SEE Strategies Leadership Team

Michelle Payne, MCC

Chief Operating Officer

Executive & Leadership Coach

Internationally recognized business advisor Michelle Payne turned to coaching after a decade of executive leadership in the retail industry. At Gap, Inc., Macy's, and Limited Inc., Michelle headed up teams as large as 1000+. Michelle knows how to get to the top. She's passionate about helping others understand their power and apply it to achieving their goals.

Michelle is a Master Certified Coach and in the top 1% of her profession in the world. She has coached executives across the U.S., in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Canada and Switzerland. Her strong leadership background enhances the value of every coaching engagement. She is a leader in not only the business world, but also the coaching industry. Some of her accomplishments:

• Faculty and Member of the Advisory Board for the Coach Certificate Program at the University of California, Davis.
• Participating coach in a program between the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
• Nominated and elected for the Board of the International Coach Federation, 2006-2009.
• Credential Assessor for the International Coach Federation's credentialing program.
• Selected core leadership coach for California State University, Sacramento’s Exemplary Leadership Program.
• Faculty at Coach U, the top accredited Coach Training Organization in the industry.
• Co-founded and is Chairman of the Board of A Hand UP Coaching, an international non-profit organization that arranges coaching partnerships for women in need (affiliated with Dress for Success Worldwide and sponsored by AT & T Wireless).
• Winner of the Outstanding Women Leader Award for 2003.
• Certified in Emotional Intelligence.
• Certified in Lominger 360 Voices.

Board memberships: International Coach Federation, A Hand UP Coaching

Michelle and her clients have been featured in The Wallstreet Journal, Smart Money Magazine, L.A. Times, Sacramento Bee, The Business Journal and Entrepreneur Magazine.

"Of all the consultants that we have hired over the years, I can state with full conviction that Michelle is absolutely the best of the best.  Beyond the obvious results that her coaching has provided to me, my team, and our overall leadership development– her impact has changed our company culture from “tired and resigned”, to “fully charged and excited” about our future.  There’s just not a dollar figure that can be placed on that feeling."

-Gordon Fowler, CEO, 3 Fold Communications

Laurie Cozart
Leadership Coach and Presentation Skills Expert

Laurie brings a unique talent mix of corporate communications and product marketing, public speaking development and business communications expertise to every assignment and every new client.  For more than a decade Laurie has applied the skills and expertise she has learned as a performing artist to work with executives, managers and leaders in major companies including East Bay Mud, Sutter Health, Ventura Health and Idaho National Laboratories.   Laurie has also developed and facilitated training programs for major corporations, large national conferences and on-line educational forums.

In addition to her business accomplishments, Laurie is also a working actor and brings that unique awareness to the business arena to help corporate professionals improve image, body language, speaking skills and overall presentation delivery by using on camera training techniques.  

Laurie helps her clients to find the courage to “Be Seen and Heard” in a way that creates instant rapport.  Her intensive, interactive communication skills development programs begins by helping you see yourself as others see you. Laurie helps clients build on their strengths and eliminate their weaknesses. Laurie’s clients develop the kind of winning presence and rapport building skills that successful leaders possess.  As a leader you are always in the spotlight!  Laurie believes the foundation of success in business and in life is the ability to authentically engage and connect with others.  

Laurie believes in "Preparation Meets Opportunity".

Laurie has done over 30 National TV and Web Commercials and has been featured host on ShopNBC. Laurie has been featured in Smart Money Magazine, More Magazine and on several radio talk shows. Laurie is a graduate of the University of Utah with a BA in Business Management, a graduate from Coach Training Alliance for Business and has served on the Board of Directors of A Hand-Up Coaching, is a Member of The International Coach Federation, National Retail Federation, and American Society of Training and Development.

Ginger Jenks, MCC

Leadership Coach
Ginger Jenks is an Executive Coach who specializes in the areas of leadership development, communication, team building and life design.  She works with organizations, teams and individuals, coaching them to be who they are capable of being – not just who they can get away with being.  Ginger has created several programs to facilitate this, including the Professional Human Being program. 

Ginger has served on the Board of Directors for the International Coach Federation (a global organization of 15,000 coaches from over 80 countries), the Advisory Board of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations, and presently serves  on the Finance Committee for the ICF.  She has also held various other leadership positions in organizations outside of coaching.

Originally from the Boston area, Ginger presently lives in the beautiful mountain town of Durango, Colorado.  She coaches several CEO’s, and clients have hailed from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups to agility competitors.  

Dr. Paolo Terni
Leadership Coach
Dr. Paolo Terni is a Professionally Certified Coach with the ICF (International Coach Federation) and the author of the book "Coaching Leader: from human potential to business results" (Guerini Editore, 2007, Milano, Italy). He has also written many papers on the impact of current psychological research on consulting and coaching practices - his writings have been published in the book Doing Something Different: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Practices (Edited by Thorana Nelson, 2010, Routledge, NY), in Inter-Action: the Journal of Solution-Focus in Organizations, and other Journals.  

Dr. Terni has trained extensively in the US (Coach U, NLP Master Practitioner @ University of California at Santa Cruz with Robert Dilts) and is bi-lingual (English and Italian). Dr. Terni is an expert in Solution-Focused Coaching (certified by Solutionsurfers, Basel, Switzerland) and in Evidence-Based practices related to Leadership development and Behavior Modification (such as stress management and conflict resolution).

Dr. Terni frequently leads Assessment Centers for developing managers' strengths and he is qualified to use a wide variety of assessment tools, all development-oriented (such as MRG's LEA). Dr. Terni has worked for Festo CTE, Right Management Consultants, Learningedge, Armonia and other consulting firms in Change Management, Organization Development and People Development programs; the following corporations have been among the clients: Sanpellegrino, HP, Microsoft, Trenitalia, ZF, Molmed, Crif, Bayer, Burgo.

Dr. Terni holds a degree in philosophy, with a Master's in Work Psychology. Dr. Terni is very active in the international Solution-Focused community (SOL). Passionate about developing tomorrow's industry leaders, he holds Solution-Focused Coach Training in the US. Based in Sacramento, California, Paolo Terni works in North America and Europe.