Bios

Stephanie Reynolds

Stephanie Reynolds is a certified mediator and
was trained by William Ury at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University.

Her background includes 17 years as a senior consultant for Wilson Learning Corporation and Mohr Development (now Blessing White). In those roles she called on, trained and consulted to a wide range of Fortune 500 organizations.

Stephanie was the founder of Reynolds-Kalish Inc; Organizational Consultants in Mediation, Collaboration and Conflict Resolution.

Stephanie is the author of "Managing Conflict Through a Team Intervention and Training Strategy" published in Employment Relations Today and Collaborative Conflict Resolution and Managing Collaborative Conflict Resolution, both training programs for individuals and leaders.

For a list of clients, click here.

to top ^

Coaching & Consulting Team

Barbara Bouchet

Barbara is a leadership facilitator with deep experience in systems change, relationship management, conflict resolution, strategic decision making and innovative solutions to business problems.

Her background includes 28 years as a business owner, coach and licensed counselor, with extensive experience training and facilitating groups and educating professionals.

Throughout her career, Barbara has coached leaders from a variety of Fortune 100 and Europe – Asia based companies, including the fields of high tech, finance, electronics and healthcare.

Barbara was the co-director of a non-profit corporation, and recently founded a global consulting firm.

She is the creator of several training programs, including Performance and Balance and Precision Communication.  Her upcoming book, “Executive Impact & Presence: Enlightened Leadership through Compassion, Power & Responsibility” is due to be published in 2008.

to top ^

Bethanne Knebel, SPHR

Bethanne Knebel has achieved the highest designation as a Senior Professional in Human Resources, reflecting more than 20 years of success in leadership, coaching and training for a wide variety of industries and business environments.  Her track record and background in executive level Human Resources management make her a skilled and knowledgeable business consultant and coach for leaders at all levels, and she is a certified Mediator.  

Bethanne specializes in high growth environments and works with you to strengthen your organization through enhanced leadership and management, enabling you to achieve increased results by aligning people and performance with your vision and strategic objectives. 

Recent career highlights include joining the Executive Team of Ivey Imaging, a digital imaging company managing through significant business and leadership transitions. Previously in a similar capacity, she was a member of the Executive Team responsible first for the management of rapid growth and then for the sale and subsequent transition of DaVinci Gourmet, Ltd., a privately held business in the specialty coffee field.  Other business experience ranges from large scale manufacturing to high tech, to insurance, medical services and specialty retail.

to top ^

Bill MacKellar-Hertan

Bill Mack, as he is called, brings with him more than 25 years of experience in human resource training and consulting. His expertise has focused on training and organizational development, diversity strategy development, multicultural customer service programs and the legal defensibility of performance management and competency-based interview systems.  The projects and initiatives he has worked on have woven performance systems and diversity into the fabric of the teams and organizations with whom he has consulted.  Bill is the author of “Bias Free Selection” – designed to blend concepts critical to both the interviewing and diversity systems.

He has served as advisor, coach and strategic partner to more than 50 of the Fortune 500 companies.  During his career Bill Mack has also held senior leadership roles at organizations including Wilson Learning Corp., Microsoft, The Walt Disney Company, American Express and Starbucks Coffee Company.

to top ^

Brenda Bluemke

Her background includes 15 years of experience as a Leadership Development Consultant.  Brenda works with organizations to build leadership succession strategies and programs that maximize the investment of leadership development resources, particularly  for high potential leaders. She is an Executive Coach specializing in working with leaders in new positions.  Brenda also designs and facilitates leadership action learning programs, which help leaders improve their ability to think strategically, build and manage cross-business relationships and lead high performance teams, while solving strategic and time-critical business issues for the organization. 
Prior to building her consulting practice, Brenda was the V.P. of Leadership Development at Washington Mutual, where she launched and directed the corporate Executive Leadership department in a high-growth, merger and acquisition environment.

to top ^

Carol Henry, PhD

Carol J. Henry, PhD specializes in executive assessment, coaching and consulting that result in improved leadership competencies and sustainable behavioral change.  
 
She works with high performing leaders as well as emerging leaders who want to grow their leadership competencies and further develop their emotional intelligence. Dr. Henry is particularly adept at consulting with “tough cases” –  executives in crisis, derailing executives, and executives in transition.  She consults both nationally and internationally for executives in business, healthcare, media, software, retail, technology, manufacturing, finance, education and a variety of other fields.  

Dr. Henry has worked as a clinical psychologist with groups, couples and individuals, and was an adjunct faculty in the Psychology Department of the University of Washington for 20 years, teaching group dynamics, emotional intelligence development, communication, and supervising doctoral students.
 
She received her PhD from the University of Washington, an MA from California State University at Long Beach, and a BA from the University of Buffalo.

to top ^

Dodi Briscoe

With over 20 years experience as a leader, manager and internal consultant, Dodi’s professional background includes experience in the retailing, banking, and manufacturing industries.  As a consultant, she partners with business leaders in the areas of leadership development, executive coaching and organizational development. She also has extensive experience in career management and provides coaching to mid-career and managers in transition.

With certifications and experience in various team building, training, mentoring, and development programs and instruments, Dodi has the flexibility to deliver and design a variety of programs specific to clients’ needs. 

Previous to her consulting practice Dodi was the Director of Organizational Development at PACCAR Inc, and was responsible for worldwide executive and employee development and training, succession planning, performance management, and the corporate management university.  She was also responsible for the design and implementation of many cross- cultural and global programs during a period of global expansion at the company.

to top ^

Karsten McNulty

With over 18 years of experience, Karsten has benefited from her varied career path.  She has worked in several industries and roles including Sales and Marketing, Business Process Improvement and as a business volunteer in Romania with the Peace Corps.  She recently was an internal consultant in a global technologies company and worked with multiple levels of the organization to connect business results to people strategies.  She played a pivotal role in shifting business culture to focus on employee growth and development, not just on technical expertise.

Along with Karsten’s breadth of experience she has an MBA in International Business, is a certified coach through the Hudson Institute and is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.  Karsten’s experience and training allow her to connect with all types of people and achieve life changing results.

to top ^

Laura Lehan

Her background includes over 15 years of experience in professional development and talent selection in companies ranging from manufacturing to high technology and has consulted with fortune 500 companies.  Over the past 6 years she has built and managed a national career & executive coaching practice grown through client referrals, and is co-creator of the innovative OnTheJob series of career development workshops for employees and managers.

Prior to building a consulting practice Laura worked with Patagonia Sportswear overseeing their employee relations and recruitment assessment program.  She also spent several years performing career transition and change management consulting for Drake Beam Morin, Inc. and previously worked as an executive recruiter for a national search firm.

to top ^

Maria Escobar-Bordyn

Maria brings more than 20 years of leadership development and career management coaching to SRC.  A highly capable executive coach, she understands the relationship between individual and organization success. Adept at understanding diverse organizational cultures and business models, Maria brings a thoughtful, pragmatic and outcome-based approach to her work, motivating clients to identify and achieve success.
 
A dynamic facilitator, Maria consults with corporations, professional associations and non-profit boards on leadership issues, as well as leads corporate workshops in strategic planning, high performance work teams, leadership effectiveness, and career and change management.  Her experience includes work with professional and executive levels in multiple industries, diverse company sizes and functions.  
 
Maria’s career path has included 13 years with DBM, a global human capital firm where she led their Washington State consulting practice. Prior experience includes a private consulting practice in San Diego, corporate human resources roles and owner/operator of a specialty bookstore. Maria is an avid reader, and is active in the community and on boards related to education and developmental disabilities.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine.

to top ^

Scott Verrette

Scott Verrette has over 20 years of experience working as a leadership and organizational development consultant, executive coach and career counselor. Past positions include Internal Organizational Effectiveness Consultant at Safeco Insurance where he lead key leadership development, performance management, succession planning and organizational effectiveness efforts, participated in key diversity education initiatives and provided coaching to leaders at all levels of the organization. During his tenure as Senior Staff Specialist with the McDonnell Douglas Corporation he created a professional training and development infrastructure for the Finance Division, organized and hosted educational exchange events for executives from the People's Republic of China, served on a senior Strategic Quality Assurance team charged with the implementation of company-wide quality and productivity improvement initiatives and also designed and delivered professional development training programs to senior leaders. Scott also is a Registered Counselor in Washington State and worked extensively with the Snohomish Health District as both a staff counselor and consultant.

to top ^

Thea Singer, PhD

For more than 20 years, Thea has been assisting organizations and leaders increase effectiveness and bottom line success through her coaching, consulting and training services and solutions. 

She is an executive coach who understands how to build and leverage skills and improve leadership performance in critical thinking and decision making, to drive positive organizational change and achieve business results. 

In her consulting practice, Thea has expertise in creating organizational strategies, business goals, and execution plans while maintaining a focus on customers.  She is adept at creating bigger picture talent management strategies and tactics that directly align the “people” systems and processes with business directions. 

Thea is skilled in guiding culture audits and adjustments, driving high impact initiatives, improving key cross-organization collaboration, and managing change efforts so they are successful.

She has worked with Fortune 500 and smaller organizations, including Microsoft globally, GTE, PACCAR, US Bank, Puget Sound Power and Light Co. and many other organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

to top ^

Strategic Partners

Donald Williamson, PhD

Donald Williamson has taught and practiced systems thinking, as applied to families, groups and organizations for forty years. As tenured faculty, he taught psychology to seminarians at Duke University in the 1960's; he was Dean of the Institute of Religion and Human Development in Texas Medical Center, Co-Founder of the Houston Family Institute and Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston in the 1970's; he was Professor of Family Medicine and Director of the Family Stress Clinic at Baylor College of Medicine in the 1980's. In 1992 he came to the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) as Associate Dean, and since 1999 has been Senior Fellow at LIOS.

to top ^

Marketing & Administration

Dara Kvamme

Dara’s background includes serving as an account manager and supervisor for administration within the law firm of Severson and Werson in San Francisco.
She has a BA in Political Science from the University of Washington.

to top ^