Integrated Focus Team Valerie Pelan, MBA, PCC Valerie Pelan, President and founder of Integrated Focus, is a certified Executive and Leadership coach. Her 20 plus years management experience at AT&T and EDS gives her a unique perspective on the challenges facing leaders and their teams in today’s diverse and global marketplace. Her certifications in Executive coaching, group coaching, Assessments, and 360 tools along with her organizational experience provide the foundation for her results driven coaching.
Cornerstone of Integrated Focus is: strategic thinking for leadership, performance improvement, organizational change, career development, and assessment tools for insight and knowledge. Her Transformational Leadership models for Gen X and Young Boomer leaders improves their leadership style and flexibility to drive results through their teams, choose actions that align with career and organizational goals, focus on creative approaches to decision making, and see their company from a strategic perspective. Ms. Pelan specializes in solution based coaching; one-on-one coaching is for managers and leaders and group coaching for middle management and teams. Effective coaching is a collaborative relationship between the coach and the client. A Coaching Plan is designed and developed for each client and is used to focus on client on specific developmental areas tied to organizational objectives and business goals. Ms. Pelan provides feedback, holds the client accountable to their Coaching Plan goals, and supports them as they take new actions. Valerie is certified by University of Texas, Graduate School of Management, Executive and Professional Coaching program and International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is an Executive Coach for University of Texas, Executive MBA program. She is a contributing columnist and motivational speaker on leadership, Personal Branding, Visibility Management, and organizational change. Valerie is certified in several key assessment tools: Lominger Voices (360), Birkman Assessment, Multifactor Leadership model, Appreciative Inquuiry, organizational change model and other assessments and tools. She is a member of the ICF, American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), Dallas SPHRM and the Executive Women of Dallas. Integrated Focus is a certified Woman Owned Business (WBEN). She has an MBA in Economics and is an adjunct professor. Ilene Goldsmith Sporkin Ilene Sporkin’s corporate coaching practice focuses on mid-level through senior executives. Her expertise is in working with individuals and teams facing organizational and other types of corporate transitions. To maximize results, Ms. Sporkin works closely with individuals and their management team to customize her approach to the culture and needs of her client organizations.
Ms. Sporkin’s coaching and mentoring skills were developed during her 27 year career in both education and corporate management. Her early training and experience as an educator enabled her to approach corporate management challenges as opportunities for development for her team members. Due to this approach, she became a sought after mentor and leader. As an executive coach, Ms. Sporkin is now able to share her legacy with high potential managers in a wide range of organizations. Ms. Sporkin holds an undergraduate degree in Education from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.S. from the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, from which she also completed a Certificate in Executive Coaching. Susan Shapiro Susan draws upon 18 years of experience with Hewlett-Packard during which she led the system Integrator Value Channel, a global sales organization with 60 people tasked with a combined channel and leveraged sales quota of $600 million.
Her specialty is leadership development, especially working with high potential managers and leaders in sales, marketing and operations. She launched On Point Coaching in 2006 after 20 years of corporate and non-profit leadership. She is certified in Lominger Voices 360 assessments, Birkman Coaching Report and Appreciative Inquiry. Shapiro has a Graduate Certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching from the University of Texas at Dallas, and received a BS in Marketing and Economics from HofstraUniversity. She is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a member of the Metroplex Technology Business Council. Jane Glancy With over 25 years of business experience, Jane Glancy has held senior leadership positions in human resources, sales and marketing, business and financial administration, in addition to over 11 years as a business owner and manager. As a Consultant and Certified Executive Coach, Jane works with executives, senior managers and professionals of corporations to facilitate improved business results through leadership development, performance improvement and talent management. She also has extensive experience in mentoring and consulting executives and professionals around career management, growth and development.
Jane holds advanced degrees from Southern Methodist University and Birmingham Southern College. Her professional credentials include Executive & Professional Coach certification through the Graduate School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, an International Coach Federation accredited program. She is certified Birkman Assessment Consultant, a certified Winslow Dynamics Consultant and is an active member of the International Coach Federation and American Society for Training & Development. Active in her church and community, she has served on several non-profit boards and is an active Rotarian. |