Meet the Team

Mickey Parsons, MED, MCC, CEAP

Mickey Parsons is the founder of The Workplace Coach, where he and his colleagues provide coaching services for professionals, business leaders and entrepreneurs. Mickey’s background includes extensive experience in employee assistance (EAP) leadership, corporate education and human resources, and more than 20 years’ experience managing and leading business organizations. He holds a master’s degree in educational psychology and numerous professional credentials, including: Master Certified Coach, Certified Organizational Development Professional and Certified Employee Assistance Professional.

As an executive leadership coach, Mickey has worked with leaders from more than 60 Fortune 500 companies, including Atlanta Journal Constitution, American Express, AXA Financial Advisors, Bowne, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Catlin, Cox Newspapers, Olan Mills Studios, Brach Candy Company, UnumProvident, Bank of America, Lennar/USA Homes, McKee Foods – The “Little Debbie” Corporation, McDonalds Corporation, Home Shopping Network, Turner Broadcasting, WellStar Health Systems, Marriott and the New York Times. Additionally, Mickey also teaches advanced coaching courses at Life University’s School of Psychology in Marietta, GA

Kelly Angell, MAPD, CLC

As a Life Coach and Leadership Skills Coach, Kelly is passionate about lifelong learning. She coaches with a desire to see individuals experience lasting transformation as they move towards their ultimate fulfillment and potential. Kelly enjoys working with leaders who want to be successful at work and in life. She challenges all of her clients to discover their strengths, unique design, and to engage the growth agenda in their present circumstances. As a coach, Kelly helps clients to assess where they are and walks with them to where they want to be – whether moving forward is to overcome adversity, navigate transitions, get unstuck, build stronger relationships, or clarify and live according to values, be more effective as a leader, achieve a goal, or find balance in life.

Kelly has a master’s degree in counseling/professional development and certification in leadership coaching. She has a strong background in operations management, human resources, and leading teams in both for-profit and nonprofit business organizations. Her strengths include: building authentic relationships and effective teams, leadership development, systems improvement, mediations, and problem solving. Kelly works alongside international leaders on their leadership and personal development journeys.

Richard Bernard, Jr., MED

As a life and business coach with over 20 years of diverse experience in the private sector and public education, Richard partners with professionals, education executives, civil servants, and small business owners to create a dynamic relationship focused on results. As a strategist he helps his clients define and design their decisions as well as their destiny. His areas of expertise includes: fitness, turnaround situations, and work-life balance. Richard believes in helping each client and entity in discovering their truth, passion and zeal — living in their light versus in their shadow.

Richard holds a Masters degree in Education and a certificate in coaching from Coaching Training Institute.

Donna Cooper, MS, NCC

As a Midlife Career Coach Specialist with over 20 years of experience working in the field of career and personal development, Donna believes that the career path is seldom straight. She enjoys working with clients as they assess, identify, plan, and progress on their journey to change whether it is to enhance a career, change a career, or to create a career. Being aware that environmental and personal factors can have a powerful influence on career goals and satisfaction, Donna works with clients as they examine obstacles and motivators for change.

Debbie Frame, MCC, CLC

Debbie has been coaching executives and mentoring other coaches since the late eighties. Trained as a coach during her almost 20 year corporate tenure, Debbie integrated coaching executives, managers and supervisors with a demanding aerospace manufacturing management position at a Fortune 10 company. Debbie has had a private coaching practice since 1997, coaching executives, entrepreneurs and professionals.

Her corporate experience is in operations with extensive training and coaching focus in: leadership development and competencies, organizational design, operations management, conflict management, process improvement and problem solving. No stranger to profit and loss, Debbie has had up to $400MM of P&L experience and people responsibility in both union and non union environments.

Very involved in the coaching field over the last years, Debbie is the former President of Coach U (the largest coach training organization in the world). She holds the designation of Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation.

Jan Kiss, RN, MA, MSN

Our Health & Wellness Coach, Jan Kiss has over 30 years of progressive clinical and management experience in healthcare. She coaches professionals, executives, and leaders from every conceivable industry, supporting them in creating healthy lifestyle choices. Her areas of expertise include: Nutrition, Weight loss, Smoking Cessation, Creating Healthy Workout Routines, Creating healthy Living and Eating Choices, Diabetes Management, Disease Management, Vitamin Supplementation.

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