Jennifer Balkcom, CPCC, ACC - President - Creation of Team Bliss, Personal Engagement

 dawn@e9coach.com

Dawn is an executive coach who partners with leaders to amplify their impact by mastering complexity, extending their influence, building unstoppable teams and breaking through barriers. Her clients create distinctive, enduring and outstanding transformations in business and organizational performance. 

She is adept at working with multi-cultural leaders, teams and global organizations. She spent over 30 years at Procter & Gamble with responsibility for businesses up to $12 billion in revenue and managing organizations of up to 3,000 people. Her experience includes startup, expansion and restructuring international markets in Asia, North America, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe. 

She speaks four languages.

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biliana@e9coach.com

Biliana Angelova, M.A, MEd, RYT 200 is a psychotherapist and a certified yoga teacher with expertise in cutting-edge mindfulness, yoga, and meditation research and stress reduction. She champions the combination of traditional practices such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy with the therapeutic benefits of yoga in managing daily stress as well as addressing specific issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, chronic fatigue, relationship issues, separation and loss. 

Biliana spent 8 years with Harvard Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University, overseeing parts of two multi-year studies on the effects of mindfulness with up to a total 1,000 participants, and lecturing as an adjunct professor, working with the principal investigators who authored multi-year studies proving the effects of yoga and mindfulness on chronic stress and anxiety. Prior to that Biliana was a Director of Operations and Assistant Program Director for counseling-based organizations. She has a Master’s in Psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of psychoanalysis, an M.Ed. from Sophia University in Bulgaria, and speaks three languages. She has been a certified yoga instructor since 2007. She is Mom to Nico, who has spina bifida. When asked, “What do you say to people who feel like their life is hard?” Biliana says, “I tell them that they can do hard things."

rachel@e9coach.com

Rachel has over two decades of experience as an education leader. She has founded and directed schools, facilitated learning cohorts across multiple districts, taught in professional development academies, designed curricula across disciplines, and coached teachers and staff. She has spent years observing, reflecting on, and creating educational experiences for young people and adults, as well as creating and running effective and supportive teams, and she holds working hypotheses about how people learn that are based on in-depth experience. When she isn't transforming learning systems, Rachel gardens, listens to podcasts, and dances. She lives with her husband, two dogs, two cats, two flocks of chickens, and lots of veggies and sunflowers in Erie, Colorado. 

 john@e9coach.com 

John is an experienced consultant and advisor to the governing boards of prominent organizations, both large and small, public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit. He has served as a partner at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, as a small college president, and as chairman of a NYSE company during merger negotiations. He currently serves as chair of the governing board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He has attended over 1,000 board meetings.

He studied philosophy at Princeton, finance at the University of Chicago, and everything at St. John’s College. His first book was entitled Before You Join a Board: 21 Essential Questions (Dog Ear Press, 2012).