More recently, she’s become a CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach) and graduated from the Coaches Training Institute recognized by the International Coaching Federation. She also graduated with a bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences from Northwestern University where she majored in Psychology and International Studies.

Her multi-cultural background has given me the gift for seeing different perspectives which has been helpful in identifying creative solutions to life situations. Living in Italy for short periods of time and living with her Italian born parents, aunts and uncles required her to mingle my Italian and American cultures. Although complicated at times, this living situation helped her develop the skill of seeing many points of views to one situation and today allows her to identify multiple solutions for any situation and remain compassionate to all perspectives.

In her coaching services, she looks at your whole life to shine light on your true self, helping you feel more alive than ever and energized to design the life you love.

Melissa’s professional life began in the technology and telecommunications field at U.S. Robotics. When people were just getting the idea of what the internet was, Melissa coached customers on how to install their modems, which quickly led to her shift to writing the user manuals and sales materials.

After three years at U.S. Robotics, Melissa felt a desire to explore her creative side and went back to school to study film. While at Columbia College, her serendipitous meeting with a producer in advertising and a commercial film editor led her to her career in advertising and film.

For the past thirteen years, Melissa has worked in Chicago, New York, and London as an Executive Producer for the Whitehouse creative film editorial boutique. Working in these varied markets led Melissa to become the Managing Director of the Whitehouse where she managed the day to day operations of the top international film editing company in the world. She has produced award-winning work with advertising agencies from Japan to Amsterdam to Austin, TX. Her clients include McDonald’s, Anheuser Busch, Nike, and Careerbuilder.

In 2008 Melissa opened Wholesome Midwestern Girl, a consulting and sales firm focused on representing editorial, motion graphics, and music/sound design talent to the advertising industry. She worked with her clients to create overall brand strategy as well as market individual talents.

Melissa is currently the Executive Producer for Beast Editorial in Chicago as well as the President of Women in Film Chicago.

Melissa is a trained co-active coach and co-active leader by the Coaches Training Institute. She is also well versed in a variety of energy healing work including Reiki and shamanic healing. Melissa earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Liberal Arts Management from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Melissa is an avid patron of the arts, most specifically music, dance and theater. She’s trained in theater and improv with the Annoyance Theater,

In addition to coaching, Anne has exercised her passion for creating meaningful change through her work for Chicago Cares, a non-profit volunteer organization where she created, managed, and led custom service opportunities for corporate and community volunteer groups. Anne’s professional background also includes management and leadership training and development and she is a graduate of the accredited CTI Co-Active Coach Training and Certification Programs. Anne holds an AAS in Photographic Imaging and a BA in Psychology from The University of Michigan.

Anne is the Co-founder of DoRAK (Do-Random Acts of Kindness), an organization that promotes and carries out acts of genuine kindness. Her world travels have taken her to Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, Mexico, and Alaska. In Alaska, she created and facilitated a three-week leadership-training program as a part of her work with the Alaska Great Lakes Project.

Her ease and zeal for building lasting friendships, acquaintances, and productive introductions between people are her personal trademark. She has stretched her own spirit and will to combine her passions with her professional pursuits. She teaches others how to leverage their strengths and personal networks to live life true to their core.

Laura has 15 years experience at Deloitte, Leo Burnett Worldwide (and its various related entities), and as an independent consultant advising leadership in the areas of global operations management and strategy, project and change management, solution development, and implementation. She is a coach and a confidant for CEOs and senior executives who consistently realize their potential as leaders to see their companies flourish. She has worked with leaders at JPMorgan Chase, State Farm Insurance, Quaker Oats Company, United Airlines, General Motors, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, McDonalds Corporation, American Hospital Association and Walt Disney World. She takes great pride in assisting captains of business to bring value and creativity to their organizations.

Laura enjoys traveling extensively, has lived in Costa Rica and Italy and currently resides between Chicago and Florida with her husband and 2 cats. She is passionate about animals and is active in animal welfare efforts across the nation and abroad.

She is recognized as a people manager. Results must be delivered, but always in a sustainable way, thus through motivated people. Most people are happy to develop and grow, but none of us like to be changed by others telling them to do so! Christine has the practical knowledge and tools on how to focus co-workers to participate from inspiration in a the task or change at hand.

After taking various trainings and earning licenses in the field of strategic business coaching and facilitation of teams, Christine couples her business knowledge to an agile ability to coach. In 2002 she shifts her work to coaching business managers in leading their businesses and -teams successfully to new perspectives, initiatives and higher results. Her clients report increasing results and joy at work beyond expectation!
Over the years she has worked for large and small companies in the Netherlands and on Curacao, like ANWB, ING, Aegon, Elsevier, TUI Nederland, Unilever, Avila Beach Hotel, Equity Trust, UNESCO-IHE , Da Vinci College, ROC Drenthe College, FysioLogic and many business owners of SME.

Being a woman whose performances particularly thrive under conditions that tap on her authentic inspiration and inner power, Christine immediately recognized the powerful impact of Tiara’s philosophy and methodology, especially on women. It made her stand up as co-founder of Tiara Netherlands (2009). She is fully dedicated to support the exceptional women that we all are to invent new ways to live our lifes the way we love, and at the same time to be influential in the business world and the society at large, under our own conditions that make us thrive.

Johanneke originally has a university degree in Social and Organizational Psychology and has a passion for empowering people to be the best they can be! She beliefs strongly that we all have the ability to make the difference and create powerful results as well in our private as in our working lives. “We need to learn to be more aware and take time to look inside what is stopping us and listing to our heart what choices would really make us shine”.

The first twelve years of her career Johanneke has been working as a senior manager and business director both in the Telecom and Temporary Labor industry. In 2000 she made the switch to start her own company 2dePOINT. She has a lot of experience in working with and advising companies how to get the results they really want. She shows them that they will achieve bigger long-lasting results by being more open minded, focussed, present and trusting towards each other. She creates a climate of positive energy, openness and thinking in possibilities.

Johanneke has been trained in various areas; International Health Coaching (Robert Dilts), Team to Results, Family and Organizational constellations, Enneagram, Spiral Dynamics, Biodanza and has a special interest in Non Duality.

Over the years she has worked with various companies; Price Waterhouse Coopers, Unilever, Accenture, IBM, Heineken, H.J.Heinz, KPN, Royal HashKoning, Randstad, Sanofi-Aventis, Nidera, NIBC, Centocor, Pfizer, Orange, ANWB, Diaconessenhuis Leiden, University Leiden, Hogeschool Utrecht.

Andrea, originally a university graduate in tropical agricultural science, and as such having tasted different cultures over the years, is a pragmatic optimist with “big” dreams, a lot of which have already come true.

It is her vision that when people discover their authenticity and dare to follow their bliss, that they are much happier en more successful in their own lives and at the same time are an inspiration to their environment.

She helps people and organisations to get clear about what is essential to them, challenges them to get all hands on deck, and produce the kind of results that make them want to come out of bed in the morning.
She gets right to the heart of matters, is enthusiastic about what she is doing and builds a long term partnership with her clients, in which she is committed to come along al the way in the transformation process to power, meaningfulness and fun.

Tangible results, growing consciousness and personal responsibility are basic principles in what she is doing. She knows to create an atmosphere of trust where transformation and growth can actually happen.

Andrea is a certified trainer and coach, holds various licences for team coaching, is educated in the enneagram, Otto Scharmers theory-u presencing process, dialogue and systemic work. She is co-owner of Tiara International LLC – the Netherlands (2009) and owner and founder of her company wezenlijk werken training and coaching (2002).

Over the years she has worked with companies as Unilever, Econcern, ABN, NIBC, SNS Reaal, Fortis Mees Pierson, Hasbro, Price Waterhouse Coopers, LogicaCMG, ETC Leusden, Alterra Wageningen, Wageningen International, Royal Haskoning, ANWB, HAN, Sanofi Aventis, ROC Da Vinci college, ROC Landstede, ROC Frieslandlandcollege, Zeeman textiel supers, KPMG and Police department Amsterdam.

Alison strives to create collaborative coaching relationships with her clients that help them identify important life goals and create a path towards meeting those goals. She seeks to promote the personal growth of all her clients by helping them gain insight, change beliefs and attitudes, take action, engage in new behaviors, and live their lives according to their own values.



Alison has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Chicago’s ABC, NBC, and Fox TV affiliates, Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business and Time Out Chicago as an expert on stress, coping, and meeting life goals. Alison has been a featured speaker for O, The Oprah Magazine and SELF Magazine as well as participated in the NBC daytime reality series “Starting Over” as a psychologist.



Alison has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Cornell University. She is a published author in the field of psychology and the author of

• Finish Your Dissertation Once and For All: How to Overcome Psychological Barriers
• Get Results, and Move on with Your Life

published by the American Psychological Association.

Alison is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the American Psychological Association. She lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and two children.

Amy is a skilled professional in the disciplines of coaching, execution, planning, training, and facilitation in organizations. She has provided this expertise to organizations in a variety of industries including Albany Park Community Center, BP/Amoco, Clearbrook, Hewitt Associates, Hendrickson, Landauer, Oxford Bank, TranzAct Technologies, and Protected Tomorrows.

Amy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and a Master’s Degree in Training and Development, with an emphasis in Organization Development, from Loyola University in Chicago. She is certified as a Best Year Yet® Program Leader, a Best Year Yet® Coach, a DDI (Development Dimensions International) Facilitator, and as a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst (CPBA) – qualifying her to administer the DISC Personal Profile Tool.

Amy is the founder of Shoop Consulting Group, Inc. and is in the process of authoring a book entitled Expect the Best When You’re Expecting. Inspired by women who take on powerful and empowering perspectives during pregnancy and childbirth, she is interviewing women and telling their stories through her blog and book.

Always committed to practical application, Betsy chose to go corporate instead of academic. She began working internally in training and development, bringing her philosophical inquiries about human behavior to the workplace. She added a Master’s Degree in Organization Development to her repertoire, joined a consulting firm, and became masterful at implementing complex organizational change initiatives.

Establishing herself as a consultant wasn’t a big enough challenge though. Eight years ago Betsy started her own consulting firm, which quickly merged with ClearSpace, LLC. Together they formed a consulting practice focused on leadership development, executive coaching, and team effectiveness.

While working with leaders and teams, Betsy began to notice that the clients who were woman wanted something unique: an opportunity to grow and develop themselves in community of other women. Pulling together her background in philosophy, women’s studies, training, human behavior, and systems change, Betsy was part of the team that created Tiara: Exceptional Women’s Coaching and currently works in many capacities for the organization including coaching, speaking, designing, and delivering programs.

As a coach and consultant, Betsy has worked with organizations such as Exxon Mobil Aviation, Hewitt Associates, Nicor Gas, Clearbrook, Center for Sight and Hearing, Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, St. Gregory the Great High School, Standard Parking, Allstate, McDonald’s, Mesirow Financial, and PepsiCo.

Betsy Sobiech is a founding partner of ClearSpace, LLC and Tiara International LLC. She is certified in Strategic Attraction Planning®, Best Year Yet®, and The Effective Facilitator™. She trained as a co-active coach through The Coaches Training Institute. She participates continuously in personal growth and development courses and coaching programs. Betsy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Religion from Truman State University and Master’s Degree in Organization Development from Loyola University Chicago.