A Word

From Our Director

“Welcome to Impact Coaching Academy; please let me introduce our amazing faculty! I couldn’t be more inspired by each of the talented individuals we’ve attracted to our faculty, and I’m proud of the work, heart, and professionalism they bring to their respective classes/courses.  Whether you are a professional Coach, just starting out, or simply curious about what Coaching is all about, our goal is to make it easy for you to spend time with us, and to help you make an Impact in the Coaching community. Having the very best experienced coaches, teachers, and awesome professionals on our team helps make it all possible!”

– Terri Hase

Our Faculty

Terri Hase

Terri Hase

Director

Terri Hase is ICA’s Managing Director and focuses on ensuring our coach training programs and instructors meet the highest standards of professionalism and coaching excellence.

Terri has been leading coach training programs since 2005, and has been coaching since 2001. Emerging as a coaches coach was quite an unexpected surprise, but it has blossomed to become some of the most successful and rewarding work Terri does. She has a huge passion for helping coaches live their dreams, by being the person, and coach, they desire to be.

Dr. Lee Baucom

Dr. Lee Baucom

Co-Principal

Dr. Lee Baucom is the Co-Principal of Impact Coaching Academy. As a coach with almost three decades of experience, Dr. Baucom is committed to the power of coaching to impact lives and transform systems.

Dr. Baucom is also the author of Thrive Principles, where he outlines 15 strategies to help anyone build a thriving life. Dr. Baucom is the creator of the Save The Marriage System. The author of two best-selling books on saving relationships, Dr. Baucom brings a coach’s attitude to his training as a therapist. Over the last three decades, Dr. Baucom has coached and consulted with individuals and organizations around the world. His expertise in thriving has transformed individuals, couples, families, and organizations from stuck to excellence.

Shell Cowper-Smith

Shell Cowper-Smith

Shell Cowper-Smith has been earnestly involved with families for 35 years. She provided a home for 24 teens in crisis [2 at a time] and has experienced just about every temperament, acting out behavior, contention, and emotions of all kinds. Her rich experience of re-uniting families, training successful foster home parents and working with the corrections department providing court appointed classes has established a distinguished reputation in her community.

As a Certified Parent Coach, she is a highly successful family coach, trained and mentored by Diana Sterling, the founder and author of The Parent as Coach Approach®. Shell has seen hundreds of families’ experience transformation. She continues to see private clients and partners with other coaches in her community.

Lorraine Lane

Lorraine Lane

Lorraine Lane is an Executive and Business Coach and management consultant. She began her professional career in the high-tech industry, eventually rising to senior management positions. Following a downturn in high-tech, she started her own business some 20 years ago.

Her persistence and love of learning got her through the challenges of beginning a business, and those experiences now serve her in coaching her clients.

She has also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Management and Professional Development Departments for San Jose State University in California’s Silicon Valley and for St. Leo University and Pasco-Hernando State College in Florida.

Yasha Afshar Jalili

Yasha Afshar Jalili

Yasha Afshar Jalili has been an Impact Coaching Academy (ICA) member since 2017 who is responsible for business development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. He has authored about 15 peer-reviewed international publications and a prize-winning book in the management field. He studied Industrial Engineering, Executive Management, and Personality Psychology. He has provided consultancy services to over 100 companies including public and private organizations, in different industries. Receiving ICF Credential at ACC level, he will tell you what is coaching, what is not coaching, where is ICF, and how ICA can partner and guide you in your coaching journey.