As a team, we aim to help you find the essence of your executive presence— not to conform to a set of rules, but to apply a set of tested and proven principles.
Richard Seyd, Executive Director
Richard Seyd is a Founder of Seydways Consulting. For over 10 years, Richard worked as the Senior Director for Stand & Deliver Consulting Group.There he worked closely with executives and their teams worldwide. He garnered a strong reputation in this position for his ability to identify patterns that accelerate learning and communication skills leading to transformational performance. Some of his clients include Cisco, Roche, Black Rock, Randstad, Ernst & Young, Actelion, VMware and Amgen.
Richard is also one of the most highly regarded acting teachers in Los Angeles & San Francisco. A renowned theatre director for over 35 years, Richard has directed highly successful and award-winning productions in London, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle & San Francisco. He has taught at Stanford University and UC Davis.
Email Richard: richard@seydwaysconsulting.com
Bobby Weinapple, SENIOR coach
Bobby Weinapple was a Founding Partner of BRT Communications, and is a skilled executive coach, workshop leader, event facilitator, and keynote speaker. Bobby leads teams in workshops focused on communicating with impact and inspiring others to action, creating inspiring messaging to lead through challenging times, and fostering trust and bonding in teams that help them to work with more synergy and efficiency.
As a coach, he helps clients prepare for keynotes, challenging meetings and conversations, high-stakes job interviews, and career planning and development. Bobby’s international clients include: Cisco (in 20+ country offices), Randstad (Netherlands), World Wildlife Fund (India, Rwanda), BlackRock (USA), Ernst & Young (Germany), Shire Pharmaceutical (Switzerland), and Singapore Exchange.
Bobby has also taught in most every imaginable venue - including Stanford University in the Graduate School Business Program (2015-present), Principal Acting Coach at Seydways Studios (1999-present), head of the acting department at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1992-1999), running several acclaimed performing arts school drama departments, and teaching master classes on Shakespeare’s plays at colleges across the country.
Email Bobby: bobby@seydwaysconsulting.com
STUTI MANDALA, LEAD coach
Stuti coaches executives from all over the world on shaping messages, expression & body language, delivering virtual & live presentations, storytelling, mindset & energy and good old-fashioned conflict management. She works with individual contributors, managers, directors, senior directors, executive directors and intact global leadership teams at such large companies as Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, VMware, PepsiCo, Datavant, Convatec, GE, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Ogilvy and Ticketmaster.
Stuti is an Associate Certified Coach of the International Coaching Federation. She applied the arts to organizational development in Meta headquarters over two years, performing applied improvisation role-plays of internal & cross-functional conversations with managers in a round-robin format. Stuti has an MSc in development management from the LSE and a BA in economics from Cornell University. She is a member of the SAG-AFTRA Actors Guild, speaks English, Hindi, Telugu & Urdu and has lived in India, the Philippines, the UK & the US.
Email Stuti: stuti@seydwaysconsulting.com
RYAN MITCHELl,COAcH & business development manager
Ryan is experienced sales and business development professional and expert with twenty years of experience under his belt. In his corporate life, Ryan has worked for several fortune 500 corporations as sales and coaching manager, including J.P Morgan Chase and Verizon Wireless. Developing sales communication processes from scratch, building sales teams and training representatives for the field and face-to-face communications has been his specialty for over a decade.
Ryan attended early school in the Maplewood/South Orange New Jersey school system, where he first started to explore his artistic interests. He played saxophone for seven years before choosing to pursue athletics over art, playing football through high school and his early years of college at Montclair State and Rutgers University in NJ. He combines the lessons in mental toughness and discipline he learned in athletics, with the communication, sales and psychological acumen has developed in his professional life to help his clients strive to be the best version of themselves with every person they meet.
Email Ryan: RyanM@seydwaysconsulting.com
marcelina Willis, coach
As an executive leadership coach and consultant, Marcelina has deep expertise in communications, public speaking and assessments. She is driven to help her clients show up as their best selves. Born to a Salvadoran father and a mother from the Philippines, Marcelina thrives in environments and with client groups that are culturally diverse.
Marcelina has worked with clients in North America, Europe and Asia, and across multiple industries: Apparel, Aerospace, Advertising & Digital Marketing, Biotech, Engineering, Entertainment and Media, Finance, Government, Higher Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Human Resources, Legal, NGO, Non-Profit, Pharmaceuticals, Technology, Utilities and Research/Think Tanks.
Marcelina holds a Master’s Degree in Positive Organizational Behavior and Evaluation from Claremont Graduate University, and is an ICF-certified Coach. She is also a professional actor, improviser and member of the Screen Actors’ Guild, having appeared in plays, independent films, commercials and training videos.
Email Marcelina: marcy@seydwaysconsulting.com
Faith Rumer, coach
A professional Voice, Dialect and Singing teacher for over 25 years, Faith Rumer has successfully coached Academy Award-winning actors, Grammy-winning recording artists, NBC Commentators, and world-class entrepreneurs. She has been consistently sought after to work with the clients of numerous major record labels, TV and film producers and award-winning film directors.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Speech Pathology/Voice Science from California State University, Los Angeles and received her Music/Acting education at DePaul University, Chicago and Butler University, Indianapolis.
Faith has been a guest lecturer in professional voice at California State University, Long Beach, and at Los Angeles City College, as well as working as a corporate speech consultant. She is a current working actor appearing in film and TV.
Email Faith: faith@seydwaysconsulting.com
Amir Talai, coach
Amir Talai is an actor and writer, based in Los Angeles. He is a San Francisco native and graduated with a degree in Mass Communications from UC Berkeley.
He has worked with teens and adults as an acting teacher and public speaking and career coach for over a decade.
He has served on the boards of SAG-AFTRA (often known as the Screen Actors Guild), working to improve communications and representation, and The Story of Stuff, an internationally recognized environmental nonprofit.
Email Amir: amir@seydwaysconsulting.com