Our faculty

A professional support throughout the program

Patrick Pool

CEO
10 years of experience

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Patrick Pool has more than 10 years of experience in IT development and marketing. He successfully leads our team to create one-of-a-kind digital solutions.

Andrew Wilson

Senior Project Manager
8 years of experience

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Andrew is our experienced professional in the project management. He brings together various talents to produce unrivaled and unique work. He is the soul of our first-class design team.

Mark Taylor

Support Manager
6 years of experience

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Mark works as a Support Manager for over 6 years. He is a real expert in dealing with any aspects of client-related support. He is committed to client satisfaction and strives to build long-term relationships with them.

Helen Smith

Director of Finance
7 years of experience

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Helen is a Financial Director with prior experience in senior management. She is responsible for finance and company operations.

Jason Lewis

Web Designer
8 years of experience

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Jason has over 8 years of web design and development experience. He is really a professional in turning any design idea into a reality.

Richard King

Web Designer
5 years of experience

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Richard is highly experienced in crafting awesome websites with user-friendly interfaces. He is master in solving any design challenge imaginable.

Andy Myers

Web Developer
10 years of experience

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Since receiving his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Andy has been continuously developing stunning websites and web applications applying the latest web technologies.

Jane Stone

Copywriter
8 years of experience

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Jane has been working in content marketing for more than eight years, helping our company fill sites with relevant and easy-to-read content to make them more attractive.

Tina Garcia

Graphic Designer
6 years of experience

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Tina is a highly trained graphic designer born and raised in New York. She joined our creative team in 2012. She clearly understands clients needs and requirements and strives to exceed their expectations.

Linda Hoffman

Project Manager
6 years of experience

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With over 6 years of experience in project management, she is an expert communicator and problem-solver. She always finds the most efficient and optimized process for delivering projects of any type on time and on budget.

Sean Simon

Illustrator
3 years of experience

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Sean Simon has more than 3 years of professional illustration experience. He is passionate about creating fantastic content for our websites.

Chris Addington

Senior Illustrator
5 years of experience

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Chris Addington works within our creative team as a Senior Illustrator for more than 5 years. He always succeeds in new challenges and loves working in our fast-paced team environment.

Brian Johnson

UI Designer
4 years of experience

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Brian is a talented master in crafting UI designs. He is committed to continuous education to stay aware of the latest design trends and technological feasibility.

Robert O'Neill

UI & UX Designer
5 years of experience

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Robert always listens to the clients' visions and creates data-driven designs for what they imagine, what they really need, and require.

Jack Nicholson

Project Manager
3 years of experience

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Jack always strives to go above and beyond in order to achieve project goals meeting any clients' needs, expectations, and budgets. Feel free to hire him for your next project!

Linda Stewart

Lead UI Designer
6 years of experience

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Hire our highly trained UI Designer. Linda is passionate about creating groundbreaking and breathtaking solutions for web, software, and mobile.

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Ann Acheson

Coach & Facilitator, New Hampshire, US

My life’s journey is a coming home and living into my roots. I landed here in Alstead, New Hampshire over 30 years ago. I had a healing arts practice for 25 of those years. I am currently engaged with tending the land on which I live using permaculture practices to grow fruit and raise chickens. With a collective intention towards cultivating the restoration of the commons, I am also currently engaged with a garden project in which families in my community are growing vegetables together.Bonnie Jo Radasch, Michele Steckler, and I offer an attunement circle on the last Sunday of each month for the CIYO community. A monthly reflection can be found on the CIYO websiteand facebook page. All are welcome to participate.


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Magda Barceló

Coach & Facilitator, Spain

Aware of the nature and complexity of personal, collective and global challenges of our time, Magda works as an executive coach and a consultant in the fields of diversity and inclusion, leadership development and organisational learning. Her passion is tosupport individuals and organisations reaching their full potential. She coaches at her private practice and is an associate consultant with Pluribus Europe.She started her career in the corporate sector with several executive positions in the fields of exports and marketing. Her call to make an impact in the world prompted her involvement with the social sector by running and developing microfinance programs. For nearly the last 10 years, she has enjoyed supporting organisations and individuals through her work as a trainer and consultant. Fluent in five languages, Magda wrote the book ‘Tu vida épica’, a self-paced guide to finding your own purpose in life. She also co-authored the books ‘Inclusion Around the Clock’ and ‘Gatherings: how to participate in, host or facilitate rEvolutions with abracadabra’, a practical toolkit to participatory facilitation techniques. She collaborates periodically with Spanish media platforms through her writing and participation in radio programs on the topics of personal growth and awakening.


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Annette Beerens

Coach & Facilitator, Netherlands

Open, honest, deeply spiritual, nature lover. Grounded in the art of Being. Annette offers a wide safe natural space to encounter new questions as well as hidden talent in your own life. Since 2011 affiliated with CIYO, via dear friend Danielle Doeve. As a therapist and solopreneur with over 25 years of experience, she has guided many individuals through life changes by using her connection with Nature. Licensed Horticultural Therapist, Nature coach, Vision Quest leader, facilitator and teacher. She worked for several health care centers and has taught lessons of Nature in all kinds of Commented [JZ1]: link to attunement page educational settings. Annette has alsoreceived unique training at the School of Lost Borders in guiding Vision Quests and The Practice of Living and Dying. She recovered from colon cancer in 2019. Therefore especially experienced in holding space for life in all it’s mystery to flow through her body. She lives with her 10 year old son, Kadir, in a small wooden house between the trees near the town of Nijmegen, in the Eastern part of the Netherlands with her daughter Mila nearby.


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Peri Chickering

Coach & Facilitator, New Hampshire, US

Peri is a coach, consultant, leadership educator and herbalist. Her early career as a mountaineer and wilderness guide took her traveling around the world. Out of these years she created wilderness-based leadership schools in South Africa and Bulgaria. Taking her leadership work from the outdoors inside, her clients now span private, governmental, and nonprofit sectors. Examples of the range of her clients include: Disney Theatrical, USDA Forest Service, World Bank, Stanford Woods Institute, University of Chicago, and Renaissance Reinsurance. She holds a master’s in human development and a PhD in human and organizational systems. Situated in the small town of Hancock, NH, she, her husband, their cat, and two horses steward fifty-five acres of beautiful woodlands passed down from her grandmother.


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Elizabeth Davis

Facilitator & Board Membeer, New Hampshire, US

Elizabeth is a retiree of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) after a 17-year career in this private sector arm of the World Bank Group (WBG). She led broad organizational change initiatives to create, sustain, and deliver consistently high-quality information assets. In her last three years, she managed the WBG/IFC’s three premier leadership development programs to create diverse and committed leaders in the non-managerial ranks of the organization. Liz retired to a beautiful refuge in Vermont where she is increasingly involved in various boards, local government, women’s circles, and a gardening society, all with the aim of contributing to local resiliency. Liz is inspired by and seeks to support women in their search for a meaningful life. CIYO has been the anchor in her own transformational journey since 2009. Liz became the Treasurer of The Ashland Institute in 2019 and continues in this role supporting the global CIYO network.


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Daniëlle Doeve

Coach & Facilitator, The Netherlands

Daniëlle is an experienced holistic coach/trainer and guides people on their path of personal transformation.It is her passion to connect women with their life mission, inner wisdom and authentic power through 1-1 coaching, inner leadership programs and connected breath sessions. She has inspired many people to follow the path with a big beating heart. Danielle is committed to contribute to a more loving and beautiful world where we live in harmony with ourself, each other and with nature. Daniëlle lives in Amsterdamtogether with her husband and two teenagers.
She is also the co-founder of HeartFirethat organisesceremonial concerts and conscious events that open the heart and bring people together. It is time to come home to yourself.


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Sandra Ermacora

Coach & Facilitator, Italy

Sandra is a Leadership and Change Advisor, Individual and Organizational Coach, and Transformational Facilitator with a purpose to help make the world a better place to live.To do this, she puts her competencies, energy, and passion at the service of people andorganizations, so that they can take care of themselves, evolve and create their future, for a better world. A world that looks at sustainability and the common good not so much as a final goal but as a way of working and lifestyle.She has worked for almost twenty years in the HR field, for several large companies, over time dealing with organization, management and, lately, development and training. In 2013, she chose to continue to pursue her purpose as a consultant, facilitator and coach, deepening andexploring innovative methodologies and approaches, to better accompany people and organizations in their evolutionary paths.


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Mary Anne Jorgensen

Coach & Facilitator, Japan

MaryAnne is an ICF-accredited executive coach and facilitator of leadership development programs working with teams and leaders across Asia from her base in Osaka, Japan, her home for 30 years. She is committed to creating space for meaningful conversations in teams, in organizations, and with oneself. MaryAnne brings a variety of tools to her practice that allow individuals to more deeply appreciate their unique gifts and safely explore barriers to unleashing their full potential. MaryAnne’s clients appreciate her ability to facilitate a space they can safely challenge themselves and learn from each other. “Approaching conversations with curiosity cultivates a space that values growth and learning, engages strengths and builds deeper connections as people and organizations move toward their purpose. My work inspires me continue my own journey filled with courageous conversations to discover what narratives are influencing my choices and what is seeking to emerge.”


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Cécile Masson

Coach & Facilitator, The Netherlands

Cécile is the author of the novel Rose, letters of love to life, that invites the reader to ponder on spiritual practices, the presence of human kind in nature and to slow down to reclaim the sense of our sensing.
An independent consultantfor two decades, she dedicated her energy to bringing harmony and mutual understanding to strengthen cooperation and co-creation. She supports leaders and their team to unfold their potential through dialogue and to being more connected to themselves. She invites them to dare including the intelligence of the heart in all conversations.Cécile is a polyglot, an mBIT Master coach & trainer, weaving neuroscience with old wisdom traditions, and holds a BAH in English Literature and Communication.She has the great pleasure to be working with Pluribus Global a DEI-Boutique as a Senior Associate. As a faculty member and mentor of "Coming Into Your Own", she holds women's leadership retreats in the local language in several European Countries.Cécile Masson was born in Zürich, Switzerland and settled in The Netherlands after having lived and worked in various European countries. She is a mother of two grown-up children and gets inspiration from nature and the Arts.


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Laure Massuel

Coach & Facilitator, France

Laure initially started her career in Marketing and Project Management in Germany. After a couple of years she moved back to France and settled down in Brittany, where she still lives. Soon after, she felt her job was senseless and realized that she was not going the right way. She quit and went back to college where she earned a Master Degree in Work Psychology.Laure is currently a coach in professional development. She is fond of helping people find their own life path and professional way. In other words, helping them find their deep motivation, know themselves, listen to their interior voice, respect themselves and thrive.She recently trained in mind-body integrated technics: meditation, positive psychology and stress reduction tools.She is the happy mother of three boys. Confidence, autonomy and non-judgment are strong guiding values for her.


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Isabelle Pujol

Coach & Facilitator, Belgium

Isabelle is founder and director of Pluribus, a GloCal consultancy committed to develop individuals, teams and organizations to succeed through diversity, equity and inclusion. She provides strategic consulting, designs and facilitates dialogues with leaders from various global organisations to create a truly inclusive performing culture. She is committed to support women and men in fulfilling their full potential by understanding and valuing their respective cultural differences. She is passionate about supporting their unique leadership journey and helping them reconnecting with their inner voice and authenticity.
Isabelle lives in the area of Brussels and is married to Jean-Marc. They have 2 children, Raphael and Sarah and a grand daughter Lina.


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Michele Steckler

Coach & Facilitator, New Hampshire, US

Michele, a human potential producer with three decades of experience leading creative process and collaboration, is dedicated to awakening personal power across all generations. An expansive career in the theatre, from avant-garde stage manager to Broadway producer, provides the foundation for consulting, speaking and facilitating Listening & Story Labs sharing a model of practice called Producing Your Life. Michele is equally comfortable in aconference room, classroom or onstage, offering expertise in leadership development, transitions, communication and mentoring. Her fourteen-years with Disney Theatrical Group began in 1997 as the original Assistant Director on The Lion King, eventually becoming Senior Producer overseeing multiple Disney titles on stages around the world. Passionate about honoring the human instinct to connect, Michele partners on diverse projects in the arts, business and education, creating opportunities for people to develop essential skills to grow and thrive in the 21st century.