ICCO Leadership
Meet our Current Board
Executive Committee
Marshal Backlar, Vice President
Marshal is a Motion Picture Academy Award nominee and a highly accomplished executive coach with a track record of success with senior executives who want to change, manage and accelerate their careers.
His extensive experience as a senior executive and entrepreneur, coupled with strong international experience enables him to successfully coach professionals for maximum long-term results.
Marshal is President of Backlar Consultants, coaching corporate executives and individuals in career acceleration and change, leadership, team building, presentation skills, personal branding, career strategy and implementation. His clients have consistently surpassed goals. Marshal considers coaching as an invaluable tool for success, and he is one hundred percent committed to the success of each individual he coaches.
Marshal is a member of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, the Academy of Motion Pictures, and a Board member of International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. He is a graduate of Princeton University with graduate study at the Sorbonne.
Kevin Cuthbert, Treasurer
Kevin takes a practical, strengths-based approach to his executive leadership development practice; practical in that it focuses on the key behaviors required for improved performance, strengths-based in that the focus is on what is currently working in the executive’s leadership style that can be leveraged for improved performance and satisfaction.
Mr. Cuthbert has extensive experience designing and using multi-rater (360) feedback processes to help his clients gain improved performance and satisfaction from their work and their lives. Kevin is an expert in both executive and organizational assessments.
Kevin’s client list includes Anheuser-Busch, Bally, Citibank, Caterpillar, United Airlines, The Limited Brands, Yahoo!, Leo Burnett, GM Planworks, Macy’s, Hyatt Hotels, Wrigley, Disney, United Stationers, BP-Amoco, Pfizer, Kraft, Merck, Chase, and CapitalSource.
Karl Corbett, Secretary
Karl is Managing Partner of Sherpa Coaching in Cincinnati.
He handles strategy, marketing and client relations for the Sherpa Executive Coaching Certifications at Miami University, Texas Christian University and the University of Georgia. He was contributing editor of the book “The Sherpa Guide: Process-Driven Executive Coaching”, published by Thomson in 2005.
Karl also leads the annual Sherpa Executive Coaching Survey, the largest and longest-running survey on executive coaching.
He has also been President of Sasha Corporation since he founded the firm in 1984, developing the Employment Dynamics process for HR systems design, and “Showtime” customer service training, gaining press all the way to Newsweek Japan. He’s consulted and taught across the US and in South Africa, at the highest levels of industry and government.
Mr. Corbett holds a degree in Management Information Sciences from the University of Kentucky, earned in 1974.
Board Members
Sandra Allen
Sandra Allen is Director of the Leadership and Organization Development Group of STEPHCO LLC, a woman owned small business. Sandra is a graduate of the Leadership Coaching Program at Georgetown University. She is a full-time executive coach, facilitator and organization development consultant. Sandra has worked with both team and individual clients to develop leadership resiliency, improve time management skills, redefine, support and strengthen staff relationships, improve communication skills, and realign, reenergize and improve productivity. Sandra has over 30 years’ experience in private, public and non-profit business sectors.
Sandra received an undergraduate degree in Biology and a Master of Arts Degree in Student Personnel Administration from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). She completed substantial post-graduate work in business disciplines at American University. At Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management she participated in the Director Development Program.
Ruth L. Camp
Ruth Camp, M.S., is an executive leadership coach with over ten years of coaching experience. She has been coaching program manager at the Leadership Academy, Central Intelligence Agency University for the past three years. She expanded the coaching program to include coaching clients from throughout the Agency, developing communication strategies that increased understanding of coaching and its many applications.
With over 25 years as a human resources officer at CIA, Ruth spent much of that time as an internal organizational development consultant, helping managers throughout the Agency identify and resolve management challenges in areas of team development, team building and change management.
In her current role as coaching program manager at the Leadership Academy, CIAU, she consults with Leadership Academy course directors to define coaching requirements and ways to better integrate the coaching support into the leadership programs.
Bill Carrier
Bill Carrier specializes in coaching senior and high-potential executives in leadership and personal development as well as senior military officers in transition. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, former Army officer, and Rotary International Scholar, Bill grounds his coaching work in practical leadership experience and a firm belief that we are all part of something bigger. Recent executive coaching clients include the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the CEO of highly regarded learning company, a Department of State appointee, a Deputy CIO in the Armed Forces, and a highly decorated Naval officer.
Currently coaching senior federal and private sector leaders, Bill also has extensive experience in working with senior-most HR executives of billion-dollar companies across the US, Australia, and South Africa to leverage leadership assessment and human capital measurement to improve company culture and performance.
Lou Chrostowski
Lou Chrostowski is an executive coach and consultant whose extensive experience in talent management and strong academic credentials provides him a platform to provide strategically driven leadership and organizational development work to his clients.
Through this experience Lou developed a knowledge and understanding of taking a holistic approach to executive development, and the importance of how culture, corporate values, succession planning, and business strategy impact an executive’s success. Lou has been described as “an organizational savvy, empathetic and values driven individual, who rapidly establishes trust and confidence in order to focus on the client’s agenda”.
Lou has been a member of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations since 2009.
Carolyn Keyes
Carolyn Keyes is Newfield's chief relationship officer, responsible for client relations. She works internationally on specialized projects that require the ability to work with diverse cultures and teams to align clients’ performance goals. In addition, Carolyn is an executive coach with experience working with senior-level and C-Suite executives.
Carolyn works with executives in healthcare, information technology, financial services, aerospace, real estate, retail, filmmaking, the music industry and professional services.
In addition, Carolyn is a coach for TED.com and coaches through their SupporTED Coaches program.
Maryanne C. Spatola
Maryanne is Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness & Leadership Development at Selective Insurance, responsible for Talent Management, Leadership Development, and Diversity & Inclusion. Under this umbrella, Ms. Spatola has implemented a robust executive coaching process for the organization. She is also an experienced practice leader for executive coaching.
Prior to joining Selective, she was the director of learning & organizational development at Crum & Forster and worked in a variety of roles at Chubb Corporation.
Ms. Spatola holds a Masters in human resources from New York University and a Bachelor’s in social science from Thomas Edison State College. She is an active member of SHRM, ASTD, and the New Jersey OD Network.
Symposia Deans
Agnes Mura, Dean
Agnes Mura, M.A., is an international Master Certified Coach to executives, business owners and service professionals. She is a founding director of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association [www.pcmaonline.com] and prominent in the coaching community as an expert practitioner and advocate of the profession.
Agnes is first an experienced globally minded leadership coach – a partner to leaders who deal with the complexities, uncertainties and turbulences of today’s business world, while having to deliver ever-more demanding results. She understands organizational (and national) cultures and how high achievers navigate them. Her profound humanity is coupled with a keen strategic eye for what’s really going on, and a business sense she brings from her own years as banking executive. Her capacity to elicit authenticity in her clients helps leaders and key contributors to accomplish the personal and professional shifts that are required to win... and to bring their teams along for the victory lap.
Her masterful team facilitation skills allow her to develop trustful teams who engage in productive, creative debates and committed execution. She also leads and facilitates efficient and creative strategic planning retreats (including scenario planning) for her client companies.
Agnes Mura is certified in a number of assessment and training tools. She is a Certified Professional Behavioral and Values Analyst. She has taught Coaching and Assessments to global executives in the Advanced Executive Program at the Anderson School of Business (UCLA) and to new coaches in the Cal State University Long Beach professional coach training program. She served for seven years on the faculty of Corporate Coach University; and is a regular and frequent guest lecturer in Pepperdine University’s doctoral program in Organizational Leadership.
In 2000, her accomplishments were honored with the Woman of Achievement Award by Century City-Los Angeles. In 2002, she earned the Builders’ Award of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. In 2003 she became a founding member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations [www.IJCO.info]. She is a long-time Assessor of coach training programs for the global Accreditations Committee of the International Coach Federation. In 2004 she became the first President of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations [www.CoachingConsortium.org] a worldwide organization of companies, academics, practitioners and associations dedicated to the success of executive coaching interventions in organizations. Her book, co-authored with William Bergquist, “Ten Themes and Variations for Postmodern Leaders and Their Coaches,” was published by Pacific Soundings Press in 2005. She was a contributing author in the 2008 Pfeiffer Annual: Leadership Development.
Donna Karlin, Dean
Donna
Karlin CEC, founder of A Better
Perspective™ & The
School of Shadow Coaching has pioneered the specialized practice of
Shadow Coaching™ with global political, business and senior organizational
leaders in the public and private sectors.
By entering the client’s environment, she works with them in translating awareness into practice, essentially fostering the emergence of the Shadow Coach™ in the clients themselves. Donna uses an adaptable and comprehensive approach in working with her clients, a unique structure that enables her to understand individuals and their worlds sufficiently to design coaching that shifts their developmental level. Her coaching attends to the individual, social, relational and environmental aspects of her client's ‘world’. It is an integral approach that results in the client developing a deeper, more comprehensive sense of themselves and their place in their organization and the world as a whole. Through her unique approach, Donna works with clients to achieve individual and organizational excellence.
Principal of A Better Perspective™, Ms. Karlin has worked for close to three decades as a coach and trainer with clients in Canada, the US and abroad in the business/corporate sector, political Federal Ministries, government departments and agencies, creative designers and the medical community. She is an author and lectures internationally. In response to widely expressed interest to her highly successful and innovative approach to coaching, she established the School of Shadow Coaching™ to enable others to learn the practice.
She is involved in numerous professional organizations including past President and member of the Board of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO), member of the Board of Advisors of The Foundation for International Leadership Coaching, a member of the Board of The Coach Initiative, member of the Conversation Among Masters team, a member in good standing of the International Coach Federation, is a founding member of CoachVille, and is a founding member and past member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching (IAC).
In addition to being principal of A Better Perspective and The School of Shadow Coaching, Donna is an executive coach with Karlin Sloan & Company, Chicago, a SupporTED coach to TED Fellows, a communications and team dynamics advisor for INSPIRIT Sustainable Design and Promotion Group serving United Nations World Health initiatives, and is a member of The GAVI Alliance group.
Donna’s work has been written up in Fast Company Magazine, The National Post (Financial Post), The Globe and Mail, The New York Times Business Section, The Boston Globe, Personal Success Magazine, as well as in numerous online articles including BusinessListening.com, The Training Report, and SelfGrowth.com. She has written two eBooks, co-authored the bestselling book ‘101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life’, and is currently working on a book on Human Based Leadership.
Her blog Perspectives™ is subscribed to by readers from 141 countries and territories. Donna writes a leadership column for Fast Company called “Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership”, is a contributing author for The Coaching Commons, a frequent contributor to Canadian Government Executive Magazine and Vanguard, Canadian Premier Defence and Security Magazine, and is an expert author for Evan Carmichael: Motivation and Strategies for Entrepreneurs.
She has a proven track record in developing sustainable
leadership.
Association Administrator
Alexia Longacre
Alexia Longacre, a business coach as well as a business manager for executive coaches, is a critical partner in ICCO’s success. Alexia brings a unique balance of left-brained, logical thinking and right-brained compassion in attending to members’ needs. She is heavily relied upon for her “big picture” planning skills, enthusiasm and impeccable standards.
Alexia formerly offered Business Administration assistance to Executives in varied industries, such as Entertainment and Environment, for companies such as Walt Disney Feature Animation, Dames & Moore, The Welk Music Group, and The Sheraton Hotel. Her career in Business Administration spans over 20 years.
Alexia was born and raised in West Germany, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics. She also completed a three-year apprenticeship in a Law Office to become a Paralegal. For Alexia, the highlight of her job happens when she is devising new business strategies and acting as an “idea sounding board” for future plans.
Alexia and her two daughters live in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. Her interests include spending time with her family, supporting women in business, music, tennis and equestrian pursuits.
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