
Fifth Quadrant

Find Your Way Forward
The right perspective can turn uncertainty into possibility.
No one achieves their greatest potential alone. Every Pathfinder benefits from trusted guidance, fresh perspectives, and the wisdom of those who have walked similar paths before. Our Pathfinder Guides are carefully selected coaches, educators, specialists, and experienced professionals who are committed to helping others navigate life's opportunities with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.

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Radia Carr
Radia Carr is the founder and CEO of The Elite Unlock, where she coaches executives, high achievers, and sales leaders to elevate performance without sacrificing wellbeing. Her approach draws on nearly two decades in leadership development, corporate training, sales, and client engagement including an award-winning career with Dale Carnegie, where she ranked among its leading global performers. Blending neuroscience, positive psychology, and practical strategies, Radia helps people recognize limiting patterns, build resilient mindsets, communicate with greater impact, and lead with clarity. Known for her energy, candor, and deeply human approach, she challenges clients to move beyond familiar habits, reconnect achievement with purpose, and create growth in work and life that is sustainable rather than short-lived.
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Founder, The Elite Unlock Leadership & Sales Coach

Sam Doe
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Immigration Lawyer

Paul Guiger
Paul Geiger is the founder of Public Speaking Advantage, an executive communication advisor, speech coach, and author who helps leaders communicate clearly and calmly when the stakes are high. For more than 13 years, he has advised executives and investor-facing teams from organizations including Nasdaq, Citi, Bloomberg, Google, and Viacom. Drawing on his experience as a musician, performer, voice artist, and media consultant, Paul brings a distinctive understanding of voice, listening, presence, and audience connection. He is the author of Better Business Speech, a practical guide to public speaking at work. Through coaching, workshops, and keynotes, Paul helps professionals organize complex ideas, strengthen executive presence, manage speaking anxiety, and communicate with greater confidence, credibility, and impact.
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Executive Communication Advisor, Speech Coach & Author

Julie Campbell
Julie Campbell, MFA, is an Off-Broadway actor turned communication coach, keynote speaker, and founder and CEO of Center Stage Connections. Drawing on decades of performance experience, she helps executives, entrepreneurs, teams, and students speak with greater clarity, courage, and authenticity. Through her Talk and Be You™ method, Julie guides clients beyond second-guessing, rambling, and performance anxiety so they can communicate concisely and command the room without losing their natural voice. Her work spans keynote speeches, presentations, pitches, meetings, and other high-stakes conversations. Known as “The Confidence Whisperer,” Julie combines theatrical insight, practical coaching, and an encouraging presence to help people make their ideas heard, and remembered.
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Communication Coach, Speaker & Storytelling Strategist

Amy Feng
Jing “Amy” Feng is the founding partner of Jing Feng Law Group and an experienced U.S. immigration attorney serving businesses, universities, research institutions, investors, professionals, and families. With legal experience spanning China and the United States, she brings a cross-border perspective to complex immigration matters. Amy advises clients on employment- and investment-based immigration, including EB-1, NIW, EB-5, H-1B, L-1, O-1, PERM, and related visa and green-card strategies. Before establishing her firm, she practiced at law firms in New York and served as a senior attorney in Beijing. Admitted to practice in New York and China, Amy is known for combining careful legal analysis, strategic preparation, and determined advocacy to help clients navigate consequential life and business transitions.
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Immigration Attorney & Global Mobility Advisor

Ken Maynard
Kenneth I. Maynard, PhD, FAHA, is a neuroscientist, global program leader, and certified executive coach who brings scientific rigor to the development of people and organizations. His career spans academic research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, senior leadership in the pharmaceutical industry, and more than 50 scientific publications. A Fellow of the American Heart Association and a certified John Maxwell coach, speaker, and trainer, Ken helps professionals clarify their purpose, strengthen their leadership, navigate career transitions, and translate ambition into meaningful action. Through Career and Corporate Coaching, he combines deep listening, strategic perspective, and practical guidance to help emerging and established leaders expand both their capabilities and their impact.
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Neuroscientist, Executive Coach & Leadership Educator

Lisa Panarello
Lisa Panarello is the founder and CEO of Careers Advance, an empowering emcee, keynote speaker, career strategist, and growth facilitator known for bringing energy, candor, and humor to every engagement. Since 2001, she has created and delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations reaching more than half a million people, while helping professionals strengthen their personal brands, navigate career change, and turn frustrating job situations into meaningful opportunities. A Top 9 finalist in Toastmasters International’s World Championship of Public Speaking, Lisa has also been featured on CBS’s The Early Show. Certified in DISC, Driving Forces, and Emotional Intelligence assessments, she combines practical strategy with accountability and encouragement to help individuals and organizations communicate confidently.
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Emcee, Keynote Speaker, Career Coach & Growth Facilitator

Lauren Spranor
Lauren Supraner is the founder and president of CAL Learning, an intercultural communication coach and trainer who helps global professionals communicate clearly, persuasively, and appropriately across cultures. Since 2004, she has helped thousands improve workplace language, cultural competence, confidence, and leadership presence. Her work extends beyond pronunciation to the cultural mindset, messaging, and communication patterns that determine whether ideas are understood and valued. Lauren is the author of Accent Reduction for Chinese Speakers and has lived and worked in Thailand and Japan. Combining practical language instruction with cultural insight, she helps non-native English speakers develop their professional voice, participate fully in multicultural workplaces.
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Intercultural Communication Coach & Accent Specialist

Tania Gilpatrick
Tania Gilpatrick is an ICF-accredited executive and leadership coach, founder of CoachTania, and a Premier Fellow Coach with BetterUp. She works with leaders in Fortune 500 companies, helping them strengthen executive presence, confidence, adaptability, influence, team management, and career direction. Drawing on corporate and entrepreneurial experience, Tania combines strategic clarity with practical action, guiding clients through transitions and the demands of complex workplaces. She is also a committed advocate for inclusive leadership and neurodiversity, and has designed programs in communication and business success. An Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business honoree, Tania brings energy, candor, and empathy to helping people lead with courage and turn their potential into meaningful progress.
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Executive Coach, Leadership
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Thea Morris
Thea Morris, PhD, ACC, is a courage coach, transformational mindfulness practitioner, and senior medical safety leader with more than 15 years of experience across biomedical research and pharmaceutical development. She supports working mothers and professionals who want to become stronger advocates for themselves, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and shape a future that reflects who they want to be. Drawing on science, mindfulness, body-centered coaching, and experiences of growth and transformation, Thea helps clients examine expectations, limiting beliefs, and patterns that keep them from moving forward. Her compassionate, reflective approach creates space for people to recognize their strengths, clarify what matters, and act with greater courage, purpose, and authenticity in both their careers and lives.
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Courage Coach, Scientist
& Transformational Guide

Stephanie Shi
Stephanie Shi, PhD, is the founder of Mindset for Growth, a licensed clinical psychologist, and an experienced leadership coach who brings together psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, and cross-cultural insight. During more than 20 years in the corporate world—including executive-development work with senior leaders at Novartis and Microsoft where she gained a rare understanding of how accomplished people think, lead, struggle, and grow. Stephanie now helps professionals and individuals navigate anxiety, relationships, identity, life transitions, meaning, and purpose with greater clarity and resilience. Originally from China and based in the Seattle area, she approaches each person with empathy and compassion, helping them uncover deeper patterns, convert insight into action, and build a more fulfilling personal and professional life.
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Clinical Psychologist, Leadership Coach & Growth Guide

June Huang
Jun Huang, PhD, MBA, CFP®, is the founder of InnoSight Financial and a financial advisor who combines scientific analysis, executive experience, and coaching to help people prepare for retirement with greater clarity. Before entering financial services, he spent more than a decade leading product strategy and R&D teams in healthcare and life sciences. With a PhD from Rutgers and an MBA from Wharton, Jun brings an uncommon multidisciplinary perspective to wealth planning. His approach extends beyond investments to consider retirement income, taxes, risk, legacy, personal values, and the life clients want their resources to support. Drawing on behavioral finance and financial coaching, he helps individuals move past uncertainty, make informed choices, and create adaptable plans for a secure and fulfilling future.
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Founder, Financial Advisor & Retirement Strategy Coach

Jamie Huang
Jamie Huang is a bilingual Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and the founder of Princeton Leadership Academy, a leadership strengths development practice serving individuals and organizations worldwide. She helps leaders and teams recognize their natural talents, transform them into purposeful strengths, and communicate with greater confidence and effectiveness. Drawing on executive coaching, leadership development, and strengths-based team collaboration, Jamie creates a thoughtful space where people can examine blind spots, build on what they already do well, and unlock possibilities they may not yet see. Known for her warmth, generosity, and genuine desire to help others flourish, she brings both insight and compassion to every coaching relationship. Her cross-cultural perspective adds depth to this work.
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Strengths Coach, Leadership Advisor & Facilitator

Bill Longman
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Speech coach

Gabby Xu
Gabby Xu, Ph.D. is an education leader, parenting advocate, and community builder who is passionate about helping individuals and families realize their full potential. Drawing on her experience in higher education, leadership development, coaching, and community engagement, she creates opportunities for students, parents, and professionals to grow with confidence, strengthen meaningful relationships, and embrace lifelong learning. Believing that education extends far beyond the classroom, Gabby is committed to building supportive communities where curiosity is nurtured, leadership is cultivated, and families are empowered to thrive together across every stage of life.
Education Leader, Parenting Advocate & Community Builder
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“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”
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— Oprah Winfrey
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“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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— Isaac Newton
Today's Guides represent the beginning of a growing community of exceptional professionals who believe that meaningful success is achieved by helping others succeed. As 5Q continues to grow, we welcome experienced coaches, educators, consultants, executives, and thought leaders who share our values and passion for developing people. If you believe your experience can inspire others, we'd love to hear from you.