AM, Harvard University; PhD, MIT
Certified Senior Global Executive Coach©
Master Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
Master Certified High Impact Teaming™ Coach and
Instructor
Member, SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research)
Associate Member, CIPD
(Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)
Member, UK Harvard Club

Licensee: Benziger Thinking Styles Inventory License

                 The International Profiler

Certified: Hogan Personality Inventories


An outstanding thought leader and innovator in Global Executive
Coaching and a true leader in both executive coaching and coach training,
Hannah is in demand worldwide as a speaker, author, and consultant for intercultural executive program development. Her background combines solid business and leadership development experience with academic training, teaching, and research, providing her with a sound basis for promoting advanced coaching standards in global executive coaching.

Hannah has worked with executives from over 60 countries and trained global Executive Coaches in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Africa. An experienced coach mentor, coach trainer and global executive coach, Hannah has created and tested both Advantara®’s innovative Global Executive Coach Training Program and its Global Executive Coach© Certification Program as well as the
Coaching as a Leadership Strategy© Program for Executives over several years.
She has worked as a marketing specialist in the high technology industry for a Japanese company, and directed international publications and conferences.
She has been awarded fellowships from the Carnegie Foundation, the
Ford Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute (two years), the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, and was a Milton Fellow at Harvard University.

As a Research Associate at MIT’s Center for International Studies she did research on international communication in Europe and was also Director of Soviet Studies at Georgetown University’s Center for International Studies.
Hannah is also trained and accomplished in Executive Wellness and

alternative health strategies and has been Executive Director of an Holistic Health Organization. She has served on the Executive Coaching Committee of the International Coach Federation and founded its first Special Interest Group, the Global Executive Coaching SIG. She has been a participant in the invitational Executive Coaching Summit and was the only North American invited to the first European Executive Coaching Summit in Stresa, Italy.
She is also a prize winning poet, and for thirty years has engaged in
traditional British country dance, song, and music. She’s a member of Halsway Manor Society, Ltd, Britain’s only residential Centre for Traditional Music and lives in the West Country of England.
For more information on speaking and writing, download Hannah’s
biography in PDF format here.


 
Advantara’s® Regular Faculty members are program graduates who have considerable background before being accepted into the program.
On graduation, they have been through a Developing Faculty Training
Program designed by Hannah S. Wilder to meet Advantara®’s Standards and their development needs. They have taught under supervision and had feedback sessions. They are also trained coaching mentors for the program.
   
Irene Öhler
MA, Advantara® Graduate, Licensee The International Profiler
Irene Öhler, is an Austrian now based on her fourth continent, in Brazil. She has been involved in human resource development for the last 16 years as a trainer, facilitator, project manager, consultant and executive coach in Europe, China, New Zealand, and Brazil. Irene has coached in 4 continents over the last 5 years. She is a graduate of Coach University and of the ADVANTARA® Global Executive Coach Training Programme.

Irene holds a Masters degree in Sinology (Chinese Studies) from the University of Vienna, and is fluent in Mandarin, English and her native German. As a consultant and executive coach in China her clients comprised major multinational companies, like ANZ, BP – lubricants, Coca Cola, DuPont, L'Oreal, Siemens, as well as smaller local Chinese companies.

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Maria Fernanda Corral
BA; CLT Ericsson; CT Franklin Covey; Advantara® Graduate;
Certified DDI, PDI, DISC, Hogan Personality Inventories
Maria Fernanda has over seventeen years’ experience in the Human Resource and Organizational Development fields, including extensive experience in leadership development, identification and development of high potentials, team building and High Impact Team© coaching, succession and change management. She is General Manager of the Covey Leadership Center in Ecuador, has worked for Chiquita Brands Inc and
Ericsson Corporation.
She has a degree in Industrial Psychology from Universidad Catolica Ecuador, is a Certified Leadership Trainer by Ericsson and a Certified Trainer by Franklin Covey. She’s also certified in the use of DDI’s and PDI’s 360 feedback tools, the Hogan Personality Inventories and DISC. She is fluent in Spanish and English. As succession management manager she was an internal
client of Hannah Wilder; the two collaborated on a ground-breaking corporate leadership development program, after which Maria Fernanda was the first participant to register in Advantara®s Global Executive Coach Training Programme and its second graduate.

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Resource Faculty members at Advantara® are Executive Coaching and Human Resource or Organizational Development Professionals with special expertise supplementing our program. They are available to lead special lectures and speak with students. [Please note that we do not convey messages to our faculty from the general public. Please use a search engine and email them directly.
   
Barbara Chan
CPCC, CMC
Barbara Chan, CPCC Executive Coach, Certified Management Consultant®, Certified Sustainable Business Management and Green Building Professional, Virtual CEO provider, strategic planning facilitator, mediator with degrees in biology and psychology. Active in the Institute of Management Consultants, ICF, Women in Consulting, and Women’s Environmental Network, Barbara co-chairs with Hannah ICF’s Global Executive Coaching Special Interest Group.
A resident of San Francisco, she is a writer, illustrator, workshop leader and speaker who has worked with people from 81 countries.
Barbara has travelled, lived and spoken in Europe, West Africa, the Americas and Asia, and is familiar with Spanish, German and Mandarin Chinese.

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Suzi Pomerantz
MT, MCC
Suzi is an award winning coach and author of the popular book Seal the Deal! With over 15 years of coaching and teaching experience working with leaders and teams in over 125 organizations internationally, including seven in the Fortune 100 List. A coaching veteran in the legal industry, Suzi has coached leaders in six corporate law departments and a dozen law firms, as well as in consulting, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality, entrepreneurial enterprises, US federal and state government, educational institutions and MBA Executive Programs. She serves in a number of international Board of Director positions and was chair of the first ICCO symposium in Washington DC on the Global Implications of Organizational Coaching.
She has coached executives in the MBA program for Executives at Darden School of Business at the niversity of Virginia. She holds a BA from UVA., and an MA from UVA’s Curry School of Education. She’s the author of 20 publications about coaching and business development. In 2007 she was honoured with the Women of Achievement Award from the Business and Professional Women’s Association and the Commission for Women in connection with National (US) Business Women’s Week.

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Sue Stevenson
BEd, CFIPD, ACC
Sue has over twenty years of business experience in
sales, marketing, quality, internal communications,
global human resource management, and executive
coaching. She’s been invited to speak at many
international forums on Talent Management
and Leadership Development for the Chartered
Institute of Personnel and Development, in San
Diego, London, and Budapest, Hungary. She’s
taught on the University of Southern California
Extension Programs and served as a non-Executive
Director of the CIPD. She is currently serving as Board
Member of the HR Strategy Forum in California.
She has a degree in Education with a major
in Educational Psychology from Aberdeen University,
Scotland and also has a post graduate qualification
in Human Resource Management as well as completing
programs in Executive Education at INSEAD in France
and Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She gained her coaching credentials through the Hudson
Institute of Santa Bárbara.

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Mary Wayne Bush
MA , PhD
Mary-Wayne Bush has over twenty years as a corporate coach and organization development consultant. She has taught quality management courses for Unmiversity of California, Santa Cruz. She is Director of the Research Division of the Foundation of Coaching and an active member of several professional societies and a frequent speaker at professional coaching and training conferences. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations (IJCO). She holds a Master’s degree from Yale University and a PhD Organizational Change from Pepperdine University.
Her dissertation research is on effectiveness in executive coaching.

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Andrew M.G. Fleck
MS, PhD Candidate
Drew’s background is in the high technology industry with virtual teams and work design within distributed intelligence networks. Drew began his technology sales career at Kodak, 3M, and Agfa and has also worked for Toshiba America’s Computer SystemsDivision andDell Computer Corporation’s Business Systems Sales Division, and later became the Director of ADC WorldMap, the Desktop Mapping Division of ADCi, where he built a worldwide sales and marketing channel and branded the first successful off-the-shelf digital atlas data product as a personal productivity tool in the Desktop Mapping industry.
He co-founded a Business Intelligence firm serving High Technology start-ups in the Pacific Northwest. He serves on the board of the Wisconsin Innovation Network. Drew is also a founder of a Knowledge Age networking group called The Hive and is currently completing the Fielding Graduate Institute’s PhD program in Human and Organizational Systems. He has a Master Degree in Management & Organizational Behavior with emphases in International Business and Training & Development, a Bachelor Degree in Management & Communication, and a Bachelor Degree in English Literature.

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Cynder Niemela
MA, MBA, MCC
Cynder is currently SVP. CTO at Creative Channel Services, and has been OD Consultant and Coach at Disney ABC Media Networks, SVP, Culture and Communications at Countrywide, OD Consultant and Executive Coach at The Boeing Company. Educated at John F Kennedy University, Cox School of business at Southern Methodist University, University of Denver, she has fifteen years experience as architect for cultural transformation and large scale change. Author of the award winning book High Impact Teaming,™ she is a well-known presenter and educator in the field of executive development, culture management, employee engagement, executive and team coaching and HR Business partner consulting. Cynder is recognized as an expert in Developing High Performance Initiative Teams through her High Impact Teaming© (C) coaching program for teams taught at Advantara®. Cynder has been an internal and external coach with several major corporations. She is co-author of the award-winning book High Impact Teams and of Corporate CoachU's Course on Coaching Business Teams.
She also led the Business Team Special Interest Group for CoachInc.

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Roberta Hill
BA, MBA
Roberta works as a professional leadership consultant and executive coach to both public and private sectors and has been working in the area of Human Resources and Organization Development for over twenty years. She has lectured at universities and colleges across Canada and has 5,000 classroom hours experience. As owner of AssessmentsNow.com, an online assessment provider, Roberta has established a network of 40 coaches worldwide who are trained in the ethical and appropriate use of assessments. Currently, Roberta is located in Geneva, Switzerland and makes regular trips to North America.

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