Inside Out Learning

Professional, Leadership and Team Development

Dr. Sharon Lamm

Steven Ringelstein

Christina Luddy

Our Client List

American Express
Arco Chemical Company
Arizona Society of CPA's
Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals
Awbury Arboretum
Boeing
Blockbuster Video
E*TRADE
Exxon
Fannie Mae
GE's Leadership Development Center
Holy Cross Hospital
Mobil Oil Corporation
PSE&G
PraxAir
Research International
Volvo Corporation

Dr. Sharon Lamm, Ed.D.

Portrait of Sharon Dr. Lamm is an award-winning global coach, leadership development consultant, speaker, writer and educator. She is the President and founder of Inside-Out Learning, Inc., specializing in leadership and personal development.

With over 20 years of global experience, Sharon has worked across the United States and Europe as well as Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand for clients such as American Express, GE's Leadership Development Center, Exxon, E*TRADE, ARCO Chemical Company, Mobil Oil Corporation, Berlex Pharmaceuticals, Fannie Mae, Arizona Society of CPA's, Volvo Corporation, and Holy Cross Hospital. She has designed and delivered over 500 innovative programs and has coached hundreds of CEO's, executives, professionals and entrepreneurs worldwide.

In addition to her private practice, consulting and being on the global lecture circuit, she is widely published. She has produced an audio CD workbook with her business colleague, Mirabai Galashan, on Discovering your Life Purpose. Dr. Sharon Lamm is also dedicated to community stewardship and is currently serving with the Fresh Start Women's Foundation and Arizona State University's Dean's Board of Excellence Mentoring Program. She is also a member of the Economic Club, National Speaker's Association and Women of Scottsdale.

Dr Lamm receives the Center for Creative Leadership's Walter Umer Award from Cindy McCauley and Walter Ulmer
Dr. Lamm holds a doctorate from Columbia University in Leadership and Organization Development, a Masters in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and two Bachelor degrees. Sharon also has trained as a Life Coach with world-renowned author and life coach teacher, Dr. Martha Beck. Sharon is a Certified Executive and Leadership Coach and a Certified Teacher of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

Dr. Sharon Lamm is an adjunct professor of Leadership at Columbia University where she teaches Leadership from the Inside Out. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership (San Diego Campus), which is consistently rated the #1 leadership development center.

Dr. Lamm has been honored and received awards from the Center for Creative Leadership and the Academy of Human Resource Development for her work and research on personal transformation and leadership development. She has been quoted on her views of coaching in the July, 2004 edition of Oprah's magazine, "O' magazine."

Steven Ringelstein started his adult life on the battlefield serving in the Israeli Air Force and within the political arena in Washington DC and New York as a diplomat for the Department Of Defense. Over 25 years of entrepreneurship, Steven commanded leadership positions in the areas of marketing, sales, and operations. Steven brings a wealth of experience in how to powerfully lead an organization with limited resources, thereby creating extraordinary returns. He is an expert in creating simple, easy to follow processes that yield remarkable results.

Steven has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as: General Motors / Delphi, Autoliv, Moen, Talley Defense Industries, Motorola, Intesys, Kimberly Clark, Rubbermaid, Raytheon, Ford Aerospace, Talley Defense Systems, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics, Morton International, Olin, GE, and many more. Steven worked directly with the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and various US military logistics centers around the world.

Today Steven is training and coaching executives and business owners as an Executive Coach at Inside Out Learning, Inc. and in the Business Gym, a training program that gets your business in shape. The program covers 8 key competencies: leadership, dream team, marketing, sales, time management, financial controls, customer service and having fun doing it all. Steven's work focuses on results.

Former director of learning and development at Fidelity Investments, drawing from her MBA as well as her doctoral work at Columbia University in adult learning and change, Christina brings advanced leadership skills and strategies to clients. A proven track record of coaching leaders at all levels to achieve measurable change for themselves and their teams; she is a trusted advisor to OD and HR professionals on leadership development.

Christina is a Senior Associate at Inside Out Learning, Inc. She spent 10 years at Fidelity Investments where she most recently served as practice lead in the corporate Leadership and Learning Group focused on designing and implementing leadership development for senior and high-potential managers. Her flag-ship corporate-wide "Adaptive Leadership Program" enables leaders to respond proactively to change - 97% of program graduates surveyed increased their performance at work. During her tenure at Fidelity, she also developed an innovative group coaching methodology called "Leadership Forums" used across the firm to support executives in addressing leadership and business challenges. The results of this coaching program include:

Cross-company collaboration
Improved service delivery
Break throughs in service and process innovations
Increased leadership performance - leading people and leading the business
Positive movement of people getting into the right roles - stepping up to their own leadership

Christina holds an MBA in Management, and a BA in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication from Northeastern University. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University in adult learning and leadership.