Ira Chaleff is the founder and president of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates. He has been named one of the top 100 leadership thinkers by Executive Excellence Magazine. He practices the high-stakes art of helping talented people prepare for and succeed in senior level roles. Whether working in the public sector with Senior Executive Service leaders or in the private sector with CEOs and leadership teams, he brings clarity to core success issues, and provides savvy and supportive guidance in tackling them.

To organizations and individuals adjusting to recent, current or anticipated change, Emily Barnes brings the strategic focus and competencies gained during fifteen years of diverse experience with various leadership, relationship, performance and communication challenges.Ms. Barnes helps clients create and implement new success strategies. She coaches diverse professionals to align their individual achievements to organizational goals identify critical success factors for both, and streamline essential job functions.

David Grau is an executive and leadership coach in Bethesda, MD, with an in-depth consulting background in organization development and change management. He has over 17 years of coaching and consulting experience in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors. For 9 years he served on the Senior Leadership Team at the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), one of the Centers of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responsible for the safety of the nation’s food supply.

Kari Uman, Senior Associate of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates in Fairfax, VA, has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a coach, consultant, and trainer. Her particular experience and interest in gender issues, and their impact on relationships and performance, enables her to help individuals change behaviors that are undermining their best efforts. As a professionally certified coach, Uman’s approach and methodology has helped executives and managers enhance leadership skills,

Rosa María Barreiro is an innovative leader, business strategist and change agent with an extensive background and success in global operating environments throughout the USA and Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Rosa María has repeatedly been recruited to design and execute change management, employee engagement, leadership development and performance improvement initiatives for a wide variety of organizations and companies. Rosa María has held senior positions in Europe and America,

Mandeep partners with leaders who want to bring their own vision and passions into service for the world. This necessarily means deep inner work – increasing self-awareness and personal mastery, taking ownership and accountability, and expanding the ability to influence people and networks from within the system. While this may sound like hard work, in practice it tends to be completely natural, energizing, satisfying and fun. “Serious” and “impactful” are not correlated. Mandeep’s natural style is gentle, and his clients and he tend to forge long term, easy, trusted partnerships.

After fifteen years of coaching and consulting experience and over twenty five years of leadership experience at different organizational levels, Marsha Hughes-Rease partners with senior leaders and managers to address what she calls “swamp issues”, those really messy and complex challenges that can greatly diminish productivity, stakeholder satisfaction, financial performance and personal effectiveness in any organization. As a coach, Marsha partners with her clients to help them “leverage” their strengths, enhance their executive presence.

Beverly Jones helps executives bring new productivity to their organizations, and works with professionals to restructure and re-energize their work lives. Throughout her varied career, Bev has engaged in leadership and change management activities, and today she coaches accomplished professionals and executives who want to become more effective. Bev is an attorney who served for 13 years as Vice President of External Affairs and Policy of Consolidated Natural Gas Company, a Fortune 500 energy company and parent of four gas utilities.

As a catalyst for change and transformation, Cyndi Radke works with clients to apply management and innovation concepts to build stronger individuals, teams and organizations. She is a certified coach and consultant who has 30+ years’ experience as a business leader in start-ups and F500 companies in the High Tech, Hospitality, Government Consulting and Performance Improvement industries.   Cyndi’s clients often comment on her knack for helping them identify meaningful goals, which create more freedom, higher income, greater business results, and enhanced peace of mind.  As a coach she helps her clients be more successful and happier, using the quickest, most efficient path possible while enabling them to become the truly authentic person they want to be, help them uncover their untapped potential and to support them in achieving the challenging goals they thought were impossible to attain.

Edna Primrose 20 years of executive expertise, leading comprehensive programs in organizational management, workforce development, and community development in the public and private sectors. During her 10-year tenure as a Federal Senior Executive, she served in administrator and chief operating officer positions in the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Labor for multi-billion-dollar programs in youth education, water infrastructure, public-private partnerships, and administrative operations. As a private sector executive in multiple industry sectors, Ms. Primrose managed complex programs, developed leadership and organizational structures for growing companies, and led major policy initiatives. She is active on multiple boards, including boards at her alma mater, Towson University, MD, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration. She is passionate about incorporating lifelong learning, growing leaders, creating community, and cultivating lasting impact in her consultancies.