About Marilyn

Marilyn Gorman is a highly experienced learning professional, facilitator and executive coach, who brings expertise to both the coaching of individual executives and leadership teams, and the teaching of how HR processes like Learning & Development and Organizational Design intersect with entrepreneurial skills. She has applied Lean Startup® practices to change key cultural outcomes, and helped business leaders around the world build credibility and confidence through challenging and application-rich learning solutions focused on impact through purposeful practice.

As is a Global Program Leader for Executive Development and Culture at GE’s Crotonville leadership center, her responsibilities included leadership and cultural change initiatives and high-visibility, Chairman-sponsored programs. Prior to joining GE, She held various training and leadership positions in companies such as the Tom Peters Company and the Forum Corporation, as well as leading her own consulting company. She also gained experience in global technology and financial service companies, and her career has included business management, leadership of a large training function and senior-level consultancy.

As a coach and facilitator, Marilyn’s approach is direct and solution-focused, helping program participants and coaching clients create empowered and sustainable outcomes.  Her goal is to create an environment that recognizes the potential everyone has to change and that highlights the actions needed to be successful in that change. Through challenging and engaging dialogue and activities, she helps individuals see where they are getting in their own way, challenging old habits and mindsets, and supporting a realistic approach to change.

Marilyn grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and worked in Australia for many years.  She holds a Bachelor of Education from Syracuse University, a Master of Education from Sydney University, and an MBA from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She also holds a graduate diploma in Executive and Professional Coaching through the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas and is an accredited Executive Coach at the PCC-level with the International Coaching Federation.

About Shelle

Change cannot happen without movement.  Movement will not happen without action.”

"What I love about coaching is that it inspires an individual or an organization to create change that can deliver new, previously unobtainable, outcomes.  With the right coaching and change strategy, one can achieve accelerated personal or professional growth….and a company can elevate from good enough to great. Coaching is about exploring possibilities and then creating a strategy with specific actions to make transformative change happen."                                                                         

Shelle Cleveland is an experienced coach, facilitator, talent developer and organizational strategist with more than 25 years leading and creating organizational effectiveness for Fortune 50 and private organizations.  She has extensive experience in due diligence, acquisitions, cultural integration and leadership development.

Formerly with General Electric, Shelle was most recently the Global Diversity Leader for GE Capital, headquartered in Norwalk, CT, with more than 35,000 employees worldwide.   During her 18-year tenure, Shelle held several HR business leadership roles in GE Capital and GE Aviation, relocating several times throughout her career.

Additionally, Shelle served as the chief HR officer for a privately-held aviation company headquartered in Phoenix, AZ, helping to grow the organization from 900 to more than 4000 employees in just three years through multiple acquisitions and integration.  Earlier in her career, Shelle held HR roles for Allstate Insurance Company and PepsiCo.

Shelle received her B.A. degree from Hampton University, Hampton, VA, and her M.B.A. degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL   She resides in Atlanta, GA.