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Brian Jaudon, PCI Founder & Director
The Pisgah Coaching Institute is the fulfillment of Brian's vision to create a community for learning whole system coaching that is in service to humanity. His blended coaching methodology incorporates his learnings from teachers such as Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems), Susan Trout (The Institute for the Advancement of Service), Judith Johnson (a pioneer in the trauma healing field) and many others. Brian also incorporates his innovative Five Stages of Gift Development and Mapping Your Internal Influences frameworks that emerged during his 30 years as a coach. He is currently working on a book on coaching as a spiritual practice.
Diane Dimond, Co-Instructor
A PCI graduate who served as a mentor coach before transitioning to co-instructor for the 2025 cohort, Diane is a sacred guide supporting individuals in accessing their unique gifts and divine purpose to bring their vision to life. A trauma-informed Level 1 IFS practitioner, she draws on decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, where she has supported diverse communities, including children in foster care, survivors of sex trafficking, and individuals in recovery. Her coaching practice is deeply influenced by her personal journey—navigating widowhood, embracing remarriage, blending a family with six stepchildren, and overcoming cancer twice. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Diane also brings an understanding and compassion for ancestral and legacy burdens.
Michelle Shelton, Mentor Coach
Michelle Shelton is a Registered Dietitian and Pisgah Institute Certified Coach. She has worked in various roles as a dietitian and most recently a coach in private practice. Michelle has an MBA with a focus in Organizational Effectiveness and has 12 years experience in corporate HR developing learning, development, and career growth programs in global corporate settings. In her coaching practice, she supports clients in their personal growth and development while also supporting their wellness journey. Michelle helps her clients reconnect with their body wisdom and establish a healthy relationship with food. She helps individuals step out of the cultural burdens around eating so they can nourish their body, mind and spirit from a place of self-love and attunement to Self.
Liz Keifer, Mentor Coach
Liz Keifer is a Relationship and Empowerment Coach. Liz brings over thirty years of professional acting experience in television and film to her IFS-informed, certified Life coaching practice. Her specialty is helping her clients access and show up as their most authentic self with empowered imperfection. Liz guides her clients to question the roles they've held that are no longer serving them and the life they'd like to live. Her mission is to help others to be in a healthy and compassionate relationship with themselves so they can be in healthy relationships with others. Liz is in the business of possibilities.
Yana Smolyannikova, Sutra Learning Platform Manager
With a passion for learning, Yana is a certified instructional designer and a creative collaborator for coaches who want to turn their expertise into impactful group programs. Beyond work, She is a multi-potential creative with a passion for transformation. Yana hosts a podcast where she interviews Italian speakers about their life-changing leaps and explores creativity through art and reading. Her multicultural background (Russian-Italian living in Spain) and fluency in five languages add a global perspective to everything she does.
Robert Haden, Marketing & Design
Robert is the designer and trusted guide for all things visual for the Institute including the PCI logo, website and our newsletter. He draws on his experience working with large advertising agencies throughout the Southeast as well as his tenure as Art Director for the Biltmore Estate. In addition to his design work, Robert has trained as a dream worker and spiritual director with the Haden Institute (founded by his father) and volunteers with the Asheville NC-based Center for Conscious Living & Dying as a end-of-life doula and fire keeper. He brings his open heart, gifts of vision, intuition and connection to the Divine flow constellating our planet, creation and each other to all that he does. www.HadenDesignNC.com
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