Coaching for Leaders

Focus on building individual skill and how to best manage your team. Create behavioral change in your leadership that can influence and shape results. Topics may include handling ambiguity, self-awareness, communicating change, creating a psychologically safe work environment, and increasing resilience.

Focus on strategic decision making and visionary leadership. Topics may include minimizing threats, maximizing opportunities, aligning priorities, creating compelling narratives, and building strong work cultures.

Focus on fair process, organizational structure changes, team reform, and new capability implementation. Topics may include motivating others, communicating new vision and managing group anxiety during transition. Focus on the needs of your teams. Topics may include team building, group assessment, work culture, objective/goal setting, and mission & purpose work.

Focus on understanding the individual characteristics essential to good management and consistently demonstrating confidence and clear leadership. Topics may include composure, command, and confidence.

Focus on changing jobs or pivoting in one’s career. Topics may include strengths assessment, CV and cover letter review, job search strategy, and interview prep.

1, 50-minute coaching session with follow-up email/notes ($550.00)

4, 50-minute coaching sessions for six weeks with follow-up email/notes. Email support for 6 weeks ($3950 or is eligible for tuition remission)

10, 50-minute coaching sessions for 12 weeks with follow-up email/notes. Email support for 12 weeks. Emergency calls available. ($5900.00)

18, 50-minute coaching sessions weekly for 24 weeks with follow-up email/notes. Email support for 24 weeks. Emergency calls available. If applicable, assessment available (MBTI, 360, EQ) ($10,000.00)

Kathy is a professional coach and skilled facilitator who is fully committed to helping individuals reach their full potential at work and in life. She has extensive experience as a coach, counselor, educator, consultant, and leader. Since 2020, Kathy has served as a Leadership Coach and Adjunct Faculty member in the Executive Education Program at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. In this role Kathy coaches mid- and senior-level professional clients in both customized leadership development programs and in curriculum-based, non-credit academies for women in leadership and health care leadership and management. She delivers high quality coaching and consultation in personal and professional development, change management, strategic planning, navigating workplace challenges, and building leadership presence.

Prior to joining the Executive Education program, Kathy served as the Director of Coaching and Education at Carey where she led a team of seven professional coaches to design and deliver career services to a diverse population of graduate business students and alumni.  She coached individuals to identify their strengths and accomplish their goals, facilitated coaching groups for aspiring leaders, and designed innovative programming to enhance student success. Additionally, Kathy served for two years as the career development expert on a university-wide team of change management professionals to transform and enhance the overall student experience at Johns Hopkins University.

Kathy is a certified coach through The Academies, a training program accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is also a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland. She earned her master’s degree and advanced graduate specialist diploma in counseling from the University of Maryland, and her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Dickinson College. She is recognized as a leader in the career development field and has presented at regional and national conferences on the ethics of coaching, the differences between coaching, counseling and consulting, innovative models for delivering career services to diverse student populations, integrating technology into career development practice, and best practices for supporting adults in career transition.

Outside of work, Kathy is an avid reader, loves to travel with friends and family, and devotes time to building her practice in yoga and mindfulness.

Alexa is a subject matter expert in executive presence, leadership communication, and professional public speaking skills. She is the faculty lead for Johns Hopkins Carey Business School's Executive Education Business Communication Certificate and co-lead for the Academy for Women and Leadership. Certified Executive Coach with a focus on executive presence, professional public speaking and presentation skills. Dr. Chilcutt has been featured in The Business Journals: Career & Workplace (2024) “How women leaders can stand out and be heard in an age of information overload”, Medium's Authority Magazine (2024) “Can You Hear Me Now: Author Dr Alexa Chilcutt On Five Strategies Leaders Use to Diminish Distractions & Win in the Attention Economy”, and Business Insider (2024) “You've heard of pretty privilege, but 'ugly privilege' may have its perks too”. Co-author of, "Engineered to Speak: Helping You Create and Deliver Engaging Technical Presentations" (IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series) with Dr. Adam Brooks.

Carl DuPont, DMA, is an interdisciplinary innovator who transforms communication through an embodied approach to human expression. As a performer, educator, and consultant, he bridges art, science, and personal development to unlock multidimensional communication potential with clients ranging from boutique to Fortune 100 companies. He is an associate professor of voice at the Peabody Institute, Executive Education faculty at Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School, artistic lead at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and published author of academic articles. Blending artistic performance with evidence-based research, he helps professionals discover their authentic voice as a complete mode of creative and personal communication.

DuPont's unique methodology integrates creative skill transfer across disciplines, innovative approaches to voice and executive presence, code-switching across cultural and professional contexts and accent work and linguistic fluidity.

Katy is a member of the Executive Education faculty at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School having previously served as Associate Dean of Student Development at Carey. Her most current role was as the INSEAD Associate Dean of Degree Programs. In this role, Katy was responsible for the commercial leadership of the INSEAD Degree Program portfolio across four campuses: Fontainebleau, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, and San Francisco. Her functional responsibilities included strategy, marketing, sales, admissions, financial aid and scholarships, program operations, student life, psychological services, and career services.

Katy has taught, coached, and facilitated programs for executives, EMBAs, MBAs, and other business education students and also has coached and trained attorneys and non-profit leaders. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Loyola University New Orleans, her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, and her Executive Masters in Change from INSEAD.

Change, adaptation, and personal transformation are central to Adriano’s lived experience and foundational to his approach as an executive coach. Adriano earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Milan, Italy, and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of Rome, Italy, and the University of Santander, Spain. He holds an associate coaching certification (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation, College of Executive Coaching.

“After working for 20 years in corporate America,” he says, “I discovered I could leverage my business expertise and personal transformation experience to help leaders re-imagine and redesign themselves and their organizations.”

Adriano’s coaching work is built on values like human dignity, choice, responsibility, authenticity, openness, learning, diversity, and inclusion. He dives deep with clients, exploring areas that might have been previously hidden. Power, dissent, and emotions are discussed head-on, often leading to personal growth and change. 

An enthusiastic professional committed to learning and personal growth, Adriano is passionate about helping clients turn ideas into action, build optimism for the future, gain clarity and courage to address uncertainty and manage transition and change. “My work is based on the concept of emergence,” he says. “I create spaces where individuals and groups can become their best selves. Participants are given permission to be imperfect, experiment, miss the mark, and recover.”

In addition to his work as an executive coach for the past 6 years, Adriano is an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, where he teaches graduate and executive courses on innovation, power, and change. He also teaches a certificate program in nonprofit executive leadership at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. Adriano has published extensively on leadership, design thinking, and adaptive change. TEDx Speaker. English, Spanish, Italian, and basic French. U.S. citizen.

Mary Somers has more than 30 years’ experience providing executive and career coaching to adults in transition. She especially enjoys working and supporting individuals from mid-career to senior leadership levels—those seeking to advance in their current fields or considering new roles and/or industries. She has supported clients in health care, finance, technology, and education, among others. Her clients have said that she provides a thoughtful, listening ear, asks questions that inspire meaningful self-reflection and helps create effective action plans in order to achieve both personal and professional goals.

Mary holds a Master of Science in Counseling from the Johns Hopkins School of Education and is a nationally certified counselor and board-certified coach. Previously, she was the Associate Director of Coaching and Education at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She has also worked at Georgetown and Tufts Universities in admissions, advising and administrative roles.

Allison is a transformative leader and the Chief Human Resources Officer at Tilley Distribution, a company within the SK Capital Private Equity portfolio. Based in Middle River, MD, she drives Human Capital, Communications, and Information Technology strategies across five North American and three international sites. Known for her ability to align organizational design with strategic goals, Allison has been instrumental in integrating four distinct businesses into one cohesive organization, fostering collaboration and operational excellence.

A champion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, Allison leads initiatives that build robust talent pipelines and cultivate a culture of unity and empowerment. Her expertise in managing large-scale change initiatives has consistently delivered measurable results, transforming workplace cultures and driving sustainable growth.

In addition to her role at Tilley, Allison serves as an Executive Education Leadership Coach at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, where she empowers emerging leaders in programs such as the Academy of Women in Leadership and Essentials of Coaching. Her passion for leadership development extends beyond the workplace, as she mentors professionals to achieve personal and professional excellence.

Before joining Tilley Distribution, Allison was the Senior Director of Human Resources at Northrop Grumman Space Sector, where she supported a $2.5 billion division spanning 21+ sites and led a team of 25+ HR professionals. Her prior roles include Director of Organization Development at MGM Resorts International and leadership positions at Johns Hopkins University, where she also taught a highly regarded Leadership course. Across all roles, Allison has been celebrated for fostering employee engagement, driving strategic alignment, and cultivating thriving organizational cultures.

Allison holds a Master of Business Administration in organization development from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in organizational communication, learning, and design from Ithaca College. She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and in mediation training.

A firm believer in the power of small, incremental changes, Allison inspires others to embrace continuous improvement as a pathway to transformative outcomes.

Residing in Towson, MD, Allison cherishes time with her husband, their three children, and their Goldendoodle. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering, tennis, hiking, reading, and exploring new places.