FOUNDERS & FACILITATORS
Sandy sullivan
Founder & Partner
Sandy's 25+ years working in the area of Leadership and coaching includes 22 years traveling the globe for GE and engaging with leaders around the world.
Sandy's style is to embrace both "the thrill of victory" - The Masterpiece and the "agony of defeat" - The Mess. Sandy shares her own personal journey of victory and defeat and encourages leaders to claim their own Masterpiece and harvest the growth and inspiration of their own Mess.
The Masterpiece of Sandy has afforded her the opportunity to work with diverse global business professionals. Her "secret sauce" getting to the heart of the matter in her work is a unique blend of presence, connection and deep curiosity.
The Mess of Sandy has given her a platform to share how she built, broke and restored trust several times in her life both personally and professionally. Sandy shares the value of learning and growth in both the light and dark (shadow) of leadership.
Sandy has two children Steven (29) and Kara (27) and lives with her husband Andrew in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Allie Wik
Founder & Partner
Allie brings relentless courage and curiosity to all the work she does, particularly as a Lead Facilitator and Executive Coach for Alchemy. She is committed to activating the extraordinary inside of each and every client she serves, whether it is in an enrollment conversation or a coaching call - no conversation is too small for value to be experienced.
As one of the Founders of Alchemy, Allie has curated a team, who together are relentlessly commitment to truly living, breathing and practicing all the work of Alchemy shares. The team has brought this work to life with and for the 25+ Fortune 500 companies they serve. Since its creation, over six years ago, the company has coached over 630 leaders.
Allie’s analytical foundation and business acumen comes from eight years of experience at GE in strategic marketing and employee communications. She is a graduate of The University of Rochester, has a Master’s degree from Columbia University and an MBA from University at Albany. Allie practices courage and inspiration in all she does, especially in the life she’s built in upstate NY with her husband Steve, son Charlie (6) and son Henry (3).
Additional leadership FACILITATORS
carolyn Freyer-Jones
Leadership Alchemist
Devon bandison
Leadership Alchemist
Born and raised in NYC, Devon shares the same energetic heartbeat, big personality and commitment to excellence as his hometown. He is committed to transforming leaders into Game Changers; helping them play full out in life, relationships and business. Devon’s clients include corporate executives, Fortune 100 Companies, professional athletes/sports organizations, salespeople, business owners, and the top executive/life coaches around the world.
Devon earned his B.A in Psychology and Master’s Degree in Public Administration. He has over 15 years of experience creating and delivering nationally recognized programs, providing professionals with the tools necessary to become effective leaders. His book “Fatherhood is Leadership: Your Playbook for Success, Self-Leadership and a Successful Life” was a #1 New Release on Amazon in August 2017. Devon’s coaching has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and his work can be found in places like the Huffington Post, Inc Magazine, and Success Magazine.
Devon is the proud father of three wonderful human beings (21,17,8) who teach him much more about life and love than he could ever hope to teach them.
Carolyn Freyer-Jones, M.A., has been coaching women and men for over 15 years, assisting them in their growth as leaders. Her clients include corporate executives, business owners, authors, lawyers, television hosts, salespeople, and more.
Carolyn has supported clients in launching new businesses, strengthening relationships, transforming careers, and experiencing greater success, fulfillment, peace, and joy. She loves supporting service professionals in growing in their ability to be powerful and effective enrollers—many of whom have experienced results of growing their income two and three times. Carolyn is a long time champion of women who has developed and co-facilitated a series of dynamic women’s coaching groups.
THE ALCHEMY COACHES
SUSTAINING TRANSFORMATION WITH CONTINUED INDIVIDUAL GROWTH
Amy Hruby, MA
Executive Coach & Alchemy Coaching Coordinator
Amy Hruby comes to the field of executive coaching with over eight years of coaching experience. Amy’s inner attunement, wisdom, deep listening skills, and genuine caring creates a space which allows her clients the ability to access their own inner wisdom. Her coaching inspires her clients to create new possibilities by supporting them in owning their magnificence and “breaking” next actions into “doable” next steps. She has great success with assisting her clients with achieving more fulfilling, purposeful lives personally and professionally.
Amy has held positions on virtually every rung of the leadership ladder: Administrator, Manager, Director, and the Vice President level. She’s worked for family-owned businesses, institutions of higher education and start-ups. Amy loves serving organizations that are making a difference in people’s lives and the world. Supporting visionaries in bringing their visions to life is at the heart of her life’s purpose.
Amy holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Westminster College and a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She also received a Certification in Consciousness, Health & Healing and a Certification as a Soul-Centered Professional Coach from the University of Santa Monica. She’s been married to her husband John for over 20 years and has two beautiful boys, Connor & Cayden. Amy lives in Los Angeles.
Alex Cary, MA
Executive Coach
Alex Cary is an executive life coach empowering individuals and organizations to thrive and achieve results with meaning. For over 17 years, she has worked as an internationally established entrepreneur, supporting clients to evaluate and alter the very trajectory of their lives, for the better. Alex’s approach to coaching is based on the premise that outer experience is a reflection of inner reality, and that we already possess the creativity, resourcefulness and wisdom necessary to reach our highest human potential. In other words, there is nothing within us that needs to be “fixed”. Rather, the opportunity in coaching is to identify and remove perceived limitations that block our true strengths and talents from naturally coming forward.
Alex began her career in account management for multi-national advertising agencies partnering with Mazda Motor Cars, Asiana Airlines, DirecTV and Mattel. In 1999, she launched her first entrepreneurial endeavor in design which grew to have an international presence. After receiving a Masters in Spiritual Psychology, Alex followed her heart and launched her professional coaching career – and she’s never looked back.
Tarita Preston
Executive Coach
Tarita Preston is an executive life coach who is passionate about helping people create a life on purpose. She works with leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives. She coaches individuals on life and leadership and helps them bring presence to every moment. Her clients improve creativity, communication and understand the value of slowing down to speed up. She believes that we each are creative, resourceful and whole.
Tarita honed her skills in leadership and coaching by working in a number of environments around the globe. She started her career working on political campaigns in the United States and moved to London to work for the UK Parliament. She has lived abroad in South Korea as an English teacher and later became a Human Resources Business Partner for General Electric before becoming an entrepreneur.
Tarita holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and a Master’s Degree in Labor Employment Relations from the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. She is trained in Co-Active Coaching and the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition. Her specialties include Team Building, Culture and Organizational Change, Conscious Communication and Conflict Management.
Nicola Albini, JD, MA
Executive Coach
Nicola Albini guides executives, athletes and organizations to redefine success, create results and actualize their full potential. As a businessman and former athlete, he brings a seasoned yet unique perspective to personal growth, leadership and performance development.
Originally from Italy, Nicola is a co-owner of a shipping company, a $500+ million business with 1000+ employees worldwide. Now based in California, he brings his 20 years of business experience to individual and organizational coaching clients as an expert in the complex dynamics of personal and professional relationships, leadership, and peak performance in all areas of life.
Nicola has a law degree from the University of Florence and holds a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. He also received extensive NLP and Enneagram training, and a Conscious Leadership Group coaching certification and affiliation. His specialties lie in: Transformational Coaching, Peak Performance, Team Building, Culture & Organizational Change, and the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership.
Elizabeth Goldman, MA, LCSW
Executive Coach
Liz Goldman is an executive coach and licensed clinical social worker. She has over 20 years of experience working with individuals and groups, and combines her many years of experience into a framework where people can do deep work and move their lives forward in significant ways. Liz’s individual clients include men and women who are taking their professional lives to the next level, facing opportunities in their parenting, or are in major transitions in their lives including divorce, physical health challenges, or professional career changes. Liz serves a wide range of people from leaders in corporate positions to writers, lawyers, and small business owners. She excels in helping people take the blinders off and get beyond the limiting stories they have made up about themselves. Her commitment to assisting others in creating new stories and empowered possibilities is significant – Liz’s clients know that she will not let them play small. She believes that accessing one’s own unique gifts and wisdom is key to personal and professional transformation. In addition to her coaching practice, Liz is happily raising her two daughters, Sophie (17) & Olivia (15).
Liz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, with an emphasis in Consciousness, Health and Healing. Liz maintains a clinical license in social work and holds a certificate in Trauma Studies from the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.
Veronica Alweiss, MA
Executive Coach
Veronica is an executive coach committed to high level results. She’s been coaching for 15 years. Her business clients are global – in four continents and seven countries, across industries and diverse cultures. Veronica cultivates a profound partnership with her clients, achieving lasting impact on high performance, productivity, client relationships, business results, and quality of life. Her approach is to drive transformation both through bold and inspired visioning, planning and action, while equally sourcing the power of mindset. Her clients establish the new behaviors, habits and ways of thinking that they need to take their organization, their team, and themselves to higher performance levels. In addition, her clients learn to anchor themselves in their own purpose and interconnect that drive with the mission and objectives of the organization to which they contribute.
Veronica’s areas of focus include: developing skills in diagnosing and resolving organizational, team and individual performance challenges — Cultivating executive presence — Improving strategic thinking and vision-based leadership — Cultivating sales and presenting skills to improve achievement of business results — Developing communication strategies to increase influence and promote transformation
She is a Dale Carnegie graduate and earned her MA in Spiritual Psychology with an Emphasis in Consciousness, Health and Healing and her Professional Coaching Certification with the University of Santa Monica. Veronica is based in her beloved adopted city, New Orleans—the fulfillment of a life-long dream.
Jonny Roman, M.A.
Executive Coach
As an executive coach, Jonny Roman is a deep believer in the power of coaching. He loves the excitement he sees in his clients when they connect with a new possibility for their careers, businesses, relationships, and lives. He serves clients around the world, helping them reduce stress, increase motivation, create positive accountability, and find more fulfillment. His greatest joy is helping clients uncover the creative solutions they already have inside of them.
Jonny has a passion for travel and has lived abroad extensively. He spent 7 years living and working throughout Latin America, where he developed his leadership skills and Spanish fluency as the Director of Global Programs and Regional Director of Latin America for an international social enterprise. He has led and managed hundreds of group-based international retreats and loves the transformational opportunities that come from travel.
Jonny has been a passionate pursuer of all things personal development for the past 20+ years. Coaching training through the Robbins-Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention, a graduate of Anthony Robbins’ Mastery University, the year-long Authentic Leadership Academy, Dale Carnegie Leadership Training, and Master’s Degrees in both Spiritual Psychology and Global Public Health, Jonny draws from a wide-range of personal and professional development tools and strategies to create real, tangible results for his clients.
His passion for coaching began with a deep need to help himself. Having overcome severe depression and anxiety, he now uses his experience to help others create lives they truly love.
Jonny is a soon-to-be father, living with his wonderful wife, and their tripod dog named Ollie in snowy Minnesota.
Wendy Wright
Executive Coach
Wendy brings more than 25 years of corporate success working as a senior leader in international financial and development institutions. Wendy is a certified professional coach who partners with her clients to create awareness surrounding patterns that don’t serve and addresses obstacles that are in the way of achieving identified goals and objectives. Wendy does this through moving from insight to action through intuitive, curious and compassionate questioning and listening that leads to amazing results.
Experience
Professional Certified Coach, with certifications from the International Coach Federation the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching
Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner
Experienced Senior Corporate Executive and Personal Coach
Co-Coach, Partnership for Public Service
25 years senior leadership experience in international financial and development industry
Advanced Graduate Degrees: M.S. Economics and M.A. Public Policy
Fluent Spanish speaker
Areas of Focus
Awareness, Insight to action, Effective Communication, Accountability, Mindset Leadership, High Performance Team Building, Results
Carol Little
Executive Coach
In her 17+year career as a Certified Master Facilitator and Coach, she has trained and coached leaders in the Computer, Finance, Corporate Real Estate, Automotive, Funeral, Electronics, and Health Care industries. As an Executive Coach she has worked with many high-level executives, business owners and individuals. She excels at helping people move beyond the roadblocks that prevent them from achieving their goals. Dedicated and hardworking, Carol is committed to her client's success. Her passionate and fun style keeps her clients coming back for more. She is also an in demand Public Speaker, speaking at various organizations and events around the country. She is also a frequent guest on business-oriented Podcasts.
Carol’s credentials & affiliations include: IPEC Coaching Certification; Energy Leadership Index Master Certification; The Art of Facilitation Certification; Masters Training Certification; Infinite Possibilities Master Certification; Screen Actors Guild; American Federation of Radio & Television Artists; Actors Equity Association; Published Author (Mission Possible & Change Masters E-book Series); Securities Licenses: Series 7 & 24 (also licensed in Commodities)