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Toby Adamson

As an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Energy Leadership™ Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), Toby specializes in help aspiring leaders advance their careers and entrepreneurs confidently launch their business ideas. She helps leaders overcome career roadblocks, shift limiting mindsets, and build sustainable confidence. Her clients experience tangible results: career breakthroughs, entrepreneurial momentum, and remarkable stress reduction.

Before transitioning into coaching, Toby built a high-impact career across consulting and product leadership. She began her journey at Accenture and McKinsey, where she advised Fortune 500 clients, sharpened her strategic thinking, and developed a deep understanding of business transformation. From there, she worked her way up from an individual contributor on product teams to a senior product leader in the software industry, spanning legaltech, fintech, and propertytech sectors.

Toby then went on to launch her own startup, successfully scaling and selling it to a major insurance company—an experience that fuels her passion for guiding entrepreneurs through the uncertainty and exhilaration of building something from the ground up.Now, as a coach, Toby brings all of that experience to the table to help aspiring leaders advance their careers and entrepreneurs confidently launch their business ideas. A graduate of iPEC, a premier global coach training institution, she leverages tools like the Energy Leadership Index, DISC, and Positive Intelligence to deliver actionable, data-backed insights.

Her coaching style is supportive, client-centered, and grounded in empathy—with just the right amount of challenge. With Toby, you’ll find a thoughtful partner who’s been in the trenches and is deeply committed to helping you grow into the leader, founder, or changemaker you aspire to be.

Mary Bakas

Mary is a Professional Certified Coach (ICF) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) specializing in Business/Leadership combined with Life Coaching. She has a wealth of experience in leading corporate teams, real estate, and business ownership. She uses her knowledge and skills to help individuals grow and develop their business. Mary's coaching expertise includes various topics such as performance coaching, recruiting and training talent, work/life balance, communication styles, team building, financial management, and leadership development. Mary is passionate about helping individuals build successful teams by using best practicies and implementing proven models, systems, and tools. She is dedicated to helping clients reach their personal and professional goals, while ensureing they maintain a practice of balance with their personal and business life. Mary's coaching approach involves encourating individuals to take action and holding them accountable to achieve their desired outcomes.

Irma Bondi

Scott F. Burns

As an Executive Leadership Coach, I work with Sr. Leaders in large and mid-sized companies who are eager to invest in their leadership brand.  We work together to leverage their greatest strengths and passions to achieve their most important goals.

As a Leadership Development Consultant, I help develop comprehensive leadership strategies for your organization that include:

  • Succession Management & Building Talent
  • Leading Virtual Teams in Our Virtual World
  • Change Leadership & Communication Strategy
  • Mission, Vision & Values
  • Other Strategies, Dependent on the Needs of Your Organization

I am also excited to share essential leadership lessons in my book, The Leader’s Legacy.  I capture the lessons I’ve learned in the 30 years spent working with and coaching some of the world’s most influential leaders.  Read about what extraordinary leaders do to build their own legacy.

Scott Burns [email protected]  (630) 432-9138  LinkedIn Profile  Website: https://www.leadership-scottfburns.com 

Elene Cafasso

Elene Cafasso helps fast -growth CEOs get past a plateau, recapture momentum and elevate their leaders to produce measurable improvements in business performance.  Elene is an Executive Advisor, a Master Team & Executive Coach (MCC) and President of Enerpace, Inc.

Truly committed to her clients, Elene is passionate about helping them create agile leaders who grow high-growth, high-value, purpose-driven firms.  Enerpace offers Executive Advisory services, Team & Executive Coaching and Transaction Readiness, Leadership Development & Succession Planning solutions.

Her clients appreciate that she was where they are! Before founding Enerpace in 2002, Elene had a successful corporate career, holding executive-level positions in the banking and telecommunications industries. Her P&L responsibilities include a $1.4B customer segment and revenue responsibilities ranging from $50M-$1.9B. Elene has lived through regulated industries, corporate politics, downsizings, rightsizing, reorgs, never-ending planning cycles and budget cuts.

Her leadership insights appear frequently in the press, as Elene has been featured on NBC 5 Chicago news, Fortune Magazine, CFA Institute, WGN Radio, US News & World Report, NFIB and Crain’s Chicago Business, among others.

She holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago Booth, and is one of only ~2000 coaches worldwide to have earned the prestigious Master Certified Coach (MCC) designation from the International Coach Federation.

Elene is a certified Leadership Agility expert and has completed additional studies in Organizational & Relationship Systems, Team Coaching, Neuropsychology, and Board Readiness.

Andrea Chang

Robert Conlin

Treasurer

I have always found that helping others is THE gift I have and one that is my passion.

From healing hearts as a cardiac critical care registered nurse in my first career to the regional director of a multimillion-dollar medical group healthcare system, it has been this experience that has led me to understand the critical importance of relationships in life.

I’ve supported families and individuals during some of the most tragic life and death scenarios and pushed and grew my leadership running the business side of healthcare while creating excellence against the odds among my teams. My expanded ability to be with others and meet them where they are has certainly been shaped by this career path.

While moving up the healthcare corporate ladder I knew my gifts and skills were not being fully utilized. I discovered the growing field of coaching and going through the rigorous Coaches Training Program with Accomplishment Coaching I further developed my skill in being with and getting the best out of others, including myself.

I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation, hold an MBA from Benedictine University and a baccalaureate of science in nursing from Purdue University. I have completed Level 1 training in the Gottman Method, which is a research-based approach to relationships.

My philosophy is that we are in relationship to everything and the top three opportunities for growth exist in self, loving others, and career. Now, as a relationship coach, I’m doing the work that I was meant to do to fulfill my life purpose.

Jason Feldman

Leadership coach, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), serial entrepreneur, supporter of small business owner growth, creative thinker, and revenue grower of US$ millions with a background in brand identity design and marketing, SaaS innovations, real estate, and leadership coaching. I bring 20+ years of experience in relationship building, client account management, and sales and negotiation. Built a high reputation for trustworthiness, communication skills, and emotional intelligence.
• Strong passion for helping small business owners succeed in their early years through relationship building and overcoming obstacles to their success while building a six-figure networking group.
• Leadership coach training from the Co-Active Training Institute, enabling understanding, empathy, and the ability to address multiple aspects of the entrepreneurial struggle.
• Decades of creativity in brand identity development as a creative director and owner of an agency
• Expansion of client’s professional and personal potential outside of what they think is possible
• Known for core values of inclusivity, trustworthiness, positivity, and for being a thoughtful leader and powerful supporter.

Valerie Friedlander

Valerie Friedlander is a Life/Business Alignment coach with a background of over 20 years in science and spiritually based personal development. That background includes life coach certification, equity dialogue facilitation training, mediation training, a Bachelors in sociology, studies in co-dependency healing and habit shifting, and experience with a variety of spiritual discernment practices. 

She is also the host of the Unlimited podcast, and a wife, mom of two, sci-fi/fantasy nerd, and creative spirit. 

Most people she works with are fellow Moms who identify as career-oriented, high-achievers. They value authentic connections, social consciousness/social justice, and creative thinking. Passionate about making a positive impact in the world, they care deeply about others, especially their children and their future. These women usually find Valerie when they are feeling stuck and want support to design and implement work and personal life shifts that will give them more energy and greater sense of fulfillment.

In her work and life, Valerie upholds that Black Lives Matter, trans women are women, and reproductive rights are human rights.

Valerie believes that to shift the patterns that create imbalances in the world we must first engage the internalized patterns that limit us in our own lives. This self-work not only expands the impact of our work in the world but also creates more intentional, present, and joyful relationships in all areas of our life.

Her approach is practical and goal-oriented with a touch of "woo" and a lot of nerdiness.

Her services are:

  • Private coaching for those who want private, personalized support
  • Group coaching for those who want more structured support within an intimate community
  • Small team workshops for women-owned businesses who want to support their team’s holistic wellness and cohesion
  • Energy Leadership Index Assessment - an online assessment and private consult to help you understand the perception patterns that help you lead yourself and others effectively and those that hold you back.

She also periodically offers pay what you can workshops and has many free resources on her website at https://valeriefriedlander.com/resources 

When you are looking for support, it's important to pick someone whose process and style are a good fit for you. To explore if Valerie is that fit, she offers a free initial consult call here: https://vfcoaching.as.me/explore

Beverly Griffeth-Bryant