The Bonus Round: Crafting a Meaningful Post-Work Chapter

Joy Leach, MS, MCC, has over 30 years of experience as an organizational consultant, trainer, coach, and author. She coaches leaders at the highest levels in companies to support the development and productivity of their organizations. She has trained thousands of professionals to enhance their skills and increase their work potential.

Joy leads large-scale consulting projects and training initiatives to facilitate organizational effectiveness and transformation. While she specializes in executive coaching and leadership coaching, Joy also coaches in personal/professional balance, presentation skills coaching, and career transition coaching. She has vast experience in designing and developing programs for diversity, management skills, presentation skills, customer service and team communication and collaboration.

Serving as a seasoned coach and faculty member in the Hudson Institute’s Coach Certification Program as well as a facilitator in the LifeForward Programs, Joy is also a lead facilitator in Hudson’s ‘Spot Coaching for Managers’ program inside organizations.

Joy is the co-author of Personal Power: Today’s Guide for the Working Woman, and, A Practical Guide to Working with Diversity.

Joy received her Master of Science degree from the University of Buffalo and has been certified in MBTI, Organization Development from Georgetown University. She is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation.

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Tom Pollack, PCC, has been coaching individuals through significant life transitions and other issues for over a decade. He has worked with partners in professional organizations and high-level executives at several major corporations on developing new leadership skills, advancing their personal growth, and navigating life transitions. Since 2002, Tom has served as a facilitator of Hudson’s popular LifeForward program as well as the ThirdLaunch and Bold Living After Work programs, helping participants to actively realign their direction and effort to be congruent with their current values, interests, and purpose.

Tom has broad experience in the legal domain spanning the past thirty-five years.  His law background and years of experience combined with his coaching skills provide the ingredients for helping high-profile individuals re-examine their goals for a challenging future. Tom received a B.A. from Brown University in 1965 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1968, where he served as the Articles Editor of the New York University Law Review. He was an adjunct professor of federal criminal trial practice at Loyola University School of Law and lectured extensively on various topics of federal criminal practice. Before retiring from his law firm in 2008, Tom spent most of his professional career as a partner at Irell & Manella LLP, where he specialized in white-collar criminal defense.

John Schuster is an executive coach and mentor with a long tenure on the leadership team at the Hudson Institute of Coaching. He is a faculty member at the Columbia University Coaching Certification Program, is the coach in residence at Merryck & Co., has published five books, is an active blogger, and has recorded numerous podcasts for NPR.

John taught in the inner city of Chicago and did social work in Cincinnati before he spent seven years in government service with the Environmental Protection Agency. John began his management consulting practice in 1981 in Kansas City, Missouri. Within his practice, John focuses on connecting soft people skills with hard business results. He has a passion: helping leaders build the necessary social capital within their enterprises so they can build a better world on behalf of communities, customers, and shareholders.

John received his BA (summa cum laude) and MA from Xavier University.

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Before joining MEA, Daniel “DL” Landes spent decades as a restauranteur, author, and publisher. As the owner of multiple restaurants in Denver, CO – and then a hostel in Mexico – he dedicated himself to creating environments where people could work out their humanity while eating and drinking (which is why he fits in so well at MEA).

Now relocated to Santa Fe, DL says that “living in the Galisteo Basin impresses a unique and humbling perspective. Under the expansive, enchanted New Mexican sky I can feel so small and so big. I made a career of kicking up dust; living in the storm until the storm lived in me. When the dust settled two guideposts appeared: Spend more nights under the stars; provide a service.” 

You will appreciate his dedication to creating memorable experiences during your time in Santa Fe.

Lee likes to say that he’s as ordinary as dirt but as complex as soil. He’s resident “cowboy sage” at our campus in Santa Fe, where his love for the simple yet complex hum of nature has led him to work in holistic land management. As steward of our four-square mile regenerative ranch, Lee translates nature’s teachings into simple insights that encourage us to tune into the inner and outer landscape of the world around us.

You will appreciate the opportunity to be in his presence and slow down, listen to nature, and gather around the campfire of shared understanding.