About Us

Throughout his career, Adam has led high-tech ventures and advised C-suite executives as they worked through complex business challenges, organizational growth, and international expansion.

His experience includes developing go-to-market strategies, strengthening corporate governance, supporting cross-border operations, and helping leadership teams translate strategic vision into practical and achievable plans.

As an executive leadership coach, Adam works directly with founders, Senior Managers, Senior Directors, and executive leadership teams to strengthen leadership alignment, improve strategic thinking, and navigate critical business decisions. He helps leaders assess complex situations, clarify priorities, identify risks, and develop practical approaches for moving forward.

Adam’s coaching approach combines strategic problem-solving with thoughtful reflection and accountability. He creates space for leaders to examine challenges from different perspectives, strengthen their decision-making, and identify specific actions that support both their professional development and organizational goals.

He also brings significant experience in financial strategy, organizational planning, leadership alignment, and building the structures needed to support sustainable growth.

Adam started providing coaching to TTI leadership team three years ago, and since then became one of TTI Executive Leadership Coaches, providing individualized one-on-one coaching based on each leader’s identified goals and needs. His work can support leaders seeking to strengthen areas such as executive decision-making, strategic planning, leadership effectiveness, team alignment, financial leadership, governance, organizational growth, and navigating the responsibilities that come with increasingly senior leadership roles.

Adam brings a combination of executive-level business experience, global perspective, and practical coaching expertise that allows him to support leaders as they address complex challenges and continue developing their leadership capacity.

Ana is the Founder and Director of Training To Impact LLC, where she leads culturally responsive consulting, training, leadership development, facilitation, and community engagement initiatives.

Through TTI, she works with public agencies, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and community partners to strengthen leadership, build organizational capacity, improve communication, and develop strategies that respond to the needs of diverse communities. Her professional background includes extensive experience in non profit and government organizations, including schools, libraries and non profit leadership.

Her work has included assessing community needs, developing programs and resources, building cross-sector partnerships, and creating opportunities for organizations to better understand and engage the communities they serve. Ana also serves as an Adjunct Instructor at Pacific University, where she teaches in graduate-level programs. Her courses include Latino Family and Culture in the Master of Social Work program and Managing People in the Master of Nonprofit Leadership program. Her work with graduate students gives her an additional perspective on leadership development, people management, cultural humility, communication, and the responsibilities leaders carry when managing diverse teams.

As an executive leadership coach, Ana works one-on-one with Senior Managers, Senior Directors, and executive leaders to help them examine their leadership practices, navigate complex professional situations, and make intentional progress toward their leadership goals. Her coaching can support leaders in areas such as people management, communication, conflict resolution, difficult conversations, team development, delegation, accountability, cultural responsiveness, stakeholder relationships, leadership confidence, and strategic decision-making. Ana’s coaching approach combines reflective questioning with practical application. Rather than simply telling leaders what to do, she helps them examine what is happening, consider different perspectives, identify barriers, and determine realistic actions they can take.

Her background in facilitation and mediation also allows her to support leaders in navigating interpersonal challenges, strengthening relationships, and approaching difficult situations with greater clarity and intention. With an MBA, a Bachelor’s degree in Education, and certification in mediation, Ana brings together business knowledge, adult learning, facilitation, conflict resolution, and extensive hands-on leadership experience. Her approach recognizes that effective leadership requires both strong management skills and the ability to understand, communicate with, and develop people.

As Founder of Training To Impact, Ana brings to executive coaching the same philosophy that guides TTI’s broader work: leadership development should be practical, participatory, culturally responsive, and connected to meaningful action.

He currently serves as Executive Director of Elevate Youth, where his leadership draws on decades of experience developing people, building relationships, and creating opportunities for young people and communities. Donell’s leadership journey began through athletics. After playing basketball in high school and college, he continued his basketball career internationally, gaining experience working across cultures, adapting to different environments, and functioning as part of high-performing teams. After retiring from professional basketball, Donell worked with youth at Echo Glen Children’s Center, a juvenile detention facility.

He later spent 10 years coaching basketball at Umpqua Community College, where coaching became an important part of his mentorship of young African American men. During that time, he became the first African American coach in Douglas County.

Donell also contributed to the development and opening of two Boys & Girls Clubs in his hometown of Tacoma and has served for the past seven years as head coach of the Parkrose High School Varsity basketball team. Across these roles, he has supported individuals and teams in developing confidence, accountability, resilience, communication skills, and leadership capacity.

Donell earned his MBA from Willamette University, complementing his extensive practical leadership experience with graduate-level business and management education.

As an executive leadership coach, Donell works one-on-one with Senior Managers, Senior Directors, and executive leaders to help them reflect on their leadership, navigate challenges, strengthen relationships, develop their teams, and make intentional progress toward their professional goals. His coaching approach is grounded in relationship building, practical experience, accountability, and a strong commitment to helping others grow. Throughout his career, Donell has remained focused on building meaningful relationships and giving back to the communities that have supported him.

He brings that same commitment to his coaching work with Training To Impact.

Since December 2024, Gabriela has served as Head Project Manager and Leadership Coach at Training To Impact LLC, where she leads equity-centered consulting projects involving public agencies, advisory committees, research, stakeholder engagement, and data-informed decision-making. In this role, she manages project planning, schedules, budgets, coordination across multiple partners, and qualitative and quantitative data analysis. She also helps translate complex information into clear findings, recommendations, and decision-ready reports.

Gabriela brings additional project management experience from SSOE A&E, Nike, Intell, and Jacobs Engineering. Across these roles, she has managed multidisciplinary teams, client relationships, project scope, schedules, budgets, documentation, and coordination across numerous concurrent projects.

Her leadership experience is grounded in organization, communication, accountability, problem-solving, and the ability to bring structure to complex environments. She is particularly skilled at helping leaders clarify priorities, manage competing responsibilities, improve team coordination, strengthen decision-making processes, and use data more effectively in their work.

As an executive leadership coach, Gabriela works one-on-one with Senior Managers, Senior Directors, and executive leaders based on their individual development needs and professional goals. Her coaching can support leaders in areas such as project and team leadership, prioritization, accountability, communication, stakeholder management, decision-making, navigating complex initiatives, and developing practical systems for managing responsibilities effectively. Gabriela’s coaching approach combines thoughtful reflection with practical problem-solving.

She helps leaders examine challenges, identify what may be getting in the way of progress, organize complex information, and develop clear and realistic next steps. Her bilingual and culturally responsive experience also allows her to work effectively with leaders and organizations serving diverse communities.

Gabriela holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Portland State University. She brings to Training To Impact a strong combination of project leadership, analytical thinking, facilitation skills, and hands-on experience managing complex work across sectors.

In her current leadership role, Kimberly supervises an interdisciplinary team of social workers, nurses, and a health coach who collectively support approximately 13,000 Medicare members. Her work requires her to balance people leadership, service quality, team performance, collaboration, and the operational demands of a complex healthcare environment. Throughout her career, Kimberly has developed significant experience coaching and mentoring professionals, supporting staff growth, strengthening team performance, and helping individuals navigate challenging workplace situations.

She is skilled at facilitating collaboration across disciplines, analyzing performance trends, identifying opportunities for improvement, and implementing strategies that support stronger outcomes. Kimberly’s leadership approach is grounded in clear communication, thoughtful problem-solving, accountability, and the development of strong professional relationships.

Her experience supervising multidisciplinary teams gives her a practical understanding of the challenges leaders face when managing different professional perspectives, competing priorities, performance expectations, and the needs of both employees and the people their organizations serve.

As an Executive Leadership coach, Kimberly works one-on-one with Senior Managers, Senior Directors, and executive leaders based on their individual leadership goals and development needs.

Her coaching can support leaders in areas such as people management, communication, staff development, accountability, team performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, conflict management, difficult conversations, leadership confidence, and navigating complex organizational responsibilities. Kimberly’s coaching approach combines reflection, practical guidance, and accountability. She helps leaders examine their current leadership practices, identify challenges and opportunities for growth, develop realistic strategies, and translate those strategies into actions they can apply in their day-to-day work.

Her combination of leadership experience, social work training, care management expertise, and experience developing professionals allows Kimberly to bring a people-centered and practical perspective to executive and leadership coaching through Training To Impact LLC.

Liza serves as a Clinical Operations Manager and is the Co-Founder of iN Counseling LCSW PLLC, where she helps expand access to high-quality mental health services while supporting the development of effective clinical and operational systems. Her work brings together clinical expertise, people leadership, program development, and organizational strategy.

Throughout her career, Liza has worked closely with senior leaders, contractors, clinical teams, and executive decision-makers to design and implement processes that improve efficiency, strengthen service delivery, and support organizational health. She has experience developing workflows, training staff and leaders, identifying operational gaps, and creating practical systems that help teams work more effectively.

Liza brings a strong understanding of the relationship between leadership, employee well-being, communication, team dynamics, and organizational performance. Her clinical background also gives her valuable insight into human behavior, interpersonal relationships, stress, conflict, and the ways leadership decisions can affect individuals and teams.

As an executive leadership coach, Liza works one-on-one with Senior Managers, Senior Directors, and executive leaders based on their individual leadership needs and professional goals. She supports leaders in areas such as people management, communication, emotional intelligence, difficult conversations, conflict resolution, team development, accountability, leadership confidence, employee engagement, workflow improvement, and navigating complex organizational responsibilities.

Liza’s approach combines reflective inquiry, practical problem-solving, and accountability. She helps leaders examine how they are approaching challenges, understand the impact of their leadership style, identify areas for growth, and develop realistic strategies they can apply in their day-to-day work.

Her combination of clinical expertise, executive experience, operational leadership, and program development allows Liza to support leaders from both a people-centered and organizational perspective. She brings to Training To Impact a strong ability to help leaders strengthen relationships, improve systems, and develop leadership practices that support both people and performance.