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Resources: Coaches

Quantum Endeavors, led by Ann Farrell, engages a team of trained and certified executive coaches who have also enjoyed much success in their  corporate and business careers.  They not only know how to coach success, they know how to achieve it!



Ann Farrell, CPCC, PCC
The Corporate Success Coach

  Founder and President, Quantum Endeavors
  Executive, Leader and Business Success Coach
         Professional Certified Coach, Speaker, Board Member, Facilitator, Author, Entrepreneur

        Areas of Expertise:
            Executive Effectiveness & Impact      Strategy Creation & Execution         
            Leadership Development                   Project and Program Management
            Emotional Intelligence                      Process Improvement
            Successful Job Transitions               Business Plan Alignment
            Career Management                         Organizational / Team Transformation  
            Coaching for Corporate                     Small Business Management
            Employee Engagement                    Women in Business
            Creativity & Innovation                      Change Management


Bio:     
  
Ann Farrell is a highly credentialed and experienced executive, business and leader success coach who facilitates a powerful alignment between individuals and organizations for accelerated success.  Her passion for empowering people to step up and into their best is at the heart of her coaching.  Ann leverages her outstanding corporate & executive success with her coach training, certification and credentialing for the benefit of her clients and her client companies.  Based on her personal experience of what works, she created the trademarked products and programs that have enabled Quantum Endeavors® to achieve exceptional results in both the corporate and entrepreneurial business environments. Passionate about making coaching available and affordable to all, Ann has also launched "Your Corporate Success" a membership based executive and leader coaching engagement program for professional and personal development. Learn more at:  http://www.yourcorporatesuccess.com.   2010 will see the launch of the Corporate Coaching Institute - coming soon!

Ann comes to coaching after a very successful 30-year career in the operations of a male-dominated industry where she remains the only woman to have worked her way from entry level position to the to the top of the house in her Fortune 200 Company's 150-year history!  Her vast experience includes:

            - Leading an $8 billion purchasing and logistic organization to breakthrough levels of profit impact
            - Leading an engineering / product development organization in driving a billion dollar development program
            - Leading human resources, leadership development and cultural change for an organization with over 5,000 people. 
            - Additional cross-functional experience in finance, treasury, program management and strategic planning.

Ann has also enjoyed great success in the launch and growth of her own Certified Women-Owned Business who's clients include:  General Electric, Navistar International Corporation, Alcoa Corporation, Allstate Insurance Company, Sara Lee Corporation,  Players Choice and the National Speakers Bureau, wildly successful business owners and professionals seeking their great lives and work.  Her trademarked executive and leader coaching engagement model has been selected and is used by more than 35 corporate coaching firms for all of their corporate engagements.

Ann has been a mentor and coach to many throughout her career.  She is trained and certified by the Coaches Training Institute and is credentialed by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach, one of the less than 1,500 coaches in the world to have earned that distinction.  Ann currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Women of the World and The Women's Masters in Leadership Degreed Program at Benedictine University.  She is a member the Cambridge Who's Who Honors Edition based on her achievements in both corporate and as an entrepreneur.  Ann resides in Winfield, Il with her husband, Ken Lucas, and son, Steven. 





Kally Reynolds, CPCC, ACC

    President, Renaissance Journeys
    Executive and Personal Coach

            Areas of Expertise:
            Leadership and Business Coaching                         Marketing
            Assessments                                                        Team Empowerment
            Coaching and Training - Government Agencies         Conflict Resolution Workshop
            Forgiveness Freedom Workshops                            Biblical Visualizations CDs
            Relationship Building

Bio:

Kally Reynolds is President of Renaissance Journeys, LLC, a Coaching / Consulting firm focusing on Empowerment, Leadership and Relationship Development, both professionally and personally.  She partners with motivated, successful and curious people who want to create more purpose, connection and joy in their work.  In addition, she helps team members create greater connection, trust, commitment and accountability together to achieve outstanding results. She is also the author of "Frogs and Princes: Dating, Mating and Relating for those who have been there before".  Her specialty is relationship building and has come to recognize herself as a "heart coach".

Kally is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) the Global Certifying Body for Coaches, and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) through International Coaches Training Institute, as well as a graduate of FastTrack Coach Training.  She is a certified assessor in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Type Resources) and in Leading Organizational Transitions (Linkage).  Kally is also a distributor for DISC, in-depth management training and sales assessments.

As a professional communicator and consultant, Kally has developed and delivered numerous speeches and workshops to business audiences throughout the US on a variety of topics, including creating effective crisis communications practices and environment recycling.  Most recently, she has written and spoke on the power of asking powerful questions, breast cancer recovery and forgiveness freedom.  Her services include one-on-one coaching, team building, group and individual assessments, and crating greater connection and empowerment through effective, authentic, targeted communications strategies. 

Kally belongs to the ICF, the Chicago Area Coaches Association (CACA), Toastmasters, MENTTIUM and the Empowering Women Network (EWN).  She also co-leads the Christian Niche of the Co-active Network for the Coaches Training Institute.

Kally's coaching clients include: Fortune 500 Executives, Entrepreneurs, Nurses, Lawyers, Managers, Coaches and Municipal Directors and their staffs. 



Deborah Grayson Riegel, MSW, ACC,  President, Elevated Training Inc.

Areas of expertise:

  • Presentation Skills
  • Executive Communication Skills
  • Interpersonal Communication Skills
  • Professional Development and Training
  • Supervision and Management

 Deborah Grayson Riegel, MSW, ACC, is the President of Elevated Training, Inc., a consulting company dedicated to helping clients identify and implement behavior and communication skill changes that lead to individual, interpersonal and organizational success. Deborah is highly regarded as a dynamic, creative and results-driven speaker, executive coach, and facilitator. Her unbeatable combination of training expertise and energetic presentation style has helped her develop, design and deliver countless presentations, programs and workshops that get participants excited, inspired and compelled to perform at a superior level.

Deborah’s clients range from Fortune 100 companies to small start-ups, and span the industries from financial services, health care and advertising to law, government and non-profits. Her clients include American Express, Monster Worldwide, NASDAQ, Pfizer, and the United States Army. Deborah has trained and spoken to audiences in Europe, Asia and North America, and serves as visiting Professor of Executive Communication for the Beijing International MBA program at Peking University, China.

Deborah began her career as a speaker and presentation skills coach at age 17, when she beat several hundred high school students across the United States to win First Place as the National Champion  in public speaking and speech writing. Deborah is a now conference speaker for the American Society of Training and Development and for Training Magazine. Deborah was awarded membership into the elite National Speakers Association, and is a credentialed member of the International Coach Federation. In addition, Deborah is a graduate of Coach U., the Coaches Training Institute and is a Certified DiSC ® Practitioner.

While earning her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and her Master’s Degree from Columbia University, Deborah toured the United States in an improvisational comedy troupe and has made several television appearances.


Other Quantum Endeavors® Recommended Resources!

Resources:  Your Best Life and Career

       
For a full line of professional and personal development tools and resources, go to:
            "Your Corporate Success"
           
www.yourcorporatesuccess.com


Resources: Links

           www.yourcorporatesuccess.com


        Job Listing Sites

            www.6Figurejobs.com

            www.careers.msn.com

            www.careerbuilder.com

            www.craigslist.com

            www.careerjournal.com

            www.execglobal.net

            www.executivetrumpet.com

            www.hotjobs.com

            www.hrmac.org

            www.monster.com

            www.linkedin.com

            www.shrm.org


    Subscription Executive Job Sites

            www.execunet.com

            www.theladders.com
   
            www.executiveregistry.com

            www.netshare.com

   
    Magazines and Newspapers

            www.chicagotribune.com

            www.fastcompany.com

            www.fortune.com

            www.hbsp.harvard.edu

            www.forbes.com

            www.wallstreetjournal.com

   
      Organizations

            The Coaches Training Institute   www.thecoaches.com

            The International Coaching Federation    www.coachfederation.org

     
       Social Networking

            http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Six_ways_to_make_Web_20_work_2294