maria swall

Working in the nonprofit world can be both rewarding and draining. If parts of your life are feeling chaotic or overwhelming, Maria will help you find balance and calm. By asking powerful questions and listening deeply, she helps you transform challenges that seem insurmountable into workable goals that you can reach. She has a relaxed style, yet will encourage you to stay accountable to the goals you set.

Maria works with nonprofit leaders and emerging leaders to help them discover and develop their best leadership style.  She has masters degrees in social work and public policy. Before coaching, she worked as an executive director, development director, and consultant for nonprofits.

She coaches through her business, Brookside West, LLC.

Diana hutchinson

Diana often works with leaders who have taken on new responsibilities. Diana serves as a thinking partner, enabling her clients to spiral up into new ways of thinking and solutions that work for them in their new role. She helps leaders identify where they want to go, what is getting in the way, and how they can build on their strengths with specific actions they will take to get there.

Diana has a track record of success in the Air Force, the corporate world, and the not-for-profit sector. She loves creating new quality systems, and managing projects. She is certified as a coach through the International Coaching Federation.

Diana is a COO and Success Enabler, providing coaching through her business, Trebuchet Group.

Carl dierschow

Carl is a business coach who supports leaders in small for-profits and non-profits to build powerful organizations based on a compelling mission to improve society. He helps his clients move from purpose to action to results, while strengthening leadership skills and empowering robust teams.

 With twenty years of coaching experience, he is certified in both Organizational and Leadership Coaching. He has worked with clients around the world in large and small organizations in many industries including non-profits.

You can find more about Carl’s coaching business and experience on his Small Fish Business Coaching website.

Jason Velequette

Jason’s coaching approach views the client as a partner as he seeks to facilitate a creative process, where deep listening and thought-provoking questions develop new awareness and possibilities. He takes into account the whole person and the situation, opening new avenues of learning. His approach includes client development of action steps which encourages ownership and personal responsibility. 

Jason has a knack for identifying strengths and gaps of leaders and believes that leaders are at their best when learning and serving. Jason earned his Professional Certified Coach designation from the International Coach Federation in 2016. He teaches with Blue Mesa Coaching and serves as a mentor coach to other coaches.

Jason provides services through Sequoia Leadership Group.

Bob Nedbal

Bob works with business owners, executives, and nonprofit professionals to improve performance in their personal lives and their organizations. Decision-making and behavior are the two greatest contributors to living a life that is in alignment with who we ideally want to be, how we lead others, and ultimately our contribution to the world. 

Throughout his career, Bob has led successful teams in for-profit and nonprofit settings. He has worked in or with nonprofit organizations in leadership positions for nearly 20 years. He is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and brings research on human behavior, neuroscience, and emotional intelligence to his client work in profoundly simple and practical ways. 

In our increasingly complex society, enhancing self-awareness, managing emotions and behavior effectively are key to being who you would ideally like to be more often as you lead and inspire others. 

Bob provides coaching through think2perform.

Chrysta Bairre

Chrysta helps women identify their unique value, communicate with confidence, and leverage career opportunities. Chrysta's clients succeed in improving their work-life balance and increasing their income. She works primarily with:

• Women who want more recognition, more opportunity, and more pay

• Women who are overworked and overwhelmed

• Women struggling with unfulfilled potential

Chrysta has over 80% success rate helping her clients get hired, get promoted, and negotiate raises. Leveraging her personal childhood experience with poverty, Chrysta supports her clients in defining their own personal path to success.

Read more about Chrysta at her website, Live Love Work.

Mary Brown

Mary Brown is a lifecoach who helps women build confidence as they overcome challenges and achieve goals.  Mary specializes in coaching women to set and uphold boundaries from a place of love.  She loves working with people who are trying hard to help others, but end up feeling taken advantage of.  Mary's clients learn: the skill of saying "no", increase their sense of self worth, how to set and uphold boundaries, the practice of self-care, and how to develop enjoyable lives with intention and connection.        

Mary's professional background is in social work.  She has over a decade of experience serving the children and families of Northern Colorado, including as a community partnership facilitator.  Mary understands the struggles of the people in our community as well as the challenges of those who serve them.    

Mary coaches through her business, Intentional Life Coaching, LLC.

LeAndra Foster

LeaAndra earned her BSBA in Actuarial Science and Finance at Drake University and her MSBA in Financial Risk Management at Colorado State University.  However, it has been her life path, not her formal education that has gotten her to where she is today.  She has forged through actuarial exams, guided horseback rides through the Rocky Mountains, marketed chiropractic services, taught college Finance, managed day-to-day operations at a start-up hedge fund company, mothered, wifed, and is now finally combining all these things into one career as a speaker, mentor, and coach. 

LeAndra focuses on helping overqualified, underpaid women find their voice, own their value, and be true to themselves, so they can have the courage to get paid what they’re worth.  LeAndra hopes the insight she has gained along her path will provide insight into yours.

LeAndra provides coaching through élän lȳfe Consulting.