We are seasoned business leaders with proven records of success in driving change, growing businesses and managing enterprises. The integration of our deep development work enables us to support our clients to make lasting change that improves business results, employee engagement and personal fulfillment. We believe in the power of personal responsibility and social citizenship. Business, in our view, has an opportunity to integrate both and become the primary driver of positive change in the world. With that in mind, we take a pragmatic developmental approach by focusing on concrete next steps to create long term exceptional sustainable results.
Erik Mazziotta
Erik Mazziotta is a leadership consultant and executive coach with strong business acumen and expertise in strategic planning, leading change and enterprise management. He specializes in leadership development, team performance and long term coaching programs. His work includes a wide range of companies from Fortune 50 corporations to non-profit organizations working with individuals from the C-suite to high potential leaders.
During a 24 year business career at Citibank, Erik held a variety of consumer banking management positions in the United States and Latin America. He specialized in strategic planning, new business development and business turnarounds. Erik culminated his business career with roles as CFO in Venezuela and Country Business Manager in Panama.
Erik has combined his business experience, executive coaching and consulting work to create an “Integrative Leadership” development model to support break through results. This pragmatic yet transformative approach integrates expanding self-awareness for adaptability, increasing emotional intelligence for collaboration, establishing disciplined practices for sustainability and building execution skills for goal achievement.
Clients report that this approach provides them with a framework to act with greater fluency to address the demands of their businesses, their professional roles and personal lives long after the development work is complete. Tempering his commitment to helping his clients achieve their goals is an engagement style that encourages individuals to enjoy their learning journey. He has worked in a variety of engagements with large and small organizations across different industries including; Google, Microsoft, Citibank, Chevy Chase Bank, Monadnock Hospital, HEB, Panalpina, Yahoo! and others.
Erik received his B.S. degree from Cornell University in Industrial and Labor Relations. After his corporate career, he obtained his coach and leadership training with the Coaches Training Institute and conducted extensive additional studies in leadership, personal mastery and wellness. Erik then worked for 5 years as a consultant, facilitator and coach with an international leadership development firm before starting IMI Consulting.
Karen Boskemper
Karen is a leadership development specialist and learning consultant with a passion for coaching, training, and fostering personal effectiveness in practical ways.
Karen’s approach to leadership development is to help people upgrade their “inner operating” system which requires leaders to think and behave in ways associated with higher levels of consciousness. Einstein said: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Her focus is to work with leaders to reveal the relationship between patterns of action and internal thoughts and assumptions that drive their behavior. Getting her clients to the source of their behavior allows them to make new choices and get greater leverage on the results they desire in their life.
Karen works with national and international consulting companies, lending her expertise on large client projects in individualized leadership development programs, executive coaching, custom training design, and performance management. She also has extensive international and cross-cultural experience having delivered development and coaching services in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America.
Prior to being an independent consultant, Karen was responsible for leadership development and enterprise learning in large financial institutions. In that role, she collaborated with leaders to develop learning strategies that addressed specific business unit needs, and designed, developed, and delivered training via classroom, virtual learning, and one-on-one coaching. During that time, Karen played an integral part in the enterprise wide leadership development and change management initiatives for senior leaders, corporate managers, and sales and servicing associates.
Karen studied Language and Business Commerce in Germany and France, and is a graduate coach from Coach U in the U.S. She is certified in a number of 360° assessment tools and holds a training certification from the American Society of Training and Development.
Karen loves to walk, hike and bike and spend time with friends engaging in contemplative conversations. She lives in Virginia with her husband Greg and loves to spend time with friends engaging in contemplative conversations.
Languages: English, German and French
Doug Peck
Doug Peck is an Executive Coach and Facilitator working with organizations to improve teamwork and leadership skills. As a former executive and vice-president at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, Doug has 32 years of hands-on corporate experience with the challenges of creating, managing and evolving both large and small teams through accelerated change.
Doug is committed to helping people and teams grow from their authentic strengths. He has a track record of helping people identify and develop the skills they need to take their leadership to the next level, particularly in transitioning from technical to management responsibilities and from individual contribution to team-based achievement. He specializes in supporting people through personal and organizational change, and balancing interpersonal skills with strategic and technical problem-solving. He brings both left-brain skills from his engineering background, and right-brain skills from his training and experience as a manager and coach. He is endlessly curious about people, organizations, cultures, and uncovering how to make things work for his clients. Literally and metaphorically, he is an accomplished off-shore sailor in all kinds of weather.
Doug worked at all levels in his career at AT&T and Lucent Technologies. At Bell Labs, he did software R&D, creating innovative system solutions to meet the needs of telecommunications, government, and management customers, including developing the first mainframe version of Unix licensed externally by Bell Labs. Transitioning from technical expert roles to leadership and management responsibilities, he was responsible for a series of large projects including the disaggregation of AT&T financial systems for the spin-off of Lucent Technologies. His responsibilities subsequently included global Chief Information Officer responsibilities for Lucent’s financial operations.
Since 2001, he has worked as an executive coach, consultant, and trainer. He teaches coaching internationally for the Coaches Training Institute, leading courses in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He has worked successfully with organizations as diverse as the US Transportation Security Administration and Instituto EcoSocial, a leading coaching and consulting organization in Brazil. He coaches an equally diverse and far-flung group of leaders.
Doug received undergraduate degrees from Brown University in Electrical Engineering and Art History (one degree for the left brain, one for the right), and holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, a member of the International Coach Federation, and is a graduate of the Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching curriculum of the Center for Right Relationship.
Shannon Wallis
Shannon Wallis is an executive coach, consultant and teacher with more than 20 years of international work experience in leadership development and organizational change. She works with her clients to define what they want, take the steps to get it, and eliminate the barriers that hamper their progress. She has consulted to and held management positions in Fortune 100 businesses as diverse as Coca-Cola and Universal Studios. Most recently she was the Global Director of High Potential Leadership Development and responsible for the development of top-tier talent for Microsoft. Her degrees include an MBA from Duke University and a BS in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University in the United States.
Shannon is an author and speaker. Her most recent article on creating Microsoft’s high potential development experience is featured in Marshall Goldsmith’s book Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World’s Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent (Goldsmith, Carter, 2010). She has been a speaker at Linkage, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, OD Network, ASTD, III Jornadas Internacionales de Coaching y Mentoring: Universidad- Empresa organized by the Universidad Politécnica and Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and other industry events as well as multiple womens’ conferences throughout the United States.
In addition, she is a contributor to Blueprint for Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard. Her chapter, Getting to the Destination: 15 Lessons from El Camino de Santiago tells the inspiring story of how her personal and professional expertise crystallized in one transformational experience – a 500 mile hike across northern Spain. It demonstrates the power of vision for overcoming adversity to achieve success. Her keynote address on the same topic is popular with individuals and organizations embarking on major change.
Steve Schein
As a corporate leadership consultant and member of the faculty at the Southern Oregon University School of Business, Professor Steve Schein’s primary teaching, consulting, and research has focused on organizational leadership, strategy, sustainable business practices, organizational culture, and their interdependence with long-term sustainable performance. In particular, he studies how companies are integrating sustainability into their strategies, operations, leadership practices and organizational cultures. Steve is the founder and director of the Sustainability Leadership undergraduate and graduate certificate programs. He is currently researching and writing a book on the emerging role of the Chief Sustainability Officer as a new archetype in corporate leadership and conscious capitalism.
Prior to joining the faculty at SOU, Steve had an extensive career in the private sector. In addition to being a CPA and former CEO, he has over twenty-five years of leadership, business development, and senior management experience in a broad range of industries. He is a co-founder of several companies including a New York Stock Exchange Company, ResortQuest International, Inc., where he served as a Senior Vice-President and corporate officer. Leading up to the initial public offering of ResortQuest in 1998, Mr. Schein was the founder and President of two resort management companies in Colorado and Arizona.
Prior to ResortQuest, he was an international financial auditor with Arthur Young & Co. and Nabisco Brands, Inc. during the 1980′s. He received his B.S. in Accounting from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his Masters in Organization Development from Fielding Graduate University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and is member of the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of CPAs. He has international business experience in Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia and speaks Spanish, French, and Portuguese. He practices perma-culture and lives in a 10 acre forest garden in Ashland, Oregon with his wife and their three teenage children.