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Carol Segrave, M.Ed.
President Segrave and Associates
Carol Segrave is one of America's genuine experts on leadership development, executive coaching, team building and entrepreneurship.
As president of Segrave and Associates, Carol has been coaching leaders and their teams to world-class performance for the past 25 years. Her C-suite clients say that Carol is their preferred secret weapon.
Carol's coaching philosophy is simple. Effective leaders and strong team members need to be self-aware, highly self-managed, and profoundly clear that team work is preferable to solo ego performance. They need to be supremely committed to supporting their organizations in the successful achievement of corporate goals, vision and mission.
Carol's billion-dollar clients say she is by far the best mentor and role model they have ever worked with. She has the ability to magically get very different people to see the value in differences and to leverage those differences to achieve clearly defined personal and business goals.
Carol's philosophy extends throughout her business and personal life. A Triathlete of 2007-2008, Carol was a Senior Olympics Silver Medalist in the 50 yard freestyle 1999 and 2000. She was also a Gold and Silver Medalist in the Miami Beach and Palm Springs International Salsa Competitions 2003/2004. She is currently preparing for the 2008 Triathalon.
Carol's corporate experience has included serving in the roles of COO, Director of Sales and Marketing and Director of Special Projects for MetLife, Pulte Corporation and TTG Consultants. The remainder of her career has been at the helm of her own consulting firm.
Her corporate clients include: American Institutes of Research, Baxter Health Care, City of Los Angeles, EnXco, Ernst& Young, Georgia Pacific, Guthy-Renker, IBM, Jim Henson Productions, Morgans Hotel Group, Realty Presentations, Inc., Showtime, Sylmark Group, Time Warner, Union Bank.
Carol is a member of Kappa Delta Pi (an honor society in education) and the Professional Mentors and Coaches Association. Her Master's degree is in Education from Rutgers University. She is a graduate of Georgetown University's Corporate Leadership Development Certification Program 2006, Strozzi Institute Leadership In Action, 2008, Coaching to The Core 2007/2008, The GROW Program, a 25-year Birkman Method Certified Consultant and an Outward Bound Alumna.
Hovig Tchalian
Hovig Tchalian has been working with entrepreneurs, business owners and executives since the late 1990's. He has worked with them on all aspects of their business lives and has had the good fortune of helping them achieve phenomenal success by giving their personal and business visions clarity and scope.
Hovig's own background represents an alignment between personal and business interests. His 1991 undergraduate degree was in Economics and English. Hovig started his professional career in the academic world in 1995, teaching students in all age ranges - from 18 to 70 - writing, argument and critical thinking skills. He also completed a PhD, with a dissertation topic that analyzed issues relating to leadership and personality from a historical perspective. His journey quickly led him to private industry, where he has been happily entrenched since.
During the frenzied internet age, Hovig worked at a startup that was bringing a proprietary research technology to market. There, he learned for the first time and first-hand about the ups and the downs of starting, growing, and ultimately selling a company in an entrepreneurial environment.
Hovig then moved into the financial services arena, starting out by working directly with his own clients and growing into a management position at a boutique Los Angeles financial services firm. There, he oversaw operations and strategic planning. He worked closely with the firm's owner on issues critical to the business, while working closely with the firm's internal as well as external clients.
After a stint in management consulting, where he worked with Fortune 500 firms on setting corporate goals, Hovig has returned to his roots - education and coaching. He teaches business and leadership classes, many focused on the special challenges faced by entrepreneurs and business owners in launching and growing a business. Hovig also works closely with individual business owners, entrepreneurs and executives, helping ensure that their personal and business goals are properly aligned and offer the greatest opportunity for business and personal success.
Hovig holds a Ph.D. from UCLA and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, with an emphasis on leadership and entrepreneurship.
John Bridgeman
John Bridgeman has coached and mentored individuals in a wide variety of situations during his 30-plus year career as a business executive and consultant. A combination of active listening, use of examples drawn from personal experience, a mutually-agreed upon game plan with achievable and measurable results, and frequent follow-up and reinforcement, usually does the trick. A sense of humor helps, too.
John has lived in Southern California since 1978 and became a U.S. citizen in 1994. He first came to the States in 1968 as a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Oregon in Eugene, and returned as a production and quality consultant to a food manufacturer in Zanesville, Ohio in 1974.
John started The Travis Group in 1987 and, prior to that, was Vice President of Human Resources for the Kal Kan Foods division of Mars, Inc. in Vernon, California for 5 years. During this period, John personally closed a manufacturing facility in Irvine and structured the retention bonus in such a way that the last week's production broke records for highest tonnage, highest quality and lowest cost. He also introduced regular open communications meetings within his division to enlist the support and commitment of hourly as well as salaried associates. The approach was adopted by the other divisions as the company moved to a more participative culture. John represented Kal Kan on several Mars initiatives that affected all companies in the US and overseas, and traveled extensively internationally, working particularly closely with sister companies in Europe.
John began his career with Imperial Chemical Industries and joined Mars, Inc. in 1972. He has worked as a laboratory technician, process chemist, product development supervisor, research and development manager, purchasing and production director, and then headed the Kal Kan research and development group before moving into the human resources area. As well as working in the UK and US, John spent 3 years in Toronto with the Mars Canadian operation.
John was born and educated in England where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Organic Chemistry from Oxford University (D.Phil., Oxon) and a B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Applied Chemistry from the University of Salford. He then moved to the University of Oregon as a Fulbright Scholar and conducted research as a National Institutes of Health Post-Doctoral Fellow. John has participated in residential executive programs in Advanced Human Resources (University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration) and Business Strategy (Columbia Graduate School of Business), and graduated from the Tom Peters' Skunk Camp as a Master Skunk.
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Carol Segrave, M.Ed., President
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