Our Team
Kim Parrott, CEO, Executive Coach & Facilitator
“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 which has evolved into what is now SeaChange Resources.”
Kim has 20 years of experience in leadership development, executive and team coaching, strategic planning and facilitation for a broad range of organizations including multinational corporations, colleges, government agencies and the non-profit sector. Kim holds a BA in History from Yale, a MA in Teaching from Brown, a Captain’s License and is an ICF certified coach. Kim lives in Blue Hill, Maine.
Derek Ahl, Executive Coach & Facilitator
“Through coaching and facilitation, I have the opportunity to foster passion, insight, and value for individuals and organizations to reach their highest potential. As an educator and catalyst, I support growth toward mindfulness and an expansion of perspective. This I believe has the potential to raise awareness and move our global society toward a more positive state of the community. The confidence and joy that come when one can identify impact is a powerful motivator.
My professional journey began with organizations such as Outward Bound, leading experiences in adventure-based and wilderness settings. In such environments, connection, trust, resilience, and innovation are essential for people to address common challenges and achieve shared goals. Service in the military, as an EMT, a 3-month walkabout in Australia, and over 20 years working with leaders across sectors and industries bring into focus the power of building depth in understanding and in relational connection to achieve meaningful and sustainable impact.”
Derek Ahl specializes in organizational behavior, process facilitation, strategic thinking, and leadership development. He regularly supports senior leaders, teams, and individuals using expert facilitation, consultation, executive coaching, and customized instructional design. Known for facilitating tactical engagements such as board retreats, longitudinal learning cohorts, project implementations & collaborative ventures, he raises awareness, curiosity, and compassion in leaders to drive sustainable and just solutions for our changing world. Derek holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership from UNH and is currently pursuing Ordination and a D.Min. at The New Seminary.
Susan White Ahl, Executive Coach & Facilitator
As a facilitator, educator, and coach, Susan strives to offer individuals and organizations inspiration through reflection, action planning, and learning support. Using an array of tools, practices, and experiences, she helps them to acquire necessary skills and perspectives, and to empower themselves toward desired outcomes.
She has been the Principal of Eventide: Coaching, Consulting, Community, for 11 years, holds a Masters of Adult and Higher Education, and is a certified executive coach. Susan has worked with individuals and teams within corporate, education, and non-profit settings; designing and delivering learning solutions and coaching support for personal and professional development.
Training with the Institute for Appreciative Inquiry, and ongoing participation in Circles of Trust through the Center for Courage and Renewal support her desire to deepen her own learning and practice of deep listening and creating space for reflection as essential to growth. Susan believes life-long learning is the key to creating a meaning-filled life.
Mary W. Amory, Executive Coach & Facilitator
“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", a creative venture that raises funds for Partners In Health.
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.
Gretchen Hannon, Executive Coach & Facilitator
"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 theaters in Tanzania, Russia, and Belgium. A mother of three grown children, she now lives with her husband in Strafford, Vermont.
Isla Dickerson, VIP Facilitator
Isla is Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing, joined Bangor Savings Bank in November 2014, and is a member of the Bangor Savings Bank Leadership Committee.
Prior to joining Bangor Savings Bank she founded and led Cape Rosier Consulting, a marketing and communications consulting firm with offices in Maryland and Maine, for 8 years. She began her career at a small publishing company on an island off the coast of Maine and then joined MBNA in 1996 where she held executive leadership roles in Marketing, Operations and Employee Education & Leadership Development. She is also the founder and owner of The Retreat at Betsy’s Cove.
Isla is an MBNA Management Development Alumnus and recipient of the Bank of America Leadership Platinum Award. She serves on the board of The Hudson Museum. She is an active supporter and volunteer at Coastal Mountains Land Trust and serves multiple economic development, entrepreneurial and business development non-profits in advisory capacities.
Amy C. Grant, MFA, Communications Consultant
Amy is a performer, visual artist, poet, teacher, and business-woman. She has applied her creativity to shaping a career that fosters growth and inspires change as evidenced by her ten-year career as President of Peninsula Metamorphic Arts & Learning, a unique learning center in Blue Hill, Maine.
With over 15 years of experience in teaching, curriculum design, and facilitating beyond the classroom, Amy has worked with clients from preschool to careerists.
She focuses on the how of individual learning and applies the tools of improv to co-create the path forward.
Amy is incredibly curious and continues to learn daily. She has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Washington and an MFA in Drama/Theatre for the Young from Eastern Michigan University.
Ayrne Meyer, Equine-Guided Education Instructor
“I love what I do because it provides a unique opportunity for people to experience the horse and nature in a way that inspires wisdom and love for themselves and what they have to offer.
Belonging to a herd of ten horses and sharing them with others has brought me to a deeper understanding of their native ways and the relevance their nature has in our lives when we connect. Horses and humans have a great attraction for one another. Horses embody an innate side of us that becomes distant in our current high tech, language based culture. They remind us we too communicate using powerful expressions that transcend words. Interacting with horses reveals and develops our non-verbal self and our potential. This balances the body’s authentic design so we can operate at a greater capacity. We increase understanding and awareness of self, others, the world and the energetics that support change.”
From the Rocky Mountain region to travels abroad, Ayrne's love of nature and exposure to distant cultures have fueled the naturalist and artist she was destined to be. Ayrne is an avid traveler but feels her most memorable experiences were born exploring her home state of Montana on horseback, rafting or on foot. Her true passion is encouraging self-expression, discovery and growth through horses, nature inspiration and art.
Ayrne lives in Helena Montana and is a SkyHorse certified Equine Guided Educator (EGE). She shares her herd and their wisdom with people around the world by offering EGE and riding adventures for individuals and groups visiting the Feathered Pipe Ranch and Black Mountain Retreat in Helena, Montana. Ayrne is an accomplished fine artist and writer. She has a degree in Graphic Design from The Art Institute of Colorado in Denver. She is president of the board for Adventures Unlimited, a non-profit organization with a focus for introducing people of all ages, abilities and incomes to the great outdoors as well as an outdoor adventure guide. Horse skills are numerous and include wrangling, vaulting, training, and fellowship with horse lovers alike. Ayrne continues to build upon her knowledge in the areas of somatics, the energetics of communication and equine therapy.
Captain Dan Parrott, Bridge Resource Management Consultant
Captain Dan Parrott grew up in Connecticut and started his professional sailing career in 1982. He sailed full time from 1983 to 2003 during which time he worked on many schooners, topsail schooners, and square-riggers, in all capacities, in all parts of the world. Among those vessels are the Harvey Gamage, Bill of Rights, Pride of Baltimore, Pride Baltimore II, Eye of the Wind, and Tole Mour.
In 2003 he was appointed to the faculty of Maine Maritime Academy where he now teaches navigation, seamanship and Bridge Resource Management, and sails aboard the training vessels State of Maine and schooner Bowdoin.
He is the author of two books, Tall Ships Down, a study of 5 marine casualties involving sailing ships, and Bridge Resource Management for Small Ships which applies BRM concepts to the operation of limited tonnage vessels. Parrott maintains an active writing career and has published articles in Soundings, Yachting, Power & Motorboat, WoodenBoat and other marine publications.
Parrott holds a USCG license Master of Oceans, 1600 tons, and 2nd mate unlimited. He has a B.A. from Colby College, Waterville Maine, and an M.A. from the University of Rhode Island. Interests include music, swimming, scrimshaw and maritime history.
Dan lives with his beautiful wife, two teenagers and hound in Blue Hill, Maine.
Chris Muise, Director, Business Development
The understanding of and passion for the development and implementation of internal systems are key to Chris’s role behind the scenes at SCR. “I love a good plan and enjoy seeing it through. The smooth flow of information between facilitators, clients and vendors is a key function of a successful program.”
Chris joined SeaChange Resources in November of 2018 and brings over 10 years of business management and organizational skills to the team. As co-owner of two Maine based companies, he also has extensive customer service experience. Chris is tasked with project management for the varied offerings of SeaChange Resources.
Chris is a lifelong learner. With a passion for being on the water and in the wilderness, Chris holds a Maine Recreation Guide License as well as Wilderness First Aid Certification. He studied in Toronto, London, and New Hampshire while earning a BA in Technical Theatre and Design. Presently, Chris serves as the Vice President of the Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce and as the Secretary of the Peninsula Skating Association, both located in Blue Hill, Maine.