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Friends of TEDx SanJoseCa...

Over the past 9 months our friends have offered us their valuable expertise and help and we just wanted to give them some much deserved recogntion.

Thank you!

Teri Dahlbeck

smpl-teri.jpgTeri Dahlbeck is a communication and career executive coach supporting senior and C-level executives. Hundreds of clients have benefited from her comprehensive coaching enriched by her extensive operational career experience: CEO for the Apple Computer and IBM joint-venture, Component Integration Laboratories; Founder of successful software firm GotMarketing; Senior Vice President of Marketing, Business Development and Product Management for Vicinity Corporation (acquired by Microsoft.) She’s received awards including Top CEO from Silicon Valley Business Journal TV, Top Woman of the Millenium Award, and recognized in the Wall Street Journal, Red Herring, Mercury News, USA Today, ABC News and CNN. Her clients include Altera, Infineon, Network Appliance, SAP, Silicon Image, TiVO and Yahoo!.

www.simplifiedcoach.com

Jeannie Kahwajy

jlk.jpgDr. Kahwajy's research, teaching, and client engagements focus on specific ways leaders can transform their interactions to make those interactions--and themselves--more effective. This theoretical framework empowers managers in almost any situation, as almost any situation involves leading a team, department, or company while harnessing the talent, energy, creativity, and experience of others.

http://effectiveinteractions.com/

 

Dr. Michelle Kraus

Kraus_Michelle.JPGDr. Michelle Kraus is a veteran of the political blogging community writing on the economy, politics, social change, innovation and technology. She pioneered the earliest social network and platform for politics, and is often referred to as a “Ninja” working behind the scenes to build communities, craft messaging and reach out to activists with new and innovative technologies. Covering the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Dr. Michelle started the “quiet voices” series illuminating the monumental work of many of the participants across the globe who are quietly affecting change in health care and poverty alleviation. Invited to help with the grassroots outreach for the Dali Lama and the human rights community, she has covered the initiatives at www.humanitariandream.com. She is a noted political strategist, crisis manager and technology executive. Through her global consulting practice – Technology & Politics, she leverages new media and crisis management together with new technologies. Her work provides her with a rare and invaluable insight into the intersections of regulation, policy and technology. Dr. Kraus is an experienced Internet executive who has built large companies, created profitable divisions within large companies and founded start-up ventures. She holds a doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University, a MA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Rutgers University (Douglass College). Michelle was the curator of all things Allen Ginsberg, has published two books, and written for many news outlets and publications. She speaks nationally on politics, technology and innovation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-kraus/

Kaylyn Lehmann

smpl-kaylyn.jpgKaylyn Lehmann is a successful career development coach, trainer and facilitator. She is known for taking complex, powerful concepts and parlaying them into specific employable techniques. She links the executive’s top motivations to the daily application of newly acquired skills with measurable results. While VP of HR for a prominent hospitality chain in Boston, she was awarded the prestigious “Hot Concept” award from the National Restaurant Association. Her clients proclaim that she is the catalyst for “behavioral changes that last.” Kaylyn’s client list includes ADP, Applied Materials, AT&T, Bank of America, California State Legislature, Chevron, Federal Aviation Administration, and United Airlines. Her curriculum has been used in Starwood Hotels and Yahoo! and she was chosen to be the technical editor of the book “Customer Service for Dummies”.

www.simplifiedcoach.com


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