ABOUT US

Michelle Montserrat Oliva, MBA, PCC | Principal

Michelle has over 15 years of experience coaching, training, and advising leaders and teams across the public, corporate, and nonprofit sectors in the US and internationally. She brings a strengths- and values-based approach, grounded in deep listening, curiosity, business acumen, and strategic reflection that sparks insight and transformation. Her work in more than 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America—including extended residencies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan, Spain, and the US—has deepened her adaptability across a range of cultural and operating contexts. She supports leaders to uncover possibilities and generate creative solutions, to stay resilient and centered in times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Michelle serves on the adjunct faculty of Georgetown University’s leadership coaching program and supports executive education programs at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Earlier in her career, she held US- and overseas-based roles in consulting and US government contracting as a project director, organizational development advisor, and management consultant across a wide range of sectors from agriculture, financial services, and media to the environment, energy, and economic development. Michelle holds an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona and Executive Certificates in Leadership Coaching and Facilitation from Georgetown University.

Her mindfulness practice as a student and a teacher (MMTCP, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley) shapes her work with leaders and communities, fostering compassion and interconnectedness. A conservatory-trained musician (Manhattan School of Music), Michelle returned to music after a 20-year hiatus, expanding into improvisation and composition. She has logged more than 20,000 kilometers of solo 4x4 road trips across Southern Africa, is a certified rescue scuba diver, and volunteers locally in her community. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Current and recent engagements include supporting executives, managers and individual contributors as a coach and advisor in both one-on-one and team settings. Client leaders come from across:

Private sector -- financial services, consumer goods, healthcare, energy, communications/media, technology, etc -- such as Mars International and Mars Petcare, ADP, MetLife, NBCUniversal, NerdWallet, CoStar, Pfizer, TIAA, and other Fortune 500 companies, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises
Higher education, including Georgetown University, University of Virginia -- Darden School of Business and the Institute Engagement & Negotiation (IEN), James Madison University, and Washington University in St Louis - Olin School of Business Executive MBA and EMBA with Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Federal government agencies (mid-level through SES), such as DHS/CBP, EPA, IRS, OPM, SBA, SSA, and the US State Department, as well as state agencies such as the Virginia Dept of Environmental Quality
US nonprofits, such as Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Code for Science and Society, and the Ford Foundation, as well as international NGOs

Michelle is certified in The Leadership Circle 360 and TetraMap™, a holistic diversity and synergy based team development program, and Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI), among others.

Available remotely and in person/on site for:

1:1 executive coaching
Facilitation – design and delivery
Group and peer coaching
Organizational, leadership & team development
Assessments and debriefs
Program management – design and delivery
Stakeholder engagement and qualitative research

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Roselyn Kay, MCC | Partner

Roselyn (Roz) Kay provides executive coaching and consulting to leaders and their teams seeking to grow and change to meet today’s leadership and organizational demands. She uses positive strength-based approaches including Appreciative Inquiry to support leaders and teams as they work to elevate their leadership proficiency, build relationships, enhance collaborative skills, communicate effectively, resolve conflicts, give effective feedback, delegate, and make critical decisions. Her approach to leadership draws upon her strong business acumen, advanced study of human behavior, and deep understanding of the challenges and complexities that leaders face.

At the Institute for Transformational Leadership, Georgetown University, Roz previously served as Co-Director and Faculty for the Leadership Coaching Certificate Program, and currently serves as Faculty for the Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Management Certificate Program. In addition, she serves as Practicum Advisor for MSOD students at American University.

As an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Master Certified Coach (MCC), Roz brings over 25 years of leading, training, mentoring, and coaching individuals (staff and senior leadership), teams, and groups in Banking and Finance to her work as coach, trainer, and consultant. Throughout her financial career, she held senior leadership positions, the last position with Fannie Mae, where she led her teams and divisions to higher levels of performance. Her philosophy is that we all have the ability to change with the will to do so. With that will and the strength of coaching to shine a light on habits of language, body, and emotion, clients can practice new approaches that significantly raise their potential for and find the energy to make the changes they seek.

Roz co-designed and co-facilitated Leadership and Change: an Appreciative Inquiry Program, Innovation and Change: an Appreciative Inquiry Foundations Program, and Conscious Leadership: Leading from the Present Moment. She has spoken at conferences on the topics of positive change, building, and rebuilding trust. Roselyn has written articles on strategic planning, coaching, somatic coaching, and appreciative inquiry, and has a published chapter, "Embodying Change" in On Becoming a Leadership Coach 2nd edition (2013).

Clients include senior executive leaders and emerging leaders and teams from Mars, Inc., CACI, Department of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Prince William County Water Services, University of Virginia, S&P Global, US Army, Avalere Health, Mercy Hospital, OCEUS Networks, Novartis, AIR, USGS, USPS, Department of Education, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, Parkland School, Fuqua School, NASA, AARP, AFGE and Fannie Mae.

Roz is certified in MBTI, FIRO-B and Everything DiSC, ESCI, Leadership Circle 360 and TetraMap™, a holistic diversity and synergy based team development program. In addition, she is certified to deliver the Emotional Intelligence (ESCI) and Cultural Transformational Tools (CTT).