Meet the Team of Experts ...

Kathleen Alexander

Kathleen Alexander has been a real estate agent with CENTURY 21 Cityside in Boston for over three years and award winning for her sales each year. She is a Realtor®, expert Accredited Buyers Representative (ABR) and Certified Residential Specialist (CRS). Kathleen is most proud though of being awarded the Quality Service award in 2004 and 2005 based on the direct feedback of her clients. Being in the right home makes all the difference in the quality of our lives. Kathleen is committed to smooth transitions and people choosing the perfect home for them to create their lives in.

Diane K. Danielson

Diane K. Danielson is the CEO of DowntownWomensClub.com and the founder of the Downtown Women’s Clubs (www.downtownwomensclub.com).  Diane is also the co-author of Table Talk: The Savvy Girl’s Alternative to Networking (2003); a blogger for the BostonWorks section of the Boston Globe; and is a contributing writer for PINK, a national women’s business magazine.  Prior to launching DWC Services Inc. in 2002, Diane was a vice president of business development for Spaulding & Slye Colliers, a vice president of marketing for Meredith & Grew, Inc./ONCOR International, and an environmental attorney.   She is a graduate of Colgate University and Boston College Law School.

Jean DiGiovanna

Jean DiGiovanna, President and Founder of ThinkPeople, a coaching & consulting firm, has a unique gift for shifting people's perspective allowing them to achieve beyond what they thought was possible.  Jean is a Certified Professional Coach and Member of the National Speakers Association with over 15 years of coaching, facilitating and training experience in both professional and personal arenas. Jean helps individuals and groups pinpoint their deepest desires to accomplish what matters most and guides executives and their teams to achieve professional excellence enabling them to transform challenges into immediate bottom line results. Jean enjoys balancing her professional life with her talent as an artist and jewelry designer. Details at www.thinkpeople.com.

Joanne Dougan

Joanne Dougan, M.Ed., has been working helping women help themselves break through their inner and outer barriers to live lives of great joy, fulfillment and happiness.  A graduate of Bard College (B.A. in American Studies,1977) and the University of Massachusetts (M.Ed.in Counseling Psychology,  1987), Joanne has been in private practice in downtown Boston since 1988.  In addition to her private counseling practice, she also led a Goals and Empowerment Team for Women for eight years.   Joanne has lectured widely, including Simmons College, Boston College Law School, Cambridge Center for Adult Education and the South Shore Women's Network.  She is married and has one daughter. 

Susan Dunbar

Susan has spent her 29-year career in the financial services industry.  She is currently a Financial Planning Consultant at Fidelity Investments and is located in the Investor Center in Back Bay.  In her position she works with individuals and families to establish financial goals and implement strategies to reach them using investment and insurance products.   She holds a bachelors degree from Assumption College and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.  She is also a Certified Financial Planner, CFP(R)and a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and is a candidate for the Chartered Advisor for Senior Living.

Suzanne Glassburn

Suzanne Glassburn is a partner in the business department of the Boston law firm of Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP and is Co-Chair of the firm's High Technology and Emerging Companies Practice Group. She has a broad business practice, acting as outside general counsel to many of her clients, with significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, software licensing, intellectual property licensing and transfer, manufacturing and distribution agreements, trademarks, and copyrights. Suzanne's clients include small businesses and large private and public companies in various industries, including manufacturing, high technology and life sciences. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Jeannie LaChapelle

Jeannie LaChapelle is vice president and branch manager of the Back Bay Fidelity Investments Investor Center in  Boston.  LaChapelle has spent the past 18 years helping both novice and sophisticated  investors manage their financial lives.  Jeannie began her career with Fidelity in 1994 and has also served as Vice President of institutional sales for Fidelity’s Corporate and Employee Services Group.  Prior to joining Fidelity, she worked as Regional VP in the sales divisions of American Express Financial Advisors and James Mitchell & Company

Johanna Lyman

Johanna Lyman is an abundance coach, CFP® and a Reiki Master.  For the last five years, she has helped people transform their relationship with their money.  As a result, people experience a new and more fulfilling relationship with themselves.  Johanna is able to get to the heart of your situation with compassion and help you uncover the answers that lie within.  Armed with those answers, you are prepared to take the actions which empower you to live your best and fullest life.   Johanna recently lived in Hawaii and now resides in central MA with her husband and daughter.

Lauren Mackler

Recognized as one of America’s leading personal and professional coaches, Lauren is frequently featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Business Journal, and national magazines, television, and radio.  She founded Lauren Mackler & Associates (www.laurenmackler.com) in 2001, providing individual coaching services that help clients optimize their potential in their personal and professional lives, and consulting services to help corporations become more people-centric organizations.  Lauren previously led Andersen's People Strategy consulting practice, served as VP of Organizational Development at Boston Financial, worked as a Career Management Consultant, and had a private practice as a psychotherapist.  Details at www.laurenmackler.com.

Jenifer Madson

Jenifer Madson has been called a cross between a financial adviser and an advice columnist: her experience spans fifteen years of coaching people in the key areas of relationships and money – first as the owner of a dating business, then as a financial services broker. She now teaches people how to get what they want by improving their relationship with money. She has built multi-million dollar franchise territories for the dating industry, led award-winning branch offices for a national financial services firm and developed an international coaching clientele. She is the author of “A Financial Minute: From Money Madness to Financial Freedom, One Minute at a Time!", and her great mission is to empower and inspire people to truly be ‘financially free.’

Patricia Merolle

Patricia Merolle, a principal with WINNING, Inc. has over 20 years of sales, management, and entrepreneurial success in a wide variety of businesses. For example, prior to joining WINNING, Patricia was a consistent top performer with Perry Johnson Registrars, setting all-time company records for sales resulting in her promotion to Regional Manager.  Patricia prides herself on developing people who have never sold before and, in fact, may have thought of SALES as a terrible 4-letter word.  After speaking with Patricia, they realize that everyone sells and that sales is actually a consultative 5-letter word.  Patricia's motto is: "Abolish Mediocrity; Change your life."

Kerri Salls

Kerri Salls provides solutions, skills and strategies to help leaders breakthrough to greater business success. As a high energy, results-driven, change catalyst, she is exceptionally good at inspiring business leaders who are ready to initiate change. She is the Founder/CEO of Breakthrough Business School, a virtual program of training, consulting and coaching for CEOs/Entrepreneurs to make more profit in less time.   Kerri is a 30 year veteran of state-of-the-art technology companies and commission-based sales. She has owned 4 small businesses working with scores of independent business owners and corporate leaders.
She holds an MBA from Boston University and a BA from Bates College.

Joanie Winberg

As an entrepreneur since the age of 25, Joanie Winberg owned and operated a successful True Value Hardware store for 18 years. As a speaker, Relationship Coach, Human Behavior Consultant and a Certified Laughter Coach, Joanie's passion is to assist women in enjoying a lifestyle with more ease, less stress and a lot of fun in both their personal and professional lives by conducting high energy, fun-filled and educational workshops, training seminars and keynote speaking events. (www.speakeroncall.com)                

     Joanie is also the founder of The Happy Wednesday Broadcast, a midweek BOOST that inspires people throughout the world with weekly quotes and tips. (www.happywednesday.com).