Elinvar Alliance Partners

Often the best investment you can make is in your existing team. With Elinvar, you have a partner who really understands your organization and goals. We use this knowledge, combined with the talents of our Alliance Partners, to provide the leadership development solution that is right for you and your team. This unique approach allows you to work with one organization offering continuity and a deep understanding of your situation, while tailoring specific projects to provide you the right expert at the right time—every time.

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JANICE BLACK, Ph.D.

Clients with revenues ranging from $5 million to over $1 billion find Janice a trusted partner, a valuable resource, uniquely engaging, and passionately committed to their organizational success. Her focus on financial outcomes drives her partnerships with clients.

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ORNA DRAWAS

Orna trains business professionals to drive towards real and measurable results on a daily basis. Her workshops are fast-paced, memorable and actionable - bringing new ideas to what success is all about. Orna’s approach is easy to embrace and apply immediately.

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ERIC LARSEN

As a senior executive and an authority on leadership, Eric Larsen has lived the principles that he brings forth in his executive coaching practice.  Prior to this, Eric spent 30 years at IBM, much of that time in management, leadership, and executive positions.

  • She quickly transforms organizational challenges into specific plans that produce solid business results drawing on her broad based consulting expertise, and her accounting, operations, IT, and manufacturing background.

    Janice’s real world business expertise, systems thinking orientation, and her ability to connect at all levels in the organization are invaluable in crafting realistic, effective and sustainable solutions. She has published several articles and presented at many national and regional conferences. Her certifications across numerous assessments provide an analytical foundation for strategic planning, high performing executive teams, change effectiveness, increasing leadership capacity, and for improving organizational performance.

    In addition to her expertise as a consultant, Janice has a wealth of professional experiences. She served as the Director of Organizational Development for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center; as an Assistant Professor in the College of Technology at Bowling Green State University; as a Manufacturing Project Manager and as a Manufacturing IT Systems Consultant for one of the largest apparel companies in the country; and as a Cost Accountant and Internal Auditor at two of the nation’s largest banks.

    Janice has earned a reputation for excellence from more than two decades of projects with "tight" time frames and those requiring the balancing of conflicting organizational interests. She was the recipient of the prestigious Cunningham Dissertation Fellowship at Virginia Tech where she received her Ph.D. She graduated summa cum laude from Appalachian State University in business and accounting.

    EDUCATION:

    Ph.D, Virginia Tech; Blacksburg Virginia

    M.A. & B.T.; Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

  • Orna has been helping professionals succeed for more than 25 years and has recently worked with such companies as Honda, NIH, US Census Bureau, United Technologies, AXA Equitable, Food & Drug Administration, Prudential, Novartis Pharmaceuticals and many others.

    Based on her experience with over 1,000 business professionals, Orna has taken lessons learned from many of the more results-oriented and successful organizations and adapted these concepts into her book: PERFORM LIKE A ROCK STAR And Still Have Time for Lunch. On Amazon’s list of Top 10 Books for Business Success in 2011, MBA programs and professional services firms around the country are also using “Perform Like a Rock Star” for career development.

    With an MBA from Northeastern University and BS from Boston University, Orna applies fundamental and business principles to professional success and personal development.

    Raleigh, North Carolina is home to Orna, her husband Randy Drawas and their two children, Carly and Jeremy.

    EDUCATION:

    BS, Communication, Boston University, Boston, MA

    MBA, Finance & Marketing, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

  • During that time at IBM, Eric was regularly called on to help build new organizations, correct problems in troubled organizations, and assist in driving many organizations to a higher level of performance. He was frequently called on to coach leaders and rising leaders at IBM. The groups he led at IBM regularly exceeded their goals while maintaining the highest levels of employee morale. Currently Eric is Chief Operating Officer of a renewable energy company and maintains an active executive coaching practice.

    Eric’s coaching approach is based on real life experience and is focused on results. His objective is to discover and employ his clients’ core abilities and values and utilize them in setting and achieving their organization’s goals. Central to his approach is the inherent value of the people in the organization. As a result, Eric’s clients achieve their goals while maintaining and growing a positive work climate for the people in the organization. This is the most durable business value that an organization can have. Eric’s style is customized to each client and is a blending of Co-Active Coaching, GROW Coaching, Mentoring, and Business Coaching. Eric’s first basis for his relationship with his clients is honesty and he is often put in the role of a “truth teller” to people who are hungry for straight talk. The second basis for the coaching relationship is mutual trust with his clients, and the third is Eric’s highest personal value: enabling positive change for others.

    Eric is the recipient of numerous industry and IBM awards, including IBM’s highest award as the top people manager in the Americas. He has an Industrial Engineering degree from NC State University and has completed executive coursework in the Harvard Business School and the Boston University executive education programs. He has also completed extensive coaching education with the Coaches’ Training Institute and successfully completed the rigorous program to receive his Coaching Certification from CTI and from the International Coaching Federation where he is a member.

    EDUCATION:

    BS, Industrial Engineering, NC State University

    Client Executive Certification Program, Harvard Business School

    Executive Summit Program, Boston University Business School

ROBIN WEINICK

Robin helps purpose-driven leaders and teams work meaningfully to deliver the outcomes that matter. With a balanced emphasis on people and business, Robin’s ability to listen closely, ask deep questions, and partner with her clients supports them in leading change, making tough decisions, and communicating clearly.

  • As an executive and team coach, facilitator, and consultant, Robin serves as a thought partner to support, challenge, and energize her clients. Her areas of focus include improving communications, creating a better workplace, and growing skills for you and your next generation stars.

    Robin helps design approaches to change that get the entire team on board with mission, strategy, and tactics, supporting you in crafting a clear story and approach. Her work with individuals and teams includes strategy and innovation; problem solving and decision making; organizational culture and change management; team, executive, and board retreats; and addressing team challenges.

    Robin delights in helping individuals and teams get “unstuck” from patterns of thought, behavior, and communication that keep them from moving to the next level. She thrives on creating relationships with her clients that lead to many “aha” moments and subsequent action.

    Robin brings nearly 30 years of experience, including in P&L and C-Suite roles. Her career has focused on government service and leadership in large nonprofit research institutions. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

PETER METZNER

Peter is a facilitator, trainer, coach and motivational speaker who, through workshops, seminars, coaching and consulting, helps leaders, teams and organizations better engage and align staff to business drivers and the organization’s mission.

  • Peter helps leaders develop the self awareness, self mastery and interpersonal skill that enable peak performance and high performing teams. Through experiential learning and a practical down to earth style, clients learn to implement behaviors that lead to greater individual and organizational effectiveness.

    Peter’s work includes intact team and leadership development programs, interpersonal skill building and the psychology of peak performance. Along with customized one-on-one coaching, Peter’s approach focuses on clients creating self reinforcing and sustainable positive movement leading towards personal and professional breakthroughs and greater organizational effectiveness.

    Peter has served as Vice President of Client Relations and Program Development for The Leadership Trust. Before joining the Trust, he was employed by the Center for Creative Leadership where he helped customize executive development and training programs for major businesses and corporations. He also teaches Psychology at Vance-Granville Community College, facilitates seminars on leadership and innovation at Peace College and Elon University. He has completed coaching training through the Institute of Life Coach Training - an affiliate of Therapist University where he is also an adjunct instructor.

    Peter is a past board member for the RTP American Society for Training and Development, is an active member the Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce and has served on the board for the Research Triangle Jung Society.

    EDUCATION:

    MPA - Public Administration - University of Georgia

    MA - Psychology – University of West Georgia

    BA - Psychology and German- Widener University - Chester PA

AMANDA MATHIS

Amanda is a leadership development expert and executive coach who capitalizes on her 20+ years of experience on two continents. She specializes in change leadership, talent retention and development, developing high performance teams, influence skills and motivational leadership.

  • A trusted ally and partner, Amanda accelerates the success of her clients in achieving their goals. Amanda was affiliated with the Center for Creative Leadership as adjunct faculty and executive coach where she served as a classroom trainer in the The Looking Glass Experience, the Coaching for Development program, and the Foundations of Leadership program. Independently, she has designed and delivered training for multiple organizations to develop their internal coaching capability.

    Amanda relishes working with diverse cultures and organizations, in part due to having lived and worked in Europe for three years. For example, she coaches executives in large, global pharmaceutical companies as well as designs training and coaches leaders in a start-up biotech firm. Her clients come from the financial, health, manufacturing, human services, education, government and military sectors.

    Warm and insightful, Amanda is a strong listener who also “tells it like it is” and challenges clients to take the next step. She rated among the top 5% of CCL coaches in client satisfaction.

    Amanda’s expertise stems from 15 years of front-line experience in the public and private sectors prior to her work as a leadership development specialist. She was a manager in both the health and education industries, an associate professor at Duke University Medical Center, and co-founder and managing partner of a consulting organization.

    Amanda earned a two year certificate in French from GLTT in Belgium.

    EDUCATION:

    MSW,UNC-CH

    BA, magna cum laude, Duke University

COLIN RUSTIN

Collin Rustin is an exceptional group facilitator and executive coach with over 30 years of experience as a human resources professional.  He brings a friendly and engaging style to his work with senior executives and emerging business, government and military leaders, who seek to improve their effectiveness in leading and managing others.

  • He has extensive experience with helping leaders and managers improve their awareness and effectiveness in handling controversial issues, conflict management and building cultures of inclusion, and understanding the value of dialogue.

    A certified mediator, Collin is skilled at helping people to hear each other more effectively and work toward a higher level of collaboration, not just compromise. He sincerely believes the answers to today’s challenges will surface as we present our authentic selves to one another.

    Collin is affiliated with The Center for Creative Leadership, as an On-Call faculty and is a master coach for executive level participants. He has served as Director of Counseling for Staff at UNC-Chapel Hill and Regional Director of the National Coalition Building Institute, Inc. NCBI is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the development of leaders who value diversity and inclusion, take principal stands and initiate intergroup cooperation.

    EDUCATION:

    MA, Public Administration; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    BA, Psychology; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

MADHU SHARMA

Madhu has a unique blend of global, technical, social scienecs and spritual background.  With her no-nonsense style and excellent communications skills, as an executive coach, she is able to drill down to her client’s opportunities and challenges in building successful teams or charting their own path to success.

  • Her globally diverse experiences also have made her credible and practical in offering cultural competency training for her clients.

    She has a successful track record in helping service providers ranging from the clergy to physicians, academicians and executives of non-profit organizations pursuing their aspirations in career advances, team development and inter-personal relationships.

    Madhu brings a unique blend of left and right brain thinking in her approach. Her education in Chemical Engineering and Masters in Social Work, coupled with extensive corporate experiences with two Fortune 500 corporations (John Deere & Company and Cummins, INC.) as well as an owner of small business managing a global trading company.

    With her passion for social responsibility, she has done volunteer work with many non-profit organizations from the ground level to being the chairperson of the Board. This work has given her insights for the challenges faced by those serving others. She brings this firsthand knowledge and empathy to coaching service providers.

    Her life experiences on 3 continents in 5 countries, community leadership activities, formal executive & personal coaching experiences, a balance of left and right brain skills have shaped her practice.

    EDUCATION:

    BS, Chemical Engineering, NC State University

    Masters in Social Work (MSW), University of Iowa

ELIZABETH WATKINS PRICE

Elizabeth is a consultant, lawyer, coach, and mindfulness teacher with a special interest in supporting leaders through transitions, particularly new leadership roles and the shift towards retirement. Her facilitation and workshops help teams recognize their talent and maximize their impact.

  • Elizabeth started EWP Consulting, where she coaches people through life and career transitions and teaches mindfulness meditation as a tool for personal transformation and professional development. After years as a public-school teacher, Elizabeth attended Carolina Law and then worked as a civil rights attorney in New York for years before shifting to higher education. In early 2022, she left UNC School of Government, where she worked as a judicial educator and taught mindfulness as a tool for decision-making to judicial officials, to focus full time on her consulting business.

    Elizabeth’s consulting work focuses on team building, professional development, and facilitation. In her individual transition coaching, Elizabeth helps clients reflect deeply and challenge assumptions as they navigate significant life changes including career transitions and retirement. Elizabeth is also both personally and professionally committed to her work as a mindfulness meditation teacher and frequently designs and offers online courses on a variety of related topics.

    EDUCATION:

    BA Religion and Ecology and Spanish, Sewanee, The University of the South

    MAT Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, American University

    JD University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

    Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification from Awareness Training Institute and

    the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley

Your Elinvar consultant will help you identify executive coaches for your leader to meet and select the individual that is best suited for their expectations. Each of our Partners is grounded in significant strategy and behavior change techniques and are adept at distance coaching. All of our solutions are customized to fit your needs and to help you achieve your organization’s goals.

Our Alliance Partners include top executive coaches and organization development professionals who possess advanced education, certifications, training, business experience, and a minimum of 10 years of executive coaching or consulting experience. Our Alliance Partners are primarily based in North Carolina and we look forward to introducing you to the consultant that is best suited for your specific need.