Coaches and Advisers

Founding partner of Potential Matters

Specialties: Career Clarity and Professional Identity, Creating a Powerful Career Story, Career Acceleration and Advancement, Building a Powerful Leadership Brand, Political Savvy, Onboarding to New Roles, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Resolution, Work and Leadership Styles, Becoming a Recognized Rock Star Leader

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About Jodie:

Founder of Potential Matters and coaching partner to EAA since 2004, Jodie specializes in working with 10+ year professionals who want greater control over their career future. Jodie’s home base is Atlanta but you can find her coaching via phone or SKYPE with clients across the globe from Atlanta to Wall Street to London to Hong Kong. While her rich business and coaching experiences enable her to coach individuals, leaders and teams in diverse settings from high growth to the Fortune 50, Jodie has a special affinity for helping professionals build careers that matter and navigate the natural and often turbulent twists and turns that occur in our professional lives.

Jodie is a frequent presenter for career-focused webinars created especially for Emory alumni by the EAA. See the alumni calendar to register for upcoming webinars at alumni.emory.edu/calendar or learn more at alumni.emory.edu/careerwebinars.

Founder, Two Worlds Coaching and Consulting, LLC

Specialties: Coaching mid- and senior-level professionals from nonprofits, international organizations, and the public sector in both the U.S. and Latin America; emerging leaders; individuals going through career change or transition. Lorena is bilingual and can coach in English and Spanish.

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About Lorena:

Lorena is a certified leadership and life coach, well-being and resilience trainer, and international development consultant. In her coaching practice, Lorena specializes in working with mid- and senior-level professionals from nonprofits, international organizations, and the public sector in both the U.S. and Latin America. She has a passion for coaching emerging leaders, as well as individuals going through career change or transition. Lorena helps her clients become more effective leaders by blending leadership coaching with tools from the positive psychology, resilience, and mindfulness fields. She is eager to help leaders to focus on well-being and to build resilience skills, enabling them to improve performance and to have a greater impact in the communities and countries in which they work. Lorena uses a strengths-based approach; she blends empathy, curiosity and positivity to create a trusting environment in which her clients can flourish.

In addition to coaching, Lorena also consults for international organizations and nonprofits in both the U.S. and Latin America. She has expertise in program design and implementation, technical assistance, capacity building, and proposal development in the fields of youth development, urban crime and violence prevention/citizen security, and child protection in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lorena has worked in the international development field in Washington D.C. for 15 years, including almost a decade at the World Bank and nearly five years with various USAID contractors.

A natural collaborator, connector, and convener, Lorena excels at working cross-sectorally and in multi-cultural environments. She has extensive experience building lasting relationships with national and municipal government counterparts and key stakeholders and communicates easily with diverse audiences.

Lorena is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching Program. She is certified in Applied Positive Psychology and in Resilience Training from the Flourishing Center in NY. Lorena earned a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International Public Affairs, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Emory University. Originally from Argentina, Lorena is bilingual in English and Spanish. She now resides in Washington, D.C. and enjoys traveling and mindfulness meditation.

Certified Career Coach and Founder, Create Your Career Path

Specialties: Career Direction (Identifying and landing your ideal career), Career Change/Transition, Job Search, Interview Prep, Resume and Cover Letter Writing, Linkedin Writing and Consulting, Executive Coaching, Strategic Career Planning, Work Performance Coaching.

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About Hallie:

Hallie is a certified career coach, speaker, author, and national career expert with 20 years of experience. Her company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. She is regularly featured in the media (Forbes, CNN, Money magazine, WSJ) and has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Illinois. With over 1,500 success stories, her team of coaches helps professionals find jobs that make them want to jump out of bed in the morning to go to work.

Executive & Entrepreneur Coach

Specialties: Coaching mid-level to senior executives who are ready for their next phase of growth. With over 15 years of business experience in the US and abroad, Sanoop worked at Google, YouTube, and Turner/Cartoon Network prior to launching his executive coaching business.

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About Sanoop:

Sanoop advises individuals who are ready for their next phase of growth.

With over 15 years of business experience in the US and abroad, he was previously at Google, where he was responsible for growing daily usage, revenues, and industry reputation for one of YouTube’s fastest growing verticals in its fastest growing market. Prior to that, he was Director of Content Strategy at Turner/Cartoon Network based in Hong Kong and Atlanta.

Sanoop works with CEOs of small and medium-sized companies and management of large publicly traded companies. His approach to coaching is truly bespoke, as each individual’s circumstances vary and his role is to help devise an action plan that is both idealistic and realistic.

He has coached executives from companies including Google, ViacomCBS, XR Games, and Techstars. He has delivered performance workshops at Google, CapGemini, United States Department of State, and the British High Commission.

Sanoop lives in London, where he enjoys walking on the Heath, investing, and doing yoga.

Gifts / Strengths Coach

Specialties:  Strength optimization for those in career transition, those considering doing a business, teams, leadership teams, team managers, and students

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About Mark:

Mark is Principal at ECC, Inc. and chief curator of www.WhatAreYourGifts.com, independent business owner and GALLUP-Certified StrengthsFinder Coach. He helps individuals and teams identify, understand, and leverage their strengths and discover how they can maximize performance and personal contentment. In 2016 he wrote "Wantrepreneuer: Do You Have What It Takes to be an Entrepreneur" with the intent to educate a would-be entrepreneur about going down that road. Throughout his business career, which began in 1983 and where he spent 24+ years within Fortune 500 companies, he has always loved being an advisor, catalyst, coach, connector, influencer, pioneer, stimulator and teacher. One of his favorite philosophies is around the concept of karma. Sowing positive seeds will, over time, produce positive outcomes as evidenced by his frequent appearance for career-focused webinars created especially for Emory alumni by the EAA. He earned his undergraduate degree from Boston University, an MBA from Emory's Goizueta School of Business, his Certified Professional in Learning & Performance from ATD and is a Gallup Certified StrengthsFinder Coach.

Executive Coach, The Savella Group

Specialties: Executive and Leadership Coaching; First Time in Role or New to Senior-level Position; First Time or Experienced Management Support; Team Growth and Effectiveness; Change and Transition Management; Career Progression and Navigation; Organizational Dynamics and Design; Enhanced Communication and Relationship Building

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About Sarah:

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Chief Joy Officer and Founder of Joyful Living Coaching

Specialties: Career and Life Coach. Intersection of Wellness and Career Exploration/Transition. Articulation of Purpose and Strengths. Address Limiting Beliefs to Achieve Career and Life Goals. Emotional Agility. Job Search Strategy. Interview Prep.

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About Maureen:

Maureen Sweatman (MBA, MDiv) is a career and life coach with over 15 years of experience who uses a strengths-based approach in supporting others to engage their strengths to reach their full potential and live a life filled with joy. As a certified wellness coach with formal training in business and theology at Emory University, she is a natural at supporting others in their development as they evolve through the different stages of their career and lives.

Maureen has dedicated her life’s work to coaching and training others to engage their strengths to reach their full potential. She has coached thousands of professionals and students and specializes in supporting mid-career professionals looking to make a transition in their career trajectory by assessing strengths and exploring alternative career paths. She counsels new professionals on how to launch their career, hone their leadership skills, and engage successfully with their employers. She advises senior leaders to embrace generational differences and diversity to enhance their human capital strategy.

And Maureen teaches everyone how to breakthrough limiting beliefs and choose joy every day!

Board Certified Life and Career Coach and Therapist, Heartway Healing Center, Coaching and Professional Training

Specialties: Life and Life Purpose Coaching, Career Coaching, Career Assessments, Transition Coaching, Health Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Self-esteem/confidence Building, Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Workshops

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About Marcy:

Marcy Victor’s life purpose is to help people discover their full potential and find true happiness in their lives. Since she was very young, she has been naturally coaching people to increase their self-confidence and discover their abilities. By listening deeply and asking questions to raise people’s awareness, she guides people to realize who they are meant to be and how they can enhance their life. She feels fortunate to have the opportunity to help others through her work at Heartway Healing Center in Atlanta. Described by others as a genuine, non-judgmental person, she provides encouragement, creative ideas and resources, motivation, accountability, and ongoing support.

Marcy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and board certified life and career coach who received her Life Purpose Coaching Certification from the Life Purpose Institute, which is accredited by the International Coach Federation. She has a master’s degree in clinical social work (MSW) from the University of Georgia, and a master’s of public health (MPH) degree from Emory University in 2001. She is certified in hypnotherapy (CHT) to further help clients with their health and well-being. She has spent the last 14 years working as a health communication and education specialist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Marcy conducts virtual appointments, or you can meet with her in person at her Atlanta, GA and New York, NY offices.

Executive and Leadership Development Coach

Specialties: Nathalie founded her company, Coherence Co., to coach individuals in their professional and personal lives. She specializes in Conscious and Purpose-Driven Leadership, New Manager Assimilation, Change Management, Career Transition, Connecting to Fulfillment, and Building Confidence and Resilience.

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About Nathalie:

Nathalie Weister is a bilingual Human Resources professional and Leadership Development coach. She has a passion for supporting her stakeholders and clients in connecting to their inner power through greater self-awareness and consciousness of their impact on their teams and organizations. She trained at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), through which she became a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) as well as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation. 

Nathalie is committed to innovative talent development and forward-thinking people strategies that enhance professional fulfillment and organizational culture.  During her six-year tenure with Fox Networks Group, she led diverse HR teams in Argentina and Mexico, two of the company’s largest growth markets. She stewarded regional projects to launch a new performance management process and identify the organization’s high-potential and high-performing talent. In her current role as Director of Leadership Development and Careers at Hilton, Nathalie leads the talent management strategy and execution in support of hotel operations in the Caribbean and Latin America region. 

Nathalie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and she is a certified Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR). In addition to her CPCC and ACC credentials, she completed a diploma in Ontological Coaching from the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. Nathalie currently resides in Miami, Florida and enjoys traveling, exercising and exploring the city’s vibrant culinary scene.

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About Hugh Hunter:

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