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Donna Stoneham, 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, Hewlett-Packard, MasterCard International, The American Medical Association, Sharp HealthCare, Compaq, UC Berkeley and the National Service Leadership Institute. (See Partial Client List). |
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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 Master of Arts in Human and Organization Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at that same institution, where her research is focused developing integral leaders. She has completed advanced training in Appreciative Inquiry at the Taos Institute, is a Certified Integral Coach, and serves as Vice President of Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, Northern California Chapter. She is an adjunct faculty member in the professional coaching program at John F. Kennedy University and serves as a mentor for new coaches in training.
Donna served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing Executives, was on the faculty of Alumnae Resources in San Francisco, co-created and co-taught the first women’s leadership course at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a frequent guest lecturer at local colleges and universities.
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 a number of journal and newsletter articles (See Resources) her work is featured in 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 serves as a hospice chaplain and provides pastoral care at skilled nursing facilities in the San Francisco Bay area. |
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