For 20 years, Patti Cain-Stanley has been supporting executives and entrepreneurs to propel their careers and businesses through her Southern California-based coaching, facilitation, and consulting business, Cain-Stanley & Co. (CSC). Her first-hand experience as both a corporate executive and business owner combine to augment her coaching and benefit her clients. Another key to her success has been the ongoing support of an executive coach as a strategic partner; Patti has worked with a coach since 1996—allowing her to see and maximize both sides of the coaching dynamic.

Patti created D.Y.N.A.M.I.C. ExecutiveTM Coaching, an integrated, advanced program that inspires and delivers extraordinary leadership. Patti and her team of consultants partner with the individual, team, or organization for sustained paradigm shifts, graduate-level thinking, and development of highly-prized leadership and communication skills.

Patti has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida, graduating summa cum laude; participated in Executive Education programs at MIT and Indiana University’s Kelley Management School; is a graduate of the New Ventures West Integral Coaching Program; has attended courses from the Hudson Institute and CoachU; is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation and is certified in several 360° feedback tools and a variety of leadership assessments.

Nahid Casazza (MBA, BCC) works with business leaders and independent professionals to grow more effective with an emphasis on mastering time and work organization, communication, team development, self-awareness, mental fitness, and leadership. Nahid offers one on one coaching, facilitation of workshops across multiple topics, group coaching and training along with self-discovery assessments (MBTI, DiSC, 360s, Positive Intelligence, and the Enneagram). Nahid developed a synergistic group model that combines training and group process with individual coaching and has been successfully using it for more than fifteen years to get faster and more sustainable results with clients. She has adapted this model to work in a variety of organizations, and with professionals who want to build leadership skills and accelerate progress towards business and career goals.

Prior to starting her coaching practice in 2001, Nahid spent fifteen years in the high-tech industry, recruiting aerospace and software engineers at the H.L. Yoh Company, and working in IT and product management at Kingston Technology.

Nahid has a Master’s in Business from Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business, a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Michigan State University and is a Board-Certified Coach. As President of the Orange County chapter of the International Coach Federation in 2007, Nahid led the team to win the “Finding your Voice” award, distinguishing them among 150 chapters worldwide. She developed the Success Team Program at NAWBO (National Association for Women Business Owners) that helped members accelerate their business success in professionally facilitated groups. Nahid served on the advisory board and co-taught a unique ICF competency-based coaching program designed for business leaders at Chapman University’s Extended Education Leadership Services Program. She has also served as a coach and mentor to MBA students at several universities including Pepperdine and Chapman and has served in NAWBO’s mentoring program for business owners for more than a decade.