Barb McEwen and John Agno, North America's top business coaches for executive women

BARB McEWEN is a well-known Master Executive Coach and Organizational Development Consultant who works with senior executives from around the world to help identify and assess developmental opportunities for both organizations and individuals.

Her unique, practical and powerful strategies make her easy to talk to and she has a way of demystifying what it takes to become more effective. Barb is accustomed to coaching both high-potential individuals and those requiring new skills to help them enhance their leadership competencies. Her coaching deepens the client's awareness of his or her unique strengths as a foundation for improvement. She helps them to gain personal insight and to recognize the requirements of the organization in which they work. Barb capably leads her clients through a process of setting realistic goals and then demonstrates how to achieve those goals in common sense and practical terms. Her toolbox of sensible strategies guarantees success.

JOHN AGNO now coaches senior executives, business owners and their management teams on how best to lead the company to where they want it to be. Previously, he had a successful corporate career in general management and management consulting. His behavioral enhancement focus allows the leader’s perceptions to evolve through increased self-awareness while building upon what he or she does best to pull employees, peers, free agents and volunteers toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.

Agno is a certified executive coach (CEC) by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches---the highest designation for business coaches. He is also a certified business coach (CBC) through the International Consortia of Business Coaches, a member of the International Coach Federation, a founding member of CoachVille and founder of the Coach-to-Coach Network, a virtual peer-to-peer community of 1,400 personal and business coaches worldwide.

He holds a BSBA from the University of Florida and is a graduate of B-Coach Systems LLC, an executive and business coach training school. Within the coaching industry, Agno is a recognized thought leader, infomediary, facilitator, and guest speaker on the importance of effective leadership.