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 Andrea Chilcote
Andrea Chilcote is founder of Morningstar Ventures, with over fourteen successful years of experience providing solutions for performance change management. Her specialties include leadership development, performance improvement, and communication tools for teams and individuals.
She has produced and documented uncommonly successful results with a wide variety of fortune 500 companies in diverse business sectors. Andrea works in close collaboration with senior management to meet the challenges presented by the hyper-competitive environment of business today. Business sectors include:
- Media: News, Entertainment, Sports
- Telecommunications
- Public Utilities
- Consumer Sales and Distribution
- Production
- Insurance
- Financial Services
- Technology
Andrea received her Bachelor of Science from Millikin University, her Consulting Practices Certification from the Meridian Institute, and she completed graduate studies at University of Kentucky, Lexington.
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Andrea Chilcote is recognized industry-wide, having authored numerous development programs such as:
- LeaderShift – Transforming the Face of Leadership
- Coaching Agility
- High Impact Coaching
- Peer Partnering Program
- Impact Communication
- It’s About Time
- Leaders Link – Collaborative Coaching for Performance
- Reality Workshop for Leaders
- Leadership Breakthrough – A Group Performance Process
Plus articles such as:
- Leading in Uncertainty - An insightful look into how leaders can engage their people toward a positive vision of the future.
- The Work-Life “Balance” Conundrum - New thinking about “balance” from four professionals who live the challenge daily.
- Déjà vu - A macro look at training and organizational development ROI.
Email Andrea:
andrea@morningstarventures.com
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Karla Boyd
Karla Boyd, Ph.D. brings experience as a coach, teacher, therapist, group facilitator and community resource developer. The diversity of her practice includes teaching a wide range of topics at Universities, to individuals and to groups that reflect a cross section of society.
Karla is simultaneously powerful and compassionate, intuitive and practical. Her passion involves helping clients identify and pursue their own passions. She designs and delivers leading edge personal development workshops that create transformational change in individuals.
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 Suzanne Ficquette
Suzanne Ficquette brings 19 years of consulting experience to the Morningstar team. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Organizational Communication. Her client base is in the lumber and building industry, the insurance and financial services industry and as well she has worked with the Coca-Cola Company in Florida.
Suzanne frequently lectures on suicide intervention to local colleges and other organizations. She lives in Florida with her husband and two teenage children.
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 Carol Horner
Carol has extensive experience in both the design and facilitation of alignment initiatives in corporations, small businesses and non-profit organizations. Her efforts create a direct connection between the vision, values and strategies of a company and the day to day activities of their people.
Carol's style is engaging and
impactful. She believes that in order to affect positive and productive changes in people's attitudes, behaviors, and relationships, you need to actively involve them in their learning process. Based on this principle, she designs and delivers state-of-the-art experiential exercises that produce lasting change.
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Lisa Jackson
During Lisa Jackson’s 20 years working in the human performance business, her unique combination of honesty, humor, and directness has inspired hundreds of people to exceed their desired performance goals.
She successfully managed two businesses through significant growth and profitability, focusing on building commitment, accountability, and loyalty among individuals and teams.
Lisa’s current focus is on helping business leaders commit to realistic and sustainable steps to achieving their vision and reducing communication gridlock in organizations.
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Marie Louise LaFond
Marie Louise has over 20 years of experience as a leader within the telecommunications and insurance industries. Her hands-on experience in both corporate and field office settings gives her a working knowledge of the many business challenges that confront her clients. Marie Louise’s talent for helping people discover and apply common sense solutions to business issues helps her partner with her clients, facilitate effective group meetings and present training that gets results. Her areas of expertise include teambuilding, leadership training, business planning as well as organizational design and implementation.
Marie Louise holds a Master of Science in Organizational behavior providing a foundation of academic theory and best practices that support her practical approach.
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 Betsy Pickren
Betsy Pickren, MS. Ed., CPCC spent 13 years with one of the nation’s largest training and consulting firms where she helped create the training and consulting division, and managed the group responsible for serving the needs of more than 3000 clients.
In addition to a Masters Degree in Adult Education, she is certified by many of the nation’s leading experts in change management, team development, personal growth and organization development.
Betsy’s talents are broad, but her passion is coaching. In addition to her professional work in this area she volunteers in community and non-profit projects and is a mentor for Georgia 100, a prestigious mentoring program for women in business.
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Gerry L. Schmidt
Gerry Schmidt, PhD brings over 29 years of experience to his work as a consultant, coach, and trainer; helping organizations improve business results through people. He has spent his career studying the predictable behavioral and thought processes of exceptional leaders.
Gerry offers three significant distinctions in the consulting field:
- Deliver results rather than advice
- Strengthen the capabilities of clients, rather than create dependency
- Find the smallest solution to make the biggest difference.
In addition to his work as a consultant he has served as Executive Vice President of Arc International, a consulting firm specializing in large scale organizational change; is the author of a best-selling Nightingale-Conant audio program, and has been a senior trainer and consultant for an internationally renowned professional training company.
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John Stoker
John has a wide spectrum of consulting experience in a variety of industries: electric utility, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, banking, telecommunications, aerospace, and state government. Much of his experience is centered in deep-change interventions, which focus on creating a vital culture. Because the primary goal of such intervention work is continuous improvement to assure organizational vitality, John possesses strong professional competence in creating and implementing programs in leadership development, mental model shifting, performance management, dialogue, rewards and recognition, and change leadership. He is also an experienced one-on-one coach in communications and leadership development.
He holds advanced degrees in Organizational Behavior and Development as well as Law, and he has taught at Brigham Young University for the past 13 years. John authored the program “DialogueWorks.”
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 Deborah Sparks
Deb’s outstanding work as a classroom facilitator is the result of business practice rather than business theory. She has extensive experience leading sales force development, interpersonal and customer service skills, and coaching skills for managers within a rapidly changing call center environment.
Deb’s industry focus is Wireless Telecom including Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS, Nextel, Cingular as well as mass media companies such as Turner Broadcasting.
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 Linda Tennant
Linda Tennant has a passion and talent for helping individuals and business leaders create positive change in the areas of Strategic Planning, Personal and Team Productivity, Goal Achievement and Leadership. Using a unique process, clients identify their desired outcomes, internal and external obstacles, and gain insights that lead to permanent behavior change. Linda believes that long term behavior change is a result of personal vision and buy-in, internal motivation, skill development, and accountability.
Formerly, Linda was Vice President of an international hotel chain. She proved herself in direct sales, after which she progressed into sales management and then branched further into training. She has trained over 2,000 hotel managers and salespeople throughout the world. Today Linda specializes in designing and delivering change programs in a variety of industries; most recently focused on the transportation industry.
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