Designing Your Life Certified Coaches
OREGON
Tzu-Chin (Claire) Wu
In your life, wouldn’t it be nice to have someone who understands your goals and helps you succeed? I have worked with a wide range of students, seasoned professionals, career changers since 2010 as a career coach. I believe the core values of my work is to bring out the best in people. With my clients’ best interest in mind, I serve as a co-pilot and take a short ride with them when they are on their ways to reach their next career milestones. I am particularly passionate about advancing women in the workplace and help women maximize the impact of their work.
Mary E Galvin
Mary is an Executive Coach focused on helping leaders identify and face challenges or issues impeding their personal growth and leading to an increased capacity to perform at higher levels. She has frequently coached leaders as they consider or have recently experienced a transition to a new role or opportunity, as well as building executive presence and personal brand. Mary’s clients cross a wide spectrum from C-Suite, Vice Presidents, to Managers and Individual Contributors. Her career included many challenging and exciting roles including co-founder of a successful startup to GM in a Fortune 100 company with responsibility for a multi-billion dollar P&L. This deep experience has informed her work as a coach and mentor. Mary also volunteers her time to work with young people as they enter their careers and is active as a coach in a women’s leadership program.
Melissa Chureau
Melissa is a coach, lawyer, and facilitator. She uses powerful inquiry and mindfulness in collaboration with clients to uncover and pursue their vision—whether professional or personal. As a lawyer for 20 years, she has witnessed many who work and live out of alignment with their values and purpose—often because they don’t know their worth, regardless of their successes. Many feel like imposters waiting to get exposed, and afraid that who they really are isn’t enough. Many are leaders in their organizations, but can’t figure out why the people they care about and support are burned out, where they used to be motivated and happy. This is where coaching has a powerful impact. Melissa collaborates with clients and organizations, provides space for self-awareness and growth in a supportive and transformational relationship, which results in real growth and real impact. Melissa earned her BA from U.C. Berkeley and J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law. She is a certified mindfulness trainer and coach in Oregon, where she roams the mountains with her husband, daughter, and chihuahua-pug.
Emily Lamia
Emily supports individuals navigating the next step in their career through coaching and group programs. She spent the first 10 years of her career on political campaigns and in nonprofits such as the Democratic National Committee and Girl Scouts of the USA, finding her love of coaching as the executive director of a national career development association within the progressive nonprofit industry. Emily is also a Gallup-certified Strengths coach and works with individuals and teams to build strengths-based cultures.
Melanie Gray
I’m the founder of The Grayprint™ Advisory Group, an innovative, lifestyle + career advisory company, committed to helping others align their natural preferences with their ideal lifestyle, business and/or career. I can attest to how embracing and leveraging your unique personality superpowers, along with a strategic plan can shift your mindset and pave the way for a life of fulfillment. As a personality type enthusiast (Certified MBTI® Practitioner), lifestyle/career strategist + project manager (PMP®), I enjoy helping others create clear goals and strategic plans, in alignment with an individual's personality and specific interests. Our company's goal is to provide the tools and teach the skills necessary to go boldly towards the life you've imagined or maybe a life that you haven't even imagined yet! Let's start this part of your journey together.
Olimpio Wen
I help equip people with career/life design tools so they can face professional transitions and challenges with resilience, creativity, and courage, and become more deeply connected to their work and in their relationships. I also work with leaders and their teams to elevate their EQ and interpersonal skills, so they can help transform the world through exceptionally healthy organizations. I seek to help people live and work from a place of wisdom and wholeness by leveraging approaches drawn from an interdisciplinary background that includes: coach certification with the UC Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, a doctorate in marriage and family therapy, and diverse work experience in nonprofit leadership, program development, training, group facilitation, and clinical pastoral counseling.
Rebecca Chandler Blackall
Rebecca is a coach, consultant, and fierce believer in the potential of all humans to thrive. She began her career in the classroom, where her work with diverse learners deepened her conviction that we all do best when we understand ourselves, our needs, and leverage our strengths. Across her work in academia, organizations within the nonprofit sector, and in 1:1 coaching relationships, one thing rings consistently true regardless of environment: People who are set up to leverage their superpowers and live into their fullest selves are the pulse of change. Rebecca grounds her practice in the space where relationships and strategy collide, knowing that, at times, we must create a beautiful mess in order to envision our most emboldened and impactful future.
Seth Igarta
Seth Igarta is a higher education career counseling and coaching expert. He currently leads centralized career coaching and counseling services for educators and learners at Oregon Health & Science University. For more than a dozen years he has been counseling, teaching, and coaching higher education students, alumni, staff, faculty, and executives. His most recent roles include developing career development frameworks and models, integrating career development into academic curriculum, and building career readiness cultures and ecosystems. Seth promotes career coaching that creates opportunities and social mobility for all through equitable access to connections and experiences, regardless of background or social capital.
Kim Vierra
Kim Vierra is an award-winning career coach and educator known for guiding students towards fulfilling lives. Currently, she serves as the Student Engagement Program Manager and Instructor in the College of Business at Oregon State University-Cascades. In this role, Kim collaborates with business leaders and external partners to design and implement a comprehensive curriculum of professional development experiences. She also provides personalized guidance to students in all aspects of their career planning. Prior to joining Oregon State University-Cascades, Kim gained valuable experience at Mercer and Nike. Her roles at these organizations involved management development and learning, global mobility, compensation, and benefits. She has also co-founded impactful initiatives such as the OSU-Cascades Innovation Pitch Fest, the Alumni Career Conversations program, and the College of Business Reverse Career Fair. Kim holds a Master of International Management (MIM) from Portland State University and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economics from Lewis & Clark College. Her approach is consultative, with a strong emphasis on a bias towards action. Through her dedication to learning and career development, Kim aims to make a lasting impact on her local community and individuals alike.
