Leadership 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
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 leader for the Co-active Leadership Programme, and 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 programmes inside companies like IBM, Mellon Bank, Google, Gulf States Paper, PAX Scientific, and others. His insight, energy, and humor empower individuals and organisations 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 Programme 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
Caroline is a senior CTI faculty member, 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. As a leader of the Co-Active Leadership Program, 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. Caroline has led coaching workshops worldwide for CTI since 2000. 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. Caroline is all about the joy; it's her covert agenda for client organizations that include IBM, Fairview Hospitals, the Federal Reserve Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Northrop Grumann, Marriott Hotels, US Bank, and 3M.
Sam House
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 programmes and coaching to executives, managers, teams and individuals around the world. A Master Certified Coach, Sam packs a wealth of coaching and coach training experience in his toolkit. He is a senior faculty member for CTI, where he 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 programmes, 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.
Jeff Jacobson
Jeff coaches and plays with people who yearn for bold, Technicolor lives. He has been involved in coaching and human growth work for the past 12 years. Prior to coming to the world of coaching and leading for the Co-active Leadership Programme, 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 organisations. She is a naturally powerful, insightful and sometimes silly celebrator of learning!
Anne Grete Mazziotta
Anne Grete models the power of the feminine and brings this to her role as leader in the Co-active Leadership Programme and workshop leader for other CTI programmes. 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
LA has been striding down a path of leadership all her life. She is an unconventional woman with a wicked sense of humor. She dazzles and surprises while leading her participants with grace and integrity. LA admits to being an intuitive introvert who works from the inside out. You can almost observe LA connecting to her inner voice, and boy is it powerful. 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. She 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. She is a combination of Pied Piper and the Wicked Witch of the West. Everything she says is forceful, direct and evocative. Not one to waste words, her career has spanned 40 years of service in the field of human relations. Currently she 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.
Patrick Ryan
Patrick is an author, coach and trainer working with executives and entrepreneurs on questions of personal effectiveness and leadership. Patrick loves leading Leadership and coaching because he has found them to be incredibly effective as a method of interacting with people and helps them to be more of everything they want in their personal lives and careers living and leading at 100%. Patrick brings with him twenty-five years of experience as the CEO, general manager and owner of several successful small businesses in a variety of industries. He has looked at human nature through the lens and experience of having been a Buddhist monk in Asia for one year. He brings the integration of this experience, ancient teachings and modern applications with him as a coach and trainer.
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
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 organisations. Art has worked as a leadership and organization development consultant at a range of organisations including Fidelity Investments, Brystol-Myers Squibb and Princeton University. 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 currently a Vice President at CTI.
Rick Tamlyn
Rick is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) and a Master Certified Coach (MCC) as designated by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). 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. He is a senior trainer for CTI in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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, including Amtrak, BP Amoco, Disney, Fairview Hospitals, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Korn/Ferry International, Marriott Corporation, YMCA International, and Wells Fargo Bank. Rick's personal 'Bigger Game' is to develop and enhance leadership skills within individuals, organisations 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 organisations 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, programme 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
John has led, designed and delivered leadership programmes nationally and internationally for companies including Deloitte & Touche, Wells Fargo, Marriott Hotels and BP Amoco. Prior to his career in coaching and training, John spent fifteen years in corporations. 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.'
