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Meet the Partners
Sarah Albritton
Sarah serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and strategic leadership consultant. Specializing in “Transformation Coaching” for chief executives and senior management teams around the globe, Sarah designs and delivers creative learning experiences that inspire and challenge her clients.
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Charles Eakes
Charles serves AvoLead clients with business consulting, executive coaching, and leader assessment with developmental feedback. He particularly enjoys working with clients in transition –mergers, acquisitions and turnarounds.
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Senior Consultants
Nigel Adams
Nigel serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and organizational consultant specializing in leadership development and business performance coaching. His transformational coaching style is rooted in a “people first” philosophy – blending impeccable integrity, unique insights and solid business experience with best-in-class coaching protocols to deliver meaningful business results through enhanced leadership awareness, focus and skill.
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William van Bark
Bill serves AvoLead clients in the areas of organizational development, executive coaching and leadership assessment. Bill’s practical and direct approach quickly empowers leaders to confidently navigate complex organizational challenges with greater speed and clarity. He is able to rapidly assess, understand, design and implement solutions that target organizational competencies, leadership development, and change management.
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Elizabeth H. Cottrell
Elizabeth brings critical writing, editing, and online marketing skills to AvoLead clients. Widely recognized for her ability to bridge differing backgrounds and perspectives through effective communications, with a special gift for being able to articulate clearly and meaningfully, she is sought after by individuals, organizations, and businesses to lend her talents and expertise to a wide array of tasks and projects.
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Beth Dixson
Beth Dixson serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach, facilitator, trainer and program designer. Drawing on more than 22 years experience in international business, government and academic settings, she is known by clients for her special ability to enhance self awareness – helping individuals blend hopes and concerns with the realities of circumstance in order to achieve a higher level of potential, resilience and life satisfaction.
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David Dorn
David serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and leadership development facilitator. Raised in a Peace Corps volunteer training camp in the U.S. Virgin Islands where his father worked, David developed a passion for working with leaders who are intent on improving the lives of others.
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Ann Flaherty
Ann Flaherty serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and organizational consultant. Drawing on a rich career spent designing and implementing effective learning experiences in clinical and corporate settings, Ann’s coaching and consulting style is both engaging and effective.
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Barbara Giemza
Barbara serves AvoLead as an executive coach and Human Resource Development consultant for leaders who want to achieve significant personal and organizational results. Clients come to her committed to balancing the complexity of industry and organizational challenges with the need to effectively lead others.
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Pandora Gordon
Pandora serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach, specializing in 360° feedback coaching, developmental coaching, and career coaching. She believes every coaching session gives clients a unique opportunity to discover something new about themselves, and that this can only happen when they feel their coach is truly present for them, and not just for the company.
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Dawn Holzer
Dawn serves AvoLead clients as an organizational development expert, strategic thinker, change agent and executive coach. Drawing on 20 years of business acumen in the areas of leadership development, succession planning, training and organizational change, Dawn has demonstrated that she is a trusted partner, innovative leader, team player and force for driving change.
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John Lybarger
John serves AvoLead clients as a curriculum designer, program facilitator, executive coach and organizational development consultant for public agencies and private sector organizations. A nationally known workshop facilitator and keynote speaker, John is continuously honing his ability to engage learners, increasing their competence at mission execution and creating sustainable results.
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Mike Rosenthal
Mike serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach, facilitator and organizational consultant. He specializes in team building, delivery of 360-degree feedback and helping organizations transition through significant change. His counseling and teaching background–coupled with his own business experience–enable Mike to quickly identify clients’ needs and deliver meaningful, relevant feedback that is heard and understood.
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Collin Rustin
Collin serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and mediator. His inspiring blend of mediation and coaching expertise makes him an ideal resource for clients seeking to manage conflict and reduce tensions that can occur among teams with members from different ethnic groups or disparate business units.
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Bonnie Wright
Bonnie brings a strategic mindset, organizational savvy and an intuitive grasp of human interactions to her work as Leadership Coach and Organizational Consultant at AvoLead. Her unyielding belief in the possibility of individual and organizational transformation led Bonnie to cofound a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that promotes economic development for low-wealth communities, and a charter school for economically disadvantaged students.
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J. Thompson B. Wyatt
Thompson serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and an organizational consultant. His experience in both applied and academic settings helps him create the most effective learning experience for each and every learner. His insight, focus on the individual, and approachable demeanor allow Thompson to deliver tough messages in a consistently gentle fashion that are effectively heard and received.
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Consultants
Jaime Gómez García-Verdugo
Jaime serves AvoLead clients as an organizational consultant specializing in corporate strategy and sustainability. His commitment and passion quickly earn him the confidence of his clients, enabling him to effectively guide them in leading their organization toward transformational change. His unique contribution comes from a thorough understanding of structured planning and business decision-making models and tools.
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Connie Grant
Connie serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and organizational consultant. With more than 20 years of experience coaching at the executive level, Connie can quickly establish the trust vital to an effective coach-client relationship. Her coaching reflects two core beliefs: one, that balanced life planning is essential for personal health and high individual productivity; and two, when leaders model healthy balanced lives, it has a positive impact on the productivity of the entire company.
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Michael H. Hoppe
Michael serves AvoLead’s clients as program facilitator and executive coach. His life experience in several cultures, leadership development expertise gained on the staff of a world-class business institute, and cross-cultural research—culminating in his participation in the largest-ever cross-cultural leadership study—all prepared him to provide AvoLead clients with practical, innovative, and culturally calibrated solutions to leadership challenges.
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Judy Pliner
Judy serves AvoLead clients seeking to increase individual and organizational performance through executive assessment and coaching. A practicing psychologist, Judy has a particular affinity for–and skill in–executive coaching. This skill set makes her uniquely adept at providing feedback that helps clients gain the understanding and self-awareness necessary to achieve quick and significant improvements in personal and professional effectiveness.
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