Modern Leadership & Team Development

Lacey is an executive coach, mentor, and lifelong student of communication and leadership.

She is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, with a Master of Science degree in Global Leadership from the University of San Diego School of Business and a graduate certificate in Marketing Strategy from Cornell University.

Following graduation from the Naval Academy, Lacey was one of three graduates selected to develop the first study skills coaching program at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, RI. Her love of coaching grew as she trained and mentored candidates preparing for the rigors of the Naval Academy academic curriculum and small group leadership.

After Newport, Lacey did two tours in the Arabian Gulf as a forward-deployed Surface Warfare Officer during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her first duty station was in the USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6) as the Main Propulsion Division Officer, leading a team of 55 men in the operation and maintenance of the largest steam engineering plant in the Navy. During her next tour as the Assistant Operations Officer for Commander Destroyer Squadron SEVEN, she was deployed in the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION in the wake of 9/11. Standing watch as the Staff Tactical Action Officer, Lacey was charged with weapons release, surface protection, and alert aircraft launch for the aircraft carrier and accompanying squadron of ships.

Since transitioning to civilian life, Lacey has held a number of executive leadership positions in both tech and marketing communications, most recently as the Vice President of a marketing firm, leading the program management team for a contract touching over 50 contributors across the agency.

Her coaching practice is rooted in her experience leading and mentoring teams during periods of change in complex environments. Her focus areas include career transition, personal growth and the development and motivation of teams. She has delivered seminars on the importance of developing and aligning to an authentic personal brand.

Lacey lives in Annapolis, Maryland with her husband and two children. She loves traveling, cooking for friends, exploring our National Parks with her family, cheering on her little athletes, and her daily morning hike in the woods with her dogs.

Katy Stanfill is a performance psychologist, executive coach, and licensed clinical psychologist. She is an expert in performance optimization and behavior change.

Katy played Division 1 collegiate soccer at the U.S. Naval Academy and played for the All-Navy soccer team after graduation. She was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and flew CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters in San Diego, CA. She deployed several times and held multiple leadership positions in operational and administrative roles. She also worked as a safety supervisor, curriculum developer, and manager at a high-risk training school for the U.S. Navy. Katy elected to leave the Navy to earn a doctorate degree in clinical psychology. As a psychologist, she has studied factors of human performance and resilience in high-stress, high-risk environments. She also has a variety of clinical specializations, to include treatment of symptoms related to trauma and high-stress, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

She finds purpose and meaning in working with both sides of the stress continuum: helping people perform to their utmost and, also, reducing suffering and facilitating the healing process after a traumatic or high-stress incident.

Her coaching practice employs evidence-based principles related to mental toughness, grit, mindfulness, values, and positive psychology to elicit performance optimization. She uses the precision of behavioral psychology to assess and personalize needs of a client in order to facilitate progress.
Katy is a provider for the Give an Hour organization and also provides supervision to graduate students at the University of Washington Psychological Services and Training Center. Katy lives in Seattle, WA with her spouse, two daughters, and a fluffy golden retriever.

For the past two decades, Hawlan has coached successful executives and emerging leaders globally. He brings to each client the informed perspective of having been a global leader, consultant, and psychologist prior to becoming a coach.

Hawlan’s clients are often at key inflection points: needing to enhance their executive presence; scaling their leadership; pre- CxO succession; looking to strengthen their Board impact; improving engagement of their teams; enhancing influence and communication; onboarding/changing roles; and, improving effectiveness and results. His clients appreciate his candor, good humor, pragmatism, and ability to quickly grasp their unique organizational needs and challenges.

Hawlan’s own leadership experience comes from building, developing and leading a global team of consultants for a $1B publicly traded professional services firm. Having lived and worked in Asia and the Middle East, he has particular interest and expertise in cross-cultural dynamics in organizations.

His clients include those who work in biotechnology and pharma, energy, high technology, financial services, food, healthcare, health plans, health systems and hospitals, insurance, law, manufacturing, medical devices and technology, nonprofit, private equity, professional services, retail, utilities, and venture capital. Client locations include the US, Hong Kong, Australia, and EMEA.

Emily Grandinetta is a seasoned executive coach and consultant with more than 20 years of organizational development experience across commercial, government and non-profit sectors. Emily has held executive roles with leading consultancies and managed her own private practices, serving organizations and their leaders – from start-ups to Fortune 500s – all across the globe.

Emily previously served as a talent strategist and performance coach for Fortune 500 company Accenture. While there, she oversaw a variety of initiatives, including individual coaching and mentoring through the company’s emerging leader development program and design/implementation of a culture-building program for a 350-person IT organization across the U.S.

The author of “Field Tested: Recruiting, Managing & Retaining Veterans,” Emily led a military transition coaching program as president of King Street Associates. Her private practice also provided individual and team coaching to clients including Booz Allen Hamilton, Fannie Mae, AARP, Sodexo, Comcast, and Merck, among others. She currently leads Grandinetta Group, providing individual coaching to public and private sector clients.

Emily has earned a host of professional certifications, including Hogan Leadership Assessments, EQ Profile, PLP Leadership Profile, MBTI and KF360 Assessment. She has a master’s in organizational development from Johns Hopkins University and a Graduate Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown. Emily is currently based in the Washington D.C. area.

Chris Gaither is an executive coach who helps leaders cultivate presence and purpose in order to do their best, most fulfilling work.

He uses deep conversation and coaching tools to grow his clients’ confidence, motivation, intuition, and resilience. They work in some of the world’s most influential companies, including Facebook, Mars, Apple, and Google. He has also coached startup founders, national nonprofit leaders, and executives undergoing career transition and burnout.

He is also a consultant with X, the Alphabet subsidiary. He facilitates leadership-development workshops and helps early-stage project leaders define their moonshot visions.

Chris is a deft and curious listener, thinker, speaker, and facilitator, skilled in distilling complex subjects into compelling language and action plans. He combines rigorous training in Co-Active Coaching with two decades in corporate sustainability, high-tech communications and employee engagement, and business journalism.

In leadership roles at Apple and Google, he oversaw global storytelling campaigns; built and managed high-performing teams; and advised VPs and C-level executives on how to inspire, communicate more effectively, and drive change. Previously, he was an assistant business editor for the Los Angeles Times, the West Coast correspondent for the Boston Globe, and a business writer for the New York Times.

He is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. He holds a Master’s in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor’s of Arts from Wesleyan University.

He lives in Oakland, California, where he tutors students at underserved schools and sits on the Alameda County Community Food Bank’s board of directors. He loves reading, hiking in redwoods, and watching his son play soccer.

Alyssa is an executive coach that helps leaders to perform at their peak – both professionally and personally.

Alyssa is a clinical psychologist and board-certified coach and has worked with individuals and teams in the private sector and federal government medical centers for almost 15 years. She has provided direct patient care, directed an outpatient clinical department, served as principal investigator on multiple research projects, and managed the operations of a national adaptive sports medicine program. Alyssa developed policies to bring integrative health services to federal government healthcare, and she directed the first standalone integrative health outpatient program in the Veterans Affairs system. In 2016, Alyssa received a leadership award for her federal service. She has authored numerous scientific publications and presented at national conferences. She has also presented on the topic of mindfulness in the workplace for corporate audiences.

She is an expert in creating transformation and behavior change with clients and creating organizational change in complex environments. Her strong background in innovative service delivery led her to participate on a national team that was tasked with bringing innovative healthcare solutions into Veterans Affairs medical centers. She is passionate about changing beliefs and thinking patterns in individuals, teams, and organizations to allow them to adopt innovative solutions, to think creatively, and to build high performing teams.

Pete is an executive coach and expert facilitator for Team Performance Institute, leading client engagements as an expert in leadership, organizational change and human performance.

Pete served as the Human Performance Program Chief at the U.S. Special Operations Command. While there, he led more than 200 strength coaches, physical therapists, performance dietitians and sport psychologists responsible for the physical and mental readiness and resiliency of more than 30,000 special forces operatives, including Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Army Rangers and Air Force Pararescue operators.

Pete also served as Director and Associate Professor at the U.S. Military Academy Center for Enhanced Performance at West Point. He oversaw extensive research in the area of human performance and has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals on the psychology of everything from military hand-to-hand combat to mixed martial arts and ultra-marathon racing competitions. He’s a frequent lecturer on the impact of sleep on performance. Pete also built and directed the Thayer Scholars Program at West Point to provide comprehensive academic development for cadets with outstanding potential.

An alumnus of the U.S. Naval Academy and an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Special Forces Sniper Course, Pete served as an officer in the Navy and Army, leading combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and serving on planning staffs for strategic engagement throughout the Middle East. He retired as an Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel after 22 years of service.

Pete has a master’s degree in organizational and social psychology from Columbia University and a PhD in kinesiology from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. He is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. He’s also a certified yoga teacher, black belt in Aikido, and a rated instructor in the Russian martial art Combat Systema. He regularly practices mindfulness meditation and teaches martial arts in Tampa, Florida where he lives with his wife Carolyn Westlake and their son.

Norma has nearly two decades of experience building healthy teams and helping the C-suite turn potential into power.

Norma Fiedotin joined Team Performance Institute in 2018 as a partner in the Northern California area. Norma is a business psychologist with over 16 years of experience executing best-in-class experiences for healthy teams and leaders. She is skilled at assessing individuals for senior roles in organizations and has supported several corporate leaders during their onboarding/ transition into the CEO’s chair. Norma also specializes in extended executive coaching assignments to maximize success and satisfaction.

Norma is passionate about teams. She works with C-level executives to develop collaborative, engaged and healthy teams that hold themselves accountable. This includes talent selection and onboarding, culture development and integration, linking tactical execution to strategy, and coaching executives for effective leadership.

Norma has developed executive coaching and advisory practices that allow her to engage business leaders on how to navigate organizations, create transformational change, and achieve success at the highest level. She has served clients across various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, private equity, automotive, insurance, technology and finance.

Prior to joining Team Performance Institute, Norma served as vice president and senior consultant at Leadership Alliance, Inc. and as a partner at RHR International. In these environments, she worked with high-potential executives for Fortune 500 companies, built and maintained a private equity practice, and facilitated key strategic planning and team-building initiatives. Before that, she led human resources functions for high tech startup companies with a strategic focus on cascading corporate culture and clarity of objectives.

Norma earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Northwestern University and a master’s and doctorate in clinical psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is fluent in Spanish.

Norma lives in Oakland, California with her family and their dogs and cat. In her downtime, she enjoys the theater, being in nature, traveling, riding horses, and spending time with her friends and family.

A 25-year officer in the United States Army, Col. Greg Gadson’s life is a portrait of courage in the face of great adversity. In 2007, while returning from a memorial service for two soldiers from his brigade, he lost both his legs and normal use of his right arm to a roadside bomb in Iraq. Despite the catastrophic injuries, Greg remained on active duty and continued to inspire people around the world with his message of courage, perseverance, determination and teamwork.

Refusing to be defined by the proverbial “hail of bullets,” Greg has drawn upon the lessons of Pride, Poise and Team, learned as a West Point linebacker, and applied them to his life, career and family. After graduation from the U.S. Military Academy, Greg served in every major conflict of the past two decades, including Operations Desert Shield/Storm in Kuwait, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Greg’s military awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (2), Bronze Star (3), Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal (3) and the Army Commendation Medal (3).

Greg became one of the first military personnel to use a next- generation powered prosthetic knee with technology to make it possible for amputees to walk with confidence. He is a passionate advocate for wounded warriors, veterans and those with disabilities, and has testified before Congress many times on issues related to these groups.

Greg continues an energetic and dynamic lifestyle, serving the nation as an entrepreneur and managing partner of Patriot Strategies. He is also an accomplished photographer, artist, actor and motivational speaker and remains active in cycling, skiing and scuba. Greg earned masters degrees in information systems from Webster University and policy management from Georgetown University. He also holds an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Webster University.

Triva is an experienced executive coach, helping Team Performance Institute clients maximize their potential as leaders. From group performance workshops to one-on-one mentorship, Triva is an expert in leadership, organizational change, human performance and behavioral health.

Born and raised in the Monterey Bay area of California, Triva has built a 30-year career helping people improve themselves. Whether its business performance, mental and physical health, personal goal setting or team building, Triva is skilled motivational speaker, mentor, coach and leader.

Triva is a founding member of Purpose By Design in Knoxville, Tennessee. The non-profit gathers women to join hands by empowering young women to be all they were created to be. As a speaker, life coach and mentor, Triva helps young women during weekend intensives. Triva is also a featured speaker for the Chicago-based Haymarket Center. Its mission is to aid people with substance use disorders in their recovery by providing comprehensive behavioral health solutions.

Triva has studied Mass Communications at California State University — Sacramento, and Psychology of Well Being at DePaul University. She’s earned the Core Curriculum Certificate at the Coaches Training Institute and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.

Triva currently lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with Joe, her husband of more than 30 years. They enjoy spending time with their four children and one grandchild.