Our Team

Sharon Dougherty
Mary Anne Walk
Scott Pontier

Mary Anne Walk

Sharon DoughertyMary Anne Walk is a professional coach/consultant with expertise in three primary areas: executive coaching, corporate strategy design, and alignment of people with business goals. Her clients have included ARAMARK, BMW, Cadbury-Adams, Coca Cola, Microsoft, and Princeton HealthCare System. Prior to launching her own business Mary Anne spent approximately 35 years at AT&T, retiring as the vice president of human resources and then became the executive vice president for a software company creating strategic workforce solutions. She holds an executive position on the Board of Directors and is a member of the staff at the Gestalt International Study Center.

Mary Anne’s solutions in labor relations and workforce policies are viewed as breakthroughs. She testified before Congress on Workforce 21, a program addressing the changing work issues of the 21st Century, and has addressed numerous global conferences.

Mary Anne is a summa cum laude graduate of Tarkio College, holds an MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and an M.S. in Management Science from MIT as a Sloan Fellow. She is certified as a Master Coach from the International Coaching Federation.