David Martin
David Martin is a Master Certified Coach who has helped thousands of corporate business leaders and professionals throughout the US, Europe, and South America achieve profound and meaningful success. David’s clients benefit from his experience as an executive, leader, athlete, and philosopher. David utilizes an integrated approach that draws from many disciplines beyond mainstream business management. His corporate leadership experience combined with these unique perspectives help clients gain new insights that elicit a leap to a new level of results. David’s professional experience began as a sales manager and internal consultant for Procter & Gamble. He also earned an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Later, he spearheaded a massive turnaround for a struggling business in the transportation industry. There, as General Manager, he led a team to increase revenues from $85 to $200 million within two years by creating massive issue resolution and corporate cultural reform. In 1996, he founded his own coaching and training company, now known as the David Martin & Company. Since then, he has been coaching, teaching and guiding a growing and diverse group of corporate and entrepreneurial clients, including executives and business teams at Capital One, Sprint, Procter & Gamble, Quaker, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott Labs, Sears, Hewitt Associates, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Omni Hotels, AARP and City Harvest. For more details on David, click here.
For their judgment and instincts, their skill at reading organizations and overcoming challenges, and their ability to anticipate trends and improve bottom lines, my colleagues are simply the best. I am privileged to have such accomplished business consultants/executive coaches on my team.
Brenda Villa
Brenda Villa lives her motto of positive change. Inspiring and perceptive, she motivates leaders to reach for the stars by giving them down-to-earth ways of re-directing their focus, energy and talents. Like all David Martin & Company colleagues, Brenda has extensive experience both as a business manager and then as a strategic consultant and executive coach, trained at the renowned Newfield Network. After earning her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, she advanced through the ranks of Procter and Gamble (P&G), from customer service to finance to business development. After a decade at P&G, Brenda started her own business, becoming known as the consultant and coach whose clients achieve — and surpass — their goals. Earning executive coaching certifications from Newfield, she also trained and worked as a master negotiator, serving at Austin’s Center for Dispute Resolution, and became an expert in the Process Improvement methodology. For over a decade, general managers and presidents at Fortune 500 companies in three continents have regularly called upon Brenda to help jumpstart the type of change that lets organizations and leaders succeed. Her clients include General Electric (GE), P&G, First Data, Genworth and Capital One.
Carol Norbeck Miller
Carol Norbeck Miller believes in building strong executive teams — and knows countless ways to make it happen. These pillars of her consulting and coaching practice help clients achieve desired — and extraordinary — results. She is also adept at gracefully delivering honest and challenging feedback, and teaching leaders to expect and do the same. Carol’s corporate career began at Xerox, where she was manager of organization and leadership development, before moving on to become Managing Director of DuPont University. At both institutions, she improved workflow, morale and productivity by devising human resource process measures and systems. In a precursor to her consulting career, she also started programs in coaching, empowerment, work/life balance, diversity and leadership. She earned a master’s degree in industrial organizational psychology from the University of Maryland and coaching certification at Newfield. Her clients include managers and executives at Xerox, Siemens, DuPont, Villanova and George Mason Universities, GSI Commerce and the World Wide Retail Exchange.
Kathy Quinn
Kathy Quinn is an experienced and innovative business consultant and coach in the areas of strategy and planning; enterprise growth initiatives; and marketing and business development. Entrepreneurial and visionary, Kathy is sought for her unique ability to be a global thinker. She counters this with an astute intuitiveness and inbred resourcefulness that enable her to quickly identify the few, important elements that need to be changed for optimal results. Approaching each situation from a customer-driven mindset, Kathy’s efforts have helped shift organizational thinking and processes, spurring sales and market growth. Kathy has a solid foundation of client success achieved in service to clients such as Nestle, Coca-Cola, Miller Brewing, Starbucks, ConAgra, PepsiCo, Unilever, General Mills and Kimberly-Clark. Additionally, Kathy’s work experience includes creating an innovation sub-agency within the advertising agency DDB, redefining the media agency’s role while at MediaCom (WPP media agency), elevating the breadth and depth of skills and services for several branding agencies and initiating and launching NutraSweet branded tabletop products around the world.