being, managing an organization under duress, and supporting staff in the development of resilience.

Cherri Hobgood is a professional executive coach and an internationally recognized emergency medicine physician executive. With a wealth of experience in academic medicine, she has successfully navigated key leadership roles in various settings, including departmental, hospital, and Dean’s Office environments.

An accomplished author, Dr. Hobgood has published extensively on topics such as leadership emergence, identifying and overcoming leadership challenges, and developing resilience. Her scholarship led her to coaching as a way to promote inclusivity and empower individuals and institutions to create environments that foster collaboration, innovation, and sustainable growth.

"Performance = Potential - Interference" - Timothy Gallwey.

This powerful equation is what motivates Debrah — a professional executive coach, surgeon, and health care executive — to empower her clients to define success on their own terms. It shifts the focus from a reliance on developing more potential to understanding recognized limitations that interfere with optimal performance.

Recognized limitations might include lack of confidence, ineffective communication and approaches to conflict, failure to manage time as a valuable resource, lack of strategic networks, and an unfocused approach to change management. She engages with clients to assist them in building their strengths and being true to their values. Over the last 10 years, she has built a coaching practice focused on designing sustainable career transitions and developing leadership potential in clients.

Dexter Nolley has served as chief human resources officer in large academic medical centers for over 10 years. He oversees human resources and serves on the executive leadership team. He is also an executive coach to leaders within the organization. His coaching passion is partnering to improve an individual’s leadership skills and executive presence.

For more than 25 years, Dexter has provided coaching and consulting in performance coaching; conflict management; diversity, equity, and inclusion; employee relations; team building; and leadership development. His expertise is building teams, developing leaders, and leading through growth and change. Dexter helps organizations and individuals discover their values and vision while strategically aligning themselves to produce sustainable results.

Elena Lewis brings over 17 years of experience in the IT industry, including nearly six years in leadership roles, with a firm belief that leadership is not defined by titles but by impact and authenticity. She understands that true confidence and leadership come from mindset shifts, self-awareness, and intentional growth. 

As an ICF PCC-certified coach, Elena specializes in career development, emotional intelligence, and leadership growth, helping professionals and leaders at all levels strengthen their skills and navigate their careers with clarity and confidence. 

As a certified confidence coach, she empowers individuals to overcome self-limiting beliefs, develop resilience, and lead with authenticity. Incorporating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) mindset techniques, she helps clients reframe negative thought patterns, build confidence, and take intentional steps toward success. 

Elena’s mission is to help individuals step into their full potential, embrace growth, and lead with purpose.

Over her 32-year career as a consultant, business owner, and leadership/executive coach, Faye Coleman has worked with executives, managers, and visionaries in a variety of industries, both nationally and globally. Her past and current clients include a variety of federal and state government agencies, educators, clinicians, nonprofit leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs, and most recently, medical academics. Examples of services Faye has provided to these clients include organizational change management, team building, leadership development, strategic planning, career transition planning, and disaster response counseling services.

Faye views coaching as a powerful tool to assist leaders, executives, business owners, entrepreneurs, and others in clarifying their professional and life goals. She helps them implement actionable strategies to meet or exceed those goals with a focus on agency and accountability. Faye empowers her clients to achieve what they once thought impossible by championing their true, authentic selves and encouraging them to stay aligned with their core values and principles.

Gina Columna is an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator. She has had the pleasure of working with leaders in the academic medical and health care sectors to improve results at the organizational, departmental, team, and individual levels, starting from the C-suite, presidents, CNOs, physicians, and senior-level leaders to director-level administrators overseeing functions or multiple service lines, as well as academic provosts, deans, department chairs, and faculty.

Gina brings a balanced holistic approach that incorporates organizational requirements, professional needs, and personal well-being into the coaching process. She challenges her clients to examine their beliefs, behaviors, and reality to break out of existing paradigms and move toward new heights of success. Gina wants to ensure that what clients value most, they live. She incorporates managing energy and stress levels as a way to reach peak performance for high-achieving executives with multiple professional and personal responsibilities.

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J. Scott Young, Ph.D., PCC is a professor and former chair of the Department of Counseling and Educational Development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He provides executive and leadership coaching to professionals across a range of backgrounds and industries, including health care, technology, manufacturing, accounting and finance, and service, among others. He also oversees a physician coaching program, where he works to support physicians experiencing workplace adjustment, leadership, or performance challenges.

Scott trains leaders through assessment, feedback coaching, and consulting, and he is certified in the use of a variety of assessments. He operates from the perspective that leadership coaching is an interpersonal process through which professionals learn to demonstrate for their teams what success entails, articulate a vision, challenge processes, and enable teams to achieve synergy while providing necessary encouragement and support. He is certified through the International Coach Federation, where he holds the Professional Certified Coach status.

Johanna Aguirre is a certified leadership coach and experienced business professional who finds joy and inspiration in witnessing clients’ profound transformation and the positive impact that transformation brings to their communities.  

Johanna has over 20 years of corporate experience in several industries in Latin America and North America — including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, and retail. These and many other experiences have equipped her with a unique, firsthand perspective of different organizational cultures and leadership styles, as well as insight into a variety of organizational and employee challenges, opportunities, and motivations.

Johanna’s coaching journey started in 2015, and since then, she’s had the privilege of supporting clients through different services, such as one-on-one coaching, group coaching and facilitation, and intact teams.  

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Laura Malinowski is a distinguished executive coach passionate about revitalizing high-performing executives' careers. With over 15 years of executive leadership in mission-driven, founder-led firms, Laura leverages her extensive experience to help operations executives love their work again and advance.

Laura’s background is rich in operational leadership, where she excelled in building departments, fostering diverse and collaborative teams, and designing sustainable business strategies. Her ability to navigate complex change and upheaval has made her an invaluable asset to those looking to improve their organizational impact and team dynamics.

As an executive coach, Laura empowers operations executives to regain control over their minds, time, and careers. With decades of leadership experience and multiple coaching certifications, she helps clients rediscover their passion for work, balance strategic thinking with effective execution, and develop sustainable work habits.

Martine Jackson is an executive leader with extensive experience as a trusted advisor and thought partner to C-suite executives and business leaders across a variety of industries.

With over two decades of experience as a practicing attorney, consultant and business transformation champion, Martine specializes in positioning leaders to navigate complexity and disruption while optimizing strategy and operations.  She has conducted organizational assessments, delivered strategic recommendations, and counseled boards on change management implementation to support seamless organizational culture shifts.

After years of providing support to Metta Solutions an as-needed basis, Martine formally joined and helped scale the team in 2023, and she channels her passion for helping business leaders into coaching, mentoring and consulting work. Martine is a Professional Certified Coach from North Carolina State University, and she also holds a Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University ILR School and a Certificate of Mediation from DePaul University. Martine draws upon these skills to provide a balanced perspective to help clients engage in strategic decision-making to promote their success.

Martine is particularly passionate about working with women- and minority-owned businesses providing unique products and services.

Me’chelle Degree is a career transition coach with over 30 years of experience helping individuals navigate professional changes and unlock their potential. A graduate of UNC-Greensboro and certified through North Carolina State University, Business and Professional Coaching-ICF, she specializes in guiding clients through job changes, skill development, and confidence-building.  

Me’chelle has successfully supported clients from various industries in identifying their strengths and creating actionable plans for career advancement. Known for her empathetic approach, she fosters a safe environment for clients to explore their aspirations and overcome obstacles.  

In addition to one-on-one coaching, Me’chelle leads workshops on effective networking, personal branding, and resilience. Outside of coaching, Mechelle enjoys working with early-career professionals and working in the community, fueling her passion for empowering others in their career journeys.

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Mira Brancu is an executive coach and leadership consultant with 20+ years of  experience working in large, complex organizational systems, including federal  government, education, academic/university, and health care. She has a  strong research and thought leadership track record.

Mira is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, an award-winning researcher, and a prolific author of thought leadership author. In her coaching and consulting practice, Mira provides strategic leadership, team, and organization development consulting and coaching to executives managing people-centric changes and challenges today and navigating tomorrow. She is routinely invited to facilitate and coach high-stakes team and organizational needs, including culture change and team development interventions after high-visibility
organizational traumas (e.g., patient deaths, chaotic mergers and acquisitions, and poorly executed DE&I initiatives).

Mira’s coaching approach marries her deep expertise in development, mental health, research, and health care with her experience as a leader in large complex systems and her passion for developing inclusive and healthy workplaces. As such, she brings together direct, practical, and research-based approaches in her coaching.

With over 30 years of experience in higher education, academic medicine, and industry, Paige Bentley brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to her work. As an AAMC faculty member at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the owner of her own private coaching and counseling practice, she combines her training and experience in human development, interpersonal dynamics, and holistic well-being. Paige's coaching style is collaborative and rooted in reflection, feedback, and practical skill-building. Her mission is to be a deeply engaged thought partner, guiding clients as they explore who they are, where they want to go, and what steps they need to take to get there.

Paige is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor (LCMHCS), ICF-Associate Certified Coach, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Paige is trained and certified in an array of assessment instruments, including the Clifton Strengths Finder, the Center for Creative Leadership’s 360 suite, WorkPlace Big 5, and FIRO-B, among others.

Sandra Fletcher is an executive and team development coach with a passion for helping leaders discover their unique leadership DNA, positioning them for genuine and impactful leadership. She brings a client-centered and goal-oriented approach to coaching engagements, by placing the client's needs and objectives at the forefront of the process.

Throughout the coaching journey, she relies on effective coaching techniques to help guide the client in translating insights into actions and empowering leaders to optimize their leadership style and drive performance effectively. As leaders learn to create human-centered systems, they gain the leverage to catalyze positive transformations within their organizations, fostering an atmosphere primed for growth, collaboration, and innovation.

Seth Glickman has more than 20 years of clinical and senior-level executive experience in large health care organizations and as a successful entrepreneur.  His background as a physician has shaped a patient-centered approach to transforming our healthcare system through value, quality and innovation.  

Seth has held senior executive leadership roles at several prominent health care systems and payer organizations, and he has also founded and led several technology-enabled services companies, including a patient-centered analytics and an independent advisory and executive coaching firm, serving a wide variety of health care clients in the non-profit and private sectors.

Seth received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his medical residency at the University of Chicago. He earned his MBA at Duke University and has served as a Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine and a Physician Faculty Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  

Seth lives in the California Bay Area with his wife Ellen and two labradoodles. In his free time, he enjoys running, gardening, beach adventures with his dogs, and exploring wine country in Sonoma County.

Sharon Hull, MD, MPH, PCC is a professional executive coach and family physician who is passionate about leveraging the power of community for good. She has been coaching for more than 15 years, having built a coaching program for physicians at Duke University College of Medicine as well as her own coaching firm, Metta Solutions. She is the creator of the Professional Careers by Design ® model for intentional career planning, and she considers coaching the capstone stage of her own career. 

With over 20 years of experience in professional and personal development, Tiffany Sturdivant has honed a variety of skills, including leadership development facilitation & coaching, transition coaching, performance improvement, team coaching, inclusion coaching, and delivering measurable results. As a trained leadership coach and facilitator, she embraces a cognitive coaching style and collaborative facilitation method. She works to empower clients to enhance problem-solving abilities, boost self-worth, improve interpersonal relationships, and visualize goals. 

Tiffany’s passion for coaching and facilitation started with a simple yet powerful moment when a patient said, “You should teach others how to care like you do.” This sparked Tiffany’s quest to understand her natural ability to connect with people and help them thrive.