Alumni Career Coaches and Advisors

DANIEL ANDREWS 90C
Next Webinar: June 5 at 12 PM ET - Stop "Networking" and Start Building Relationships that Matter

Daniel Andrews is a native of Columbia, South Carolina where he currently resides after an absence of 13 years. He owns two businesses currently, one creating and convening a total of four business-growth communities. Two are local to him, and meet monthly, in person. The other two are national in scope, and meet digitally once a month. They are designed to support business where starting with a foundation of trust, via introduction, will make it much easier to do business. The other business involves supporting people with a road map and guiding them along the path from casual business-card exchange to profitable referral relationship. He helps people with both large and small offers through this program. Fundamentally, he shows businesspeople how to STOP “networking,” and START building true Networks. This is his fourth career; he’s been successfully self-employed for 35 years (49 if you start with the lemonade stand in first grade). 

NATHALIE WEISTER 07B
Next Webinar: June 26 at 12 PM ET - From Balance to Harmony: Redefining Success Paradigms

Nathalie Weister is a bilingual Human Resources professional and Leadership Development coach. She has a passion for supporting her clients connect to their innate creativity and purpose, maximizing their personal fulfillment and impact on their teams and organizations. Nathalie has focused her career on holistic people development strategies that enhance organizational culture and engagement. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and she is a certified Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR). In addition to her CPCC and ACC credentials, she completed a diploma in Ontological Coaching from the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. Nathalie currently resides in Miami, Florida and enjoys writing, traveling, and exploring the city’s vibrant culinary scene.

MARK MYETTE 97B
Next Webinar: July 9 at 12 PM ET - How to Transition from a Full-Time Job to Your Own Business

Mark is a Principal at ECC, Inc., Chief Curator of www.WhatAreYourGifts.com, an independent business owner, and a certified coach via Facet5, GALLUP-StrengthsFinder, TotalSDI and the Executive Coaching Diploma from Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business. He assists individuals and teams to identify, understand, and leverage their GIFTS / STRENGTHS and discover how they can maximize performance and personal contentment. In 2016, he wrote Wantrepreneuer: Do You Have What It Takes to be an Entrepreneur with the intent to educate a would-be entrepreneur about going down that road. Throughout his business career, where he spent 24+ years within Fortune 500 companies, he has always loved being an advisor, catalyst, coach, connector, influencer, pioneer, stimulator and teacher.

HALLIE CRAWFORD
Next Webinar: July 17 at 12 PM ET - Values and Goal Mapping

Hallie has been a certified career coach, speaker, author, and national career expert since 2002. Her company, Create Your Career Path, is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. She is regularly featured in the media (Forbes, CNN, Money magazine, WSJ) and has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Illinois. With over 2,000 success stories, her team of coaches and resume writers help professionals find jobs that make them want to jump out of bed in the morning and get to work.

APRIL SOJOURNER TRUTH WALKER PICARO 11C
Next Webinar: July 25 at 12 PM ET - What's Your Story? Crafting a Purpose-Centered Resume

April Sojourner Truth Walker Picaro is a Texas native. Prior to starting her writing coaching company – A Little More Truth, LLC –, she worked at AT&T for seven years as an Area Manager and Senior Project Manager. April is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Oklahoma City Community College where she’s taught a myriad of classes in the Humanities since 2016. In addition to receiving her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University, April is also a certified Project Management Professional, PMP. She derives the greatest joy from exposing people to the power of storytelling and igniting the imagination.

MAUREEN SWEATMAN 01T 11B
Next Webinar: August 14 at 12 PM ET - Love Your Career by Working with Your Values

Maureen is the Chief Joy Officer and Founder of Joyful Living Coaching. Maureen is an ICF certified leadership and personal development coach with 20 years of experience specializing in partnering with clients to live and work with more purpose and joy. She helps clients to clarify their limiting beliefs and make the necessary mindset shifts to achieve their goals and make real their vision of who they want to become. And she teaches everyone the transformational power of how to choose joy every day because when clients grow their choice muscles, they learn to choose to operate from an empowered place of strength, confidence, and joy at home and in the workplace. 

SAMANTHA CARROLL 01C - COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR
Next Webinar: September 18 at 12 PM ET - Stay Tuned for More Details

Samantha Carroll is a trusted Communications Advisor, leading Once Upon A Brand as the CEO and Principal Consultant.  Samantha excels at driving high-profile communications projects, ideating strategies, and defining messaging development for mature and growth-stage clients in healthcare, health and social advocacy, education, and technology sectors. When organizations need to increase brand awareness and understanding and position themselves as industry leaders, Samantha defines the path to a deeper connection with audiences. Her work has benefited organizations around the world, such as Walden University, Mary’s Center nonprofit hospital, IPS Learning (now part of Korn Ferry), Maryland Fleet Week (in partnership with the Maryland Office of Tourism), Prevent Child Abuse America, Mylan Enterprises, the mindfulness program at The George Washington University Center for Integrative Medicine, and many others. 

Samantha has been a Featured Expert on the Catalant blog, a Series Writer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s MBA Journal, and was a Founding Case Author Finalist for The Hot Mommas Project at The George Washington University Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence. In 2023, she led Once Upon A Brand to win a Public Relations Society of America Pepperpot Award for excellence in Executive Communications. She has been an invited Speaker at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, where she also obtained her MBA and enjoys sharing the latest research and trends in the areas of brand strategy, communications, and stakeholder relations.

AGNES TRINH MACKINTOSH, MPH, CPC, 98PH
Next Webinar: September 25 at 12 PM ET - Stay Tuned for More Details

Agnes is the Founder of Career Rescripted LLC and is a certified professional coach with over 20 years of diverse experiences in coaching, mentoring, program design, and entrepreneurship. With more than a decade focusing on learning and development in technology, higher education, and healthcare, she has partnered with 600+ clients from emerging professionals to encore careerists.  She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPH from Emory University, and has successfully switched sectors and navigated challenges returning to the workforce. Through her coaching, she empowers with a blend of heart, mind, and fun at pivotal career and life stages. Agnes is a super connector of people, ideas, and resources -- she encourages you to visit her site for a list of curated work and life resources, www.careerrescripted.com. Please also find her on LinkedIn to connect!

An enthusiastic advocate for mentorship and a career champion for first-generation students, Agnes is a former long-time mentor for Emory’s 1915 Scholars Program and co-launched the Public Health+ Speaker Series at Rollins. She also developed a Career Changers module for Agnes Scott College graduate programs and co-launched a Career Center for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She loves reading and talking about the Future of Work, generativity, longevity, leadership, and learning. Beyond her work identity, she calls Decatur, GA home with her husband and tries hard not to overdo career coaching her own two young adults.

URVI BHANDARI 99B 06B

Urvi is an executive coach and founder of both Radical Roamer Enterprises, LLC and Peppercorn.ai. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations navigate cultural paradigm shifts by focusing on the human element. With a deep sense of empathy and an innovative mindset, Urvi helps people develop self-awareness to articulate What’s Next! Her nomadic lifestyle has provided her with a unique perspective that helps her connect with individuals from different backgrounds and support them in finding fulfilling professional roles that align with their values and aspirations. Urvi is revolutionizing the way we approach finding fulfilling professional roles by prioritizing the candidate and focusing on diverse cognitive matches. Outside of work, Urvi is an endurance athlete who loves hiking in Silicon Valley with her French Life partner. Urvi’s innovative mindset and people-first approach make her the ideal coach for anyone who wants to transform their life and career.

JODIE CHARLOP 82Ox 85C

Founder of Potential Matters and coaching partner to EAA since 2004, Jodie specializes in working with 10+ year professionals who want greater control over their career future. Jodie’s home base is Atlanta, but you can find her coaching via phone or Zoom with clients across the globe from Atlanta to Wall Street to London to Hong Kong. While her rich business and coaching experiences enable her to coach individuals, leaders and teams in diverse settings from high growth to the Fortune 50, Jodie has a special affinity for helping professionals build careers that matter and navigate the natural and often turbulent twists and turns that occur in our professional lives.

SANOOP LUKE 04C

Sanoop partners 1:1 with individuals, founders, and managers to create a bespoke action plan. He has worked with dozens of individuals, in the US and abroad, from companies including Google, Apple, the BBC, and VC-backed startups. He brings real-world business, management, and investment experience to his clients. He previously worked at YouTube/Google and was Director of Content Strategy at Cartoon Network/Turner. Based in the UK, Sanoop has been recognized as one of the Top 21 Coaches in London. Sanoop received his certificate in Executive Coaching from Cambridge University.

STEVE MANN 82C

Steve is a relentless business professional, 4-time CMO, coach, venture advisor, mentor, and optimist dedicated to helping you grow while living your best life.  He has spent his 20+ year career building high-performance teams and growing individuals. His expertise is in coachsulting – working as a coach to help individuals develop powerful and sustained change, and enabling businesses to improve their culture, develop successful business strategies and accelerate market and financial performance. He is a certified health, life and leadership coach, received his BA in psychology from Emory, and pursued his PhD in neuroscience from the City University of New York.

Steve has received significant recognition from his peers:
Top 100 CMO on Twitter
Bright Bulb B2B brand communicator of the year
FierceCMO Top 15 B2B CMO
ICON Top Marketing award
Peer 100 Marketing professional

And his clients come from world-renowned organizations such as:
Amazon, AWS, Salesforce, LexisNexis, Planned Parenthood, SAP, John Muir Health, Brooks Automation, ButcherBox, JDRF and more.

Annette Blum Pearson 01C

As a Co-Active Training Institute certified coach, Annette Blum Pearson brings her lived experiences, intuition, industry expertise, and coaching tools to the work she does with individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. She partners with everyone from entrepreneurs to seasoned corporate leaders as they focus on values driven career development, burnout reduction and personal fulfillment. Annette has worked in product management, sales enablement, solution and brand marketing for over 10 years in both big tech and startups. She's driven large-scale marketing & community initiatives with creative passion and a growth mindset, allowing her to cultivate thriving teams and organizational success. Her passion for community led her to also create Shalon, an organization built to drive vital conversations that connect and educate participants. As part of her 1:1 and Beyond Burnout team focused coaching practice, Shalon style conversations allow individuals and groups to uplevel and inspire their gatherings.

SARAH SAVELLA 05C

Sarah has built her career helping some of the world's leading companies connect people with their organizations to drive business strategy and results. Working as a consultant and coach, as well as in leadership roles internally, she brings change management, talent strategy, and organizational development (OD) expertise and solutions to organizations across industries. Sarah truly understands the complexities of leading in today’s organizations, and as a certified Executive Coach, combines her passion for developing leaders with her experience navigating corporate change. At an individual level, she coaches executives and senior leaders for development of critical skills as well as transitions into new roles. Sarah has a diverse background having worked at two prominent leadership and organizational change consulting firms, as well as at the leadership level running HR specialty functions in mid-size and large organizations. Sarah’s expertise focuses on designing and implementing talent, engagement, and learning programs, and working with executives on leadership alignment and culture.

MARCY VICTOR, LCSW, MPH 01PH

Marcy Victor is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified EMDR Therapist, and board-certified life and career coach who received her Life Purpose Coaching Certification from the Life Purpose Institute, which is accredited by the International Coach Federation. She has a master’s degree in clinical social work (MSW) from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Emory University in 2001. She is certified in EMDR and hypnotherapy (CHT) to further help clients with deeper healing, and their health and well-being. She is currently in private practice as a therapist and coach and licensed in four states: Georgia, Utah, New Mexico, and Oregon. She also accepts most major insurances. She formerly worked for over 20 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a variety of leadership positions with a focus in communication and health education. Described by others as a genuine, non-judgmental person, she provides encouragement, compassionate wisdom, creative ideas and resources, motivation, accountability, and ongoing support.

Marcy conducts virtual appointments.