Meet the Trio Team
Learn from Experienced Coaches at Every Stage of Your Journey
One of the biggest advantages of learning with Trio Coaching Academy is that your experience isn't built around a single instructor.
Throughout your program, you'll learn from a diverse team of experienced ICF-credentialed coaches who each bring unique expertise to your development. From classroom instruction and mentor coaching to coaching supervision, every member of our faculty plays a distinct role in helping you become a confident, capable, and ethical coach.
Whether you're learning the ICF Core Competencies, refining your coaching skills through feedback, or reflecting on your growth as a practitioner, our team is here to support your development every step of the way.
Founding Team
Creating the vision behind Trio Coaching Academy
The Trio founders designed every aspect of our curriculum, learning experience, and educational philosophy. Together they combine expertise in coaching, instructional design, leadership development, higher education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and organizational leadership to create a well-rounded coach education experience.
Instructors
Learn the Fundamentals. Practice the Skills.
Our instructors facilitate live classes throughout the program, creating engaging learning experiences that help students understand and apply the ICF Core Competencies. They guide discussions, demonstrate coaching concepts, answer questions, facilitate practice activities, and help students connect classroom learning to real coaching conversations.
Every instructor prepares extensively by understanding how their session fits within the overall curriculum, reviewing student discussions, and ensuring a consistent learning experience across the program.
Mentor Coaches
Turn Knowledge into Coaching Excellence
Learning coaching competencies is only the beginning. Mentor coaching helps you integrate those competencies into your own coaching practice.
Your mentor coach reviews recorded coaching sessions, provides individualized feedback aligned with the ICF Core Competencies, helps you recognize strengths and growth opportunities, and partners with you to develop your unique coaching style. Mentor coaching is also an important component of ICF credentialing and ongoing professional development.
At Trio, mentor coaching is personalized, evidence-based, and designed to help you grow with confidence.
Coaching Supervisors
Reflect on Who You Are as a Coach
Coaching supervision extends beyond coaching skills to support your continued professional and personal development.
While mentor coaching focuses primarily on coaching competencies and performance, coaching supervision creates space to reflect on your coaching identity, ethical decision-making, client relationships, systems, and overall impact as a coach. It is an opportunity to deepen your self-awareness and strengthen your effectiveness as a coaching professional.
A Team Dedicated to Your Success
From your first class to submitting your ICF credential application, you'll be supported by a collaborative team of experienced coaching professionals. Together, our faculty brings expertise in leadership, executive coaching, healthcare, higher education, organizational development, instructional design, entrepreneurship, and mentor coaching—providing a rich learning experience built on diverse perspectives.
Dawn DeFrancesco, PCC, ACTC, PhD
Founder • Instructor • Mentor Coach
Dr. Dawn DeFrancesco is an ICF PCC, ACTC, executive coach, mentor coach, and instructional designer with more than 20 years of experience in learning and leadership development. She specializes in coaching excellence, ICF competencies, and coach education.
Chelsea Seid, PCC, MBA
Founder • Instructor • Mentor Coach
Chelsea Seid is an ICF PCC, executive coach, and entrepreneur with 15+ years of leadership and business experience. She specializes in leadership development, executive coaching, and helping coaches build thriving, sustainable coaching practices.
Leena Susan Guptha, PCC, DO, MS, MBA, PhD
Founder • Instructor
Dr. Leena Guptha is an ICF PCC and educator with more than two decades of experience in higher education and healthcare. She helps coaches cultivate self-awareness, resilience, and the mindset needed to unlock their own potential and better serve others.
Christian Hartley, PCC, MSIOP
Instructor • Mentor Coach
Christian Hartley is an ICF PCC, leadership coach, and organizational development consultant. She helps individuals and organizations cultivate confidence, well-being, and leadership capacity while empowering coaches to create meaningful, lasting impact.
Shonna Amos, PCC
Instructor • Mentor Coach
Shonna Amos is an ICF PCC with more than 15 years of leadership development experience. She partners with leaders and coaches to strengthen confidence, leadership effectiveness, and meaningful growth through an empathetic and action-oriented coaching approach.
Radha Mehrotra, PCC, MSc, MAPP
Mentor Coach • Coaching Supervisor
Radha Mehrotra is an ICF PCC, EMCC Senior Practitioner, accredited coaching supervisor, and Certified Mentor Coach with over 26 years of experience. Drawing on coaching psychology, neuroscience, and applied positive psychology, she helps coaches strengthen their coaching presence, reflective practice, and professional growth.
Courtney Kent, PCC
Mentor Coach
Courtney Kent is an ICF PCC, executive coach, and former CPA with more than eight years of coaching experience. She helps coaches strengthen their ICF competencies, refine their coaching presence, and develop an authentic coaching style.
Reggie Jackson, PCC, MBA, ESIA, EIA
Coaching Supervisor
Reggie Jackson is an ICF PCC, accredited coaching supervisor, and leadership coach with more than 40 years of leadership experience. He helps coaches deepen their practice through reflection, supervision, and leadership development.