John Hutchings
Associate Director
For over 20 years John marketed such products as the American Express Card, Kellogg Cereal and Vlasic Pickles, as well as owning his own marketing strategy and planning firm. In 2003, John changed his career direction and chose to help MBAs market themselves. His expertise is assisting MBAs in connecting their work experiences with their business school education in order to achieve their post-MBA career goals. John earned his BBA in marketing from the University of Iowa and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Office Hours by Appointment:
Mon – Thu 1pm – 6pm, Phone or Virtually
Fri 12pm – 4pm, Phone or Virtually
Office Number: 1153
Ed Kato
Executive Coach
Ed has more than twenty-five years of experience within the talent acquisition, staffing, recruiting, and human resources environment with additional experience in project management, business management and recruiting management. Much of Ed’s career has been working with clients and candidates matching the two together to help clients grow their businesses and to help candidates grow their careers. Ed has been the co-founder and the founder of four entrepreneurial companies in his career and has worked in the big business corporate environment as well as in the small business environment. His experience includes supporting talent acquisition programs in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, India, and China.
Ed received his MBA in 2010 from North Carolina State University – Jenkins Graduate School of Management with a concentration in Services Management & Consulting. He received his BS in Business Administration from North Carolina Wesleyan College and he attended Appalachian State University and participated in the Industrial Technology program. Ed is a certified Professional in Human Resources and he is a certified Project Management Professional.
Office Hours by Appointment:
Mon – Thu: 5pm – 8pm, Phone or Virtually
Sat: 9am – 1pm, Phone or Virtually
Lisa Batts
Executive Coach
Lisa is the founder/CEO of Capital Coaching, LLC. She established her coaching practice to support mid-career business and IT professionals to manage their careers and help them apply lessons she learned from developing her staff members at Fidelity as well as from her own multiple internal IT and managerial promotions.
Lisa has over twenty-five years of technology experience in the chemicals, state government, supply chain management, and financial services sectors. She launched her career transition from chemical engineering to IT as an entrepreneur and web developer then expanded into corporate roles of analysis, project management, before moving into a leadership position as development manager and then as director of quality assurance engineering at Fidelity Investments. Strong relationships have been a hallmark of Lisa’s career – whether it be in a service or sales capacity working with clients or as a manager and leader of onshore and offshore teams across the US, China, India and Ireland. In her corporate career, she was a mentor, advocate and coach for her many team members. As a volunteer career coach at Dress For Success and as a private practice executive coach, Lisa has provided the insight, advice and inspiration that has helped her clients to achieve their goals.
Lisa received her MBA in 2012 from North Carolina State University – Jenkins Graduate School of Management with a concentration in Finance & Marketing. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Lisa has also completed training as an Authentic Leadership Coach at Raleigh Coaching Academy.
Office Hours by Appointment:
Mon 6pm – 9pm, Virtually |
Tues 6pm – 9pm, Virtually |
Wed 6pm – 9pm, Virtually |
Thur 6pm – 9pm, Virtually |
Sun 6:00pm – 9pm, Virtually |
Susan Bach
Executive Coach
Susan A. Bach, Ph.D., is credited with building and leading the Center for Leadership Development at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College (Winter Park, FL)
that was ranked # 1 nationally four consecutive years. She effectively oversaw an academic and a business sponsored career center for a fortune 500 company engaged in downsizing staff.
Her experience also includes serving as Director of Human Resources in the hospitality industry, as a Vice President for the largest global outplacement firm, and as a career and leadership
development coach.
Office Hours by Appointment:
Mon – Thu 1pm – 6pm, Phone or Virtually
Fri 12pm – 4pm, Phone or Virtually