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ABOUT US
Way To Go! inc. is an award-winning, woman-owned, coaching firm with a national network of Associates. As a boutique coaching firm, we tailor our services to fit your unique challenges, culture, and goals. Our offerings span leadership and coaching workshops, individual and team coaching, team building, and resilience programs.
Grounded in organizational learning and systems thinking, our experiential approach blends theory with real-world application, ensuring lasting impact. We focus on shifting mindsets, empowering individuals and teams to drive meaningful change.
At Way To Go!, we believe that transformation begins with self-discovery and personal responsibility. Our work enhances essential competencies like emotional intelligence, communication, and leadership—helping you cultivate positivity, accountability, and results that matter.
Cynthia Way
Master Certified Coach (MCC)
CEO & Owner
While Cynthia has been coaching since 1991, she has been the CEO and Owner of Way To Go! inc. since 2001. She works with individuals and teams to develop mastery in leadership competencies, to create meaningful results, think strategically and systemically, lead change, deal constructively with conflict, master the art of communication and achieve breakthrough results, aligning with passion and purpose. Cynthia brings a unique history: a successful 13 year career with the Central Intelligence Agency on the executive track, co-led a private sector merger and acquisition culture integration effort with AT&T, and worked with the FBI and police departments as a biometrics consultant. Her clients span the private and public sectors. She has served on the Board for the Society for Organizational Learning, the Big Big World Project--a nonprofit she co-founded serving Vietnamese orphans, and Circulos.
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Karissa Mae Ramos
Executive Assistant
Karissa Mae Ramos is a committed Executive Assistant. Throughout her career, she has taken on various roles, assisting in operations, marketing, business development administrative tasks and accounting. Karissa is passionate about her work and continuously seeks opportunities to learn and grow.
Karissa is a proud graduate of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, where she earned a spot on the President's Lister. She cherishes her role as a wife and mother, having been married since 2019, and is blessed with a wonderful daughter. In her free time, Karissa enjoys cooking, exploring beaches, and creating special moments with her family.
ASSOCIATES
Pascale Brady, PCC
Pascale Brady is a Professional Certified life and business Coach, a consultant and a trainer/speaker with 30 years of professional experience, both in the corporate world and as an entrepreneur. She is French, German and American and works fluently in all three languages. As a Business Coach and Consultant, she guides executives and managers individually or as part of groups or teams to successfully master their challenges and effectively resolve problems. As a Life Coach, Pascale empowers individuals, couples, and groups to overcome challenges in life or at work, specializing in those related to transitions and relationships. As a Mentor Coach, Pascale supports coaches in training toward attainment of their (next) coaching credential. Finally, Pascale is an intercultural trainer and a speaker on a variety of topics.
Nicole S. Bryan, ACC
Nicole S. Bryan is an ICF-certified executive coach and leadership development expert with over 20 years of experience in education, strategic planning, and professional development. She specializes in empowering leaders—ranging from C-suite executives to school administrators—to navigate challenges, foster growth mindsets, and build high-impact systems that drive sustainable success. With a proven track record that includes launching National Blue-Ribbon schools and achieving double-digit growth in student outcomes, Nicole designs scalable leadership pipelines and professional development frameworks replicated across organizations. Fluent in Spanish and informed by global experience, she holds a Master’s in Education from The George Washington University and is committed to inspiring transformative leadership and organizational excellence.
Meade Dickerson, MCC
Meade's “no-nonsense” coaching approach gets to the core of the issue with his clients and helps them be the leaders they want to be. Meade’s mission is to serve individuals and organizations committed to creating positive and sustainable change. This includes clarifying goals, strengthening leadership capacity and transforming the status quo from the “expected” into something truly dynamic. This mission is based on his belief that the combination of deepened insight and intentional choice creates powerful change. As your coach, Meade will help you discover your unique leadership strengths and passions to help you achieve the goals that you design for your career and your life. He will support you in discovering and implementing the actions necessary to make your leadership skills stronger and create higher levels of success and achievement in your life. He is a compassionate, intuitive listener who sees the power, brilliance, and magnificence already in your possession. He currently lives in Miami Beach and enjoys traveling, spending time with his family and friends, and spending as much time on the beach as he can!
Robin Goodbary, MCC
Robin Goodbary, MBA, is a Master Certified Coach focused on Business and Leadership and a Certified Retirement Coach. Her steadfast and transformational coaching approach supports leaders and business owners to discover and unleash their untapped potential and expand their impact. She pulls from over 30 years of experience as a marketer, new product developer, project leader and trainer and has led projects, people and teams to excel. By employing an Outward and Growth Mindset and Positive Intelligence, she helps her clients to expand their way of thinking and discover creative solutions to complex situations.
Robin started her private practice as a single mother and while working full time, she managed to negotiate life and home while building a business.
When she is not supporting clients, she spends time vegetable gardening, fishing, volunteering and cooking. She holds a patent with the US Patent and Trade Office.
Dr. Thomas (Tom) William Hanson
Dr. Tom Hanson is a renowned performance coach, author, speaker, and strategic advisor specializing in mental performance and leadership. With a passion for unlocking potential and a proven track record across professional sports and business, Dr. Tom empowers athletes, coaches, and executives to perform at their best by mastering the mental game. He is co-author of the bestselling Heads-Up Baseball and Who Will Do What by When?, and founder of Play Big Academy, a certification program that develops elite mental performance coaches. Known for blending sport psychology, practical tools, and transformational coaching, Dr. Tom helps individuals and teams play big — with clarity, confidence, and purpose. His former clients include the New York Yankees, Microsoft, Verizon, and the Texas Rangers. He holds a Ph.D. in sport psychology from the University of Virginia.
Nkanta (Nick) Hines, Sr.
Nkanta (aka Nick) is a seasoned leadership development and strategy consultant, executive coach, keynote speaker and engagement facilitator with 25+ years of professional experience as a c-suite executive, operations, and strategy leader. Nkanta believes that diversity of thought is the initiator of innovation.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Biology, Master’s in Biomedical Science, Master’s in Business Administration, and five certifications, including: Executive Leadership and High-Performance Leadership (all from Cornell University), Lean Six Sigma (White and Green Belt), and is trained through Brain Based Coaching within the NeuroLeadership Institute.
Nkanta is President & CEO of Capital Strategy Group and Managing Director for the Human Capital and Business Advisory practices within the Fahrenheit Advisors firm, both based in Richmond, Virginia.
Valerie Lingeman, MCC
Valerie Lingeman, M.A., and Master Certified Coach, thrives on helping leaders navigate the complexity of organizational life. Over the course of her 25-year career in the national security sector, Valerie managed people and programs and led change at division and enterprise levels. In her private coaching and organization development consulting practice, she has coached hundreds of leaders and teams at all levels, helping them achieve a multitude of individual and organizational goals. Valerie especially enjoys the challenge of coaching leadership teams because they are the single most critical link for achieving organizational success.
Veronica Matthews
Veronica Matthews is the founder of the award-winning boutique firm VLM Coaching & Consulting Services, LLC. VLM Coaching was selected as one of the top Leadership Development firms in 2022 by Manage HR Magazine. A graduate of Accomplishment Coaching, an ICF-certified training, Ms. Matthews transforms a leader’s ability to use various leadership styles along with emotional intelligence, and empathy to effectively engage, motivate and retain their employees. She has coaching experience at the mid, senior, and executive levels, coaching hundreds of leaders, including CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Directors in the private sector.
Shelley Pernot, PCC
Passionate about the topic of mindfulness, Shelley Pernot is particularly adept at helping leaders tap into the unconscious and often reactive patterns holding them back so they can show up powerfully and purpose-driven. Her recent clients have included corporations and educational institutions such as Shell, Dell, Baker Hughes, and The University of Texas Center for Professional Education. Prior to coaching, Shelley held several leadership roles in Finance and Risk Management at fortune 500 firms and spent half of her 25-year career working abroad in the UK, Middle East, and Africa.
Shelley holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s in Business Administration from Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands. In addition to holding a PCC credential through the ICF, she is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a licensed hatha yoga instructor. Shelley is also the award-winning author of Running on Empty: The Irreverent Guru’s Guide to Filling up with mindfulness and lives and works on beautiful Lake Austin in Texas.
Selena Reames, PCC
Selena Reames is a somatic practitioner, occupational therapist, and an ICF professionally certified level coach and trainer with an emphasis on building containers of psychological safety to enable transformational culture building. In addition to her private practice, she has helped pioneer health & wellness initiatives with organizations such as Walter Reed National Naval Medical Center, Towson University's Institute for Well-Being, and Medstar Health Center for Integrative Medicine. She has trained extensively in human potential and development, meditation, bodywork, trauma and somatic healing modalities. Her work is informed by a blend of Western medicine and science models as well as studies of restorative and healing practices from Indigenous cultures.
Selena, a life-long learner, continues to build on her existing knowledge-base through the study of Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Mate.
Michele Roden, MCC
Michele Roden, a Master Certified Coach, coaches individual executives, leaders and teams. Clients say she creates safe space for challenging conversations- particularly with teams who have to work together well. Michele’s advanced certification in Organization & Relationship Systems is enhanced by other certifications in the Leadership Circle 360 Profile, Team Culture Survey and Team Diagnostic Assessments. Healthcare transformation is a true passion, though her clients come from many industries- public, private and non-profit. As a dynamic trainer and instructional designer, she emphasizes experiential learning with real-life application.
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Jaesic Wade
Jaesic [they/it] is a dancer, musician, life coach, peer support specialist, and a powerful advocate for personal and systemic change. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the ICF-accredited Academy for Coaching Excellence. Their work is fundamentally shaped by their lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent, and disabled human, but also by the levity and humanity by which they keep tough topics accessible. Sessions with Jaesic are guided by the “three C’s” of curiosity, courage, and compassion, where you are supported to connect with your inner voice of wisdom and find your own pathways forward.
Birgit Zacher Hanson, MCC
Birgit Zacher Hanson, MS, is a distinguished author, speaker, thought leader, strategic advisor and Master Certified Coach. Her purpose and passion center around helping executive leaders in all industries elevate their thinking and create a culture of safety, reliability and growth. As co-author of Amazon bestselling Who Will Do What by When?, a business fable (available in German, English and Spanish) about how to improve performance, accountability and trust with integrity, Birgit is considered an expert in creating a coaching and commitment culture in which people value lead change, develop other leaders and hold themselves and others accountable for results. Birgit hold a MS degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins University (1998) and BS in Psychology from the University of District of Columbia (1994).
PHILOSOPHY & APPROACH
Way To Go! inc. delivers solutions, not just training courses.
A systems approach. All our work is grounded in the five disciplines of organizational learning: Systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, team learning and building shared vision. Way To Go! inc. is committed to creating a sustainable learning culture within our company and with our clients.
Experiential, grounded in theory. We blend the two together to produce results that make a lasting difference. All our work is highly experiential but grounded in theory and research, including the latest in neuroscience, positive psychology, social action research and emotional intelligence.
Working with real challenges to make a real difference. Our programs are designed with real work as the centerpiece. We take theory and make it relevant, accessible and practical. The results speak for themselves: nearly 100% of polled clients report that they use what they learned on a weekly if not daily basis.
Changing the way you think. Einstein said “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Unless you change the way you, your team, your organization, think, all the tools and training in the world will only have a small impact. Our strategy at Way To Go! inc is to first focus on the shift in thinking, then on the practical tools, methods and models to create the winning formula for breakthrough results.
Self-Discovery. We take a coach-like approach to the educational process, grounded in Adult Learning principles.
Competencies: Our offerings have common underpinnings, designed to enhance, strengthen and reinforce the following competencies:
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Self-Awareness
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Self-Control
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Self-Discipline
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Personal Responsibility
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Accountability for Results
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Listening
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Communication
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Emotional Intelligence
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Dealing with Conflict
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A Systems Approach
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Results-Driven
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Learning-Oriented
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Bring Out the Best in Others
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Cultivating Positivity
