Who we are & what motivates us.

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 Podcast, “The Coaching Show,” on www.AccomplishmentMedia.com since 2002, Christopher has had the pleasure of speaking with many of the thought leaders and key players of coaching. Christopher lives in La Jolla, CA with his wife and two children.

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.

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.

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.\r 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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

A performance-oriented coach, Alice Petzold works with cutting edge industry leaders and entrepreneurs to transform their work, relationships, and lives. Alice possesses a unique understanding of both the entrepreneurial mindset and the challenges one faces navigating large organizations. Alice has 20+ years working with clients including Fortune 500 brands, internationally recognized organizations and start-ups.

If there is one word that best describes Mick, it is passionate. His love for his family, business and life in general is inspiring. This is what makes him a powerful coach and leader.

Mick loves to coach people around creating results they would normally regard as impossible. His ideal clients are up to big things in their lives. They desire to reinvent themselves, their careers or their businesses. Mick locks arms with his clients with the intention to co-generate their dream life.

As an entrepreneur who has owned and operated several successful businesses over the years, Mick brings his dynamic professional experience to the table with his coaching clients. Mick is especially skilled in the area of building, managing and coaching high performance teams in business. Developing leaders is his specialty.

Mick has been married to his wife, Tara, for fourteen years. They are best friends, business partners and are raising three amazing children together. Their commitment to each other through thick and thin has created a timeless bond and an insightful adventure.

Dedicated to his own personal development, Mick is always learning something new to increase his awareness and perspective. He zealously reads books, attends seminars and gets training from some of the world’s top leaders.

Some call Mick “the obstacle crusher” because of the hardships and circumstances he has overcome. He has gone from financial independence, to losing it all winding up in debt, to debt free and successful again.

With his story, training, business and life experiences, Mick empowers his clients to reach inside and bring out their inner champion.

I am a playful yogini, teacher and coach, lover of sweet beats and a goddess of GROOVE, Master Trainer in THEGROOVE, Reiki practitioner, blogger, writer, business owner/operator and above all, a mumma of two beautiful, bright lights. The way I show up in a room could be seen as a reflections of the way I like my life; a full spectrum of potential experiences – savoring everything from excited, playful and creative expression to quiet, deep introspection. As a coach, I am known to be a life mobilizer, possibility advocate, shadow illuminator, accountability & integrity warrior, and creative catalyst… occasionally delivering truth bombs with a sprinkling of f-bombs.

I have accumulated an eclectic collection of certificates, a degree and some wisdom over the years. I have created and operated two successful businesses, managed multiple organizations and experienced workplaces requiring everything from a power suit to a hard hat and steel toe boots.

I have an absolute passion for supporting people in becoming aware of and leveraging their core strengths, and then transforming their deep soul desires into reality. My offerings are truly an act of love and my soul’s passion. I strive to create an environment where you will feel welcome and leave feeling completely nourished, motivated and presenced to YOUR greatness. I believe in people’s ability to exceed beyond their own perceived limitations to live a life happier and more abundant than ever thought possible!

You’re filled with passion for a cause you believe in. You can feel it in your soul. It brings you joy, anger, elation, and tears all at once. You know that this is your calling. You realize that you are the change you want to see in the world.

You’ve got the job. You can feel the tingling in your whole body – this is it. You’re in a position that you can make a difference. All of your biggest ideas are swirling in your head ready to come to life.

And that’s when it happens.

You realize that there are a thousand other things that you have to do that are in the way of you making the difference you want. Red tape. Lack of funding. Lack of resources. Burnout. Overwhelm. Underwhelm.

It feels like you’re running on a treadmill – your goal is always just a little bit out of your reach and you’re getting tired.

You worry that you’re becoming disillusioned with the idea that you could actually change the world.

Enter me: your Leadership Coach.

I’m here to help you reclaim your passion and empower it. I’ve never been one for already established rules, so I help you make new rules that work for you and get you what you want.

Leadership is owning your whole experience of life, so I coach the whole person – not just the job. Everything I do makes up the leader that I am – I’m a coach, an Artistic Director of a theatre company, a mom, a wife, an actor, and a person who believes in humanity. While there are still days where I relate to my to-do list as a burden, I remind myself that I absolutely love my big life and I can create the space for anything that is important to me.

When I became a coach, I did it to help change the world. I wanted to make a difference in all of the areas that were important to me.

I want to change the way we value art in this country, making arts organizations more equitable, diverse, inclusive, and humane work environments.

I want to empower leaders to take risks and embrace mistakes, creating a world filled with grace, humility, and collab

Erin Conlon is a leader, coach, and recovering lawyer. Erin lives in Chicago, IL and in her free time she can be found doing stand-up, riding her motorcycle, or traveling the world. Erin has lived the transformation this work can do for your life, and she’s dedicated to sharing it with anyone who wants it as well.

I work with creative people to help them build the career of their dreams.

For Artists
The passion and vulnerability that are essential for creation can sometimes seem at odds with the economic realities of working as a professional artist. I believe that your vulnerability and creativity are actually essential to your professional success. Together, we can get the negative stories (the stage fright, the writer’s block) out of your way and move you into creative action and professional success.

For Creative Professionals
Are you in the wrong field? Do you have a secret ambition that you haven’t even articulated yet? Do you suspect that you have untapped creative depths? I can help you to identify what you actually want, and to take the leap to make it happen. Let’s unlock your creativity, and get the self-doubt out of the way.

I worked for many years as a professional actor in New York City. I bring the creativity and vulnerability I practiced as an artist to my coaching. My coaching style is compassionate, focused, and honest. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, surrounded by an amazing community of artists and coaches.

Linda’s purpose and passion in life coaching is to inspire, motivate and partner with clients to open up to their possibilities and greatness and to make positive changes in their lives – to live their lives with purpose, intention, and passion – to achieve their potential and realize their dreams.

Linda is an international professional coach, and owns and operates Integrity Coaching Unlimited (ICU). She brings powerful insight and keen intuition, humor, calm, compassion, integrity, strength, focus and loyalty to each of her clients. She supports clients in examining their beliefs, to look at what is currently working in their lives, what is holding them back, and champions them to create the life of which they’ve dreamed, in harmony with their values, passion and purpose.

Linda brings to her coaching a background of over 30 years of experience in counseling, and has a BA in Psychology, and MA in Counseling. She has worked as Counselor, Supervisor, Clinical Director, Manager and Business Owner. She has a strong value in serving humanity, has facilitated self-awareness seminars for 15 years, and is committed to creating peace in the world, and in ourselves.

Linda lives on beautiful Whidbey Island in Washington with her husband and dog Kiska.

I work with leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries – the people who want to make a difference in their lives, families, communities, and the world. My clients are passionate about their vision and so am I! I promise to say the bold things, ask you the big questions, be your biggest cheerleader and bring in some lightheartedness as I support you to reach your next level faster.

Here is a bit about me:
Born and raised in Bulgaria, I moved to Boulder, Colorado, as a teenager. There, I became an aerospace engineer and strengthened my love of mountain adventures. After ten successful years working in the aerospace industry, I left to find my calling and coaching is it. I feel so honored to get to walk alongside people on their journeys and support them to reach their dreams. When I am not working, I am most likely hiking, climbing, and skiing in the mountains around Seattle, my adopted hometown.

I am excited to meet you!

Social worker turned life coach, Bebuo Christianne is a passionate life and business coach focused on helping clients accomplish their goals, know their worth and to LIVE.
With years of experience engaging low income communities, providing outreach and therapeutic support to individuals and families and working with individuals facing varying life events and circumstances, Bebuo is ready to support you.

Jess Lilly is a compassionate coach and leader with a background in education. She worked as a teacher, advisor, and student support specialist before discovering coaching. She was raised in New Jersey and lived in St. Louis, MO, Washington, DC, and Charleston, SC before making her move to California.

Christina Stathopoulos is the Founder and Head Coach of Hear Her Roar. She is a Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation-credentialed) and an Accomplishment Coaching-Certified Coach.

Christina specializes in working with female entrepreneurs who are burnt out from the hustle, and seeking more consistent clients and less stress. She partners with these women to have more confidence, more money, and more fun.

Christina’s pursuit for playing powerfully began at Mount Holyoke College, where she earned degrees in English and chemistry. In addition to her private practice, Christina serves the next generation of leaders as a Mentor Coach of Accomplishment Coaching’s Coach & Leadership Training Program–the world’s finest accredited program.

Christina lives in Portland, Maine, where she passionately holds onto her scientific roots through home brewing.