The Redwood Grove Consulting Group

About Us

Diane and associates bring over 50 years experience working with and developing leaders and teams. We embody from-the-inside-out and from-the-outside-in knowledge and skills along with specialized training and tools in Relationship Systems. Our diverse expertise and specialties are drawn upon to tailor our services to your company’s needs.

Diane Boivie, CPCC, ACC ~ Founder and owner of The Redwood Grove Consulting Group

Diane has always loved working with systems. She began her career as an Information Technology (IT) professional in the corporate world, working her way up from programmer, to manager, to project and program manager. At one point in her career she was reporting to the Chief Information Office (CIO) on his executive team, managing the IT Transformation Program Office, consisting of 17 concurrent and inter-related cross-department projects. In addition she managed the CIO’s Regional IT Alliance, which involved 7 CIO’s across multiple countries.

As fascinating as application and technology systems were, working with people systems, such as leadership teams and work teams, was when she really found her calling. She discovered that she has a knack for turning partially functioning teams into high-performing teams; teams that work well together, even under intense pressure, and have fun. She has helped leverage the power of leadership inherent in teams so that they can become more empowered, productive and inspired.

When she left the corporate world, she decided to pursue specialized training in this field. She is a certified and credentialed Co-Active Professional Coach, as well as a graduate of the Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching advanced training program. She is trained in the use of the Stellar Team Diagnostic Tool which assesses strengths and development opportunities for teams. In addition she is a graduate of the intensive, year-long Co-Active Leadership Program. Diane is currently the Past President of Marin Coaches Alliance, a chapter of the International Coach Federation chapter, the world-wide professional association for professional coaches, co-founder of the North Bay Sustainable Business Alliance.

Shekinah Shephard, CPCC, ACC

As a leader within IBM Global Services for 25 years, Shekinah developed and organized new teams responsible for supporting 2,000 + employees within IBM - US, West Region. Her programs drove process improvements and increased performance results at all levels.

Shekinah brings extensive experience in coaching, training and team facilitation. She has woven business leadership and coaching into a powerful facilitation style that motivates participants into action to achieve excellence and extraordinary results. Her experience and expertise are a result of her leadership roles for 25 years within IBM Global Services, Technical Support Organization. She was also a professional coach and mentor at IBM.

She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), specializing in team and organizational coaching. She is trained and certified in Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching and the Stellar Team Diagnostic Tool. She is also the Membership Chair for the East Bay Chapter of ICF (International Coach Federation).

Bruce Richard

Bruce’s years working with corporate project teams delivering benefits through collaborative techniques brings a perspective to the Redwood consultancy that balances reality with aspiration. The excitement and vitality of group collaborative design taps into a power that can drive substantial positive change.

Key to any change effort is assessing and aligning individual and team values. Working with consulting organizations in Hewlett Packard and SHL Systemhouse, Bruce has helped individuals and teams establish core values, mission clarity, and objectives-based improvement. He has mastered team facilitation and group performance improvement with training in team dynamics and the Grove Facilitation Model.

Bruce also brings the perspective of the project manager to his consultancy. He has led both small groups of co-located members as well as large virtual teams operating in multi-country/cross-cultural environments. With a Masters Certificate from George Washington University and Project Management Institute certification he can help a team structure work and develop plans to meet aspirational objectives.

Kathy Hay, CPCC ~ President & CEO of Value Your Own Life Inc.

Kathy has 30 years entrepreneurial experience plus 7 years of executive leadership coaching experience. With her unique way of combining her old soul wisdom with the everyday realities of organizations, Kathy will call her clients forth to have them live 100% into the leaders they have always wanted to be. At the same time, Kathy helps organizations and the people within to refine their goals as Leaders and hold them accountable to meet those goals through the learned skills and tools.

Kathy’s passion is to co-create within an organization setting to witness the movement within the team as they begin to see and be seen as a living system. As in all parts of life, no man or woman for that matter, is an island on their own – we are creatures who are always in relationship.

She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), trained and certified in Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching and the Stellar Team Diagnostic Tool. She is also a graduate of the Co-Active Leadership Program.

R. Alden Feldon, M.A.

Alden brings expertise in creativity, marketing, and psychology as well as an eclectic mix of skills stemming from professional experience as a musician, poet, general contractor, and professional chef.

Alden has 21+ years of marketing research consulting, management, and project experience on both the supplier and client sides. He has broad and in-depth expertise in quantitative and qualitative research sales, design, execution and analysis with emphasis on: new product/concept development, brand naming and positioning, brand share and market analysis, and customer satisfaction research.

He has a proven record of strong customer relationships, adept collaboration with colleagues, and proactive leadership. He has uncommonly strong written and verbal communication skills.

He is currently in the Co-Active Coaching certification program and has a M.A. in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology and a B.A. in Philosophy with an emphasis on Phenomenology.

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