Renée Lyons

Renee Lyons

Renée Lyons, Executive Coach

Renée is passionate about serving people, helping them discover fresh paths forward with confidence and hope. Much of her coaching is with leaders cross culturally. She loves using Clifton Strengths to bring deeper awareness for individuals and teams, to help people discover their best self and skills to grow in bringing solutions to their teams and other relationships.

Renee is ICF certified as a Professional Certified Coach, a WeAlign Executive Coach and has been coaching for over 8 years.

Renée and her husband have been serving the international community for 40 years. They live in gorgeous Colorado and have 7 children and 14 grandchildren. Mostly boys! She loves to read and learn along with music, dance, solitude, walking out doors and a good deep conversation.

CliftonStrengths Top Talent Themes: Input, Connectedness, Learner, Intellection, Responsibility

Stacie Carroll

Stacie Carroll, Executive Coach

Stacie Carroll is a coach and trainer that is not afraid to push you and your organization to new heights while still creating a relational and trusting environment. Clients that work with Stacie are transformed into joyful, balanced, and successful leaders (at every level).

Stacie is an Air Force combat veteran who continues to serve as an officer in the Air Force Reserve. Her 18 years of military experience in Special Operations lends her to understand leadership in fast-paced, high-stress environments.

Stacie is an ICF Associate Certified Coach® and a Certified Diversity Professional®. Her passion is truly rehumanizing the world through genuine identity and belonging.

Stacie is also a devoted military spouse and mom to two incredible kids.

CliftonStrengths Top Talent Themes: Responsibility, Achiever, Relator, Belief, Consistency

Bob Nielsen

Bob Nielsen, Executive Coach

Bob is a WeAlign Executive Coach, ICF Associate Certified Coach and Certified Strength and Transformational Coach who helps individuals, teams, and leaders live out of their best self in service to others. He uses his experience and insight in StrengthsFinder® assessment and strength-based development tools along with many others resources that help his clients deepen their awareness and practical skills to accelerate the attainment of their goals.

With more than 40 years of organizational leadership development experience in both non-profit and for-profit organizations, Bob is passionate about learning, and change. He’s known for his application of neuroscience to personal and organizational change strategies that help individuals and organizations intentionally transform. He has BA in Communications, and an MA/PhD in Counseling Psychology.

Bob is married to his wife of 24 years, Sherrill, and they reside in the luscious Ozark foothills of Rogers Arkansas. Bob has a lifelong passion (addiction) for flyfishing, and they both enjoy hiking, traveling, the outdoors, all the while building into the lives of people.

CliftonStrengths Top Talent Themes: Connectedness, Belief, Context, Maximizer, Learner

Sylvia Ryan

Sylvia Ryan, Executive Coach

As a strengths and leadership coach, Sylvia intuitively relates and is inspired by cultivating growth in others as they “connect their dots” between Strengths, and life and relationships.

Sylvia holds a bachelor’s in Applied Studies/Humanities. Sylvia is an experienced community organizer and has worked in the non-profit sector with youth serving organizations and community coalitions in both professional and volunteer capacities for more than 17 years.

The daughter to missionaries, Sylvia was born in Guyana, South America and lived all over the world from Irian Jaya to Jakarta, Canada and now the United States. She now resides in the beautiful mountains of central Idaho. Sylvia, alongside her friend and husband of more than 30 years, has raised three wonderful children.

CliftonStrengths Top Talent Themes: Belief, Developer, Empathy, Includer, Connectedness

Danielle Kwok

Danielle Kwok

Danielle Kwok, Associate Coach

Danielle is a WeAlign Associate Coach and in the process of becoming certified with the International Coach Federation (ICF). Through coaching and StrengthsFinders, she wants to help teams see the importance of everyone being at the table, leaving little room for negativity or judgement. She desires to inspire people to see bigger possibilities and motivate them to actually make them happen. While encouraging people in the strengths, she challenges them to believe in their own potential to continue to grow and become who they were created to be.

Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication and spent 12 years a graphic designer and marketer. The last 6 years working for a Christian non-profit, His Voice Global, also helping to develop leaders for their team and traveling overseas to assist their indigenous partnerships. After seeing the need for leadership development and coaching among clients and friends, she decided in 2018 to pursue professional coaching.

Danielle is a lover of food, traveling, entertainment, and books. She lives in Houston, Texas and loves attending high school sports with her husband, Johnny, who is a teacher and coach. They spend their summers traveling to new places and old favorites, such as Lake Tahoe and New York.

CliftonStrengths Top Talent Themes: Woo, Maximizer, Strategic, Includer, Positivity

Geoffrey Kuhlmann

Geoff Kuhlmann, Executive Coach

Geoff is a thoughtful, caring leader driven to help individuals and organizations to reach excellence through objective analysis of their company leadership and processes. Geoff went to West Point because he wanted to be an astronaut. Instead, Geoff became an engineer in the army for over 26 years, and has used his background in math and science to combine logic with his desire to empower subordinate leaders. Geoff is most passionate about inspiring the next generation of leaders, something he realized when he became an instructor at West Point. It is this passion and desire to inspire that Geoff will bring to any organization as a coach.

Geoff leads through influencing. He has more than 26 years of leadership experience through the Army, holding positions at all levels from a small 11 man team, to units of several thousand soldiers. Geoff is a WeAlign Certified Coach, a Gallup Certified Strengths coach, and he holds a PMP Certification.

Geoff is Married to Carla, and they have 5 wonderful kids. We love to spend our free time (when we have some) traveling and seeing the world together. Geoff enjoys exercising, crossfit, cycling, and swimming.

CliftonStrengths top talent themes: Relator, Command, Deliberative, Competition, Self-Assurance

Cat Gray

Cat Gray, Executive Coach

Cat loves 1:1 coaching with people who want to find out their kingdom identity and how to live in it more fully. She loves the fact that CliftonStrengths coaching helps us to do this more! She is also developing a series of group coaching programmes for Christians dealing with change, and likes to also be known as a change consultant!

Cat is an Associate Certified Coach through the ICF, has completed a leadership training programme with Destiny Coaching Ministries and also has a certificate in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health from The Neuroscience Academy.

Cat is married to James and has two sons. She lives in Bristol, UK and loves to snowboard, paddleboard and read books in her garden.

CliftonStrengths top talent themes:  Strategic, Developer, Responsibility, Belief, Connectedness

Daniel Aytes

Daniel Aytes, Executive Coach

Daniel Aytes is an ICF PCC credentialed Executive Coach and Speaker. He has two decades of leadership experience working with non-profit organizations and individuals in Asia and around the world, helping them to discover and live out their core identity and uniqueness. He helps clients close gaps in their emotional intelligence soft-skills, causing them to rise to the top in their spheres of influence. Daniel’s clients become more hire-able, promote-able, self-confident, resilient, and successful as a leader.

Daniel received coaching certification through Creative Results Management.

Daniel is also a certified provider of the PAIRIN SURVEY (a comprehensive measure of emotional intelligence soft skills and mindsets to develop long-term job success) having been mentored since 2008 by Pairin’s co-founder, Dr. Ron Young. He holds a certification for Crisis Debriefing, is a Master Certified Mental Health Coach with the AACC and a certification as a Strengths Champion Coach using the CliftonStrengths® assessment.

Daniel enjoys drinking lots of coffee, traveling, laughing, making the best scrambled eggs ever and being silly with his kids. He currently lives in Southern Thailand with his wife, Rachel, and their four daughters.

CliftonStrengths top talent themes:  Communication, Positivity, Empathy, Includer, Activator

Gina Lokken

Gina Lokken, Executive Coach

Gina is a WeAlign Executive Coach, a Master Certified Coach Practitioner (MCCP), a REAL Essentials Life Certified Trainer, and a ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Her style of coaching provides a welcoming, creatively rich environment. This helps her clients fully express their freedom to experiment with who they are becoming in the eyes of God and opens them up to invent new possibilities and recognize that they already have all they need to be successful. She wants each person to embrace their unique gifts and talents, the significant role they play in this world, and that they are worthy of a great life.

Gina is driven to master the art of coaching, always learning and creating new ways to provide the most enriching experiences. She’s known for her thoughtful approach in helping others foster deep self-discovery, create forward momentum, and maximize their God given potential. She specializes in helping women entrepreneurs, professionals, and organizations lead by example, deepen relationships, and create new paths of thought, propelling them past what they originally thought was possible.

Gina is married with 3 children. They spend most of their time at their lake-side cabin, fishing, hunting, camping, visiting national and state parks, and hiking. Some of Gina’s favorite things include her relationship with Christ, her family, fancy coffee, spending time in nature, fishing, being creative (crafts, art, dreaming of what could be), serving others, and laughing uncontrollably.

CliftonStrengths top talent themes: Achiever, Activator, Futuristic, Relator, Empathy

Tricia Stefaniak

Tricia Stefaniak, Executive Coach

A positive, joy-filled heart ready to learn about you and bring awareness to your innate value and sense of belonging. People knowing their core fuels my soul.

I have 32 years of combined experience in education, coaching, and directing people and teams. I have a BS in Education, Science Major. I’ve attended many conferences and orientations that have kept my skills sharp and updated with in my career journey.

My family is my heartbeat.  My husband Tim and I have an incredible love story, that speaks to God’s power and love.  Our kids are in the peak of teen years, Riley is 16 and Jadon is 15, so that makes life an adventure.  It’s amazing to witness your child grow into their unique design and guide them through unconditional love.  We love being active and can enjoy curling  up for a good movie, as well.

CliftonStrengths top talent themes: Learner, Belief, Positivity, Relator, Responsibility