Executive Coach/Communication Consultant/
Life Balance Advisor

Executive Enhancement…Change Management… Peak Performance… Leadership Development… Facilitation & Presentations… Stress Reduction… Self-Esteem… Healthy Relationships and Communications

Dr. Luann has extensive coaching and counseling background to assist clients in improving interpersonal relationship issues, breaking through barriers, achieving balance, and living a healthy lifestyle.

She specializes in innovative teaching and coaching strategies to improve communication, reduce stress, and create positive transformation. Expertise in facilitation/instruction with exceptional talent for developing rapport, creating trust, targeting issues, and getting results.

Selected Achievements

• Featured as “Guest Expert” repeatedly on numerous television and radio shows including OPRAH, CNN, GERALDO, HARD COPY and PEOPLE ARE TALKING. Special presenter on FOX NEWS on “De-Stressing after 911.”
• Authored “Balancing Love & Work” and “Sales & Marketing Strategies for the Woman Entrepreneur.”
• Acclaimed Executive Coach and innovator of the DELETE Techniques, a new rapid-response stress reduction process, to enhance personal and professional relationships.
• Founder of “The Gorby Group,” a Southern California outreach program to promulgate the core issues of the 1995-2000 State of the World Forum.

Professional Experience

Consulting with entrepreneurial, medium and large companies, educational institutions and government entities to resolve personnel and transitional issues, facilitating projects, and improving organizational communication.

Clients include: Allstate Insurance, Chevron, Coldwell Banker, Pacific Gas & Electric, Revlon, Shaklee, Premier Chemical, U.S. Steel, Playtex, Westin Hotels, Proctor & Gamble, the Busch Firm, JFK University—School of Business, and many more.

• Provided Executive Coaching for corporate president to resolve miscommunication among key staff, which resulted in increased employee motivation, greater productivity, and improved morale.
• Enhanced executive presentation and communication focus for a Provost, who was then selected as a University President.
• Developed and coached a team of executives from 3 diverse organizations to collaborate and work smoothly together to secure and complete a major project.
• Coached hundreds of business men and women using personalized intervention strategies to reach their goals of improved performance, communication at home and work, self-esteem, and happiness.
• Improved team effectiveness in a multi-million dollar systems integration project, enabling 5 departments with different agendas to work together. Designed and conducted a series of Team Effectiveness Trainings for project managers for building cohesive teams, enhancing communication skills, managing and reducing conflict, and giving/receiving constructive feedback.
• Consulted with business partnerships on communication and conflict resolution in a highly charged situation, resulting in reaching an amicable dissolution.
• Facilitated cross-cultural and cross-organizational communication focusing on developing connectivity between managers of both companies.
• Taught communication, “bridge-building,” and intervention strategies, which improved cooperation and collaboration for project managers and avoided litigation.
• Presented communication programs nationwide representing two major companies, which strengthened leadership and governance. Consulted on design, wrote content and researched publication.
• Initiated Requisite Organization (RO) to several businesses owned by one entrepreneur. Responsibilities included, but not limited to, restructuring of tasks and consequences, and streamlining personnel.

Professional Speaker & Seminar Leader

• Developed and presented seminars to business groups and professional organizations on Stress Busting: Make it Easy on Yourself; Managing The Stress Of Change; Having It All – Balancing Work, Life, and Love; Keys To Peak Performance; Winning Cooperation With The VIP's In Your Life; and Coaching For Better Results.

Learn more about Dr. Luann’s professional speaking credentials

Computer Task Group and U.S. Steel/Posco Industries

Pittsburg, CA –
Senior Consultant, Teambuilding

• Designed and conducted a series of Team Effectiveness trainings for project managers for building cohesive teams, enhancing communication skills, managing and reducing conflict, and giving/receiving constructive feedback.
• Facilitated cross-cultural and cross-organizational communication focusing on developing connectivity between managers of both companies.
• Taught communication, “bridge-building,” and intervention strategies, which improved cooperation and collaboration for project managers and avoided litigation.

JFK University, School of Business

Orinda, CA –
Adjunct Professor

• Selected to teach well-received course entitled “Elements of Peak Performance.”

California Community Colleges

Greater San Francisco Bay Area –
Lecturer

• Developed and taught course entitled “Marketing Strategies for the Woman Entrepreneur.”

Richmond Unified School District

Richmond, CA –
Director, Department of Adult Education – Parent Co-op Nursery School

• Designed and directed program; taught parenting classes for 60 families a quarter; and counseled parents and children.

Professional Affiliations:

• Past President of the National Speakers Association – Northern California
• San Diego Professional Coaches Alliance
• California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists
• International Coaching Federation (ICF)

Education:

Ph.D., Marriage and Family Therapy – California Graduate School of Marin, CA (ASPP) M.A., Counseling Education and B.A., Recreation Leadership – San Francisco State University, California

Certifications:

Master Certified Coach – International Coaching Federation (ICF) • California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist • Certified Mindful Coach • Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction – Scripps Institute • Thought/Field Therapy (TFT) • Comprehensive Energy • Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) • DELETE Techniques • California Teaching Credentials: Adult Education, Early Childhood, and Community College