Faculty & Staff
Senior Faculty
Steve March
Steve couples 16 years of experience in software, systems, and process design and management with 12 years of leading edge personal and leadership development approaches. Steve is an experienced change leader, manager, coach, facilitator, and educator. He is known for his centered presence, innovative insight, and patient yet persistent style of engagement. He is committed to generating significant value for his clients through developing their careers and living fulfilling and satisfying lives.
In 2002, Steve founded Compassionate Coaching. Through this company he offers personal effectiveness coaching to leaders in corporations, non-profits, and in life. A partial list of clients includes Genentech, HP, NASA, The San Francisco Foundation, and ACCBank (Ireland).
In additional to being a Senior Faculty member at BSU, Steve is the Vice President of Leadership Programs for Integral Leadership, a subsidiary of New Ventures West, the world’s leading Integral Coach training company. In addition to this work, Steve is also on the faculty of New Ventures West where he designs and leads classes that consistently receive high praise from participants.
Previously, Steve has held positions at Wind River, Motorola Computer Group, Motorola Cellular Subscriber Group, The Army Corps of Engineers, and The University of Illinois.
Steve is a Certified Somatic Coach from Strozzi Institute (2005), a Certified Integral Coach from New Ventures West (2002), an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited coach training program, and a Certified Coaching to Excellence trainer (2002).
Steve currently lives in Oakland, California. He enjoys rock climbing, tennis, yoga, qigong, Zen meditation, and volunteering his time cooking for homeless teens.
Megan McKenzie
Megan is a “serial entrepreneur” who founded A Virtual Certainty and BYS Coaching to help entrepreneurial service professionals attract all of the clients they want, remove the obstacles to their success through increased productivity and improved process and to stay sane and focused through it all.
Megan was certified by Michael Port, as a Book Yourself Solid Coach, received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Roosevelt University, and attended graduate courses in organizational behavior and leadership development. She was recently appointed as a member of the Chicago Coach Federation Board of Directors. Megan boasts a 30-year fascination in the areas of process improvement, personal productivity and organizational behavior, and channels her experience by advising and administering to entrepreneurs. Among her unique set of specializations, Megan collaborates with first-time business owners as they define their own unique path to prosperity; empowering with the strategies and systems that ensure self-sufficiency and partnering to execute tactics with a virtual project team.
Megan is a published author, high-energy speaker (Topics include: Life Design for Female Entrepreneurs, Launching your Business in 90 days and Getting Booked Solid for Female Entrepreneurs,) and dedicated cheerleader from whom her clients learn that anything is possible as long as there are systems and strategies in place.
In her spare time, she is hard at work writing two books Live the Cat Life – A guide for reducing stress and increasing balance and Designing and Maintaining an Entrepreneurial Enterprise – A guidebook for female entrepreneurs.
Sharon Sayler, MBA
Sharon is a Communication Success Strategist works as counsel and coach to professionals who want to be more than just a competent communicator and presenter. They know that great leadership starts with effective communication—communication that not only educates an audience but influences them. She helps you leverage your brand and boost your credibility so you build your business and opportunities through the development and understanding of the non-verbals that send the right message!
Sharon’s passion is working with folks just like you, to implement easy and practical skills and steps to build success and relationships through what she calls conscious communication.
As a Certified Group Dynamics and Behavioral Coach, Master Practitioner of NLP and hypnotherapist, she understands communication strategy and persuasion, including building trust, permission, credibility and rapport, content construction, non-verbal message delivery, and motivators of change.
She doesn’t waste time on empty platitudes. Her interactive coaching and workshops use systems, tools and examples based on her career in business and consulting including communications director for Michael Port and Associates, host of BlogTalkRadio’s Beyond Lip Service and co-owner of Impression Engineers. She is also a Certified Book Yourself Solid Coach and has a decade of experience as an Associate with Michael Grinder and Associates, one of the foremost authorities on non-verbal communication.
She is the author of Beyond Marketing and Life’s Short Live Passionately, a practical yet inspiring guide to live a life of choice, passion and joy. As an award-winning copywriter and designer, she has created projects for clients such as the Portland Trailblazers and the Clinton White House Western Forestry Conference.
Staff
Samantha Macke, Administration Director
Samantha’s professional career began as a high school teacher in a small charter school. While the instruction of students was rewarding, the growth of the endeavor was fascinating. Because she began teaching at the same time that the school opened, she was able to be part of the strategic planning process and business development including recruitment of students, development of policy and management of staff. After a few years as a teacher, she was promoted to an Assistant Director of the School. In that position she found her passion for curriculum and staff development. Creating competency based and dynamic curriculums then training the staff to implement them seemed to utilize all of her natural talents and interests. After leaving the education field, she began working with other small organizations to facilitate staff trainings and support in business development initiatives.
Samantha was thrilled to join Michael Port as the Administration Director for BSU. Here she is perpetually engaged in intellectually stimulating projects and loves working with our clients to help them achieve their dreams. She has found an outlet for her organizational tendencies in an environment that supports a creative individual. With Michael Port, it is all about thinking big and Samantha is looking to do just that.
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