BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Kellie Jenkins
kellie[at]kellie-jenkins.com
Kellie is a leadership coach and a leadership development consultant, with a focus on providing a safe space for leaders to discover what matters in their leadership and supporting them to take action to bring that to life. She works with clients in the corporate, public and non-profit sectors, and has a particular passion for helping professional working women to find their own unique path to thriving in all aspects of their lives.
Kellie trained as a leadership coach at Georgetown University in Washington DC and supports clients in their individual leadership journey with authentic presence, empathetic listening, genuine curiosity and gentle challenge.
With an MSc in Management and Organization from the University of Colorado, Denver and a Bachelor of Accounting from Monash University, Australia, Kellie also brings the structure and detail orientation of her accountant roots, and more than 15 years of experience in global professional services firms, to the design, delivery and management of global leadership programs for senior executives.
Australian born, Kellie embraces her identity as a global citizen, having had extensive experience living and working around the world. She is a professional working Mom, striving to balance leadership and life with her husband, daughter and a myriad of four-legged companions. Kellie also loves running, baking and making lists.
Membership Director
Jenya Kuvshinova
info[at]ekuvshinova.com
https://ekuvshinova.com
Jenya Kuvshinova, ACC is a cross-cultural Personal Development Coach. In her work as a coach, she creates unique spaces where wholehearted conversations take place and transformation can occur.
For past 9 years Jenya has been helping her clients to achieve clarity and confidence and empower them to create desired positive changes in their lives. She coaches seamlessly between cultures. Areas of expertise are emotional wellness, personal relationship at work, work/life balance, career transitions.
Her current coaching practice includes group mindfulness hikes and hiking coaching retreats in Colorado, Utah and other beautiful places.
Jenya holds a Master degree in Sociology and her previous business experience includes working in marketing for Coca-Cola and Sprint Telecom. Later she switched to the area of executive search and consulting working for top Russian and world agencies.
For 4 years Jenya worked as Alpine skiing races official for National championships, World and Europe Cups, as well as for Winter Olympics in 2014 and received Russian President’s Appreciation Award for this work.
Jenya is world-wide adventure traveler. She has been hiking, climbing, backpacking, skiing, rafting and canyoneering in Siberia, Middle Asia, China, Swiss Alps, Argentina and all across the United States for more than 30 years.
Credentialing Director
Kim Miles
kim[at]kimlmiles.com
https://kimlmiles.com/
Kim Miles, PCC, partners with executives, leaders, and business owners, to create a fulfilling career and life by supporting them in navigating external situations and internal mindset challenges. She has a master’s in organizational leadership, and certifications in mentor coaching and team coaching. Kim has worked with CEOs, CIOs, VPs, Presidents, Directors of Operations, managers and individual contributors in Fortune 100, midsized, and small organizations. She has over 1200 hours of coaching experience and has a goal of earning her MCC no later than Q1 of 2023.
Throughout Kim’s 20+ year career, she served in a variety of organizations in roles including internal coach, leadership development specialist, project manager, corporate account manager, technical recruiter, project engineer, contracts coordinator, and program controls analyst.
Marketing Director
Jennifer Gance
jennifer[at]jennifergance.com
www.jennifergance.com
Jennifer is a corporate coach, trainer and consultant. She began her own firm in August of 2019 and is devoted to raising consciousness in leadership and empowering women in corporate America. She has 20 years of experience in various corporate companies and has held many leadership roles during her tenure. Most notably, Lehman Brothers, commercial real estate and corporate finance.
Jennifer is a Certified Professional Coach through iPEC. She also holds a Master of Accountancy and a Bachelor of Business Management.
In her free time, she enjoys exercising, doing yoga, reading, volunteering, traveling and spending time with the important people in her life.
Treasurer
Douglas Slaybaugh, PCC, CPCC, CPA, CGMA
doug[at]thecpacoach.com
TheCPACoach.com
Doug serves as a coach to executives in a wide range of industries. His journey includes over twenty years within the accounting profession, with the greater part of his initiation spent with some of the largest firms in the world, as well as calls to adventure as controller, CFO, and entrepreneur. As a former audit partner, Doug has been through the trials and transformation that many professionals experience and has expertise in many of the skills necessary to be successful in the workplace.
Changed by his personal and professional experiences, and in embracing his strengths of empathy and compassion, Doug began a new chapter of his professional career, developing the skills, experience, and knowledge to become a premier coach for professionals.
Doug is certified as a coach through the International Coach Federation and Coaches Training Institute, as well being a CPA. He continues his path to serve professionals by creating engaging coaching relationships. These connections empower growth to exceed his client’s expectations of business, career, and life, as they strive to be their best self.
Doug lives and works in Littleton where he enthusiastically juggles time between coaching, date nights with his wife, parenting their two children and finding time for the occasional horror movie, skateboarding adventure, or comic book.
Professional Groups include: International Coach Federation, Coaches Training Institute, Institute of Coaching, American Institute of CPAs, Colorado Society of CPAs.
Communications Director
Becky Magnotta
becky[at]homesteadcoaching.com
www.homesteadcoaching.com
Becky Magnotta is a Senior Leadership Coach who listens, collaborates and influences to support senior leaders and their teams achieve their highest potential. She understands business and is known for coaching, mentoring, strategic development, relationship management and organizational development.
Her rich corporate career includes DISH Network, ICG Communications and Chevron. She was a member of Accounting, Finance Marketing, Sales Communication, Sales and Call Center Leadership Development and Talent Management teams. Her experience spans a variety of industries including pay-tv, telecom, energy, mining, non-profit and furniture retail industries.
Becky has served on the boards of the Association for Talent Development Rocky Mountain Chapter (ATD-RMC) and is currently Director of Communications for the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Colorado Chapter. She is currently the Chair of ATD’s 2021 Conference Program Advisory Committee and is an Ambassador for ICF’s Executive and Leadership Community of Practice.
Education Director
Barbara Alfors
Barbara[at]BarbaraAlfors.com
BarbaraAlfors.com
Barbara Alfors, ACC has been coaching for Barbara Alfors Coaching since 2016. Barbara’s coach training includes Co-Active Coaching, and boas partners’ PCC coaching program. Previously she has 20 years experience in architecture, with extensive experience leading teams, facilitating leadership meetings, managing architecture projects, and leading the office technical team.
Barbara’s passion is helping people to discover their own strengths and gain the confidence to move forward on their path. Barbara uses evidence-based coaching methods and the ICF core competencies to provide support to her clients as they discover new possibilities.
Barbara coaches using a whole person approach, combining various methodologies in order to support clients into discovery, clarity and inspired action. Barbara’s combined experience in the workplace and her extensive coach training positions her to be a highly effective coach in almost any situation, from supporting leadership and managers in reaching their next goals, to coaching around more personal goals such as clarifying their purpose and path.
Barbara is ACC credentialed from the ICF, is a certified via® coach, is a member of the International Coach Federation, and is a registered architect in California. Training with boas partners profoundly deepened her previous training completed with Co-Active Coaching.
Strategic Partnerships Director
Nancy Benthien
nbenthien[at]cultureinnovations.com
https://cultureinnovations.com
My path to this career has been somewhat circuitous (but it's all good!!). Starting out in a career as a geoscientist, I quickly realized that even with great enthusiasm for the earth, rocks, and technology, helping others reach for the stars in their own growth and development is a true calling and incredibly rewarding. I moved from technical roles in geophysics and geology through software consulting, sales, product management, leading teams, and heading a business line at a large tech firm. Through these series of steps in my career, I became aware of the difficulties people can have in being a truly effective leader, especially when coming from a STEM background. I decided I wanted to help others to develop their people skills.
I knew I needed to skill-up, so I continued my education by obtaining a coaching certification from Columbia University, and later completed my PCC from the ICF. I also hold an Advanced Certification for the Birkman assessment, a Master Certification for 6 Team Conditions' TDS, and other certifications in the Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI), Human Synergistics’ OCI/OEI Organizational Culture Index, Culture in the Workplace, and CultureActive.
Technology Director
Georg Apitz, PCC, CPCC
coaching[a]usebar.org
https://usebar.org
Georg Apitz is a Life|Coach. Since 2014, he has owned and operated his own coaching and consulting business. Georg has two decades of experience working in academia, Human-Computer Interaction, training, Software Architecture as well as the software start-up space. Georg has worked for non-profits, started his own software company and worked in leadership positions helping grow and expand software businesses across the globe, he has taught at the university level and corporate trainings across the globe.
Georg is a trained co-active coach. He also trained with Peter Bregman. Furthermore he is trained in Matrix Leadership, Deep Democracy, non-violent communication and Qigong. Certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF) as well as a Co-active Professionally Certified Coach (CPCC) with CTI. Georg holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Linguistics, an M.Sc. in Computer Science with focus on Human-Computer-Interaction. In a former career, he trained and worked as a cabinet maker and carpenter.
Georg's focus as a coach is on self-care and self-love as the foundation for any lasting change from within.
Administrative Director
Serge Devieux
serge[at]devieuxcoaching.com
DevieuxCoaching.com
After 40 years working in Emerging Markets, I am now an Executive Coach with a CPC accreditation (August 2020) from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and an ACC certification from the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Following an initial career as an Engineer, I have been CEO of financial institutions in the development, housing and banking sectors. During my 20-year career as part of the executive management team of the World Bank Group, I led successively the investment, business development, government and client relationship in Latin America, Asia and Africa. I consider myself a fair and result-minded leader, increasing the Group’s franchise with profitable investments in Emerging Markets while delivering sustainability and social impact. I also managed a multi-billion dollars Fund and helped raise $500 million from Asian institutional investors.
I lived and worked in Port-au-Prince, Washington, DC, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Singapore and Denver, CO. I hold a BS in Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, a Master of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. While deepening my executive coaching practice, I keep abreast of changes in the industry through professional associations and consulting work in the social impact field.
Past President
Chris Coward, MSW, PCC
chris[at]chriscoward.com
http://chriscoward.com
Christine “Chris” is a credentialed Leadership Coach and Facilitator with a focus on the health of the leader. She partners with individuals and teams in both large and small organizations, using her strengths based approach to improve their communication, productivity, leadership presence, and relationship management. Chris is an experienced seminar facilitator, using experiential learning along with her talent in creating a learning atmosphere of trust, fun, and personal/professional growth. Chris helps her coaching clients create and implement individualized plans to enhance their leadership skills. Some of the areas she has helped clients develop include: leadership courage, confidence, effective communication, team development, emotional intelligence, managing conflict, work-life integration, and stress management. Chris’ coaching and facilitation style is supportive and strength based. She uses evidence based positive psychology techniques and works to increase her client’s level of self-awareness. Her clients experience lasting behavior change in key areas as a result of working with Chris.
Chris is the Vice President of Coaching Services for the HabitChange Company (www.habitchangecoach.com) where she recruits, trains and manages contracted coaches who coach individuals and groups in healthcare and other non-medical programs. She co-developed a 125-hour coach training program that has been taught at the university level, in organizations and virtually.
Chris received her Bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her Masters in Social Work from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She earned the Certified MentorCoach (CMC) certification from MentorCoach and received her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialing from the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is trained in the Core Values Index, Emotional and Social Competence Inventory, Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) and uses other models and assessments as well. Chris is a member of the ICF and served on the board for ICF Philadelphia from 2008-2010. She has served as Board President of the Professional Referral Exchange Philadelphia Center City Chapter, a networking group for entrepreneurs. For fun, Chris plays bass guitar in a local rock band in Denver, CO and loves to be in nature with her husband and dog.