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ICF Certified Coaches - Certificates in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University - Business Experience
Janet Makepeace, MSW, PCC
Engaging leaders and teams leading through significant organizational transformation and those experiencing business or strategic challenges.
Janet is the founder and CEO of JAR Leadership Coaching®. She is a dynamic leadership coach committed to partnering with clients to uncover untapped opportunities. Her broad business experience, which spans 20 years of building and leading diverse, high-performing teams, provides a strong platform for coaching individuals across various sectors. Janet has significant experience leading in global corporate environments and possesses a great sense of cultural awareness. She takes a holistic approach to coaching by customizing her engagement, which is determined by each client's end goals.
Janet has a particular interest in working with business leaders within healthcare, individuals leading through significant organizational transformation and those experiencing business or strategic challenges.
Christina Unrein, PCC
Empowers people-focused leaders to be more effective, courageous, intentional, and strategic.
Christina is an ICF-certified executive coach with over 2750 hours of coaching experience. Her experience spans various sectors in companies such as BMW, Chubb, DOD, Abcam, Vimeo, NetApp, EPA, W20, Airbnb, Lyft, and Eaton. Christina empowers people-focused leaders to be more effective, courageous, intentional, and strategic. Her clients develop clarity and confidence in making decisions, taking action, and navigating uncertainty. Christina energizes her clients to be daring and to challenge their limitations and mindset.
Before coaching full-time, Christina was an influential business professional with 15 years of experience leading multifunctional teams in project execution, product development, process improvement, and strategic planning.
Christina has completed extensive leadership coaching training and her Finance degree and Master's in Regional and Community Planning (MRCP) at Kansas State University. She is certified as a Master Lean Coach and trained in multiple assessments, including the Leadership Circle Profile and Hogan assessments.
Chuck Grant, MBA
Chuck's broad business background gives him a unique perspective that allows him to build credibility, comfort, and trust with seasoned executives.
Harvard Institute of Coaching member For over a decade, Chuck has coached high-level executives and influential leaders in some of the world’s most well-respected companies, including Accenture, Apple, Ernst & Young, Google, IBM, McKinsey & Co., and United Health Group.
Before his coaching career, Chuck enjoyed 20+ years as a successful business professional. He began his career as a factory manager for Berkshire Hathaway and later served Fortune 500 clients for over ten years in Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations consulting practice. Most recently, Chuck was the Global Vice President of Korn Ferry’s Leadership and Talent Consultancy, advising multinational firms on Succession Management, Talent Strategy, and Leadership Development.
Chuck earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Leadership Studies from the University of Maine. He is a member of the Harvard Institute of Coaching and an adjunct faculty member with the New Ventures West Professional Coaching Certification program.
Debra Dubow, ACC, MSOD, MSW
Executive and team coaching within complex organizations managing through transitions.
Debra Dubow is an ICF-certified leadership and team coach with over 35 years of experience helping leaders transform teams and organizations. She is passionate about assisting others shift their thinking to increase their self-awareness, growth mindset, and build leadership capabilities to achieve significant outcomes.
Areas of expertise include helping leaders create high-performing teams, cultivating emotional intelligence, managing through transitions and complex organizational restructuring, and engaging others by inspiring them to realize their full potential while achieving individual and organizational results.
Debra has worked in various healthcare, financial services, and higher education industries. Roche-Genentech, Humana Inc., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, PNC Financial Services, Chrysler Engineering, and Eastern Michigan University are a few.
Fiona Grant
Professionals and organizations who want help explore new perspectives, build resilience and create momentum.
As a leadership coach and diversity/organization development consultant, Fiona draws on her 25-year HR career at Accenture and Lockheed Martin, where she led work on executive talent management, leadership development, succession planning, recruitment, employee engagement, and inclusion and diversity initiatives. Fiona naturally creates safe, open environments for individual transformation and organizational change. Clients appreciate her humor, curiosity, and sharp business acumen; she is a great listener and trusted advisor.
Fiona led efforts at Accenture to create the LGBTQ network. She ensured future sponsorship and global policy change, helping to position Accenture as one of the world’s top-rated companies for Diversity and Inclusion. She was a member of Accenture’s Global Diversity Advisory Council and partnered with colleagues and clients in India, Singapore, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe to implement change.
Jennifer Hogan, MPA, MAPP, PCC
Leaders who are in new roles, managing organizational change and navigating transitions.
Jennifer (Jenn) Hogan is a leadership coach with 16+ years in corporate and government consulting, leading teams and managing projects, coaching, and leadership development. Jenn supports clients to lead and inspire others, leverage their unique strengths, and pursue challenging and meaningful goals. She has a particular interest in working with clients as they take on a new leadership role, manage organizational change, or navigate a transition.
Jenn works with clients ranging from new managers to seasoned leaders. She coaches across a range of sectors including Big Four consulting firms, financial services firms, private corporations, government, and international development.
Lynn Ellen Queen, MBA, CLC, PCC
Mid and senior leaders working globally, as well as teams in government, for-profit and non-profit business.
Lynn Ellen Queen is dedicated to helping clients find direction through leadership coaching, consulting, facilitation, and strategic planning. She works globally with mid and senior-level leaders and teams in government and for-profit and non-profit businesses. Before coaching full-time, Lynn Ellen experienced firsthand the challenges faced by leaders during her more than 25 years as an executive and consultant in law, financial services, manufacturing, and non-profits.
Lynn Ellen earned a B.A. in French from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. in International Marketing from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a Certificate of Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University.
Lynn Ellen is a member of the International Coach Federation. She has previously served on the boards of St.Andrew’s School, Richmond, Virginia, and of the Interlochen Center for the Arts,
Interlochen, Michigan, is the President of the Northwestern University Club of Virginia.Phillip Cave, PCC
Working with leaders at every stage, from start-upfounders to senior executives with decades of experience.
Phillip partners with leaders and teams to create healthy, high-performing dynamics aligned with their values and goals. Drawing on three decades of experience—from early roles as a grocery clerk and military service member to tech startup co-founder, consultant, and senior executive—he helps organizations navigate transitions by fostering trust, elevating collaboration, and addressing challenges with curiosity and compassion.
Known for sparking “aha!” moments, Phillip uses a systemic approach that balances being fully human with decisive action. He helps leaders uncover the deeper patterns shaping their choices, believing nothing is broken—only opportunities to evolve for greater impact. A dual citizen of Canada and the U.S., Phillip loves exploring cultures through travel, writing, reading, and nature adventures. Having co-parented three (now grown) children, he blends kindness and candor like “maple syrup with a shot of whiskey,” nudging leaders toward transformative growth with honesty and heart.Nancy Reller, ACC
Executive and emerging leaders who want to communicate with an authentic, confident presence, stretch into their next level, and expand their balance and resilience.
Nancy partners with her coaching clients to build their path of growth, achievement, and fulfillment to reach the goals they have identified, all while navigating professional and personal challenges. She holds expertise in healthcare, having worked in and for hospital systems and nursing homes. She is the co-designer and leadership coach of a cutting-edge program intended to transform moral distress into moral resilience for America’s bedside nurses. Loving the structured yet flexible process of coaching, Nancy considers it a privilege to sit with her clients as they struggle with the sometimes messy, sometimes joyous path toward being the leader they want to be.
Nancy uses her combined experience in leadership coaching, facilitation, and strategic communications to help organizations, teams, and individuals find the heart of what matters, helping them establish and cultivate the culture they envision. Her leadership coaching has also taken her into the fields of international development, education, advocacy for the aging, entrepreneurs in impact-driven business, and film production.
Stephen Kotev, MS, ACC
Engaging with established leaders across the government and corporate sectors.
Stephen is sought out for his warmth, insight, and commitment to his clients. His shoulder-to-shoulder approach to leadership coaching draws from over three decades of experience in Conflict Resolution and Embodiment. Utilizing aspects of Negotiation, Men’s Work, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Aikido, Embodied Peacemaking, and Somatic Abolitionism. He distills this experience down into key questions that surface the source of your challenges and the insight that will unlock meaningful action.
Stephen has worked with clients from throughout the Federal Government, including the National Institutes of Health, TSA, Department of Veterans Affairs, Smithsonian, and numerous others. His private sector clients range from within the corporate world and nonprofits to small and family-owned businesses. He also has experience internationally in Northern Ireland, Canada, Germany, and the Gulf states.
Stephen enjoys working with new and established leaders who are hungry for change and willing to invest in their own growth and development in service of their goals and our greater good.Get in Touch with Us!
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