LE Support Staff

Christopher Alexander
Administrative Manager

Christopher runs the LE office, supporting the management team,
coaches and clients with strong commitment to customer service, and breadth of skills ranging from office management to technology support.

Leading Effect Practice Leaders
Dana Brenner-Kelley, M.S.  Portland
CEO & Managing Principal

dana@leadingeffect.com

As owner and manager of Leading Effect LLC, Dana is your first point of contact –working to understand your needs, source them effectively, and coordinate service delivery on behalf of the group.

Having designed and managed a robust internal Executive Coaching Program for one of the largest financial institutions in the country, Dana started Leading Effect in 2005 to provide an approach to coaching and consulting that serves both an organization's individual leaders AND the organization, with strategy, discipline and a systemic framework to deliver the maximum value that is both possible and POWERFUL.

Dana's strengths include communication and emotional intelligence competency development, strategic development of teams, organizational initiative design, group facilitation, and re-engineering organizational cultures to function in greater alignment with business strategies. Her coaching work is guided by her belief that effective leadership is an intentional practice and her work with leaders is tightly tied to their organizational objectives, personal values, and professional goals.
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Mimi Welch, M.S.  Seattle

Mimi's strengths include organizational change and transition management, intergenerational workforce development, leadership development targeting mid- and implementation managers, and organizational culture shifting. Mimi also specializes in developing high-potential succession candidates in crisis due to major organizational changes, such as downsizing.

Mimi is a certified Executive Coach through New Ventures West's rigorous year-long program. She is skilled in modalities such as co-coaching and team co-coaching, and has designed and facilitated numerous interventions that combine coaching with theoretical and action learning for accelerated development. Mimi has also been accredited in group facilitation, process improvement, and Total Quality Management.
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Coach Cadre-Pacific Northwest

John Allison, Ph.D.  Seattle

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Michael Badger, Ph.D.  Seattle
 
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Freddie Barrett, B.S., M.A.  Seattle
 
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Beth Beam, M.S.W.  Seattle
 
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Tom Curran, Ph.D.  Seattle

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Julie Endress, MBA, M.S.  Portland

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Walter Edwards, M.A.  Seattle

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Graham Evans, M.S.  Seattle

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Deborah Griffing, Ph.D.  Seattle

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Amiel Handelsman, MBA  Portland

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Karen Kane, M.A.  Seattle

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Rob Schmieder, Ph.D.  Seattle

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Grace Wang, Ph.D.  Seattle

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Some of our Affiliated Coaches Outside the Northwest
Gena Cox, Ph.D.  Florida

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Irv Gamal, M.A.  Southern California

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Gisele Garcia-Shelley, M.S.  New York

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Sharon Lamm, Ph.D.  Arizona

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Judy O'Neil, M.A., Ed.D.  New York-Boston (RI)

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Tony Pearson, M.A.  New York

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Tom Ucko, M.S., M.B.A.  California (Bay Area)

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