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COACHES

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Meet coaches who can help you unleash your genius to accomplish the extraordinary.

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Meet Our Coaches

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Amy Chesteron

Wellness

Amy is a Mayo Clinic trained Wellness Coach with a background in fitness, social work, and entrepreneurial hustle. She loves to help people quiet their nagging “shoulds” and focus on practical ways to tap into their best selves and find inspirational choices and actions that give their lives meaning and vibrancy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Beth Chesteron

Leadership, Career, Performance

Beth is a consultant with extensive experience working at the highest levels within some of the world’s most excellent companies. She works with the best and the brightest — leaders, entrepreneurs and entire organizations — to make them even better. She has twenty-five years of experience assisting thousands of individuals in reaching their potential, and numerous Fortune 500 companies to develop profitable relationships. She has a strong reputation for helping clients see what’s possible, developing a plan to get there, and then making it happen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Monica Black Robinson

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Monica Black Robinson is a facilitator, speaker, consultant, coach, and trusted advisor for top corporations and premier academic institutions. Her subject-matter-expertise is diversity, equity and inclusion and Monica is on the cutting edge of anti-racism work — leading groups at the Yale School of Medicine and Washington University. Monica helps clients develop cultural and emotional intelligence and has a unique gift for presenting difficult topics in a substantive, thought-provoking and non-judgmental way. She refers to herself as passionately human and makes each person she works with feel as if they are the most valued person in the world.

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Adrian Bracy

Leadership, CEO

Adrian Bracy has the heart of a servant leader and the business acumen of a corporate powerhouse. Before taking on the role of CEO of YWCA Metro St. Louis, Adrian served as the CFO of the Arizona Cardinals and executive with the St. Louis Rams — and she has 3 Super Bowl rings to prove it! She received Black Enterprise’s 50 Most Powerful Blacks in Sports and 50 Most Powerful Black Women in Business, and the St. Louis Business Journal Most Influential Business Women Award. Leaders look to Adrian to direct them how to best make a positive impact on women and racial equity issues. Adrian’s calling is to inspire women and girls and make a difference in their lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_content_width=”grid” css=”.vc_custom_1599750652686{margin-top: 40px !important;}” el_class=”coachmore”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Denise DeCou

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Denise DeCou is a nationally certified Master Diversity Trainer, facilitating anti-bias/anti-oppression training for higher education institutions, K-12 and early childhood educators, children and youth, community-based organizations, community leaders, and law enforcement. Denise is a thought leader on unconscious bias as a framework in delivering training, presentations, workshops, serving on search committees, and providing insight into diversity, equity and inclusion related initiatives, discussions and events. She is the former Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Content Development and Program delivery for Washington University, where she served on the Chancellor’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion, chairing the Training Work Group. Denise has more than 25 years of not-for-profit sector experience in organizational development, strategic visioning and planning, programming and curriculum design.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Jill Farmer

Productivity, BurnOut, Time

Jill Farmer’s popular book is a time management bestseller. Her expertise has been featured everywhere from “The Washington Post” to “Fitness” magazine. Jill travels the U.S. delivering keynotes and teaching her acclaimed time and stress management programs for some of the top corporations and organizations in the world. Jill Farmer has been called a “brilliant time optimizer and life maximizer.” Jill is a captivating and dynamic speaker not only entertains audiences but who also changes lives. Coaching clients all over the country report “profound shifts” in the way they work and spend their time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Laura D’Asaro

Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups, Young Adults

Laura D’Asaro sees no distance between idea and implementation and has lived every entrepreneur’s dream by making the coveted SharkTank deal. Laura experienced the surreal feeling of having her big idea displayed on grocery store shelves across the nation and has won awards beyond her wildest imagination (Forbes 30 under 30 for starters). Laura loves helping young people bring their dreams to life and developing their entrepreneurial chops. Laura infuses fun into everything she does and most often it is while making the world a better place.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Deanna Walker

Song Writing, Music Production, Creativity

Deanna Walker is a beloved professor at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music and a “go-to” Nashville songwriter and producer. Deanna shares wisdom gained from a life spent as a music industry insider and offers fresh insight into how to best foster and nurture creativity — and how to avoid killing creativity before you even get started. Deanna spends her days collaborating with artists all over the world. She teaches the wildly popular course and hosts the podcast series — The Blair Hit Songwriter Series — which brings major industry insiders to Blair each week to expound on the mysteries of Music City’s signature craft.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_content_width=”grid” css=”.vc_custom_1597352134870{margin-top: 60px !important;}” el_class=”coachmore”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Dr. Marie-Caroline Von Ledebur

Leadership, Family, Life

Caroline is a talented consultant, speaker and executive coach. She specializes in helping CEOs, managing directors and senior partners (as well as politicians and public figures) build profitable and productive relationships. Previously, Caroline was CEO of G100, a membership-only organization that brings together Chairmen and CEOs from major publicly held companies in the U.S. and Europe. Caroline cofounded G100’s CEO forum for recently appointed CEOs. Caroline holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Oxford, U.K., and a B.A. from Smith College. She is fluent in English, German and French.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Jan Cerny

Leadership

Jan Cerny is the Founder of Leadership Journeys LLC and is an accomplished coach and people strategist working with leaders and professionals for 20+ years. Driven by a passion to see her clients succeed, she leverages her powerful gifts and abilities to engage, challenge, bring new insights and inspire, helping leaders to achieve extraordinary individual, team and organization results. Jan has worked in the US, Canada, UK and Germany, and is adept working with people of diverse cultures and backgrounds. She’s built her practice upon a foundation of formal training, transformational adult development theory, passionate study and extensive experience working with people across multiple industries, business sectors and non profits.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Gayle Rose

Wellness, Weight Loss, Habits

Gayle Rose ignites her clients as an accountability partner and has a unique talent for encouraging them to develop wellness habits and mindsets that result in balanced self-care that lasts. She encourages clients to forget willpower and instead embrace their WhyPower® for true transformation. Gayle’s first career as a marketing executive took her abroad for five years, but her passion for wellness became her life’s work. She has dual certifications as a health coach and personal fitness trainer from the American Council on Exercise. Her favorite mantra is “All things in moderation except love and laughter.”

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Terry DeMeo

Life, Coach-the-Coach, Influence

Terry DeMeo is a true coaches coach. In addition to being a master certified coach focusing on personal and professional development, she is part of Marth Beck’s coach training faculty, having co-designed the curriculum for Martha Beck’s Coaching Certification Program. Terry is an expert at helping clients find their own best answers for themselves, find the central issues which block them, and – importantly – teach them how to continue without her. And, Terry has the street credibility to make a difference; before coaching, she worked as a trial lawyer, law professor and prosecutor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_content_width=”grid” css=”.vc_custom_1597352118071{margin-top: 60px !important;}” el_class=”coachmore”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Meg Higgins

Relationships, Life, Trauma

Meg Higgins, LCSW, is an incredibly dynamic and talented couples/relationship specialist and motivational speaker. Meg specializes in communication skills, teamwork and couples matters. Her intensives will change your life and your relationships — for the better. Meg also serves as a crisis responder and behavioral health expert for Army reservists returning from or deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq. She hosted a call in weekly radio show, The Love Goddess, responding to listener’s questions, dilemmas and concerns as it pertained to their love-sex-relationship lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Sandy Chesterton

Ignite Facilitator

Sandy Chesterton is a program designer for The Ignite Method and produces and directs Get Ignited! conversations. Sandy brings her ability to listen, reflect and ask thoughtful questions that lead to deep insights. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University in Human and Organizational Development with a focus on Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness. Prior to joining The Ignite Method team Sandy conducted research with Impavid Consulting, redesigning a 360-degree feedback instrument to identify and assess leadership potential, strengths and weaknesses.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

Brianna Brown

Music

Brianna Brown is a vocalist and pianist whose repertoire spans traditional jazz, to neo-soul, R&B and new jazz. Brianna is a member of the Kranzberg Arts Foundation Music Arts in Residence program. She performs under the name Be.Be with her own jazz trio, with the event band the Lustre Lights, and with her band Be.Be and the Neo-Souls. She is currently a Jazz Vocal Performance and Psychology major at Webster University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_content_width=”grid”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1592236039497{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]

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