Seven Stones was created to fulfill on the supposition that meaningful and effective leadership requires the exposure of assumptions that guide individual lives, organizations and systems. Once uncovered, leaders and teams can create a new set of beliefs, ones that, if embraced and enacted, would powerfully shift mind sets and actions toward a declared vision. Seven Stones works with individuals, executives, teams and corporate systems that want to create a culture of community, trust, purpose, love, wisdom, joy, and commitment.In 2001, Gina founded INSPIRITAS Corporation, a consulting and training firm advancing the practice of leadership, with her husband, Alan Price. Working with a broad range of industries, her clients included Credit Suisse, EMC, Miller Brewing, Harvard University, American Student Assistance, Stamford Hospital, and Simmons School of Management where she is currently a visiting faculty member for their executive education programs. Prior to INSPIRITAS, Gina acquired 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and training at high-tech and emerging growth companies. She served as director of marketing for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) where she managed product marketing for the e-Business group. She was also a product-marketing manager at Vicorp Interactive Systems. Gina started her career as a sales professional at IBM where she received numerous excellence awards.

Gina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSBA from Georgetown University. She spends time serving on not-for-profit boards, currently with the Interdependence Project (IDP) in New York City, a global organization working to make meditation and mindfulness practices accessible to all people. She is married and has two sons and a dog.

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Seven Stones was created to fulfill on the supposition that meaningful and effective leadership in the 21st century requires the exposure of assumptions that guide individual lives, organizations and systems. Once uncovered, leaders and teams can create a new set of beliefs, ones that, if embraced and enacted, would powerfully shift mind-sets and actions toward a declared vision and a new future.  Seven Stones works with individuals, executives, teams and corporate systems that want to create a culture of community, trust, purpose, love, wisdom, joy, and commitment.Jennifer is known as a ‘coaches coach’ and is a coach to some of the senior coaches at the New Field Group, one of the nation’s top schools for coaching. She has worked with corporate clients including Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Boston Consulting Group, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, as well as a multimillion dollar oil company, a major construction company, and several small software development firms.  She has served as the Director of Coaching Education for Mobius Executive Leadership, a global boutique-consulting firm serving Fortune 500 companies, and for many years ran her coaching business as The Center for Meaningful Leadership.

Jennifer is certified as a Master Coach by The Strozzi Institute for Leadership and Mastery, where she studied for more than a decade. She is the author of the chapter “From Surviving to Thriving” in the book Being Human at Work, edited by Richard Strozzi Heckler. She has a master’s degree in Applied Psychology with an emphasis on systems theory from the Antioch New England Graduate School, and she did her undergraduate work in philosophy at Oberlin and Barnard. She is married and has a daughter.

Seven Stones was created to fulfill on the supposition that meaningful and effective leadership requires the exposure of assumptions that guide individual lives, organizations and systems. Once uncovered, leaders and teams can create a new set of beliefs, ones that, if embraced and enacted, would powerfully shift mind sets and actions toward a declared vision. Seven Stones works with individuals, executives, teams and corporate systems that want to create a culture of community, trust, purpose, love, wisdom, joy, and commitment.Shea is curious about the possibility of living an integrated life of learning, opening up the channels of wisdom between home and work, personal and professional. This curiosity informs her client work and her writing. In the past her coaching practice has been devoted to supporting visionary thinkers and leaders to develop their body of work through a collaborative and coaching approach to writing. Now she is focused on supporting people through transitions.

Shea was trained in the art and science of coaching at Falling Awake, a unique ICF accredited coaches training program. She is also a certified yoga teacher and instructor of Nia, a mind-body fitness discipline that integrates principals from the dance arts, healing arts and martial arts. Shea studied anthropology with a focus on peace, justice and accountability as an undergraduate at Tufts University. She is married and has two young daughters.