DEAN MILES

Founder, President

Dean is the founder and president of Bridgepoint Coaching & Strategy Group, a global executive coaching firm. He has spent his career unlocking great leaders in the process of producing exceptional results. Marshall Goldsmith invited Dean to join 100 Coaches (#MG100), an invitation-only community of the world’s leading executive coaches. Dean also serves as a member of Forbes' prestigious Council for Executive Coaches and is a member of The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) - a top-ranked global provider of leadership development programs. Furthermore, he has been a Fellow at The Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School for the last six years. Thinkers360 recently recognized Dean as a Top 10 Thought Leader in Business Continuity and Top 25 Thought Leader in Startups and Mental Health.

Dean is a master at understanding the needs of organizations and individuals. He has been coaching and facilitating programs for groups and individuals around the country on many organizational, interpersonal, and personal topics since 1996. With his extensive experience in manufacturing, mining, aerospace, financial services, health care, oil and gas, rail services, and non-profits, Dean knows how to get the best out of people. Dean's knowledge of his client’s unique needs is invaluable in identifying critical areas of improvement that lead to desired outcomes.

He has been described as an intuitive risk-taker who will partner with you to uncover your strengths and opportunities.

Dean's work with Fortune 500 CEOs has been featured in publications such as Forbes Magazine, Fast Company, CareerPro, Vistage & Inc. Magazine.

 

LANCE LEBLANC

Partner, Vice President

Lance is Vice President and Partner at Bridgepoint Coaching & Strategy Group. His work experience in leadership and coaching spans across academic medicine, technology, marketing, manufacturing, energy and recruiting and talent management.  He has led and developed high performing teams for more than 18 years and is accustomed to working in dynamic and rapidly changing environments that require extreme agility and confident leadership. As a senior executive coach, Lance’s direct and creative approach with clients helps them envision future possibilities, create high-level strategies and holds them accountable for achieving their goals. He is an expert in creating strategic alliances with organization leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives that have bottom-line impact. 

 

SArah Langlinais

Finance Manager

Sarah puts her high standards and quiet focus to use as Finance Manager of Bridgepoint Coaching & Strategy Group. By combining her education in the Arts with 6 years as a business office manager and another 6 years in the coaching industry, Sarah supplies a unique balance of creativity and functional schemes. She possesses a particular ability for making big ideas become a living reality though her attention-to-detail. Sarah can be found waddling around the mountains of West Virginia with her husband and 4 children under the age of 6. She looks forward to sleeping sometime in the near future.