Meet Our Professionally Trained Coaches

Paula Fracasso
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With her extensive background in human development, non-profit management, and social and cultural entrepreneurship, Paula specializes in teaching new methods of learning for personal, organizational, and cultural change. She received her coach training from Newfield Network and has had a coach since 1998.  Paula has served as a non-profit executive and philanthropic manager where she launched successful ventures for the benefit of society and culture, raised millions of dollars, and created long-lasting social interventions. Paula brings this experience as well as her deep study of life to foster understanding and action in her clients for their extraordinary growth and expansion.

Having expertise in creating new teams and working with existing teams on project creation, design, and implementation, Paula has successfully coached groups and executives in a number of diverse areas including:

• Coaching interdepartmental product design teams from breakdown to patent application
• Creating teamwork in a way that shortened new hire initiation time from 12 weeks to 5 weeks for a fast-growing, entrepreneurial company
• Breaking a decade-long stalemate on new program development between departments
• Coaching Social Entrepreneurs in new ventures
• Delivering Revolutionary Messages for Challenging Times: Keynotes, Workshops, Breakouts

Simultaneously intrigued with social and cultural progress, Paula found an outlet for her passion for curiosity and change in campaign organizing, first in politics, and later for non-profits. Paula has been fortunate to learn and advocate for a number of issues about which she is passionate, including responsible stewardship of the earth, self-expression through art, and the ongoing creation of peace and justice, globally and in our homes.

Deborah Huyer
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Deborah has over 20 years of experiences as an HR leader, business manager, entrepreneur and consultant, giving her the ability to effectively coach her clients to higher levels of performance and success. A provider of results oriented coaching and organizational consulting, Deborah Huyer brings a rare combination of business management experience and HR leadership to early stage and rapid-growth companies.

Deborah’s passion is helping individuals, managers and companies create definitions of success and focused goals to achieve results through coaching oriented performance management.

Her approach is to engage clients in coaching conversations that challenge them to generate new thinking beyond their current limits – helping successful leaders get even better.

Deborah’s quick wit, her ability to stand strong in the presence of difficulty and uncertainty, as well as her true belief that people can harness and direct change to create significant accomplishments in business and in life, enable her to make a lasting difference with clients and organizations alike.

Deborah is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), a current member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and Staffing Management Association (SMA), Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS), and the Pacific Northwest HR Strategic Forum.

As an Executive and Organizational Coach, Deborah’s passion and expertise is in helping individuals, managers and companies build definitions of success, create focused goals, and achieve results through coaching and performance management.

In addition to her professional pursuits, Deborah is an avid hiker and high country backpacker in the Pacific Northwest, and participates in the Susan G. Komen, 3-day, 60 mile Walk for the Cure each year to raise funds to fight the war against breast cancer.  She lives in the Emerald City of Seattle in the summer and Phoenix Arizona in the winter.

Alicia Marie Fruin
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Alicia Marie brings a wide range of experience to coaching. For more than 11 years Alicia has coached managers, presidents and sales people in how to build a business truly worth having!

She has been instrumental in the success of other business coaches through her relentless focus on mastering the basics of coaching and business.

Alicia Marie enjoys dispelling the myths about misunderstanding about coaching. “It is not training and it is not consulting,” she says. “In a coaching relationship the client is the expert.”

Alicia Marie applies almost two decades of business ownership experience, a background in organizational development as well as a wealth of sales and marketing knowledge, to help her clients tackle the business challenges they face.

Although Alicia Marie works primarily with business owners,professionals and executives.Alicia Marie is also the author of and wellness coach for the Healthy Solutions Program, a 40-week phone program designed to create balanced, healthy lifestyles.

Alicia is a mother of four and grandmother of two. She is a Yoga enthusiast as well as a runner. Having spent most of her life in Texas, she currently resides in the Austin metro area.

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