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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Mark Hunter, Master 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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Christine Sachs, Master Certified Coach

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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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 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 Senior Program Leader, 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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Jolynne Anderson, Professional Certified Coach

Jolynne Anderson is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), with over ten years of coaching expertise and is a Leader with Accomplishment Coaching’s Coaches Training Program. Jolynne has over 10,000 hours of coaching experience and has coached clients to success around the world and within fortune 500 companies.

She leads a team of coaches in Seattle, Washington and currently trains 24 new coaches in each program. She has trained coaches across the US and internationally, from New York to Malaysia and recently coached and trained a team of HR leaders within the United Nations Population Fund. Jolynne’s clients say the following about her coaching: “She is unwavering in her stand for me to achieve my goals.” She is brilliant at spotting people’s limitations, which prohibit success in people’s lives. Jolynne is passionate about partnering with her clients to achieve their greatest self and discovering their full potential outside of their limiting beliefs.
Jolynne currently lives in Olympia, Washington, where she lives with her husband, daughter, mother-in law and dog, while her son serves in the US Air Force. Jolynne and her family enjoy traveling the world, all types of music, different forms of art, nature walks and rides, and every day adventures. Jolynne has traveled to 21 counties and continues this with her loving family by her side.

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Brittany Cotton, Professional Certified Coach

Have you ever met a certified badass who’s got the credentials to prove it? Brittany Cotton is an executive and leadership coach whose coaching style is like the provocative yet tender punch to the face you didn’t know you wanted. She holds the Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coach Federation and has worked with leaders and executives at Facebook, Microsoft, LiveNation, and Lyft.

After graduating from UC Santa Barbara and earning a Masters in English, with an emphasis in Environmental Literature from Mills College, she realized traditional education alone wouldn’t support her passion of deeply impacting the world, and that the classroom was no longer her platform.
In 2016 she began her process of ontological self-examination as a participant in Accomplishment Coaching’s Leadership and Coach training program, where she recognized that what her heart truly desired was to support others in reenergizing and engineering the dreams they so often shove down. She then launched Be Radical, a coaching company that galvanizes people to live the full expression of their potential by getting out of society’s “check box” lifestyle.
Brittany doesn’t stop at co-creating with others one-on-one, her wit, pointed mind, loving heart and compassionate soul drives her to publish stories, blogs, and opinion pieces that have a way of wedging themselves into your psyche, inspiring you to take action in your own life, and the world around it. If Brittany had it her way, everyone would see their greatness, Be Radical, and act in spite of fear, in the pursuit of authoring lives of passion, joy, success, and adventure scripted by the heart.

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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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Laura Westman, Professional Certified Coach

Laura Westman, PCC, ACCC is a Professional Certified Coach who has coached and mentored across the United States and Asia since 2012. Laura’s lifelong appreciation of the arts brings a fresh, creative energy to ontological coaching and training. Laura is deeply committed to the lifelong success of AC’s coaches and serves as the Chief Affiliate Officer at Accomplishment Coaching.

Her signature leadership style is play, connection, and timeless wisdom. Laura has been a featured speaker for many notable companies and associations, including the American Marketing Association. Passionate about women’s leadership and inter-generational learning, Laura co-founded Eventsy’s Women’s Empowerment Summits and Leadership Salon Series. In her New York-based practice, Laura coaches creative executives and teams, helping them lead effectively and channel their creative energy into meaningful projects. Laura is an artist and musician who uses ontology to deepen her experience of creative work.

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Denise Yamada, Professional Certified Coach

Denise Yamada, PCC has been a professional 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.