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Heather Corcoran
Partner
San Francisco
Heather@NextStepPartners.com
Heather Corcoran specializes in leadership and management development. She works with both individuals and teams and focuses on the twin goals of improving business results and personal effectiveness.
With more than seven years of consulting and executive coaching experience, Heather has worked with a variety of leading organizations including Bain & Company, Lucasfilm, the Sloan Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Oracle, Genentech, Walmart.com, Yahoo and Point B Solutions Group.
Previously, Heather held senior marketing positions with growing companies and organizations in the U.S. and abroad. She served as Director of Marketing for Schoolpop, Inc., a marketing loyalty company, and Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc., a coffee wholesaler and retailer, where over a five-year period she contributed to successive annual growth rates of 20%.
A native of Toronto, Canada, Heather holds a B.A. from McGill University and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. Heather's professional coaching certifications are from The Coaches Training Institute and New Ventures West. She has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal and other media publications on business career issues.
Rebecca Zucker
Partner
San Francisco
Rebecca@NextStepPartners.com
Rebecca Zucker specializes in executive and leadership development as well as career transition. She has coached individuals throughout the United States and Europe, from the manager level to CEO, and has worked with numerous executive teams.
Recent projects include designing a conflict management session for the 50 top executives at a privately-held food company, delivering sessions on coaching for performance to a pharmaceutical company and to a major strategy consulting firm, and leading career development workshops at MBA programs at Stanford, UCLA, Duke, Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Denver. Her clients have included Hewlett Packard, Genentech, Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Mellon Capital and the Sloan Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Rebecca was previously an Associate at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and later worked as a Vice President at Robertson Stephens, where she ran training and development for over 300 investment banking professionals. She has also worked for Disney Consumer Products in Paris as Manager of Strategic Planning for Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Rebecca has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, among other publications on career and workplace issues. While at Disney, she was also named one the top rising businesswomen by Working Woman.
Rebecca graduated as Valedictorian from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, with a major in International Business & Economics, and holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Rebecca's professional coaching certification is from The Coaches Training Institute.
Jordan Stark
Partner
San Francisco
Jordan@NextStepPartners.com
Jordan Stark has over thirteen years of experience specializing in executive and leadership development and has coached CEO's, executives and their teams in the U.S. and Europe. Jordan also consults with businesses to create and deliver leadership development programs, increase team effectiveness and implement strategic change.
Her recent projects include creating leadership programs for the senior managers and executives of a growing consumer goods company; coaching executives at major investment, strategy and search firms to improve their leadership and professional effectiveness; facilitating senior team and strategic planning offsites for an insurance organization implementing strategic change; developing a leadership competency model to support the growth of a rapidly expanding professional services firm; and helping to build an internal coaching network at a major consulting organization.
Jordan's clients include AT&T, Audi, Bain & Co., Clorox, Ernst & Young, Gap Inc., Genentech, Hewlett Packard, KPMG, Old Navy, Point B Solutions Group, Prides Capital, Spencer Stuart, the Sloan Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Volkswagen. Jordan was previously a Director for London-based Nicholson McBride, a top strategic human resources consulting firm.
Jordan has served as an executive coach for the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs' Next Gen CEO program, helping up-and-coming women leaders become CEOs. She has appeared on BBC Television, given radio interviews and written several articles on workplace issues.
Jordan graduated summa cum laude from U.C Berkeley in psychology and earned a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in England. Jordan's professional coaching certification is from The Coaches Training Institute.
Michael Melcher
Partner
New York
Michael@NextStepPartners.com
Michael Melcher is based in New York. Michael focuses on career transition, leadership development and communications effectiveness. He has particular expertise in working in international environments and is an instrumental part of Next Step Partners international expansion. Michael has a background in business, law and government and is also an accomplished writer.
Recent projects include preparing the founder of a major U.S. corporation for an upcoming media tour; working with a professional services firm to develop a retention and leadership development strategy; and creating a communications document for New York City's leading school-reform organization that was distributed to 370,000 households. His clients have included BDO Seidman, Katzenbach Partners LLC, The Open Society Institute, Simpson Thacher & Barlett, LLP, the business schools at Duke, Harvard, UCLA, Yale, Carnegie-Mellon and Minnesota, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and individual executives at a variety of companies.
Michael's professional experiences include founding a venture-backed internet company, working as a securities lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, serving as a Foreign Service Officer in India and Taiwan, and working as a management consultant.
Michael's publications includes a novel, The Student Body, co-authored with three college classmates under the pen-name "Jane Harvard," as well as several articles on legal and business themes. He is the author of The Creative Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Authentic Professional Satisfaction.
Michael holds a JD/MBA from Stanford University and a BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College. Michael's professional coaching certification is from The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, California.
Juliet Saxe
Senior Consultant
San Francisco
Juliet@NextStepPartners.com
Juliet Saxe is a consultant and executive coach who works with companies and nonprofit institutions to improve individual and organizational performance. Her background in the fields of business and psychology gives her a unique understanding of the dynamics of workplace success and satisfaction.
Juliet has extensive professional experience in market research as well as coaching and counseling. She has worked with private-sector companies including Amgen, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Hanes, as well as several major nonprofit organizations. Her projects have included developing training programs; interviewing and assessing market trends in the healthcare and consumer sectors; and developing and interpreting quantitative surveys.
Juliet was previously a highly successful senior manager at Telephia, a fast-growing and innovative start-up in the wireless sector. Before transitioning her interpersonal, research and consulting skills into business, Juliette was a staff researcher at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, and held management positions in several mental health organizations.
Juliet graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Psychology and earned Masters and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles, California.
Shannon Small
Senior Consultant
San Francisco
Shannon@NextStepPartners.com
Shannon Small is a highly skilled coach as well as an experienced manager and strategy consultant. Shannon brings to her coaching and leadership development work not only the acumen of a seasoned business professional, but also the strength of a collegiate All-American athlete and the resilience of a Breast Cancer survivor.
Shannon works with individuals, teams and organizations in a variety of industries. She has coached clients ranging from CEO's and senior managers to students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her clients have included professionals at Xerox, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Mercer Management Consulting, Wachovia, Leap Frog, and SAP. She is also an experienced speaker and workshop leader.
Committed to empowering members of her communities, Shannon currently sits on the alumni board of the Yale School of Management Alumni Board as well as the Association of Women MBAs of the Bay Area. She is a devoted community volunteer and avid world traveler.
Shannon holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BS from Northwestern University. Her coaching certification is from New Ventures West, and she has completed additional coaching coursework from Coaches Training Institute.
Luke Kreinberg
Senior Consultant
San Francisco
Luke@NextStepPartners.com
Luke Kreinberg is a coach and trainer with a background in executive coaching, career coaching, and executive search. He has a special emphasis on the intergenerational issues associated with talent development.
His recent projects include working with a organizations to develop more effective onboarding processes, placing executives at Yahoo! and other technology companies in Silicon Valley, and providing career coaching for clients ranging from front-line managers to vice-presidents. Luke has led a variety of workshops on the intergenerational issues that affect organizations with respect to recruiting, retention, and succession of talented individuals. He is experienced in delivering interactive presentations in both live and online formats.
Luke's previous professional experiences include serving as a partner in a boutique search firm, developing learning curriculum for emerging technology firms, conducting sales and marketing for enterprise software companies, and owning and running a publishing company. He is the author of The Book of Goals: Achievements, Plans, and Dreams of a Lifetime, which has sold more than 100,000 copies.
Luke graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in International Relations. His coaching certification is from New Ventures West.
Jonathan Becker
Senior Consultant
San Francisco
Jonathan@NextStepPartners.com
Jonathan helps teams in a variety of industries achieve rapid results
through more authentic, effective and efficient interactions.
With more than ten years of management consulting experience, he has worked with industry leaders such as Cisco, Wells Fargo, Barclay's Global Investors, U.C. Berkeley, Statoil, Comcast, and IBM.
Jonathan was a Principal with The Trium Group, a boutique strategy and leadership consulting firm in San Francisco. Earlier, Jonathan was a managing consultant for Towers Perrin's strategy and organization consulting group. Before earning an MBA, Jonathan worked for Public Citizen, a policy and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. There he specialized in energy-related issues. He supports local non-profit organizations through pro-bono consulting and donations.
Jonathan has lived and worked in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, India, France, Norway and England. He holds a BA in Political Science from Yale University and an MBA with honors from U.C. Berkeley. He also teaches and speaks on leadership development and strategy execution issues.
Linda Furness
Senior Consultant
Menlo Park
Linda@NextStepPartners.com
Linda Furness specializes in executive coaching and leadership development. Trained as a lawyer, she has more than ten years experience managing Human Resources functions within organizations and providing consulting on HR issues to start-up and technology companies. She is based in Menlo Park, California.
Linda has coached senior executives and high-potential managers from leading technology, financial services, and nonprofit organizations on achieving both professional effectiveness and personal satisfaction. Recent projects developing a coaching, transition and performance management strategy for the Hewlett Foundation, creating and delivering customized learning workshops for one of Silicon Valley's leading design innovation firms, and coaching a variety of executives around creating greater success and fulfillment in their careers.
Previously, Linda served as the head of Human Resources for Financial Engines, Inc., an asset management and online investment advice firm founded by Nobel Laureate Bill Sharpe, in which capacity she managed recruitment, onboarding, training, organizational development and performance management. Prior to that, she worked at both Netscape and Hewlett Packard in Human Resources functions, and at Cornerstone Research as an analyst.
A native of California, Linda holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her coaching training is from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She is also a graduate of CTI's Co-Active Leadership Program.
Melissa Karz
Senior Consultant
Los Angeles
Melissa@NextStepPartners.com
Melissa Karz focuses on individual, team and organizational development. She is an expert on professional relationship building, and has coached and led seminars on a variety of other topics, including activating leadership effectiveness, coaching for leaders, giving effective feedback, and team effectiveness.
Melissa's recent projects include creating a high-potential retention program for Raytheon that was later presented at the annual conference of the Organizational Development Network, and two highly successful curricula on the performance planning cycle. Her clients have included Sony Pictures Entertainment, Citibank, Raytheon, Deloitte Consulting, Agilent Technologies, Healthnet, Inc., O'Neil Industries, Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting, California Association of Realtors, Make a Wish Foundation, and the Braille Institute. Melissa previously worked as a consultant with the Human Capital Solutions practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Melissa recently published a book, Invisible Bridges: Building Professional Relationships for Results. She has been quoted by Fortune Magazine and was featured in a front-page article in the Career Section of the Los Angeles Times. Melissa has served on the Board of Professionals in Human Resources Association, Women in Organization Development, and the Anderson School of Management Alumni Association.
Melissa earned an MBA from UCLA and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a certified executive coach with Lore International Institute, is an affiliate with the Ken Blanchard company, and is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute.
Deb Rosenbloom
Senior Consultant
Boston
Deb@NextStepPartners.com
Deb Rosenbloom specializes in leadership development and career management. Her clients include senior executives and high-potential managers from leading technology, professional services, financial services, life sciences, technology, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations. Her recent clients include HP, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Co., Time Warner Cable, the Wharton School of Business, and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Previously, Deb was an Executive Recruiter in the Technology Practice with Russell Reynolds Associates, a leading global executive search firm. Earlier she was a Management Consultant with Bain & Company, in Boston and London, advising clients on strategic initiatives. Deb started her career with the U.S. National Security Agency as a Cryptologic Mathematician.
In the Boston community, Deb serves on the Board of the Esplanade Association, and volunteers with the Boston Public Library. A native of Philadelphia, PA, Deb holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. Deb is an Adjunct Coach with the Center for Creative leadership, and is certified in the Center's suite of developmental assessments.
Sharon Dauk
Senior Consultant
New York/Connecticut
Sharon@NextStepPartners.com
Sharon Dauk is an executive coach, business advisor and investor who is based in Connecticut and New York City. She utilizes her coaching skills and extensive business experience to assist individuals and organizations in developing leadership, enhancing business operations and attaining personal empowerment.
Her clients have included entrepreneurs and business leaders working in the fields of finance, marketing, professional services and advertising. In her coaching engagements she has helped clients navigate critical junctures in business development, achieve personal and professional transitions, and improve management and leadership skills
Sharon worked for many years as an investment banker, specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate Development. She was a member of the Corporate Finance Departments of both Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney. For the past 15 years, her business focus has been on directly investing in and advising early-stage companies in a variety of industries through her investment company, Dauk/Wagner Investments, LLC.
Sharon has been a long-distance triathlete for nearly 30 years, and a competitive equestrian for more than a decade. She is an active member of the Advisory Council of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship@Cornell Program and is featured on eClips, Cornell's video clip collection on entrepreneurship, business and leadership. She continues to be an advisor to several early-stage companies.
Sharon holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University and a B.S. from the University of Southern California. She is a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorTM (MBTITM). Her coaching training is from Columbia University's Coaching Certification Program.
Shari Cohen
Senior Consultant
New York
Shari@NextStepPartners.com
Shari Cohen is an executive coach and organizational consultant based in New York, focusing on leadership development. She has a background in scenario planning, political sociology and international affairs. Her experience as a political sociologist helps her work with clients to analyze and understand organizational systems and cultures.
Shari has worked with leaders in international development, health, philanthropy, advocacy, market research, technology and publishing. Clients have included the World Bank, Charney Research, Demos, SHARE and the Carnegie Corporation.
Her prior professional experiences include building a leadership think tank at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) where she created and delivered leadership development seminars for business, government, academic, religious and community leaders.
Her book, Politics Without a Past, is about leadership and change in post-communist Eastern Europe. Shari has international experience in Central Europe and Eurasia, is fluent in Russian and Hebrew and has studied French, Slovak and Polish. She served as a professor of international relations at Wellesley College.
Shari holds a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from Cornell University. Shari received professional certification in executive and organizational coaching from NYU and has also been trained in scenario planning and in conflict resolution and mediation.
Kimberly Togman
Senior Consultant
Philadelphia
Kimberly@NextStepPartners.com
Kimberly Togman focuses on individual, team and organizational development. Her clients include emerging leaders and professionals seeking to define, hone and achieve career and organizational goals. She is based in Philadelphia.
Kimberly's experience spans more than 15 years in human resources and consulting positions in a variety of industries. In her tenure as Vice President of Human Resources for Managers Investment Group, she advised executives, managers and employees on all aspects of their working lives while also overseeing all HR functions of the firm, including strategy, recruiting, performance management, employee relations, and training and development. She was also responsible for the human capital aspects of the merger of four companies that resulted in the creation of the firm. Previously, she worked as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Global Human Resources Services practice.
Kimberly is a member of the Board of Directors of the Women's MBA Network of Philadelphia. She is currently writing a book about the careers and lives of women 10 to 15 years out of the top MBA programs.
Kimberly holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her coaching certification is from the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara. She is a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorTM (MBTITM) and is a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).