Calvin Iwema, a partner with Executive Allies works with executives and high potentials in both one-on-one and group formats.  He has spent the last 10 years consulting with individuals and teams to increase their career and personal effectiveness.  Besides his corporate work, he has practiced as a licensed psychological counselor in private practice.

Calvin’s unique strength is the perspective and experience gained from inside corporate America as well as from a therapeutic and academic perspective.  This allows clients to bridge the gap between bottom-line business results and their own inner landscape. Calvin’s depth of approach is coupled with a vigilant focus on translating self-understanding into sustainable behavior change and impact.  Clients then not only understand their behavior and communication patterns, but use this awareness as the foundation for change. 

Before beginning to his corporate consulting and therapy career, Calvin worked inside corporate America in the fields of enterprise software sales and internet consulting.  Prior to this, he worked as an arbitrage clerk and commodity trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. 

Calvin holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology and an undergraduate degree in Economics from The University of Illinois at Chicago.  He is also a graduate of Coach U Coaching University.  Calvin has practiced as a licensed counselor in the State of Illinois and a member of the Illinois Counseling Association.

Denise Forsythe, a partner with Executive Allies works with intact leadership teams, high potentials, and individual executives to take their leadership to the next level. She has successfully worked with top-level management of global and very large-scale companies in a number of industries. 

Denise helps organizations assess their leadership bench and determine the highest impact interventions to achieve business goals.  She helps leadership teams and individuals improve specific competencies, elevate their emotional intelligence, lead higher performing work teams, improve alignment and effectiveness across organizational units, and establish practices for continuous renewal and learning.

Denise is a highly versatile leadership development professional. Her work draws on the depth and breadth of experience she gained in her years as a consultant, augmented by her professional training in counseling and coaching, and personal transformational experiences.   She is recognized for her strength and depth of leadership character, and professional-level skills in one-on-one work with executives. 

Previously, Denise was a leadership development consultant at Allstate where she created an intensive multi-faceted leadership development program for high potentials and managed the President’s council on top-level succession planning.  As an Associate Partner at Accenture, Denise spent 17 years in “Big 5” consulting where she held a wide variety of roles including Executive Coach to a top executive, Director of Market Launch for a $5 billion start-up,  Business Architect for a customer service center, Global Director of Marketing, and Project Manager for numerous complex software development projects.

Denise has a Masters degree in Counseling and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.  Through demonstrated client experience, she has been designated a Certified Executive Coach by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches.  Denise is certified in a number of leadership instruments including:  Benchmarks 360 from the Center for Creative Leadership; Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360 and Personal Directions from MRG, Career Architect from Lominger; Organizational Design and Culture Assessment from Virtual CEO; and the Legacy Leadership model created by the Legacy Leadership Institute.   Denise has served on the board of the Counseling Center of Lakeview for the past six years.