Our ICF-certified instructors are among the best coaching experts in the industry. They don't just teach coaching they are real-life coaches and have helped thousands of people change their lives.

Building on their years of coaching experience in the government, non-profit and corporate sectors, our instructors will help you navigate real-life situations and teach you how to coach through common challenges.

Their high level of emotional intelligence, patience, and unique teaching strategies provide the insights you need to effectively coach others with confidence.

Amy Daws, PCC

ICF Professional Certified Coach

Amy is the founder of Growing Global Leaders, a coaching and consulting organization dedicated to developing leaders with cultural awareness and the skills to build effective, productive relationships in diverse work environments. As a dual UK and US citizen and a bilingual Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, Amy brings extensive expertise from senior executive roles in HR and Communications. With over 20 years in leadership development on both sides of the Atlantic, Amy has coached executives at global organizations such as Colgate-Palmolive, Sumitomo, and Azenta Life Sciences. Her clients span all levels—from emerging leaders to C-suite executives—in fields as varied as education, technology, and science. Amy holds an MA in Global Leadership and a BA in Communications with a minor in International Business. Amy has lectured for DeSales University’s MBA program and has taught students in the Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance (LCOP) program since 2018. As a certified Designing Your Life facilitator, she applies innovative techniques to help clients and students successfully navigate personal and career transitions. Outside of work, Amy enjoys hiking and cycling.

Sandi Stewart

ICF Master Certified Coach
20+ years of experience

Sandi Stewart is an executive coach and consultant with over 20 years of organizational experience. She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) with over 2,500 hours of coaching.

Sandi has a BA in Psychology and French from Colgate University and an MBA from Columbia University. She was Adjunct Professor of Leadership Development for a Masters of Business program and a former manager with Johnson & Johnson, Hearst/ABC, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Ferrero, N.A. She serves on the ICF Independent Review Board and is the author of Building the Core Competencies of Change: A Guide to Coaching in Organizations.

Recent Publications and Professional Activities

• Why You Need a Coach, Feds
  Podcast: FedUpward
  What can powerful coaching do for your organization? For you? Well, a lot. Sandi Stewart, an experienced and respected executive coach lays out what coaching is, how feds can benefit from coaching, and explains how creating a coaching practice within your agency or department might be the spark you need to reignite motivation and improve performance. 
• Master Coach Collection Podcast Featuring Sandi Stewart
  Podcast: Master Coach Collection
  The Master Coach Collection is a series of interviews with the top credentialed coaches in the industry. In this interview, Sandi speaks about what makes coaching truly transformative and powerful. She shares her personal experience with the art of being heard and the art of deep exploration. She is interviewed by Gideon Culman, MCC.
• Building the Competencies of Change: A Guide to Coaching in Organizations
  Book Availability: Sandi's book is available for purchase on Amazon
  This book is for coaches, aspiring coaches, leaders of talent management and executives to understand how to deploy coaching to achieve organizational objectives. The power of coaching as an impetus to organizational change, growth and strategy execution is explained with case histories and how to's. 
• Differences in Personal and Executive Coaching
  Article: Featured in Library of Professional Coaching