
Professional Coach and Founding Player, MindJazz
Anchorage, Alaska Area

Professional Coach and Founding Player, MindJazz
Anchorage, Alaska Area
I expand possibilities for people.
That's the value that I bring.
Along the way, I help them accomplish twice as much in half the time, in ways that are easy, effortless and enjoyable.
Website: www.timpearson.net
SMALL ADVENTURES
And I think over again
My small adventures
When from a shore wind I drifted out
In my kayak
And thought I was in danger.
My fears,
Those small ones
That I thought so big,
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach.
And yet, there is only
One great thing,
The only thing:
To live to see in huts and on journeys
The great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.
--Song from the Kitlinguiharmiut.
Copper Inuit. Northern Canada.
Recorded and translated by Knud Rasmussen, The Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-1924, the Danish Expedition to Arctic North America
Teambuilding, Professional Coaching, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Adventure/Wilderness Coaching, Executive Search, Board/Management Retreats, Board of Director development
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
May 2000 — Present (9 years 3 months)
A professional consortium of coaches, consultants and trainers.
We provide high energy openings, closings and seminars for conferences.
MindJazz = Creativity + Collaboration + Action
Website: www.mindjazz.com
Events include:
* 1st ICF European Coaching Conference, Grindelwald, Switzerland – opening/closing plenary sessions and networking for 345 coaches from 24 countries
* American Councils for International Education: three day Leadership Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia for 250
* Alaska InvestNet Capital Investment Conferences: seminars
* California Workforce Association Conference, San Diego, CA: theme-building for 1,000
* Georgia Oglethorpe Awards Conference, Savannah, GA: seminar
* European Experiential Education Conferences in Czech Republic, Turkey, Germany & Scotland: seminars
* American Councils for International Education and the U.S. Dept. of State, Washington, DC: delivered a three day Leadership Conference for 306 Muskie graduates from 15 countries
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
March 1990 — Present (19 years 5 months)
I partner with you to provide clarity in decisions, bridge change in transitions and increase energy in life.
Website: www.timpearson.net
Leadership Development Programs:
* Alaska Growth Capital: program designer and professional coach for the ten members of the Alaska Native Leadership Network
* Alaska Growth Capital & First Alaskans Institute: designed a Leadership Roundtable for 33 emerging leaders
* BBNC/Choggiung -- Training Without Walls program: professional coach for 45 Alaska Native professionals in 30 companies for 12 years (ongoing)
* Leadership Anchorage: designed and delivered the 2003 Opening Session for the 22 member cohort
* Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation: designed and delivered an eight month leadership development program for 15 emerging leaders of the 1,300 employee health care corporation
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; GNCMA; Telecommunications industry)
October 1995 — December 1995 (3 months)
Held the position while carrying out an executive search.
MPP , Public Policy, organizational management , 1987 — 1989
MA , Human Rights , August 1985 — May 1987
Thesis accepted with high honors
BA, magna cum laude , Political Science , August 1980 — December 1983
AA with honors , Biblical Studies , September 1978 — May 1980
entrepreneurship, kayaking, hiking, ENFP, professional coaching
Alaska InvestNet, Alaska Speakers Bureau, Amazing Grace Lutheran Church, Harvard Alumni Association, Harvard Club of Alaska, St. Tikhon Russian Orthodox Church, KSG MPP Class of 1989 member, IMA
Good fortune: I grew up looking into tomorrow (literally) -- on the Bering Straits in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Teller, Alaska (pop. 200) -- west side of the International Date Line -- 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle and 100 miles east of Russia.