Denise Brouillette, MBA, BCC, President & Founder

Denise Brouillette is a strategic leadership consultant, executive coach, author, and president and founder of LeaderXpress. Denise honed her leadership development experience at two teaching hospitals of the Harvard Medical School system and as vice president of a consulting firm in Boston before moving to San Francisco. For the past 20 years she has been consulting to and coaching executives, key leaders, and leadership teams in the areas of power and influence, leadership presence, political intelligence, interpersonal communication, building motivated teams across distance and cultures, and change management. Denise holds an MBA from the Simmons School of Management, a BS with honors from Boston University, the Board Certified Coach (BCC) designation through the Center for Credentialing and Education, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc., and has additional certifications in a number of world-class leadership assessments. Denise has written more than 40 leadership articles, writes a leadership blog, and is authoring Influence Matters: 31 Ways in 31 Days® to Master Influence at Work. In addition, she teaches the courses Power and Influence: Women & Leadership and Women and Negotiation at U.C. Berkeley Extension, and leads a workshop on Leadership Development Planning in the U.C. Davis MBA program. She divides her time between San Francisco and New York City. Full bio >>

Allan Milham, MA, MCC

Allan Milham is an international human performance development consultant providing top level coaching and consulting in leadership and career development. Having climbed more than one corporate ladder, Allan has a key understanding of the dynamic relationship between the needs of individual leaders and the objectives of organizations. He has more than 20 years' experience-impacting top performing teams and individuals in corporate settings ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Prior to starting his own company, Bold Moves Enterprises, Inc., Allan's professional experience included serving as a consultant for Drake Beam Morin, one of the world's leading career transition firms. He also held key leadership roles for Marriott International and with TMI USA, an international human resources consulting firm. Allan holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation. He serves on the Board for TeleCommuniting Advantage Group of San Francisco. Allan is the co-author of the Amazon Top 100 bestseller, Bold Moves - Jump to Outstanding Self-Managed Action and the corporate workbook, Empathy: Connecting with the Customer.

Jane Cranston is an executive career coach, management consultant, outplacement advisor and talent developer for leaders in finance, technology, media, the law, fashion, consumer goods, and health care. Her coaching helps organizations, leaders, and individuals assess talent, determine objectives, develop strategic plans and execute. Jane is particularly skilled at working with a global and diversified group of highly intelligent people who are success-driven and need to develop or enhance their people management skills and communication style. As the first Director of Stores for Liz Claiborne's newly-formed Retail Division, it was her responsibility to translate and transmit the culture of the parent organization to new employees and develop a unique, united impactful team of 600 employees nationwide. Jane earned Master and Bachelor degrees from New York University. She is a graduate of the Executive Coach Academy and served on the adjunct faculty of NYU's School of Professional Studies and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has been seen and heard on CNN, WNBC, WABC TV, The Street.com, WNYC FM, Voice America, WOR710, Ceslie.com and Blog Talk Radio. She was interviewed and quoted numerous times in the Wall Street Journal, NY Post, the Daily News, Reuters, Newsday and Metro NY. Her coaching business, ExecutiveCoachNY, is located in Midtown Manhattan.

Linda Kane, MBA

Linda Kane is an executive coach and human resources consultant with a successful track record and results orientation in both internal and external positions as a business partner and service provider. Formerly the Managing Director at the Bank of NY Mellon with overall responsibility as HR Business Partner for Global Institutional Services, Linda brings several years of expertise to her coaching engagements. Linda works with senior leaders in both line and staff positions who need specific skills beyond their technical expertise to produce results in areas where they have direct control or indirect influence. Her work includes international and domestic firms in growth, start up, streamlining, and turnaround situations. She coaches for both organizational and individual success to enable executives to build impactful, productive and satisfying careers. She has taught at the under-graduate and graduate levels in the United States, Europe and Asia, including executive development programs for women in the U.S., the Netherlands, and for US Army Central Command, Europe. Linda holds a BS from Boston University and an MBA from the Simmons Graduate School of Management. She serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations.

Joanne Brem, PCC

Joanne Brem is an executive coach who brings seasoned, hands-on expertise to the field of organizational leadership development and education. She works with executives as well as senior and emerging leaders to develop the skills and strategies to achieve high levels of productivity, achieve business goals, and effectively lead needed changes in their organizations. This leads to her clients producing high impact, sustainable results while experiencing professional and personal success.Joanne specializes in leadership development, cultivating executive presence, strategic planning and thought-partnering, development of effective interpersonal skills including communication and conflict resolution, building long-term strategic partnerships and stakeholder relationships, navigating the political landscape, and organizational and personal transition. Her coaching combines strong business acumen and insightful intuition, and an engaging and energizing personal style with a direct and results-oriented approach. Prior to executive coaching, Joanne spent 17+ years in the information technology industry. As a top-performer in this extremely high-paced, competitive environment, she learned and integrated into practice the principles, dynamics and skills of sustainable high-impact performance and collaborative teamwork, which intrinsically informs her coaching methodology. Joanne received her education at Arizona State University where she was a high honors graduate in psychology and business administration. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) with the Coaches Training Institute. She is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) qualified.

Michele Caplette, PhD

Michele Caplette is an executive coach and leadership and organization development consultant who, as the director of executive development at Applied Materials, designed highly-successful leadership learning experiences for leaders and executives. Her focus is on achieving outstanding results through effective leadership and specializes in high-impact communicaiton, socially and emotionally-intelligent leading, masterful influence, developing the leadership pipeline, and building strong, successful teams. Michele is certified in several world-class leadership feedback instruments, including the Booth 360 and the Lominger Leadership Architect ® Suite of products. She earned a doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has has written several articles on leadership development and teams, and is a leadership coach in the Leadership Essentials program at Stanford University.