Who We Are
Nice to meet you! The Coaching Commons team represents many visions and dreams coming together to construct a wide assortment of offerings for coaches.
This team imagined a thriving, vocal community where every coach is welcome to join in and express themselves, their triumphs and challenges, their information, questions and requests.
What is The Coaching Commons?
What do we conceive ‘The Coaching Commons’ to be? Before your input, refinements and requests, that is? The Coaching Commons is:
A non-partisan ‘big tent’ under which coaches can freely create the future together in a non-commercial setting on the world-wide-web.
Why Build it? It will provide:
future-oriented information and trends
advanced dialog
a social focus
Some of the benefits will be:
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Introducing the Team
Ruth Ann Harnisch – Founder, Philanthropist, Visionary. To read more about Ruth Ann, click here.
David Goldsmith – Founder, Strategist, Executive Coach. For more about David, click here.
Andrea J. Lee – Founder, Architect, Author. For more about Andrea, click here.
Linda Ballew – Team Lead, Breaking News, The Coaching Commons; Director of Operations, The Foundation of Coaching. Read Linda’s full bio here.
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Ruth Ann Harnisch - The Philanthropist
Ruth Ann Harnisch is President of The Harnisch Family Foundation, which has given grants to hundreds of not-for-profit organizations since its founding in 1998. She is a proponent of creative philanthropy whose unusual charitable investments have landed her on Oprah and the Today show. Ruth Ann encourages people to discover the thrill of giving money, […]
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David Goldsmith - The Strategist
David Goldsmith is the founder and Senior Partner of The Goldsmith Group, LLC.The Goldsmith Group provides a combination of coaching, mentoring, strategic consulting, management and legal expertise to companies built around the principal or founders intellectual property, ideas and vision.
Clients are authors (many New York Times bestsellers), seminar presenters, creators of institutes and organizations, product […]
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Andrea J. Lee - The Architect
Andrea J. Lee has ‘worked’ in the coaching field since 2001, though she’s hard pressed to call it work, it’s so rewarding. She specializes in helping business owners use the internet to make money and meaning, sustainably, and is delighted to play a role in the launch of The Coaching Commons for The Harnisch Family Foundation.
Formerly General Manager […]
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Linda Ballew - Team Lead, Operations
Linda Ballew has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit world, including 14 years teaching at a private college preparatory school. After returning to college in 2000 to study Mass Communication, Psychology and Marketing, Linda returned to the nonprofit community, raising friends and funds, coordinating special events and securing corporate sponsorships for Centerstone, the ninth […]
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Elizabeth Crouch - Team Lead, The Coaching Commons
Elizabeth Crouch, RPT, PA-C, CPCC, is a life coach and commmunity developer. Elizabeth has coached teens, young adults, physicians, emerging and established leaders in diverse organizations since the late 90’s. While new to coaching, she worked with Thomas Leonard on the launch of his Attraction and Million Dollar Coach programs, assisting Thomas to go into full […]
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Sandra De Freitas - Team Lead, Technology
Sandra De Freitas is a top tech coach, speaker, trainer and expert in internet technology. She is the founder of TechCoachForCoaches.com, a successful coaching, consulting and training firm and is delighted to be the Technology Team Lead on this exciting Harnisch Family Foundation project.Sandra’s tech skills are second only to her wicked sense of humor. […]
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Vikki Brock - Team Lead, Connections and Museum
Vikki is an executive and leadership coach with over 20 years Fortune 100 leadership experience and over 10 years as a successful entrepreneur. She graduated from University of Washington’s Executive MBA Program in 1989 and expects completion in 2006 of a Ph.D. in Coaching and Human Development from the International University of Professional Studies, her […]
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Mary Wayne Bush - Team Lead, Research
Mary Wayne holds a Master’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate in Organizational Change from Pepperdine University. She has over twenty years’ experience as a corporate coach and organization development consultant. In addition, Mary Wayne has taught quality management courses for University of California, Santa Cruz Extension and is a member of the coaching […]
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Francine Campone - Team Lead, Research Repository
Francine Campone, Ed.D., PCC is a professional coach and consultant, founder and CEO of F. Campone, Inc. Her clients include leaders in education and nonprofit organizations, organization teams and mature professionals making significant transitions in life and work. Prior to engaging in coaching as a full time practice, she served as a university counselor, faculty […]
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Sylva Leduc - Team Lead - The Gift of Coaching
Sylva (Syl) Leduc, MEd, MPEC, is an executive coach and leadership development strategist. Syl has coached leaders in organizations since the early 90s when the majority of coaching was still done onsite. While she hails from Canada, Syl has gradually worked her way south and now lives in the Phoenix area with her husband and […]
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John Bennett - Senior Advisor
John L. Bennett is Chief Executive Officer of The Foundation of Coaching, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of coaching as a profession, and as a way of making a positive difference in the world through the lives of individuals.
He was an executive with the American Red Cross for 18 years, where he served […]
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