Principal

Ken Giglio

Ken Giglio is Principal of Mindful Leadership Consulting, a global leadership consulting and executive coaching firm with more than 130 coaches and coach supervisors partnering with top organizations globally. He is a highly experienced executive coach, consultant, and coach supervisor and leads his team in developing mindful leaders to be attentive and present within themselves, with others, and with the systems in which they work. Prior to founding Mindful Leadership, Ken spent many years in the corporate world and co-founded the learning division responsible for the executive coaching and leadership development programs for a global financial brokerage firm.

 

Ken is passionate about the importance of establishing a mindful reflective practice for the leaders he coaches as well as the coaches he supervises. Through reflective practice, leaders and coaches increase self-awareness and agility in the moment and foster the courage to confront and shift the self-limiting mindsets and behaviors that undermine personal, team, and organizational effectiveness.

 

Ken’s commitment to the quality and integrity of coaching work and coaching field led him to develop the Tri-Lens Coaching Supervision Model™. This model creates a framework and space for coaches to reflect on their work through three lenses: self as coach; relationship with client; and relationship with the system.

 

Ken is a Master Corporate Executive Coach and an accredited Coach Supervisor with the Coaching Supervision Academy. He is also a member of CSA’s International Faculty, contributing as a presenter, mentor, and supervisor for CSA North America program. Additionally, Ken is a member of EMCC International’s Coaching Supervision workgroup, which is responsible for EMCC’s Supervision Standards.

Direction of Operations and Talent

Christine Bacher

Christine is an experienced leadership development and client services professional, with more than 20 years of experience in management and leadership roles. She is dedicated to and passionate about personal and professional development. Christine excels at building strong relationships with clients and colleagues and leads Mindful Leadership’s talent and overall business operations. A certified coach herself, Christine understands the foundation of a strong coaching and leadership development program. She works closely with both our coaches and clients to ensure our coaching and leadership development programs are designed and delivered at the highest level of quality and with the greatest impact.

Our Coaches

Our global team of coaches and supervisors have completed highly acclaimed training and certification programs. They are deeply experienced in leading and working in fast-paced and complex business environments as well as expert and versatile in coaching at the individual, team, and systemic levels. They are continuously learning and sharpening their skills by attending ongoing supervision provided by Mindful Leadership.

This is a sampling of our coaches

Trish Anastos

Trish partners with business executives and teams to identify meaningful goals, and develops plans specifically focused to shift behaviors that lead to personal and organizational success. She creates trust-based relationships with clients by combining curiosity and regard for people with her refreshing style and sense of humor. Clients recognize the value of Trish’s corporate experience and successful track record of building strong client relationships. She helps executives on-board into new positions as they expand their scope of responsibility, develop teams, build relationships, and cultivate a personal brand of executive presence. Team coaching and facilitation on purpose and collaboration is also part of her offering.

Margaret Chan

Margaret is a certified executive coach experienced in leadership development. She partners with mid-level and senior executives to identify their strengths and gaps to help them reach their next leadership level. Coaching plans are designed to focus on increasing self-awareness, gaining insight, and practicing new behaviors. Her clients are focused on improving their capacity as they transition to new roles, expand their collaboration and spheres of influence with peers, enhance their communication style, and demonstrate more executive presence. This leads to greater confidence and ability to build stronger teams. Her clients appreciate her strategic approach combined with humor and a warm personal style.

Christina Clinton

Christina is a certified executive coach and communications consultant known for her work with C-suite leaders, senior level leaders, emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and teams. At the same time, she is a champion for employees and organizations and believes that career satisfaction, performance, and change are most powerful when driven by self-awareness and embracing generational shifts in the workplace. Christina’s clients often credit the combination of her business acumen, emotional intelligence, intuition, and Brooklyn street smarts for helping them achieve their goals. They report feeling grounded, clear, and energized about making their next best move.

Frank Faeth

Frank partners with clients to turn powerful personal, and interpersonal, insights into positive action that advances their careers, and the strategy of their organizations. He guides clients through a dynamic discovery process that enables them to identify, and intensify their strengths, and recognize and overcome barriers. He provides a supportive environment for clients to practice pushing beyond current patterns, and to shift their mindsets and behaviors, all the while engaging them in meaningful conversations and planning, so goals are reached. Frank held a wide variety of senior roles in his business career, ranging from head of strategy for the consumer bank to head of marketing and strategy for the private bank at JPMorgan Chase to the director for global technology architecture at Marsh & McLennan, before joining MasterCard as SVP for technology. He has undergone targeted training in executive coaching. Combining his business background with his executive coaching experience, Frank facilitates professional breakthroughs for executives at all levels. He partners with clients to turn personal insights into positive action that propels them on their path to greater effectiveness. He leverages proven assessments to guide clients through a dynamic discovery process that enables them to identify and leverage their strengths and to break behaviors that are holding them back.

Phil Fountain

As a trusted advisor and executive coach, Phil is known as a deep listener and committed learning partner who uses provocative, candid, and insightful conversations to help smart, coachable leaders be more effective. Phil uses a variety of coaching tools and frameworks, critical experiences, and personal insights to encourage clients to think differently about challenges and opportunities. Phil uses a strengths-based approach to help clients identify and eliminate any leadership roadblocks to maximize their effectiveness.

Chanchal Garg

Chanchal Garg is an executive coach and facilitator with 21 years of experience in coaching executives and facilitating leadership development. She supports leaders and teams to shift mindsets to develop authentic and effective relationships based on reciprocity, care and clear communication. Chanchal’s primary focus areas are emotional intelligence, connecting across difference, team building, influence skills and embodied leadership.

Deborah Herrera

Deb is passionate about helping others realize their fullest potential, at the organization, team, and individual level. Her own transformative experience as a coaching client fuels her passion for Executive Coaching. Now a recognized cross-functional leader and strategic business partner, Deb fuses her extensive business and financial experience with a whole-hearted approach to coaching to facilitate transformational change with her clients.

C. Paige Hinkson

Paige has over 25 years of experience as a management consultant, executive coach, instructional designer, and facilitator of experiential learning. She works with leaders around the globe to navigate rapidly changing environments and generate business results while integrating their personal and professional lives with intention to maximize their effectiveness. Paige earned the nickname, “The Velvet Hammer,” for her ability to help the most challenging executives hear difficult, constructive feedback and still have them leave with a smile on their faces. Her sophisticated systems thinking ensures that she provides an integrated solution that will have practical value across all aspects of her client’s lives. Her philosophy is Results, which can include personal effectiveness, leadership skills and abilities, teamwork, communications, performance, and improved working relationships.

Adena Johnson

Dr. Adena Johnston brings to her executive coaching work a strategic perspective of leadership and more than 20 years of corporate experience where she had full profit-and-loss responsibility.  As a certified Master Corporate Executive Coach, Adena’s signature strength is combining her business acumen with her deep knowledge of organizational dynamics that offer insights and actionable strategies for her clients.

 

Recognized for her candid and supportive approach, Adena focuses on helping leaders get unstuck and take steps to move their careers forward through enhancing self-awareness and developing the managerial courage necessary to drive an agenda forward while maintaining strong work relationships.

 

Adena takes an evidence-based approach to achieving their goals and applies assessments and knowledge-based coaching to help clients navigate complexity and think in systems. Known for her authentic and approachable style, Adena maintains strict coach confidentiality and ensures her clients are exposed to honest feedback.

 

Adena holds a Doctorate in Management with a focus on strategic leadership and organizational complexity. She is a certified Master Corporate Executive Coach and an active member of the Forbes Coaches Council, the Association for Corporate Executive Coaches and its MEECO Leadership Institute, International Coach Federation of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Society for People and Strategy.

 

A passionate educator, Adena is also a Duke CE facilitator and has served as an adjunct professor with Drexel University’s LeBow College, Jefferson University’s College for Professional Studies, and Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication. She teaches in the disciplines of sociology, workplace culture, leadership, communication, and organizational development.

Wendy Kornreich

Wendy Kornreich is a creative, collaborative, optimistic and values-driven professional. Whether with teams, groups, or 1:1 with her individual coaching clients, Wendy is a strong communicator with a comfortable presence that puts people at ease. Wendy’s coaching and facilitation style is characterized by her natural curiosity, a strong sense of empathy, her use of humor and her ability to be direct with kindness and compassion. A key differentiator for Wendy is the wealth of data and expertise she has acquired during her career regarding what makes people effective in their jobs and the traps that limit their success. Her experience gives her a unique perspective on organizational systems and how people operate within them. Wendy creates a safe, judgment-free environment to explore the professional and related personal changes her clients desire to make. Although she coaches a wide range of clients across numerous industries, Wendy’s areas of focus are leadership development and career transition for women and professionals from non-traditional backgrounds.

Jennifer Liu

Jennifer is a seasoned global Executive Coach fiercely committed to helping founders, executives and teams dramatically change the way they lead and create meaningful success. She specializes in behavior change, executive presence, and high-performing cultures. Jennifer employs an innovative blend of experiential learning, neuroscience, and practical skill-building in her coaching and leadership workshops.

Barrett McBride

Barrett is a seasoned executive leadership coach and organizational development consultant. With more than 20 years of experience coaching and consulting, she helps senior leaders and leadership teams create compelling results through transformational change. She has developed and administered executive leadership coaching programs for client organizations and worked with individual clients and teams on improving climate, culture change, strategic planning, and change management.

Melanie Menard

Melanie is an experienced executive coach dedicated to supporting leaders and teams in becoming the best version of themselves.  She focuses on helping her clients become fully aware of their strengths and connect with their inner resources to navigate complex situations and organizations, achieve successful outcomes, and reach higher performance goals.  When working with her clients, she leverages her 12+ years of successful High-Tech Sales & Marketing experience, with a track record for building strategies and teams in a multi-cultural environment and developing high-growth revenue streams from scratch. Melanie’s coaching practice is focused on empowering leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs by leveraging their inner skills and supporting them on their transformation journey. Melanie’s coaching results in increased efficiency, better productivity, and more balance as her clients develop into better leaders.

Erek Ostrowski

Erek Ostrowski is an executive coach, consultant, and coach educator. For over 20 years, he has partnered with business leaders in a collaborative process of reflection and inquiry to drive business outcomes and promote meaningful learning and change. His experience includes coaching executives, entrepreneurs, peer groups, and leadership teams. He is also recognized for his pioneering research on peer group coaching. Erek’s coaching and consulting focuses on helping executives and entrepreneurs navigate challenges related to growing and scaling their organizations; creating vibrant peer learning networks that develop leaders, foster communication, and accelerate learning; and designing/facilitating coach training and education programs.

Ann Parks

Ann is a former Fortune 500 senior executive who applies her blue-chip business background to coach leaders and senior managers on how to perform to their highest potential. Ann believes that business professionals can leverage their natural talents and personality for success by using principles of clear communication, effective collaboration, enhanced relationships, active listening, and compassionate leadership.

Ann began her career as an Institutional Fixed Income sales person and for more than ten years specialized in selling high-grade debt for Merrill Lynch. Her passion for developing talent led her to a subsequent career leading the Learning and Development (L&D) divisions of JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Lehman Brothers. She understands the challenges of heading geographically dispersed teams, managing complex technologies and systems, merging divisions, managing budgets, and motivating staff to be highly effective. Her experience with downsizing, restructuring, and creating merger synergies has enabled her to develop a keen insight into change management practices.  As a result, she now works extensively with leaders who are implementing change initiatives.  An additional area of expertise for Ann is coaching high-potential women in highly competitive industries. She brings a unique perspective to these assignments due to her own previous success and familiarity with issues that affect women in the workplace.

Andrew Powell

With over 30 years of experience as a leader in Fortune 50 to small business systems, Andy’s passion is to help individuals, teams and organizations thrive while navigating growth, change and transition. Change is a constant companion and the ability to lead through change is foundational to success for any individual leader, team or organization. “Change occurs when you become who you are, not when you try to become who you are not,” he says.

Jackie Radford

Jackie is an executive coach and leadership consultant with a broad range of experience in coaching executives and management teams to next-level effectiveness and performance aligned with organizational and business goals. Her work is focused on shifting mindsets and behaviors to become more effective in areas such as increasing emotional intelligence, strategic agility, influencing skills, team development and leadership, and time management and organization skills. Jackie’s holistic approach provides clients with an opportunity to broaden their perspectives, explore practical choices, move to action, release old stories and patterns that give way to new possibilities, practices, and sustainable change, and ultimately more self-awareness and personal satisfaction.

Julie Shapiro

Julie is an ICF certified executive coach with over 25 years of direct business experience. She has worked with clients with diverse backgrounds and has a strong toolkit based on her knowledge of business strategy, emotional intelligence, and leadership development. Her coaching style is curious, empathic, and probing. Julie excels at asking pointed questions that can help untangle complex issues that thwart productivity and are barriers to an individual’s goals. Her aim is to empower her clients to navigate through work challenges that are not straightforward but layered. A key focus of her work is to help leaders develop and refine their self-awareness, something that can separate those who excel from those who stagnate. Her experience in healthcare gives her unique insights in the issues and challenges faced by physicians, pharmaceutical executives, and healthcare leaders.

Stephen Sheehy

Stephen Sheehy is a seasoned executive coach and team and organizational development consultant with 25 years of experience helping leaders and organizations to achieve their fullest potential. Stephen has held key Human Resources leadership roles in a variety of industries. He brings a unique blend of business experience, leadership development expertise, and a solid understanding of what it takes to be successful in today’s organizations to his coaching. Stephen is recognized for his integrity, commitment to excellence, and ability to deliver results.

Ather Williams

Ather is an executive coach who has mentored and coached professionals including first line managers, global corporate staff, and senior executives within the Supply Chain organization, as well as executives with multi-country responsibilities. In addition, he has coached in a major corporation Diversity program, working with their High Performer/High Potential minority and multicultural executives. Ather’s career spans 41 years at Johnson & Johnson. During the first 26 years of his career, he led the transformation of a major manufacturing location into a reliable manufacturing facility by improving labor relations, increasing productivity, reducing unit cost, improving quality and focusing on employee health & safety improvements. As the Vice President of Supply Chain for a major division and member of the Management Board, he directed the efforts of over 1000 employees in multiple company-owned plants and contract manufacturing facilities. He authored the strategic plan that resulted in a 400% increase in capacity, an 85% reduction in changeover time and a substantial reduction in the Cost of Goods Sold. As the Worldwide Vice President of Health & Safety and Corporate Department Head, he was responsible for leading the global network in health and safety professionals and for developing programs to eliminate injuries and illness. As a result, the company achieved global status as one of the top five safest and healthiest corporations in the world. He was selected as one of the 50 Most Influential Environment, Health & Safety Leaders having the most impact on Environmental Health and Safety in the past decade.