Career Impact

Jim Knickerbocker has an extensive career in executive coaching, organizational change consulting and training — in both executive management roles and as a consultant. His executive coaching assists leaders to successfully drive major organizational change. Through professional life coaching he helps clients to be more satisfied and effective in their work.

His most recent work has been as a social entrepreneur working with two innovative startup nonprofit organizations in the education sector. Before that he had a successful 15-year career at Hewlett-Packard, where he provided coaching and organizational development consulting to HP executives and ran a management consulting practice for HP customers. He was also an IT manager and project manager in the financial industry focused on large software development projects.

Knickerbocker graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in economics, holds an M.A. in management from John F. Kennedy University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from Fielding Graduate University. His doctoral work focused on the use of experiential learning to help people adapt to change.

In addition, he is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, a Certified Integral Coach with New Ventures West in San Francisco and a member of the American Psychological Association.

Terry Hildebrandt is an executive coach, organization development consultant, researcher, coaching supervisor, entrepreneur and author. He is the founder and CEO of Terry Hildebrandt and Associates LLC, an organization development and executive coaching consultancy. 

Hildebrandt has over 20 years of coaching experience and 30 years of business experience. He has dedicated a large portion of his career to executive coaching and organization development. He is an expert in the principles of evidence-based coaching, which involves using the best existing theoretical and researched knowledge, in combination with his personal coaching skills and knowledge of the client, to develop and deliver an effective coaching engagement. He was formerly at Hewlett-Packard Company for over 22 years, serving in several positions.

He is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation and holds many other coaching certifications.

Hildebrandt earned his Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from the Fielding Graduate University. He also holds an M.A. in organizational design and effectiveness and an M.A. in human development from Fielding, along with a B.S. in materials science from Rice University. He has also completed Fielding’s Certificate in Integral Studies and the Certificate in Evidence-Based Coaching.