Donna Stoneham, Ph.D., President

As an Executive Coach and Organization and Leadership Development Consultant, Donna's mission has been to assist her clients to generate positive change, liberate human potential, and align leadership, work and life. Since beginning her coaching and consulting practice in 1991, she has helped companies create and develop values-driven organizations, working with hundreds of leaders in a wide range of industries including technology, telecommunications, government, education, health care, manufacturing and publishing. (See Sample Projects). Her client list includes Comcast, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Hewlett-Packard, MasterCard International, Cypress Semiconductor, The American Medical Association, Sharp HealthCare, San Jose Unified School District, UC Berkeley and the National Service Leadership Institute. (See Partial Client List.)

Prior to beginning her consulting practice, Donna spent fifteen years as a District Manager, Regional Vice President and Director for divisions of the Travelers and New York Life. Over the course of her career, she designed and delivered over five hundred leadership-training programs and has coached hundreds of leaders and executives.
Donna holds a Ph.D. in Humanities with a concentration in Learning and Change in Human Systems from the California Institute of Integral Studies and her dissertation is entitled, Changing Practices, Transforming Paradigms: An Appreciative Approach to Developing Integral Leaders. She is the co-creator of Integral Intelligence™, a transformative approach to leadership development that focuses on way-of-being as a leader. This approach integrates appreciative inquiry, integral coaching and adult learning in a strengths-based approach to individual, team and organization development. She has completed advanced training in Appreciative Inquiry at the Taos Institute, is a Certified Integral Coach, and served as Vice President of Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, Northern California Chapter. She is an adjunct faculty member in the MBA program at Holy Names University where she teaches Leadership Development.

A popular speaker, Donna has presented at conferences including: The Taos Institute's Appreciative Inquiry: A Constructive Approach to Organization Transformation, UC Berkeley's Academic Leadership Institute, Professional Coaches and Mentors Association's Cutting Edge Coaching and Consulting, The Pegasus Conference on Leading in a Complex World, Systems Thinking in Action, and Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing Your Service Business. In addition to authoring journal articles in The Utah Medical Bulletin and The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, (See Resources) Donna is the co-author of an upcoming book, Leadership Wisdom: An Integral Approach to Developing Leaders and her work is featured in two books, The Purpose of Your Life by Carol Adrienne and The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom. In addition to her coaching and consulting practice, Donna provides pastoral care at skilled nursing facilities in the San Francisco Bay area.