Accendo Partners
Experienced Coaches. Trusted Advisers.
Creating Leaders for Top Businesses Nationwide
Karen Dee
Executive Coach, Accendo Partner, Leadership Strategist, Business Advisor and Speaker
Karen is a former chief executive with a 30 plus year track record of driving profitable business growth. Karen has a strong sales, financial and operational background. She has coached hundreds of leaders to achieve higher performance, while helping already highly performing teams accelerate to the next level.
A Strong History of Leadership Success
- Enterprise strategic level experience with strong financial, sales, and operational background
- Extensive field experience at the President & CEO level
- Former senior executive roles with large bank holding companies (Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bank, and Truist) to include leading Wholesale, Retail, Wealth, Product, and Internet businesses
- Led over 5,000 employees and had responsibility for a $400 million+ profit plan across 12 states
- Operating committee level talent manager with expertise in recruiting, succession planning and coaching for higher performance
- Expert in creating vision, developing and executing strategy, and leading teams
- Effectively managed teams through great change, while earning nationally ranked employee engagement scores
- Served on numerous boards including: Heart of Florida United Way (Board Chair and Chair of Women’s Leadership), United Way of Tampa Bay (Executive Committee and Chair of Women’s Leadership), USF Foundation (Audit Chair) and Stetson University Business School Advisory Board
Cari Coats
Executive Coach, Accendo Partner, Leadership Strategist, Business Advisor and Speaker
Cari’s 30 plus year professional career includes deep C-level operational and strategy experience in professional sports and financial services, as well as thought leader and faculty roles at the graduate business school level. Cari has worked extensively with CEO’s, company founders and family-held enterprises, along with their teams, to improve both individual and team performance.
A Substantial Track Record of Accomplished Leadership
- Executive-in-residence, focused on leadership and entrepreneurship, at the nationally and top Florida ranked Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College
- Chief operating officer with CNL Financial Group, a family-held, leading global alternative investment company with $650M assets under management
- Start-up management team member and executive vice president of the NBA-franchise Orlando Magic; President of RDV Team Charities; recognized as one of the highest-ranking women in sports
- Nationally syndicated television producer/co-host
- Key Adviser to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer; Strategic transition team Chair
- Founding board member for Inc. 5000 listed LiveTrends Design Group, Clean the World Ventures, the first established Benefit Corp in Florida and venVelo and StarterStudio, two premier early-stage venture investment firms
- Alumni Chair and Board of Visitors member for Fuqua Graduate School of Business, Duke University
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Mary was named one of the "25 Women to Watch in Banking" by the American Banker magazine each year from 2008 to 2014, selected to the "Grand Rapids 200" by the Grand Rapids Business Journal each year from 2020-2022, and inducted to the Academy of Alumni Fellows by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.
Mary Tuuk Kuras
Accendo Affiliate Coach
Drawing on 34 years of executive and board leadership experience across multiple industries, Mary Tuuk Kuras empowers professional leaders through a common-sense approach that leverages their existing personal tools and skills to enhance leadership practices. Coaching from real-life situations and sharing valuable knowledge gathered throughout her extensive career, Mary is dedicated to promoting leadership development and helping individuals achieve their full potential.
Recognized Executive and Board Leader. A Leader Igniting Leaders
- 19-year executive career at Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, OH serving as executive vice president of corporate services and secretary of the board of directors for Fifth Third Bancorp; president of Fifth Third Bank (Western Michigan), where she was responsible for the growth and strategic direction of five lines of business, significantly exceeded profit plan budgets and led over 1, 100 employees; and executive vice president and chief risk officer of Fifth Third Bancorp during the financial crisis of 2008
- C-suite experience with Meijer, Inc. in Grand Rapids, MI serving as senior vice president of properties and real estate and chief compliance officer
- Four years of performing arts executive experience serving as President and CEO of the Grand Rapids Symphony, including during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Attorney with Chapman and Cutler, LLP in Chicago, IL
- B.A. from Calvin University and J.D./M.B.A. from Indiana University
- Ten years of experience serving as a public company board member for UFP Industries, Inc., headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, and currently serving as a board member for Western Alliance Bancorporation, a public company headquartered in Phoenix, AZ
- Vice Chair of the Calvin University Board of Trustees and recently appointed to the Board of Directors for Chorus America
- Diverse skillset developed from prior executive and board roles in financial services, retail, the performing arts, higher education, and various non-profit sectors
Anna Alvarez Boyd
Associate Coach
Anna Alvarez Boyd is an International Coach Federation (ICF), Associate Certified Coach (ACC), and the founder of Executive Horizons LLC. Anna has a passion for developing the next generation of leaders, and her coaching starts with the belief that every person has an innate wisdom that can be accessed through reflection and transformational leadership development. She supports her clients with a deeper self-discovery and a tailored approach that takes people on a journey to reintroduce themselves to their own power.
Anna is a native of San Francisco, California, and a graduate of San Francisco State University. She is a graduate of Georgetown University's Transformational Leadership Coaching program and a member of the International Coaching Federation. Anna is a second-generation Mexican-American and passionately supports her community through her leadership and voice. She enjoys poetry, dance and art.
Debbie Mitchell
Associate Coach
A former corporate executive and consultant with a 30-plus year career across industries and cultures, Deb has built a unique depth in coaching and mentoring leaders to achieve their desired goals with a focus on measurable and sustainable results. Deb facilitates the self-awareness and enhanced focus needed to create sustainable change in critical leadership competencies, performance dimensions and career stallers from the Director to the C-Suite level.
As an Ohio native, Deb served on numerous nonprofit boards including: Women's Fund of Central Ohio, WOSU Media, Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, the MidOhio Foodbank. Professional appointments included Chair of the National Investor Relations Institute. She is part of Deloitte's Board Ready Women group and has advised and served on boards of start-up organizations.
in the Marshall Goldsmith
Stakeholder Centered methodology