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	As an Executive Coach and Change Consultant, Beata provides focused, pragmatic guidance to facilitate intentional transformation. Beata works with highly accomplished leaders, professionals and business owners to promote healthy, sustainable, collaborative growth, intentional transformation, and personal mastery. She helps clients call forth their capacity to unleash and direct human potential and aliveness in leading ventures that thrive and succeed. With greater self-awareness, skill and presence, clients approach new opportunities and challenges with clarity, resilience, compassion, grace and power. Women and men learn to embody their unique, authentic, and creative leadership. Clients value Beata's expertise in guiding and facilitating complex, sensitive conversations and processes for change with depth, insight, focus, humor and balance.
Coaching, consulting and seminar clients range from:
High-Tech and Bio-Tech Companies Boards of directors Individual Entrepreneurs Professional Service Providers	Professional Associations Non-Profit and Arts organizations Educational institutions Municipalities Federal and state agencies
Specific examples include leaders in organizations such as: Bayer, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Cisco Systems, Aerovance, Entelos, Sandia National Laboratories, National Science Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Calvert Foundation, Monitor Consulting, DFI - CA Dept. of Financial Institutions, CalSTRS, University of CA-Berkeley, US-EPA, Black Rock Productions LLC, Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Management Communication Program) and Astia.

Beata is an Adjunct Professor with the Green MBA Program at Dominican University of California and mentor to students. She teaches "Communication Skills for Business Transformation" and "Organizational Behavior for Business Transformation." From 2005-2009, Beata consulted as an Independent Contractor with the Management Communications Program of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, coaching students in presentation style and related aspects of applied business communication. She has been a guest lecturer on leadership development at the Presidio Graduate School.

Beata's expertise as a Master Somatic Coach™ combines elegantly with her field-tested experience in communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management and collaborative process facilitation . Her professional range includes perspectives and expertise gained from nearly two decades combined experience as an attorney, mediator, facilitator, coach and consultant. The somatic framework is integrative, ontological and holistic in nature. Beata is certified as a Master Somatic Coach™ by (and is an Associate with) the Strozzi Institute in Petaluma, CA.

Beata works creatively with the resources and wisdom available from the whole, evolving self and organizational system. Beata is certified to administer instruments developed by The Leadership Circle™ (www.TheLeadershipCircle.com ) and those related to the Reina Trust and Betrayal Model™ (www.TrustinWorkplace.com ). She is also qualified to administer FIRO-Element-B, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), and the Human Energy Hologram™. Beyond her academic education, has studied with leaders in the fields of leadership, communication, conflict resolution, group process and strategic alliance structuring, including Angeles Arrien, Marshall Rosenberg, Kenneth Cloke, William Lincoln, Robert Lynch and Interaction Associates.

In 2003, Beata conducted a qualitative study (The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science), inquiring into the experiences and insights of women leading in scientifically-oriented businesses. As a volunteer with the Pachmama Alliance, Beata is a certified Facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium and was a co-developer fo the first business-oriented version of that symposium.

Beata draws on cross-cultural experience, having lived and worked in several countries and being multi-lingual (native fluency in German and Swiss-German). She also draws from experience as a visual artist, musician, dancer, instructor of Hatha yoga and alpine skiing, and as a practitioner of healing arts (e.g. Somatic Bodywork™, Breema, Reiki, etc.). Beata graduated from Pomona College with a BA, cum laude, in International Relations, including overseas study at the Institute for Graduate Studies in International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, and research at the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development. While earning her JD (juris doctor) from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Beata studied at Queen Mary College (University of London). She is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

Beata works in association with:

• Pachmama Alliance, as a Facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium
• The Strozzi Institute
• Astia (formerly Women's Technology Cluster), as a Mentor/Coach (featured as 12/05 "Mentor of the Month")
  

Professional affiliations and memberships include:

• North Bay Coaches
• The Pachmama Alliance
• Conscious Business Institute
• International Coach Federation (ICF)
• International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
• Bay Area Organizational Development Network (BAODN)
• Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California (ADR-NC)
• Bar Association of San Francisco, Mediation Committee (BASF)
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Alumni Network
• Women of Vision and Action (WOVA) - former Interim Board Member (2001-2002)
• Women of Color Action Network (WCAN)