Professional Coaching

Beth Bryce is a Director of Career Services and Certified Motivational Career Coach in Higher Education with over 20 years of leadership experience with Fortune 500 companies in Real Estate, Manufacturing, Technology, and Automotive. She is passionate about helping people obtain personal growth, wholehearted success, and lifelong learning. Beth is also an adjunct professor, writer, published author, and speaker. Her 2018 Albuquerque TEDx Women talk is titled “Ignite Your Life Revolution.” Beth is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College Santa Fe.

Tom Fortin is an executive and leadership coach helping rising professionals and C-suite executives to achieve their full career potential. Tom trained as a professional coach at the Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara, California and is currently pursuing a Professional Certified Coach designation from the International Coaching Federation. Tom has coached MBA students at the University of New Mexico on a pro bono basis and has lectured on career development strategies.

Tom is an expert at change management and has successfully led organizations through points of expansion and during times of duress. As a battle-tested executive, he has become a trusted partner to management teams, institutional investors and to boards of companies on the steep part of the growth curve. Throughout his 35-year career, he has overseen workforces as large as 1,500 employees and has mentored many dozens of rising professionals and executives, many of whom have progressed to senior executive positions.

From 2007 to 2014, Tom served as the Chief Executive Officer of Regional Management Corp. (NYSE: RM), a consumer financial services company based in Greenville, South Carolina. He oversaw rapid growth and expansion of the company and led it to a successful initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012.

In 2016, Tom joined Steadfast Financial LP, a New York-based hedge fund, as the Chief Strategy Officer and later was named Chief Operating Officer of the firm, a position he held for four years. Steadfast invests in global equities and derivative securities and also holds a portfolio of early stage venture investments in private companies. During his seven years at Steadfast, Tom oversaw growth in capital under management from $5 billion to more than $12 billion.

Upon his retirement from full time management of businesses in 2022, Tom moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and focuses full time on coaching and mentoring in addition to investing. He is a board member and advisor of a private company based in New York and serves on the Advisory Council of Creative Santa Fe.

Tom holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He and his wife are full time residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Kate Livingston has 25 years of leadership experience in higher education, professional services and the nonprofit sector. Early in her career, she worked in business development and training for Price Waterhouse in Miami and New York City. She then spent 12 years at UNM’s Anderson School of Management, first as Director of the Executive MBA program and Management Development Center, and subsequently as Associate Dean for Executive Education and Community Outreach. She was named one of the State’s “Top 100 Power Brokers” by the New Mexico Business Weekly, was a founding board member of United Way’s “Women United” donor group and graduated from Leadership Albuquerque.

After relocating to Dallas in 2007, Kate worked at Southern Methodist University as Campus Director of SMU-in-Plano, where she also served on the board of the Plano Chamber of Commerce, graduated from Leadership North Texas and was selected by the Collin County Business Press as one of “21 leaders for the 21st century” class of 2010. In 2012, she was promoted to Executive Director of Extended Learning at SMU, managing multiple programs and budgets of $6.5 million. She moved back to Albuquerque in 2017 and served as a consultant and fundraiser with United Way for four years.

Kate earned her undergraduate degree from Florida State University, MBA from the University of New Orleans and MA in Dispute Resolution/Organizational Conflict from SMU’s School of Education. She grew up on both coasts as a "military brat" and also spent a year living in London; she's been passionate about international travel ever since and has visited nearly 50 countries.

Born and raised in Germany, Barbara first came to New Mexico as an international student, completing a 3-2 MBA program with a BA in Psychology. She stayed in New Mexico working for UNM Hospitals for 13 years, starting out in Human Resources, then moving to Quality Management in progressive leadership positions, and finally moving into operations as the Executive Director of UNM Carrie Tingley Hospital.

Barbara then moved to Utah to work for Intermountain Healthcare for 13 years. She started out leading the cancer program for the Intermountain system, then moved to an operations officer role at Intermountain Medical Center where she lead the cancer center, women’s hospital, central lab and several ancillary/support services. She then got promoted to administrator of The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital, where she implemented several new programs moving the hospital toward value-based care.
In 2018, Barbara moved back to New Mexico to return to her chosen home state. She is now a vice president of specialty practices for Presbyterian Medical Group, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, where she leads practices in adult medical specialties both ambulatory and inpatient, as well as women’s care practices in the greater Albuquerque area.

Barbara enjoys teaching and coaching others, developing new, innovative programs and improving processes. While Barbara works in Albuquerque, she lives on a small ranch with her spouse and two Icelandic horses in San Cristobal, New Mexico. Besides horseback riding, Barbara also likes to sing, read, and hike.

Phillip Juno Raby is an Albuquerque Native and graduate of Albuquerque High School, Georgetown University and Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Juno’s career experiences include 14 years on Wall Street as a consultant to institutional investors, specializing in asset backed securities.; 8 years in real estate investment and development: 11 years in manufacturing optimizing business systems and process. Volunteer interests in the recent past have centered on The Catholic Foundation; Dismas House and The Brothers of the Good Shepard. Juno has mentored students in UNM’s EMBA program and is looking forward to this coaching opportunity.

Gary McCabe Ross DDS, FAGD, FICOI, is a retired practitioner of general dentistry. His practice was located in Albuquerque, NM, where he spent 40 years from 1980-2020 serving the community providing all aspects of dentistry with an emphasis on implant-based prosthetic, reconstructive and cosmetic dentistry. After graduating from The University of New Mexico with a B.S. in biology in 1976 he attended The University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Dentistry earning a Doctorate of Dental Surgery in 1980. During the course of his career he subsequently attained Fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry, Fellowship in the International College of Implantologists, a certificate in Orthodontics from the United States Dental Institute, graduated from the Misch Institute with certificates in dental implantology, prosthetics and bone grafting as well as certification in Non IV Conscious Sedation and advanced life saving. Dr. Ross was also one of only three dental practitioners in the state of New Mexico certified in the Pinhole Periodontal Surgical Technique at the time of his retirement. During the course of his career Dr. Ross routinely took advanced courses in practice management and marketing from the dental industries leading educators in that filed, Linda Miles, Charles Sorensen, Sally McKenzie, Cathy Jameson, Charles Martin DDS, Howard Farran DDS, MBA, Jay Geier, Dick Barnes DDS, William Strupp DDS, MS to name a few. In retirement Dr. Ross hopes to continue to advance the careers of fellow dentists and health practitioners by participating as a mentor in the University of New México's Anderson School of Business MBA program for Professionals.

Mathis is the CEO of Hanserd Holding LLC, and has over 30 years of experience successfully building and leading large corporate, middle market, and start-up companies across industries and cultures.

His professional career started with 10 years of corporate restructurings, capital markets underwriting, and business development based in London and New York, going on to 30+ years of executive positions in leadership and governance roles managing technology, transportation, and merchant banking entities. Mathis has led companies in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. In these roles, he has lived and worked in Latin America, South East Asia, Europe, and China.

Mathis was most recently the CEO of a high-tech start up based in the US, OptiPulse Inc. He has been the CEO of a Hong Kong based Private Capital JV between a US and an Asian firm; the CEO and President of an International Investment firm based in Sydney, Beijing, and Hong Kong; the Global Head and EVP of a Merchant Banking firm based in Hamburg, Germany; the founder of an Aerospace & Defense technology M&A practice in New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC; and spent 20 years in investment banking in New York and London.

He has held Board positions within the HNA Group’s investment and financial services companies in Sydney and Hong Kong; the Intrepid Foundation in NYC, Finance and Audit Committee; Amentum Leasing Capital in Dublin, Chairman & Co-Founder; RailPool GmbH in Munich, Finance Committee & Co-Founder; and Qynergy in Albuquerque, Compensation Committee & Co-Founder. Philanthropic Board positions include WAVE Foundation and Village Square Technologies.

Mathis has advised clients and structured transactions in the United States and around the world including Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Mathis graduated from The University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Business Administration concentrating in Finance & Accounting and earned an MBA from the Arizona State University’s American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).

Halleluiah Strongheart is a Leadership Development Consultant and Coach in a large and complex healthcare system. She develops and facilitates leadership programs for physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals, and coaches leaders at all levels. She consults with leadership teams to support their growth and development as organizational leaders and provides support for different groups as they navigate the ever-changing, unpredictable world of healthcare and business today.

She started her career as a teacher and soon found that although she loves children, she was more passionate about supporting the adults in the room to be more effective in how they collaborated and worked together. She pursued a Master’s in Leadership and Organizational Development at Fielding Graduate University. She used her skills for several years at a nonprofit in northern New Mexico focused on therapeutic adventure, community engagement, and recovery services.

Along with her work in healthcare, she is currently developing her passion project of coaching leaders, changemakers, and anyone who wants to upshift how they show up in the world using her constellation of skills and experience in mindfulness, emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, communication, and developing presence.

Stephanie W. Telles is the Founder and CEO of Otoño Consulting, LLC. She is a Native New Mexican, the product of its public schools, its rich diversity and culture, and of course its world famous chile. She has over 20 years of professional experience in various roles both in the public and private sectors.

Stephanie previously served as the Director for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) with the New Mexico Office of the State Auditor (OSA). With an unwavering commitment to transparency and accountability, Stephanie played a pivotal role in compiling, managing, and synthesizing data from financial reports to generate comprehensive reports accessible to the public. Stephanie assumed the additional responsibility of Spokesperson for the OSA. In this capacity, she excelled at producing printed material and other media, ensuring that the public was well-informed about the OSA’s activities.

Prior to that, Stephanie served as an Analyst with Wells Fargo Bank, NA, where her primary role was as a liaison for Statement and Remittance Control within the Personal Lending Group. In this capacity, Stephanie served as a crucial link between the business and third-party vendors for print and remittance services. With meticulous attention to detail, Stephanie performed on-site process and procedural audits of these vendors, ensuring compliance with State and Federal regulations.

Furthermore, Stephanie is a dynamic and passionate educator, as an adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management, where she imparts her expertise in Fraud Examination. Additionally, she contributes her expertise as a part-time accounting faculty member at Central New Mexico Community College, School of Business, Hospitality, & Technology.

Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in government and philosophy, with an emphasis on ethics, from New Mexico State University and an MBA from the University of New Mexico. Prior honors include the 2020 Diverse Business Leader Award and the 2018 40 Under Forty.

Maribeth Thornton is the Associate Chief Nursing Officer of Women’s and Children’s at University of New Mexico Hospitals. She has been a nurse for 37 plus years and spent the majority of her career caring for children in a variety of settings: hospitals, long term care, home health, as a case manager, and as a leader. She has worked at University of New Mexico Hospitals since 2000. She has been in an executive position for the past sixteen years. In her current role, she is responsible for eleven inpatient women’s and pediatric units and ten clinics in the Albuquerque area as well as outreach clinics held throughout the state of New Mexico In addition, she has responsibility for the Child Life Program and the Mimbres School District, a state certified school district offering education to children with chronic health conditions.

Maribeth’s passion for children began at a young age. She pursued a degree in special education and music education for two years prior to going to nursing school. While in nursing school, she took electives in child development as well as extra pediatric rotations which made her love for children even stronger. She holds an MBA from UNM, an MSN, and a PhD in Nursing. She is also certified in Nursing Executive Leadership and Case Management. She enjoys developing new programs and mentoring at all levels to help people meet their highest potential.

Ale Veltmann is an executive with over 30 years of experience that include global financial leader of publicly listed energy companies, private entrepreneurial companies, and global auditing firms. Ms. Veltmann is Founder and CEO of ESG Lynk, a sustainability reporting advisory firm in Houston, Texas. Ms. Veltmann also serves as audit committee chair of the Board of Directors of both California Resources Corporation (NYSE:CRC), and NET Power, Inc. (NYSE:NPWR). She has also served on the boards of private companies and several non-profit organizations, including the Foundation of the Anderson School of Management.

Previously, Ms. Veltmann served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at two formerly NYSE listed entities. Prior to that, Ms. Veltmann was in the audit practice of KPMG and Arthur Andersen for ten years. She is a Certified Public Accountant, holds a BBA degree in Accounting from The University of New Mexico and is an alumna of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. She was also inducted into the Anderson Hall of Fame in 2022 and has a passion for encouraging others to connect their personal goals to the world they serve.