Rosemarie Fiorilli has over 20 years experience building brands and organizations for both public and privately-held companies including Nestle, Nabisco and Chanel USA. Trained first as an engineer, later as a financial executive and strategist, and most recently immersed as a leader in exceptionally creative environments and corporate cultures, Rose is uniquely qualified to enhance the creative individual’s focus on and understanding of significant business concepts and issues, while enabling analytical individuals to think and act in more innovative, non-traditional ways. Expert in broad-based, organizationally complex leadership, acclimation and transition coaching, Rose advises senior corporate executives and entrepreneurs in the media, entertainment, publishing, interior design and luxury goods sectors. She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University and her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Business Experience

Rose is an experienced senior operating executive, consultant and executive coach with strong general management, strategy formulation, financial and team building expertise. Her significant corporate experience includes several rigorous line financial management roles at two highly respected international consumer products companies, Nestle Food Company and Nabisco Holdings Corp. She then led both financial and strategic planning for Chanel USA, the $500 million U.S. affiliate of the global luxury goods firm, overseeing significant portfolios of premier fragrance, cosmetics and fashion brands. Her emphasis on premium brand equities continued when she was appointed Sr. Vice President & General Manager at a major operating division of F. Schumacher & Co., a leading high-end fabric, wall and floor covering, furniture and decorative accessory firm.

Executive Coaching Focus & Clients

After gaining diverse industry experience and skills, Rose fulfilled a long standing entrepreneurial ambition by founding a business advisory and executive coaching firm, Rubicon Advisory Group, LLC, in 2003. Her recent engagements include the planning and execution of major business development, branding and organizational effectiveness initiatives for several renowned interior design firms, as well as leadership, acclimation and transition coaching with a diverse group of senior corporate executives and entrepreneurs. Rose's specific areas of expertise include brand positioning and pitches (for individuals, firms and products), strategic assessment and visioning, objective setting, execution plan and metric development, as well as ongoing leadership coaching and mentoring. Her corporate clients include senior executives at ABC, Atlantic Records, Avon, Clear Channel Entertainment, Conde Nast Publications, Discovery Communications, Grey Global Group, HBO, Hearst Corporation, Hyperion, Interpublic Group, MTV, Ogilvy, Random House, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sony, The New York Times, Time Inc., Victoria’s Secret, Viking Press, Warnaco, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel, among others.

Motivational speaker, coach, trainer, business consultant and meeting facilitator – works with leaders, managers, senior contributors, lawyers, creative professionals and entrepreneurs in developing the competencies, skills and techniques needed to thrive in today’s chaotic business world.Prior to starting her own business in 1999, Julie worked in a variety of industries including broadcasting, outplacement, consulting, training and recruiting for Post News Week, Drake Beam Morin, Manchester Partners and Provant. Her high-profile client base includes GE, Time Inc., Pitney Bowes, Merrill Lynch, KPMG, New York Road Runners and DHL. Julie has identified eleven qualities that she considers fundamental to business and career success. These “Eleven Keys” are the basis for her coaching and dynamic, no-nonsense presentations on leadership and management, communication, executive presence and professionalism, influencing, networking, career management, sales and time management. Julie has been quoted in numerous publications including Fortune, Forbes, American Way, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Essence, WSJ.com and Fitness. She has been interviewed on the Today Show, ABC World News Now, MSNBC, NPR, CNN Financial News and many other television and radio stations across the United States.Her first book, I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work (Penguin Books; 2003) is in a 12th printing and published in the U.K., Germany, Austria and Romania. You Want Me to Work With Who? Eleven Keys to a Stress-Free, Satisfying and Successful Work Life…No Matter Who You Work With was released by Penguin Books in 2006. Julie is also the author of a Workplace Coach Booklet series on Networking, Enhancing Your Image, Delegation, Managing Your Career, Time Management and Getting Organized. Julie earned a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Hartford. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and the Connecticut Press Club. She sits on the Advisory Board of Baruch College’s Computer Center for the Visually Impaired and volunteers for the Connecticut Women’s Business Development Center and a half-dozen unemployment support groups. Julie is also a regular contributor to Yahoo! Hot Jobs, Cancer and Careers.org and JobDig.com.

Lisa Silvershein, owner of Ark Career Coaching, uses her 20 + years of HR experience as a Director of Human Resources and as a Human Resources Consultant to help individuals leverage their strengths and grow professionally. . Lisa gives her clients the edge and confidence to achieve success. She helps newly promoted managers make smooth transitions and successfully coaches them as they build their teams. She actively works with individuals to expand upon their current skills and learn new skills. She has a superior ability to listen, observe and customize her approach to meet individual client needs.
Lisa has an MS degree in Human Resources Management, a BA in Psychology and she is a Certified Master Coach. She has worked with employees from companies such as Phillips Van Heusen, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors and Gallagher Benefit Services. Lisa is on the board of the New Jersey Professional Coaches Association and she is actively involved in planning the Garden State Council SHRM Annual Conference.

With 25+ years in the financial services and media/publishing sectors, Karen now coaches executives and emerging leaders, with an emphasis on women and minority leaders and MBA grads. Areas of expertise include career transition coaching, resume consulting, OD and change management. She has facilitated many workshops including Communicating Styles, Effective Presentations and Mentoring for Emerging Leaders and consults with domestic and international companies, designing and facilitating OD and training initiatives. In addition, Karen is a resume consultant for one of the largest web-based executive job boards. Karen regularly serves as a guest speaker, moderator and facilitator on career panels; she earned her MBA degree with an emphasis in management and is passionately committed to helping her clients “be the best they can be”.

Since his days at American Express Financial Advisors building regional teams, diversity processes, and quality management systems, he has been in the trenches with leaders and teams to create practical, workable solutions to their real-world issues, problems, and barriers. Like his father before him (whom, in 1968, improbably and against the conventional wisdom, began a successful business building residential swimming pools in the tundra of Minnesota), Tim is not afraid to deviate from the script to find new solutions that take into account your specific needs and situation. Clients come to him when they need to fix the “unfixable.” Through his willingness to meet the client where they are and create a process that works for them, Courageous Conversations was born. Responding to a client’s need to change leadership’s behavior while not absorbing multiple days for training, he returned to the business-school model and developed a process that “changed people right before our eyes.” As a nationally recognized executive consultant, Mr. Mulvaney is considered a resource for other practitioners in his industry. Mr. Mulvaney has been a featured speaker at the MN Multicultural Forum, Society for Human Resource Management ’s National Conference on Diversity, the Human Resource Associations of New York and Southern Connecticut annual meetings, and the ASTD’s National Conference and its New York Metro Region Chapter events. He is a Board member for Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children and Family Services. A 170-year old social service agency that provides services and aid to children and families in crisis.

Jaye Smith has worked for over 20 years as an Executive Coach and Organizational Effectiveness Leader for Fortune 500 companies in New York City.

International companies like Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Standard & Poors, HBO, MTV Networks, William Morris Agency, Nomura, Swissotel, and Estee Lauder have utilized Jaye’s expertise to help their organizations build better, more resilient leaders, increase management productivity, grow revenue and attract and retain critical talent in what has become an increasingly competitive workplace.

Simply put, Jaye specializes in working within highly complex, cross-industry businesses to revitalize teams and systems so that the people behind these organizations are better motivated and more strategically aligned to the corporate vision.

Breakwater Consulting, Jaye Smith’s organization, is supported by specialized talent in Executive Development and Organizational Effectiveness. Both Jaye Smith and Breakwater Consulting have received extraordinary accolades on their projects. 100% of Breakwater Consulting’s program work with Fortune 500 companies has come through word of mouth. Jaye’s reputation and integrity has earned her the ability to have 80% of her total business as repeat clients.

Jaye was a founders of “Partners In Human Resources, International”, a $10MM full-service business consulting firm in New York City. At this firm, Jaye drove the division that helped executive women build and manage successful lives and careers.

During this time, Jaye also co-authored “Venus Unbound”, which became an empowering guide for women wanting to build self-esteem, particularly in a highly competitive workforce. She also published numerous articles on the pitfalls of career management. Local network and radio stations reported on Jaye’s strategies for building a successful career.

Jaye holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology from N.Y.U. with a specialized focus in Adult Career Development. Her B.A. in Psychology was earned at City College in New York City.

Additional Affiliations and Association Work Include:

• Former President; International Association Of Career Management Professionals, NYC.
• Fellow; Career Management Institute, NYC.
• Vice President; Board Of Directors, Harlem Dowling Westside Center For Children And Family Services, NYC
• Corporate Advisory Board member; Children’s Aid Society, NYC.
• Co-Founder, Business Leaders Alliance, NYC.
• Faculty Member: NYU Center For Career, Education & Life Planning
• Faculty Member, Brooklyn College: Pioneered/developed new courses on Effective Career Management Strategies (for women majoring in math & the sciences).
• Mentor: Grace Institute College Prep Program For Women Of All Ages, NYC.

Fritz is an executive consultant with more than 20 years of experience and a global perspective gained through work with clients in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. A former corporate executive, drawing on real-world experiences to address business challenges.

He devises approaches that are inventive yet grounded in practicality and always focused on improving business performance and working toward personal goals. He works quickly to analyze challenges and find solutions in collaboration with the client.

Business Consulting Experience

Professional Accomplishments

• Engaged in Action Learning consulting and coaching with international teams for past three years. Teams have performed well on assigned projects; gaining in abilities related to results, process, and relationships. Several team members each year have received promotions as a result of increased performance and visibility.
• Managed a project to redesign the flow for the entire organization. Resulting in the first comprehensive study of the entire organization’s clients, services, and interrelationships.

Dan White is an executive coach who specializes in developing leaders. He works with clients to strengthen their ability to manage people, lead organizations, collaborate and innovate. He enables leaders to develop new skills and attitudes that align with organizational opportunities, constituents' needs and personal values.

• As a coach, he works with individual leaders to assess their strengths, needs and barriers to development. He coaches them to fully leverage their unique talents to achieve greater effectiveness over the long term.
• As a facilitator he works with groups to strengthen their focus, their dialogue and their ability to act in a coordinated fashion. He helps clients to develop several capabilities, enabling them to become more productive and innovative.

Prior to his role as a coach and organization development consultant, Dan served as Director of Organization and Executive Development at CitiGroup. There he implemented original approaches to leadership training and organization effectiveness, and championed two major culture change efforts that enabled rapid business growth. As a consultant, he has worked with organizations such as: CitiGroup, JP MorganChase , Prudential, Goldman Sachs, Standard and Poors, UBS, New York Stock Exchange, Dow Jones, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Schering Plough, Siemens, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Regeneron, Lundbeck USA, R.R. Donnelley, The New York Times, Reuters, MTV, Columbia University, American Institute of Architects and the New York City schools. He teaches the Executive Coaching course in the NYU Masters Degree program in Human Resources Management.

EDUCATION:
MA, Organizational Psychology, Columbia University, Teachers College
BA, Psychology University of Rochester
Post grad certificate, Adult Career Development, City University of NY

PUBLICATIONS:
Coaching Leaders, Guiding People Who Guide Others, Jossey-Bass. 2006
Repairing Damaged Work Relationships in R&D. in Research-Technology Management, 4/03
Stimulating Innovative Thinking. In Research-Technology Management, 9/96
Career Development of Technical Professionals. In Alan Pickman, Special Challenges in Career Management.L. Erlbaum Assoc., Hillsdale, NJ, 1997

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Leader – New York Leadership Coaching Learning Group
Member – International Coach Federation
Member – Association of Career Management Professionals
Member - Organization Development Network
Member – Human Resource Planning Society

A partner of LodeStar Leadership, Whit Raymond is a high impact advisor and strategic leadership coach to senior executives and teams. He has worked with a diverse group of large and small corporations for over 30 years and is a master facilitator of executive groups and projects where consensus, shared focus and collective commitment are necessary to enable organizations to reach higher levels of functioning and achieve stretch objectives.

His talents are in three related areas. Whit assists executives in translating organizational and leadership needs into effective solutions. He then organizes innovative leadership programs and initiatives that engage leaders collectively in implementing those solutions. Third, and perhaps most important, he awakens and harnesses leadership at multiple levels while working on strategically important organizational and business projects. Whit is trained and certified in a number of instruments. He uses these instruments selectively with individuals and groups to provide specific kinds of insight and perspective so they may function more effectively.

Whit recently served as Director of Organization Development at Merrill Lynch for nine years, in both the corporate and retail units. He advised senior executives on strategic solutions to critical organizational needs and served as a confidante and coach. He implemented leadership initiatives in sales, marketing, technology, operations, finance, risk management and new product development, through both executive teams and cross-functional collaborative initiatives. Whit also led the firm’s executive coaching program, which included identifying and coordinating external coaches, developing a standard process and comprehensive in-house tracking system, and educating and training human resources professionals in how to effectively manage coaching engagements.

Prior to Merrill Lynch, Whit was a partner of LodeStar Associates, Inc., providing leadership, team and strategic organizational development, and executive coaching, to both large and medium-sized corporations. His clients included ABB Asea Brown Boveri; Cummins Engine Company; Fidelity; GE Capital, General Electric; IBM; Johnson & Johnson; Kodak; Merrill Lynch and US Healthcare, among others. Earlier in his career, Whit was Vice President and one of two thought- leaders at the Princeton Center for Leadership Training, a non-profit training firm, where he directed business development, project design and training, and managed an internal staff and external network of select coaches and trainers. Before this, he was employed as Senior Organizational Effectiveness consultant at Cummins Engine Company.

Whit holds a BA degree from Bowdoin College where he played on two ECAC championship hockey teams. He received his M.Ed. at Lesley University, where he focused on group dynamics, the psychology of leadership, and leadership. Whit has a long-standing interest is integrative medicine and health, and lives in Jersey City, NJ and Saratoga Springs, NY.