SEE Strategies Leadership Team

Michelle Payne, MCC

Chief Operating Officer

Executive & Leadership Coach

Internationally recognized business advisor Michelle Payne turned to coaching after a decade of executive leadership in the retail industry. At Gap, Inc., Macy's, and Limited Inc., Michelle headed up teams as large as 1000+. Michelle knows how to get to the top. She's passionate about helping others understand their power and apply it to achieving their goals.

Michelle is a Master Certified Coach and in the top 1% of her profession in the world. She has coached executives across the U.S., in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Switzerland. Her strong sales background enhances the value of every coaching engagement. She is a leader in not only the business world, but also the coaching industry. Some of her accomplishments:

• Participating coach in a program between the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
• Nominated and elected for the Board of the International Coach Federation, 2006-2009.
• Credential Assessor for the International Coach Federation's credentialing program.
• Selected core leadership coach for California State University, Sacramento’s Exemplary Leadership Program.
• Faculty at Coach U, the top accredited Coach Training Organization in the industry.
• Co-founded and is Chairman of the Board of A Hand UP Coaching, an international non-profit organization that arranges coaching partnerships for women in need (affiliated with Dress for Success Worldwide and sponsored by AT & T Wireless).
• Certified in Emotional Intelligence
• Winner of the Outstanding Women Leader Award for 2003.

Board memberships: International Coach Federation, A Hand UP Coaching

Michelle and her clients have been featured in The Wallstreet Journal, Smart Money Magazine, L.A. Times, Sacramento Bee, The Business Journal and Entrepreneur Magazine.

“Michelle Payne has been my business coach since February 2002.  Through her guidance, expertise, and encouragement, we now have a successful thriving business. Through Michelle’s coaching, I learned how to be disciplined, focused, and to take action, which helped see me through the difficult times. Because goal setting, prioritizing and follow-through were encouraged, I stayed the course and eventually won my first large contract with Office Depot. Michelle is a gifted coach and I highly recommend her to anyone looking toward the future.”
--- Julia M. Rhodes, CEO, Kleenslate Concepts, LLC

Kay Cannon, MCC

Leadership Coach
Kay Cannon helps Fortune 500 leaders, entrepreneurs, government and non-profit executives find their way to more money, more meaning and a far greater contribution in life. With 25 years of leadership experience, this internationally-recognized executive coach and leadership expert has consulted with individuals and institutions from NASA to health care organizations, professional athletes to the International SPA Association.

Kay Cannon Inc. is the creator of The Diamond Ingenuity™ Self-Mastery System, Cannon’s writings, workshops and speeches help business audiences reclaim their core values and find greater effectiveness, grounding, and personal power in their workplaces.

Cannon is one of less than 800 coaches worldwide to earn the International Coach Federation’shighest distinction, the Master Certified Coach credential. Cannon’s interest in global leadership is further reflected by her service as the 2007 President of the International Coach Federation.

The Texas native earned her B.S. from the University of Texas and her M.B.A from the University of Kentucky.

Ginger Jenks, MCC

Executive Coach
Ginger Jenks is an Executive Coach who specializes in the areas of leadership development, communication, team building and life design.  She works with organizations, teams and individuals, coaching them to be who they are capable of being – not just who they can get away with being.  Ginger has created several programs to facilitate this, including the Professional Human Being program. 

Ginger has served on the Board of Directors for the International Coach Federation (a global organization of 15,000 coaches from over 80 countries), the Advisory Board of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations, and presently serves  on the Finance Committee for the ICF.  She has also held various other leadership positions in organizations outside of coaching.

Originally from the Boston area, Ginger presently lives in the beautiful mountain town of Durango, Colorado.  She coaches several CEO’s, and clients have hailed from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups to agility competitors.   Many of her clients are associated with the commercial real estate industry, where Ginger spent 13 years in development and asset management and has considerable expertise and experience.

Angela Woodrow-San Antonio Office
Project Management
Angela Woodrow comes to SEE Strategies with over 19 years experience in adaptation and relocation. She enthusiastically believes in exploring possibilities to develop the optimum opportunity.

Her passion for performance in all aspects of life is founded in an educational performing arts background. An alumni of London Central School of Speech and Drama, she developed an environment of synergistic learning for both American and British educators. She has coordinated and facilitated award winning creative problem solving educational programs for Department of Defense Schools while living in the United Kingdom and Germany.

To achieve maximum benefits of any opportunity, Angie regards the integration of professional & personal leadership development in the working environment as essential.
She is dedicated to helping educational, non-profit, for- profit, and public entities to meet and exceed their organizational expectations.

Angie has created customized training programs for the United States Air Force, American Red Cross, Sutter County Working Group for Permanent Housing, and the California Department of Rehabilitation that engage and enhance the participants learning experience.

Samuel Wee, MBA, MA, MA & Project Leader – Switzerland
Corporate & Leadership Coach & Facilitator

Samuel is a Corporate & Leadership Coach and Facilitator with diverse and solid successful professional background, including finance & accounting, sales & marketing, international business development, strategic planning and information technology. He brings over 30 years of executive experience from the business sector and, from the United Nation and non-profit sectors. He has held positions as Chief Financial Officer, European Financial Controller, Group Asia Pacific Business Development Manager, International Manager, Financial Planning & Reporting Manager and Strategic Planning & Production Forecasting Manager in manufacturing based US and European multinational corporations and national sales & distribution companies. He has worked across Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific regions.  His success through people gravitate him towards developing people.

Samuel's hands-on specialty is Inspiring Human Potential in individuals, teams and organizations. He is passionate about finding the true excellence in people and bringing it into their work and life. His energy, his desire to enjoy life and his interest in the success of his clients are often factors that attract new clients to his practice.

As a professional coach, his clients include ‘C’ position leaders, board members, entrepreneurs, executives and professionals. As an organizational consultant he specializes in change initiatives, strategy development and operational performance improvements. As a facilitator, he designs and delivers management and leadership training and development workshops, covering a wide range of organizational and personal needs.

He is a Singapore-Chinese, who works comfortably in English, French, Mandarin, and understands basic German. His hobbies include martial arts, golfing, scuba diving, and reading. One of Samuel’s secret hobbies is experimenting, where he has successfully combined martial arts teachings, Chinese energy system, philosophy, psychology, science, management and leadership theories and best practices to bring out the best in organizations, teams and individuals.

Linda Wee-Henz. MA, BA – Switzerland
Coach & Trainer
Deeply empowered to activate human potential, Linda Wee naturally gravitated toward coaching, in addition to her management training and group facilitation activities. With holistic health as a core value, she is convinced everyone can shine by unveiling and living their special gifts. In business as well as personal contexts, she advocates reliance on heart, intellect and continuous learning to generate growth and lasting results. She accompanies personal transformation with empathy, trust and a healthy dose of challenge. She is keen to create with clients the spaces that foster innovation and open dialogue. She encourages experimenting with leading edge techniques that centre, re-align and generate planned results.

Training workshop design and delivery, covering a wide range of organizational and personal needs, are priced by project. Our workshops are always customized to suit your requirements and aspirations. Blended learning approaches often provide the most sustainable results.

Individual coaching sessions may cover the full range of management and professional skills to team development and personal life coaching. Most can be conducted in person, or by telephone and e-mail. Fees vary, depending on the coaching plan you wish to commit to.

Fluent in English, French, German and Swiss-German (it’s a totally different language, really!) she enjoys multi-cultural exposure. Her personal interests include experiencing nature; exploring the unknown; playing with kids; reading to expand the mind and to nurture the soul.

Jim Phelps
Communication Guru
For nearly 25 years Jim Phelps has provided communications organizational development consulting services to private, public, and independent sector organizations.

Besides providing communications services to organizations of various size, Jim’s private sector background includes serving as Editorial Manager for Travelhost Magazine (National) in Dallas and Production Director for Cable Advertising Systems in Austin, TX. His background in the nonprofit sector includes being executive director for two chambers of commerce, executive director for an economic development corporation, and development director for a medical/mental health services provider. Over the past two years his grant proposals have garnered over $2 million in funding, while his direct mail campaigns consistently yield 7-10% returns.

In addition to producing high-level writing and communications projects for all sectors, Jim also provides executive-level consulting to nonprofits. Areas of interest include fund development, executive coaching and training, mergers, organizational development, and marketing/communications strategies.