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The Coaching Guild Leverages the Power of Community
The Coaching Guild Leverages the Power of Community
The Coaching Guild was founded by Lisa M. Hayes.
Lisa has been a coach for more than twenty years and has a decade of experience training and mentoring coaches.
With a background in Hypnotherapy and Behavioral Health Science, Lisa specializes in relationship work, brain and behavioral science, science-based deliberate creation principles, and coaching mechanics.
Lisa always said if she won the lottery, she’d be coaching from a sunny beach somewhere. Although, she hasn’t yet won the lottery, since moving to Mexico, she’s living the dream coaching from the beach a lot of the time.
Lisa loves activism and is committed to doing what it takes to see change in the world. She has worked on issues like reducing police brutality through legislative reform and finding community-based solutions for homelessness.
Lisa’s favorite title is wife and mother. She and her husband have two boys, five dogs, five chickens, and two love birds. In case you’re wondering the love birds rule the house.
You can learn more about Lisa at www.lisamhayes.com.
Guest Faculty
Otherwise known as the best of the best
Iyabo Onipede
Cultural Competency
Iyabo is a facilitator, keynote speaker, and consultant for organizations that are ready to eliminate racism, dismantle oppressive systems and grow equitable cultures. Iyabo’s customized, high touch workshops allow for deep dives into the heart of race, inclusion, equity and racial justice. Her work opens pathways forward for organizational communities to build just and equitable environments by teaching with a carefully curated curriculum, creating learning spaces for guided self-reflection and
facilitating challenging exchanges. Iyabo is simply a community builder.
Iyabo is a qualified administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and a certified Emotional Intelligence Coach (EQi 2.0). She graduated from Goucher College (B.A.), Georgetown University Law School (J.D.) and Candler School of Theology at Emory University (M.Div.). She also serves as the Co-Director of a nonprofit organization, Compassionate Atlanta, where she has so much fun loving on her community and where she is the most comfortable in her own skin.
Kevin Anthony Johnson
Emotional Literacy and Intelligence
Kevin Anthony Johnson (Coach KJ) was adopted and raised in the Midwest, where he overcame the downward pull of homelessness in Detroit as a young person and forged his own way as an entrepreneur, creative and trusted advisor to leaders from Chicago to Israel to Shanghai.
As an executive coach to public servants, startups, teams and executives at billion dollar companies, KJ brings his signature style of heart, challenge and personal excellence to everyone he interacts with. He deftly weaves living systems, neuroscience and emotional fitness into a bold approach to personal and collective transformation.
KJ earned his certification as an evidence-based coach from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California and holds certifications for Transformational Leadership, Coaching and Social & Emotional Intelligence from Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential. He currently serves on the local & national boards of @826CHI, a nonprofit centered on amplifying the voice of our youth. He's the author of two books, an artist, Haiku aficionado, marathoner and philosopher—but most proudly he’s the father of three curious young adults who are making their own kind of change in the world.
Goza Parks
Trauma Informed Coaching in the Real World
Gozá Parks, a Chicago native, brings a unique and vibrant approach to the world of coaching and education. She is a Depaul Psychology graduate and a Coaching Guild Alumni. Gozá is thrilled to return to her alma mater as a guest instructor to share her passion for fun, relatable and accessible education.
For five years, Gozá was passionately dedicated to education and youth development. She served as a teaching artist, program and workshop facilitator and coordinator, motivational speaker, and trainer. Her commitment to education is further exemplified by her Feminine Empowerment Coaching Certification from The Progressive Love Academy. Her mission is to decolonize education, infusing it with creativity and joy, while always connecting with the inner child who dwells inside of each student.
In addition to her work with children and teens, Gozá spent a decade in the hospitality industry, where she polished her training, teaching and consulting skills. Her dynamic background equips her with a versatile toolkit to engage learners of all ages and backgrounds. Whether in a classroom or a cozy coffee shop, Gozá is eager to inspire, empower, and help individuals discover the glimmers of delight on their educational journey.
Tracy McNeme Carrothers
Coaching Ethics
Tracy Carrothers wants to live in a world where all women are welcomed to expand instead of required to shrink-- where they aren’t silenced, sidelined, or defined by the narrow roles, responsibilities, and standards society prescribes. She is a passionate creative, coach, facilitator, writer, and former attorney.
Tracy is a coach, facilitator, creative, former attorney, expat, mom and adventurer living in Taipei Taiwan.
After a sabbatical from her coaching work due to a little rumble with breast cancer, she is back and ready to go. Over the next few months, she is expanding her work through in-person groups, online courses, writing, and more. That work will center on fiercely advocating for women to make space for themselves so that they can live fully into who they are.
A mini- workbook for ex-pat/"trailing" spouses can be found on her Instagram and Facebook pages as well as other art and musings on living abroad, fitness, body love, mindset, and the not so occasional photo of her dogs and kids.
Samuel Moreno
Understanding Sexual and Gender Identity
Sam Moreno received a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from Seattle University in 2013. He primarily focused on Gender and Sexuality studies, as well as Social Linguistics. His passion for comprehensive education and advocacy related to gender and sexuality began as a teenager, as a peer to peer sexuality educator through Planned Parenthood.
Since receiving his degree, Sam has been active in police accountability advocacy, while approaching anti-racism movements through the lens of gender and sexuality intersectionality. He has also provided counsel to political campaigns when connecting the links between the intersections of gender, sexuality, race and class.
Sam currently lives in San Francisco’s Mission district while continuing to be active in police accountability activism and the Black Live Matter movements. He has also established a group that hopes to provide education and accountability in recovery and sobriety communities.
As a recovering alcoholic and addict, Sam is acutely aware of the problematic nature of treatment and recovery cultures that remain institutionally sexist, homophic, transphobic and racist.
In his spare time Sam enjoys watching films, pop culture and hosting dinner parties.
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Gates
Organic Marketing and Social Engagement
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Gates is a transformational coach inspired by her devotion to Vesta and shaped by years of stage craft as an actor.
Jacqui’s work shifts the home into a place of reinvention and liberation, turning housework into home care and a practical expression of self care, empowerment and reinvention.
Jacqui brings the authentic sparkle of the divine to the process of tending the future self through tending the home. She helps her clients to meet the next greatest version of themselves and anchor that new self through simple and practical home care rituals and processes.
Biljana Djordjevic Vishnagara
Human Design
Biljana is a licensed clinical social worker and Human Design coach. She combines the power of Human Design and mindset to help established coaches eliminate self doubt and break through the money ceiling.
From her social work background, she brings the perspective of inherent worthiness and respect for clients’ self determination that allows them to experience a deeper, self-empowered transformation.
She is a wife, a mom of two, currently living in sunny Florida, and not at all pretending that she misses cold and snow she grew up with in her home country, Serbia.
Kathy Stanton-Cozonac, PMHNP-BC
Mental Health in the Coaching Process
Kathy is a board-certified Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who earned undergraduate degrees in Historical Russian Musicology from New College in Florida, and in Nursing from Kennesaw State University. She completed graduate education in Nursing at Duke University.
Kathy worked as a Registered Nurse in hospitals around Atlanta, with extensive experience in NICU, mother-baby, psychiatry, and both pediatric and adult acute care. She has been adjunct nursing faculty at Mercer University for over 5 years. Kathy transitioned into psychiatric care after seeing the distinct challenges patients experience in accessing equitable, quality care in mental health. She is passionate about increasing access to quality care, especially in preventative care, underserved populations, and early stages of symptom onset.
Kathy’s first career took her to Eastern Europe, where she lived for several years teaching English as a foreign language and volunteering with women rescued from human trafficking. From this experience, she is near-fluent in Romanian and enjoys exploring how culture intersects with mental and emotional health. In her free time, Kathy enjoys traveling, yoga, horseback riding, and spending time with the 3 amazing humans she’s lucky enough to parent.
Staff
Abdul Rahman
Admin and Technical Operations
A Teacher, Husband and CEO of HashStack Technologies. Top Rated Freelancer on Upwork with six year Web development Experience. Love to do Gaming, Research in information security, traveling.