Mina Brown is an experienced, insightful executive coach, career consultant, and seminar leader.  As a former senior executive, she offers the powerful combination of real hands-on business experience coupled with exceptional sensitivity, intuition, and communication abilities.  Her clients describe her as “engaging, compassionate, challenging, and inspirational.”   Centrally based in Dallas, she works with clients all over the U.S. 

Mina is widely recognized and sought-after for her unflinching candor and focus on tangible business outcomes.  She works primarily with executives and professionals as well as their management teams in the areas of leadership, communications, team effectiveness, and career management. She has numerous certifications in diagnostic instruments, learning tools, and other models, including: Kolbe Index^®, Lominger 360° Assessment^®, Conflict Lens^®, and TDF Decision Styles Theory and Assessment Instrument^®, among others.  Mina is a member of International Coach Federation (ICF), CoachVille, and a Founding Member of the International Association of Coaches (IAC).  She is also the National Career Transitions Coach for 6 Figure Jobs.com.  Most recently, she has been asked to create the “Leadership Mastery” blog for TechCareers.com, which was launched in April 2006. 

For more than 20 years in large corporations, Mina provided operational and financial leadership for many successful organizations. In recent years, she has worked extensively in the following industries: technology, telecommunications, automotive, financial services, venture-backed start ups, and consumer products.

Prior to forming Positive Coaching Group, Mina held senior executive positions with Aviall, Inc., both as Chief Financial Officer and as SVP & General Manager of its Aerospace Division.  Previously, she held corporate management positions with Ryder System and Amax.  Mina started her career with Price Waterhouse. 

Mina holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University, a BBA in accounting (with highest honors) from Eastern Kentucky University, and a CPA.  She has published several articles about leadership, financial management, careers, and other topics.  She is also a poised, animated, and articulate public speaker.  Her recent seminars have included: “Positive Agreements in the Workplace—Learn How to Enjoy and Leverage Conflict”, “Talents, Passions, and Possibilities—Create a Powerful Career Vision”, and “Four Cornerstones of Lifetime Career Management”.

We have a simple but powerful mission:

To inspire professionally-minded women to explore, discover, and fulfill their potential. To help women embrace their power and gain clarity. Ultimately, we want women to have the tools and skills they need to make more deliberate choices.

We are partnering with ATW because we are committed to their vision. We also believe that our mission is aligned with and supports the ATW mission. Together, we can have an even greater impact on supporting women in their growth, learning, and development. Since it’s beginnings in 2000, Marsha Clark & Associates has worked with thousands of women on a national basis delivering stellar programming through workshops, speaking engagements, coaching, and a year-long leadership development program supporting women. Based on this experience of working with women-only groups, here’s what we’ve learned:

• Women generally learn best in relationship with one another and ask more questions when there are only women in the group.
• Women often feel alone and isolated in their organizations. Having a chance to talk with other women who have similar challenges, issues, and opportunities gives them greater confidence in addressing such challenges and issues, knowing they are not alone.
• Women often don’t like working with or for one another because there is an air of unspoken competition. As women get to know one another beyond the surface level, they work more effectively together and have a tendency to support one another for more effective individual and overall performance.
• Women often don’t have clarity about what they want for themselves and, therefore, don’t ask for what they want. If they do, they have difficulty holding their boundaries in an effort to please everyone around them. They often resent what happens to them and don’t understand the role they are playing in their own lives. Programs of self-awareness, understanding, choice, and action can generate enormous improvements in effectiveness and achieving desired results.

The programs and coaching staff that we’re offering through ATW reflect what we’ve learned and are designed to continue our learning. We want to do meaningful and purposeful work in our relationships with women. Won’t you come and join us in this journey of growth, learning, and effectiveness!

Barbara Wisnom - Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
   Principal,  Soulutions Leadership and Coaching
   Executives, Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Powerful Women

“When I was ready to take the next step in the “what now” question in my life, I chose Barbara as my partner in the journey.  Her remarkable insight, compassion and ability to gently probe and guide have helped me discover and celebrate my true self and enjoy the ride”!

Vice-President, large medical group practice 

“My work with Barbara has been inspiring. She is a gifted mentor who intuitively seems to know what is needed during our sessions. Her sense of integrity and belief in trusting the process kept me aligned to my own core values while making major life changes. I have renamed her Barbara Wisdom!”

Senior Director, large not-for-profit agency

Arlene Rosenberg is founder of Leading Achievers^™, a company dedicated to providing leading-edge expertise in human potential and personal empowerment, and author of Say It, See It, Be It: How Visions & Affirmations Will Change Your Life.  For over 20 years, Arlene has specialized in coaching, speaking and training female executives and entrepreneurs and their teams on personal and professional development.  In the fall of 2006, Arlene was the featured coach for a senior IT executive on a six-part coaching series for NBC affiliate, KPNX Channel 12 and is a frequent national radio guest on empowerment and coaching.

As an international coach, Arlene shares her expertise on leadership, interpersonal communication and the power of life balance and vision with scores of corporations and associations focusing on the financial, technology and personal services sectors.  She has served clients in companies such as Citigroup, New York Life Insurance Company, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Banner Health, Computer Associates, Project Solvers, BMG Entertainment and UBS Warburg.  She has spoken to the prestigious New York Society of Security Analysts, Arizona State University, Women Entrepreneur’s Small Business Boot Camp, National Association of Women Business Owners, American Business Women’s Association, the Alliance of Technology and Women and was a keynote in ATW’s Mentoring Program for the past two years in Phoenix.

Arlene’s thesis is that everyone is born to succeed, but that success is blocked internally by two major factors:  individual life experiences and the mental conditioning of childhood.  She bases her work on the theory that one’s current situation is the direct result of what one is thinking, feeling, and believing. She guides her clients in risk taking to reprogram their negative beliefs, attitudes and habits so they can empower themselves to create new levels of achievement in their lives.

Prior to becoming an empowerment coach, professional speaker and author, Arlene was a teacher, leading sales associate for Pitney Bowes and human resources executive for Ciba Geigy.  She holds a Bachelor’s degree in education from Mills College, a Master’s Equivalency from the College of New Rochelle, and participated in the Organizational Development program at Georgia State University. She is also a graduate of Coach University’s business coaching program and has been an associate with Drake Beam Morin’s Change Management program.

Arlene resides in Scottsdale, AZ with her husband and dog, Ruffy.

This literacy builds inclusive scaffolding—a way to communicate, to operate and to apply intelligence at every level of the business. As a National Speakers Association Member, she speaks publicly on these topics as Multi-Dimensional LeadershipTM, a core business model under Business Literacy.

In the process, Michelle’s coaching peels away years of ineffective behavior and habits and forges new pathways to professional and personal effectiveness and fulfillment. Her methods produce results and effective actions that relate to management styles, multi-generational communications, and the renewed role of personal responsibility and self-reliance in today’s global, volatile business climate. The systems work because self-referred fulfillment generates renewed energy. In the demands and extended hours of contemporary business, this energy is vital to sustain a leadership position.

Michelle consults with fledgling and international corporations, inspires business leaders to manage by values-driven principles, and serves the American Marketing Association Phoenix Chapter, City of Phoenix as a marketing consultant, and Scottsdale marketing executive committee. She lives and practices in Scottsdale, Arizona and travels internationally to deliver her messages and services.