President & Founder
With more than 25 years of “in the trenches” experience in human resources, Gary has refined a results-driven approach to executive coaching that combines personal marketing, positive psychology, faith/spirit and principles of quantum physics. The foundation of this approach is Find Your Story. Own Your Voice: 10 Key Career and Job Search Strategies. Using this proprietary workbook together with Gary, clients across every level and discipline take ownership of their work, find their voice and connect with their passion.
Municipalities, universities and businesses of all sizes — including Fortune 500 companies such as Honeywell, American Express and IBM — have benefited from Gary’s years of experience and expertise. He has designed, written and facilitated corporate career programs to motivate and engage individuals and retain employees, inspiring personal attitudes of success and purpose, and creating organizational climates that value employees and their development through his highly effective Personal Career Leadership™ and Five Principles of Career Success™ workshop series.
Senior Coach & Consultant
An HR turnaround pro and consummate collaborator. Whether it’s an entire HR department that needs reinvigorating, an organization to transform its employee experience or an individual who wants to polish how they present to the world, Tina Burkhead is the HR mastermind you want on your side.
Senior Coach & Consultant
Keep striving through the discomfort; the grandeur that awaits will be well worth it. Mark Carr’s approach to leadership coaching is the exact same as his approach to his avocation as an elite adventurer and former professional Grand Canyon and Yosemite adventure guide. Mark is a Fortune 500 Human Resource Executive with 30 years of experience in human capital management.
A sought-after keynote and workshop presenter, Mark inspires those in the corporate world with pictures, stories and leadership lessons from his climbs to demonstrate quality leadership principles that can transform the employee experience. Amazon’s description of his book “Ascend: Leadership Lessons at 28,000 feet” perfectly encapsulates Mark’s philosophy: “At a time when the rat race has millions of people feeling trapped, discouraged, and drained, Ascend boldly declares you can embrace the challenge of living your dream.”
Senior Coach & Consultant
Lisa has had a career in Human Resources and Recruitment for over 20 years and has been instrumental in the start up of two successful recruiting firms in Phoenix, as well as starting her own firm. She has also been a member of three executive teams as the Head of HR and has served on the Board of Directors of two non-profits.
Senior Coach & Consultant
An admirer of the Recchion Method long before she joined the coach line-up in 2022, Jennifer’s “own your destiny” philosophy makes her a natural fit within the team. One of the best compliments she’s received in her 25+-year career is, “you put the ‘human’ back into Human Resources.” Jennifer’s expertise in executive leadership development and talent acquisition has made her a sought-after career and management coach, and consultant, working with all levels at an organization.
Operations/Social Media Manager
Alice Fedchun has been key to the success of the Recchion team over the last 8 years. She is an amazing talent and business professional with extensive expertise in operations and social media management. With a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Eastern Washington University, she has developed a solid foundation in effectively conveying messages and building strong relationships.
Senior Coach & Consultant
As the chief people officer for an organization with 3,800+ employees, Lorraine brings an unlimited depth of current “people” experience to the Recchion & Associates coach roster. After 15+ years as a human resources executive for American Express, Lorraine then applied her passion in HR to the healthcare industry, spending 11 years as vice president of human capital at TriWest Healthcare Alliance.
Ed.D, SPHR, PCC, Senior Coach & Consultant
An expert practitioner in the Recchion Method, Dr. Carl Fowles’ profound belief in the potential of people to achieve at higher levels is at the core of his belief system and approach, based on both professional (working with thousands of executives over 25 years) and personal experience.
Carl’s executive and leadership coaching experience encompass financial services, healthcare, utilities, tech, and manufacturing. Clients have included Arizona Public Service, Raytheon, Verizon, General Dynamics, and IBM. Previously, in addition to leading Kellogg’s Global Organization Effectiveness and Leadership Development division, Carl’s corporate career includes serving as Senior VP of Organization and Professional Development for First Security Corporation (Wells Fargo), and Managing Director of Drake Beam Morin’s Salt Lake City/Intermountain Area Offices.
Senior Coach and Consultant
The new era of in-person, remote, and hybrid work has brought new challenges to the world of coaching and recruiting. As an in-house HR executive and a coach, Caroline Harland has mastered the nuances and considerations of the reimagined workplace to best help her clients navigate this sometimes rocky terrain. She brings three decades of HR experience to her role as Head of People at Organixx, a supplements and skin care manufacturer. Immediately prior, she served as Chief People Officer at Sawyer Aviation, a private aviation company.
Sr. Coach and Consultant
Laura, a distinguished HR executive, business, and community leader, is currently the head of HR for an organization with 13,000 employees. Her 25 years of HR experience encompasses strong coaching, mentoring and talent management, recruitment, employee and labor relations, compensation, and succession planning. In addition to extensive “hands-on” work throughout her career, she has also served as a respected HR executive, providing strategic, innovative, and visionary leadership, over the past 10 years. It’s Laura’s deep people experience along with her passion to serve and guide others to success that make her a great fit for the Recchion coaching team.
Senior Coach & Consultant
Sheila’s clients say her warmth, compassion and humor help keep them on track and that she gets to the meat of the matter quickly with sensitivity. Her insight into human behavior and motivation combined with an uncanny ability to accurately “read” a situation quickly, make her a valued asset to the Recchion & Associates team and its clients.
Her insights and talent development skills engage the hearts and minds of her clients and equip them to be strategic masters of their own change. Sheila’s solutions have accelerated organizational growth and breakthroughs for many organizations. For one-to-one engagements, Sheila is a passionate advocate and of Gary’s approach to evince growth and change.
Senior Coach & Consultant
Jeanne’s belief in the power of every individual to achieve personal and professional success makes her a perfect guide of the Recchion approach. Her background in global high-tech, production, government (national, state, county and city), construction, and food production, in tandem with research-based techniques, ensures a pragmatic-based approach for her clients’ unique challenges.
From her earliest corporate leadership roles, Jeanne developed a passion for coaching leaders, their teams, and whole organizations, large or small. From her work at Honeywell, Del Webb, Cargill, and the University of Minnesota, among others, she brings depth in organization effectiveness research and breadth of practice. Over the past 20 years, Jeanne has coached executives and their teams through changes in structure, culture, market shifts, environmental disruptions, and change in the workforce.
Senior Coach & Consultant
Ted Smith’s far-reaching and deep HR expertise make him a much sought after executive coach. Currently a director at Fahrenheit Group, a full-service advisory firm, Ted has 25+ years of human resources management under his belt, working for companies of all sizes ranging from startups to Fortune 100s across global technology, manufacturing, financial services, and worker’s comp industries.
Senior Coach & Consultant
Debbi Lannon-Smith’s coaching clients value her wealth of “insider” experience as an Human Resources and Talent executive, business leader and coach having worked at industry-leading companies building and transforming human capital strategies aligned with business goals and driving organizational/culture change during M&A, divestitures, IPO planning and business realignment.
Senior Coach & Consultant
Judgement-free listening is at the core of Diana Sparman’s approach to coaching (and to life!). An accomplished career transition expert, she believes in the power of a unique and personalized approach to career coaching and professional development.
She takes the time to truly listen and understand her clients’ aspirations, challenges, and strengths, allowing her to provide effective support throughout their career transition. Diana is passionate about helping individuals align their career choices with their personal values and goals, ensuring they find fulfillment and purpose in their work.
Senior Coach & Consultant
Mary Ann is a passionate believer that your beliefs can create your future reality, a core tenet of the Recchion approach. She joined Recchion and Associates after 25+ years as a Human Resources executive, business leader and consultant. Throughout her career Mary Ann has been a trusted coach to executive teams and boards, cross functional business and community leaders, and has mentored employees at all levels. It is that experience that’s given her the deep people and communications skills, empathy, and a commitment to help others achieve greater clarity and career direction. Mary Ann’s authenticity, compassion and desire to help others succeed has built sustaining trust among her clients and makes her a valued career and executive coach.
Senior Coach & Consultant
With deep expertise as an executive recruiter, Koko Kuzmanoff Tzavaras is a trusted, respected talent leader in the Valley of the Sun, coaching, guiding and inspiring her corporate clients and job seekers across every level and discipline, from recent graduates to C-Suite executives.
Koko’s experience includes landing executives in leadership roles at several start-ups, and guiding staff during turnarounds with large national and international companies, as well as small boutique firms. Koko is passionate about the Recchion Method, and knows this is her calling – to help her clients see personal change/adversity as an opportunity to take their personal marketing, career campaign, and winning mindset to the absolute highest levels and land that next great role.