Carrie Kish - President Elect - Programs Director: Teleclass Coordinator; Website Advertising Director
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 Do It Like a Girl! 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

Suzanne Finder - Treasurer
Suzanne has been a leader within several East-coast based professional organizations such as Advertising Women of New York and National Association of Professional Saleswomen (NAPS), having held board positions of Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President and President during her 5 year involvement with NAPS.

She is dedicated to the field of personal development and professional life coaching. She earned her life coaching certification from Guiding Mindful Change, based in San Diego, CA, in 2007. In May 2009 Suzanne began training with international PSYCH-K expert Elizabeth Powers and has completed her Basic and Advanced Facilitation credentialing. This year Suzanne was accepted into the prestigious Santa Barbara Graduate Institute as a doctorate candidate in the clinical Somatic Psychology program.

Prior to embarking on her coach training, Suzanne’s career focused on the media and advertising industry, and she was a consistent top performer as a publishing sales executive for over 15 years. Suzanne is a cum laude graduate of Boston University’s School of Management with concentrations in Marketing and Finance.
suzanne@mindfulsuccess.com

Morgan Quist - Secretary
Morgan has worked for companies of over 15k and start-ups – managing large-scale projects, fostering win-win client relationships as well as writing, editing and producing internal and external communications on traditional and non-traditional platforms.

She is a certified professional coach who brings her coaching expertise, leadership training and over 12 years of corporate and agency experience in communications and project management to her clients and to the ICF-LA Board.

In addition to her corporate experience, Morgan has also worked as a model and TV host and knows that it is each person’s uniqueness that adds value and allows for new gifts in the world.
morgan@morganquist.com

Davia Rivka - Hospitality Director
Davia is the founder of Clear Desk, Clear Mind. Clearing the outer and the inner makes room for spacious living – living at peace with the past, centered in the present, open to possible futures.

For the past 40 years Davia has coached individuals, facilitated trainings and workshops in both the private and public sector, and spoken publicly before a variety of audiences. No matter the venue her message remains consistent--living a spacious life generates more room for everyone! Go figure.

She received a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University and her Co-Active Coach Certification from CTI.

As director of Hospitality she will host ICF-LA programs in spaces which invite community and nurture personal and professional growth for the membership. daviarivka@yahoo.com

Dani Rukin, PCC, CPCC - Programs Director: Speaker Enrollment
Founder and owner of Shoot for the Stars Coaching, for anyone wanting to live and extraordinary and accomplished life. Dani is a certified and credentialed, Personal and Professional Success Coach, coaching people to live their biggest and best lives with courage, creativity, and authenticity.

In addition to having a successful private coaching practice, she is a dynamic speaker and workshop leader for various personal and professional organizations and groups on such topics as “Stop Saying Yes When You Mean No", “Career Re-Invention”, "Using Your Intuition in Business", and “Putting and 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.

She 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).

Feel free to visit her web and blog site at: www.shootforthestarscoaching.com
dani@shootforthestarscoaching.com

Jessica Moore Crowley - Communications Director: Website Communication and New Media Marketing
Jessica has been instrumental in building an ICF-LA presence on such social networking sites as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Jessica is the founder of Moore For Your Life Coaching, and specializes in helping Quarter-Lifers attain the lives they are dreaming of! Jessica knows from personal experience the world of difference that life coaching can make and believes that people in their 20s and 30s are actually the ideal demographic with the potential to get the most out of everything coaching has to offer. Her motto is: “The younger you are when you begin to identify what you really want out of life, the more years you have to live with that sense of joy, purpose and fulfillment.” Jessica received her Bachelor’s of psychology from Mount Holyoke College (the oldest remaining women’s college in the world), and is certified through The Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) where she also trained as an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner.
jesscoach@gmail.com

Tara Igoe - Communications Director: Promotions
Tara is a member of the Los Angeles Professional Women's Group. She has channeled her passion for psychology into a successful career as a communications and personal development expert and trainer. She also enjoys a healthy sense of humor, and can be found performing stand-up comedy throughout Los Angeles.

For more than 16 years Tara has helped clients large, mid-sized, and small to create and achieve their outcomes. A native of Massachusetts, Tara is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in mass communications. She is extremely knowledgeable about the personal development, psychology, healthcare, and spirituality arenas. She holds certificates in bereavement counseling, medical terminology, and clinical hypnotherapy. In addition, she has studied with programs taught by the Coaches Training Institute and is a graduate of programs led by revered peak performance coach, Tony Robbins (she worked as a consultant on Tony’s last product – The Ultimate Edge). Tara is currently in a nine-month intensive coach/strategic interventionist certification program led by Tony Robbins and revered psychotherapist, Cloe Madanes.
tara@cagefreepeople.com

Christine Lewicki - Membership Director: Memebership Growth
Christine Lewicki is the Founder of O Coaching. She is a bilingual (French and English) Certified Coach, Speaker and MasterMind group facilitator with clients in the US, Canada and Europe.

Christine is known as an expert in being a catalyst for her client's professional's brilliance. She is grounded, bright and easy to work with. In addition she is a wife and the mother of three beautiful young children. Her life is busy and rich.

For over 10 years she enjoyed a successful career in the corporate world as the Director of Human Resources for several multi-national firms. She transitioned into coaching in 2005.

Her work at O Coaching has received many accolades from the media, her clients and peers. Christine has been featured on numerous telesummits and radio shows and she's been invited to participate in the movie the Voice of Women launching in 2010. She's also been serving on the Board of the International Coaching Federation Chapter of Los Angeles since 2008. Her clients say that working with Christine is like switching on a light bulb that illuminate your way on the path to success.
christine@ocoaching.com

Curt Gorlick, CPCC- Membership Director: Member Care Director
Curt, “The Relationship Specialist,” has been helping people for over 30 years in relationships both interpersonal and professional. He is an entrepreneur who started his first business at the age of 22. Curt has been the recipient of numerous awards in sales, consistently demonstrating the power of successful relationship building and surpassing the highest of consumer satisfaction reports. He sees greatness in his clients where often they don’t see it themselves and has a keen and unique way of maximizing potential in others with a compassionate, gentle and fun approach. Having completed his training at the Coaches Training Institute, Curt is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.
curt@lifecoachcurt.com

Andrea Bahamondes - Membership Director: Welcome Registration
Andrea is the founder of The{Naked}Elephant, a blog and coaching firm that intersects creativity, leadership and passion. She has over 10 years 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. To learn more about Andrea and her services, please visit her blog at http://thenakedelephant.net. She lives outside Los Angeles with her husband and their three kids.
andrea@thenakedelephant.net