EPP CALIFORNIA

INFORMATION:
Classes in Santa Clara, SQ and in Southern California (RJ Donovan)

Robin Grant

Laura Hooper

Karen Jacke

Ariane Kessel

Jeanette Maggio

Heather Neely

Susan Olesek

Jan Shegda

Hilary Stokes

Scott Tavenner

Dana Vitorelo

Kim Ward

Donna Woodrow

Laura Hooper

Ariane Kessel

Heather Neely

Robin Grant

Robin Grant

Robin Grant is a Graphic Designer, volunteer guide, creative, illustrator, and multimedia artist who uses his gifts as a Type 4 to inspire learning. Robin works with EPP to design, illustrate, and brand educational materials, including training guides, print collateral, video content, social media assets, presentation materials, and more. He knows how important it is to communicate EPP’s vision with clarity and excellence for both creative engagement and learning impact. Robin believes his design work serves to visually translate the compassion that our community has for ourselves, and the people with whom we work (and we agree!). He has a Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia studies and a Masters in Education (Curriculum & Instructional Design) from the University of New Brunswick. He is a certified Enneagram teacher, and certified EPP Guide. In his spare time, you’ll find Robin using his illustration talents to create fantasy avatars that represent Enneagram archetypes. He is passionate about using education, entertainment, and technology to engage youth in the inward journey of self-discovery and self-awareness.

Laura Hooper

Laura Hooper

Laura Hooper is a Program Manager and certified guide who works tirelessly to support the people and projects that keep EPP moving, including our ambassadors, guides, staff, coaches, and volunteers. As a Type 7, Laura feels at home working on a variety of projects at any given moment, which she does with enthusiasm and ease.

After spending fourteen years with the federal government, Laura fell in love with EPP’s mission and everybody involved. She knew immediately that she had to be part of it! Her favorite thing about EPP is helping others fall in love with themselves, while she continues that journey for herself. Laura has a Master of Science degree in Leadership and Organizational Development from Colorado State University. She is also a Certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West. If she’s not at work, you’ll find her hiking, biking, or hanging out at the beach with her awesome husband.

Karen Jacke

Karen Jacke

Karen's Bio here...

Ariane Kessel

Ariane Kessel

Ariane's Bio Here...

Jeanette Maggio

Jeanette Maggio

Jeanette has a background is HR, Change Leadership and Organizational and Leadership
Development. She was the Head of HR for the Pharmaceutical Division of McKesson. Jeanette moved to
Roche/Genentech and worked in HR, heading up change leadership and executive development for
the Global Quality and Compliance organization and then was Head of Organizational
Development/Executive Development for the Technical Operations division of Roche/Genentech
which employed about 10,000 people. One of the tools we utilized for our Executive Development
program was the Enneagram. "My team and I typed and taught the Enneagram to over 700 leaders in
the organization." Jeanette left Roche/Genentech about 2.5 years ago and have her own coaching and
consulting business specializing in executive coaching, team development and teaching the
Enneagram.

"The reason I feel so connected to this work is because if we can help leaders become more conscious of their “humanness” it can impact hundreds if not thousands of lives. If our leaders make each person they touch more compassionate, more aware of their own abilities the cascade effect is enormous. My broad and extensive experience in teaching the Enneagram to both large and small audiences and background in development will enable me to contribute to the EPP mission in a meaningful way."

Why EPP?
"There are many reasons why I am interested in becoming a certified EPP guide. There are two key reasons besides all the glowing feedback I’ve heard from my colleagues. One is ideological, one more personal. From an ideological perspective I am very concerned about the lack of reform of the criminal justice system. In the current political climate there doesn’t seem to be a focus on providing support and resources to incarcerated populations. I believe incarcerating large groups of people without providing education and resources for growth and rehabilitation is non- productive at best, irresponsible at worst. Last year I attended the Hoffman Institute and their key tenet that is the only way to break the cycle of violence and abuse is to disrupt the passing down of generational behavioral patterns. In order to accomplish this, we need to identify and understand our patterns, how they create our worldview and ways to change the patterns that are not serving us and create new ones. I am excited to bring the Enneagram to the EPP participants because I believe it is one of the best tools to identify patterns and motivations and create development pathways to overcome those patterns that no longer serve us."

Heather Neely

Heather Neely

Heather's Bio

Susan Olesek

Susan Olesek - EPP Founder

Born outside of Boston, Susan spent her formative years in Asia with occasional forays into places of extreme suffering like The Walled City of Hong Kong and the streets of Bombay. These experiences made deep impressions on her Enneagram Type 1, ideological heart. By the time she entered Occidental College to study sociology, Susan’s resolve to somehow make a contribution to the world was embedded in who she was becoming.

This determination percolated while she raised three boys and began to study the Enneagram, a process that took her deeply into herself and a life changing trauma suffered in her own childhood when her mother took her own life.

In 2009, Susan emerged hopeful and certified, full of ideals, and with just enough self-belief to accept the challenging invitation to teach the Enneagram to 100 inmates in a little prison outside of Houston, Texas. This decision changed the trajectory of her personal and professional life, forever. With a burgeoning career that moved her from HR to teaching this fascinating system to “any and every one brave enough to admit to having a personality,” Susan delights in the unknown yet vast unfolding of the Enneagram Prison Project. A project with a mission that is now growing her, and the lives of anyone it seems to touch.

Jan Shegda

Jan Shegda

Jan Shegda M.A., PCC is an executive coach and consultant specializing in leadership development. Jan is ICF certified at the PCC level and works with individuals and teams to get to the next level of their leadership with heart and balance. Jan is the principal consultant with Clarity Coaching since 2009, is Enneagram trained through Enneagram Spectrum (Jerry Wagner), an IEA Certified Professional, and currently serves on the IEA Board of Directors as Conference Chair.

"I want to affirm the dignity and hope of every human whatever the circumstance and invest in a population that is often forgotten or shut away. As an Enneagram Type 4 My type helps me to hold presence and hold the space in the classroom for students to explore. It also helps me to explore with compassion what is coming up for participants, and with them transform those experiences into beauty."

Hilary Stokes

Hilary Stokes

Hillary has a deep love and passion for the Enneagram and equally for being of service. She finds the Enneagram to be practical, universal and life transforming. In San Francisco from 1996 – 1998, Hillary worked in the juvenile detention system as a drug and alcohol counselor and group facilitator. She introduced the Enneagram into her groups yet her primary focus was drug and alcohol education. Over the past year Hillary's spiritual teacher started volunteering at Donovan State Prison leading meditations, energy healing and other transformational work. Hillary participated in some of these events and had a powerful experience. "I find working with this population in this way to be inspiring and transformational." Hillary met Dr. Heather Greenwald and learned about the Enneagram Prison Project. Hillary is currently a guide at Donovan State Prison helping participants to learn about themselves and others, and how to grow through challenges in their type, evolve into their strengths and heal their relationships.

Hillary is a holistic psychotherapist in private practice and a business coach /consultant. She uses the Enneagram with her clients, couples, teams and organizations.

"I love what I do and feel blessed to be part of people’s journey of consciousness and mind, body and spirit healing. This is my passion and calling in life."

Hillary Spends time with her spouse Kim engaging in spirituality, meditation, energy work, movement, purpose and nature which are the most rejuvenating part of her life.

Scott Tavenner

Dana Vitorelo

Kim Ward

Donna Woodrow

Laura Hooper

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Ariane Kessel

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Heather Neely

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