Andrea Sigetich, President & Founder

SageCoach Affiliates
Beryl Rullman
Michele Roden-Spruill
Carol Leavitt

Andrea Sigetich

Corporate Background

Andrea Sigetich, President and Founder of SageCoach, is a recognized expert in management and leadership development.  With the insight and demeanor of a sage leavened with a strong dose of animation, Andrea brings over 30 years of solid international business experience in management and leadership development to her work as a consultant, coach, and mentor to managers and leaders. 

As a Leadership Coach, Andrea is sought by movers and shakers in Human Resources, C-level executives (CEO, COO, CFO, CLO, CTO … you get the idea!) and leaders at all levels.  

As a consultant, Andrea’s niche is HR and other executives who are compelled to create Sage Leaders in their organization – and are experiencing a big “GULP” when they wonder how to do that!

Andrea has held senior leadership positions in Human Resources, Union Relations, Management Development, Employee Development, Organization Development, and Organization Communication at General Electric, Digital Equipment, and Novell.  

She excels at inspiring and leading individuals and teams within organizations.  She initiated and built an internal organization development and team facilitation function.  She created and owned three entrepreneurial businesses.  With twelve years of global development responsibility, Andrea has managed staff in Canada, Japan, Australia, France, Germany and Great Britain.

Educational Background

Andrea earned a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Human Resource Management from the University of Utah (summa cum laude).  She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with extensive study and training, and well over 4,000 paid hours of client coaching.  She also holds the Coaches Training Institute designation of Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC.)

Consultancy and Coaching Experience with SageCoach

Andrea has consulted to organizations on strategic development of leadership and management skills since founding SageCoach in 1997.  SageCoach’s corporate client list is extensive, and includes technology firms, financial services, hospitality, health care, transportation, and small service businesses.

She is recognized as an expert mentor, coach, designer and consultant, with very strong communication and interpersonal skills.  Flexible in her approach to designing actions and solutions, she customizes her work to each client’s needs.  Her considerable business and life experience provide a solid realism to her Leadership Coaching and Leadership Development work.

With her co-author, Carol Leavitt, Andrea recently published a book, Play to Your Strengths.  Play to Your Strengths transforms today's burgeoning interest with strengths from theoretical and nice-to-know into practical tools for leaders who want to build their own strengths and the strengths of their teams and their organizations.

Personal

Andrea also loves life, and the great outdoors – especially the desert (which should be no surprise!) With her husband Beryl, she enthusiastically pursues hiking, kayaking, skiing, geocaching, and camping from their home in Bend, Oregon.  

A model of life balance, Andrea has carefully labeled and stacked her belongings in nondescript storage facilities and gone (in the words of Willie Nelson) “on the road again" twice, interrupting her career path to bring balance to her life and awareness of the beauty and bounty of our continent.  She also shoots archery, roller blades, and drives a 1977 convertible Fiat Spider (in the desert summer).  She and Beryl share their home and land with four active cats, and oodles of sage plants!

Beryl Rullman

Background

Beryl Rullman is a leader and turn-around expert for major not-for-profit organizations.  He brings 35 years of leadership experience to his work as a consultant and coach to individuals and organizations. 

He has held senior leadership positions in large and small non-profits, national to local in scope, in Toronto, Minneapolis, and the Salt Lake City area.  Beryl mentors and coaches non-profit executives and Board members.  He is a wise and seasoned resource to your non-profit leaders.

He excels at jump-starting organizations, and inspiring service and commitment from staff and volunteers.  He has also owned and operated four retail businesses, and is a published author, with fiction and non-fiction works to his credit. 

Beryl has a ready wit, an insightful mind and an understanding of individual needs, strengths, and challenges.

As the former Executive Director of the Canadian Cancer Society and a cancer survivor himself, Beryl also specializes in coaching survivors of major medical challenges as they design new lives for themselves.  Check out his website, www.survivorcoaching.com.

Education

Beryl has a BA and an M.Ed from the University of Minnesota.  He has also completed the Coaches Training Institute Professional Coaching curriculum.

Personal

Beryl passionately loves life, and the outdoors – especially fishing!  With his wife Andrea, he enthusiastically pursues hiking, canoeing, skiing, archery, geocaching, gardening, and camping from their home in Bend, Oregon.  With son Dan, he fishes every chance he gets in the wilds of Northern Ontario – a positive addiction!

Michele Roden-Spruill
Background
MICHELE RODEN, PCC, CPCC, is a principal and co-founder of BluOpal^® Consulting.  She has owned consulting and coaching firms for more than 15 years, motivating clients to intentionally take ownership and expand their achievements.  Capitalizing on strengths has enabled Michele’s clients to translate what they learned from MBA books to on-the-job accomplishments; to stop thinking like task managers and start thinking like strategic leaders; to maximize involvement with board members and improve board relations.  She loves to help create cultures that inspire performance rather than stifle it.  Michele designs and develops authentic leadership strategies to increase engagement of teams through experiential learning techniques.  Her website is www.BluOpal.com.

Education
Michele holds certifications from The International Coach Federation, the leading worldwide association for leadership coaches, and from the Coaches Training Institute.  She is a graduate of a yearlong program in Co-Active Leadership.  Michele has a BS in Home Economics from Hood College in Frederick, MD. 

Personal
Michele is an avid traveler, sightseer and tourist!  She likes to tour places she has not seen, try the food, and meet the people.  Having visited 48 states, she looks forward to visiting North Dakota and Alaska to complete all 50.  Once finished counting states, Michele has her sites set on counting continents!

Carol Leavitt, MBA
Background

Carol has been a management and organization development consultant for 25 years, working with a range of organizations – from Fortune 500 companies to small, entrepreneurial firms – in industries that include health care, financial services, high-tech, hospitality & leisure, and more.

Carol specializes in developing and advancing management and leadership skills for the 21st century – helping individuals, teams, and organizations maximize their effectiveness and impact at the workplace.  She partners with clients to identify the primary obstacles to their success, and designs coaching, training, interventions, and strategy solutions that lead to increased engagement, performance, and satisfaction throughout the organization.  She expands the minds and capabilities of leaders and employees alike, which ultimately has a powerful, positive impact on the bottom line of the business.

Carol collaborated with colleague Andrea Sigetich to write a book – Play to Your Strengths: Stacking the Deck to Achieve Spectacular Results for Yourself and Others – which was released in early 2008 by Career Press publishing.

Education

Carol received her MBA degree from Westminster College with highest honors, earning a special certificate in Human and Organizational Development.  During graduate school, she completed training as a leadership coach at The Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California.

Personal

Carol lives in the beautiful desert of southwest Utah where she enjoys hiking, cycling, camping, and water sports in the great outdoors with her husband, Coby, and sons Coby Jr. and Ian.  She has a passion for international travel and scuba diving in remote, exotic places!