Sage Alliance Partners Team

Scott is a master executive coach, OD consultant, strategic and executive team facilitator, workshop leader and keynote speaker. Scott has dedicated his professional life to learning, embodying and applying emerging technologies from the areas of somatics, philosophy, linguistics, athletics, integral studies, experiential and action learning.

His groundbreaking work centers on transformational leadership, team development and organizational culture change. Recently, Scott worked with the leadership team of a billion dollar business to transform the company's culture and results. The business saw a 70% increase in net profits after tax and a dramatic increase in employee engagement in just ten months.

Scott has garnered an impressive record of accomplishment in executive development. He co-designed and co-leads NASA's award-winning leadership and culture change program, Leadership Alchemy. Leadership Alchemy was recently ranked #7 in Warren Bennis' Leadership Excellence Magazine annual survey of the best in Leadership Development for the Federal Government/Military.

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Scott Coady is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Embodied Wisdom, a transformational education center located in Ojai, California committed to personal and leadership development, team effectiveness, and organizational culture change.

Scott may be reached via e-mail at: scott@sageap.com.  

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Maggie Weiss, Principal, Sage Alliance Partners

Maggie has devoted her professional career to the study and realization of exceptional performance on an individual and organizational basis, and then engaging those applications in the workplace and for social change. Her consulting and coaching services are built around specific accomplishments to be delivered while using the work and situation at hand to develop individuals and teams as effective leaders and managers for the often surprising, always profound accomplishments that come as a result.

Maggie has coached the senior executives, their management teams in engagements ranging from high performance capital project execution to challenging strategic or culture change initiatives in service, construction and manufacturing organizations. Typically these are situations that call for leadership and collaboration often with several cultures (national, corporate and/or professional) and perhaps several languages in the mix.

Working the Project Manager and Project Team building a liquid natural gas facility for a major oil company in California, Maggie was able to work with this first-time PM through a union dispute, a change in the California state emissions laws and the largest shutdown in the refinery’s 100 year history, to bring the project in without injury, on time and within budget. The Project Manger won the company’s 2002 Chairman’s Award.

Maggie may be reached via e-mail at: maggie@sageap.com.  

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David Utts, Principal, Sage Alliance Partners

David is a master executive coach , experienced executive team facilitator and keynote speaker. David has personally helped CEOs, Senior Executives, emerging leaders, and teams in supporting growth and business development initiatives, mastering the dynamics of leadership, developing high-impact influence skills, and building high-performing teams.

David is a regular keynote speaker on various topics around leadership. His topics include The Power of Creative Leadership, The Heart of Influence, and The Science of Achievement. He is also a spokes person on leadership for the Maryland Chamber of Commerce and the founder and director for The Columbia Leadership Academy. The academy's focus is providing access to high level leadership development experiences to leaders of small to medium size businesses.

David is highly skilled in supporting leaders to tap into a deeper capacity and to turn that capacity into measurable impact. His approach focuses on the whole person. It is his view that extraordinary leadership requires the executive to learn how to both use their positional power while tapping into a positive expression of their personal power. He has found when these are both in place leaders can have extraordinary impact.

David may be reached via e-mail at: david@sageap.com. 

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Sage Alliance Cadre of Consultants, Coaches, and Facilitators

Kanu Kogod, Ph.D., MCC

Kanu is an anthropologist and a master certified coach (MCC) who specializes in organizational culture change. Since 1987, as president and founder of Bridges in Organizations, Inc., Kanu’s focus has been to transform workplaces using leadership development to transform organizational cultures from within. That includes designing and implementing long-term leadership development programs, creative learning groups, large search forums, data collection (from surveys to search conferences), process consultation and executive coaching.

Since 2001, she has been the co-designer and co-facilitator for Leadership Alchemy, an award-winning ten-month transformational leadership development program at the Goddard Space Flight Center. By its fifth year, Leadership Alchemy had already received vast acclaim for helping to create a shift in NASA’s culture and leadership practices. Kanu is a gifted facilitator as well as coach who works with all kinds of people— addressing their concerns about everything from cultural collisions to culture change. Her work has successfully impacted the performance and satisfaction of her clients as they grapple with the challenges of a workplace pervaded by change.

Kanu may be reached via e-mail at: kanu@sageap.com  

Sandy Mobley, MBA, MCC, CMSC

Sandy is an expert in organization development, individual and team coaching and leadership development with over 25 years of experience. As an OD consultant, she created and led a team of three consultants who used a powerful team action coaching approach with peer mentoring groups to build collaboration, share best practices and increase movement across the divisions in Fairfax County.

Her transformational change efforts helped a Big 6 professional services firm move from a command and control structure to a leadership culture through leadership development, coaching, and assessment. She helped a specialty chemical firm maximize its reengineering effort and assess the riskiness of their change process.

She co-developed the Georgetown Leadership Coaching Program and served on the faculty for over four years. She was one of five coaches selected to work in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Executive Presence Workshop for Principal and Partners. Sandy is the Managing Partner of The Learning Advantage.

She has a Masters Degree in Mathematics and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is certified a master somatic coach by the Strozzi Institute and is certified a master certified coach by the International Coach Federation.

She lives in Falls Church, Virginia.

Sandy may be reached via e-mail at: sandy@sageap.com.  

Bill Pullen, MS, MCC

Bill Pullen is President of Pullen & Associates, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm providing executive coaching and leadership development services to individuals, corporations, the federal government and private organizations.

His work focuses on developing current and emerging leaders and building a leadership culture and increasing leadership capacity within organizations. Bill is known for his straightforward, insightful approach to helping people and organizations identify behaviors that promote or detract from leader effectiveness.

Taking a systems approach, he uses a cycle of assessment, challenge, and support to accelerate development, enhance performance and build leadership identity, presence, behaviors and skills.

Bill Pullen designed the 2009 Metro DC ICF Prism Award winning coaching program for the U.S. Department of Commerce – International Trade Administration. This prestigious award is given to an organization that uses coaching to shift organizational culture and create profound results.

Bill may be reached via e-mail at: bill@sageap.com.  

Terri Conti, MBA, MCC

Terri Conti is a coach and organization development consultant. She has more than 20 years of business experience. Before founding Alliance Consulting in 1999, she directed the training and organization development functions of a large software development firm and worked as a senior manager in change management for Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting.

Terri’s passion is developing leaders who can meet the challenge of complex and rapidly expanding organizations. She is a powerful coach, working one-on-one with leaders and also with executive teams. She is adept at creating safe environments where learning occurs, possibilities are expanded, and creativity is released. She also serves her clients as an organization development consultant, team builder, team coach, trainer, action learning coach and large and small group facilitator. She has excellent analytical and interpersonal skills.

Terri is a certified coach through the Newfiled Network and has studied various forms of somatic coaching with well known leaders in the field. She has earned the MCC (Master Certified Coach) credential from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is a member of the Organizational Development Network and the ICF. She lives in Reston, Virginia.

Terri may be reached via e-mail at: terri@sageap.com.

Lloyd Rains, MS, MCC

Lloyd Raines has coached and consulted with senior managers and executives in federal agencies, Fortune 500 businesses, and non-profits for the past 15 years. He is a master coach and expert facilitator of leadership development programs with individuals and teams.

Lloyd partners with leaders through focused inquiry, dialogue, and collaboratively-designed learning experiments for capacity building and impact. He draws on insights from business best practices, the behavioral sciences, global and national trends, action learning, moral considerations, and adult stage development – all in service to wise stewardship of vital resources (human, financial, and ecological) and long-term sustainability.

Lloyd Raines is Principal of Integral Focus, a holistic, integrally-informed practice focused on the unique leadership challenges of the early 21st century.He is a Master Certified Coach (ICF), was a founding faculty mentor in the Federal Judicial Center Leadership Program, and a founding faculty member and co-designer of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Program, where he continues to teach.

He lives in Kensington, MD.

Lloyd may be reached via e-mail at: lloyd@sageap.com.  

Judy Brannock, BS, MCC

Judy Brannock has over 20 years of experience as a consultant and executive coach to senior executives and their teams in consulting, financial services, high tech, and government organizations.

Her keen perceptive capabilities help her see what client’s can’t see so they are able to look into their blind spots and replace ineffective behaviors with those that support their success.

Known for her warmth, humor and down-to-earth style, she has been supporting corporate and public sector leaders over the last 20-plus years. She works with clients to accelerate their growth as they go through transitions, add more depth to their leadership skills, take on increasingly challenging responsibilities, resolve conflict, and build executive presence and client satisfaction.

Judy is Founder and President of The Officium Group, an executive and performance education firm committed to bringing clients the ideas, education, tools, and coaching services needed to transform their leaders and their organization.

She earned her coaching certification from Georgetown University and is a Professional Certified Coach (MCC pending) through the International Coach Federation. She has an undergraduate degree in Business Education from the University of Tennessee with graduate work in Organization Development from George Washington University.

She lives in Falls Church, Virginia.  

Judy may be reached via e-mail at: judy@sageap.com.  

Scott Brumburgh, MCC

Scott has been coaching executives, other leaders and managers and their staff in team performance and organizational development for over 20 years. He focuses on coaching and management development initiatives in organizations undergoing significant change in mission, structure or operations. His work has enabled numerous leaders and teams to re-shape their work outlook and motivation, determine their highest comparative advantage, and then develop the capacity to change for more effective action and results.

A recent experience was with a large public service firm. Their most critical field office had proven unable to adjust to a major change in government contract terms and consistently failed to meet their customer delivery expectations. Not only did their staff buy into the new approach, their major customers quickly recognized the new delivery system could work and agreed to give the organization more time to adopt the new system.

Scott, an independent consultant, is also a partner in Business Advisors Network; is a mentor coach with Newfield Network’s professional coach training programs; and is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. He lives with his family in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Scott may be reached via e-mail at: sbrumburgh@sageap.com.  

Pamela Walker, MS, ACC, CLC

Pamela Walker is an executive coach, organizational development, and human resources consultant with more than 20 years of experience.

She serves as a partner to private and public sector executives who are leading organizational change, transitioning into new roles, or developing their leadership competencies.

Using a structured approach, Pamela partners with executives helping them hone in on what matters most to them and the competencies and behaviors that will have the greatest positive impact on their leadership success.

Recently, Pamela coached an executive team and led change interventions to successfully navigate a company through four mergers and acquisitions, revenue growth from $195 million to more than $550 million, and 2,500 to 5,000 employees over a six year period.

Pamela Walker is owner of Prism Pathways, LLC, Board Member of the Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network, a volunteer mentor for Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching Program, and an Associate Certified Coach.

She lives in Silver Spring, MD.

Pamela may be reached via e-mail at: pamela@sageap.com.

Marla Zipin, Ph.D., NCC

Marla Zipin brings a wealth of expertise and experience in human relationship systems, behavioral sciences, and positive psychology to her work as a coach and facilitator for over 20 years. She provides leadership development coaching to senior executives and managers in the federal government and private business.

She engages her clients in a learning process of self discovery, personal empowerment and sustained transformation. Through her exquisite sensitivity, deep intuitive listening, and creative catalytic coaching her clients produce extraordinary results, manifest excellence, resource resilience and find fulfillment.

She served as a coach for NASA’s award winning leadership development and culture change program, Leadership Alchemy, recently rated #7 in Leadership Excellence Magazine’s annual survey of the best in leadership development in the Federal Government.

Marla Zipin is founder of Zipin Coaching Services. She is a certified coach by the Newfield Network, licensed psychologist, yoga and meditation practitioner, and storytelling enthusiast. She lives in the DC metropolitan area.

Marla may be reached via e-mail at: marla@sageap.com.  

Bonnie K Hill, MA, MSW, PCC

Bonnie Hill has been coaching private sector and government executives in the areas of leadership development, person growth, and change for the past 10 years. Most recently, she has worked with entrepreneurs and solopreneurs affected by the challenging economy to recreate themselves as they search for new career paths.

Bonnie has led an international “Wonder Women” group since 2001, addressing the needs of mid-life women who want to rediscover their passion in life and decide how to script the next chapters in their lives.

Additionally, Bonnie has facilitated teams, trained groups, and worked with individual executives in different governmental contracts and in large corporations. Her coaching and leading taps into clients’ ability to create, transform and energize their own careers and lives.

Bonnie’s approach is energetic, buoyant, compassionate and courageous. She firmly believes that personal growth, aliveness and transformation are certain possibilities for all. Bonnie Hill is managing principal of Textured Life Coaching, a contract coach with various OD and consulting companies, on the faculty of The Coach Training Institute, and a Professional Certified Coach as well as member of the International Coach Federation.

Bonnie may be reached via e-mail at: bonnie@sageap.com.  

Jennifer Whitcomb, MA, PCC

Jennifer Whitcomb is an experienced organization development practitioner and executive coach with The Trillium Group. For over 18 years, she has worked with senior leaders in the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

She has provided executive coaching, facilitation and training to help many leaders solve tough challenges by helping them successfully reach their goals, and improve team and organizational performance.

Jennifer is a faculty member of the Georgetown University Leadership Coaching program. She also directed Georgetown University’s Organization Development Certificate Program where she also participated as a faculty member. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation.

Jennifer is an avid equestrian who competes and coaches others in her free time.

Jennifer may be reached via e-mail at: jennifer@sageap.com.

Leni Gurin, MS, ACC

For over twenty-five years, Leni Gurin has coached and consulted to leaders and teams in Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits and government organizations looking to enhance their professional and operational effectiveness, improve collaborative relationships and expand their capacity for sustainable excellence and adaptability. She focuses on leadership coaching and strategic organizational consulting for professionals who lead professionals: senior executives, enterprise founders, owners or partners, leadership teams and Boards.

Leni’s expertise includes leadership and team coaching and development, strategic and operational planning and solutions, constructive communication©(including conflict negotiation), retreat/meeting design and group facilitation, change management, and performance management.

Leni Gurin is President of LGA Consultants. Inc., a leadership and organizational consulting and coaching company founded over 20 years ago to bring Fortune 500 best management strategies and practices to smaller enterprises and professional practices.

She is a member of the National and local chapters of the International Coach Federation and Organization Development Network, and a member of the Executive Women’s Roundtable. She is a Fellow in Change Management, a certified Newfield coach, and an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation.

Leni lives in Annandale, Virginia with her husband and young daughter.

Leni may be reached via e-mail at: leni@sageap.com.  

Deb Hordon Ph.D., ACC

Deb Hordon has been coaching clients in leadership development, role transitions, and organizational change for seven years. She has worked with individuals at the C-level, partners, line managers, and heads of small/medium sized enterprises from a wide variety of industries and sectors all over the world, including the US, Mexico, Uruguay, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, South Africa, and Canada.

Deb’s coaching style is strategic, smart, and soft. She engages her innate compassion and non-judgmental attitude to disarm defensiveness and delve into the heart of an issue where deep change occurs. Deb’s results with clients are impressive: they have demonstrated 60% increase in measured performance, experienced rapid promotion with up to a 50% increase in salary, achieved high levels of job satisfaction, and comfortably stepped into new levels of seniority.

Her client organizations have successfully navigated major internal restructuring. Deb is also an experienced facilitator, having enabled teams to take important decisions, confront difficult issues, make strategic plans, work through misunderstandings and suspicions, and change fundamental group dynamics, reaching consensus and moving forward in a positive direction.

Deb may be reached via e-mail at: deb@sageap.com.  

Frank Hackney, MS, ACC

Frank Hackney offers twenty years of leadership experience – expanding individual performance and sparking organization-wide effectiveness. With a sound business background sharply focused on the generation of effective and meaningful action, he delivers a unique blend of academic credentials and organizational experience.

Frank created InnerShift Practices, LLC, a coaching and leadership development partnership, in 2001. His competency in identifying possibilities for new action has enabled him to build a successful business in coaching, outsourced management, business start-up consulting and development, and strategic planning for non-profits.

Frank works primarily with CEOs, executives, board members, and project teams. Since beginning his coaching career, Frank has worked on organization-wide transformation programs for Capital One Financial and Allianz. He has recently delivered philanthropic team building events for Odyssey Teams, Inc.

In addition to corporate work, in 2008 Frank facilitated Group Dynamics and Team Learning for the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, graduate program on Organizational Development and Knowledge Management.

Frank may be reached via e-mail at: frank@sageap.com.   

Carole S. Napolitano, MA

Over a period of twenty years, Carole Napolitano has worked with a variety of leaders, executive teams, and organizations--in both the public and private sector--to help them expand possibilities for breaking through challenges and getting the results they want and need.

Carole brings many roles to her work: executive coach, organizational consultant, facilitator, author, and speaker...which affords her an unusual range and versatility in responding to the needs of individual leaders as well as to the dynamics of complex systems. She is equally at home coaching an executive, one-on-one, or facilitating a whole-system transformational change process.

Carole Napolitano is the founder and Principal of Synergies which offers coaching and consulting in leadership and organizational effectiveness. She co-authored The Leadership Odyssey: A Self-Development Guide to New Skills for New Times published by Jossey-Bass as well as Machines or Gardens . . . or Both?, an article that explores the implications of organizational metaphors, in Managing Organizational Complexity: Philosophy, Theory, and Application published by Information Age Publishing.

More recently, Carole authored “Personalizing the Power of the Positive: AI and Ontological Coaching” published in the May 2007 issue of Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner. Carole is a certified coach through the Newfield Network and member of the International Coach Federation.

Carole lives just outside Washington, DC, in Round Hill, VA, where she works out of a restored log cabin in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Carole may be reached at carole@sageap.com.  

Ravi Pradhan, MBA

Ravi brings years of experience as a manager, entrepreneur, consultant and social change agent. He has lived, studied and worked in the US and Asia, and brings an intimate experience of both the corporate and social sectors.

Along with Cooperrider, Whitney and others, Ravi was one of the founders of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting (AIC), LLC, a global network consultants using appreciative inquiry. Ravi was a key “transformational consultant and coach” for the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) HIV/AIDS special initiative title Leadership for Results. The objectives of this multi-year engagement were to help develop leadership competencies and build coalitions to craft innovative strategies. In addition he also co-designed and led programs to develop transformational skills among a diverse group of professionals, including media and communication professionals in constructing new approaches in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

Ravi may be reached via e-mail at: ravi@sageap.com.  

Mary Key, Ph.D., CEC

Mary Key has served as an executive coach to Fortune 500 companies, government entities and entrepreneurial organizations with outstanding results. She has worked with senior executives at various stages of their careers and from a variety of industries and backgrounds.

She heads Key Associates, Inc. (KA), an organizational transformational consulting firm committed to the development of leaders and organizations. For the past 18 years, Mary has helped individuals, teams and organizations in areas such as coaching, leading change, leadership and team development, succession planning, conflict resolution, strategic planning, strategy development and effective execution – all leading to improving performance and productivity.

Mary was Executive Director of Inc. Magazine's Eagles CEO Program, where she provided one-on-one consulting and roundtable facilitation to CEOs of fast-growing companies. She also served in leadership roles at several major international consulting firms and headed the government practice in one of them. Mary has authored several books including CEO Road Rules: Right Focus, Right People, Right Execution and The Entrepreneurial Cat: 13 Ways to Transform Your Work Life.

Key received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and her BS from the University of Massachusetts.

Mary may be reached via e-mail at: mary@sageap.com.

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