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Nick Craig
President

Nick Craig is the President of the Authentic Leadership Institute (ALI), a leadership consulting firm committed to helping good managers become great leaders. With an integrated offering of leadership workshops, executive coaching and organizational consulting, ALI is a catalyst in helping executives, leadership teams and organizations achieve their highest levels of authenticity, performance and potential.

Nick is co-author of “Finding Your True North” with Bill George of Harvard Business School. Nick has over 20 years of experience helping leaders create a strong culture of execution, balanced with high integrity, congruency, and authenticity. Nick’s talent lies in his ability to integrate the work of Authentic Leadership with the achievement of sustainable business results. Nick has designed and delivered leadership programs across the globe for many Fortune 500 companies, including BP, GE, and Siemens. Currently he delivers GE and Wharton’s Top Executive High Potential Programs.

Beyond his involvement with Bill George, Nick has worked with Michael Beer, Director Emeritus of Harvard Business School’s Organizational Change practice, helping top teams have honest dialogues that drive strategic implementation. He has also worked with MIT’s Sloan School to develop their Leadership Center and executive coaching program based on the Distributed Leadership Model. 

Nick’s work is documented in the chapter, “Beyond the Fads: How Leaders Drive Change with Results,” by Ron Ashkenas from the book Managing Strategic & Cultural Change in Organizations and in the book The GE Work-Out. His client work with Russell Eisenstat and Michael Beer is documented in the February 2004 Harvard Business Review article, “How to Have an Honest Conversation About Your Business Strategy.”

Tim Dorman
Managing Director

Tim Dorman is Managing Director of the Authentic Leadership Institute (ALI), a leadership consulting firm committed to helping good managers become great leaders. With an integrated offering of leadership workshops, executive coaching and organizational consulting, ALI is a catalyst in helping executives, leadership teams and organizations achieve their highest levels of authenticity, performance and potential. Its work is based on the research and findings of Bill George of Harvard Business School, captured in his best-seller, “True North”.

Tim brings an effective blend of general management experience in publicly held companies, twenty years of consulting, and nine years of corporate human resource management. He has coached senior executives and leadership teams in a wide range of industries including media, financial services, high technology, health care, transportation, manufacturing and retail. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Korn/Ferry’s Executive Coaching Network and before that, as Group Executive Vice President for Right Management Consultants where he led a $40 million career management and organizational consulting business. He also served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Outplacement International and as a Director with Spencer Stuart, a leading international executive search firm.

His corporate experience includes managing corporate human resources in the banking, telecommunications and biotechnology industries. He has managed human resources throughout Asia for Bank of America, recruited in Europe and assisted in the start-up of a telecommunications joint venture between ROLM and IBM in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Dorman received his MBA from Stanford University with concentrations in organizational behavior and marketing, and a BA from Williams College.

Mr. Dorman is a frequent speaker to professional groups on leadership development, organizational change issues and international business. He is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the Executive Coaching Advisory Board of the Conference Board.

John Haskell

John has more than twenty five years experience in the area of international executive and organizational developmentHis work has extended from the manufacturing plant floor to executive boardrooms in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America.
The challenge of working with organizations interested in increasing their effectiveness has involved John in:

• creating management and leadership development programs to implement culture change initiatives. These programs have been conducted in Europe, the UK, China, South America, and the U.S.
• working with executive teams to create an effective and aligned top management group committed to a challenging future,
• implementing improvements to streamline business processes to create a competitive edge,
• developing strategies to address the issues of knowledge retention at all levels of an organization,
• providing advice and counsel to executives and managers desiring to change their business culture and processes from a hierarchical model to a team-based one.

John served as head of Human Resources and Organizational Development for a global company based in Boston. While in this role he supported the organization’s transformation from a country focused structure to a global one. His most recent work has been with international organizations involved in research and development, manufacturing, drug and medical device development, and consumer products.
 

John has a BA and MA from the University of New Hampshire, where he also served as an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics. While at the Whittemore School, he designed and managed Executive Development Programs for private sector organizations. During the last three years at the University, he led an applied research and consulting organization that utilized business, engineering and scientific faculty and staff to address private sector business and technical challenges. He has also worked at the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.

Carol Kauffman PhD PCC
Senior Consultant

A veteran psychologist-coach, Dr. Kauffman has participated in over 38,000 psychotherapy and coaching sessions. She has taught at McLean Hospital, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1985, where she is a Clinical Associate and senior supervisor.  Dr. Kauffman is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and is an Examiner for the Board.

Dr. Kauffman is the Chief Supervisor for Meyler Campbell Ltd, a business coaching program based in London. She is a Professional Certified Coach, has an active practice as a supervisor for executive coaches, as well as her own executive coaching practice. She lectures internationally, offering keynotes and half-day to week-long master classes in numerous topics related to coaching. She has spoken recently in Germany, The Netherlands, UK, China, Canada and throughout the US.

As Editor in Chief of the academic and professional peer-reviewed journal, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice,  Dr. Kauffman writes regular editorials on coaching. She Co-edited the Special Issue in Positive Psychology of the International Coaching Psychology Review. She has written numerous chapters and academic articles on coaching and positive psychology, and directed the Harvard Business Review’s first research project, published in the January 2009 special issue on executive coaching.

Carol and her work are featured and quoted extensively in the media including the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, USA Today, Business Week, New York Magazine, and others. She is frequently interviewed for television news, NPR, and has coached live on radio and TV for the Canadian Broadcasting System.

Alphonsus (Alph) Keogh
Director Europe

Alph is the European Managing Director of ALI. He has more than fifteen years experience in the area of international executive education and management development. Beyond his work with ALI, his areas of expertise include action learning, emotional intelligence, people integration and communication, virtual teaming and cross - cultural management & leadership. He is a renowned storyteller and teaches executives how to integrate stories in their communication strategy and presentations. He is qualified in the use of a wide selection of analytical tools including the MBTI, FIRO-B and is qualified as a senior consultant in The Birkman ® Method.

Experience
He has led executive programs on all four continents and as head of Siemens Management Learning, (SML) he led one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the global executive education arena, with operations in more than sixty countries worldwide. Now regarded as a benchmark in terms of the globalization of the learning function, SML has been featured in “Business Week” and numerous other publications. He has consulted for many international organizations including General Cologne Re, Disney, Möller, KION, Siemens Energy, SEN, International Truck & Engine and Experian.

Alph holds an Honours degree in Psychology from the University of London and a Masters degree in Systems Engineering (Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems) from the University of the South Bank in London. He is adjunct faculty member at the Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW), University in Paderborn Germany where he teaches Culture & Conflict on the MBA program.

Alph is an Irish citizen and lives with his family close to Munich in Germany.

Approach
He strongly believes in helping develop leaders' at all organizational levels  through a focus on strength development, self awareness and personal courage. His particular focus is on experiential “learning in real time” with theory, knowledge and implementation being integrated as parallel and complementary processes.

Anna B. Aramini
Senior Consultant

Anna Aramini is a senior consultant at ALI. Based in Connecticut, Anna has a unique ability to help business leaders create a learning environment that supports their business goals.  Anna provides expert coaching, facilitation, team building, large group interventions, training and timely advice to organizations within a variety of industries.

Experience
Her clients have included Aetna Inc, AIG, CIGNA, Citicorp, Gerber Scientific, The Hartford, ING, Lincoln Life, Make A Wish Foundation, Mass Mutual, Pfizer Inc, Prudential, Nestle, Pratt & Whitney, The Traveler’s, and Yale Medical School.  Prior to starting her own consulting business, Anna held Human Resources, Training & Development, and Organization Effectiveness leadership positions at both Aetna Inc. and CIGNA. 
Anna has a Masters of Science degree in Organization Behavior from the University of Hartford and has contributed to the Adult Learning Research at The University of Connecticut.  She is past Chair of the Northeast Region of the Association for Psychological Type, and is a member of the National Organization Development Network. 

Approach
Clients find her practical, no-nonsense approach helps them develop both stronger leadership skills and better relationships with the members of their teams.  She effectively translates her adult learning expertise into advice for leaders’ day-to-day actions.

Amy Avergun
Senior Consultant

As a Senior Consultant with ALI, Amy brings a high level of expertise in training design and development, which she has applied to programs on topics ranging from team leadership and change management to customer service and meeting management skills. Based in Boston, she works with a wide range of industries and has most recently applied her talents to ensure the learning effectiveness of all ALI programs.  Her passion is to combine the latest thinking in leadership best practices with the latest thinking in how people learn to develop programs in unlocking the potential of individuals.

Experience
For many years, Amy was the Director of Product Development for Zenger Miller (now AchieveGlobal), one of the leading international training companies in the world.  In that role she led a team of talented people who developed award-winning programs.
Before joining ALI, Amy was an independent training design consultant, specializing in leadership development. Her clients include KPMG, Safeway, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Thermo Electron and BP.  She has a reputation for developing highly interactive, engaging, and entertaining learning experiences that stem from her ability to empathize with what is truly challenging for people about their role or situation.  She is increasingly called on by clients to help them develop creative approaches to learning that provide people with the break-through insights and motivation they need to let go of old habits and try something new.

Approach

Wayne Caskey
Senior Consultant

Wayne is a three-time CEO with prior C-level experience in Fortune 500s. He has been coaching and facilitating CEOs, entrepreneurs and their immediate teams for the past ten years with the mission of helping his clients increase the authenticity of their leadership.

His coaching has been profiled in The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations  and Macleans, the Canadian newsweekly, and he has written a monthly column for smartCEO magazine for five years.

Wayne's broad business background (manufacturing, services and commercial finance) and varied business settings (venture capital-backed start-up, fast growth and liquidation) have enabled him to effectively coach and facilitate clients across fifty separate industries and with nationals or residents of seventeen countries. His major corporate coachings are Alliance Bernstein, A. P. Moller-Maersk, Barclays, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, GMAC, IEEEComputer Society, Legg Mason, Marsh, Nokia Siemens Networks, Quest  Diagnostics, SAIC, Sylvan Learning Systems.

Judy Issokson
Senior Consultant

Judy is a Senior Consultant at ALI. She works directly with executive teams, senior staff, and line managers facing diverse strategic business challenges such as unprecedented growth, dramatic market shifts, mergers and acquisitions, and developing the next generation of leaders. Her passion is to build people’s capacity to ask better questions—of themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations.

Previous Experience
Prior to joining ALI, Judy was an independent consultant focused on Leadership Development, Organizational Change, and Executive Coaching. Over the past twenty years, Judy worked in multiple industries with internal and external clients who were eager to align organizational structure to emerging business needs, improve global implementations, define improved strategies for effective transitions, and fine tune business integration processes. Her clients include Solectron Corporation, Quidel Corporation, Cardinal Health, FairIsaac, NetGear, Kaiser Permanente, Sun Microsystems, Agilent Technologies, Sempra Global, and the United Nations. Her professional work history includes various roles at Apple, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Agilent Technologies.  In her spare time, she owned and operated a fine-dining restaurant.

Judy holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Masters in Education from Northeastern University and a BS in English Education from Boston University. 

Hank Kinzie
Senior Consultant

Hank assists individuals and groups to build their own capacities for authentic leadership. Based in Chicago, Hank was professionally trained as an attorney and enjoyed a twenty-year legal career representing clients as both a litigator and mediator.  As his law career progressed, Hank increasingly dedicated his expertise to working with diverse interest groups focusing on collaboration to achieve common ground. A natural teacher and trainer, Hank decided that he could assist people most effectively by devoting himself to developing people rather than representing them.

Experience
He has been a longtime national leader of intensive trainings that help men discover and express clarity of purpose in their lives and in their work, and in the balance become better husbands, fathers and friends. Hank still splits his time between ALI and high level mediation and reconciliation for couples and organizations. 

Approach
Hank believes that leaders are made, not born, and that the mantle of leadership carries not only responsibility but has the rich potential for significant impact on the individual, the organization they work in, and the world

Lionel R. Shockness  M.S.W. Acc
Senior Consultant

Lionel has worked with senior leaders and teams from diverse industries including finance, education, and entertainment for over 15 years. His areas of coaching expertise include emotional intelligence, conflict management, team building, work/life integration, career planning and leadership development. He is certified in the delivery of a wide variety of coaching, career and leadership assessment tools and uses his knowledge of internal, interpersonal, and group dynamics, to assist organizations in achieving optimal performance by increasing the emotional intelligence of the organizations leaders and managers.

He then used his knowledge of internal, interpersonal, and group dynamics, to assist companies such as Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan Chase, Disney, Accenture, American Express, Moody’s, Essence, and Sony in achieving optimal performance by increasing the emotional intelligence of

Previous Experience
For fifteen years Lionel worked as a clinician and group psychotherapist. 

Lionel is founder and Principal of Shockness Consulting, a coaching service dedicated to helping people have more purposeful professional and personal lives. He holds a Masters in Clinical Social Work from Yeshiva University and a BA in Psychology from the State University of New York.  Lionel also holds an ACC credential from the ICF, certificates in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from the Greenwich Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, and The Institute for the Study of Culture and Ethnicity. 

Approach

His style of coaching is based on the concepts of Appreciative Inquiry and the assertion that what we focus on becomes our reality; the language we use creates our reality.  His coaching approach has been described as solution focused, goal oriented, intuitive, honest and compassionate.  He strongly believes that through coaching, individuals attain a new level of consciousness.  They become inspired and motivated to make a behavioral change that transforms them and the people around them. The results are increased personal satisfaction and enhanced overall performance in work and life.

Isabel K. Witte                              
Senior Consultant

Isabel is a senior consultant with ALI Europe. She has had her professional focus on developing talent equity for over 20 years. Her expertise includes management appraisals and the development and implementation of coaching programs. She is certified in the delivery of coaching, career and leadership assessment tools including the DISC, MBTI, Motivational Index and CPI.

Experience
For the past six years, Isabel has implemented and coordinated the coaching activities of The Boston Consulting Group in Germany. To support individual development and performance in varying practices, Isabel has helped develop a number of tools and practices that have been implemented on a scale beyond Germany. In addition, Isabel has delivered executive coaching services to Unilever, Lafarge and other DAX 30 companies. Previously, Isabel worked as a Principal at Heidrick & Struggles focussing on management appraisals.
Isabel holds a Diploma in Psychology of J.W.Goethe Universität Frankfurt, and did a post grad. program at Management Zentrum St. Gallen in Personnel and Organizational Development.

Approach.
Isabel is convinced that individuals operate best if they understand their deepest motivations and their core needs and concentrate on what they can do rather than worrying about “what is missing”. Her work is very goal oriented and focussed on pragmatic outcomes. Her coaching style is characterized by crisp feedback that at the same time is authentic and compassionate.