Karen Terry is an award-winning independent writer with three decades of experience as a professional communicator. Karen has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and an MA in Radio-TV-Film from Northwestern University.

In addition to freelancing, Karen is working toward her doctorate in Transformational Leadership, Learning, and Coaching, and is president of The Talking Farm, a non-profit group dedicated to urban agriculture.

Rich Blue grew up in Orinda, California, an eastern suburb of San Francisco. His mother was a founding member of the Orinda Community Church, which Rich attended as a child. He made a personal profession of faith in Christ in high school through the influence of Young Life. Rich studied history at the University of California at Berkeley and was an active leader in Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC). He met his wife, Sue, through the ministry of CCC and they served on staff with CCC for seven years. Rich and Sue first worked at Oregon State and then was the Campus Director of CCC at Northwestern.

While at Northwestern, Rich experienced a growing passion for helping those he met and worked with who had been hurt through the influence of childhood trauma and abuse. Eventually, this longing led him to leave CCC and pursue his M.A. in psychology and counseling at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS). He graduated in 1987 and worked for four years at a Christian counseling center founded by several of the faculty at TEDS. In 1991, he began his own counseling practice in Northbrook, IL, called the Center for Christian Life Enrichment (CLE). CLE is a dynamic faith based community dedicated to manifesting the love of God and empowering individuals to multiply their talents in the service of living the most magnificent lives possible.

Rich has been an active member of several different churches throughout his adult life. He was a leader, teacher, and elder at the Winnetka Bible Church for twenty years. He was then a founding member, elder and teaching pastor at Christ Community Church of Northfield (CCCN). He was part of the leadership team from CCCN who partnered with Willow Creek Community Church to birth the North Shore regional campus in 2003. Rich is currently pursuing his Ed.D. in Transformational Leadership, Learning, and Coaching at the Wright Graduate Institute for the Realization of Human Potential.

Rich and his wife, Sue, have been married 33 years and have two grown children and two grandchildren.

Jillian Eichel, Faculty/Coach at Wright, works with individuals looking to achieve greater fulfillment and meaning in their work and relationships. Jillian began working for Wright where she started their intensive coaching training and personal development program. Jillian also speaks on various topics such as Networking, developing a conscious singlehood, for various groups including Loyola university Chicago, and the Jaycee's throughout the Chicagoland area.

Jillian returned to school to train in counseling at Loyola University Chicago to complement her learning at Wright. She received training in 12-step and one-on-one addictions counseling while interning at Chicago's Haymarket Recovery Center. Jillian served the communities of Chicago's North Shore at the Josselyn Center for Mental Health, specializing in addictions and other mental illnesses while bringing the American Lung Association's smoking cessation program to the community. She believes the Wright Leadership Institute's model of coaching toward human growth and potential produces fantastic results. Jillian now uses her experience to help individuals overcome their soft addictions, and she works to empower individuals to achieve their personal and professional goals through greater truth and intimacy.

Jillian has a B.A. in Psychology from Northwestern University and a Masters of Education from Loyola University Chicago in Community Counseling. Jillian is currently pursuing her Masters in Transformational Learning, Leadership, and Coaching from the Wright Graduate Institute for the Realization of Human Potential. She holds certifications in Dynamic Breathwork, Smoking Cessation, and Life Coaching.

Arshia Ali-Khan is a proud mother of two beautiful boys. She is also the Fund and Strategic Development Director for UMMA Center, a non-profit organization located in Waukegan, IL. The mission of the UMMA Center is to empower the lives of underprivileged individuals in Lake County by providing educational support and community resources. Arshia works closely with the executive director to analyze funding plans, write grants, and implement long and short term funding goals.

Arshia has her Honors Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Toronto and over 15 years of experience working in the profit & non-profit sectors. Arshia is Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, and has numerous certifications in crisis management, mental health counseling, leadership training and organizational development. She has a passion for learning and helping people live their best lives and thus is currently doing her Masters in Education at the Wright Graduate Institute specializing in Transformational Learning, Leadership and Coaching.

Sara Thomas has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from Grinnell College. She has experience working with a wide variety of organizations focused on education, equal rights, and diversity including: women's rights, LGBTQ equality, universal access to comprehensive sexuality education, peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, domestic violence and rape prevention, prisoner's rights, and personal growth and development.

Sara is currently working at Wright, founded by Dr. Bob Wright and Dr. Judith Wright, a principle-based learning organization that brings together the best of Existential, Adlerian, Developmental, Humanistic, Educational and Neuroscientific disciplines into cutting-edge human performance methodologies that help you live a great life.

Gertrude Lyons is the Director of the Family and Couples Programs and a Lead Faculty and Life Coach for Wright. Gertrude has spent the last 10 years empowering individuals, couples, parents and families to become high performers in everything they do. Gertrude is a leading edge trainer and educator in areas such as lifestyle, parenting, leadership development, sales, relationship satisfaction and success, and women's development. Prior to joining Wright, Mrs. Lyons served as the lead Economic Analyst for Smith Economics and Peterson Consulting providing high quality strategies to educate a jury in economic valuation.

She received her B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame and her M.A. in Psychology from Antioch University McGregor School. Graduate of the Landmark Education Forum and Advanced Training. Gertrude is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Transformational Leadership, Learning, and Coaching at the Wright Graduate Institute for the Realization of Human Potential.

Gertrude holds certificates in: Lifestyle coaching, dynamic breath-work coaching, parenting, couples and family coaching, and family systems analysis.

Ruth Delf is an artist in all areas of her life. Ruth is creating painting of life as she goes, adding more texture and new and interesting layers all the time. Each layer adds to the unique quality of her painting and her life.

Ruth is an ASID and LEED GA certified Interior Designer, who has been in the Interior Design industry for eight years. She began her study in fine arts before earning her B.A. in Interior Design from Wayne State University.

Design allows her to express her imaginative ideas in new ways. Ruth's favorite part of design is meeting and engaging with clients, combining their unique personalities into a whole vision for their interior space.

Ruth is committed to health and utilizing sustainable products and practices whenever possible and incorporating them into her lifestyle and design. She is an athlete who has completed 11 marathons and an IronWoman race. Ruth enjoys being physically fit while connecting with nature and taking in the beauty around me.

Ruth is committed to health in how she eats, her physical fitness, emotional, and in her practice as a professional.

Lisa Sanden has been in the education field for 20 years, first as a highly respected Montessori teacher at Countryside Montessori School and more recently as the Director of Development there. She handles marketing, fundraising, and alumni relations among many other things. Lisa is a national presenter on topics including Parent Communication, Emotional Development in the Montessori Class and Science for the Primary Child. She is also a consultant for AMI, the training organization founded by Maria Montessori to carry on her work, and travels throughout the United States supporting schools and teachers to be their best.

She graduated cum laude from the University of Miami in Coral Gables with a B.S. in Geology and a membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She is married, and is the mother of two and step-mother of two, all of whom are happy, healthy adults.

Lisa is currently working towards her masters in Transformational Leadership, Learning and Coaching from the Wright Graduate Institute for the Realization of Human Potential.

Sue Blue is accredited as a Life Coach. The masters degree at the Wright Graduate school is providing her with the foundation to coach from an Adlerian, Developmental, Humanistic, Existential as well as blending the latest in educational methodologies. Sue graduated from the University of Michigan in 1978 and spent several years in Christian ministry. She taught a Bible Study in Winnetka to 150 women for nine years and also was involved in other Christian organizations. Sue lives in Northbrook, IL with her husband. She has a son who is a college graduate and a married daughter and two small grandchildren.

Jon Laux is an actuarial consultant, an excellent speaker and written communicator. He has spent the past five years in reinsurance pricing and optimization, building a knowledge base professional liability insurance lines. Jon enjoys working with clients at small and large insurers to educate them about their risk and inform their decision making. Having completed his actuarial credentials, Jon seek to address the larger questions that companies face: not only risk, but strategy, leadership and vision. At the Wright Graduate Institute for the Realization of Human Potential, Jon is excited to use his mind not only for abstract concepts but to apply these concepts in real-world situations, to continue his process of learning and to live with passion and purpose.

Tamim Chowdhury has recently joined the Center for Realty Policy staff in the Office of Real Estate Acquisition for the Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration. He comes from GSA/PBS Region 5 where he served in multiple roles (land acquisition, leasing and project management) for 11 years before starting his current post in January 2011. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy, and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently completing his M.A. in Education, with a concentration on Transformational Learning, Leadership, and Coaching from the Wright Graduate Institute for the Realization of Human Potential.

Rachael Marusarz is Director of Grantwriting and Direct Marketing at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, where she manages fundraising operations that generate more than $3 million in annual revenue for the organization and its grantee organizations. Rachael is deeply committed to the growth and development of mission-based organizations, and she is using her eduation at the Wright Graduate Institute to help lead organizations that are effective, accountable, and highly collaborative. Previously, Rachael managed corporate and foundation fundraising at Blue Island Citizens for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (Blue Cap), and has provided fundraising training and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations throughout the Chicago area.

Rachael has an MBA in Public and Nonprofit Management from the Graham School of Management, where she was awarded the J.K. Hwang Award for outstanding graduate scholarship and service to the community. She also received her Bachelor of Arts in English and history from Illinois Wesleyan University.