invite CHANGE

Janet Harvey, Chief Executive Officer

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ICF Master Certified Coach, inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coach, inviteCHANGE Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator, Faculty Member, Global ICF Board Member, MA Organization Development & Human Resource Management, BA in Economics & Finance
Contact: janet.harvey@invitechange.com or 877-228-2622 Ext 108

Janet is a seasoned executive operating for the past thirteen years as an entrepreneur in organizational consulting and coaching and previously in officer positions with General Mills and Charles Schwab. As an experienced, versatile professional in the domains of strategic vision, business planning, alliance partnering and innovation, Janet powerfully combines business leadership and technical management experience for generating organizational results.

Janet joined the company’s six other partners in late summer of 2006 to purchase the Academy for Coach Training.  The team recognized from the direct experience as faculty that training individuals and teams in the skills of coaching is a powerful enabler of social change and effectiveness.  The core curriculum, based upon the organization’s signature, personal transformation program, Living Your Vision®, was the second ICF accredited program to be recognized globally.  Janet understands the value of the transformative coaching approach for every day life, personally and professionally and, as a team, the name inviteCHANGE was adopted to recognize an expanded vision for human development available through our programs.

Choosing to invite rather than react to change creates opportunity and generates a sustainable growth strategy for individuals and organizations.   As CEO, Janet embodies this philosophy every day. In addition to leadership responsibilities for the organization and serving on the faculty, Janet coaches leaders and teams becoming better together.  She is a contributing author to A Guide To Getting It: Powerful Leadership Skills (2004) and enjoys speaking and writing about influential leadership and leading change. At home on Whidbey Island with her husband, Russell, they are avid boaters and Northwest adventurers.

Jan Berg, Partner

ICF Professional Certified Coach, inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coach, inviteCHANGE Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator, Faculty Member and ICF Assessor, MA Psychology and, BA Education
Contact: Jan.Berg@invitechange.com or 877-228-2622 Ext. 107

Jan has served as leader, facilitator, educator, manager and mentor in diverse settings, including school administration, community development, social services and adult education. She has assisted individuals, teams and organizations to develop effective focus, communication, advocacy and diplomacy, enabling greater energy, emotional flexibility, passion, resilience, resourcefulness and inspired action and effective change. 

Jan brings her extensive management and leadership ‘know how’ to the organization. Always the consummate optimist with her feet on the ground, Jan generates a high quality standard and makes inviteCHANGE a fun place to work!

Jan has been coaching since 2000 and part of the faculty and leadership of inviteCHANGE since 2004. When not at work, she can be found skiing with her 2 adult children, adventure traveling or tramping through bookstores with her husband Brian.

Paige Finch, Participant Services Manager

ICF Associate Certified Coach, inviteCHANGE Certified Professional Coach, inviteCHANGE Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator and BA Health Education, Psychology Minor.
Contact: Paige.Finch@invitechange.com or 877-228-2622 Ext. 101

Paige is an experienced sales and business operations leader who demonstrates a powerful presence with others that effectively creates trust and empowerment so that every participant experiences an excellent learning environment.  A former franchise owner/director and business consultant for Sylvan Learning Corporation, Paige brings a wealth of relevant business experience and a success record for results that demonstrate a high quality standard for customer satisfaction.  Worldly in her perspective and solid in her actions, Paige creates “yes” for everyone she engages with and catalyzes participants to be all they can be and more!

In her role as Participant Services Manager, Paige meets and supports every participant in our programs, providing service and operational support from the point of registration forward.  Since 2006, Paige is also our primary site manager for the inviteCHANGE headquarters in Edmonds, WA and our primary relationship manager for affiliate and vendor alliances.  While a native of WA State, Paige is an avid world traveler visiting and teaching in Europe, Asia and India.

BJ Levy, Partner

ICF Professional Certified Coach, inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coach, inviteCHANGE Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator, Faculty Member and ICF Regulatory Liaison, JD, MA
Contact: BJ.Levy@invitechange.com or 877-228-2622 Ext. 105

After 27 years of practicing law, BJ transformed her entire life. She brings that journey, professional experience, wisdom, and joy to her business leadership, speaking audiences, the classroom, and to her coaching relationships.  BJ demonstrates a deep commitment toward participants electing empowered, creative choices so that each individual will embark on a path of grounded, conscious transformation.  Contributing to inviteCHANGE as a leader, public speaker, senior faculty, mentor, examiner and coach for participants in all products and services of our business, BJ is also a contributing author to Roadmap for Success (2008).

BJ naturally generates excitement about taking a journey of deep self-exploration to discover, live, and celebrate our greatest expression.  A world traveler BJ is also very happy in the tranquility of Hood Canal and the cosmopolitan experience of downtown Seattle in WA State.

Beverly Marsh, Partner

ICF Professional Certified Coach, inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coach, inviteCHANGE Certified Professional Coach, inviteCHANGE Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator and Faculty Member
Contact: Beverly.marsh@invitechange.com  or 877-228-2622 Ext 104

Beverly joined the coaching profession in 2003 after a successful business career as an entrepreneur and as a corporate marketing executive.  A faculty member at the former Academy for Coach Training since February 2004, she partnered with six other faculty members to purchase that company in 2006 and has been a key player in its expansion and development into what is now known as inviteCHANGE.  Beverly brings a wealth of marketing, advertising and business development experience to this role and, coupled with her mastery as a coach, she carries a powerful vision for change in the world through the paradigm of transformative coaching. 

Beverly lives in Seattle with her husband, Peter Marsh.  They have raised four children to adulthood and welcomed their first grandchild.  Bev and Peter are longtime soccer enthusiasts although they’ve both hung up their boots and enjoy the game now only from the stands.

Amoráh Ross, Partner & CIO

Chief Intentionality Officer (CIO), ICF Master Certified Coach, inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coach, Vice-Chair ICF Credentialing & Program Accreditation Committee, Senior ICF Assessor, inviteCHANGE Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator and Faculty Member
Contact: Amorah.Ross@invitechange.com or call 877-228-2622 Ext 103

Amoráh brings 20 years experience as a Human Resource professional in a wide variety of industries to our leadership team plus more than 14 years as an independent coach, consultant, trainer and facilitator. A practitioner of the art of intention since the mid-1980s, Amoráh embodies the inviteCHANGE transformative model of Intention + Attention = Manifestation (IAM). Her primary role is to ensure that our initiatives, strategic plans, choices and actions are sourced from clear intentions that are aligned with our company values and guiding principles.  A highly qualified professional coach, Amoráh was one of the first in the world to earn an ICF credential in 1999.  She supported the launch of the Academy for Coach Training in 1997 and was one of its first graduates, subsequently serving as a senior faculty member.

Passionate about high standards of training and excellence for coaches, and an ardent believer in the power of the coaching paradigm as a catalyst for human wholeness, Amoráh is actively involved in the growth and development of the profession. She is the representative member from inviteCHANGE to the Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO), serving on its Board from 2008 to February 2010. As Vice-Chair of the Credentialing and Accreditation Committee, Amoráh and her committee colleagues are charged with identifying the next evolutionary steps of the profession together with ICF’s Global Board, its worldwide membership and other stakeholders. She is excited and inspired by the possibilities emerging for this incredible profession.

Known for her unique gift for vibrant language, Amoráh enlivens the classroom with warmth, keen insights and wry wit.  She models excellence in technical competence and thoroughly enjoys seeding that competence in all of our participants in every program we offer. She is also a public speaker, contributing author to Roadmap to Success (2008), senior faculty member, curriculum designer, mentor coach, and oral examiner as well as a life and business coach.  Amoráh lives in Woodinville, WA with her husband and their two beloved longhaired miniature dachshunds. Together they enjoy travel, bicycling and being in nature.

Karen Steckler, Partner & CMO

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), ICF Associate Certified Coach, inviteCHANGE Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator, CTI Certified Co-Active Coach and President-Elect ICF Puget Sound Coaches Association
Contact: Karen.Steckler@invitechange.com or call 877-228-2622 Ext 108

Karen brings to inviteCHANGE and its clients her creativity and strategic marketing expertise, along with her strong entrepreneurial spirit.  She now serves as the Chief Marketing Officer enjoyably leading the company’s marketing and business development efforts. Prior to becoming a professional credentialed coach in 2006, Karen worked in the high-tech industry for twenty-five years. Her last corporate position was at the Microsoft Corporation where she spent 11 years working in the Services and Enterprise division as a Senior Director leading global initiatives and campaigns.

As the inviteCHANGE CMO, Karen is actively involved in building community and connection for inviteCHANGE through strategic alliances and targeted marketing campaigns.  She is active in the coaching community, presently serving on the Board of Directors for the ICF, Puget Sound Coaches Association (PSCA) and is the President-Elect for the association. 

Karen’s studies include Business Administration, Industrial Psychology, and professional management. She is an ICF Credentialed Coach and received her coach training, certification and leadership training from Coaches Training Institute (CTI).  She is also a licensed facilitator of our signature Living Your Vision® program. Karen is a professional business and leadership coach focusing her skills and expertise working with women business owners on ways to improve individual and team performance, productivity, strategy and leadership.

Karen resides in Bellevue, WA with her husband Dave. She is a life-long learner in personal and professional development. She loves spin classes, strength training, hiking, yoga, cooking, her family, long walks with her dog Marli and motorcycle trips.