Meet the RLD GROUP Leadership Team
Lisa Duerre | CEO, Co-Founder
Lisa Duerre built her expertise in leadership development during her 20+ years as a leader in technology talent development and customer success at Synopsys and Applied Materials.
In 2017 she co-founded RLD Group, a boutique coaching and consulting firm helping tech organizations turn their people leaders into their biggest asset.
As an Executive Coach, Speaker, Facilitator, Leadership Advisor, and Podcast Host she helps leaders in tech build high-performing teams, avoid burnout, and be present for the moments that matter.
Lisa has been featured multiple times in The Mercury News, Authority Magazine, Romper, and Medium. Lisa lives in Oregon with her husband Randy, daughter Emily, and their Cavapoo Yogi.
Randy Duerre | COO, Co-Founder
Business ownership is not new to Randy. As the General Foreman of Applied Anodize, he helped establish, grow, and sell this family business at a 65% profit margin.
In 2017 he co-founded RLD Group bringing his business acumen and knowing that leadership development is a critical component to any successful business.
Randy’s extensive success in the areas of client success, software integration, manufacturing, engineering, and team leadership are assets tor the RLD client experience.
Danielle Montgomery | Chief of Staff
Danielle's extensive career as a trusted Executive Assistant combined with her passions for leadership, organization, collaboration, process improvement & efficiency gives her the unique skill set to help RLD Group's team and clients reach their goals.
Ginger Derrickson | Systems Administrator
Ginger makes sure that our proprietary and confidential coaching portal is easy to use, up to date, and provides maximum value for each client engagement.
Meet the RLD Group Collective Members
Kate Broeking
Neurodiversity Consultant and Disability Expert
Experience Includes:
- Over 10 years of experience building high-impact disability inclusion and mental health initiatives to help Fortune 100 companies attract, retain, and develop neurodiverse talent.
- Pioneered innovative disability inclusion programs.
- Leverages her experience in social work and corporate HR and DEIA strategy.
- Workplace accommodations and support for employees who think and learn differently
Elisabeth Cardiello
Communications Expert
Experience Includes:
- Communications and culture transformation expert
- Creator of the B.R.A.V.E. Framework®: a system, rooted in the science of psychological safety, to create the kind of culture where nothing stands in the way of people doing their best work.
- Brain science, positive psychology and building community expert.
- Inspiring and engaging audiences as a sought out keynote speaker and two time TEDx speaker.
- Master facilitator creating deeper listening, safer spaces and hence, greater access to our own creativity, productivity, connection and fulfillment.
Gabriella (Gabes) Coplan
Strategic Advisor
Experience Includes:
- 20+ years of global tech leadership experience managing high performing cross functional teams & businesses
- Sales, Marketing, Talent Development and Customer Enablement Expert
- Executive Coach and Consultant
- Organizational Design and Process Improvement Advisor
- Burnout Prevention Sensation-based Motivation and Mindset Coach
Alicia Couri
Kolbe Certified Coach
Experience Includes:
- 20 years leveraging the power of brain science and data to understand strengths, talents, and the best pathway to achieve your organizational goals.
- Right Fit Hiring and Leadership Pipeline Development
- Assimilation and Onboarding Leaders and Teams
- Team Synergy, Collaboration, and Effectiveness
- Ineffective Leader Transformation | Imposter Syndrome Eradicator
- High-Potential Leader Empowerment
Kathleen Fanning
Leadership & Wellbeing Coach
Experience Includes:
- 20+ years of experience in Education, Training & Coaching.
- Experience working with diverse groups in Europe and the US
- Helping female leaders to find their own voice, own their leadership styles and create balance in their lives through 1-1 and group coaching.
- Supporting teams and organizations with a range of training topics including resilience, communication, leadership and team building.
- Certified in use of Certified in the use of: Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, TA, NLP, Belbin Team Roles.
- ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Positive Intelligence® (PQ) Certified Coach
- Author of Fill Your Well: 30 Days of Resilience
Marcia Haber
Gallup-Certified Clifton Strengths Coach
Experience Includes:
- 25 years of expertise as an attorney, mediator, educator, and coach
- Conflict Dynamics Expertise
- CliftonStrengths Expertise
- Helping leaders play to their strengths to enhance effective communications, innovative problem-solving and a sense of fulfillment in the VUCA and BANI world.
- Coaching leaders and individuals to strengthening their own natural talents to bring out the best in themselves and others.
Cheri Honeycutt
Self-Leadership Coach & XCHANGE Facilitator
Experience Includes:
- 30 years experience as a trainer, speaker, coach and facilitator
- Organizational alignment expert
- Growth mindset for individuals and teams
- Learning community development and fostering inclusion and belonging
- Capturing institutional knowledge and collective wisdom of team and organizations.
- Strategic consulting to establish and embody purpose, vision and values across organizations.
Taryn Laakso
Positive Intelligence & Leadership Coach
Experience Includes:
- 20+ years of progressive experience in HR Technology guiding HR teams to find the right fit technology to solve business processes
- Mind, Body & Spirit alignment to create empowered leadership presence
- (CTI) Co-Active Coaching & Leadership framework
- Positive Intelligence™ Certified Coach
- Integration of Brene Brown's Dare To Lead Way leadership philosophy
- Dismantling the Hustle energy of leaders so Ease & Flow guides the way
- Curating leadership retreats to recharge and restore with communities of high vibe leaders
Natasha Lindor
Energy Leadership Expert
Experience Includes:
- More than 8 years of experience serving as an executive life and leadership coach, and 23 years of corporate experience.
- Helping leaders and employees navigate disruption as smoothly as possible.
- Energizing leaders to make quantum leaps in the areas they’re feeling overwhelmed while amplifying their unique strengths, talents, and gifts as they take their next right-sized action step.
- Master Practitioner of the Energy Leadership Index, and certified in the Core Energy CoachingTM methodology.
Cynthia Gene Maloney
Mental Fitness & Natural Health Coach
Experience Includes:
- 20+ years experience in small business sales & marketing, operations, development & coaching, consulting, leadership training and strategic planning.
- Passionate about integrative performance modalities
- Certificates in Mental Fitness Coaching, Energy Healing, and Aromatherapy.
- Burnout Prevention and Wellbeing Focused Approach
- Active and Intuitive Listener & Observer to identify root causes of organizational and personal roadblocks, stress & overwhelm, burnout, or overall well-being.
- Experienced in working with a wide range of cultures and age groups
- Award winning entrepreneur, event planner, coordinator & speaker for 100s of events
Karen Matsueda
Leadership & Professional Development Coach for the “Neglected Middle”
Experience Includes:
- 30+ years HR experience in global high-tech Silicon Valley firms.
- Partnering with people at all levels and functions: internal incubators, suddenly reabsorbed spin-offs, high-stakes pioneering teams and established functions.
- Coaching new and middle managers - the “neglected middle”- who form the backbone and future of an organization while navigating pressures from all sides.
- Applying research-based coaching methods that fit the person’s current needs as a human being and a businessperson, helping uncover the ecosystem they work and live in and the part they play in it, identifying and understanding the complexities, and determining the most powerful path forward.
- Transforming traditional HR practices into a vibrant, human-centric talent ecosystem.
- Creating systemic team infrastructure for high-stakes project teams.
- Building high-performing HR teams.
- Driving new org design, creation, and stabilization for evolving organizations.
Michelle Mendoza
Strategic HR Advisor & Executive Coach
Experience Includes:
- 25 years HR consulting and executive coaching
- Career planning & role progression
- Executive onboarding and coaching including 360 degree feedback and development plans
- Workforce planning, Talent & Development, Recruiting & Hiring
- Employee Relations, Terminations & Outplacement Support
- HR Compliance
- Bilingual (English and Spanish)
Amy Morin
Kolbe Certified Coach & EOS Implementer
Experience Includes:
- Over 20 years leading companies and teams.
- Co-founded her first business at the age of 21 and grew that company to $40M in revenue with multiple offices in multiple states.
- Purchased another company in need of a turnaround. After a successful turnaround, that included a 200% increase in revenue in the 1st 3 years, she successfully sold the company
- A passion for empowering people to lean into growth & change while creating a better life for themselves around them.
- Helps leaders harness human energy and point it in the right direction to help a business break through ceilings, grow, and thrive.
- Works with individual contributors and leadership teams to develop thriving ecosystems that drive profit and bring balance to organizations.
Susan Nelson
Human Resources Expert & Integrative Leadership Coach
Experience Includes:
- Silicon Valley HR Leader with 20+ years in Tech.
- Executive & leadership coaching.
- Work/Life integration & burnout prevention.
- Influence & Negotiation Skills Development.
- Team & group facilitation.
- Employee experience and engagement.
- Change management.
- Values/Culture alignment.
Rachelle Niemann
Self-Discovery & Well-being Expert
Experience Includes:
- 10+ years experience in cybersecurity and risk assessment.
- XChange facilitator
- Self-discovery and well-being advocate, coach, and guide.
- Dedicated to helping others create environments that allow for self-discovery, self-care, and self-love.
- Author of "Breaking Free From the Hustle for Worthiness".
- Creator of 40 Self-Care Practices card deck.
Svetlana Parilova
Leadership & Wellbeing Coach
Experience Includes:
- 20 years of experience as a rising executive in banking and finance as an immigrant woman.
- Helping female leaders and high performers to increase their impact and their wellbeing.
- Supporting team and organization executive leaders in building resilient, inclusive, winning teams operating in a high-pace, high-stress environment.
- iPEC Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
- Energy Leadership Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)
- Certified Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach
Linda A. Thompson
Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach
Experience Includes:
- 30 years progressive experience in operations, management, and leadership in health and human services, nonprofit and philanthropic industries.
- Integration and maintenance of Strengths-based approach in organizational culture.
- Development and management of high-performing teams.
- Manager-to-coach transitions and ongoing support.
- Individual orientation to Clifton Strengths profile.
- Team orientation to, and application of, Clifton Strengths team grids.
Sue Trace
Resilience & ADHD Leadership Expert
Experience Includes:
- ADHD Life Strategies & Leadership Skills.
- Burnout prevention, stress management.
- Personal & Professional Resilience & Well-being.
- Leadership Coaching to sustain high performance.
- Positive/collaborative workplace culture transformation.
- Mental fitness assessment and analysis.
- Growth mindset acceleration.
Neftalí (Nef) Vélez
HSP (Highly Sensitive People) Burnout Prevention & Leadership Expert
Experience Includes:
- Leverages his engineering, sales, and coaching background to help sensitive professionals get out of overwhelm to design their dream lives
- Double B.S. in Civil Engineering and Land Surveying
- Bilingual (English & Spanish)
- Certified ThetaHealer Practitioner
- Trained Crisis Counselor
- Graduate of The Coaches Institute (CTI)
Alenka Žnidaršič
People, Processes and Systems Consultant
Experience Includes:
- 20+ years of experience in project management, leadership, research and marketing in medium sized solution/service-oriented companies
- Helping break engineering culture stereotypes to see engineers as human, in front of technology.
- Helping tech organizations develop, advance, retain and attract high-performing talent that increases a business’ agility and competitive advantage.
- iPEC Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
- Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)
- Certified XCHANGE Guide
