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Associates
Helen Horyza
President, Elevate Inc.
Helen Horyza is an accomplished expert in the field of employee development, engagement and retention. She has over twenty years of experience delivering career development, training and facilitation services.
Helen’s depth of experience in all aspects of training and organizational development have equipped her as a key player in multi-year training programs in the areas of leadership development, workforce development and employee engagement. She has
conducted organization-wide needs assessments to determine the key learning objectives for large-scale training, developed leadership academies, and trained thousands of leaders.
A sought after speaker on business and motivational topics, Helen enjoys off-site/retreat facilitation. Her platform skills are well honed. She reaches audiences at their level and creates a learning environment that changes lives.
As an executive and business coach, Helen has helped hundreds of mid-to upper level
executives accelerate their career success and develop their leadership skills. Insightful, supportive, knowledgeable, and experienced are some of the terms her clients use to describe her. She inspires leaders and professionals seeking fulfillment in their careers—and avenues to inspire their employees.
Additionally, Helen is the inventor and author of Elevations, an online career assessment tool in use in colleges and universities, organizations and in consultant practices around the world. Helen holds a Master of Science degree in Career Counseling from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) and is a professionally trained coach through Coach Training International, and a Nationally Certified Career Counselor (NCCC).
Helen Horyza Visionary Integration Professional.
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Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill has over thirty years of professional experience in the field of organization and executive development, working with senior leaders across a variety of business and public sector organizations. He is the founder and principal consultant of Emergent Systems, a Santa Cruz based consulting firm dedicated to creating more viable, vital and sustainable organizations and communities.
His primary areas of focus include organization strategy development, change management, career planning, and executive coaching. His passion is creating a context for “conversations that matter” – convening groups who are engaged in common issues but don't usually work together, in conversations they've never had, creating a shared vision of a future they all want to see happen, and aligning around the actions that create real value for the organizations and for society. Gary is also skilled in the use of computer decision support tools and has facilitated interactive strategic planning sessions, stakeholder engagement and team development meetings both face to face and virtually.
Prior to starting Emergent Systems, Gary was a senior consultant with Catalyst Consulting Team, a national organization and leadership development firm.
Gary was co-founder and Senior Vice President for DBM Training & Consulting Company, a subsidiary of Drake Beam Morin, Inc., one of the world’s leading human resources consulting firms. In that role he was responsible for the development and implementation of consulting and executive education services throughout the United States and Europe.
Gary has also held senior internal consulting and human resource positions at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. where he was a founding member of the Organizational Effectiveness Team and the LMSC University.
His clients have included Granite Construction Company, Turner Construction, Herman Miller, the International Monetary Fund, Hewlett Packard, Adobe, Autodesk, Cisco, Oracle, Whole Foods, General Motors, Mount Madonna School, City of Grand Rapids, Stanford University, UCLA, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center and the Hospice Caring Project of Santa Cruz.
Gary holds a MS in Community and Clinical Psychology from San Jose State University and an A.B in Psychology and Human Ecology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.