<h1>ABOUT US</h1>

<h2>Kore Evolution Partners</h2>

<h4>Suzanne Anderson MA, Senior Core Faculty and Kore Evolution Partner</h4>
Suzanne is a master of transformative learning, with a passion for awakening innate human potential. An early pioneer in the field of experiential learning she led the way in using the outdoors as a classroom for leadership development, and was the co-creator of a highly acclaimed worldwide woman’s empowerment program. Suzanne was the founder of an international consultancy and worked for 15 years with Fortune 500 corporate executives as a multilingual senior management consultant, facilitator and coach. In 2000 she founded Kore Leadership – the precursor of her current business – to focus on developing extra-ordinary leadership capacity in women. Suzanne combines a depth of understanding from her graduate studies in women’s developmental psychology, together with her well-developed intuitive, artistic, and soulful sensibilities in her life changing leadership programs for women. She is the co-author, along with Susan Cannon, of a forthcoming book, <em>The Way of The Mysterial Woman: R-evolutioning the Way Women Live, Love and Lead</em>. She finds peace and inspiration in her garden, yoga practice and living with her husband on an island surrounded by beauty and a rich community life. 

<h4>Susan Cannon PhD, Senior Core Faculty and Kore Evolution Partner</h4>
Susan is an adventurous interdisciplinary scholar-practitioner, transformative educator, coach, scientist, and futurist who shaped her career toward what she senses can most positively influence our wildly evolving world. Susan brings 25+ years of diverse experience to one of the most powerful tipping points factors ever: the awakening and development of women. She is one of the original mothers of the ground-breaking Women’s Integral Leadership certificate programs that launched in 2000, and its descendant, The Women’s Mysterial Leadership Certification. By artfully joining her rigorous scientific intellect with her powerful intuitive, artistic, and mystical nature, Susan’s deep presence and visionary insights have been catalytic for both her coachees’ transformation, and the emergence of Mysterial Leaders as a force in society. Her degrees include a BS in Engineering Physics, MS in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in Integral Studies with a concentration in Transformative Learning and Change in Human Systems. She has served as an associate professor of management at Antioch University Seattle, an adjunct professor with the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, and in technical and senior executive positions in the semiconductor, defense, and demolition industries. Susan is a certified Integral Coach through Integral Coaching Canada, and a dedicated practitioner of hatha flow yoga. 

<h4>Deborah Kennedy PhD, PCC, Senior Core Faculty and Kore Evolution Partner</h4>
Deborah is a passionate scholar-practitioner fascinated with the way women’s consciousness, embodiment, and capacity develop over the life course, and how women impact social, organizational, and environmental change. She spent over 15 years as an award-winning, high-impact senior leader in the high tech industry while raising two children, giving her first-hand knowledge of the opportunities, challenges, and demands faced by women in today’s turbulent environment. Deborah left her corporate career to earn a MA in Applied Behavioral Science, a MA in Human and Organizational Systems, and a PhD in Human Development. She is a certified Integral Coach from Integral Coaching Canada, and has completed over 400 hours of coaching education. Deborah is a graduate of Kore’s Level 1, Level 2 and the Faculty Training programs and as core faculty has designed and delivered both public and corporate programs. Additionally, she anchors Kore’s business operations. This unfolding path of development as an individual, scholar, teacher, practitioner, and business partner enables Deborah to bring a particular level of mastery, grounded presence, compassionate discernment, keen intuition, and a playful sense of humor to all aspects of her life and work with others. 

<h4>Sarah Keenan, Core Faculty</h4>
Sarah is a gifted coach and facilitator committed to unleashing the life force of women. She has a substantial professional background helping others to lead meaningful, creative, and fulfilling lives. Her experience includes coaching women leaders, empowering young people to discover their purpose and path forward in life, supporting local and international microfinance for women, facilitating art therapy for children recovering from abuse and trauma, and guiding at-risk and homeless youth. Sarah is a graduate of the Kore Level 1, Level 2 and Faculty Training programs, serving as an alumnae mentor and associate faculty for the Level 1 program. She has a BA in Social Work, is a certified life coach through Coach Training Alliance, and is certified in The Heart of Facilitation from The Power of Hope. Sarah coaches individual clients through her practice, Sarah Keenan Life Artistry. Her life coach training also includes Integral Coaching Canada and Falling Awake with Dave Ellis. What also delights and nourishes Sarah is time with her beautiful partner Tom, her wonderful children Sydney and Jack, a supportive and lively extended family, a vibrant community of friends, practicing yoga, being in nature, and singing and learning the guitar. 