ABOUT US
Way To Go! Inc. is an award-winning, woman-owned, LGBTQIA+ friendly coaching firm with Associates from coast to coast. Diversity, equity and inclusion are key values of ours—to include but not limited to:
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Ethnicity, race, culture
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Sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression
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Age
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Differences in ability
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Immigration status, nationality, national origin
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Education
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Socio-economic status
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Family structure
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Religious/non-religious beliefs
Cynthia Way
Master Certified Coach (MCC)
While Cynthia has been coaching since 1991, she has been the President 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.
The Facts
EXPERIENCE
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25 years experience as a coach, trainer and facilitator
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Master Certified Coach, the highest level of credentialing one can achieve
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Coached hundreds of mid-level leaders and senior executives
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Works in the public, private and nonprofit sectors
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5,750 coaching hours, 2,500 of them are with Federal leaders
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Worked in over two dozen Federal agencies, international banking, the aerospace industry. and various nonprofits and private companies
EDUCATION & TRAINING
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MS in Learning and Development from Revans University, England
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Post-Graduate Certification in Social Therapy from East Side Institute in NYC
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Bachelor's Degree from George Mason University
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Certified in Social Action Research by Willamette University
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Certified as an Emergent Learning Practitioner by Fourth Quadrant Partners
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Certified as a Brain-Based Facilitator and Results Systems Coaching by the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI)
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Certified in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership by NLI
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Certified in Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Emotional Intelligence (Bar-On EQi and EQ-360) The Learning Circle Profile and various 360 Instruments
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Undertakes significant advanced training on an annual basis. Past trainings include: appreciative inquiry, neuroscience of leadership, emotional intelligence, somatic coaching, team coaching, systems thinking, theoretical foundations of coaching, polarity management, action learning.
ASSOCIATES
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Pascale Brady, PCC
Associate
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.
Marvin Chambers, PCC
Associate
Marvin Chambers is an executive coach, leadership development consultant, keynote speaker, and team facilitator with 25+ years of executive level experience working with leaders and talent at all levels in world-class organizations.
Marvin’s mission is to inspire leaders to discover their voice, fulfill their promise and unleash their truth to the world. Marvin helps leaders to embrace the notion that they do not have to fit into the world, they can let the world know who they are and allow the world to fit around them.
Marvin holds a B.B.A. from James Madison University with specialization in Finance and an M.B.A. from The George Washington University in Human Resources Management. He is an ICF Certified Professional Coach (PCC) and holds a coaching certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.
Meade Dickerson, MCC
Associate
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!
Margaret Echols, MCC
Associate
Margaret Echols, Master Certified Coach and Certified Somatic Coach, has been assisting individuals, groups and organizations in taking steps toward transformation for nearly twenty years. She helps leaders find effective solutions and take skillful action to address complex issues facing organizations today. Margaret was a senior manager within Executive Development at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she gained extensive experience as a strategy and organization development consultant working with major firms. Her work is described in Daniel Goleman’s book, Working With Emotional Intelligence. Margaret is a faculty member in the Leadership Coaching Program at Georgetown University.
Rebecca Gitter
Associate
Rebecca Gitter considers herself an educator sharing her professional, personal, and life experiences as a lawyer, mom, yoga teacher, doula, mindfulness practitioner, birth, and postpartum educator.
Rebecca holds a BA from Syracuse University in Policy Studies, and a JD from the Catholic University of America. She is a certified yoga instructor who holds certificates and specialized training in therapeutic yoga, yoga for babies, toddlers, and kids through age 18, as well as both pre and postnatal yoga.
Rebecca has traveled the country teaching yoga teacher training based on the curriculum she created for “Baby & Toddler Yoga,” “Yoga in Schools,” “Yoga for Children,” and “Yoga for Tweens and Teens.” She brings a sense of humor to her classes and focuses on meeting her students - of any age- exactly where they are. Sharing with her students always leaves her smiling and inspires her personal practice. When she isn’t teaching you might find her on a trail – hiking, biking, or being walked by her dog.
Robin Goodbary, MCC
Associate
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 and her husband spend time vegetable gardening, fishing, volunteering and cooking. She holds a patent with the US Patent and Trade Office.
Nkanta (Nick) Hines, Sr.
Associate
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, High-Performance Leadership, and Diversity-Inclusion (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.
Daphne Jefferson, PCC
Associate
Daphne Jefferson is an executive coach, author, speaker, facilitator, adjunct faculty, and consultant with over 25 years of experience as a senior executive with the Federal government. She is passionate about helping leaders to gracefully navigate the challenges of transitions. As a coach, she has worked with hundreds of leaders at every level of government, the private sector, nonprofit organizations, and academia. Daphne is the author of the book, Dropping the Mask, about the intersection of leadership and identity. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from American University and served as a Brookings Institution Legislative Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition, she earned a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and is a PCC certified coach through the International Coach Federation (ICF). Daphne enjoys cooking, reading, travel, and learning the art of metalsmithing.
Valerie Lingeman, MCC
Senior Associate
Valerie Lingeman, M.A., and Professional 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.
Shelley Pernot, PCC
Associate
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.
Illary Quinteros, MCC
Associate
Illary Quinteros, MA, Master Certified Coach, has over 18 years of experience working with executives and teams in the development of effective leadership, communicational competencies, team alignment, change and diversity management, and building coaching cultures. She has worked with companies and organizations in different lines of business; designing and facilitating programs to optimize the performance of executives, teams and organizations. Illary has great international exposure and wide experience in the business and organizational world. She is familiar with a great variety of cultural and linguistic environments, having lived in Peru, Mexico, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, USA andFrance. She is also an intercultural mentor and trainer and speaks fluent English, Spanish and French.
Lloyd Raines, MCC
Associate
Lloyd Raines is a seasoned executive coach (MCC, International Coach Federation) specializing in agile servant leadership. With over 30 years of experience as a university level faculty and entrepreneur, he has created a uniquely holistic methodology that taps the breadth and depth of leaders’ impact. He loves the riddles that each leader faces in their workplace and in their own world. Lloyd was Director and lead faculty of an undergraduate honors program at AU, a founding faculty member of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Program and Institute for Transformational Leadership. He was spiritually mentored for 18 years by his venerable chocolate lab.
Karissa Mae Ramos
Virtual Assistant
Karissa Mae Ramos is a highly reliable young professional with more than six years of experience in Marketing. Aside from marketing, she has also assisted in operations, administrative, and basic accounting tasks. She is very dedicated, passionate, and always willing to learn. Along with being a Marketing Manager, she also acted as the Executive Assistant to the President. She graduated from one of the most popular universities in the Philippines, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines with an academic award as President's Lister. She is happily married since 2019 and blessed with a 2-year-old daughter. Moreover, she loves cooking, visiting beaches, and hanging out with her family.
Deborah Reidy, PCC
Senior Associate
Since 1979, leadership has been Deborah Reidy's passion. At the age of 24, she was recruited to establish an agency serving people with severe disabilities and she’s been in numerous leadership roles ever since. Along the way, she became committed to developing other leaders through coaching, workshops, strategy design, and writing. She holds a MEd in Adult Education and a Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership.
Her workshops are designed to ensure learning that lasts. With a Professional Certified Coach designation, she’s coached hundreds of leaders in industry, government and nonprofits. Longstanding board chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), she’s played significant leadership roles in that organization. In 2012, she published a book on leadership entitled Why Not Lead?, and she regularly blogs on leadership topics.
She is a lifelong fitness enthusiast and has recently taken up the art of mobile photography.
Michele Roden, MCC
Associate
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.
Bethany Schwartz, CPCC
Associate
Bethany Schwartz, a life and leadership coach, employs incisive, thought-provoking processes and tools to create profoundly fulfilling lives and exceptional business outcomes with individuals and work groups.
Drawing on three decades of personal and organizational transformation experience, Bethany partners with clients to assess, reimagine and attain exceptional performance and ways of being. Leveraging very personal lessons gained during her mid-career transition from male to female, Bethany facilitates client transformation with deep appreciation of the sacrifices, courage and resourcefulness required for sustainable change.
Bethany credentials include a Masters of Organization Development, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, and Certified Professional Diversity Practitioner.
Alicia Turner
Associate
Alicia Turner, is an operations and leadership practitioner and consultant for non-profit, commercial, and government organizations. Additionally, as a consultant, she primarily focuses her engagements on developing leadership and team capacity in organizations through practical consulting projects that drive organizational process improvement. Alicia has over 20+ years of leadership and operations management experience, including a billion-dollar healthcare corporation as a Human Resources and Organizational Development executive and Chief Operations Officer. Her corporate, non-profit and government work experience enables her to effectively relate to front-line staff, supervisors, middle management, senior leadership, and executives. Alicia’s business experience, which has developed her leadership skills, decision-making, and analytical skills is coupled with a strong educational background and professional certifications that enable her to effectively and practically serve her clients.
Stephanie Winters
Associate
STEPHANIE WINTERS has a heart for guiding high level professionals from anxious and overwhelmed to calm and productive.
People worldwide have been enriched by Stephanie’s innovative and inspiring work as a celebrated cellist, public speaker, and award-winning coach. She creates coaching programs for organization teams and their leaders. Stephanie’s results-driven approach combines live cello music with brain science to reduce stress, increase productivity, and cultivate resilience.
Stephanie works with leading organizations, including Harvard University, L'Oréal, American Express, the World Bank, Duke Corporate Education, and the National Institutes of Health. Her private coaching practice guides high-level professionals to take their work performance and satisfaction to the next level.
Birgit Zacher Hanson, MCC
Associate
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 diversity, 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
