Staff Credentials
Marguerite Adams
Marguerite E. Adams currently serves as the Board Chair for HOPE Center for the Arts which has transformed the lives of intellectually disabled adults for over 40 years. Since 2014 Marguerite has been giving back to the OC community by serving as a nonprofit volunteer and coach.
Marguerite, a former HR Business Manager with the County of Orange, uses her expertise in organization development, conflict resolution, performance management, training and HR systems in assisting nonprofit leaders on their development journey.
Maria Arakaki
Maria Arakaki started her career as a CPA with Grant Thornton. She subsequently went into community banking industry in Orange County, held executive management positions as Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer.
She co-founded an independent community bank in 2004, and saw it successfully merged into another bank in 2015.
After her banking career, Maria joined a small business education non-profit organization as its executive director and initiated education programs for Orange and Los Angeles counties’ low-income small business owners. Currently she works with a local non-profit organization as a life coach and meditation facilitator.
John Benner
John Benner started his career as a CPA with Price Waterhouse and held financial and general management positions with major retailers, finishing his career as Senior Vice-President Administration, Lucky Stores Division of American Stores. Since 1995 he has been a strategic planning consultant to non-profit organizations.
George Blanc
George Blanc owned and operated a gourmet French restaurant on Sunset Strip for 14 years.
He then spent 24 years managing $4.5 million of Orange Coast College’s non-academic programs including five non-profit businesses, its week-end swap meet, its performing arts events and its adult education program.
Dave Blankenhorn
Dave Blankenhorn was the President, CEO and a Director of the American Security Bank in Newport Beach, which under his leadership grew from $260 million in 2004 to $430 million in 2012.
Dave is also on the Board of Second Harvest Food Bank and the Orange County Council of Boy Scouts of America.
LaVasha Cain-Lobbins
She was a Principle Consultant at Valagent Consulting in Minneapolis and is a Business and Management Instructor in UCI’s Continuing Education Program.
Lois Carson
An ICF Associate Certified Coach, Lois has been coaching over 15 years. Previously, she was a senior leader in Product Development, for restaurant chains such as, Taco Bell, Carl’s Jr. and Godfather’s Pizza.
May Chan
In these positions, whether speaking to the Board or talking to donors and employees, her passion for her nonprofit made her a successful fundraiser and team builder.
Renee Christensen
In addition she also holds training and organizational development certifications with Franklin Covey and Teleometrics and being an Honored Professional of the National Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals.
Renee has owned or managed businesses and is considered a leading expert in the arenas of organizational development, mergers and acquisitions, change management and critical incident stress debriefings. With Renee’s work experience, she is fully equipped to work with the senior ranks of an organization and the complexities of their unique responsibilities, while having a down to earth presence that gives her unique opportunities for mentorship with lower levels.
Dave Coffaro
In addition to consulting, Dave’s experience includes leading financial services businesses at Wells Fargo and Bank of America, serving on non profit boards and as interim CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County and teaching strategic management at California State University, Fullerton.
Victoria Collins
Named “Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year” at AFP’s National Philanthropy Day, Victoria has served on multiple non-profit boards and brings insights on leadership, fundraising, board development and marketing.
With a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Victoria has authored or co-authored seven books on how emotions drive financial behavior. She has been interviewed on major TV shows and is quoted in multiple national publications.
Judy Combs
Judy Combs was the Executive Director of the California Academic Decathlon and consultant to other local and national Academic Decathlon organizations.
She has over twenty-five years of experience in nonprofit organizations as an Executive Director, Development Director or Marketing Director.
Ron Davis
As a business owner, Ron uses his organizational development, team building, general management and marketing/ digital media strategy to assist non-profit leaders in their journey for excellence.
Sam Dawson
She has volunteered with numerous nonprofit organizations and serves on the board of Working Wardrobes and Girls Inc. of Orange County. She is a founding partner and board member of Impact Giving, a woman’s collective giving organization.
Adrianne Geiger Dumond
She has an MPA and a PhD in Organization Development from USC and has served on the Boards of the United Way, Family Services of Orange County, Wiseplace, and St. Jude Memorial Foundation.
Rafael Durand
Rafael has over thirty-five years of experience working in five different countries: Mexico, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, and the United States. Rafael retired in March 2019 to establish Dxpat Consulting, his coaching and consulting business.
Andrea Espy
She is currently serving clients across industries, such as biotech, food, packaging, retail, and non-profit to help leaders identify their talents and strengths, specific opportunities for growth, and provide coaching and support to move the needle on their own leadership development goals. Through her appreciative and strengths-based approach she guides leaders in fulfilling their purpose.
Jim Evans
The last 15 years were as City Manager and Executive Director of Development for Eureka and Glendora. He is currently a Senior Associate at Citygate where he specializes in municipal consulting.
Daphne Felicitas
Daphne’s expertise is in helping leaders invest in their talent and potential to build capabilities required to lead their organizations and teams.
Having worked in a variety of industries, including 11 years in global companies, she understands the importance of listening, meets people where they are, helps clarify where they want to be, and prioritizes learning the unique context of their organization and culture.
Daphne is here to support leaders fulfill their organization’s purpose, amplify their values and have a meaningful impact in their community.
Mike Flores
Mike has been involved in coaching, both individual and group, since graduation from UCLA, including 15 years in the university setting. He has experience coaching executive directors and directors of development for numerous non-profits. As a volunteer, he has sat on over 15 non-profit Boards including serving a Chairman of the Board.
Mike is a graduate of CTI, Coaches Training International, and has completed his hours for certification as an Executive Coach. Mike is fully bi-lingual (English – Spanish).
John Gordon
John has worked closely with bank boards to develop achievable objectives helping to navigate performance through turbulent economic cycles, mergers and acquisitions, and increased regulatory oversight.
Amanda Graham
Graduating from New York University with a master’s in nonprofit management, Amanda has worked across North America in fundraising, executive management and consulting.
Her specialties are strategic planning, fundraising, grant writing, case writing, board development and executive management.
Karen Haren
Frank Hathaway
Frank Hathaway was a Senior Supply Chain Executive in consumer products and biotech at Genentech and Amgen, and was as a Vice-President at Avery Dennison, Unilever and Nestle. He is currently a board member and secretary at South County Outreach, and served of the board of the One World’s Children’s Fund.
Frank is Board President of Waste Not OC.
Monica Horner
Monica has over 13 years of experience as a professional fundraiser.
Shaheen Husain
Shaheen’s career began in banking and shifted to architecture, then higher education, and nonprofits. Her personal and professional experiences have driven her to focus her efforts on education, income, and social responsibility, both on an individual and corporate level. Shaheen was born in Khartoum, Sudan and was educated on four continents before high school!
Heidi Kasevich
A national keynote speaker, she works with schools and companies to foster inclusive environments where introverts can thrive.
Heidi has served as Educational Director at Quiet Revolution, and History Chair and Leadership Program Designer at several schools and universities in New York City.
Patrick Kelly
Patrick has a B.S. degree in business administration and finance from the University of Southern California.
Michael Kogutek
Moty Koppes
Danny Lanz
Danny Lanz has been coaching for ECofOC since 2019. Danny brings 20 years of progressive leadership experience including multiple senior executive roles in Aerospace and Biotechnology. Having successfully tackled a broad range of operations, engineering, sales, and technology challenges, Danny believes that the greatest assets of any organization are its people.
He has a proven track record of driving unprecedented business results by hiring and developing amazingly talented individuals.
Danny founded A&B Solutions in 2018 to deliver transformational operational improvements in the manufacturing industry. A&B grew quickly, and by 2020 the company evolved to include E8 Engineering to deliver technology assisted “boots on the ground” solutions to supply chain challenges in quality-critical industries.
He is also a certified Executive Coach through Allen Training Centers.
Danny holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from Cal State Long Beach and an MBA from Webster University.
Joanne Larson
Joanne Larson is currently a management consultant and Executive Coach, and has completed the 60 hours of coursework required for The Associate Certified Coach credential from ICF. From 2001 to 2013 she was Director of Client Services at Larson Retirement Planning Services. Prior to that, she was Director of Operations at Employee Support Systems Co. in Orange, CA.
Nicole Leier
Nicole Leier, SPHR-CA, is the Principal & Sr. HR Consultant for Mindful HR Consulting & Coaching. She graduated from St. Cloud State University (MN) with a bachelor’s degree in Management and Human Resources, and earned a SPHR-CA, (Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification, with an additional specialty certification in California Employment Law). Nicole spent 25 years in Hospitality Human Resources Leadership roles in Corporate America as an HR Director and Area Director across the county. Her passion is guiding and developing others to be their best, and to bring out the best in their teams.
Over the course of her established career, Nicole has spent copious amounts of time in both union and non-union environments, and is well versed in acquisitions, divestitures, and business transitions, to match seamlessly with her extensive familiarity in opening high end properties.
She now works with business owners in all industries, helping them establish their HR infrastructures and providing Leadership Coaching to owners and Managers on how to create an environment where individuals and their businesses can thrive.
Joel Mascitelli
Joel has served as Chairman of ECofOC and is a member of the ECofOC Board of Directors and the current Treasurer.
Barry Menzel
Rachel Mohr
Rachel is an experienced executive coach, life transformation coach, speaker, facilitator and trainer. She is an internationally credentialed and certified professional coach who holds an ICF (ACC) credential, a coaching certification from one of the top ranked coaching academies in the world and degrees in both Psychology and Spanish. Rachel’s career paths have included being the #1 nationally ranked high-performing senior sales executive for a pharmaceutical company multiple times where she also worked on the marketing team for two of the products, founding and running two companies, teaching, training, speaking, coaching for individuals and organizations as well as being the CEO of Mohr Enterprises where she gets to be a wife and mother to two little ones who keep her on her toes.
Rachel has a demonstrated history of teaching others, improving personal and team performance and guiding others to excellence. As a personal excellence and success coach, Rachel loves helping empower achievement-oriented individuals struggling with feeling stuck whether in their career, in relationships or personally to finally break free, gain the traction needed and get the forward momentum they crave to produce massive results and live the fulfilling and intentional lives they’re meant to live for themselves and those they love.
Tara Norton
Tara is an ICF Associate Certified Coach, holds a Master’s degree of Human Resource Management, member/past board member of ECofOC for the last 15 years, an instructor for UC San Diego, and is certified in 9 assessments and leadership programs.
David Riley
Jerri Rosen
In 1990, Jerri founded Working Wardrobes, and for 31 years “has been driving the bus” as she grew revenue from $200 in the first year to $7.5 million in 2020.
Martha Ryan
She has served on various non profit boards as Chair Fund Development and Board Chair. Her expertise in personal coaching includes leadership development, fund development, board development and marketing.
She is on the ECofOC Board of Directors, Marketing Committee and Leadership Committee and served as President for 2 years.
Joe Schoeningh
John Seelinger
John Seelinger was the Executive Vice President and Senior Lending Officer of New Jersey’s largest state bank. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Banking for an east coast regional bank. John was also a trustee of the Tri-County Scholarship Fund which awarded scholarships to inner city youth.
Mary Sidhom
She has worked in the fields of Financial Services, Telecommunication, Information Technology, Insurance, Automobile, Retail, Engineering and Government sectors. She hold an MBA degree and PMP certification.
Steve Smith
Ernest Stambouly
Jason Stern
Prior to that he was President of Xceliware, a system integration company focused on the supply chain and specifically on the warehouse’s management system.
Daniel Stetson
Valerie Strauch
Showleh Tolbert
Showleh is a certified master coach and trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Time Line Therapy® and instructor of Hypnotherapy with over thirty years of experience in corporate and nonprofit organizations as COO, Executive Director, Development Director and Marketing Consultant.
Larry Tucker
David Wild
David volunteers as a mentor to small business owners with the nonprofit SCORE Orange County. His keen focus relates to sales, marketing and community engagement. He is a frequent mentor for the CSUF Entrepreneurship student-consultancy program.
Angie Wisdom
Angie is the professional coach behind the scenes for many of the most successful people you know. Sharing the exhilaration of victory and extraordinary achievement is Angie’s driving force. Her profound belief and personal experience that you can accomplish what you desire and truly love your life is fundamental to the remarkable results her clients achieve – and that belief is the gateway to your success.
Joan Wise
From 2011-2016 Joan was on staff at the Life Coach Institute, an ICF certified training program. In 2017 she co-founder of the Benoit-Wise School of Coaching to continue to advance ICF standards of coaching.