“My coach played a remarkable role in my career and personal development during a relatively challenging time, in a relatively short time...His energy met me where I was, kept holding a mirror to my mindset and actions, kept moving me gently but firmly on the path to working on the right, tough stuff, and helped me see and experience some big insights about myself.”
— Participant, MLT Senior Executive Leader Fellowship

What is Coaching

Coach as Catalyst

The role of the coach is to help the client stay true to their goals, objectives, and commitments. For us, a coach is a catalyst. A coach does not develop people, a coach equips people to develop themselves.

Inquiry

Entering into a coaching relationship involves entering into a context of change and growth. Together, the partnership creates an environment for something to be different, whether that is attitude, perspective, thinking or action. The inquiry context represents the powerful process of deepening the learning. It is a process of discovery and curiosity. The coach asks: What does that mean for you? What is incomplete for you? What would make a difference?

“Building trust and gradually digging into the tough problems I was facing, having my coach constantly challenge me, feeling like I was not getting anywhere at first then realizing momentum was building and I was changing. It was positive stuff - really meaningful.”
— Senior Director, T&P, Salesforce.com

Program Details

1:1 Coaching

The coaching program consists of six 1-hour long sessions with your dedicated coach. The coachee and the coach work together to define development goals, explore options, and implement actions. The coach guides a process where the coachee systematically explores current conditions and the path forward to develop higher clarity, alignment, impact and commitment, through the series of targeted 1:1 meetings. The cadence of sessions will be determined upon mutual agreement between the coach and coachee - typically once every 3 - 4 weeks.

Program Pricing
Coaching Package: Six 1:1 Coaching Sessions $4,800

Payment

Googlers who want to take advantage of this additional package of coaching sessions are ultimately responsible for the cost of the coaching package. However, Googlers can leverage Google's Education Reimbursement program (Hall Pass) to receive as much as two-thirds of the cost as a reimbursement for qualifying job-related training. Googlers can visit go/hallpass-info for more information.

About Our Coaches

One Size Doesn’t Fit all

Each coaching relationship is unique; coaching is not an exact science. What one person needs is quite different than what another person needs both in hours as well as form and content. Many factors affect the coaching process, including the barriers that the person is trying to overcome as well as their current and future responsibilities and assignments. Each client’s program is customized around numerous factors, and will be unique in its execution.

Though each of our coaches has their own individual style, and customizes each coaching relationship based on the need of their client, all of our coaches utilize the same fundamental processes from our Active Communicating® methodology and coaching certification program.

When you sign up for your coaching package below, please select the coach you would like to work with. You are welcome to work with a coach that was different than the one you worked with for your initial two sessions that were covered by the Strategic Accounts Academy program. If your desired coach is not listed, please input their name under "Other coach requested," and we will update you on that coach's availability.

Coach Bios

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Mehmet Sevinç, MBA
Mehmet Sevinç, MBA

Director of Business Development
Faculty & Executive Coach

Mehmet Sevinç is the Director of Business Development at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, where he oversees establishing and enhancing new and existing partnerships both locally and globally. He is also a communications consultant, lecturer and an executive coach with a consulting background in business intelligence.

Mehmet’s business intelligence consulting background enabled him to work in various different industries such as energy, financial services, non-profit, higher education, biotech, pharmaceutical, technology, Internet Security and social networking. He is a certified Oracle Hyperion Developer. He managed local and offshore teams and worked in three different continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

After participating in a two-day workshop with Dr. Mark Rittenberg and his team in August 2013, which included sharing leadership stories, dreams and aspirations with his colleagues, Mehmet became a big fan of Mark’s teaching methods and decided to quit his business intelligence career and moved into leadership development training with Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute. He has been working a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley with Dr. Rittenberg. He has also taught at University of California, Davis and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Mehmet holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a BA in Business Administration from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is a certified executive coach from the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute. He received a certificate in Managing Implicit Bias from UC Berkeley.

Mehmet won two national sailing championships in his homeland Turkey. He was the captain of the Turkish National Sailing Team between 2001 and 2004. In 2016, he completed Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon in San Francisco. In 2017, he finished Santa Rosa Half Ironman Triathlon and became an Ironman.

Amelia Kusar, MBA
Amelia Kusar, MBA

Director of Operations

Faculty & Executive Coach

Amelia Kusar graduated with her MBA from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in 2018, where she served as Commencement Speaker and Student Association President. She now serves as an Assistant Lecturer at Haas, teaching classes in the undergraduate program, the Evening & Weekend and Executive MBA programs, and in Executive Education. Amelia is Director of Operations at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, where she also serves as a faculty member and executive coach.

Prior to joining Berkeley ECI, Amelia spent over a decade in the performing arts, where she worked with the world’s top classical musicians and most prestigious concert halls.

Amelia spent seven years at the San Francisco Symphony, in the Communications of Marketing departments. At the Symphony, she executed high-profile public relations campaigns for the Orchestra’s largest programs, developed and executed marketing strategies for season subscriptions, and was selected to manage a large-scale audience development initiative. She has extensive experience in public relations, marketing, audience development, operations, and change management.

Amelia received her Bachelor of Music Degree from New York University, where she studied Clarinet and Bass Clarinet and graduated magna cum laude. During her undergraduate years, she also played many professional gigs around New York City.

Amelia has a particular passion for change management, both in organizations and for the self. She brings a boundlessly warm and encouraging energy to her coaching sessions, and believes strongly in the power of holding space for others to self-reflect and develop their own solutions. She draws on her experiences in music performance, public speaking, horseback riding, and other athletics to help others fine-tune their physical, mental, and emotional awareness.

Amelia grew up in Skokie, Illinois. When not working, you can most likely find her at the stable hanging out with her oversized puppy dog of a horse, Pluto, who she loves to pieces even though he gives her lots of injuries! Some of her other passions include working with people with disabilities, tennis, exploring museums, reading textbooks for fun, and constantly challenging herself to learn something new.

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Tanya Chavez
Tanya Chavez

Executive Coach

As an executive coach, Tanya partners with her clients to design a leadership practice tailored to fit them. Leadership looks different on everyone but the one common thread effective leaders have is authenticity. She helps her clients uncover their unique leadership style to amplify their impact.

Tanya brings a diverse toolkit and perspective from over 20 years of coaching, practicing, and studying leadership to compliment her clients’ expertise and background. She is an assistant lecturer for Leadership Communications at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where she creates a space for MBA students to try on different communication techniques to level up their presentation, feedback, and storytelling skills. Tanya also spent ten years leading sales & operations planning, demand, supply chain, and software implementation initiatives for E&J Gallo Winery’s international business unit and G3 Enterprises, a leading supplier and service provider to the beverage and agriculture industry. Prior to her career in business, Tanya had the privilege of serving as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer in Japan, Qatar, and all over the U.S.

Born and raised in Seoul, Korea and growing up in a multicultural home ignited a passion in Tanya to build high performing teams with people from diverse backgrounds. She has seen firsthand how diversity of thought builds strength in organizations and in individuals. She believes that a leader’s responsibility is to create an environment where people can bring their full selves to work in order to maximize each person’s potential which in turn generates the most creative solutions.

Tanya has an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a BS in Behavioral Science from the United States Air Force Academy where she also served as a parachute instructor and was a competitive skydiver.

When she's not working, you'll find Tanya out on the ski slopes; spending time with her husband, two boys, and dog; or planning her next travel adventure.

"Tanya has been great at helping me challenge my current "status quo" and her questioning and probing really helped me get my thoughts organized - plus she has a fantastic attitude that is contagious and is super easy to relate to."

Thomas Fitzpatrick
Thomas Fitzpatrick

Facilitator and Executive Coach

Thomas is an executive coach and leadership development educator. He believes deeply in the human capacity for meaningful growth and helping his clients and students grow is what drives him.

As an executive coach, Thomas helps his clients identify their goals and plot paths to reach them. Often obstacles obstruct these paths or new paths must be forged and it can seem difficult to make progress toward our goals. Thomas works with clients to help them unlock potential—to explore, spot, and overcome the obstacles. Using a non-directive approach rooted more in inquiry than advice, Thomas helps clients view challenges with new perspective in order to find approaches that fit their unique situations.

As a leadership development educator, Thomas strives to empower each student to more powerfully connect with the people in their lives by developing their communications skills. To develop these skills, Thomas identifies each person’s unique strengths and areas for growth. He then works with them to bring about that growth through experience so that key lessons are not just understood but cemented in tangible life experiences from which they can draw. Developing each person’s unique abilities in this way cultivates the authentic leader within.

Thomas is a lecturer at both UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where he teaches Coaching and Communications classes for MBA students, and Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, where he teaches Communications for master and doctorate students. His clients span organizations that include: Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, Quip, Adobe, Fastly, Booking.com, Western Digital, Applied Materials, KPMG, Pacific Gas & Electric, Lawrence Berkeley and Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, etc.

Thomas has 15+ years of experience in the technology sector working in start-up as well as pre- and post-IPO environments. He has held positions in Operations, Business Development, Product Management, and Strategic Partnerships and he has led multicultural, globally-distributed teams. He has roots in education, having taught high school Latin and Ancient Greek prior to his business career. He holds an MBA and a Certificate in Executive Coaching from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a BA in Classics from College of the Holy Cross.

"Thomas is pragmatic, down to business and is a great fit for me (both my role and personality). Together we come up with action items to keep me accountable. He is great at helping me spot "opportunities" without making me feel bad about myself. I feel very lucky to be working with him!"

Michelle Florendo
Michelle Florendo

Executive Coach

Michelle Florendo is a decision engineer and coach for Type-A professionals. She is known for her analytical approach to coaching - with a BS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Michelle uses a blend of decision engineering, design thinking, and lean startup principles to help her clients map their path forward.

Over the years Michelle has led workshops both domestically and internationally, showing hundreds of driven professionals how to use concepts from decision engineering to help them thrive in work and life by getting their heads and hearts on the same page. She has spoken at several conferences and has guest-taught on career decision making in Stanford's famous Design Your Life course. She served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin's altMBA, was a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council, spent years a Senior Coach for Management Leadership for Tomorrow, coaches for Startup Parent, and is an adjunct faculty member at New Ventures West.

Michelle has 1500+ hours of coaching experience spanning almost a decade. She has a Certified Executive Coaching credential from UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, a Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coaching Federation, and an Integral Coaching certification from New Ventures West. Michelle is based in Oakland, CA, with her partner and two young children. She enjoys hip-hop dance, growing food with her kids, making costumes, and eating delicious food.

"Michelle was a master at unpacking my development challenges and helping me create clear tactical plans to manage these areas. She is an amazing listener and she was able to share frameworks, skills and tactics to help me align my values with my goals."

Alison Godfrey
Alison Godfrey

Executive Coach

Alison Godfrey is a dynamic, highly effective, and goal-oriented professional change agent with a diverse background directing various leadership development and growth initiatives. She has consistently leveraged her skills in the advancement, implementation, and administration of sustainable improvement strategies delivering enhanced efficiency, performance, and effectiveness. Her talent for providing transformational leadership to drive the accomplishment of operational excellence has served as a consistent catalyst to her success. Alison is recognized as a highly effective communicator capable of cultivating partnerships across all lines of business to promote cohesive business practice and high-impact outcomes.

Over the past 45 years, she has been both an entrepreneur and an experienced corporate C-suite executive. Her background includes founding and successfully leading international start-ups in various fields ranging from health, metallurgy, and condensed matter physics. As CEO for Concentric Advisors, TX she developed and led a team of top physicists, electrochemists, and material scientists to create the premier research laboratory in the field, worldwide. She founded and was CEO for Energetics Technologies in Israel where she established highly successful cooperative research projects with Italy’s nuclear research laboratory (ENEA) as well as SRI in CA, funded by grants from DARPA (U.S. Defense Projects Research Agency). Alison has worked closely with some of the world’s most influential individuals in technology, business leadership, and philanthropy.

Her vast corporate experience has led her to executive coaching and innovative leadership development. Alison’s warmth and personal approach facilitates individuals to shift their thinking, challenge paradigms, remove blocks, and ultimately change behaviors which leads to self-awareness, confidence, a positive impact on community, and success.

Alison obtained her Certificate of Business Excellence from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and her certification as an Executive Coach from the Berkeley Coaching Institute. She is an Assistant Lecturer at the Haas School of Business teaching Executive Leadership and Communication to Executive MBA candidates.

"Alison knows how to communicate and push folks to do the best possible work they can. She helps me to understand how I can affect and control my environment."

Samuel Hon
Samuel Hon

Executive Coach

Samuel Hon is a CEO, lecturer and certified executive coach who brings over 17 years of marketing and C-level management experience to his coaching practice. He has provided executive coaching and leadership program facilitation to multi-cultural and international executives from organizations such as Apple and Google. He also taught leadership communications MBA classes as an Assistant Lecturer at UC Berkeley - Haas School of Business.

Currently, he serves as CEO of a 30-year-old risk management and regulatory technology compliance firm, where he led the company to achieve the highest revenue and EBITA growth in company history. Samuel was appointed as CEO to transform company culture and to oversee all business functions including finance, technology, operations, marketing, sales and product management. He was named to the Sacramento Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 and Sacramento Magazine’s Top 100 Notable Business Leaders. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and the Pacific Leadership Group.

Samuel served two terms as President of the American Advertising Federation - Sacramento and he has been honored with over a dozen marketing and design awards. Samuel is a Stanford Certified Project Manager, Pragmatic Management Certified, ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Berkeley Certified Executive Coach. He holds a B.S. in Journalism - Strategic Communication with honors and distinction from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has also completed executive education programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and The Wharton School.

Born and raised in Hong Kong and now based in California, Samuel brings his diverse, cross-cultural and C-level management experience to help individuals unlock their potential and become authentic leaders.

"Samuel played a remarkable role in my career and personal development during a relatively challenging time, in a relatively short time. Samuel's energy met me where I was, kept holding a mirror to my mindset and actions, kept moving me gently but firmly on the path to working on the right, tough stuff, and helped me see and experience some big insights about myself. I am so grateful to Samuel."

Valerie Hope
Valerie Hope

Facilitator & Executive Coach

Valerie Hope, a distinguished leadership coach and dynamic speaker, stands out with her insatiable curiosity and creative spirit. With a remarkable travel history to over 30 countries and living with 400+ host families, Valerie's global experiences fuel her unique coaching approach.

For 25 years, she has dedicated her career to supporting leaders worldwide, to foster consciousness, connection, and creativity by delving into the powerful realm of subconscious beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors. Clients gain purpose, authentic self-expression, and a renewed sense of aliveness that support them in overcoming challenges and manage stress, create harmony in their relationships, and unleash problem-solving and innovation. In both workshops and one-on-one sessions, she goes beyond data, shining a light on what truly matters.

With a rich client portfolio spanning technology, education, government, hospitality, and finance, Valerie pivoted to entrepreneurship in 2018, now is the CEO of her own company, Connect to Joy, LLC. She received her executive coaching certification at UC Berkeley and has the certifications to work with the inner world of her clients as a facilitator of the HeartMath® Institute and PSYCH-K® methodologies.

A native Spanish speaker from Panama, her playfulness shines on the tennis court, improv stage, and in her community choir. Valerie Hope's passion empowers leaders to new heights, igniting positive change and lasting legacies. Her dynamic and joyous approach continues to inspire leaders globally, guiding transformative journeys with a mere touch of her creativity.

"Valerie always brings a calm and authoritative sense of presence to our meetings while being deeply caring. Her style is grounded, clear, practical, and really holds the space for you to understand yourself and your intents and actions at work more clearly."

Corbin Whittington
Corbin Whittington

Executive Coach

Corbin has over 38 years of broad industry experience in engineering and manufacturing within the public, private and government sectors. He has over 15 years of senior executive experience in multiple companies including multi-national, Fortune 500 and privately held firms. Corbin’s technical expertise was strategically focused on product and process development, scale-up, and optimization. His extensive business expertise included mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, organizational change management, restructuring and reorganization.

In addition to past professional successes Corbin has always been dedicated to a life of service to his community where he served on Boards and worked extensively one-on-one with disadvantaged youth. His passion of mentoring underrepresented youth, college students, entrepreneurs and emerging professionals continues to this day in his role as an Executive Coach and Managerial Consultant. Corbin believes that through the advanced techniques of Executive Coaching people are empowered with an enhanced self-efficacy to accelerate towards their goals with vigor and focused intention. He believes that an unencumbered mind with a clear objective vision is the direct pathway to success.

In addition to Executive Coaching, Corbin currently serves as a consultant with the Executive Services Corps of the Triangle providing consultative services to Boards of Directors of Non-Profit Organizations. Corbin also serves on the Board of Directors of the GBS/CIDP Foundation International and as President of the Board of Directors of the JA Grifols Foundation.

Corbin has a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from North Carolina A&T University, as well as an M.S. Degree in Engineering Management from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds several certifications from the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Executive Coach from UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.

"Wise, informative, capable, reliable, trustworthy, interesting, inspiring, effective voice, and great to learn from."

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