Erica Schwartz-Hall

Erica Schwartz-Hall is an UpSpiral Leadership® Leadership Advancement Architect who helps leaders shine their light on the world allowing each individual to develop their best selves and generate their best work. From leaders at MARS Incorporated, to actors on Broadway, to Project Management at Doctors without Borders, Erica has professionally coached over 2200 hours and managed over 400 people. Erica works with leaders to align their mental, emotional and somatic levels of wisdom. This alignment enables leaders to actively connect intention and action to drive engagement and accelerate development in all aspects of their life.

For 6 years, Erica coached more than 500 leaders in connection with Leadership@MARS 2 North America working with a diversity of talented managers from shift leads in Mars manufacturing plants to Global Sales Directors, from Medical Directors for Banfield Pet Hospitals to IT professionals in Petcare. The focus of the coaching was on self-development, development of team and team members.

Erica believes in democratizing leadership - that people everywhere regardless of situation should have access to leadership development. To that end she has worked with Maplewood Leadership Development, a group that provides leadership programs on a sliding scale to communities in NJ. She also coaches in Ethiopia and has co-facilitated TransitionWorks, a ministry for helping people in transition.

She recently trained as a virtual facilitator on the adobe connect platform and has converted face to face learning into interactive virtual learning modules for trust, purpose work and high-performance collaboration.

Prior to coaching, she had a joyous 16 years of theatrical stage management experience in non-profit regional theater and commercial theater on Broadway, Two years as the studio manager for a NYC 3-D design firm and a stint at Doctors Without Borders in NYC. She and her family recently moved to South Pasadena, CA. When not working, Erica loves spending time with her three sons and hubby, reading, cooking, gardening and helping her sons shine their light on the world.