COACHES
Founder & CEO
Private & Corporate Coaching, Treasure Chest Coach
Eric Horwitz
Eric founded GEM Coaching in 2005 and The Treasure Chest in 2020. He is a lead coach in with expertise in life and career planning, and working with businesses such as The New York City Housing Authority, Google and Blink Fitness on team development.
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Spirituality Coach
Private Coaching, Treasure Chest Coach
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Ricki Silber
Ricki began her journey in Energy Healing in 2015. She helps people connect to their intuition so they understand who they truly are and help them develop the courage to become it. Her classes are aimed at providing professional care to open up mental, spiritual, and emotional blockages obstructing successful healing and growth.
Career & Leadership Coach
Private & Corporate Coaching, Treasure Chest Coach
Jasmine Victoria
Jasmine is an integral part of the GEM Team and leads Management Training classes for corporate teams and members. She helps leaders identify their core values and authentic leadership style. When Jasmine is not teaching in The Treasure Chest, she works with private clients and enjoys traveling.
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Coach & Facilitator
Private Coaching, Treasure Chest Facilitator
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Krupa Tailor
Krupa is an expert in team connection, personal development and human-centered design. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, has facilitated workshops for leading organizations (e.g. AmEx, Tidal, Capital One) and coached 25+ change-makers to help create more inclusive, collaborative and engaged workplace cultures.
Executive Public Speaking Coach
Private & Corporate Coaching
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Caitlin Hansen
Caitlin is a recovering television broadcaster and venture capitalist who helps executives and their teams to feel more confident in the spotlight and become more successful leaders and confident communicators, without the nerves, stage fright and poor messaging that is messing up both their internal and external facing communications.
Executive & Leadership Coach
Private & Corporate Coaching,
Linda Johnson
Linda is a certified Executive Coach, organizational consultant, and facilitator working with high-performing and emerging leaders and teams. With decades of practical leadership and client-facing experience, Linda is a committed partner supporting leaders as they bridge the gap between who they are and how they lead. ​​
Professional Certified Coach
Masters Level Social Worker
Bebuo Christianne Ewa
Bebuo initiated her coaching journey while engaging in behavior intervention and therapeutic family interventions as a social worker. She delves into various coaching modalities, ranging from ontological coaching to executive and performance coaching, serving as a life coach and an executive coach for both executives and their supporting staff.​​​
Executive Coach
High Performance Speaker
Lenny Portorreal
Lenny empowers leaders to reach their full potential. With over 15 years of experience at top organizations like J.P. Morgan, The City of New York, and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, Lenny combines mental fitness, deep self-awareness, and a wealth of professional expertise to guide executives and teams towards success.​​​
Executive Coach
Private Coach
Laura Althoff
Laura Althoff is a coach specializing in career changes. Her deep knowledge of overcoming ambivalence and practical experience with agile methodologies, sets her up for handling the emotional and tactical barriers we need to address to get moving. She draws on tools from both worlds to help her clients jump in and make the changes that are right for them.​​
Corporate Coach
Private Coach
Michelle Jackson
Michelle Jackson is an ICF certified executive coach whose career spans non-profit, higher education, consulting, due diligence/ investigations, and career advising. Her focus areas include career transition, financial empowerment, leadership and change. Her coaching style draws from design research, non-violent communication, and creative play.
RESIDENT EXPERTS
HR Consultant
Jamal Pierre
Jamal Pierre is a highly experienced HR leader with over 18 years of experience across a spectrum of industries including Financial Services, Retail, Hospitality, and Healthcare. Throughout his career, Jamal has been recognized as a trusted advisor and now works with leaders to provide practical coaching grounded in business logic and focused on achieving sustainable positive outcomes.
Nutritionist
Sophie Trotman
Sophie is a Registered Nutritionist with a vibrant international practice situated between London and Lisbon. Sophie’s expertise in nutrition has been recognized and featured in various respected media outlets such as the BBC and Evening Standard. She is also a published author, contributing to books such as ‘Happy Skin Kitchen’ and Anthea Turner’s ‘How to Age Well’.
Actor
Tana Sirois
Tana received her MSc in Creative Arts & Mental Health from Queen Mary University of London. She has worked in the theatre industry for over 30 years, is a guest lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts in London, and a certified life coach and workshop leader. She leads workshops and trainings focused on supporting mental wellness through improvisation, collaboration, and play.
Certified Money Coach
Amy Schultz
Amy Schultz is Co-Founder of Bolder Money, a company on a mission to make money human with financial coaching that addresses the emotional side of money. Amy brings the power of money coaching to thousands of people, helping them earn more money, pay off debt, build savings, and ultimately create better lives.
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Law & Corporate Coaching
Laurent Tari
Laurent possesses a unique blend of coaching experience and theoretical knowledge acquired through his journey in different corporate sectors (public, private), in Europe and the US. He contributes to shaping company culture and also conducting change management within teams for sustainable long term impact, with a key focus on developing team members.
TEAM
VP of Marketing & Operations​
GEM Navigator
Naomi Roter
Naomi graduated from Skidmore College in 2020 with a degree in Sociology and has since completed a Fulbright in Spain, worked with non-profits in and outside of the United States, traveled as a digital nomad, and now teaches classes in The Treasure Chest on "Growing Your Digital Footprint."
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Research Analyst
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Jordana Suriel
Jordana is a current first-generation MSW candidate at Columbia School of Social Work. She has experience working with non-profits, doing research, mentoring, and advocacy work, both locally and internationally. At GEM, she partook in the facilitation training and is looking forward to collaborating with The Treasure Chest.
Sales & Corporate Development
GEM Navigator
Jake Gess
Jake graduated from the University of Vermont in 2022 with a degree in Environmental Science. He has since worked with municipalities around the U.S. conducting land use surveys and spatial analysis, and has been involved in ecological garden design projects in Maine and New York.
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GEM Marketing & Sales
Rachael Getreu
Rachael is a Senior pursuing a degree in Strategic Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with certificates in Digital Studies and Digital Media Analytics. She has effectively and innovatively communicated strategies for beauty and wellness brands in previous work. She hopes to bring this knowledge to GEM's online presence and overall strategy. ​​​​
GEM Marketing & Sales
Sam Pasqualoni
​Sam is an active researcher in cognitive sciences and has worked on local and federal elections. His research focus is on the dysfunction in brain circuitry and how said dysfunction contributes to brain disease. Most recently, Sam has contributed to our understanding of the pathology of a specific genetic type of Autism Spectrum Disorder. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 2022 with a degree in Neuroscience. ​​
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Krupa Tailor
Krupa is an expert in team connection, personal development and human-centered design. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, has facilitated workshops for leading organizations (e.g. AmEx, Tidal, Capital One) and coached 25+ change-makers to help create more inclusive, collaborative and engaged workplace cultures. ​