A multi-instructor institution built for serious coach training

The Coaching Guild is not built around one guru, one method, or one personality. We are a multi-instructor training institution shaped by experienced faculty, specialized teaching,

and the shared belief that coach training should be

rigorous, ethical, and grounded in real-world practice.

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Founder and Lead Educator

Lisa M. Hayes has been a coach for more than twenty years and has a decade of experience training and mentoring coaches.
  
With a background in Hypnotherapy and Behavioral Health Science, Lisa specializes in relationship work, brain and behavioral science, science-based principles of deliberate creation, and coaching mechanics.  

Lisa always said if she won the lottery, she’d be coaching from a sunny beach somewhere. Although she hasn’t yet won the lottery, since moving to Mexico, she’s living the dream, coaching from the beach a lot of the time. 

Lisa loves activism and is committed to doing whatever it takes to bring about change in the world. She has worked on issues like reducing police brutality through legislative reform and finding community-based solutions for homelessness. 

Lisa’s favorite title is wife and mother. She and her husband have two boys, five dogs, five chickens, and two love birds. In case you’re wondering the love birds rule the house. 

 You can learn more about Lisa at www.lisamhayes.com.

Amy Schloerb - Senior Faculty and Co-Instructor

Amy is Senior Faculty and Co-Instructor at The Coaching Guild, where she helps guide students through the real-world depth, resilience, and self-awareness serious coaching requires. With nearly two decades as a professional actress, she brings lived experience from a career shaped by uncertainty, reinvention, and the ability to stay grounded through challenge. Her work in television, film, commercials, and as the creator of the award-winning web series SchloerBITS gives her a deep understanding of what it means to build a meaningful life and career under pressure.


In addition to her work as an artist, Amy has spent the last five years as a life coach specializing in mindfulness and neuro-linguistic programming. She brings a rare blend of presence, insight, and practical coaching tools to her teaching, helping students become more aware, more focused, and more capable of creating meaningful change. At The Coaching Guild, Amy is part of the faculty shaping thoughtful, skillful, and ethically grounded coaches who are prepared to do real work in the world.

Guest Faculty

Otherwise known as the best of the best

Our guest faculty bring specialized expertise that deepens the program and exposes students to multiple disciplines, perspectives, and real-world approaches to coaching.

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Iyabo Onipede

Cultural Competency

Iyabo is a facilitator, keynote speaker, and consultant for organizations that are ready to eliminate racism, dismantle oppressive systems and grow equitable cultures. Iyabo’s customized, high touch workshops allow for deep dives into the heart of race, inclusion, equity and racial justice. Her work opens pathways forward for organizational communities to build just and equitable environments by teaching with a carefully curated curriculum, creating learning spaces for guided self-reflection and

facilitating challenging exchanges. Iyabo is simply a community builder.


Iyabo is a qualified administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and a certified Emotional Intelligence Coach (EQi 2.0). She graduated from Goucher College (B.A.), Georgetown University Law School (J.D.) and Candler School of Theology at Emory University (M.Div.). She also serves as the Co-Director of a nonprofit organization, Compassionate Atlanta, where she has so much fun loving on her community and where she is the most comfortable in her own skin.

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Kevin Anthony Johnson

Emotional Literacy and Intelligence

Kevin Anthony Johnson (Coach KJ) was adopted and raised in the Midwest, where he overcame the downward pull of homelessness in Detroit as a young person and forged his own way as an entrepreneur, creative and trusted advisor to leaders from Chicago to Israel to Shanghai.

As an executive coach to public servants, startups, teams and executives at billion dollar companies, KJ brings his signature style of heart, challenge and personal excellence to everyone he interacts with. He deftly weaves living systems, neuroscience and emotional fitness into a bold approach to personal and collective transformation. 

KJ earned his certification as an evidence-based coach from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California and holds certifications for Transformational Leadership, Coaching and Social & Emotional Intelligence from Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential. He currently serves on the local & national boards of @826CHI, a nonprofit centered on amplifying the voice of our youth. He's the author of two books, an artist, Haiku af icionado, marathoner and philosopher—but most proudly he’s the father of three curious young adults who are making their own kind of change in the world. 
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Goza Parks

Trauma Informed Coaching in the Real World

 

Gozá Parks, a Chicago native, brings a unique and vibrant approach to the world of coaching and education. She is a Depaul Psychology graduate and a Coaching Guild Alumni. Gozá is thrilled to return to her alma mater as a guest instructor to share her passion for fun, relatable and accessible education.


For five years, Gozá was passionately dedicated to education and youth development. She served as a teaching artist, program and workshop facilitator and coordinator, motivational speaker, and trainer. Her commitment to education is further exemplified by her Feminine Empowerment Coaching Certification from The Progressive Love Academy. Her mission is to decolonize education, infusing it with creativity and joy, while always connecting with the inner child who dwells inside of each student.


In addition to her work with children and teens, Gozá spent a decade in the hospitality industry, where she polished her training, teaching and consulting skills. Her dynamic background equips her with a versatile toolkit to engage learners of all ages and backgrounds. Whether in a classroom or a cozy coffee shop, Gozá is eager to inspire, empower, and help individuals discover the glimmers of delight on their educational journey.



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Janette Dalgliesh

Coaching Ethics

Janette Dalgliesh learned ethics before she knew it had a name. The child of an old-style country doctor, she was required to observe strict confidentiality and privacy rules when answering calls from patients to the family home. In later years, she supported vulnerable workers as a union official, in situations where an ethical or legal misstep on her part could cost someone their job, their reputation, or even their life.

Janette believes that “ethics” is about far more than merely meeting some minimum legal requirements (though of course, knowing those is important). Rather, ethics is how we make our core values practical, in the day to day operations of our work and our lives. In the unregulated world of coaching, a passion for ethics is a core part of how we support and care for our clients; and it’s also the best path to a sustainable business.

A graduate of The Coaching Guild, Janette’s training has included three core years of coach training in total, alongside various adjunct trainings in positive psychiatry, psychological first aid, trauma, identity shifting, emotional intelligence, astrology, chaos magic, diversity, equity and inclusivity and - of course - ethics. Her coaching practice is all about helping sensitive, progressive women who want to create a flourishing life for themselves and those they love, in whatever way they define that.

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Samuel Moreno

Understanding Sexual and Gender Identity

Sam Moreno received a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from Seattle University in 2013. He primarily focused on Gender and Sexuality studies, as well as Social Linguistics. His passion for comprehensive education and advocacy related to gender and sexuality began as a teenager, as a peer to peer sexuality educator through Planned Parenthood. 

Since receiving his degree, Sam has been active in police accountability advocacy, while approaching anti-racism movements through the lens of gender and sexuality intersectionality. He has also provided counsel to political campaigns when connecting the links between the intersections of gender, sexuality, race and class.

Sam currently lives in San Francisco’s Mission district while continuing to be active in police accountability activism and the Black Live Matter movements. He has also established a group that hopes to provide education and accountability in recovery and sobriety communities. 

As a recovering alcoholic and addict, Sam is acutely aware of the problematic nature of treatment and recovery cultures that remain institutionally sexist, homophic, transphobic and racist. 

In his spare time Sam enjoys watching films, pop culture and hosting dinner parties.
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Jacqueline (Jacqui) Gates

Organic Marketing and Social Engagement

Jacqueline (Jacqui) Gates is a transformational coach inspired by her devotion to Vesta and shaped by years of stage craft as an actor. 

Jacqui’s work shifts the home into a place of reinvention and liberation, turning housework into home care and a practical expression of self care, empowerment and reinvention. 

Jacqui brings the authentic sparkle of the divine to the process of tending the future self through tending the home. She helps her clients to meet the next greatest version of themselves and anchor that new self through simple and practical home care rituals and processes.
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Dr. Ana Verzone, PMHNP, FNP

Mental Health in the Coaching Process

 
Dr. Ana Verzone is a PMHNP, FNP, nurse-midwife, and mindfulness meditation teacher. She specializes and is certified in psychedelic-assisted therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), and nature-based wilderness retreats. Her calling is to help people discover and embody their soul-based life purpose to make the most of this one precious life, especially through exploring connection to the wild, impermanence, and the longing contained in grief. She is also the host of the top-rated Rebel Buddhist podcast. She believes in the fundamental human right to explore our consciousness and access to nature for healing. Ana delights in helping people move their focus from the attraction of false quick fixes to the allurement of the sustained path and joy of a committed practice. 

She received her post-doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and utilizes many different approaches in her clinical practice, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, Forest Therapy, Compassionate Inquiry, and more. A lover of learning and sharing it, she also teaches Psychiatry in Primary Care to advanced practice nurses.

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Admin and Technical Operations

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