Kevan Norris is beginning his third decade of executive coaching. Trained as a psychologist, his first corporate client was ITT where he served as a consultant in executive selection, succession planning, and executive coaching. Since then he has coached almost 2000 executives in healthcare, high tech, and financial services. A specialist in assessment, he is adept in translating assessment findings into personal improvement. After a brief sojourn in the corporate space traveling the world as a global training manager for Progress Software and later heading up sales teams for Sprint eSolutions, he returned to coaching. Kevan has degrees from Union College and Lesley University.
Dr. Anne Perschel, founder of Germane Consulting, is an expert in organization transformation, change management, leadership development and coaching. She has a master's degree in organization development and a doctorate in psychology and over twenty years experience working with large and mid-size companies including Philips Medical, Intel, Altera, Digital Equipment and smaller local organizations such as University of Massachusetts Medical Center and Central Mass. YMCA. She has also worked as an organization development manager at Intel Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. More recently, Anne has conducted original research and developed programs to ensure that companies realize the benefits offered by women leaders. She was recognized as a women's business award finalist for her work in this arena. Anne has helped numerous leaders improve their effectiveness and their business results through individualized coaching programs. She has also worked with client companies on culture transformation and understands how to effect change both at the system and the individual level.
Angie is an executive coach and consultant whose area of specialization is senior level development and work group effectiveness. He has been a consultant for the past 35 years during which time he founded, grew and sold one of the country’s original outplacement and executive coaching practices (Troy Associates, Inc.) to Adecco, an international firm, in 1989. In 2002 he began the process of re-inventing himself into his new company, New Management Concepts, Inc. His method of developing easily-understood models, simplifying complex issues, and imparting his knowledge has earned him a reputation among his peers as an outstanding consultant and coach. He holds a BSBA (Industrial Relations) from NortheasternUniversity. He has been an Adjunct Lecturer at NortheasternUniversity in the part-time MBA program, a founder of the AOCFI (outplacement industry trade association) and has spoken before numerous groups. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Adecco Chairmans’ Award for outstanding contributions to his work and community.
He works with executives in large structures in which a premium is placed on effective personal communication, and with private companies in which inter-generational and/or family issues may be impeding growth of the business.
Some of his long-term clients have been The Gillette Company, Partners HealthCare (including Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and North Shore Medical Center), Lahey Clinic, Risk Management Foundation, Dartmouth College, and MIT, to name a few.
He has coached numerous executives and work groups over the past 25 years.
Stephen R. Balzac is the president of 7 Steps Ahead, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in increasing individual, team, and organizational performance.
Steve has over twenty years of experience in the high tech industry and is the former Director of Operations for Silicon Genetics, in Redwood City, CA. He was responsible for managing and recruiting technical staff, mentoring, coordinating the activities of multiple departments in the company, and shipping their flagship product. Steve was also the founder of the Society for Interactive Literature West, where he led the development of numerous roleplaying simulations. He recently created a Pandemic Flu simulation for the US National Capitol Region. He is a popular speaker and panelist. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, from Analog to The Worcester Business Journal. Steve is a contributing author to "Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values Through Play," and the author of "The 36-Hour Course in Organizational Development," due out in Fall 2010 from McGraw-Hill.
In addition to his role in NESAP, Steve is president of the the Society of Professional Consultants (SPC). Steve is also a member of the Operations Committee of the American Judo & Jujitsu Federation. No stranger to achieving peak performance under stressful conditions, he holds a fourth degree black belt in jujitsu and is a former nationally ranked competitive fencer. He has published numerous articles on the application of sport psychology techniques to business.
Building effective development organizations, improving team morale, focus, and enthusiasm, developing effective communications between team members, reducing employee turnover, helping businesses identify and attain strategic targets, and applying sport psychology techniques to business have been some of his most successful projects.
Steve has bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and engineering from MIT, and a master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, with a focus on motivation, performance, and group dynamics, from Capella University. He is an adjunct professor of I/O Psychology at Wentworth Institute of Technology and has guest lectured at MIT.
Marcelle is the founder of Innovative Systems Associates (ISA), an organizational consulting firm whose primary clients are mid- to large-size companies.ISA works with leaders and organizations interested in pro-actively adapting to a world of accelerating change and increasing complexity.ISA helps organizations design and implement large scale change specific to their unique history and identity while accomplishing strategic tasks.Building and leveraging effective relationships is an important aspect of each engagement.Marcelle’s research in pattern recognition by leaders, and the methodology she developed to uncover foundational and critical patterns in organizations, provides an added dimension to ISA’s work.
Prior to founding ISA, Marcelle held leadership positions in Xerox and American Can and later oversaw implementation of large technology projects in such companies as Verizon.Marcelle holds a bachelor’s in physics from Le Moyne College, a master’s in business from Columbia and in psychology from NYU.Her doctorate in psychology is from AntiochUniversity.
As president of The Crowley Group, Elaine brings more than 30 years experience growing companies and their leaders in the life sciences, high tech, and professional services industries.She applies the perspective developed serving on the executive teams of three industry-leading firms to her coaching and consulting practice.
As a life-long learner, Elaine holds a BA in English, a M.Ed. in Psychology, and is a graduate of ColumbiaUniversity’s OD certification program. She recently completed the Mass Biotech Council’s certification program in Clinical Research to better understand her clients’ needs.Her articles on leadership, selection, communication and management have appeared in the Handbook of International Business Strategy, Executive Insights (AMA), Training Magazine, Directorship, and Mass High Tech.She has spoken at several international conferences including ASTD, BIO and the National Transit Institute, as well as at many professional and industry association meetings.Elaine has served on several boards, most recently as VP, Strategic Planning for the Society of Arts and Crafts n Boston.She currently serves part-time as consulting Vice President, Organizational Development at Syndax Pharmaceuticals.
The Crowley Group’s professional services span leadership and organizational development.Coaching at the senior levels of both large and small companies often focuses on building new behaviors in leadership, communication, influencing, negotiating and organizational dynamics.Team building, with special expertise in virtual teams; organizational change and design; strategic planning, implementation and organizational alignment; executive retreats and meeting facilitation; customized training and other staff development programs are typical consulting services.
Stuart G. Danforth is an experienced success-oriented seminar designer and facilitator, having produced workshops across a spectrum of industries including higher education, healthcare, business, and finance. After 15 years of business management and leadership, he founded Positive Leadership Dynamics in 2008. A researcher and counseling psychologist by education and training, Stuart writes and speaks often on leadership and has been quoted in publications such as the Boston Business Journal, The Financial Times, and Investor's Business Daily, in addition to his featured monthly column on leadership and management in the Metrowest Daily News. Stuart holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University and a BA with Honors in English and Psychology from Skidmore College.
Stu brings his distinct practical experience in entrepreneurial strategy and management and a foundation of positive organizational behavior to his work with individual and organizational clients. His coaching style integrates a reflective, relational approach with the keen ability to facilitate client skills to develop social and organizational impact. Stu is a member of the Association for Strategic Planning, The New England Society for Applied Psychology, and is an associate member of the American Psychological Association.
Malia Lowe is a Senior Organizational Effectiveness Consultant for Raytheon Company. She was named to this current position in June 2006. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security, and other government markets throughout the world. With headquarters in Waltham, MA, Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.
Lowe’s primary accountabilities include building change leadership capacity and leading change capability efforts across Raytheon. Malia diagnoses organization and team health, implements organization and team interventions and develops strategies to improve organizational effectiveness.
Before joining Raytheon Malia led her own consulting company working with Health Care, Technology, Pharmaceutical companies and Higher Education Institutions developing organizational strategies, redefining processes and organization structures. Lowe also worked for IBM Global Services as a Strategy and Change Consultant where she contributed to the design of the company’s global change process and Change Management Community of Practice.
Malia holds a M.A. and Ph.D. from NortheasternUniversity in Experimental Social Psychology; she was a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow and is published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
