Who We Are
Nice to meet you! The Coaching Commons team represents many visions and dreams coming together to construct a wide assortment of offerings for coaches.
This team imagined a thriving, vocal community where every coach is welcome to join in and express themselves, their triumphs and challenges, their information, questions and requests.
What is The Coaching Commons?
What do we conceive ‘The Coaching Commons’ to be? Before your input, refinements and requests, that is? The Coaching Commons is:
A non-partisan ‘big tent’ under which coaches can freely create the future together in a non-commercial setting on the world-wide-web.
Why Build it? It will provide:
future-oriented information and trends
advanced dialog
a social focus
Some of the [...]
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Introducing the Team
Ruth Ann Harnisch – Founder, Philanthropist, Visionary. To read more about Ruth Ann, click here.
David Goldsmith – Founder, Strategist, Executive Coach. For more about David, click here.
Andrea J. Lee – Founder, Architect, Author. For more about Andrea, click here.
Linda Ballew – Team Lead, Breaking News, The Coaching Commons; Director of Operations, The Foundation of Coaching. Read Linda’s full bio here.
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Ruth Ann Harnisch – The Philanthropist
Ruth Ann Harnisch is President of The Harnisch Family Foundation, which has given grants to hundreds of not-for-profit organizations since its founding in 1998. She is a proponent of creative philanthropy whose unusual charitable investments have landed her on Oprah and the Today show. Ruth Ann encourages people to discover the thrill of giving money, [...]
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David Goldsmith – The Strategist
David Goldsmith is the founder and Senior Partner of The Goldsmith Group, LLC.The Goldsmith Group provides a combination of coaching, mentoring, strategic consulting, management and legal expertise to companies built around the principal or founders intellectual property, ideas and vision.
Clients are authors (many New York Times bestsellers), seminar presenters, creators of institutes and organizations, product [...]
Andrea J. Lee – The Architect
Andrea J. Lee has ‘worked’ in the coaching field since 2001, though she’s hard pressed to call it work, it’s so rewarding. She specializes in helping business owners use the internet to make money and meaning, sustainably, and is delighted to play a role in the launch of The Coaching Commons for The Harnisch [...]
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Linda Ballew – Team Lead, Operations
Linda Ballew has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit world, including 14 years teaching at a private college preparatory school. After returning to college in 2000 to study Mass Communication, Psychology and Marketing, Linda returned to the nonprofit community, raising friends and funds, coordinating special events and securing corporate sponsorships for Centerstone, the ninth [...]
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Mark Joyella, Community Supported Journalist
Mark Joyella is an Emmy Award winning journalist, writer, and media coach. As a reporter and anchor at television stations in Miami and New York City, Mark’s covered stories across the country and around the world. In addition to Mark’s television work, he’s written magazine articles on media and politics, and reported for [...]
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Sandra De Freitas – Team Lead, Technology
Sandra De Freitas is a top tech coach, speaker, trainer and expert in internet technology. She is the founder of TechCoachForCoaches.com, a successful coaching, consulting and training firm and is delighted to be the Technology Team Lead on this exciting Harnisch Family Foundation project.Sandra’s tech skills are second only to her wicked sense of humor. [...]
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Elizabeth Crouch – Team Lead, The Coaching Commons
Elizabeth Crouch, RPT, PA-C, CPCC, is a life coach and community developer. Elizabeth has coached teens, young adults, physicians, emerging and established leaders in diverse professions and organizations since the late 90’s. While new to coaching, she worked with Thomas Leonard on the launch of his Attraction and Million Dollar Coach programs, assisting Thomas to [...]
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Vikki Brock – Team Lead, Virtual Museum of Coaching
Vikki Brock, MCC, is Team Lead of the one-of-a-kind Virtual Museum of Coaching here at The Coaching Commons. Based on interviews about the evolution of coaching with over 175 coaching ‘influencers’ she also contributes mightily to our Coaching Hall of Fame. Though some may consider ‘The History of Coaching’ a dry topic, Vikki believes ‘the [...]
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