Instructors

Kristen Covington is a Management Liability Account Executive with Travelers. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Administration from Northwestern University and has strong connections with Loyola University as a mentor for students enrolled in the Quinlan School of Business.

Her specialties include creating short and long-term actionable career goals, resume development, interview preparation, and salary negotiation. Kristen’s objective as a coach is to take into account each client’s practical needs regarding a position (i.e. salary, benefits, flexible hours etc.) and to tie those with personal values, passion and the culture-fit they’re looking for in their next role and overall career. 

Raquel Cosden is a leadership trainer and career coach with years of experience helping clients and leaders in the workforce to identify and achieve their goals. She helps clients identify their values and find ways to live them and incorporate them into their work. Raquel has experience helping clients in all phases of their career, whether you have just started in your career or are looking for a change.

Marty is the Executive Director of the Weigand Center for Professional Excellence at Elmhurst University.  Previously, has the associate director of Employer Relations & Outreach at Loyola University of Chicago. Marty spent more than twenty years in the advertising and marketing industries with the majority of his career at Leo Burnett in account management. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time chasing after his twins. Marty holds a BS in advertising from the University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana as well as an MEd in higher education from Loyola University Chicago.

Robert combines years of experience, extensive education and a unique voice in his coaching practice. “I try to motivate people into as much action as possible. Action generates energy, and positive energy generates results.”

Robert Gramillano applies a creative and innovative approach to coaching. He seeks to inspire people to live rich and fulfilling lives through personal exploration and action. He helps clients find the powerful, centered being within themselves: a person who embraces change, lives passionately and realizes their full human potential.

Robert has earned a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Argosy University, is an MBA graduate from DePaul University, and has made a successful transition from a managerial/consulting background in Information Technology. He is a Certified, Licensed NLP Master Practitioner, a Certified Empowerment Coach and a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach and has recently earned a Certificate in “Leadership in Sustainability Management” at the Graham School of The University of Chicago. He facilitates the EQi workshop.

Bliss Hansen helps midlevel executives become better managers and improve their career prospects by acquiring specialized professional skills. She also helps clients navigate job/career transitions and determine where they want their new professional paths to go.

Bliss’ accreditations include a CPCC from the Coaches Training Institute and an ACC from the International Coach Federation. She also has a BSW from Providence College and has operated her own consulting firm, BHF Coaching, since 2012.

She facilitates CTC’s StrengthsFinder workshop.

CTC photographer/video producer David Logan specializes in business imagery that drives brand engagement. His background includes a 15 year career at Harpo Studios running the post-production operation for The Oprah Winfrey Show followed by 7 years at ad agency DDB Chicago overseeing in-house production/post in support of major Fortune 500 brands.

Later as a client and with guidance from CTC, Dave pivoted to launch DLVisuals, switching gears toward entrepreneurial, start-ups and established small businesses. Working off the premise “you seldom get a second chance to make a good first impression” Dave creates impact imagery featuring headshots, business portraits, vocational lifestyle, industrial and product shots. Make an appointment to have your professional LinkedIn headshot taken at a special CTC discounted session rate.

Colleen’s expertise is organizational change management. She works with leaders who appreciate the value of anticipating and preparing for the impact a business change will have on their customers and employees. She has seen the benefits of good change management on business outcomes and culture.

Colleen works for Beam Suntory whose products include the World’s Number 1 Bourbon Whiskey, Jim Beam. She is working to integrate change management practices into everyone’s ways of working at Bean Suntory.

Colleen is a huge advocate of networking and makes networking part of her every day. Being open to others, getting to know them, working to understand their point of view and learning from them is what she does.

Treasa Moran is a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley and has worked both professionally and as a volunteer to help individuals with financial concerns to address everything from budgeting to emergency spending plans to making decisions about investments, insurance and negotiating severance and benefits packages.

Kristin Sneeringer takes a creative yet strategic approach to moving forward with personal development, health, career and relationship goals. In business, with an MBA in International Marketing and Finance (MBA IMF) and as a Certified Business Architect (CBA), she focuses on links between desired outcomes and the structures, processes, values and cultures designed, desired to reach them.

Jill O’Mahony Stewart is an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Communication. She has also taught at the School for Continuing and Professional Studies [formerly School for New Learning] at DePaul. She has been a public relations consultant and owner of a boutique firm, Stewart Communications Ltd., since 1986. She is a past co-president of the Publicity Club of Chicago, and a former board member and client of CTC. She is a graduate of Allegheny College and holds an M.S. from Boston University in public relations and an M.A. from DePaul University’s School for New Learning.

Ed Valentine is the Owner and Principle Consultant for EA Valentine and Associates, a change management consulting firm. He has more than 20 years success working in higher education, telecommunications, healthcare and not-for-profit organizations.

Deb has been a practitioner of MBSR since 1997 and has used this practice during job loss and career transitions, in managing her own health issues, and in supporting others as a family caregiver. She has been a teacher of mindfulness-based stress reduction for the past 10 years and offered instruction to a multitude of individuals and groups throughout Chicago (via Zoom) during the
pandemic. Deb earned her certification through the Brown School of Public Health.