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Founders

Karen Roeper and Peter Rosselli have collaborated for over 20 years as consultants and educators, both nationally and internationally. They have integrated their experiences in organizational and leadership development, communication and presentation skills training, executive coaching, corporate management, facilitation skills, counseling psychology, expressive arts therapies, and performance technology to create a highly unique approach to personal and professional learning and development.

 

Karen Roeper
Co-Founder

Karen Roeper is a trainer, somatic coach, counselor, and educator. Her lifelong passion has been to explore the relationships between body and emotions, the mind, and Spirit.

In addition to co-founding Invisible Elephant Training & Consulting, Karen created and developed Essential Motion, an intensive personal transformation process which focuses on cultivating and integrating mental, emotional, and particularly somatic (physical) intelligence. She has conducted seminars both nationally and internationally for over twenty years, and currently conducts two and four-year Essential Motion leadership certification courses in Sweden, Finland, and the U.S.

Karen holds a Masters in Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy. She has been a consultant for the ED/Trauma Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Santa Rosa, and was an adjunct faculty member at JFK University. She is currently a Rosen Method Bodywork Senior Teacher and has maintained a private practice for over twenty-five years. For more information on Karen’s Essential Motion trainings and workshops, please visit her web site at www.essential-motion.com

 

Michael Heim M.A., MFCC
Senior Consultant

Michael Heim has been a key contributing member of the IE team since the company’s inception. He has over 20 years experience as a consultant, trainer, and course designer in the areas of Cultural Diversity and Communications. His client portfolio includes Apple Computer, AT&T, Amdahl, Amoco Corporation, Ashland Oil, Baxter Medical, Berlex Biosciences, Citibank, Clorox, Genentech, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Internal Revenue Service, Pacific Bell, Nike, Sony Pictures, and a host of other Fortune 500 companies. For the past 10 years he has also consulted extensively with Kaiser Permanente.

In 1996, prior to joining IE, Michael co-founded Cor Communications, LLC. a consulting company specializing in Diversity training. As a Diversity consultant Michael conducted comprehensive assessments of organizational cultures, and developed programs focusing on diversity issues such as race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, and work/life balance. He also spent nine years as a Program Manager for a leading national communications company, designing and conducting programs in Interpersonal Communication Skills, Presentation Skills, Team Building, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, and Customer Service.

Michael has a Masters Degree in Counseling, is a licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist, and has worked extensively with victims of assault and violence. He co-founded a non-profit counseling center for people with life-threatening illnesses. His background includes over 8 years of teaching experience on the high school and university levels. Michael was also president and co-owner of Heim Bros. Inc., a construction firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today Michael particularly enjoys outdoor sports such as kayaking and distance swimming, and his training continues to be a significant part of his lifestyle.

 

AlexSandra Leslie
Senior Consultant

AlexSandra provides consulting services to leaders and their organizations in the areas of business communication and organizational development. Her work focuses on outcome-oriented organizational and personal change. She has been specializing in Authentic Expression, Communication Skills, and Leadership Development for over 25 years, and has coached thousands of people in preparing for a variety of critical presentations, interviews, and challenging interactions. She focuses particularly on senior executives and their teams.

In the area of business communication, AlexSandra helps leaders design and articulate their corporate vision and strategy and deliver potent and compelling presentations that enhance their effectiveness in the marketplace. She coaches executives to find their own natural presence, and to communicate their message with strength and authenticity. The result is an enhanced ability to inspire, motivate, and move people to take action. Beyond her executive work, she designs and delivers large-scale training programs including train the trainer applications. AlexSandra also helps executives to lead their teams through major or stressful changes. An important part of this process is identifying, developing and communicating the vision, values and strategic direction as well as the obstacles that hinder success throughout the organization.

AlexSandra has been a lead consultant and contributor to the IE team from its founding. Prior to IE she worked for 10 years with Decker Communications, a leading pioneer in the field of business communications, where she developed expertise in communication, speaking and leadership skills. She also trained with The Tom Peters Group, Leadership Center West and Peter Block’s School for Managing. She is a Master practitioner for Neuro Linguistic Programming and is qualified in Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

Throughout her work AlexSandra is committed to contributing to the needed transformation in business and society toward more sanity, balance, productivity and respect for, with and among others.

IE Team

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Consultants

Invisible Elephant consultants bring a creative, personal, supportive, and results-oriented approach to their work. They are exceptionally experienced, and collectively embody a formidable depth and breadth of expertise. They are committed to promoting lasting, life-changing impact in their clients that consistently surpasses goals and expectations. IE maintains a team of over 20 consultants located in major markets throughout the U.S.

 

Peter Rosselli
President

Peter Rosselli has been an innovator in Business Communications training and Personal Expression coaching for over 20 years.
As an educator, consultant, course designer, and coach, Peter has worked directly with over 15,000 individuals, and personally conducted hundreds of skills development programs.

Prior to forming IE, Peter co-founded Cor Communications, Inc. specializing in Diversity training. For close to ten years he developed curricula for Decker Communications, Inc. There he managed programs in Presentation Skills, Press and Media Training, Message Development, Conflict, and Customer Service, and trained a staff of 35 consultants to deliver these programs internationally. He has since consulted for ChangeWorks Solutions, assisting organizations through dramatic change, acquisitions, and mergers. He served as consultant with Mandel Communications, as well as KCR Communications and The Negotiating Edge. He currently remains a Senior Consultant with the Taylor Consulting Group, and Effective Training Associates.

Peter’s educational background includes a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley, graduate studies at JFK University, and extensive training in personality and social styles systems. Peter has spent a lifetime studying various expressive arts beginning with music studies at age 6. He began conducting workshops in improvisational movement and theatre in 1985. He has also taught classes at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and guest lectured for the National Technological University, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Peter particularly loves the spaciousness and peace of the ocean, and so considers himself blessed to live in Muir Beach, California with his wife Karen. They proudly have one grown son, Jamey, and they look forward to the possibility of becoming child-spoiling grandparents some day.

 

Dave Rosselli
Vice President – Business Development

Dave Rosselli has a long and rich background in TV and Radio Broadcasting, University Administration, Fundraising, Business Management, and Career Development. He has over 25 years of communications experience in both the radio and television media, including over ten years in the San Francisco market working at KGO and KNBR Radio. In addition he has broad based experience in Television working for both ESPN and Comcast.

Currently Dave manages the front-line fund raisers and day-to-day operations necessary to develop annual and major gifts for the University of California Athletic Department. He oversees all fund-raising related to California Memorial Stadium, which is a $400 million dollar initiative. Dave heads a staff of 17 people, one of the largest athletic development operations in the country. He has led the team to record-breaking fund-raising totals in each of the last four years.

Dave also spent eight years as the director of development for the Schools of Engineering and Business at the University of the Pacific in the early 1990s. His expertise in Business and Communications, particularly his wealth of knowledge in broadcast media makes him a perfect compliment to the IE team. Dave is a native of the East Bay Area, and currently resides in Danville California with his wife Chris and their five children.