Meet Our Team
Behind every great virtual training experience is a team of specialists. Meet ours:
Ann Ward
Chief Experience Officer, Author, Coach & Facilitator
Ann works with the best and the brightest to identify what’s standing between them and the message they want to convey. She meets professionals where they are geographically (and psychologically) to change behaviors and improve personal or team outcomes.
With more than 20 years’ coaching, speaking, and training experience, Ann knows that motivation to change can only come from the inside. For that reason, she applies healthy doses of empathy, listening and coffee to make her client experiences fun with lasting results. See Ann in action.
Jorge is the zen master at Ward Certified. He reminds the team that good things happen if you take time to stretch, walk and nap.
Angela Evans
Rock Star Facilitator
Angela has a smile as big as her journey from beautiful Salt Lake to bustling New York City. From marketing services to finance to years of theater, Angela has been honing her training and presentation skills and is ready to bring her playfulness to Team Ward Certified. She's passionate about creating an interactive and motivating training environment that supports learning and learners, and is a master at bringing new cast members into a production.
When not training, Angela is choreographing, doing yoga and flying high on a trapeze. She is fluent in DiSC, technical training and Broadway musicals. If all the world's a stage, she makes any audience feel like the stars of the show.
Karin Knebl
Experience Coordinator
Whether acting or producing, Karin loves to help people. She’s been on stage and behind the scenes and now she coordinates our productions. You’ll find Karin emailing, coordinating, planning and smiling as she gets team Ward Certified to the right place at the right time with the right materials. Ask her about the cat that stalks her, the dog that comforts her and the three great kids that make her proud.
Karin was born and raised in Randolph, NJ but now calls California her home. She loves figure skating, riding horses and baking sugary sweets.
Bonita Owens
Rock Star Facilitator
Bonita is a Life Coach, Inspirational Speaker, and CEO/Founder of the Amazing Women Network.
Bonita has a B.S. degree in Occupational Therapy from Tennessee State University and although she loved her career in healthcare as an Occupational Therapist, Bonita found her passion and decided to change careers. In 2015, she obtained her certification as Professional Life Coach and Energy Leadership Practitioner from iPec Coaching.
When she’s not coaching or facilitating, Bonita can be found hanging with her kids, making people laugh and inspiring the fashionista in all of us.
Marianne Peterson
Rock Star Facilitator
Marianne has a fierce passion for leading and developing teams. She has worked across the globe for over 20 years with GE, building diverse teams from engineering, to manufacturing, to project management. She loves inspiring teams to perform at their highest capabilities with accountability, transparency and empowerment. Her drive comes from a personal motto: “See the Smile!”
Marianne extends this energy outside of work, coaching and playing volleyball, managing the local coffee shop her family owns, and planning adventures for family and friends.
Aimee Allen
Rock Star Facilitator
Aimee loves to help individuals, teams, and organizations achieve their desired growth. Her drive comes from her own journey of continual growth and watching her step-children trying to decide what they want to be when they grow up.
Aimee has an undergraduate degree in marketing and an MBA in Leadership. She has more than twenty years’ experience designing marketing and growth strategies, and now helps others grow through facilitating workshops, coaching, and teaching as an Adjunct Professor.
When she’s not changing lives, Aimee can be found enjoying time at her cabin in the woods or her cottage on the lake.
Laura Kalb
Behind-the-Scenes Batman
Laura is a bucket-filling pro who is passionate about pouring into others to help them change the world. When not supporting Ward Certified, Laura is Assistant Director for Coaching and Professional Development at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her expertise lies in event planning, career advising, client management, and data analysis.
Laura loves all things Excel and project management software. She lives for optimizing systems (like our team!), is fluent in data analysis, and can pick out the perfect GIF for any scenario.