Selected Coach Bios
Contempus Leadership has access to a wide network of coaches worldwide to meet client needs. All our coaches are certified by the International Coaching Federation, the leading global coaching credentialing organization.
Steve Baue, ACC
Steve is the CEO and owner of Wisconsin’s premier mental wellness/mental health benefit company, a professional speaker specializing in leadership and mental health topics, and a sought-after executive coach.
He brings over 20 years of prior experience at two international market-leading companies, overseeing global organizational/leadership development and human resource functions at an executive level.
Every day you stand in the center of a whirlwind, a storm of competing goals, tasks, and problems. The varied and complex situations which come from leading organizations and people can test even the best leaders. Who are you turning to for help navigating these issues and finding balance? What investments are you making in yourself, both as a leader and a person? This is where Steve can help.
Be you, but greater. This is his coaching belief. It means not trying to change who you are but focusing on the authentic you and embracing it. It also means recognizing you are already a good leader, but by striving to be a greater leader, we can increase that good while minimizing barriers.
Steve holds an Associate Certified Coach credential with the International Coaching Federation.
Amy Ruppert DOnovan, MCC
A pioneer and seasoned leader in professional coaching, Amy understands the many challenges and realities that come with leadership.
Most leaders rise up through the ranks based on exceptional technical skills. As they continue to rise, the stakes get higher and the murky waters of decision making, tough conversations and handling messy people dynamics rise as well. Unfortunately, there’s no cookie cutter training or development path that can prepare rising leaders for navigating those murky waters. That’s where Amy comes in.
A Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, Amy brings over 25 years of executive coaching experience across a variety of industries including healthcare, financial, tech, manufacturing, legal, academia and government. She has coached leaders at all levels, from the emerging leader to the C-Suite in all facets of leadership.
In addition to her coaching experience, Amy has over 20 years of experience educating thousands of coaches and leaders throughout the world with program and curriculum design.
Librada Estrada, ACC
Librada is a leadership and executive coach, facilitator, and trainer who empowers women to shift their beliefs, embrace their unique leadership style, and increase their emotional intelligence to find fulfillment personally and professionally.
Prior to starting her practice, she was involved in public health at the national level for 15 years, working for organizations (the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs, National Association of County and City Health Officials, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) representing county, state and territorial maternal and child health programs as well as local governmental public health agencies.
Librada is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) through the Coaches Training Institute and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coach Federation. Additionally, she am certified to administer several leadership assessment tools, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the EQ-i2.0®, and The Leadership Circle™.
Librada earned a Master’s in Public Health from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, with an emphasis in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University.
Matt Ley, ACC
Matt considers himself his clients’ Chief Energy Efficiency Officer (CE^2^O). Through his coaching, he helps clients identify their purpose, align their energy to it, and activate them towards deeper impact.
Matt has earned both a Master’s in Divinity and an MBA and worked in startups, large corporations, non-profits, and religious organizations for more than 20 years. Through these varied experiences, he has honed the ability to quickly assess obstacles and opportunities. With these insights he can help you flip your script, clarify your mission, and get you back to it.
Matt focuses on the following with his clients:
Fulfillment. It feels awesome and he guarantees you’ll achieve it.
Collaboration. He is crazy committed to finding value working together.
Impact. Together you’ll turn purpose into progress.
Stories. He has an analogy or book recommendation for pretty much every conversation.
Matt holds an Associate Certified Coach credential with the International Coaching Federation and is the author of the forthcoming book Manage Your Gaps: Reclaiming The Awesomeness of Management.
Nobantu Mpotulo, MCC
Nobanto is a sought-after international coach hailing from South Africa. She was amongst the first five African Coaches globally to be accredited as a Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation and brings experience in the private, public, NGO, NPO, and Higher Education sectors.
Nobantu follows the agenda of the client in her coaching. Through probing questions and sharing just in time observations, she takes clients deep and helps them to identify their blind spots and embrace their shadows. Clients go deeper into the sub-conscious and unconscious levels and dance with what emerges. She provides a safe and open space for focus and exploration. She moves on a continuum of being non-directive to directive depending on what is missing in the client’s system.
No matter what she does, she gets to the HEART of the client and the HEART of the matter. As a Buddhist practitioner and teacher she supports her clients in integrating the head, heart, instinctual and spiritual intelligence. She does amazing heart work with clients based on the principles of UBUNTU ‘I am because we are’.
Nobantu is an accredited Enneagram Teacher (Narrative Tradition) and Enneagram Coach (Enneagram in Business and Deep Coaching). She is a Buddhist Teacher, a Process Facilitator, and a Facilitator of Peace Circles. Nobantu also trains, supervises and mentors other coaches.
Jim Persing, PCC
Jim is an executive coach currently working with corporate and healthcare leaders - both senior and rising. Jim also works with lawyers, physicians at both large and small medical facilities, and other executives and professionals seeking to improve their own skills and lives.
After a decade practicing law, Jim shifted his focus to working more directly with clients to help them to create the life they desire. Over the past twenty years, he has worked in coaching relationships with individuals, corporations, and NGOs throughout the world. Jim’s varied coaching clients and experiences have allowed him to gain knowledge and perspectives across many disciplines and geographies.
By supporting clients through the collaborative process of designing, effectuating, and sustaining change, Jim provides accountability and the opportunity to create effective and personalized success strategies.
Jim has been certified since 2006 by both the Coaches Training Institute (CPCC) and the International Coach Federation (PCC). His education includes a BA (summa cum laude) from Susquehanna University and a JD from the Penn State-Dickinson School of Law.
Elias Scultori, MCC
Elias stands as a seasoned leadership and executive coach, renowned for his expertise in empowering leaders to seamlessly integrate the coach approach into their leadership styles. The impact of his coaching mindset is transformative, reaching teams, organizations, and communities, resulting in optimized engagement, purpose, innovation, productivity, and growth.
With a substantial investment in personal and professional development, Elias holds the prestigious Master Certified Coach (MCC) designation from the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
At the heart of Elias's work lies a commitment to diversity, placing a robust emphasis on affording clients the space and structure necessary to refine their voices and establish a commanding presence at the table regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, personality type, social-economic, or professional standing.
Beyond the domain of coaching, Elias holds a master’s degree in music from the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, and years of experience working in the NYC marketing industry, engaging with clients such as DoubleClick (Google), BP (British Petroleum), and MetLife. A trained photographer, and devoted meditator in the Vipassana tradition, Elias also nurtures a love for opera, travel, and ethnic cuisine. Elias is a native of Brazil and has been a resident of the USA since 1992.