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ICFLA 2012 Board of Directors
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Leah Wang, CPCC, ACC - President
Leah is an educator, writer, facilitator, and service quality expert with more than ten years of experience as a consultant in the healthcare field. She launched her private coaching practice in 2007 after coaching numerous clinicians, executives and managers to achieve their goals in a large non-profit medical organization. She has developed and led hundreds of workshops and training sessions on effective communication, improving interpersonal relationships, service quality, and flourishing. She is the Co-Founder of Project:Flourish, a coaching and consulting firm that works with organizations in the wellness industry who want to enhance the well-being of their staff and clients.
Leah received her Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) training and certification from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), and holds a BA in English Literature from Occidental College. She is an Associate Credentialed Coach (ACC) through The International Coach Federation (ICF). Leah is certified in working with the VIA Character Strengths Instrument, and is also a Veriditas-trained Labyrinth Facilitator. She often coaches clients in the labyrinth to experience the benefits of slowing down and getting centered. Leah looks forward to serving the ICFLA community as President Elect.
wang136@sbcglobal.net |
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Karen Pery, MA - Presidet Elect
Karen’s professional path has been paved with more than 15 years of leadership and service in non-profit and community organizations. Throughout her career, she has developed and managed programs, projects and people in the tens of thousands (but not all at once!). Karen is a CPCC candidate trained by CTI, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Counseling from LMU and a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA. Karen is the founder of Motherhood Reinvented, a coaching practice serving women who crave greater professional fulfillment along with being connected moms, and is a principal in Pery Consulting Group, coaching and developing nonprofit managers as leaders in their organizations and communities.
In the role of Secretary, Karen is keenly attuned to details and holding a team to its focus, mission and purpose. She is not afraid to ask hard questions or to offer unconventional approaches. She wants ICFLA to feel dynamic, vibrant, exciting and on the leading edge. She brings a wildly creative, intuitive and fun approach to her work.
karenpery@gmail.com |
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Carrie Kish - Past President
As a serial entrepreneur, Carrie has 20 years of experience with marketing and promotion and is connected to an amazing network of speakers and coaches.
Carrie is the owner of Leadership Lab International which offers experiential leadership training to entrepreneurs and coaches. She also offers business coaching for Women Entrepreneurs. As a serial entrepreneur, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, and a certified “Get Clients Now” facilitator, Carrie teaches women simple and effective strategies to take their businesses to the next level. Carrie is a CTI Leadership Graduate, a Mastery University Graduate, Leadership Mastery Graduate and a UCLA Graduate. She has been married for 21 years and is the mother of four boys. She also volunteers her time developing teens through her church and as a board member of The Betty Ferguson Foundation.
carrie@carriekish.com |
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Sherman Wang - Treasurer
Sherman is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, and the CEO and Co-Founder of New Perspectives International, a coaching practice that helps individuals and teams closely examine the perspectives they hold about their work. Sherman has over 25 years of experience in healthcare management and operations, and has coached numerous physicians, department leaders, administrators, and teams.
Sherman believes in performing from his strengths and being open to change in order to understand unique and varying perspectives. He brings a systems-approach to solving problems, and helps his clients achieve exceptional and exemplary leadership. Sherman is a founding Board Member of The Respect Institute, and enjoys triathlon training, playing the piano, traveling, and cooking. He also looks forward to bringing his love of accuracy and financial stability to the position of Treasurer.
Sherman.M.Wang@kp.org
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Nancy Tylim, PsyD, PCC - Secretary
Nancy Tylim is a Professional Certified Coach and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience coaching Executives, Managers and organizations from different backgrounds and needs. Her experience includes working for 7 years at the UCLA Employee Assistance Program (EAP), where she trained and coached managers, supervisors and employees to help them achieve their goals and create fulfilling and inspiring relationships while improving their work productivity. Nancy developed and established the EAP Program at one of 3M’s plants in Simi Valley from its inception. There, she was in charge of coaching Managers and Executives to be more effective leaders. Dr. Tylim is also an Emotional Intelligence and Diversity Trainer, as well as a Cross Cultural and Community Mediator and Red Cross Mental Health Volunteer.
Nancy has presented numerous trainings internationally in English and Spanish on: Team Building, Time Management, Stress Management, Leadership and Management Skills, Organizational Effectiveness Programs, Effective Communication, Individual Efficiency, Emotional Intelligence and Diversity in the Workplace, Conflict Mediation in the Workplace, dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress, coping with Downsizing in Organizations, Team Building in the workplace, Acculturation in Hispanics for Mental Health Professionals, Healing from Terrorist Attacks, and Professional Development.
Nancy received an Outstanding Doctoral Project Award for her training program “Acculturation in Hispanics for Mental Health Professionals”. She presented her work at the 25th International Congress of Psychology in Brussels, Belgium.
Nancy’s experience working with both the private and government sectors in her capacity of Coach and Psychologist as well as her enthusiasm and desire to be involved in ICFLA will serve her well as Secretary. She would like to create, together with her colleagues, a thriving chapter that grows and is known for its hospitality, interesting speakers, wonderful opportunities for growth, and community outreach.
Nancy@NancyTylim.com |
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Curt Gorlick, PCC, CPCC - Membership Team: Member Care Director
Known as the "Life Choice Strategist," Curt Gorlick is an expert coach on mindset and successful life skills strategies. He has a unique ability to listen at a deep level and articulate what is going on inside his clients. With his thought-provoking questions, success tools and resources, Curt breaks down barriers that keep people stuck from living the life they truly want.
Curt draws from personal experience - he has successfully dealt with issues concerning parenting his parents, the death of both his parents, dealing with siblings, running the family business, divorce, the temporary loss of his children, and the loss of long term friendships. Those were tough times, but Curt now lives the life he loves. Curt walked away from 30 years of owning and managing businesses and took up coaching to make a bigger difference in the world - one life at a time.
Curt is a certified life coach, writer and public speaker on such topics as finding happiness, making the right choices, creating better relationships, effective communication skills, living a successful life from the inside out, and reversing roles: parenting your parents. As Director of Member Care, Curt looks forward to reaching out to new members, answering questions about the benefits of joining ICFLA, and using his warm spirit to help newcomers feel welcome at ICFLA events.
curt@frustration2fulfillment.com |
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Paola Duran - Registration Director
Paola E. Duran is a journalist by training, but a life coach by choice. For many years she dedicated her career working for a news radio station as a News Editor. Paola continued her studies in International Relations and graduated as a Life Coach from Newfield. After living in France, traveling throughout the world and moving back and forth between South America and the USA, she discovered her empathy with people from other cultures. She was captivated, not only by their cultural differences, but the juxtaposition of the stronger commonalities and bonds between people.
Now living in Los Angeles, a city with a large percentage of foreigners, Paola is creating Caminantes/Wayfarer Life Coaching Organization. She is dedicated to integrating people from other countries and helping them to reinforce their sense of belonging. Showing them the possibility to rebuild their lives in a new territory, combining their roots with their present. Paola grew up in Santiago, Chile and her inspiration can be understood by Soren Kierkegaard’s words, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” She is the mother of two wonderful kids.
paola@wayfarerlifecoaching.org
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Brad Stauffer, CPCC - Programs Team: Programs Director
Brad is a passionate branding, marketing and publishing expert. In his 25-year publishing career, he produced thousands of publications and books, working side-by-side with award-winning editors and art directors, while managing corporate branding, audience marketing and new product development. Today, through his company On the Mark Branding, he has influenced and created branding, marketing and new products for many successful entrepreneurs and small businesses. He is a certified coach, co-founder of Inspired on Demand, and was co-owner and publisher of choice Magazine. He has been a member of Toastmasters for seven years, is Immediate Past-President of the Western Publishing Association and a member of the International Coach Federation and ICFLA.
brad@onthemarkbranding.com
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Paul Plamondon, MS, CPCC, CCP - Programs Team: Teleclass Director
Paul has been a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) since 2007, a Certified ChangeWorks Practitioner (CCP) since 2008, and a successful Adult Education consultant since 2001. He is also a 2009 graduate of CTI’s Leadership program. In his coaching practice, Paul specializes in helping individuals tap into their courageous hearts to overcome the barriers that keep them from achieving what they really want in life.
In his consulting practice, Paul works with coaches, consultants, and corporations to help them overcome the challenges of designing engaging, interactive, and skill-building workshops, teleclasses and webinars. He is excited to offer world-classes learning opportunities to coaches everywhere.
Paul@CustomTrainingDesign.com |
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Yuliya LaRoe - Special Projects Director
Yuliya is a success coach and the founder and CEO of Happy Transitions (www.happy-transitions.com), a professional coaching practice, where she helps her clients go from thinking about their big dreams to living them!
Through her coaching, Yulilya helps people with big ideas from all over the world to share their passion, their talents and their vision with the world and become successful beyond their wildest dreams. Prior to realizing her dream of becoming a coach, Yuliya worked as an attorney at a major international firm in Los Angeles, CA for over six years. She earned her law degree from the University of Southern California School of Law in Los Angeles. Yuliya received her professional coaching training from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (www.iPECcoaching.com). She also has extensive experience in the practice of mindfulness and meditation, and is a trained Bhakti Vinyasa yoga teacher.
Originally from Vladivostok, Russia, she now lives in beautiful and sunny Santa Monica, CA. She actively supports several charity organizations, including Children International (www.children.org) and Modest Needs (www.modestneeds.org). In addition to having absolute passion for helping her clients change the world, she is passionate about travel, cross-cultural communication, good food, environmental issues and animal rights.
yuliya@happy-transitions.com
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Andrea Bahamondes - Public Relations Director
Andrea is the founder of The{Naked}Elephant, a blog and coaching firm that intersects creativity, leadership and passion. She has over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur and VP of Business Development. She is a Leadership graduate of the world-class Coaches Training Institute. Her areas of education include Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Business Communication, and Psychology.
Andrea is proficient in Spanish and English. She lives outside Los Angeles with her husband and their three kids. As Director of Social Media/Public Relations, Andrea is excited to continue to bring passion, enthusiasm, and extensive leadership experience to ICFLA. She has a vision for seeing the coaching profession expand and touch more lives.
andrea@thenakedelephant.net |
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Dani Rukin, PCC, CPCC - Community Outreach Director
Founder and owner of Shoot for the Stars Coaching, Dani is a Certified Personal and Professional Development Coach, coaching people to live their biggest and best lives with courage, creativity, and authenticity.
In addition to having a successful private coaching practice, Dani is a dynamic speaker and workshop leader for various personal and professional organizations on such topics as “Stop Saying Yes When You Mean No,” “Career Re-Invention,” "Using Your Intuition in Business,” and “Putting an End to Emotional Eating That Keeps You Stuck.” She also runs an ongoing LA-based women's coaching drop-in support group where women leave feeling energized, empowered, and armed with a PLAN. Dani is a graduate of the highly acclaimed Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). She has her Professional Certified Coach credential (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is also a member of the very highly regarded International Association of Women in Business Coaching (IAWBC). As Community Outreach Director, Dani is eager to create opportunities to make coaching available to anyone in the LA community wanting to living their biggest and best life.
dani@shootforthestarscoaching.com
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ICFLA Past Presidents |
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