Global Coaching Alliance, LLC Advisory Board
Blaine Bartlett
Blaine Bartlett is the President and CEO of Avatar Resources, Inc. An internationally
respected and sought after management consultant, executive coach, and organizational
development expert, Blaine has served clients in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America,
Australia, and the United States. While living in Japan, he managed the business
and international consulting division of one of the largest and most successful
Human Resource Development organizations in Asia.
During the past two decades, Blaine has consulted with and coached executives and developed and delivered training programs to well over 250,000 individuals throughout the world. A partial listing of the companies he has consulted with and provided training programs for include: Gap, Inc., AT&T, American Express, Bell Laboratories (Lucent), Ameritech, Bethlehem Steel, Nokia, Japan Creative Education Institute, The World Bank, Philip Morris, K.K., Government of Zambia, and the Japan Junior Chamber of Commerce. He recently completed the design and delivery of a comprehensive coaching program for All Nippon Management Coaching Association in Japan.
His management and leadership programs are considered among the best of their type to be found anywhere in the world. They are known for their remarkable effectiveness, solid practicality, and immediate applicability to the needs and objectives of client organizations. A superb communicator and one of the finest minds in the field, Blaine´s insight and understanding have produced a solid, positive impact within organizations on five continents.
A featured speaker at numerous international conferences (most recently the global conference on HR management), his educational resources have assisted individuals in becoming more effective professionally as well as personally. All have been developed to produce concrete results; all take advantage of Blaine's rich background of experience with some of the world´s most successful organizations and individuals.
In addition to his role at Avatar Resources, Blaine is a Senior Partner of GoldBusters Oy, an innovative consulting firm headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. He is a Professional Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle based Family Health Institute which was established by Physicians for Social Responsibility, the U.S. affiliate of the Nobel Peace Prize winning IPPNW. He has presented at the Institute sponsored Washington State Summit Conference on Family Violence.
Pam Bartlett
Pam is Vice President and a Senior Consultant with Avatar Resources, Inc., a Seattle
based management development and consulting firm. The company has affiliate offices
in six countries. Pamela has over 20 years experience as a trainer, speaker, and
performance coach.
Pam has presented her dynamic programs and seminars at conferences around the world. An internationally recognized speaker, she has been a featured presenter at Junior Chamber World Congresses in Seoul, Honolulu, Manila, and Cannes. In addition, she has presented at The Drug-Free Workplace Conference and Exposition in Washington, D.C., at the PRIDE (Parents Resource Institute for Drug Education) International Conference in Orlando, Florida, and at the Washington State Summit Conference on Violence and the Family.
Pam is a recognized expert in the development and use of communication strategies and relationship dynamics. Her work focuses on the influence of these areas on high performance teams. Clients that she has worked with include: AT&T, Microsoft, Olympic Memorial Hospital, Human Performance Technologies, Shell Offshore, Junior Chamber International, Port of Port Angeles, Port Angeles School District, and Venus-Gusmer, Inc.
Extremely active in business and community affairs, she was formerly the National Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Mothers Against Violence In America (MAVIA). In addition, she is a former member of the Washington State Bar Association Disciplinary Board and is a founding member of Children's Hospital Speakers Guild. She has been acknowledged for her community leadership in a number of ways, including personal letters from First Lady Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore. In 1989 she was the recipient of the "Woman of the Year" Award from the Soroptimist Club of Port Angeles, WA. Her latest book, Women Connected, is slated for publication in late 2004.
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll's
business career began on Wall Street in 1982 with Bankers Trust Company and later
he held Vice President positions with Shearson Lehman Brothers/American Express
and Paine Webber. During his six years on Wall Street, Financial Services was
moving rapidly from a "paper intensive control" industry to a "technology driven
service" business. During these times of accelerated change, Michael played a
key role in building corporate cultures able to embrace technology, deregulation
and globalization. In his capacity as a Human Resources development professional,
he designed, delivered and/or managed over 30 training and development programs
impacting thousands of Banking and Financial Services professionals.
During his 10 years with Simon & Schuster Publishing as Vice President of Human Resources, Michael played a central role in establishing state-of-the-art Human Resources policies and practices and executing several divestitures and acquisitions that came to make S&S the world's number 1 book publisher.
Later Michael joined the Walt Disney Company as Vice President of Disney Publishing Worldwide where he played a central role in organizing and managing a global children’s publishing business based not on regions but language. Most recently he served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources with WRC Media in New York. He currently has his own Human Resources consulting firm with a client list including Procter & Gamble, AstraZeneca, Aramark, NBME, Lutheran Medical Center Gartner Group, Oxford Health and The Walt Disney Company. Michael is the author of the "Awake at Work” (Shambhala 2004) and “The Mindful Leader” (Trumpeter, 2007). He has lectured at the Wharton Business School, The Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Cape Cod Institute, St. Mary’s University Business School and Columbia University and has conducted seminars in the US, Canada and Europe.
In 1975, Michael Carroll received his Bachelor's degree in Theology from The University of Dayton, concentrating in Eastern Thought and Phenomenology. In 1982, he received his Masters Degree from Hunter College in Adult Education where he specialized in the dynamics of Executive Development.