Lead at your
highest level.
What results might you and your team achieve if top level leadership skills were regularly practiced throughout your organization?
Excelerate is a leadership and communication incubator. We develop confident, strategic leaders and high-performing executive teams that build inspiring cultures and deliver profitable results.
The executive ripple effect.
Executives have a major impact on the companies they lead. Whatever they do affects the rest of the organization, causing a ripple effect. Yet in some respect, executive leaders are oftentimes the last ones to get support.
Excelerate guides executives and senior leaders to acquire the self-awareness, self-confidence and critical communication skills needed to excel at the highest level of corporate leadership, creating a positive and powerful ripple effect.
Why we do what we do.
The potential for greatness.
We believe that within everyone lies the potential for greatness. When you select Excelerate as your partner in executive development, you’re choosing a better future for yourself and your company.
Our clients complete our engagements with fresh perspectives, new techniques in leadership and communication, and an enriched, confident sense of self.
Everything we do at Excelerate revolves around one goal: to help people become the very best versions of themselves possible. People are amazingly talented, and yet for many, that talent is still undiscovered, untapped and underappreciated potential.
We are here to change that.
Excelerate’s Innovative Best Practice Development Model
We know that creating repeatable success across industries and organizations requires three key elements:
Enable growth through self-awareness and strategy.
Enrich knowledge with contemporary information, tools & techniques.
Empower results through coaching that provides feedback, accountability and inspiration.
Success
Enriched
Over 1,700+ Leaders Enriched and Still Counting.
Our promise is big, and we have the service record to back it up. In the past 18 years, we’ve served more than 105 client companies and have worked with upwards of 1,594 individual clients. Over that time, 98% of our clients have hired us for multiple projects.
Client Reviews
The entire team at Excelerate has delivered high-quality communication programs for our managers here at Allergan. After our first class, I received nothing but positive feedback and multiple inquiries about when the next class would be. Excelerate is just that good.
I truly believe that if it weren’t for Excelerate, our company would not have made it past year two. Having a variety of strong personalities on our executive team, Excelerate helped us not only learn each other’s strengths, but also teach us how to best interact with one another, greatly improving our overall communication.
Excelerate is an incredible partner for company trainings. I still apply what I learned at their seminar. Such good stuff. Many thanks!
We came to Excelerate with the goal of developing a successful team and we accomplished that and so much more! Each of us were elevated as leaders and executives. I truly believe our business would not have survived without the invaluable help we received from Excelerate.
Before working with Excelerate, I felt that if I wasn’t working as hard as everyone else, then even if I was successful, I must be doing something wrong. In my time working with Excelerate, my business has grown exponentially but my workload hasn’t. I am more confident, and I know that actively promoting my talents has allowed me to achieve an incredibly high level of success and life satisfaction.
I cannot thank Excelerate enough for their guidance with my public speaking skills. I recently had an important presentation and the company account rep said that it was the best presentation the company has done. I highly recommend working with Excelerate for your public speaking coaching needs.
After attending the Powerful Presence workshop, I learned how to differentiate between my talents and my skills and then how to monetize them. The most insightful moment was when we all developed catchphrases to use for networking events; utilizing my catchphrase has been transformational in building social capital and forming business relationships.
Our team found Excelerate’s coaching to be highly valuable and applicable to our day-to-day interactions. There is no doubt we gained powerful insights on how to communicate better as a team and act as team players. Many thanks to the Excelerate team.
Meet Kimberly Gerber, Excelerate CEO.
Founder and CEO of Excelerate, Kimberly Gerber has developed a transformational coaching process that combines high-touch experiences with cutting-edge science and technology to deliver programs that accelerate the thinking, behavior and results of executives and the companies they lead.
Prior to founding Excelerate in 2002, Kimberly was a Fortune 100 executive herself. She understands the unique responsibilities that come at the executive level and has created leadership programs to help executives think strategically, elevate their presence and finesse their communication. Kimberly helps executives achieve their goals and provides sustainable business results while having a positive impact on their environment.
Meet our talented team.
Excelerate Coaches
Dr. JoAnne Foist, PhD
Senior Executive Coach
JoAnne Foist is an experienced executive and coach who specializes in accelerating individual and team performance and driving revenue growth. In executive roles for industry-leading companies, JoAnne has inspired teams to surpass challenging objectives and business targets through a creative, well-structured and focused approach. JoAnne has a Ph.D. in Psychology, MBA and is a certified coach.
Carrie Maldonado
Executive Coach
Caroline Lenher, ACC
Executive Coach
Caroline Lenher is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited coach, editor and writer for authors, speakers and corporate clients. Her 25-year career began in live entertainment marketing where, as part of agency leadership, Caroline impacted agency growth and operations as well as opened and oversaw satellite offices, drove new business, and developed client and partner relationships. She’s also worked with government, automotive, higher-education and non-profit clients.
Nahid Casazza
Executive Coach
With 20+ years of coaching and mentoring experience, Nahid works with individuals and teams to grow more effectively as business leaders. She focuses on four main critical areas of development: organization, communication, self-awareness and leadership.
Nahid has a master's degree in Business from Pepperdine, is a Board Certified Coach, and is the President of the Orange County chapter of the International Coach Federation.
Natalie Allio
Executive Coach
Client Support
Kelly McCarthy
General Manager
Cris D'Annunzio
VP, Business Development
Specialized Trainers & Consultants
Kay Hunter
Image Consultant
With 20 years of business experience, Kay is renowned as a corporate consultant, motivational speaker and educator. She works with leading corporations, training individuals and teams how to polish their professional appearance, and refine workplace protocol and business dining protocol. Kay also has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Psychology.
Jennifer Steed
Health Coach
Barry Blanton
CFO Consultant
Starla Fortunato
Executive Photographer
Dee Elliott
Mentoring Expert
Margo Myers
Public Speech Coach
Margo Myers' zone of consulting genius includes communication and presentation skills, leadership development, executive presence, and media training. She holds her coaching certification from the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara, California. She also has her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation and served as a Life Reimagined coach for AARP, coaching clients around the world.
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