COACHING & CONSULTING

Rev. Dr. Beth Golden

Reverend and Motivational Speaker and Life Coach Be Golden LLC Bluffton, SC

Bluffton, SC — Rev. Dr. Beth Golden, is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Professional of the Year for her excellence as a Master Life Coach, Author, Speaker, and Consultant. An ordained minister who holds a Ph.D. in metaphysics, Dr. Beth Golden has served as the Founder of Beth Golden Ph.D. LLC since 2011. A highly regarded author, motivational speaker, and consultant, she blends her knowledge of metaphysics and divinity with life experiences to help her clients build solid relationships in all areas of life.

She offers interactive speaking engagements, small group counseling, and her signature masterclass, entitled “Women Change the World,” to help women ages 50 and older navigate rapid change in their lives. “My genius,” Dr. Golden says, “is helping women re-create themselves when you are keeping it together on the outside but losing it on the inside. I’ve experienced many upheavals, and it’s my mission to help you get through yours as quickly as possible.”

Among her books, Dr. Golden has authored Golden Solutions for Change and its companion guide, The Soulful 7. Her writings aim to help the reader stay grounded in times of social, economic, and personal change.

Dr. Golden holds a Doctor of Divinity and Ph.D. in Metaphysical Sciences from the University of Metaphysical Sciences. Additionally, has earned an Associate’s degree in Medical Assisting from San Diego Mesa College. Dr. Golden holds certifications as a Professional Life Coach and Trainer from The Y.O.U. Institute. She is a member of Project Self Sufficiency and the Hilton Head - Bluffton Chamber of Commerce. She is also involved with the Women Give organization.

In her spare time, Dr. Golden enjoys travel, art, music, dining and spending time with her Havanese dog.

In accepting this honorable recognition, she would like to thank her mentors, Dr. Zannah Hackett and Rachel Jane Groover.

For more information, visit www.bethgoldenphd.com.

Jill Best

CEO and Founder Rise Up Happy and Healthy Nampa, ID

Nampa, ID — Jill Best is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as an Exceptional Business Professional for her accomplishments as a Life Coach and Energy Healer and in acknowledgment of her company, Rise Up Happy and Healthy. A Master Transformational Coach and Energy Balancing Practitioner, Ms. Best has served as the CEO and Founder of Rise Up Happy and Healthy for more than five years. In her work, she helps clients break free from the emotional baggage holding them back from living a quality life and engaging in healthy relationships.

Ms. Best typically works with people who have suffered pain or loss in their lives due to divorce or other complicated relationships. She helps them release their old patterns of relating and learn how to love themselves, their lives, and others. In serving her clients, she utilizes the practices of transformational life coaching, energy well-being, and healthy nutrition.

“Everyone has intrinsic birthrights that we identify with and through which we filter our lives,” Ms. Best says. “When our birthrights are imbalanced or missing, we attract uncomfortable experiences into our life, and we behave in ways we don’t understand or even want.” She explains, “I’m able to help my clients see how they’ve filtered birthrights and meanings throughout their lives, find the unhealthy patterns of relating and then release and update them to create the life they have always wanted. It’s being able to take something from our experiences and move forward in a beautiful, happy and healthy way.”

Ms. Best is certified through the Health Coach Institute as a Master Transformational Life and Health Coach. She additionally holds Body and Emotion Code certifications.

In her free time, she enjoys dancing, playing board/card games, and spending time with her family, friends, and her little dog, Lili.

For more information, visit https://riseuphappyandhealthy.com/.

June M. Carter

CEO and Founder Tango Leadership Charlotte, NC

Charlotte, NC — June M. Carter is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as an Exceptional Business Professional for her excellence as an Executive Coach and Consultant and in acknowledgment of her company, Tango Leadership. Ms. Carter serves as the CEO and Founder of Tango Leadership, helping cultivate exceptional leaders and equip them with the skills they need to effectively lead organizational change and build their highperforming teams and leaders. Her consulting firm features a core 13-member team and an expanded network of almost 80 professionals, offering highly personalized services to meet individual and organizational leadership needs.

“Successfully navigating the evolving business environment as a leader is not much different from the tango,” Ms. Carter says. “It takes true partnership, the magic of collaboration, and the willingness and ability to lead through change.” Ms. Carter says that crafting a vision is only part of a leader’s job. Their other role is to develop a culture that allows other leaders to emerge. “Strong leaders grow more leaders,” she says.

In her work, Ms. Carter and her team work with organizations to elevate the strategic thinking of executive leaders and teach them to lead through change effectively. She calls for leaders to ask themselves: Where are you trying to go? What’s your vision, and how can you get there with passion, purpose, and joy? How are you engaging with others? Are you learning from mistakes and still having fun?

“I love watching people thrive,” Ms. Carter says. “I am most proud of how our clients leave our work thriving – growing their business, leading with purpose, and bringing joy and fun back to work and life.”

Outside of her business, Ms. Carter supports the Time Out Youth community organization and her local humane society. She enjoys painting and spending time with her dog in her free time.

Ms. Carter wishes to dedicate this honor to her late father, John J. Forhan.

For more information, visit https://tangoleadershipcoaching.com/.

Dr. Katherine Johnson, DBA

President Johnson Consulting Group Frederick, MD

Frederick, MD - Katherine Johnson, DBA, is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Top Pinnacle Consultant and Author and in acknowledgment of her outstanding work at Johnson Consulting Group.

Dr. Katherine Johnson is a best-selling Author, Consultant, and Executive with more than 30 years of experience in energy-efficient technologies and management. She is the Founder and President of Johnson Consulting Group, which provides strategic planning, marketing, and financial consultative services to electric and gas utilities throughout North America and Canada. For the past decade, she has been leading collaborative forums to help guide decision-making efforts regarding the cost-effectiveness of current and emerging energy-efficiency tools and policy initiatives. Dr. Johnson has completed more than 200 process and impact evaluations during her extensive career.

In addition to her consulting work, Dr. Johnson is also a versatile author of books and publications, including technical manuals, a novel, and one nonfiction book. In 2007, she published Geo Heat Pumps: Leading Energy Utility Marketing Programs, Fifth Edition, which was updated in 2009 and 2010. She also authored the “Geothermal Heat Pump” chapter for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s 2008 technical handbook. Additionally, Dr. Johnson profiled all current HPwES programs in the Home Performance with Energy Star® compendium.

Her first novel, Grit & Granite, is based on her father’s fight against one of America’s most powerful corporations. Her second book, Women in Business - Breaking Through, is a nonfiction book that provides valuable insights on how women can differentiate themselves in a male-dominant industry. Re-released in June 2021, the book features conversations with successful women leaders in multiple sectors who share personal stories of overcoming obstacles in their careers.

In pursuit of her higher education, Dr. Johnson started her college career in 1979 at Butler University, where she was involved in Delta Gamma, RHO LAMBDA - Outstanding Greek Women on Campus, TAPS, SPURS, and the school’s championship-winning Debate Team. Dr. Johnson continued her undergraduate studies at Indiana University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Journalism in 1983. Next, she earned a Master of Business Administration degree, with concentrations in Marketing and Finance, in 1990 from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. She later went on to study at the University of Southern - Queensland and graduated in 2010 with her Doctorate of Business Administration in Strategy and Organizational Change. Her dissertation was titled “Changes in the Strategic Focus and Internal Operating Culture of Investor-Owned US Electric Utilities Due to Deregulation.”

Dr. Johnson has been recognized for her three decades of outstanding work with the B.H. Prasad Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award and was interviewed by Close Up radio regarding her career achievements. In 2020, she was named Energy Efficiency Professional of the Year and one of Energy Central’s “Voices of Energy.”

For more information, visit https://www. amazon.com/Women-Business-BreakingThrough-Katherine-ebook/dp/B08TBFXL75,

https://www.amazon.com/Grit-GraniteKatherine-Johnson-ebook/dp/B07MFBN9TB, and www.johnsonconsults.com.

Marguerite M. Callaway

Founder/CEO Callaway Leadership Institute Santa Rosa, CA

Santa Rosa, CA - Marguerite M. Callaway is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Distinguished Executive in the Leadership field and in acknowledgment of her work at the Callaway Leadership Institute.

Marguerite M. Callaway has been the CEO and Founder of the Callaway Leadership Institute since 1996, where she provides international leadership development courses to help leaders reach their goals. In pursuit of higher education, Ms. Callaway first attended Northwestern University, graduating with a Sociology and Music degree in 1972, followed by a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition and Developmental and Cognitive Psychology in 1977. She then earned an MBA degree in Behavioral Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1984

Ms. Callaway began her career as the Vice President of McMannis Associates in 1985 and became the Principal of Selzer Daley Companies in 1988. She worked in several Executive Healthcare Strategy and Partner roles at KPMG, Sharp Healthcare, and Kaiser Permanente, gaining over 40 years of practical leadership skills.

Ms. Callaway founded the Callaway Group LLC in 1996, where she consulted with medical centers on strategic planning and implementation, mergers and acquisitions, leadership development, board development, and more. That same year, Ms. Callaway also launched the Callaway Leadership Institute, offering a variety of workshops and intensives to prepare executives for the demands of modern-day leadership. Along with workshops, Ms. Callaway provides one-on-one sessions, women’s leadership programs, and coordinates in-house development workshops. She challenges her clients to reintroduce ethics and values in employee interactions, find their best leadership style, and incorporate emotional intelligence. Ms. Callaway loves to see her clients’ transformation as they advance in their training.

Today, Ms. Callaway is also a Faculty Member at Graduate School USA, teaching in Washington DC and online. She has been a Professor at the Yale University School of Public Health School of Medicine since 2005, teaching Nursing Leadership and Policy courses in numerous African countries, China, and the United Kingdom.

She has been recognized for her achievements by Medium and has recently given a speaking engagement with New Dimensions Radio about creating new patterns in an everchanging world.

In her spare time, Ms. Callaway enjoys hiking, walking, seeing live concerts, and learning about the study of consciousness.

For more information, visit https://callawayleadership.com/.

Mike Alkis

President Bizopolis Consulting Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Mike Alkis is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime Achiever in the Business field and in acknowledgment of his work at Bizopolis Consulting Inc.

Mr. Alkis has expertise in re-aligning and restructuring businesses through his company, Bizopolis Consulting Inc. He is currently helping prepare the next generations for the technological transitions they will face. Mr. Alkis has now been in the field for over 20 years, helping clients worldwide. At Bizopolis, Mr. Alkis helps businesses of all sizes transition to online communication. After COVID-19, more business transactions occur online than ever before, and companies have to adapt quickly. Bizopolis helps people make integrated decisions that affect their business and personal lives. Mr. Alkis has expert knowledge of accounting, finance, training, management consulting, operations, and technology integration.

Mr. Alkis helps his clients who want to increase their productivity and profitability or require restructuring of the business. He says, “Ultimately, we help our clients focus on achieving what’s most important to them, their business, and their family.” Mr. Alkis has helped people from various industries, including retail, manufacturing, real estate, hospitality, importing, and more.

In the future, Mr. Alkis plans to create a device model to assist businesses of all kinds to adapt and thrive. Remaining involved in his profession, he is a member of the Society of CPAs.

In his spare time, he loves to garden, as he was a farmer for many years.

For more information, visit http://www.bizopolis.ca/.

Taryn Marie Stejskal, Ph.D.

Founder & Chief Resilience Officer Resilience Leadership Institute Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia, PA — Taryn Marie Stejskal, Ph.D., is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Top Pinnacle Executive in the Professional Coaching industry and in acknowledgment of her work at the Resilience Leadership Institute.

An accomplished coaching professional, Taryn Marie Stejskal, Ph.D., is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer at the Resilience Leadership Institute. She first attended the University of Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 2001 and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Dr. Stejskal attended the University of Maryland College Park, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2008. She then attended the Virginia Commonwealth University, earning her Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Neuropsychology in the Department of Rehabilitation in 2009. Dr. Stejskal first started researching the value of resilience over 15 years ago during her Fellowships in Neuropsychology. She wanted to better understand why some patients who received neurological injuries, spinal cord injuries, or brain injuries recovered more of their mental capacity than others. Working closely with patients during their rehabilitation, she used the research information to influence her future studies.

Dr. Stejskal wrote a dissertation on Family Intervention to help patients and their families better understand their neurological injuries. After working with hundreds of people and asking important questions, she has developed the Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People. The steps include vulnerability, productive perseverance, connection with others, gratiosity (gratitude + generosity), and possibility, despite hindrance. Debunking the notion that you must be born with resilience to achieve it, she says, “I wanted to know why, when presented to challenge, some people flourished and others folded.”

Today, Dr. Stejskal applies her research to work with clients and give public speaking engagements. She is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer at the Resilience Leadership Institute. Regarding her work, she says, “The first practice of particularly resilient people is vulnerability. Vulnerability is the lighthouse and the foundation for resilience. We can’t be an authentic or empathetic leader without first practicing vulnerability.” In another aspect of her work, Dr. Stejskal coaches individuals, teams, and whole organizations, on the best ways to find awareness and increase engagement and productivity. She loves to empower teams with resiliency strategies that work in any facet of life. Dr. Stejskal knows that everyone faces obstacles, and that challenges, change, and complexities can be steps toward happiness and empowerment.

Dr. Stejskal is also the host of “Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience Podcast,” available on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Stitcher. In addition, she recently appeared in Breaking Free, a documentary about resilience. She will soon release her book, Flourish or Fold: The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People.

She has been named one of Marshall Goldsmith’s Top 100 Coaches internationally, and her research appeared in Thrive Global, Women’s Daily Magazine, and Ladders. Her other media engagements include NBC, Happify, eMindful, and Powerful Universe.

For more information, visit www.resilienceelement.com and www.resilience-leadership.com.