Coaching Roster
Below is a list of qualified coaches who have completed the coaching training at either CCL or Georgetown. If you are interested in being coached by a trained peer, please feel free to reach out to any of the qualified coaches for peer coaching.
- Associate Professor Carolyn Q. Judge, PhD
- Professor Clementine Fujimura, PhD
- LCDR Danielle Litchford, USN
- CDR David M. Wallace, USN, PhD
- CDR Gary Lazzaro, USN, PhD
- Dr. Karyn Z. Sproles, PhD
- CAPT Matthew Testerman, USN, PhD
- LCDR Philip Garrow, USN
- Professor Rob Niewoehner, PhD
- LCDR Tim Barry, USN
- Professor Tom McCarthy, PhD
 Associate Professor Carolyn Judge, PhD Deputy Director of Teaching, Learning and Multimedia Center for Teaching and Learning 410-293-2502, judge@usna.edu |
I have been at USNA since 2002. I have worked as a research professor, a tutor for the Academic Center, an adjunct professor, and am currently an Associate Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in the NAOE department. I am also the Deputy Director for Teaching, Learning, and Multimedia in the USNA Center for Teaching and Learning. I completed the Georgetown course Coaching Skills for Leaders in Higher Education in June 2018, which introduced me to being a coach. I have also completed a course on Equine-Facilitated Learning and Coaching during the Summer of 2018. I find the same kind of joy working as a coach as I have found in teaching. |
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Professor Clementine Fujimura, PhD |
I am a strengths based coach who works closely with you to build on your talents and passions in work and life in general. I have enjoyed coaching faculty and staff at USNA as well as leaders in higher education. I also specialize in developing in my clients interpersonal communication and cross-cultural adaptability. |
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LCDR Danielle Litchford, USN |
LCDR Danielle Litchford is a Permanent Military Instructor in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department. She has an MBA in Human Resource Management, is a certified facilitator for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and a certified Strengths Coach with Gallup. She teaches Plebe Leadership and Ethical Decision Making for Naval Leaders to the Youngsters.
Before reporting to USNA in 2013, Danielle was a Surface Warfare Officer with numerous deployments to the fourth, fifth, and sixth fleets. She attempts to manage work-life integration with a full time working spouse, Tom Litchford (the IT Director at the Naval Academy Primary School), a teenage son, and one very naughty cat. |
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CDR David M. Wallace, USN, PhD Admiral Jay L. Johnson Professor of Leadership and Ethics |
My name is CDR Dave Wallace. I am a permanent military professor in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law and a coach with the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. Coaching is about mentorship, advising, and motivating. While each coaching relationship is different, your relationship with a coach can be a critical part of your development in your career and leadership. The focus of my coaching is around you as part of a team – whether that team is you and one other (e.g., a midshipmen, a colleague, or a supervisor) or a large group working together to achieve. A little about me: The focus of my adult life has been on leadership – both as a practitioner during 20+ years of active duty service in the Navy and as an academic with a master’s degree in management and a PhD in industrial-organizational psychology. The focus of my research is around leadership, leader development, and team dynamics. |
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CDR Gary Lazzaro, USN, PhD
Math Department Associate Chair Chauvenet Hall Room 300B
(410) 293-6703, lazzaro@usna.edu
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CDR Gary Lazzaro is a permanent military professor and associate chair of the math department. He has a PhD in Operations Research and an MS in Management. He teaches courses in Statistics, Linear Programming, and Analysis of Naval Tactics. He is a former H-60 pilot with over 3,000 flight hours in fixed and rotary wing aircraft. He attempts to manage the work-life balance with a full time working spouse and three young children. He completed the coaching skills for leaders short course at Georgetown University in summer 2019. |
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Dr. Karyn Sproles, PhD |
Karyn Sproles is the director of the Center for Teaching & Learning at the US Naval Academy, where she also teaches in the English Department. She earned her Ph.D. in English (1987) from the University of Buffalo and her BA in Literature from The American University (1982). She taught and chaired the English Departments at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN (1987-97) and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA (1997-2007). She received tenure in 1993 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1997. She served as the Director of Faculty Development at the University of Southern Indiana (2007-10), where she founded the Center for Academic Creativity. Her subsequent experience in higher education administration includes positions as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Carlow University in Pittsburgh and Provost at Marietta College in Ohio. She has published extensively on pedagogy and faculty development as well as in the field of British Modernism and critical theory, including Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (Toronto UP 2006) and Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative (Routledge 2019), which integrates literary theory with learning theory in order to interrogate the effects of reading on the unconscious of the reader.
Areas of Coaching Experience
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CAPT Matthew Testerman, USN, PhD |
I am a Permanent Military Professor and former chair of the political science department. The first 15 years of my career were in a range of capacities as a Naval Flight Officer engaged in the electronic reconnaissance enterprise. I earned my PhD in Political Science at the University of Rochester and have been a faculty member at the Naval Academy since 2012.
Coaching is an opportunity to assist those in leadership roles as they seek to identify issues, better understand them, and to enable them to develop their solutions and implement plans of action. As chair, my colleagues rated me highly for my ability to listen for understanding and to challenge thinking and assumptions. In other evaluations are found strengths in understanding linkages between individuals and groups, honesty in discussions, and appreciation of each person’s talents and contributions.
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LCDR Philip Garrow, USN |
Lieutenant Commander Phil Garrow is originally from Traverse City, Michigan. After graduating from Tulane University with a B.A. in Political Science, he earned a M.A. in International Relations from Salve Regina University, a M. A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U. S. Naval War College, and a M. A. in English from the University of Maryland College Park. Currently, he is pursuing a Doctor of Education (EdD) degree with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Leadership at Johns Hopkins University. A Surface Warfare Officer with afloat experience on Guided Missile Cruisers, the General Dynamics variant of the Littoral Combat Ship, Guided Missile Frigates, and a Destroyer Squadron staff, he is billeted as a Junior Permanent Military Professor at the U. S. Naval Academy. Through the generosity of the Stockdale Center, he completed both the Coaching Skills for Leaders in Higher Education workshop through Georgetown University as well as a National Outdoor Leadership School course in Alaska. As a coach and mentor, he is most passionate about assisting others with improving their professional writing. |
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Professor Rob Niewoehner, PhD |
Professor Rob Niewoehner presently serves in the Aero Dept as the Rogers Chair of Aeronautics. He served as Aero Dept Chair from 1999-2003, and as Chair of several Faculty Senate Committees. He’s a retired Navy Captain, with significant experience in the aerospace industry, and a current member of the National Academies’ Naval Studies Board. His interest in leadership coaching grew out of his experience with co-creating the Engineering Leadership curriculum, a joint venture between E&W and LEL. He’s completed several Executive Leadership courses with NOLS, and has been instrumental in helping the Stockdale Center birth several of its Influencers’ programs, having seen both the need and value of continuing leadership education for our faculty, coaches, and staff. |
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LCDR Tim Barry, USN |
I grew up in Jacksonville, FL and am a USNA Class of 2002 alumnus. As a Surface Warfare Officer, I've served in a variety of roles at sea and made deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Active Endeavor within Standing NATO Maritime Group Two, and Operation AURIGA 10 as a member of the HMS ARK ROYAL UK Carrier Task Group. After 12 years of operational fleet experience, to include earning a Master's Degree in Applied Physics and serving over two years as the Site Director at Center for Security Forces Learning Site Gulfport teaching the Navy's Expeditionary Combat Skills Course, I was selected as a Junior Permanent Military Instructor of Physics and reported to USNA in July of 2014. During my time teaching at the Naval Academy, I was given the opportunity to complete two influencer expeditions through the National Outdoor Leadership School, graduated from the Coaching Skills for Leaders in Higher Education course at Georgetown University, and became certified as an Associate Fellow for the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. Additionally, I serve as the Officer Representative for the Powerlifting Team and the Combat Arms Team.
My wife and I are life-long Catholics, we've been married for 18 years, and have six children.
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Professor Tom McCarthy, PhD |
Tom McCarthy has taught in the history department since 2002. Although he comes from a background where "professoring" is the family trade, he worked as mid-level corporate manager for a decade before doing his doctorate in history. His recent scholarship explores the emergence of counseling psychology and its impact on American higher education. He has served several terms in the Faculty Senate, directed the UK/International Scholarships Program, and helped establish the Stamps Scholar program. |
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LCDR Ali Ghaffari, USN |
LCDR Ghaffari is a graduate of Colby College and Officer Candidate School. He is now wrapping up a 20 year career in the Navy where he has flown F/A-18's, T-45C's, TC-12's, and T-34's, been a flight instructor and Admiral's aide. In December of 2015, LCDR Ghaffari reported to the United States Naval Academy Leadership Department where he taught leadership and ethics classes to Midshipmen. LCDR Ghaffari is now the Associate Director of the VADM James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership and a Leadership Instructor. LCDR Ghaffari's interest in leadership and especially coaching has flourished here at the Academy, as he has taken leadership coaching courses at Georgetown, the Center For Creative Leadership, and Gallup. He is a Certified CliftonStrengths coach. |
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Rear Admiral Alan T. Baker USN (Ret.) |
Alan T. “Blues” Baker is a retired officer who served as the 16th Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps from 2006 to 2009. Dr. Baker was the first graduate of the United States Naval Academy and former Surface Warfare Officer selected as a Chaplain Corps Flag Officer. He established and served as principal of Strategic Foundations where he taught, coached, and catalyzed organizations valuing the intersection of learning, leadership and faith. He is a deeply experienced executive with over 20 years of international leadership in complex organizations. His former public service spanned from Dean of the Chapel at the U. S. Naval Academy to the Presidential nomination and Senate appointment as Rear Admiral where he provided executive oversight to a global team of several hundred professionals. Blues brings extensive background in ethical leadership, education, organizational development, and strategic planning. |
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Dr. Joseph J. Thomas, Ph.D. |
Dr. Joe Thomas retired as a LtCol after 24 years of enlisted and officer service in the Marine Corps. He served as Director, Gen John A. Lejeune Leadership Institute at Marine Corps University, as an instructor at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1, as a Battalion Officer at the US Naval Academy, and as the Senior Education Officer at Marine Corps Training and Education Command. He is a past recipient of the Marine Corps’ Research and Writing Award and the MajGen Merritt Edson Leadership Award. In addition to his 14 years of teaching experience in the Naval Academy’s Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department, he’s taught at the University of Notre Dame, University of Maryland, George Washington University and the National Outdoor Leadership School. He has published five books on the topics of leadership and ethics, along with numerous articles, book chapters, and research reports. Dr. Thomas supported midshipman research that led to the award of Rhodes, Mitchell, and Fulbright scholarships. He’s also planned and led cultural immersion expeditions to South Africa, Tibet, Turkey, Vietnam, Peru, Jordan, Morocco, and Mongolia. Dr. Thomas holds masters’ degrees from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and the US Army War College as well as a PhD from George Mason University. |
