Gloria Manchester, CTACC, President      Gloria owns Leadership Education Action Programs (LEAP) marketing and facilitating Leap to Excellence (LEAP) to the business world, the Partner in Excellence (PIE) Course to women and families and the Coaching to Excellence programs. She has been a student, facilitator and trainer in personal development seminars for over 30 years. Gloria is one of the women being honored in the Mary Ann Halpin book "Fearless Women-Fearless Wisdom". This book is being launched in June 2010. Gloria Manchester is one of the co-founders of the non-profit CARTE – Child Abuse Resolved Through Education. She has organized, co-created and co-facilitated all The STARR and Partner in Excellence Programs for CARTE. For several years, in order to raise funds for the STARR Program, she also marketed a relationship seminar in Los Angeles, produced by Dr. John Gray, the best-selling author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”.  Gloria has two grown married children who are both thriving in their respective professions, and she is the proud grandmother of three grandsons and one granddaughter. Gloria’s purpose is to express her compassion, passion and leadership through the LEAP and CARTE programs. She is a committed advocate of personal development. As an accomplished coach and leader, Gloria's life mission is to significantly interrupt the cycle of child sexual abuse and to empower teenage girls and women to lead fulfilling personal and professional lives. CTACC, Certified Coach Certificate (PDF)
	Rosalie D. Gibbons, MFT   Rose Gibbons has been a Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist in the state of California for the past 28 years with an expertise in developmental psychology and multi-disciplinary experiential modalities. Since the early 1980’s Ms. Gibbons has been a student, staff member, curriculum designer, facilitator and trainer of personal and professional development seminars for adults, as well as teens.  Over the years she has also consulted, supervised, coached and trained hundreds of educators, court officers, legal and social services systems, mentors, interns, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and clinical cohorts in the effective use of multi-disciplinary treatment modalities and the developmental considerations of abuse.   Whatever the arena, she has a passion for designing an experiential context in which course participants breakthrough their perceived ceilings of achievement, accomplishment and endeavor, and reach for a degree of excellence that exceeds expectations.   Ms. Gibbons is the co-designer and co-facilitator of LEAP – Leadership Education Action Programs.  She also serves as a board member of the non-profit organization, CARTE and is its co-designer and facilitator of the dynamic and accelerated experiential STARR Programs for abused teens and Partner in Excellence.  For the past ten years she has worked for Children and Family Services, in Orange County, California.  She currently serves in the position as a Senior Social Services Supervisor.  Ms. Gibbons and her son reside in Irvine, California.