Leadership Programme Faculty
Mary Butler
Mary has over 28 years of management, training, human resources and coaching experience in a variety of diverse corporate settings. Her philosophy is to have others identify and cultivate the leader within them; to have the courage to follow their instincts, and the integrity and caring that enables them to mobilize a team. As a corporate coach, she is especially attuned to the demands of a changing, fast-paced environment and works with her clients to excel in whatever comes up in work and life. She offers breadth and depth to a partnership with sensitivity to workplace issues, knowing that individuals themselves have what it takes to succeed, and the foresight to recognize that corporate cultures will change dramatically in the years to come.
Pat Carrington-House, CPCC, PCC
Pat’s passion and dream is to sail around the world with his family. This is one way he inspires others that cross his path to make choices in their lives that will allow them to truly follow their hearts. Pat is a co-founder of Dolphin Leadership Inc., a company dedicated to uncovering the passion that lives uniquely in every human being. Since 1998 he has coached and delivered programs inside companies using his insight, energy, and humor to empower individuals and organizations to take actions that are in line with the legacy they want to leave. Pat and his family departed on his dream sailing trip in the fall of 2008. He will be flying to the Co-Active Leadership Program from wherever he is on his circumnavigation, bringing with him the inspiration and courage of his personal ‘Hero’s Journey.’
Hide Enomoto
Hide is a natural born trail-blazer. He is not afraid to take risks for the sake of achieving his vision. He is also known for his persistence and perseverance. All of these qualities have culminated in his endeavor to take Co-Active Coaching to non-English speakers when few believed it would be possible. He founded CTI Japan in 2000, which has become the most successful CTI business outside of North America. He now lives in Scotland with his family in pursuit of his bigger vision. He is a man of integrity and believes that one of the key ingredients of being a leader is about 'walking the talk.'
Caroline MacNeill Hall, MA, CPCC, PCC
Caroline is an executive coach and author who works with individuals and organizations to build leadership grounded in respect and fascination, authenticity and authority. A sunny soul who believes that laughter lubricates leading, Caroline is as elegant and fierce as she is funny and friendly. Her great joy is to move, inspire and connect human beings as they embrace and develop their authentic selves and their creative power to lead change in the world. Before becoming a coach, she was a journalist and ghost author of 13 books, mostly for psychologists. Along with CTI co-founder Laura Whitworth and colleague Rick Tamlyn, Caroline is co-author of the book The Bigger Game: Why Playing a Bigger Game Designs Who You Want to Become. Her words are arrows and bubbles; when she speaks, people are inspired to move toward their higher selves.
Sam House, CPCC, MCC
Since he was an 11-year old captain of Campus School crossing guards, Sam has actively engaged in guiding people across the street and beyond for many years. As founder of Soulutions Leadership and Coaching, Sam provides customized, experiential-based leadership development programs and coaching to executives, managers, teams and individuals around the world. Sam has trained people in coaching skills on three continents, from such diverse settings as corporate boardrooms to federal prisons and everything in between. Formerly a psychotherapist and social worker, Sam has extensive experience in in-patient psychiatric settings, day treatment programs, counseling centers, and his own long-standing private practice, where he specialized in family and couples therapy. When not engrossed in his work, Sam can be found enjoying his family, messing around in boats, biking the back roads or playing his guitar.
Henry Kimsey-House, CPCC, MCC, Co-Founder
Henry Kimsey-House, Co-Founder of CTI, is the main designer of the coaching course curriculum, including the leadership program. Today, Henry continues to develop and refine the CTI coaching curriculum, leveraging his creative insights and experience as an actor. He is also co-author of the industry best-seller, Co-Active Coaching.
An actor since age nine, Henry brings that experience and understanding of human process and development to CTI. His acting career includes appearances in Woody Allen's movie, 'Stardust Memories,' soap operas and regional theatre productions. According to Henry, his acting experience contributed greatly to the creation of Co-Active coaching and to the creation of language used in CTI courses that addresses the core of who we are.
After acting for several years, Henry joined the Actors Information Project (AIP), in New York City, a career counseling service for actors. As Vice President of Curriculum Development, he created a variety of workshops and programs to help new actors succeed in their craft and in the business of acting.
In the 1980s, Henry became one of the first professional coaches, with a specialty in coaching artists and actors. In 1992, he turned his creativity to co-founding and co-designing the curriculum for CTI.
Henry studied acting at Lewis & Clark University, University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire), University of Tennessee (Chattanooga) and in New York City.
Karen Kimsey-House, CPCC, MCC, President and Co-Founder
Karen Kimsey-House, President and Co-Founder of CTI, brings her entrepreneurial and business experience insights to CTI. She is at the forefront of the coaching profession as a well-known keynote speaker, workshop leader and co-author of the industry best-seller, Co-Active Coaching.
A successful entrepreneur, she founded The Learning Annex San Francisco adult education program in 1986, and helped develop it to become one the most admired programs among the Learning Annex city programs. According to Karen, she has always been an entrepreneur, from starting a cleaning business while working as an actress, to founding the Learning Annex San Francisco, to co-founding CTI. Karen brings to CTI a powerful blend of business expertise and human insights from her acting career and training.
A founding member of the Personal and Professional Coaches Association, Karen holds a Master Certified Coach (MCC) designation through the International Coach Federation (ICF). Karen today continues her work as a professional coach, specializing in entrepreneurs and start-up companies, helping them with innovative business practices and no-nonsense strategies to move things forward quickly.
Karen has a B.S. in English from Idaho State University and MFA in Communications and Theater from Temple University.
Jeff Jacobson, CPCC, PCC
Jeff coaches and plays with people who yearn for bold, Technicolor lives. He has been involved in coaching and human growth work since 1994. Prior to coming to the world of coaching and leading for the Co-Active Leadership Program, Jeff worked in the field of language teaching and Chinese/English interpreting. His experience living in East and Southeast Asia for three years ripped apart his world view and taught him to love things like seaweed, good directions and fine, fine storytelling. In addition to his own coaching practice, Jeff travels internationally for CTI leading coaching workshops.
Elaine Jaynes
Elaine is a coach, workshop leader and organizational consultant joyfully living out a 'portfolio career' model. She is Director of Curriculum at CTI and manages the training and development of CTI leaders. You'll find her at her most excited in front of Co-Active Leadership groups or CTI courses around the world. Elaine is particularly a champion of those leaders approaching the third trimester of their lives and committed to becoming the conscious wisdom-keepers of our future. Elaine's academic preparation and her bent is Organizational Psychology. Her corporate experience includes senior management positions at MCI Telecommunications and AMEX Life Assurance (an American Express Company) and consulting positions with numerous corporations and non-profit organizations. She is a naturally powerful, insightful and sometimes silly celebrator of learning!
Anne Grete Mazziotta, MA, CPCC, PCC
Anne Grete models the power of the feminine and brings this to her role as leader in the Co-Active Leadership Program and workshop leader for other CTI programs. Her presence fosters tremendous safety and openness to individuals and groups and deepens their personal discovery process. She is passionate about the possibilities of people coming together and forming communities to effect immense positive change in one other and the world. Prior to becoming a coach in 1996, she worked as a counselor in a variety of settings including a women's prison, secondary schools, and a mental health day treatment facility. She has also worked as a massage therapist and has held a life long interest in the healing arts.
LA Reding, M.Ed., CPCC, MCC
LA has been striding down a path of leadership all her life. She is an unconventional woman with a wicked sense of humor. LA admits to being an intuitive introvert who works from the inside out. She takes risks while being light, caring and pushing hard. She will do whatever it takes for you to be your best and to go where you haven’t gone before. LA has a stately presence that creates safety and trust. Her deep passion is for people to embody mastery and knows that individual mastery is unique and shows up in fascinating ways. Not one to waste words, her career has spanned 40 years of service in the field of human relations. Currently LA is working with Fortune 100 companies around the world to help leaders own their own power and style from the inside out. Her mission is to identify and serve a new generation of global leaders.
Kyoko Seki
Kyoko brings the power of subtlety, intuition, and truth-telling to her work in training leaders around the world. Her approach is symbolized by the moon, always reflecting the brilliant light of others back to the world, while directly influencing strong tidal currents everywhere. From this, she passionately engages leaders in embracing their own light and shadow as they are, thus enabling them to bring their true gifts forth as leaders. Kyoko is a senior faculty member for CTI Japan, where she has developed leaders and coaches since 2001. Prior to her engagement with CTI, she was a human resources consultant, specializing in management assessment and leadership development. As a lecturer at several colleges in Japan, Kyoko specialized in intercultural communication, conflict resolution and team building. She enjoys hiking in nature and traveling around the world.
Art Shirk, MBA, EdD, MCC, CPCC
MBA, Boston University
EdD, Columbia University’s Teachers College
Art’s playful blend of humor and deep respect for all that’s entailed in ‘being human’ are at the heart of his work as a consultant and coach focused on putting transformative learning into action for individuals, teams and organizations. Art has worked as a leadership and organization development consultant at a range of organizations. He is a founding partner of Coaching Hall International based in Bogota, Colombia—a venture that emerged from his own Co-Active Leadership experience. Art earned his doctoral degree from Columbia University in 2006 from the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College. His doctoral research focused on essential aspects of the Co-Active leadership experience. Art is lead designer on CTI products and a senior faculty member.
Rick Tamlyn, MFA, CPCC, MCC
Rick is a sought-after leader in the human development field and works internationally as an experiential keynote speaker, workshop/seminar leader, and as a personal leadership coach. As a Co-Founder of ‘It’s All Made Up, Inc’. and ‘The Bigger Game,’ Rick has delivered over 300 Co-Active Coaching/Leadership workshops, Bigger Game workshops, and conference keynote sessions in both the public and private sectors. Along with CTI co-founder Laura Whitworth and colleague Caroline MacNeill Hall, Rick is co-author of the book The Bigger Game: Why Playing a Bigger Game Designs Who You Want to Become. Rick’s personal ‘Bigger Game’ is to develop and enhance leadership skills within individuals, organizations and communities, for the sake of a more fulfilled and sustainable world something for which our entire planet hungers.
Okokon Udo, PhD
Okokon is a change management consultant, spiritual director, coach, educator and author. For over twenty years, Okokon has walked the spiritual path and in the process has discovered valuable insights to healing, transformation and wisdom. He has also journeyed with individuals, groups, communities and organizations on their own paths to spiritual discovery, healing and excellence. Five years ago, Okokon founded his own organizational effectiveness consulting firm, thus giving his work international scope spanning several areas including leadership development, intercultural effectiveness, change management, high performing team development, conflict management, executive coaching, program design, organizational culture assessment and public speaking. Okokon's experiences include tenures as Executive Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Health, assistant professor at two Universities, certified Clinical Pastoral Educator and chaplain with two health care systems, and pastoral leader in a wide variety of settings in the US and Nigeria.
John Vercelli, MA, CPCC
MA, Education, Stanford University
John Vercelli is a principal of Chain Reaction Partners, LLC (CRP) and leads, designs and delivers leadership programs nationally and internationally. John works with individuals on their inner journey, helping them to re-connect with their higher purpose and to express that through their work, leading to greater fulfillment and results. For the past fifteen years, he has helped leaders build high performing organizations through coaching, training, team building, and consulting. John is adept at translating complex ideas into easily understood and applied models or tools that have a “practical wisdom” to them. John’s vision includes work environments in which co-workers call out the best in each other and are proactive, responsible and willing to take risks, moving themselves and the company to higher performance.
