Mary Stacey
Elizabeth Lancaster
John Gotziaman
Sandy McMullen
Sergio Montiel
Susan Welt
Mary Stacey, M.A. – Managing Director
Mary Stacey is a trusted partner to executive leaders and their teams at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and change. Her work in the aerospace, retail, and technology sectors is known for achieving innovatively practical and sustainable results.
As a strategic change specialist Mary designs and executes initiatives that build high engagement and strengthen business results. Case studies of her leadership development results are published in The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging whole Systems (Barrett-Koehler, 2007) and profiled by the US-based Information Management Forum (2004, 2006, 2007). Mary’s customized action learning program, known for developing leadership while working real issues was designated an enterprise best practice by the CEO of Canadian Tire Corporation (2005).
While client relationships take most of her time, Mary has been a facilitator and board member with U.S. based Centre for Emerging Leadership and its Women in Leadership Program. She is board committee member of the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards and leads a Mastermind executive coaching group at the Verity Club in Toronto. She recently hosted an Intergenerational Leadership Exchange and often collaborates with artists to build the imaginative and integrated capabilities needed by today’s leaders.
Mary’s consulting practice builds on her early career as professor and faculty development specialist in the Ontario higher education system. Mary founded the Cooperative Learning Network and edited the journal of the Great Lakes Association for Cooperation in Education. She has since taught Classic Studies of Leadership at the graduate level, Knowledge Management Worlds at the Bell Centre for Creative Communications, and worked with the Canadian Council of University Vice-Presidents. Conference presentations include Knowledge Leadership (Society for Organizational Learning), Developing Business Focused IT Leaders (Information Management Forum), and Sustaining Learning after Executive Education Programs (Conference Board of Canada).
Mary holds an MA in Organizational Leadership and Learning from Royal Roads University, a BA in psycholinguistics, and a diploma in counseling.
Elizabeth Lancaster, B.A., ACPC - Director
Elizabeth Kingstone is an accomplished coach, facilitator, consultant, and trainer who brings courage and compassion to her work with individuals and teams. She specializes in enabling others to achieve their goals by engaging them in innovative thinking through conversations that are characterized by safety, trust and a strengths-based approach grounded in reality. She is recognized by clients and colleagues as uniquely gifted at enabling clarity and new perspectives to emerge, with an ultimate focus on execution.
Recent work includes a six-month process of re-engaging a high-profile team struggling with animosity and low morale; and facilitating the design of integrated processes for three historically siloed business units. Elizabeth has experience in the profit, not-for-profit and crown sectors. She has been involved in projects as diverse as software implementation; rights and acquisitions policy; facilitating national and provincial leaders’ forums; and project managing Canada’s first permanently equipped aerial TV news service.
Elizabeth is on the faculty of the Adler School of Professional Coaching. She is actively involved in a variety of volunteer projects including coaching students in the Native Studies program at Trent University. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and the Society for Organizational Learning.
Elizabeth holds an Honours B.A. in Political Science from Queen’s University with post-degree studies in World Religions. She studied Adult Education and Industrial Relations at George Brown and Sheridan Colleges. She is a certified professional coach with advanced training in relationship and systems coaching. Elizabeth is fluent in French.
John Gotziaman, Associate
John Gotziaman assists individuals, groups and organizations to achieve identified changes and goals. He has over 15 years of experience coaching senior executives and facilitating groups and workshops. John employs an integrated approach in his work, impacting performance, leadership skills, and corporate capabilities. He has extensive experience building effective teams and managing conflicts. Prior to consulting, John was a College professor and head basketball coach. His College team attained a National ranking in Canada. John is a CTI trained coach; MBTI accredited, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo.
Sandy McMullen, Associate
Sandy has completed training with The Coaches Training Institute and BCoach and is a certified member of the International Consortium of Business Coaches. In 2006, she was a recipient of the International Coaching Federation’s Prism Award for Coaching Excellence. Over the past eighteen years Sandy has built recognition as a professional artist and was a founding partner in a gallery in Toronto’s Historic distillery District.
Sandy creates inviting and creative environments that allow people to bring their passion, insight and innovation to the table. She engages individuals and teams to deepen their self-knowledge and to access multiple intelligences in their role as leaders. She integrates her understanding of imaginative processes and the DNA of innovation into her work as a professional coach, guided by the principle that leadership is not a mechanical operation rather it is an art form built on something deeper and intangible. She integrates executive coaching with gallery and studio visits, using the arts to support personal visioning and team development. Her clients find that integrating the arts with the insight gained through assessments helps them to access the territory demanded of leaders in this Conceptual Age.
Sandy is accredited in several assessment tools including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Emotional Intelligence 360 (ECI) assessment. She holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. Please visit her websites at www.sandymcmullen.com and www.presentandaccounted4.com
Sergio Montiel, M.S. Associate
Sergio is a consultant, philosopher, and designer for organizational and systemic evolution. He is also a certified executive coach and in the process of becoming a senior ontological coach.
As the co-founder of Being Essence S.C., a global collective intelligence think-tank, Sergio has had the opportunity to work with thought leaders in the theory, design, and practice of transformative learning organizations.
Sergio founded a boutique communications firm in Mexico City and also led the communications strategy and strategic alliances for Laborum.com Mexico, the first jobsite for Latin America. Earlier, he founded and directed of a social networking enterprise which implemented leading edge technologies in the Ibero-American marketplace.
Sergio has a B.S. in Communications from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and holds a M.S. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and University of Texas in Austin (UT). He recently finished his first year as a doctoral student from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and in 2009 will join the Human and Organizational Development doctoral program at Fielding University. His research focuses on the convergence of leading emergent theories of learning, change, leadership, and communications.
From his new base in Toronto, Sergio is currently working with social entrepreneurs and designing learning processes for clients in Canada and Mexico.
Susan Welt, Associate
Susan is the principal of Susan Welt Design, a New York design consultancy. She leads our business identity and product development team. Susan brings an extensive list of accomplishments to her projects, including two illustration awards from the Society of Illustrators Annual Show, a Grammy Award based on her work with Tokyo-based Eiko Ishioka, and Excellence Awards gained during her tenure at Reader’s Digest General Books. Susan is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design, New York.
