Victor has been in the leadership development space for 30 years with experience within a variety of sectors including secondary and higher education to high-tech companies, mental health nonprofits, and Fortune 100 businesses, and has worked effectively with a range of age groups from teenagers, to early- career young adults to senior executives.

As a Certified Professional Coach and Certified Strengths Coach, Victor guides individuals in understanding their personal and professional strengths and leading them to achieving their fullest potential by leveraging those strengths.

With empathy, joyfulness, and passion, it is important to Victor to support individuals in functioning optimally in the workplace while fulfilling a sense of personal purpose and work/life balance.

In leading teams and organizations, it is integral to Victor that they align their practices with their organization’s mission and vision to achieve desired outcomes.

Early in Victor’s career, his initial path guided him to be a high school teacher, a school administrator, and a university professor at several universities. As a professor, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study history, politics, and educational systems in South Africa.

Recently, Victor founded the non-profit organization, Coaching for Everyone. Its mission is to offer complimentary coaching and leadership support to traditionally underserved and under-resourced Black, Latinx, and Indigenous populations.

Victor is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and certified in various assessment tools such as The Marcus Buckingham Stand Out tool and The Leadership Circle assessment.

Victor received his doctorate from Colorado State University in Curriculum and Instruction, to be followed by a collective of university professorships for the next 20 years. Victor is experienced, as a keynote speaker at national/international conferences, and has authored books on education and leadership.

When not with clients, you can find Victor with his wife, and dog/Cooper strolling the beaches in sunny California.

David Hardy is Made By Change’s CEO and co-founder, a mission-driven social equity consultant firm. Made By Change is an organization that helps organizations move from hearts to habits to humans by creating spacing and action for lines of difference to change. While working at supporting organization culture, he has grown to find ways to create transformation for individuals. He is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) with over 25 clients worldwide, helping leaders transform their approach to their personal and professional lives by intentionally examining who they are and who they want to be.

Throughout David’s life, it has been important for him and the people around him to find a way to live a fulfilled, human-centered life that empowers others to lead with kindness, find their greatness, and relentlessly explore how to make the world a better place with love.

This conviction has been with him since he stepped into a classroom as a teacher over 20 years ago. He spent the first 18 years of his career as an educator serving in every position, from a classroom teacher to becoming a school district superintendent. Under his leadership as Superintendent, Lorain City Schools received its highest performance marks in nearly a quarter-century. In addition, he led the district team that moved the school district from an F grade to a B grade in the Achievement Gap closing metric for the first time in school history. As a result, Superintendent Paolo DeMaria touted Lorain City Schools as being in the top ten percent of the fastest-improving school districts in the state of Ohio’s 646 school districts under David’s leadership. He took on this opportunity due to his work as Deputy Superintendent of Academics of St. Louis Public Schools, where he helped the district gain full academic accreditation for the first time in 15 years. After formally leaving K-12 education spaces, he stepped into the consulting and coaching world after being the Managing Partner and VP of People and Culture at Education Elements, where he developed their Educational Equity Service line.

David has also served on a Board of Trustees for Columbia College of Missouri and the academic committee. He is an alum of Colgate University, where he received his bachelor’s in economics, and Teachers’ College Columbia University, where he received his Master’s and is currently a dissertation away from his doctorate at Columbia University.

David and his wife, a graduate of Howard University, have two sons and a daughter, who is often the subject of David’s love for photography.

Sabine Smith, founder of WordSmith Coaching LLC, is a certified Leadership, Career and Life Coach passionate about helping clients sharpen their metaphorical swords, so they can slay the self-sabotaging stories and limiting beliefs & behaviors preventing them from fulfilling their highest professional & personal aspirations.

Sabine brings over 20 years of experience leading global, strategic change initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, primarily in the Technology, Consulting & Financial Services industries. She understands the complexities of working in challenging business environments. As a Black woman, she is intimately familiar the singular experiences of women and people of color navigating corporations and skillfully holds space to explore the unique leadership challenges which arise. Working with clients across 4 continents, Sabine tackles topics like: career/life transition, imposter syndrome/feelings, work-life balance/integration, purpose / vision, leadership development.

Sabine draws from the Co-Active model of coaching, an industry gold standard and science- backed approach to enabling individual transformation. The model focuses on clients as whole people, with whole lives, that extend far beyond titles, roles and circumstances. Therefore, coaching conversations focus on empowering clients to confidently author and act on a vision for their life and work, that honors their values, aligns to their purpose, engages their passion, and stretches their capacity as leaders and humans.

When not working, Sabine can be found in her happy place – spending time with her husband of over 20 years, 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. There you’ll find them singing jazz standards during family karaoke night, dancing wildly to gospel & rock &roll, and belly laughing after a competitive game of tag.

PhD, Executive Coach

612-212-3706
Anne.MF.Wolf@gmail.com
LinkedIn Profile

Anne is a leadership coach and a curious, compassionate strategist who works with individuals and organizations seeking to create transformation. She believes that cultivating a sense of deep belonging is the key to individual, organizational, and community well-being. With her coaching support, individuals and organizations can build alignment between their values, goals, and actions.

Anne’s work primarily centers around racial equity, community, leadership, and power. She has over a decade of experience navigating systemic change within the context of K-12 education, Higher Education, and at the nexus of community, local government, non-profit and private industry. She is committed to cultivating equity and belonging through empathetic and distributed leadership and believes deeply in the transformative power of coaching to that end.

Anne is also a member of the inaugural Coaching for Everyone Fellowship, a Co-Active trained coach, a certified strengths-based coach, and a Technology of Participation-trained facilitator. She received a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from the University of Minnesota, where her research focused on the role of embodiment and narrative in racial self-understanding.

Sam is an accomplished professional who channels her experience and talent into powerful and impactful leadership coaching, facilitation and consulting. Sam has served as an executive leader in private and public companies. She is passionate about activating talent, growing and developing people into their fullest authentic expression and potential.
Clients repeatedly seek Sam out because of the memorable experience and the lasting results they achieve in their professional and personal lives. Sam has coached over 1000 leaders across the leadership spectrum and facilitated over 150 leadership programs across various industries, sectors and markets.
Sam holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Education and a Juris Doctorate. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, Coaches Training Institute Co-Active Coach, a Board Certified Coach, and is certified in numerous coaching and facilitation methodologies and programs.
is an accomplished professional who channels her experience and talent into powerful and impactful leadership coaching, facilitation and consulting. Sam has served as an executive leader in private and public companies. She is passionate about activating talent, growing and developing people into their fullest authentic expression and potential.

Clients repeatedly seek Sam out because of the memorable experience and the lasting results they achieve in their professional and personal lives. Sam has coached over 1000 leaders across the leadership spectrum and facilitated over 150 leadership programs across various industries, sectors and markets.
Sam holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Education and a Juris Doctorate. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, Coaches Training Institute Co-Active Coach, a Board Certified Coach, and is certified in numerous coaching and facilitation methodologies and programs.

Maris Segal, collaborates, coaches, and consults with executives, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and rising leaders to identify and bring their professional, personal, and philanthropic vision to life. Combining her relationship marketing and mindset expertise with the power of head & heart leadership, Segal builds meaningful connections & impactful strategies that drive client success.

Working across twenty five countries, Maris has served a wide spectrum of local and global leaders, brands, and policymakers. From board rooms and classrooms to Harvard and the White House she and her business partner, husband Ken Ashby are also known for uniting diverse populations with innovative cross-cultural marketing and personal development programs that bring a creative voice to issues and causes.

As an executive and relationship leadership coach and trainer, Segal sets a path for every client to build high-performing businesses & elevate personal and professional leadership for maximum impact & a 360-degree thriving life! Maris and Ken have been featured authors in nine leadership books and recently completed a TEDx talk in NY. Maris lives by the philosophy that “We are all connected as human’s first and that’s where the bottom line begins.”

Karel Hilversum is a sought-after professional coach and advisor with over 25 years of experience supporting hundreds of leaders in many of the world’s leading start-ups and fast-growing organizations. As a Latinx/Multiracial leader, Karel knows first-hand the complexities of being a BIPOC leader in predominantly White spaces. He has navigated the labyrinths of leadership many of you might be facing as a leader of color, and he gets you! Karel is an understanding and committed partner. His coaching sessions can be done in either English or Spanish.

As a personal coach, Karel listens from the heart and asks perspective-shifting questions to help increase your awareness and gain insights. He gently nudges you into identifying growth opportunities and learning edges and provides encouragement, tools, and conceptual distinctions along the way. Karel compassionately holds you accountable for your goals and helps you reflect upon your experiences, integrate the learning of your journey, and solidify your skills for future growth.

As an executive coach, he helps leaders at all levels understand the complexities of organizational life by decoding the intricacies of interpersonal and group dynamics in teams and sorting out human and organizational entanglements. Together you’ll explore congruencies between what organizations are expecting of you and your individual needs in order to find a meaningful, sustainable, and balanced work experience. He can also help you figure out your next career steps and establish a framework to assess the professional opportunities that come your way. Lastly, senior-level leaders benefit from using Karel as a sounding board for strategic thinking and leadership decision making.

Career Highlights

Karel has worked across multiple industries ranging from technology, manufacturing, finance, higher education, retail, transportation, law, consumer goods, venture capital, hospitality, and government. Client organizations include Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NASA, Slack, Zoom, M12, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, American Express, Capital One, 3M, Boeing, Amgen, Qualcomm, Oracle, Toyota, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Cornell University, Cornell Tech, Syracuse University, Hilton, and many more. At Cornell University, he oversees the Cornell Team and Leadership Center, where he teaches leadership to thousands of students every year and sits on multiple leadership advisory councils around campus.

He likes to climb high and explore deep. Karel is an accomplished mountaineer, having submitted high-altitude peaks in Africa, South, and North America. His most recent summits include Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,341′) in Tanzania (the tallest summit in Africa) and Mt. Aconcagua (22,841’) in Argentina (the tallest peak in the Americas and the world’s tallest peak outside of Asia). He is also a recognized cave explorer participating in numerous caving expeditions around the world, including the world-renowned Lechuguilla Cave in NM, USA.

His career navigates the intersection of organizational leadership, adventure education, and diversity, equity, & inclusion with a particular focus on ways to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities and diverse groups in the outdoors. He holds an MS in Experiential Education and Educational Leadership from Minnesota State University at Mankato and is currently a PhD candidate in Organizational Leadership at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Karel considers himself an Itharican (an Ithaca-based Puerto Rican) and enjoys exploring his new identity. In his free time, he enjoys volunteering in Scouting, adventure travel, playing the guitar, and writing poetry. He lives in Ithaca, NY, with his wife Eva, son Koen, and dog Thea.