"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through an argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
Emmy Miller
President and Co-Founder
267-858-4021 office
215-901-2582 cell
With over 40 years’ experience in executive coaching, change and transition management, strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness, Emmy understands the issues senior executives face daily and is skilled in the solutions that create outcomes companies desire. Her work focuses on achieving tangible business results and creating lasting impact in her clients’ organizations. Known for her direct, constructive feedback and insight, she holds her clients accountable for making change. How? She has the peripheral vision to connect the dots which enables her clients to transform their insight into new behaviors. Emmy will tell you that, "Clients usually don’t need an entirely different toolbox but a bigger one." As such, she is always learning something new to share with her clients. She has served on the national board of Human Resources People and Strategy (HRPS) and the Forum of Executive Women.
Emmy and her parents moved to the United States when she was 18-months old. When she was eight years old, she became a naturalized American citizen having learned English as a second language. The first people she helped to actualize their potential were her three sons. These days, Emmy and her husband are enjoying their 10 grandchildren and their dog Poochie. Emmy has traveled extensively for business and pleasure to countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean but loves coming home to Philadelphia. Her perfect Sunday afternoon consists of a leisurely read of the New York Times and the Financial Times with a cappuccino in the library of her historic townhouse. Candidly, most days Emmy finds her way to a cappuccino; it is something she says she cannot live without.
Emmy is a Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation.
Gail Howard, Ed.D.
Managing Director and Senior Consultant
267-858-4021 office
302-290-6340 cell
Gail has served as a consultant, senior human resources executive, and coach. She incorporates the best practices of both "insider" experience with "outsider" objectivity to support her clients. She really enjoys change management projects because they are tough and critically important to a company’s success. Her clients call her personable, professional and patient. They expect her to get to the heart of an issue and clarify complex concepts without "dumbing it down."
She has served on more than a dozen nonprofit boards during her 25+ year career. When she is not working, she likes to stay active outdoors. If you are lucky enough to get an invitation to her home – accept immediately. She is an excellent cook, famous for her dinner parties. Two things Gail hates are to be bored and driving an automatic – every car she has ever owned has been manual transmission. When she reads for fun, it is usually science fiction, her favorite.
Consulting Cadre
Avi Eden
Director and Senior Consultant
Avi advises public and private companies on various aspects of conducting a "Business" including aiding in developing realistic corporate strategies that will enable future success whether through organic growth or acquisitions; planning and managing restructuring in all phases of the operations from purchasing to sales with a heavy emphasis on understanding costs; assisting in the execution of mergers & acquisitions from the initial identification of target businesses to the final integration (including financing, legal and restructuring); and mentoring and assisting in the development and implementation of change management and succession planning (with an emphasis on inter-generational transfers).
Laurent Besançon
Senior Consultant and Executive Coach
As a leadership coach, Laurent Besançon partners with leaders to address their leadership challenges and help them manage complexity in the workplace. He has held professional and leadership positions over the course of two decades at The World Bank Group, NERA Economic Consulting, France Telecom Group, and the UN International Telecommunication Union (UN system).
Laurent brings this wealth of practical insights into his coaching philosophy, blending on-the-job coaching with timely leadership development tools and practices that help address the challenges leaders and their teams face at the time they face them. Laurent partners with his clients in the areas of:
Christiane Frischmuth
Senior Consultant and Executive Coach
Christiane Frischmuth is a coach, facilitator, process consultant, trainer, and leadership development specialist with more than 25 years of experience. She co-creates and facilitates learning experiences and change processes for individuals, groups and organizations. Christiane has deep experience in developing global, results-based leadership programs, as well as supporting organizational decentralization processes, mergers, and various functional integrations. Some of Christiane’s recent areas of focus have included onboarding of new consultants and staff, development of virtual teaming practices, integrating learning and capacity building into business practices and government- and organization-wide rapid results processes. She has worked and lived in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and North America.
Anne Cobuzzi
Senior Consultant
Anne is an inspirational leadership coach who is passionate about leveraging her 30 years of global experience and training to help clients achieve success. She has lived, worked, and been educated in the US and Ireland, and has coached clients at all levels from managers to directors and senior c-suite executives across various disciplines such as education, medicine, non-profits, operations, pharmaceuticals, banking, government, ex-pats, Fortune 500 corporations and public relations. Anne also has expertise in cultural intelligence, helping clients understand the cultural values that drive their behavior and working to improve their ability to function effectively in various cultural contexts (national, ethnic, organizational, generational). Anne has worked with colleagues and clients in North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.
Anne's practice focuses on:"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom."