Over the past 25 years, Malcolm Avner has experienced business leadership as a coach, facilitator, executive, entrepreneur, consultant and trainer. He has started, managed and sold businesses in various industries, including food service, software and staffing. In 10 years as coach and business advisor, he has guided the personal and professional development of hundreds of business owners and managers, and helped create more sustainable, enjoyable and profitable workplaces.

Malcolm has helped companies create strategic and business plans used for growth, allocation of resources, positioning for sale or capitalization, incentive plan implementation, or simply peace of mind. He has led organizational systems redesign based on Universal Principles (which explain human nature) and Systems Principles (such as, 90% of organizational productivity is the result of systems, not the people).

Using conventional and unconventional processes, he helps clients make more fruitful, healthier decisions by consciously balancing thoughtful analysis and intuition. He approaches all issues with the intention of guiding clients through a dual opportunity for growth: 1) To overcome a logistical, strategic or interpersonal challenge, and 2) To raise personal consciousness by increasing self-knowledge and challenging habitual beliefs.

His credentials include a MBA in Business Management, BA in Economics, Certification in Solution Selling, Certification in TQM (Total Quality Management) Leadership, Certified Instructor of DreamWork, Master/Teacher Certifications (2) in energy therapy, Licensed Healer Practitioner, martial arts black belt and former professional athlete.

Gayle Gregory is one of three co-authors of The Grand Experiment, an Expedition of Self-Discovery, a book about seven universal myths that drive and determine beliefs, behaviors, and their resultant outcomes. The book is foundational in her work with individuals and corporations, since it speaks directly to the reason why things fail to change regardless of the effort applied. The premise of her new book, Workplace Evolution: Common Sense for Uncommon Times, is that movement from me to WE holds the key to our future and the answers to all of the top challenges facing organizations today.  

Gayle is a former senior manager with two Fortune 500 companies, where she had over-sight for a large operations staff, technology start-ups and project management. Within the corporate structure she facilitated enterprise-wide change and as a result understands what makes change initiatives prosper or fail.

Gregory founded Pure Possibility, a coaching and mentoring program that works with individuals desiring to change old patterns and break free of limitations, and within the Oregon state corrections system, where she conducts thought awareness training for men in the state’s medium security prison. Gayle specializes in the deconstruction phase of WE’s unique three phase consulting process.

While working at UPS and traveling five days a week, Gayle finished her BA in Management, an accomplishment that she laughingly states took 28 years from its inception. She graduated with honors right before taking a two-year sabbatical with her husband, where she sailed to Vancouver Island and from there to Mexico aboard her 40 foot sailboat. The adventure was amazing and provided the insights that were the groundwork for the seven myths.

Chris Hallman is founder and principal consultant with Great Circle Consulting, a training and consulting practice devoted to strengthening organizational performance and enhancing operational safety. Chris holds a M.Ed. with a focus in adult education from the University of Georgia, and has over 20 years of experience working with organizations operating in high criticality environments such as airlines, the U.S. military, healthcare and cruise lines. In navigation, the great circle route represents the shortest path between any two points on the Earth’s surface and serves as a fitting metaphor for a company devoted to bridging the gap between where an organization is and where its vision would have it be.

Chris approaches improving human performance from the perspective of designing and developing organizations that support and nurture high performance. Additionally, his focus on applying appreciative inquiry to national culture to design organizational systems that are culturally appropriate and make use of the strongest characteristics of a given culture have led Great Circle Consulting to an international presence.

Chris is a certified Davis & Dean Guide and serves as a consulting editor to the FAA’s International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies. He has published numerous articles on aviation safety and co-authored a chapter on applying pilot safety skills to hospital emergency rooms.

As human potential catalyst, Vasi brings 15 years experience of cultivating innovative workplaces where both people and organizations thrive.

After experiencing both explosive growth and downsizing in companies, Vasi Huntalas began asking, "How can both people and business not just survive, but thrive in changing conditions?" Her passion led her to explore how organizations can create evolutionary cultures built on trust, shared leadership, and connecting with a larger purpose.

As a coach, facilitator of solutions, and human potential catalyst over the past 15 years, Vasi has worked with teams and leaders to be free of self-limitations and to discover deeper, more authentic ways to contribute their skills and talents at work. Vasi has fostered innovation and teamwork with diverse individuals, including management teams, administrative, technical, and creative staff.

Her clients have included both non-profit and for-profit organizations in technology and service industries that were looking for a competitive edge by innovatively engaging the talent of the workforce. Through both transformational coaching and team experiential learning, Vasi assists employees in seeing their connection to the larger whole so they take coordinated, committed action. Vasi is co-founder of The Radiant Being, a self discovery program that unleashes potential and of The Service Connection, a leadership program that funnels potential into philanthropic service.

Vasi earned a M.A. in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University, Seattle. She also has a certificate in Organization Systems Renewal Consultation from the International Institute for the Study of Systems Renewal.

Al Lee draws on a rich palate of skills when it comes to helping individuals and organizations achieve their best performance. Individuals discover how to clarify and quantify their goals, and how taking more control over their health and wellness, their mental, physical, and creative performance, as well as their emotional intelligence, can dramatically accelerate their ability to achieve. Organizations learn how to apply the principles of iterative development to organizational architectures, process improvement and their unique set of circumstances to improve communications, quality, productivity, moral, and create an environment that sustains and lifts its most valuable resource – its people.

Extensive experience at all levels of the organization – as an engineer, manager, executive, board member, consultant, client, and coach - provide Al with a special awareness, understanding, and perspective of the issues that hold individuals and organizations back from their highest levels of performance. Al’s unique background spans the demanding  pressure-cooker of  high-tech engineering, the intensity of cutting-edge start-ups, the challenges of organization architecture and trouble shooting, the focused intention of martial arts, the creativity of music, and the regenerative power and insights of yoga, Qi Gong, and meditation.

In addition to creating success stories within Fortune 500 companies, startups, and non-profits, Al has coached and conducted seminars in goal achievement, life/work planning, performance improvement, stress management, and wellness. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, a 4th degree black belt in traditional Okinawan karate, is an accomplished speaker and is the author of the book “Perfect Breathing – Transform Your Life One Breath at a Time.” He is the president of the ALS Association of Oregon & SW Washington, the president-elect of the National Speakers Association (Oregon chapter), and is a volunteer musician for the Children’s Cancer Society’s Music Rx program.

As Systems Architect and Strategist, Sherri brings 20+ years experience assisting nonprofits and businesses in implementing systems to create sustainable organizations.

Sherri is President of VPI Strategies where she specializes in unifying people, process and technology to create sustainable organizations. Her organization conducts research, develops strategy, coaches and trains. Plagued by the inability of good organizations from becoming even better by leveraging all their resources, Sherri has spent years delving into human and organizational behavior seeking answers.

Realizing it's not the behaviors but the belief structures underneath at issue led her to the study of spirituality where she continues to dismantle her own fears and assists entrepreneurs and employees in facing the self-limiting beliefs which hinder their professional and personal progress. Sherri understands that being of service, providing a different perspective and illuminating new strategic possibilities is her purpose. She loves diving deep to assess needs, providing structure and synthesizing various viewpoints to create strategic options.

Sherri is an exceptionally organized project manager with vision, integration and execution skills. She has published over eighty articles on strategy, marketing and coaching where she simplifies complex concepts for busy professionals. She is an expert facilitator and presenter credited with over 175 seminars and regularly distills her expertise as an executive coach, one-on-one with executive management.

Her diverse professional background includes customer service, operations, human resources, sales, marketing and strategic planning. Sherri earned a Masters in Business Administration degree with an emphasis on Strategic Planning from Pepperdine University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Youngstown State University, summa cum laude.

There is a magic in the everyday moments that most dismiss or simply pass without notice.  It is these moments that create a life of purpose and value. Partnering with Jamilee you will soon see the beauty in your life with a new and fresh perspective.  She guides her clients to that combination of awareness and acceptance that opens the door of transformation.  Her methods are powerful and fun and allow joy into life as a way of being.

After over 25 years of coaching and training, Jamilee's skills as a facilitator continue to reach new and brilliant levels. What makes her most powerful is that she is a strong proponent of living her own transformation and that is why she has gained the reputation of being the Coaches Coach.

Her work has taken her from the board room with corporations executives to the locker room with professional athletes as well as delivering her extraordinary message to auditorium filled audiences.

Most notably, Ms. Shaffer, brings a special skill to the field of personal transformation with the exercises she has created with her equine partners. These powerful exercises, all done with the client on the ground and not on the horses, are the force that have propelled many of her clients to reaching their life's goals and beyond.

Earl’s entertaining and imaginative approach of intermixing practical theory with a variety of creative expressions has also led him to the creation of IMAGINATION GAMES which alchemizes laughter, creativity and improvisation games into playful and profound business applications and results. Working with creative professionals, artists and business people of all stripes, Earl captures why imagination, innovation and ingenuity are the keys to job/career satisfaction and success.