Kerage is an organizational performance and leadership design agency that focuses on improving results delivered by companies and individuals.
Meet the team that makes it all happen. Our staff leadership team are also coaches who live and breathe what we teach.
OUR COACHES
Travis Carson
Travis is passionate about helping successful business professionals achieve breakthrough performance by providing tools and perspective for solving their most difficult business issues.
A life-long learner and entrepreneur, Travis is the driving force behind Market Force and a proud partner with Kerage. Travis has personally employed the value of Market Force’s Human Performance Technology to run his own businesses and coach hundreds of others. With his combination of real-time operations and business ownership experience, Travis has fine-tuned and champions the Market Force system to help our clients extract the maximum value through the integration of the program. Travis is proud to lead the product development and integration side of Market Force within Kerage as well as running many of our high-level, client engagements. Having lived, used, taught, and coached our principal practices for over 30 years, and with executive consulting experience in over 25 different industries, Travis is a highly sought-after presenter, coach, and trainer.
A competitor at heart, Travis is a four-time, nationally-ranked tennis player; a seven-time, nationally-ranked triathlete; and a 3-time Ironman Triathlon finisher. Travis earned undergraduate and graduate degrees (in law and business) from the University of Arizona, and currently lives in Tucson, AZ with his wife and their four children.
Dustin Kersey
Dustin works with individuals & teams to understand their core values & ensure alignment with their daily actions. Through this conscious alignment of values & actions clients are able to operate at their optimal performance levels, while feeling personally fulfilled, and living the life of their dreams.
At Dustin’s core he is a powerful leader. Whether continuing his education, working in industrial environments or enjoying the ocean, he excels at uniting teams and guiding them to achieving common goals.
Educated as an Mechanical Engineer at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, he has always had an interest in how things work. As a student leader he developed programs for fellow engineering students, and lead regional campaigns to elevate the relationship Professional Engineers and the students who were studying to join their ranks.
Dustin has extensive international management experience in the Automotive and Energy sectors. As an Operations Manager of Automotive Factories and Chemical Storage & Distribution Facilities, his corporate experience allows for a deep understanding of the challenges faced by his clients in todays demanding business environment.
An adventurous spirit and passion for the water has driven Dustin to fantastic life experiences. As a Scuba Diving Instructor & Certified Underwater Welder he understands that clients have sprawling aspirations and diverse goals calling out to them. He will help you understand how to align your values and actions to achieve the life of your dreams.
The ocean can be a place of peaceful & calm reflection and in an instant can shift to a raging tempest of energy. Dustin enjoys working with clients to to raise their awareness of their own energy levels. With awareness comes the ability for conscious choice of how to present yourself to the rest of the world. As a coach Dustin’s goal is to elevate your self awareness so you can consciously choose how to react to any of life’s infinite situations.
The underwater environment is not a natural place for a human. To survive there requires unique safety equipment, enhanced communication methods & a desire to explore the rare terrain few have ever seen. Dustin brings this extraordinary blend of coaching skills to his clients as he works to guide them to achieve their personal level of optimal performance.
Tony Elliott
Tony is a mission-first leader who works with successful people and companies to take their brand, their leadership performance, and their philanthropic commitments to a higher level.
Tony has been immersed in the Market Force tools and concepts since 2002. For nearly 20 years, he has been an award-winning leader and key contributor to a top-producing commercial real estate firm. His contributions have ranged from developing the company’s proprietary transaction management system, developing a media production practice, and building high-performance teams. He loves to navigate the gray areas in your business, increase the performance of your teams, and work to make the world a better place.
Tony loves to travel and has a heart to serve others. Since 2007, his contributions in leadership and media development are key to the rise of a private university in Ndola, Zambia. Northrise University was founded in 2007 with an enrollment of 50 students. Today Northrise University boasts over 1,000 students with a newly constructed Campus Center building that sits in the middle of 640 acres of land surrounded by student-run agriculture, dormitories, a medical facility, and classrooms.
Tony and his family are based in Phoenix, AZ.
Here's what people have to say about working with Tony:
I hired Tony Elliott in 2019, but we really took it to the next level the beginning of 2020. This last year and a half have completely changed my life on not only how I view and run my business, but also personally. It has given me a confidence level in business that I didn't know was possible. The only regret I have is that I wish I would have started with Tony and his coaching years earlier! From now on, I will always have a coach who is also a strategic partner.
- Brian Gast, Executive Vice President / Principal, Velocity Retail Group
Jared Cohen, MA/MBA
Jared's personal philosophy, passion, and purpose is to equip people to become extraordinary lifelong learners about themselves, their relationships, and their pursuits, so that they are more capable of living interesting, fulfilling and meaningful lives.
Jared's professional coaching journey began in 2006 when he was an overnight camp counselor. In 2010, his perspective on coaching widened as he began pursuing CrossFit. Since then, he has been incredibly active training and coaching at the intersection of health/wellness, fitness, human performance, and organizational psychology--in particular, executive coaching and leadership development.
Prior to earning his MBA, with an emphasis on organizational psychology, and a Master’s in Sport and Performance Psychology, Jared was a seasoned, enthusiastic, and dedicated CrossFit, Olympic Weightlifting, and mobility coach.
Since his masters' programs, Jared has specialized in equipping leaders with a plethora of mental models and skills-based practices to fast track their ability to leverage their experience and accelerate their expertise. He delivers customized leadership and team development workshops for executive teams to help them examine how they operate and provide them with frameworks for evolving their mindsets and behaviors.
Jared is one of the lead facilitators and instructional designers for the Los Angeles Department of Health Services' Leadership Development program. Additionally, he has worked with athletes, fitness enthusiasts/coaches, musicians, business owners/executives, newly promoted leaders/managers, physicians, sales representatives, software engineers, video game developers, call-center operators, and government employees. Fun fact: For one year, Jared worked as a cognitive enhancement coach for TSA officers to help them improve their working memory, reaction time speed and accuracy, heart rate variability, and overall vigilance and wellbeing.
When not coaching, training, reading, and/or writing, you can find Jared geeking out about John Mayer, The Grateful Dead, and Marvel movies.
Chris Collings
“Stand on my shoulders, and I will make you taller”
My intent is to work with you to define your own ’True North’, from which you will be able to navigate a path to success in the presence the seas of volatility and uncertainty Challenge: I will bring to our work together 20 years of hands-on management experience as a global leader to : I am not here to be your cheerleader, but to make you taller.
I believe in creating mutual accountability for lasting change
Dr. Kalila Bodden
Dr. Bodden is a dynamic leader who builds high-performing teams through effective individual coaching, strategic planning, goal setting, accountability and motivation.
Dr. Kalila Bodden is a medical doctor, wellness consultant and executive coach. She has a strong focus on client connection and loyalty. With well-developed employee relations skills, she excels at management performance. She has wide-ranging experience in a multitude of industries, including Medicine, Health Insurance, Online Business Start-Ups, and Corporate Leadership.
Dr. Bodden returned to the Cayman Islands in 2012 and worked with one of the largest health insurers where she developed a medical case management team to oversee $125M in complex medical care across three countries. She also spearheaded the rollout of the nation’s largest wellness platform which partnered with local vendors to incentivize members to create healthy lifestyles.
In 2016 she then started her business which offers wellness consulting and executive coaching for professional, corporate, c-suite and senior civil service clients to enhance productivity, improve leadership skills and attain peak performance.
Her specialties include:
★ Evidence-Based Wellness
★ Leadership Coaching
★ Employee Wellbeing
★ Career Development
★ Lifestyle Coaching
As a Caymanian who thrives in a multi-cultural setting, Dr. Bodden has lived and studied in Canada, Ireland and the US. Additionally, she completed training in the UK for the Professional Certificate in Strategic Health Planning. Dr. Bodden obtained her honours medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2011, and her double certified international coaching qualifications in 2016 and 2017.
Her clients describe her coaching style as empathetic, data-driven, effective, and intuitive. She inspires others to lead a fulfilling life while achieving their goals. Dr. Bodden is driven to help her clients unlock their potential and live their best life
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Mark Rowlands, P.Eng., MAGL, EP
The world is more complex than ever, with systems involving technology and people. Decision-making today requires the consideration of many aspects and dimensions, so much so that our stress levels grow as we often find ourselves alone without the safety to express our feelings and ideas.
Mark offers a private ear of security to release tension, check your biases, or help fill in gaps to increase your confidence in moving forward with equanimity. He is passionate about helping you realize your full potential while growing to your full capabilities. With a career that reflects whole systems thinking,
Mark has vast experience in developing large-scale plans reflecting the complex changes needed within organizations, including planning, implementation, design, consultation, outreach, speaking, training, and operations – all to maximize the performance of a new system. He has worked locally, nationally, and internationally to evolve award-winning social innovation systems that involve policy, programs, infrastructure, personnel, finance, operations, and administration for over 30 years.
As a professional civil engineer and environmental professional, and recently educated with a Master of Arts in global leadership, Mark’s practitioner background can help you gain a stronger understanding of the interactions of built and people systems. Providing another set of eyes and strong critical thinking, Mark can help you through the stressful process of planning, implementing, operating, and measuring natural systems and interacting with the individuals involved.
Mark has held numerous leadership positions in government, consulting, and internationally while holding senior NGO Directorships as President and Vice-Presidents and can provide exceptional guidance through leading public and private sector teams and coaching C-Suite leaders, Elected Officials, and Investors.
Mark continues to pursue his academic career by continually researching the latest global affairs, leadership, and coaching and bringing these concepts out to educate change leaders in service of the emerging future.
Holly Cervini
Born in England into a highly entrepreneurial family, Holly was raised in South Carolina and hard-wired to be an entrepreneurial leader.
She attended Dartmouth College, graduating in three years with Honors in Social Psychology. Holly took on London in a corporate psychology consultancy where she began her passion for personality assessment tools such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Holly returned to the United States, streamlining and improving delivery times in the logistics department of her family’s highly successful baling wire manufacturing company. Not one to back away from a challenge, she then helped to grow a jewelry store where she influenced the look, feel, and culture of this now highly successful luxury retail business.
Leveraging her passion for learning and her fascination with psychometric tools including the VIA Survey, MBTI and Enneagram, Holly found Five Capitals a natural fit and was one of the designers of The Prioritized Leader assessment.
Holly is an executive coach certified by both Five Capitals and the International Coaching Federation. She is also a certified Functional Medicine health coach, and a National Board Certified health and wellness coach. She runs her own coaching practice, Called Higher Coaching LLC, supporting senior executives by elevating how they lead and live. She is the Board Chair of her family’s wire manufacturing business, Coastal Wire Company, in Georgetown, SC.
Holly has two college aged children, Bella and Chris, and a Silken Windhound named Toby. She works remotely from SC, MD, and occasionally other amazing places worldwide
Adrienne White
As a personal leadership coach, educator, and advisor, Adrienne’s specialized approach integrates her experience with adult-learning principles, social neuroscience, organizational development, leadership, communication and coaching best-practices.
Adrienne’s professional experience includes large global companies and small non-profits including senior communication and change positions. She guided organizations through major change, led their internal and external communications, guided senior leaders to adapt to changing environments and enhance their reputation. She is driven to bring out the best in people and help them find their inner brilliance.
Bringing splintered groups together as one company, developing robust communication functions from nothing, shifting cultures, and increasing engagement have been hallmarks of her work and Adrienne has done so in environments with very challenging circumstances. She has won awards at each organization for excellence and success in her work. She is curious by nature and is a life-long learner.
Adrienne coaches people who are ready to…
• Navigate movement to the C suite
• Build trust within the team
• Develop leadership presence and confidence
• Develop communication skills that resonate with all levels of an organization
• Hone leadership skills
• Bulletproof a career so their ambition doesn’t work against their body
• Shift the blocks and limiting beliefs that can get in the way of moving to new levels (without us even knowing)
• Get clarity on where they are going and why, and jumpstart the journey