Program Leaders

All of our Program Leaders are graduates of the Accomplishment Coaching Coaches Training Program and are International Coach Federation credential holders. Each of them brings a wealth of experience, an abundance of Love and Being, as well as their own unique voice to the organization.

We are pleased to introduce our Leadership Team:

Christopher McAuliffe, Master Certified Coach

Christopher McAuliffe is the CEO and founder of Accomplishment Coaching and holds the Master Certified Coach credential through the International Coach Federation. A professional coach since 1996, Christopher has produced unprecedented breakthrough results with a wide spectrum of clients across the country. Christopher has a passionate commitment to the development of coaching as an honorable and honored profession.

As a two-term past President of the San Diego Professional Coaches Alliance, Christopher has demonstrated a commitment to the development of Coaching as an ethical, strong profession, both self-regulating and offering consumer protection, credentialing and continuing education.The host of the popular web radio show, “The Coaching Show,” on WSRadio.com since 2002, Christopher has had the pleasure of speaking with many of the thought leaders and key players of coaching. Christopher lives in San Diego, CA with his wife.

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Jodi Jan Larson, Master Certified Coach

Jodi Jan Larson is known for her humble and egoless leadership that leaves deep and wide impact. She is an extraordinary Coach and Trainer with vast experience in the development and implementation of training curriculum. Her work has been foundational in generating the profession of Coaching as we know it today. Jodi has been coaching and training coaches and other leaders for over 19 years.

Jodi’s passion is the support and development of coaches and leaders, which is evidenced by over 20,000 coaching hours and countless training seminars to her credit. She trains internationally, having trained coaches in over 12 countries. She was the co-founder of the first ICF chapter in Dallas, Texas, and was instrumental in creating the foundation for what is now the International Coach Federation. Jodi has authored three textbooks on coaching and was a member of the Certification Team for the ICF for over a decade and is a recognized and sought-after trainer and leader for coach training seminars and events.She currently holds the title of Chief Development Officer with Accomplishment Coaching. Along with being accountable for the management and development of the leadership team, she is responsible for the integrity and integration of the Accomplishment Coaching Coaches Training Program, always seeking to not just maintain but enhance the standard of the World’s Finest Coach Training Program. When asked what she loves about the work she does, she responds, “Spreading possibility, being instrumental in the development of world-class leaders and growing the profession of coaching.” She firmly believes that Coaches Lead and Leaders Coach. The profession of coaching is the catalyst to change the world for the better one leader at a time.

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Kerry Zurier, Master Certified Coach

Kerry Zurier is an extraordinary coach, trainer and leader. She has vast experience in leadership, management, and business development, and has worked with thousands of individuals, groups, and businesses globally with an emphasis on the Pacific Rim. In addition to being a credentialed Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, Kerry is currently a Senior Leader in Seattle, San Diego and New York.

She has also held several positions with the Executive Team of the company including CFO and COO.Since 1994, she has been a lead instructor for the entrepreneurial business program, Money and You, as well as heading their Instructors Training Program both in the United States and abroad. Kerry began her career in the non-profit sector. She has consulted with over 200 NGO’s in the area of strategic planning, board development, fundraising, team effectiveness, leadership, management, conflict resolution, coaching, motivating, and performance. In addition to consulting, Kerry has raised over US$28 Million for various non-profit organizations. Kerry currently resides in San Diego, California, with her two daughters.

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Michelle Akin, Professional Certified Coach

Michelle Akin comes from the world of YouTube fame, video production, and improv comedy in New York City, but found her true voice through the process of becoming a professional coach. Breaking the company record for number of paid clients attained in the first month of training, she quickly earned her ACC and later PCC credential and moved up in leadership with Accomplishment Coaching at a fast pace.

She is a Professional Certified Coach and has led programs in New York City and Washington DC since 2013. Michelle is known for being able to combine tough love and playfulness effortlessly. Having lost her mother one month prior to beginning coach training, she had the unique experience of processing the greatest grief of her life while receiving more support than ever in her life. She credits this program with her transformation from ego-based performer to heart-based, present, connected human being. Her clients are accomplished artists of many forms who are hungry to share their messages with the world in an authentic way, while making money to live their dream lives. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter, mother-in-law, and two dogs.

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Laura Fink, Professional Certified Coach

Laura Fink is a Professional Certified Coach in individual, corporate, and group training capacities. She is a wife, a mother of two children, and an avid seeker of all things related to personal and spiritual growth. She specializes in working with high performers and perfectionist individuals in order to break free from the inner dialogue that drives them,

in order to create a more empowering sense of self that will have them execute their goals and aspirations with precision and efficiency. Her approach contains structure without being formulaic. The coaching is intended to call forth her client’s highest and best self and unique sense of leadership. She encourages her clients to stop surviving, and start thriving.

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Mark Hunter, Professional Certified Coach

Mark Hunter is the Founder and President of Pinnacle Coaching, Inc., an international business and executive coaching company, and has more than nineteen years of experience as a professional coach. As Chief Development Officer for Accomplishment Coaching International, he is responsible for Corporate Partnerships and the development of innovative delivery methods for coach training.

Mark is also the author of the book “The Brink – How Great Leadership Is Invented”. Mark’s successful executive coaching practice and his extensive experience in leadership and coach training have made huge impacts for organizations and leaders across the globe. In his private practice through Pinnacle Coaching, Mark specializes in keynote speaking, workshop facilitation, business/corporate coaching, executive leadership coaching, sales coaching, coaching group performance, team culture/context shifts and coaching those transforming leadership positions on teams.  These specific market niches require working with leaders around developing the next level of their leadership, professional reinvention, producing “impossible” results, and getting out of their own way in order to do so. His clients are typically already very successful at what they do, and are savvy enough to know that their development and training never ends. Mark has experience in the corporate world himself, having worked in the insurance and reinsurance industry for over eight years before becoming a coach.

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Halli MacNab, Professional Certified Coach

Halli MacNab, PCC, CBCC is a Professional Certified Coach and Certified Body-Centered Coach, Past President of the Vancouver Island, British Columbia Chapter of the International Coach Federation and serves on the present Board and Education Committee of the international Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO). She is the chair of Certification for Accomplishment Coaching.

As a former Professional Engineer, she brings clarity, rigor and precision to her private coaching practice and to coach training. She brings humor and heart to the training room and is passionate about supporting new and experienced coaches in discovering their own unique and authentic expression as Coaches.

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Rodney Mueller, Professional Certified Coach

Rodney Rodney Mueller, PCC, MBA and past-president of the St Louis Chapter of the ICF, is a leadership coach and human effectiveness expert. Rodney brings a wealth of demonstrated leadership experience throughout his career that enables him to connect with leaders on all levels.

As a Senior Drill Sergeant in the U.S. Army, he pioneered holistic training methods for basic combat training that resulted in numerous awards and record setting benchmarks in key training measures. At age 21, Rodney became one of the youngest in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of Staff Sergeant (E-6) and continues to serve today with U.S. Africa Command in the Army Reserve. Rodney believes that extraordinary leadership is the key to individual fulfillment and long-term business success. In addition, Rodney is a lifelong student and enthusiast of business and entrepreneurship. Leveraging his business expertise and understanding of human effectiveness he helps leaders clarify their vision and actualize it. He specializes in working with leaders who are already high achievers that are willing to look deeply at what’s in the way of their fully expressed potential.

His current and recent clients include Fortune 500 Executives, Startup CEO’s, Mid-Level High Potentials, and Senior Executives in U.S. Intelligence in sectors including telecommunications, law, government, banking, b2b enterprise, startups and technology. Rodney’s accomplishments include running 9 marathons, backpacking Europe and Indonesia, completing an MBA, becoming a surfer and creating a mini-retirement to Mexico in 2013. He lives with his wife Tasha and two yellow Labradors in San Francisco, California.

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Christine Sachs, Master Certified Coach

Christine Resized Christine Sachs is a Master Certified Coach (International Coach Federation-credentialed) and Accomplishment Coaching-certified leadership coach. Her client roster consists of executives and senior managers in a diverse range of organizations from multi-national corporates to series B tech start-ups.

Christine is especially skilled at working with high performers in examining and understanding what shifts and/or changes will propel them to their desired results, without making sacrifices (health, marriage, family) on the other end. Clients report that working with Christine has been the catalyst for unprecedented risk and reward.

Prior to coaching, Christine was a highly successful fundraising professional for top-flight universities in the United States and abroad. She is an award-winning playwright and holds a master’s degree in English from Washington University.

Christine lives in Manhattan with her husband, Tony, her daughter, Vivienne, and their Bengal cat, Oliver.

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Denise Yamada, Professional Certified Coach

Denise Yamada is a Professional Certified Coach, credentialed through the ICF. A coach since 2002, Denise is a former broadcast journalist who earned 7 Emmy® Awards on both a local and national level. She now brings to her coaching and training the same level of professionalism and integrity she brought as a television journalist—and she delivers them with unyielding love and commitment.

Denise’s clients consistently report that with her support, they are able to produce extraordinary results. Her clients include entrepreneurs, performing artists, CEOs, stay-at-home moms, philanthropists, real estate investors, other coaches, and always, people who want to lead more meaningful lives.

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Leaders In Training

Leaders in Training are graduates of our Coaches Training Program and are participants in our Advanced Leadership and Mentoring Program. This program has a proven track record in producing successful coaches and leaders. To attain the sought after position of Leader In Training at Accomplishment Coaching, coaches must demonstrate an advanced proficiency in their coaching skill as evaluated according to the ICF’s Core Competencies, as well as the ability to develop and maintain a successful coaching practice. These hard-working and committed individuals receive a level of mentoring, leadership training and development that is unparalleled in the industry.

Jolynne Anderson, PCC

Jason Dukes

Emily Juricek, ACCC

Sarah Olin, PCC

Lisa Pachence, PCC

Alice Petzold, PCC

Laura Watler, PCC

Laura Westman, PCC