Our Facilitators are Master Coaches

Heather Kaye

For more than a decade Heather has fostered leader’s inner strength, presence and vision to take a commanding stand for the causes that make our communities and our world stronger and healthier. She works with leaders across the region to promote an agenda of support for those on the front line of social change and service. Heather inspires social profit leaders through expert coaching and hands-on peer group support. She is a seasoned executive coach and facilitator who brings 30 years of experience working with and for nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and corporations.

To augment her work in the sector Heather developed the Executive Circle program. A dozen executives meet for an intensive two day facilitated gathering every four months as a peer learning community. In this setting they help one another solve strategic issues and onerous problems, strengthen and stretch individual leadership capacity, and improve performance. Candid, focused discussions with other executives help to clarify issues and convert concerns and nagging questions into practical new actions.

In 2008 Heather married her expertise in executive coaching and facilitation with her passion to support nonprofit organizations to create The Leadership Sanctuary. Overwhelm, burnout and scarcity thinking were chronic issues for her clients and throughout the sector. TLS provides a forum for leaders from a mix of organization size, experience and issue area to come together in small groups to build a practice of resiliency, share case studies and develop a trusting community. Since the inception of the program in 2008, she has worked with hundreds of leaders and won support from major foundations that focus on building a strong nonprofit sector.

She is an accomplished facilitator with an ear for hearing what’s not said, tackling unexpected challenges and galvanizing teams behind over- arching goals. Through workshops, retreats, team facilitation and individual coaching, Heather has worked with leaders to build capacity, foster employee and volunteer engagement, help leaders realize their visions and transform plans into measurable results.

Heather is the founder and President of Invision LLC, Executive Circle and The Leadership Sanctuary and holds a Masters degree in Organizational Development from American University. Heather is also a graduate of Leadership Greater Washington and the National Speakers Association, a member of the International Coaches Federation and the author of Awakening Vision and Purpose. She has been on the faculty of both Newfield Network Coaching and American University.

Terrie Lupberger

Since 1998, Terrie has worked with thousands of professionals to increase their capacity and competency to lead. Her approach helps them notice habits that don’t produce the results they want and develop new practices that closely align with their desired outcomes.  As Terrie says, “Without developing an awareness of your old practices, you don’t have choice, you have habits.”

Terrie has coupled her real-world experience as a CEO, financial systems analyst, operations manager, and successful entrepreneur with studies in philosophy, communication/linguistics, emotional intelligence, coaching, and leadership–a remarkable combination.

Early In her career, she worked in two federal agencies for 14 years.  At the Department of the Treasury, she was a senior financial systems analyst working with the Federal Reserve banks to advance their reporting systems.  She then became a senior manager with the U.S. Courts, helping improve district and circuit court systems. She also developed and managed an innovative outplacement program for more than 800 federal employees.

Terrie is the former CEO of Newfield Network, Inc., an international transformational learning and professional coaching organization.  During her ten years as an executive manager, she led the development of innovative learning programs for individuals, professional coaches, and organizational teams.  She has held leadership positions with the International Coach Federation and co-developed the core coaching competencies still used as the standard in the coaching profession today.

She is a master certified coach with International Coach Federation and a fellow with Institute for Generative Leadership, and certified practitioner of BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory. She has earned a bachelor’s of science in finance and marketing from George Mason University. Terrie is a contributing author for two coaching books published by Pfeiffer, A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence and The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching: From theory to practice.

Terrie has combined her professional experience with her personal development background to create an introductory coaching program for technical managers.