About us

meet the team

Annette segal

Annette Segal specializes in developing courage and new competence in leaders and the organizations they serve. Bringing over 25 years of experiential education, consulting, training and coaching experience to her work, she creates opportunities for leaders to be authentic, creative and calm in the midst of chaos. Emphasizing confident, accountable teams that deliver what they promise, Annette helps people integrate and sustain new behavior, not just new thinking.

Annette is a former high school principal, a certified Integral Coach and co-author of The Game of Truth: A Humorous Guide to Self-Discovery. She has presented workshops at Stanford, George Mason University, University of Arizona, USC and SDSU and facilitated Ropes Courses in Moscow, Singapore and Athens as part of her team-building work.

Annette is on faculty at UC Berkeley.

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christina begley

Christina is an experienced coach, mediator, and organizational specialist. She has nearly two decades of executive level management experience, including strategic planning, board management, project management, operations, and human resources management.

Christina’s depth of experience includes working with small, medium, and large organizations navigating leadership change, reorganization, and otherwise addressing strategic priorities.

Her work in conflict resolution includes mediating workplace and community disputes, and she facilitates multi-stakeholder meetings ranging from public policy issues to board development and planning. She also has experience as an entrepreneur and welcomes clients just starting out in building their future business selves.

Christina has worked with clients from a variety of industries and organizations, including individuals from Amazon, LinkedIn, UCSF, Salesforce, Dropbox, Instacart, City of Oakland, Ipsos, Kaiser Permanente, Google, Facebook, Fidelity Investments, The Federal Reserve, Uber, Tesla, eBay, Lyft, Sutter Health, The Gates Foundation, Slack, Genentech, Service Now, Gilead, and Deloitte.

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The Valiant Group helps executives, entrepreneurs and other high-performance leaders develop new competencies for the benefit of themselves and the organizations they serve. We help our clients integrate and sustain new behaviors, not just new thinking, to cultivate a quantum shift in results, so they can:

Mobilize for thoughtful action
Build vibrant, resilient teams that consistently deliver
Anticipate and navigate change with confidence
Innovate and integrate
Generate genuine, productive communication
Find meaning and purpose despite stress

our method

Our method integrates psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, ontology (way of being) social science, behavioral science, conscious embodiment and several wisdom traditions which offer unsurpassed results to individuals and organizations.

Our coaching addresses each. Our work produces embodied competence in leaders and managers; they have the ability to consistently produce the desired result because of self-reflection, practice and new behaviors developed through a carefully designed and executed program.

We help you live into new behaviors, not just new insights. We are successful only when there are measurable, observable outcomes for you that grow out of a relationship of mutual respect, trust and creativity.

The Valiant Group believes that the whole person is present in every moment, every action…and we work with that “whole”. Our coaching is based on a unique relationship of mutual trust, honesty and creativity that allows individuals and teams to grow into a wider perspective and build the muscles of new behaviors. And since the work is profound, entering into it is always an act of courage – a valiant act.

The new world of business is a world of speed, agility, flexibility, innovation, mobilization, collaboration, competence, and character.

Why I Coach

I believe people can live beyond the limitations of their circumstances and current beliefs. There is a difference between making a living and making a life!

People are hurting, yet their suffering contains the roots that will liberate them into their talents and gifts, allowing them to live their unique contribution to the planet.

Who we Work With

My ideal clients are change agents – resourceful, intelligent, successful.

I help leaders who are ready to face their fears, live life more courageously and make their unique contributions to the world.

My coaching work includes executives at many organizations: Clorox, Nikon Precision, Twitter, Cisco, Genentech, NASA, SpaWars, and many not-for-profits: SFJewish Family Service, Goodwill Industries and YearUp. I train coaches and lead Mastermind Groups as well as Coaching Circles.

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