Coaches & Facilitators
Kim Parrott, Coach & Facilitator, Equest, SeaQuest & ENCORE: “I love my work in coaching and facilitation because it enables me to be my best self while helping others realize their best selves. As a coach I get to help people identify what really matters to them at both a professional and personal level. As a facilitator I get to help groups achieve results beyond the sum of their individual efforts. That’s fun adventurous stuff–which I’ve always enjoyed. I grew up overseas in a diplomatic family in East Africa, Soviet Union, England and Belgium. After college I went to sea for seven years as a coast guard licensed officer aboard square-rigged ships. Eventually my seafaring husband and I moved ashore to start a family. Soon thereafter I launched a consulting business with my mother which has evolved over the last decade into what is now SeaChange Resources.”
Kim has over 10 years of experience of strategic planning, team development, executive coaching, board development and leadership programming for a broad range of organizations including corporations, colleges, government agencies and the non-profit sector. She is also Adjunct Faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership and a Senior Consultant for The Cradlerock Group providing leadership training and executive coaching for multinational companies. Kim holds a BA History from Yale and a MAT from Brown. Kim lives with her husband and two children in Blue Hill, Maine.
Gretchen Hannon, Coach & Facilitator, Equest & ENCORE: “What I love most in my work is helping people discover what has heart and meaning in their work and life, as I continue to do in mine. In my decades of consulting, I’ve encouraged people to find and explore hidden talents and to act according to their authentic selves. Authenticity inspires us—and others—making it a key ingredient of leadership.”
With 40 years of experience in organizational behavior and career planning, Gretchen has served clients around the world. She began concentrating on coaching leaders while teaching Executive Leadership for Boston University in Brussels. In addition to the United States, she has lived and worked in Kenya, Tanzania, Russia, Great Britain, Belgium and Norway. Her clients have been in multi-nationals, private and public sectors, as well as U.S.government agencies—Department of State, CIA, Army, Navy, EPA and the Postal Service. For the past 20 years, she has been Adjunct Faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership. Gretchen earned a B.F.A. in Speech & Theatre from University of Arizona and an M.A. in Education from Stanford University. Other experience includes engineering and hosting a daily regional talk show for CBS, and as a multi-engine instrument rated aviator, flying as a bush pilot in East Africa. She also founded and directed international community theatres in Tanzania, Russia, and Belgium. A mother of three grown children, she now lives with her husband in Strafford, Vermont.
Mary W. Amory, Coach & Facilitator, SeaQuest: “I have been in the field of developing the potential of others for 30 years. As an optimist, I am tenacious in the pursuit of program design, delivery or facilitation that advances progress towards the defined goals. My creative side drives originality in process and curiosity in solution seeking. I trust in the emergence of ideas and solutions from individuals or groups seeking new goals. I share all clients’ desire for results and walk with them to empower them to success.”
It started with the designing of her own major, “Human Potential and Development”, at the University of Massachusetts. This led to teaching art in public schools and working in alternative experiential education at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School as the Program Director for the Corporate Programs, where she oversaw programs with Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Mary later received her MBA at the University of Maine in 2000.
Over the last two decades, she has facilitated change programs and leadership development in large corporations. As a consultant with the Brimstone Consulting Group, she worked with Pfizer, Waste Management, Jones Lang LaSalle, Medco, Arrow Electronics and other large firms. She is currently a senior consultant with the Cradlerock Group providing design, delivery and coaching support for leadership development programs in several large global manufacturing companies. In 2007 she founded “noteworthy”, (www.noteworthypih.org) a creative venture that raises funds for Partners In Health (www.pih.org).
Mary has raised three grown young women with her husband, Tom. They currently reside in Camden, Maine. She is now in the process of hiking across Utah exploring the canyon country in incremental segments.
Seafaring: Mary was an instructor for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound program for 3 years as a licensed captain for their 30’ open rowing/sailing vessels. She and her husband have crewed on a 52’ boat from Athens to Majorca and sailed many other boats before owning a J-35. They have sailed from Maine to Poughkeepsie, NY, and enjoyed many summer week long cruises on the coast of Maine. Mary joined Tom for parts of his 13,000 mile Atlantic Circle, including stops in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Madeira, the Canaries and the US Virgin Islands.
