Mary Verstraete
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Mary focuses on maximizing a leader’s impact to improve performance, efficiency, and profitability. As an experienced leader, trainer, and business person, she partners with leaders from diverse industries to accelerate leadership effectiveness that unlocks organizational growth.
Mary is the CEO and co-founder of Center for Coaching Excellence. Mary’s experience includes executive nonprofit leadership, business start-up, adult education, organizational development, curriculum development, and executive coaching. Mary is a Professional Leadership Coach, Certified Coach Trainer, Gallup StrengthsFinder Coach®, and certified Myers Briggs administrator.
As Mary works with the Vision and Strategic Team, she leads with a vision to deliver coaching excellence that generates decisive change in individuals and organizations. Her work with leaders and organizations demonstrates the impact of coaching on developing leaders, enhancing sales training, maximizing entrepreneurial initiative, and mentoring new leaders.
Nicole Sveen
CCE Executive Assistant
 Nicole’s dedication to serving our clients with warmth and efficiency characterizes our operations and customer service. Reinforcing our commitment to high standards of excellence and service, she facilitates a customer-focused approach in all our processes.
Nicole brings a wealth of organizational and management experience to her role as Executive Assistant at CCE. Her experience with people and process management, coupled with event coordination, gives her a unique skill-set for managing many of the day-to-day needs of CCE.
Annie Perdue-Olson
Senior Advisor, Curriculum Development Specialist
 Annie specializes in linking leadership and organizational development with business strategies to grow successful leaders and drive sustainable results. As a seasoned business professional in human resources, operations, finance, and program development, she has facilitated organization-wide assessment projects along with change and leadership development initiatives.
Annie is a partner with Olson & Associates, Inc. which coaches, trains, and consults with individuals, leaders, and organizations to achieve vision strategically while engaging employees, developing talent, and enhancing leadership skills to sustain a lasting impact. She is certified in the administration of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Strong’s Interest Inventory, Work Behaviors Inventory, and Team Management Systems. Annie holds a Master’s from the University of St. Thomas in Human Resources and Change Leadership with an emphasis in Organization Development.
Annie serves as a member of the Vision and Strategic Team for the Center for Coaching Excellence and specializes in designing and facilitating high-impact training programs to achieve mastery in leadership and coaching skills that move the organization forward.
Jerome Daley
Senior Advisor, Coach Trainer, and Director of Member Services
 Jerome partners with leaders to discover and live out their vision for a purposeful and meaningful life. Through coaching, team building, and consultation he facilitates a learning and discovery process for leaders and writers to define passion, unlock potential, and create purposeful action.
In addition to holding bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in business and ministry, Jerome is the author of six books, a conference speaker, and a facilitator. He is trained in the use of multiple assessment tools for leadership development and job modeling and matching.
Jerome is the founder of Purpose Coach, providing coaching and consulting services to leaders, writers, and organizations. Jerome serves as a member of the Vision and Strategic Team for the Center for Coaching Excellence and is a trainer for our coach training programs and Conversational Leadership. He is also our Director of Member Services for coach trainees and graduates.
Alice Bourdon
Senior Advisor & Coach Trainer
 As a life coach, Alice works with clients to leverage their strengths in order to live purposeful and productive lives. Her coaching approach focuses on creating a coaching environment that inspires insight and action for clients to achieve their dreams.
Alice’s zeal for creativity and her vision for developing leaders who can effect positive change in their organization and communities led her to her current role as director of Grace Adventure. This organization offers workshops for personal growth, spiritual formation, and leadership development.
Alice serves as a member of the Vision and Strategic Team for the Center for Coaching Excellence and is a trainer for our coach training programs.
Joe Denner
Senior Advisor & Coach Trainer
 Joe partners with leaders to increase their personal effectiveness and efficiency as well as assists them in creating transformational, sustainable leadership development within their culture.
With over 15 years of leadership experience in finance, accounting, operations and human resources, Joe brings a wealth of knowledge relating to the development of human capital for positive, profitable, and sustainable growth. In his most recent position with Microdynamics Group, he succeeded in promoting operational excellence and quality service with a 99% quality and on-time delivery rating while VP of plant operations.
Joe is the founder of Alliant Leadership and provides executive coaching, leadership training, and organizational development services to help leaders get more of what they want and less of what they don’t. He is a certified Myers-Briggs administrator and trained in the use of the Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment.
Joe serves as a member of the Vision and Strategic Team for the Center for Coaching Excellence and is a trainer for our coach training programs and conversational leadership. He also offers team and staff development services to our clients.
Rick Raiford
Senior Advisor & Conversational Leadership President
 Rick demonstrates a solutions-focused approach to addressing leadership challenges. Recognizing that motivation, productivity, and results are linked to effective leadership, Rick works with leaders to experience how using coaching skills will build extraordinary team relationships and accelerate business results.
Rick’s experience in leadership, financial planning, program development, and investment management uniquely positions him to plan training and development solutions that address specific business challenges. He also co-founded a non-profit organization and has served on non-profit boards.
Rick continues in his career as an investment manager with Wells Fargo Private Bank as well as the founder of Qor, a leadership coaching and consulting business. Rick provides services to emerging leaders, non-profit executives, business owners, and executives.
Rick serves as a member of the Vision and Strategic Team for the Center for Coaching Excellence and is the President of the Conversational Leadership program. He is also a trainer for conversational leadership. |
