Meet Our Coaches
A team of coaches focused on Strategy, Culture, and Team Alignment
Velocity has seasoned executive coaches and senior advisors for every level of your organization.
Meet the Velocity Coaches
Dave Fechtman
Partner | CEO
Dave is recognized for his ability to immerse himself in a wide variety of businesses and to approach each company’s challenges as if they are his own. He has the unique ability to connect with his clients on both a professional and a personal level, which has led to his becoming a de facto member of the leadership team for many of the companies he serves.
Dan Silvert
Partner | President
Dan is a behavioral expert, keynote speaker, and executive coach. Dan has guided organizations through cultural transformations, coached hundreds of leaders to greater organizational and career success, and trained thousands of sales professionals to increase revenues through the power of deep relationships.
Bob Weinhold
Partner | EVP
Bob has spent his career helping individuals, teams, and organizations accomplish what they did not think possible. At his core, he connects deeply to help businesses and individuals achieve results that they could not imagine while engaging employees to drive innovation, growth, and sustainability.
Ana Ximenes
Executive Coach
Ana brings a mindful approach to the human experience and the business dynamic. Whether it is coaching an individual, team, or company, Ana knows that improvement in one aspect of professional development, team dynamics, or business processes will have a positive effect on the whole organization. How profound or transformative it is will depend on the clarity and confidence that arises in the execution of the actions taken to achieve the desired goal. Her approach will drive focus, clarity, confidence, and sustainability.
Barb Bergeron
Executive Coach
Barbara Bergeron has over 20 years of experience with training organizations and coaching executives to be more productive, by merging the latest research with traditional productivity and time management training. The result is a new approach to how we teach business leaders to leverage time and brainpower. Barbara’s solutions for her clients large and small, cut both costs and stress. Her client list includes numerous Fortune 500 organizations, such as Merck, QVC, ConAgra Foods, CertainTeed Building Materials, and Rohm and Haas.
Bonnie Wilson
Executive Coach
Bonnie has been in healthcare for the majority of her adult life. Consequently, her personality and coaching are often guided by skills she learned as an emergency department nurse and hospital administrator. She now uses her background to help her clients make conscious and deliberate choices by reminding them that few decisions in life are an emergency. Self-awareness and emotional intelligence are topics near and dear to her heart and where she has successfully coached leaders for over 25+ years.
Chris Campbell
Executive Coach
Chris has 30 years of experience as a leader in the Software Technology and Client Services industries. She has been a Chief Operating Officer and Chief Client Officer in private companies as well as held Senior Executive positions in publicly traded corporations.
Ed Forsberg
Executive Coach
Ed Forsberg orchestrates transformations in clients’ organizations and in their leaders’ capabilities. Ed attributes his success to his ability to think like an architect, visualizing unique solution structures and recognizing the potential in leaders and their organizations that others find hard to discern. His clients span a wide range from Industry Leaders to Middle Market companies in dozens of industries. Ed isn’t climbing the ladder anymore; he’s holding it for others.
Gladys Williams-Tillmon
Executive Coach
Gladys Williams-Tillmon has over 30 years of leadership/development experience in the Corporate sector, sales, for-profit and non-profit worlds. She has held Executive leadership positions in Human Resources and Sales for a Fortune 200 company, led various seminars, certified with the International Coach Federation, certified Trainer, certified Change Management Instructor, serves on various Boards and was once featured in an edition of Ebony Magazines, Women at the Top.
Janet Swaysland
Executive Coach
Janet works with organizations from start-up to midsize and at all stages, with experience in sectors including professional services, life sciences, technology, retail, and manufacturing. Clients appreciate her ability to help them pinpoint where to focus, her inspiring yet firm style, and smart use of data, gained from leadership roles in corporate global environments.
Joe Witte
Senior Advisor
Joe has more than twenty years of experience in global entrepreneurship and business development with prior service as an Army officer to facilitate vulnerable discussions that spark sustainable change, in both individuals and organizations. Joe also co-founded a non-profit accelerator that helped veteran entrepreneurs grow their businesses which included providing mentorship to hundreds of business leaders during his tenure.
Ken Sher
Executive Coach
Ken is an Executive, Career, and Certified Life Coach with 28 years of experience leading and coaching individuals and leadership teams within Fortune 200 companies like Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Ken helps his clients identify strategies and tactics to more effectively lead their organization to goal attainment while helping them find a balance that leads to a more fulfilling life both professionally and personally.
Matt Webster
Senior Advisor
Matt is a construction management specialist who worked on state continuing service contracts for over 20 years and was involved with large capital projects in excess of $100 million. Matt brings real-world knowledge to Velocity clients from the Construction Managers’ perspective.
Molly Ryan
Executive Coach
Rebecca Haley
Executive Coach
Rebecca has 25 years of experience as a Human Resources executive in a wide variety of settings. She specializes in working with middle management to VP level to develop management and leadership skills and approaches that build relationships and increased employee engagement. Rebecca is passionate about supporting leaders in their ability to drive change and deliver results through partnerships and the creation and implementation of innovative initiatives.
Rick Mattson
Executive Coach
Rick Mattson co-founded a foreign start-up in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a Fortune 500 company. He has directed an Organizational Effectiveness Office and led various teams in project management, organizational change management, and compliance/quality. Rick is a certified Portfolio Management Professional, holds a masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Georgia and is completing his PhD in Learning and Leadership with a dissertation sponsored by the International Coach Federation on evidence-based coaching.
Tricia Seitz
Executive Coach
Tricia is an Executive Coach with 20 years of experience leading and coaching individuals within Fortune 100 companies. She is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to maximize their potential through one-on-one coaching, webinar and classroom training, and organizational sales consulting. She specializes in systematic, skill-based development style coaching as well as “just-in-time,” situational coaching. Tricia brings a natural curiosity and a healthy dose of optimism to every interaction. Her style is direct, high energy, and action-oriented.
Vickie Bevenour
Executive Coach
Vickie Bevenour is a Leadership Strategist. Using her natural passion for excellence, she inspires and activates business professionals to use their Inner Leader, all day, every day, to become the top 2% in their world. Her mission is to pave the path for leaders to truly embrace and leverage their personal competencies into a series of achievements that translates into personal happiness, a purposeful legacy, and a world where living at the top of one’s game is a constant state of being.
Yvette Costa
Executive Coach
With over 25 years in the biotech/pharma arena of the corporate world, Yvette is acutely aware of the shifting needs of businesses to strategically invest in programs that help employees accept and navigate change with a positive mindset. Her unique approach combines her corporate experience and additional training in a way that empowers employees to willingly take responsibility for themselves to be a productive and positive influence on all the teams they are a part of.