Meet Our Trainers

 

Patty Beach—Leadership Consultant and the co-founder and owner of LeadershipSmarts.com 

 

Patty is a gifted and insightful coach and consultant.  Her clients have included upper-level executives in corporations, public agencies, and non-profits, eg. Amgen, Lucent and the US DOE.  Highly trained, richly experienced and uniquely engaging, Patty empowers individuals, motivates teams, and creates opportunities for breakthrough leadership and performance.  Patty earned an M.S. in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University and has earned the acclaimed ICF Master Coach Certification.  She offers more than 15 years of experience in high-level change management, and works with too many assessments and methodologies to list, including Enneagram, EQi, Myers-Briggs, DiSC, 360 Profiles, Community Building, Polarity Thinking and Co-active Coaching.  Her prior career as a geologist makes her communication remarkably down to earth.

Patty’s coaching and teaching style is engaged, creative, and upbeat.  Her irrepressible curiosity, adventurous spirit, and practical tools motivate and empower clients to make immediate and lasting change.  Patty illuminates blind spots, nurtures hidden talents, and helps clients develop both as individuals and as leaders within larger systems. Her personal mission is to evolve conscious leaders to create a better world. Nothing’s more satisfying to her than getting in the sandbox with people and helping them create a new path to a brighter outcome.

 

 

Eric Haas – Senior Research Associate at WestEd in Oakland, CA, Political Messaging Consultant and Huffington Post blogger

Eric Haas has studied framing extensively and taught individuals and organizations how to use framing to improve strategic planning and communication. His research and writing have been published in academic journals and books, as well as in the popular press. He is currently writing Dumb Ideas Won’t Create Smart Kids: Why We Keep Doing Them and How We Can Change That for Teachers College Press.

Dr. Haas is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd in Oakland, CA. Before joining WestEd, Dr. Haas was a Senior Fellow at George Lakoff’s Rockridge Institute and an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut. In 2004, Dr. Haas was awarded a visiting fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Lancaster (England) to advance his work on the framing of higher education. Dr. Haas began his professional work as a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching math and science in Buchanan, Liberia. Dr. Haas earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Notre Dame, a J.D., from Catholic University, and a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Arizona State University.

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