VeloCity Coaching Services

 

Michele Wilke - President

With 25+ years in the professional coaching and training industry, Michele Wilke brings an extensive backround to HR, team building, operations, international business, systems development / documentation, and leadership. She began her career on the West Coast getting trained in coaching and studying applied behavioral psychology at the Kairos Foundation in San Jose, California. The core of this in-depth, often challenging training remains in her work toda y. Michele also comes from a long line of business owners, and grew up working in her family’s printing and advertising business. There, she began to develop and collect valuable hands-on, soft and hard skill business tools. 

 

In 1988, she relocated to Kyoto, Japan and spent eight years working as an adjunct professor in the Japanese university system focusing on HR and communication courses, and also as a cross-cultural management trainer and coach at a variety of companies including IBM Japan, Mitsubishi, and Omron. Opportunity brought her to Regensburg, Germany for almost nine years, into the heart of BMW, Siemens, Bavarian engineering, and the German autobahn. There she trained and coached executives, business owners, and culturally varied teams in the areas of HR restructuring, team building, diversity and cross-cultural communication, leadership, operations, and strategic planning. Once again, she taught as an adjunct professor specializing in international HR, international management, international marketing, east-west studies, personality profiling and cross-cultural training.

 

Michele returned to the US in 2004, and has continued to coach and train around the country in various industries including manufacturing, financial services, culinary-hospitality, and health care. Corporate clients include Google, Live Nation, Home Depot, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, and AxleTech International – A General Dynamics Company, as well as small to medium sized businesses, sole-proprietorships, and municipalities.

 

Finally, she regularly educates and inspires groups with her insightful public speaking engagements and workshops. Topics include: Team Building, Recruiting, Communication, Leadership, Conflict Solutions, Global Business Alignment, Project Management, and Change Management. She offers high-performance and high-accountability tools and solutions that support clients, participants, teams and companies to go from good… to achieving the extraordinary.

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Affiliate Experts

 

Beth Adams – Senior Business Development Manager

With 25 years experience in selling solutions to numerous corporations, businesses and educational institutions, Beth has been able to represent top companies in their field. Her areas of expertise are among companies who provide training, consulting, coaching, infrastructure and international resources. Her core competence in new business development is her ability to connect her customers to high-level products and services, in order to help companies and organizations expand, grow and thrive.

What makes Beth unique is her high-level of integrity and credibility – with clarity and a no-nonsense approach, she means and does what she says she will do, so that her Clients can get down to business.

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Andrea Jacques – President of Kyosei Consulting

Andrea has 20 years experience in the career and life skills arena, and specializes in motivating people to realize and reach their full potential. The core mission of Kyosei Consulting is: Contributing to a thriving world through sustainable and ethical decisions and choices, both personally and professionally / Fostering ‘true’ entrepreneurial thinking / Encouraging authenticity / Systems Savvy / Creating mindfullness and the ability to live in this moment, while balancing short and long term goals.

What makes Andrea unique is quickly apparent when she moves beyond the ordinary pat on the back and list making that is far too abundant in the coaching industry – she inspires on a level that goes all the way down the rabbit hole, with solid expertise and finesse.

http://www.kyoseiconsulting.com/

 

Barbara Wilson – President of Wilson Development Experts

Barbara brings a rather solid approach to her coaching, training and public speaking participants. A 20-year professional in the training arena, she is highly appreciated because she doesn’t sugarcoat what people need to hear and know. And, she challenges people to act — to put what they learn into practice immediately. She possesses a “front-of-the-room presence” that gets everyone’s attention quickly and keeps them engaged. The core of Wilson Development Experts is communication, and how to do this more powerfully and diplomatically, as she delivers this promise via: energy, experience, knowledge, skills, relevance and rapport.

What makes Barbara unique is her ability to incorporate generous doses of humor while finessing her participants towards positive, clear, and effective communication and performance. She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources, and Diversity Consultant with an emphasis on women.

http://barbaraannwilson.com

 

Laura Roland – President of LSR Coaching and Consulting

Laura’s 17-year background as a seasoned executive and manager of human capital, processess and organizational systems led her to create LSR Coaching and Consulting. Her mission is to support, lead and inspire independence and success for children, teens and adults who experience attention-related challenges. Her Clients are able to improve their lives in the areas of time management, organization, study skills, decision-making and focus, while engaging them in a creative and thought-provoking process to establish clear goals and maximize their full potential.

What makes Laura unique is her ability to distinguish between what others consider to be a ‘right or wrong’ way to achieve their goals… and what actually works, in the short and long term, for each unique individual, family, team, or company.

http://www.myattentioncoach.com/

 

Pam Hansen – President of Resilience, Inc.

Pam is a highly-regarded, knowledgeable coach and trainer, whose clients include executives, companies and public institutions in the areas of health care, automotive, education, government and IT. For the past 25 years, she has held senior management positions at Henry Ford Health Systems, Allina Health System, Accenture and Compuware, and has a special interest in IT and the fast-paced world of technology. Pam’s mission for Resilience, Inc. is to design and implement organizational development programs using her integrated approach for improving a company’s status quo and forward momentum.

What makes Pam unique is her ability to assimilate information, systems, glitches and bottle-necks into highly workable solutions, while providing the bridge between technology and human capital via tools that simply make sense.

http://www.resilienceinc.com/