Dr. Elaine R. Millamhas spent over thirty years in various leadership positions working as a change agent, educator, executive coach and business executive. She served as an executive in Human Resources and Organizational Development for over twenty years, working in a Fortune 50 organization where she received several key awards, including the coveted Lund Award for excellence in people development. She is an adjunct faculty member of The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, the University of St. Thomas and Argosy University where she teaches leadership development, strategic change and organization effectiveness. She is a published author on facilitation, performance management, leadership coaching, change leadership, team effectiveness and workforce design.
She specializes in leadership development and multi-rater (360-degree) feedback, strategic planning, and team and organizational effectiveness. She has designed and delivered numerous team-learning experiences, using peer group coaching as an explicit learning mechanism. Elaine has also designed and delivered several educational programs aimed at helping leaders to create significant contributions in their workplaces. Her coaching work is focused on helping clients learn leadership behavior that achieves positive, long-term change and plans for realizing their future vision. She uses an integrated leadership model that balances the “inside-out and outside-in” approach to developing leaders.
Elaine is a certified Master Coach with the International Coaching Federation, originally being certified at the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara. Elaine is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with double majors in Education and Social Work and a double Masters in Educational Psychology and Industrial Relations and a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from the University of St. Thomas.