A CATALYST FOR LEARNING AND CREATIVITY…MAXIMIZING YOUR ABILITY TO CO-CREATE BY COLLABORATION TO GENERATE NEW IDEAS TO ACHIEVE YOUR VISION
Together we bring depth understanding of business, coaching, teams, structure, and facilitation techniques together with innovative tools to help individuals and organizations navigate change in our volatile, unpredictable, complex, ambiguous world. With strong backgrounds in the world of business, law, health care and non-profit organizati
JOAN RYAN
Joan Ryan transitioned her previous career as an attorney to Organization Development, Leadership Coaching and Enneagram teaching, about 20 years ago. She has worked as a senior leadership coach and trainer with Senior Management in international law firms, medical settings, major corporations and nonprofit organizations including major work for USAID in the Global Health field.
She is an internationally recognized Enneagram expert. Joan received Certification as an Enneagram Teacher from the Palmer/Daniels Enneagram Professional Training Program in 1996 and continues to base her Enneagram work firmly within the Narrative Methods.
She had the distinct honor of being mentored directly by both Helen Palmer and the late Dr. David Daniels. For the past several years, she has focused on exploring intersections between the Enneagram and Internal Family Systems (IFS-Institute.org). Working with Tammy Sollenberger (Tammysollenberger.com) she has recently completed a chapter for the new reference work “Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends”, editor, Jenna Riemersma to be published in August 2023. They teach courses and have recorded a series of podcasts to detail this work (see IFS and the Enneagram page for).
Joan is the co-creator and co-lead teacher for Enneagram Thailand (now Thai Enneagram Association) a teaching and learning community established in 2003 in Bangkok, which continues to grow and thrive. Her amazing teaching partner in this project is Santikaro, (www.kevala.org). Her work in Thailand expanded with a series of workshops in partnership with Dr. Tana Nilchakovit. These workshops were offered to groups including young psychiatrists of a major Bangkok Medical School.
Joan is the author of a card-sort tool and structured interview entitled “Help me find my Enneagram Type” that can be used to assist those new to the Enneagram to find their type. See “Tools”.
She is a Founding Fellow, Institute of Coaching (affiliate of McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School).
Joan holds a J.D. from New England Law, and an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis.
CAROL HOOPES
She has served as Director of the Leadership Institute at Boston University and as Associate Director of several Institutes and Roundtables including the Institute for Leading in the New Economy, the Manufacturing Roundtable, the Institute for Non-Profit Management and Leadership and most recently, the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization. She has also served as a coach in BU’s EMBA program.
Carol Hoopes is a leadership development specialist and coach to senior managers from a broad range of companies, non-profits, and new ventures. Carol provides fresh, real world perspectives to executives on the basis of her experience as a senior manager in health care and as the creator of innovative learning vehicles, partnerships and programs at Boston University. In addition to her work in executive learning, Carol brings twenty years of experience in Health Care Management. As a senior manager for the Harvard Community Health Plan, she held several leadership positions including Corporate Director of Customer Service, and Associate Director of Operations.
She also held the position of Health Center Administrator for the Harvard Plan’s Southborough Center serving as principal financial and operations officer for a twenty thousand member health center. In her leadership capacity, she helped executives develop the capacity to build and sustain deep connections to customers, clients, partners, employees, and other stakeholders.
Carol has a B.A. degree in Education from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, and has done graduate work at Northeastern University. She is certified in multiple personality and assessment tools and is also certified as a career coach.