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Lesia Stone, M.S., CPBA

Lesia Stone, Principal of Keystone Katalyst, LLC, a coaching and business excellence practice, serves her customers by designing and executing strategies promoting personal empowerment and influence. Known for her infectious enthusiasm, Lesia thrives on helping others achieve their personal and professional best. For more than 15 years, she has nurtured and proven excellence in Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Change Management.

Her clients say that working with her provides them confidence that their people are doing the right thing at the right time to meet their organizational goals and objectives. From working in a small family business to her role as manager and consultant to organizations of all sizes in the public and private sectors, she enjoys working with organizations to facilitate change using her positive communication and influencing skills.

Lesia earned a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy with emphases in Religious Studies and Psychology, from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She has taught in College credit and various K-12 enrichment programs and has earned multiple professional certifications for leadership, behavioral analysis, and effective communication. She is constantly exploring new resources and methods to deliver innovative solutions to meet her clients’ needs.

Lesia lives in Erie with her husband and two children. She is a member of several networking groups, and has served as volunteer for Youth in schools and United Way funded initiatives. Personal interests include reading, biking, rollerblading and parent rescue – her personal mission to build community by providing respite support to parents with young children.

Mary Haroun

Mary Haroun has over 14 years of experience advocating for, coaching, mentoring individuals and professionals in areas of ADHD, life skills development, change and transition, performance improvement, and strategic goals. Her distinctive coaching style demonstrates insightful attention to each client’s individuality. She works with them to realize their total and unique potential given their particular environment and circumstances.

Emphasizing that that one size does not fit all, Mary brings forth a client’s strengths and capabilities and helps each engage in their individual strategy based on these characteristics.

Mary is a Certified Professional coach through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) under the Co-Active Coaching program. In addition, she has completed an intensive workshop at Landmark College on coaching students with ADHD. She is also a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Nationally Certified Massage therapist. For the past few years Mary has been working closely with Dr. John Ratey’s clients as a virtual advocate and a coach on various areas such as: ADHD, Change & Transition, and Personal Life Skill Development. She has also contributed to Dr. Ratey’s newly released book titled, SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Meredith Woodruff

Meredith Woodruff is Vice President of ABRAXAS Corporation, a large, international risk mitigation technology company based in Herndon, Virginia, through which she consults to USG agencies and private sector corporations and entities. She is also founder and Co-President of COPIA Coaching and Consulting, a woman-owned partnership that provides services to inspire individuals and organizations around the globe to realize their abundant potential, linking women in the third world with those in the first and second. In addition, Ms. Woodruff maintains her own executive coaching practice through her company, Mpact Coaching and Consulting.

Ms. Woodruff served more than 25 years as an Operations Officer in the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Clandestine Service (NCS), living and working in Central Eurasia, the Near East, Africa, Europe, and the US. She retired from the NCS in late 2006 as its most senior female officer.

Ms. Woodruff earned bachelors degrees in literature and descriptive linguistics from Oklahoma State University and a master’s degree in educational psychology and counseling from Wayne State University. She also holds coaching certifications through the Coaches Training Institute and the International Coaching Federation.

Trinnie H. Barker, JD, CPCC, ACC

Trinnie Barker is the founder and president of Rippleffect Coaching, LLC, an impact coaching organization dedicated to the personal growth and fulfillment of motivated professionals and small business entrepreneurs. Ms. Barker also coaches small teams or groups within organizations. Specifically, Ms. Barker has successfully worked with mid to senior level consultants, managers, financial planners, physicians and other professionals with clarity and accountability in work, career and life. Prior to founding Rippleffect Coaching, LLC, Ms. Barker worked as a civil litigator with Taylor, Duane, Barton & Gilman, LLP in Boston, Massachusetts, handling a variety of cases at the state and federal level, including insurance defense, bankruptcy, medical malpractice defense and insurance coverage. She maintains her Massachusetts bar membership.

Ms. Barker is a certified professional coach through the Coaches Training Institute and the International Coach Federation. She received systems coach training from the Center for Right Relationship (ORSC). She also received her B.A. in Psychology from Boston University and her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a member of the International Coach Federation, the North Carolina Association of Business and Professional Coaches and The Coaches Training Institute’s Carolina Coaches community.