Associates

Kumar Kibble helps leaders and teams strengthen the top behaviors they need to navigate to greater impact. He has coached hundreds of leaders worldwide, including executives leading billion-dollar enterprises.
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His more than 30 years of leadership experience inform his coaching methodology, as he guides leaders through a time-efficient and stakeholder-informed process that guarantees measurable results. Before founding GuideQuest, Kumar served as a senior VP of Homeland Security sales at ANDE Corporation.
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As a Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary, Kumar cultivated expertise in leading large organizations and wide-ranging stakeholder communities. He received an award from the President of the United States for his exceptional leadership of a 20,000-person, $6 billion global organization responsible for countering transnational threats to the United States.
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Kumar is a West Point graduate and holds a Master of Science degree in Management from Johns Hopkins University. He is recognized by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

Kumar is a cancer survivor, adoptee, and adoptive father. He and his wife Laura have been married for more than 32 years.

Julie has built her entire career around helping others.  Her education, career and life experience have developed her natural gifts of vision and clarity – she quickly and clearly see where, and how, improvement is possible for individuals, teams, and businesses.

Julie’s hunger for healing, growth, meaning and satisfaction has led her on a quest to understand personal development and the power each of us has to create our own balanced and flourishing life.  Her professional experience in all facets of organizational management – from the front lines to Senior Leadership to business ownership - has developed her forward-thinking, solution-based philosophy for teams and businesses.  With a passion for excellence and aptitude for teaching, Julie has a unique skillset for guiding clients as they evaluate, strategize, and reshape their performance, both personally and professionally.

Julie and her husband have three grown children. She enjoys riding and training horses, cooking for friends, adventure, international travel and connecting to nature, wherever she is.

Michael Polydoris joined HUB International in 2020 and serves as an Associate Vice President on the People & Technology Consulting team. Michael built out HUB P&T’s employee development and leadership coaching specialty practice. He also partners with his clients on HR strategy, change management engagements, performance management, ORG design, manager and leadership development, and helps companies build high preforming teams.

Prior to HUB, Michael was an HCM and management consultant for ADP, working with their largest national PEO clients. Michael has also held multiple director roles in HR, Finance, and Operations with several Chicago marketing and creative technology agencies. He has served on the board of directors of Chicago non-profits and is currently president of the board of the non-profit animal rescue, ALIVE Rescue.

Michael earned his BA in English from Cornell College, an MA in Design from University of Iowa, an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Business, and is a Senior Professional in HR (SPHR). Michael is a certified Organizational and Leadership Coach through Northwestern’s ELOC program at the School of Education and Policy, and a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach. He is also certified in Diversity and Inclusion in HR Management through HRCI.

FROM BUSINESS FOR BUSINESS  
• 23 years experience in the corporate world and 3 business creation.
• Combines coaching and mentoring to help the most successful entrepreneurs and their teams to transform their leadership.
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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS  
• Has used coaching to develop his teams throughout his career.
• Over 3000 hours of experience.Certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered
• Finalizing my ICF certification

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Passionate for people and business development.
• 23 years of experience including 11 years in C level executive positions.
• Love to build and execute with focus and consistency.

GLOBAL CITIZEN
• Born and raised in France. I had the chance to work in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, South America, France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany...
• I speak French, English, Hebrew and I have basic German and Italian.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
• Essec Business School (2004 - 2006)
• HEC Executive Education Program (2012)
• EM Lyon Business School (2017/18)

LEADERSHIP IMPASSIONATO
• A lifelong learner.
• Read over 400 books.
• Creator of a blog. Wrote more than 200 articles.