WHO WE ARE

Dana Bilsky Asher, PhD

FOUNDING PRINCIPAL

Dana Bilsky Asher, PhD, is founder at RELATED ExPERIENCE and LEADERHOODS™, and a certified executive coach, seasoned facilitator, and organizational consultant. Dana has deep roots in human and business performance, and a track record of improving quality of life at work. She works with CEOs and others in the C-Suite, and with boards, founders, presidents, and rising executives. Across industries, with leading global organizations in high-growth as well as disrupted sectors, Dana's work builds capacity for learning and development on an individual and institutional level.

Dana works regularly with individuals and teams performing sub-optimally in response to systemic stress. Her approach re-establishes optimal conditions for thriving amidst rising demand and increased complexity. She has consulted to and coached at organizations including Accenture, amfAR, Bloomingdale’s, Bristol Myers Squibb, DuPont, Fitch Ratings, Flex, Ford Foundation, Gilead, IDEO, kpmg, LinkedIn, Macy’s, MassMutual, Mercer, Merck, MetLife, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, The Mom Project, Nestle, The New School, PwC, Standard & Poor’s, Stop & Shop, the US Air Force, and the US Department of Health and Human Services. Dana is currently training facilitators and rolling out a global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion curriculum to thousands of learners at Microsoft.

As Faculty at Columbia Business School Executive Education and at The Google School for Leaders, and as Managing Director at Mobius Executive Leadership and The Energy Project, Dana has helped some of the world’s top leaders and teams to perform sustainably while leading transformationally. As Practice Manager in the Capability for Performance Practice at McKinsey & Company, teams she led delivered measurable impact at scale. Prior to training at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, she was awarded a PhD with distinction from Northwestern University, in the humanities (the study of the human condition). Her thought leadership appears in Fast Company and Inner Workings. She was recently appointed to serve — alongside clergy, educators, law enforcement, and other community leaders — on one of New York's Governor-mandated Police Reform and Reinvention Committees.

RACHEL PARIKH, PCC

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

Annie Perrin, MS

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

Annie Perrin is a psychotherapist trained in the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote intellectual and emotional health and integration. She completed additional post-graduate training at the Sanctuary Institute, a theory-based, trauma-informed, whole-culture approach with a structured methodology for creating and changing organizational culture. Annie recently completed a two-year certification program at One Spirit Alliance focused on non-religious spiritual counseling. 

For ten years, Annie worked alongside the Founder and CEO of The Energy Project to create and teach a curriculum on managing the four dimensions of human energy in order to drive sustainable high performance. She worked with individuals, teams, and organizations to promote happier, healthier, more focused, and purposeful engagement. She designed The Energy Project’s coaching model and led the team that continued to evolve it. 

Annie has coached and consulted to C-suite executives from diverse sectors including Finance, Manufacturing, Not-for-Profit, Pharma, and Technology, at companies including Apple, Google, and Sony Pictures.

Annie is a Partner at Leaders’ Quest, where she works globally to connect leaders from diverse regions and sectors, who learn from one another to address the world’s most complex challenges.

Annie’s work is committed to the following principles, which she drafted.

John P. Sanchez, BA

PRACTITIONER

As an executive coach and organizational effectiveness professional, John helps senior and emerging leaders maximize professional effectiveness. He delivers value by helping to identify measurable goals and outcomes within the contexts of the organizations in which clients work, and then targeting the behavior characteristics keeping them from achieving those endpoints. He provides executive presence and executive onboarding coaching for leaders who have been either newly hired or promoted into highly responsible and visible positions, and are expected to produce results within a short timeframe. He also consults with and coaches leadership teams to increase collaboration for business results.

John earned a BA from the University of Massachusetts and teaches at the Columbia Business School MBA Recruitment Prep program. He has over 20 years of experience in Human Capital and Organizational Effectiveness, working within financial services, biopharma, management consulting, luxury retail, start-up tech, and PR/Communications, among other arenas.

Prior to work as a leadership practitioner, John was a consultant and human resources professional in various capacities at Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte Consulting LLP), Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda Oncology), and State Street Bank, among others. He brings deep experience in core HR competencies such as Performance & Talent Management, and Learning & Development. In these roles, he provides guidance and strategic business support in the form of concrete and measurable actions needed to make business decisions. 

Fluent in Spanish, John is an experienced facilitator certified to administer the MBTI for individuals and teams, the Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument, the Hogan HPI, HDS, and MVPI Assessments, and he is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner. In addition to working with clients, John serves the community in a number of pro bono capacities.

Kelly Ceynowa, MA

PRACTITIONER

Kelly Ceynowa creates opportunities where people can learn and change. Her coaching and consulting practice is fueled by eighteen years of working across the non-profit, public, and private sectors. She builds relationships with clients that facilitate change through self-awareness, feedback, reflection, and movement toward action. 

Compelled to better understand how change affects the way people behave and perform at work, Kelly earned an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. Her graduate studies included course and field work in executive coaching, change management, leadership development, decision-making, and adult learning.

Kelly’s philosophy is informed by the organizational development work she has done throughout her career, including designing curriculum for leadership development programs at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, facilitating workshops for leaders from across industry including Deloitte, Delta, Coach Inc., New York Life, Conde’ Nast, Novo Nordisk, American Documentary, Etsy, Creative Artists Agency, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and more, selecting top talent for CNN, and managing through executive transition at the Loft Literary Center. 

As a perpetual consultant, Kelly is often asked to coach people through career transitions at the conference and dinner table. She is endlessly interested in how people interact with and react to organizational change. She gets fired up when facilitating workshops where leaders realize a strategy’s success is correlated to the way people are recruited, brought into the culture, managed, and developed. She is motivated to go beyond the data to reveal what groups and individuals are doing to get the job done.

Melanie Hoopes, MA

PRACTITIONER