Our ILAs are at the heart of our community!
ThirdPath has a thriving community of work-life integration professionals dedicated to helping individuals, couples, teams and leaders on their path to an integrated approach to work and life. These professionals include work-life coaches, couples and career counselors, HR experts and other passionate individuals dedicated to learning about the science of work-life integration. Our Integrated Life Advocates (ILAs) support our programming as leaders and instructors as we lead a movement for change across the United States (and beyond!)
Our ILAs Help Us Practice What We Preach
Supporting Our Community
Our ILAs play a critical role helping the ThirdPath community reach for their work-life integration goals, both as experts providing one-on-one support and by helping run our events and learning groups.
Watch this video to see two ThirdPath ILAs put our ideas into action.
The Science of Work-Life Integration
For over two decades, ThirdPath ILAs have been learning about the "Whole System" approach to change, and exploring how the most creative solutions come from thinking in new ways at work AND home.
Listen to this podcast to hear our Founder describe the "Whole System" concept.
The ThirdPath Approach
It's not easy to follow an integrated approach to work and life, but the more we practice these ideas in our own lives, the more we can help promote change among our clients and colleagues.
Watch this video to see how our ILAs are practicing work-life integration.
Meet Our ILAs
Bryn Jones MA, JD, PCC/CPIC, CEQA
As an Executive, Leadership and Team Coach, Bryn helps people lead with intention, wisdom, and heart so they can build momentum for change in their lives, workplaces and communities. In doing so, she draws on a background in social justice and conservation work, an education in law and policy, professional training and certification in coaching, mindfulness meditation and facilitation, a long career as a leader in the nonprofit sector, and from a desire to help build compassionate, healthy and resilient communities. Bryn is one of the facilitators of our Whole Life Leader Groups.
Giovanna Montagner
Giovanna is originally Italian but has lived in Mexico since 2007. She works as an environmental evaluation consultant at Baastel, a Canadian consulting firm. She works a 32-hour week remotely from Oaxaca, Mexico, where she lives with her husband Alejandro, a visual artist. In 2017, Giovanna left a very demanding job as an evaluation manager at the Mexican Ministry of the Environment and, together with Alejandro, started transitioning to a more integrated, healthy, and sustainable life including moving to Alejandro’s hometown, to support his aging parents and enjoy a better quality of life.
Judy Hughes PHR, LMHC
Judy is an HRBP at The Walt Disney Company where she consults with clients to help create an inclusive work culture, engaging workforce strategies and help leaders transform their organization. She spent the last decade as a Work Life Manager developing programs to support employees with their personal work priorities such as flex work, caregiving, and education. Prior to that, She worked in various HR fields such as wellness and Learning and Development. She began her career as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with an emphasis on couples and families. Judy is one of the facilitators of our OMG! Overwhelm Mitigation Groups.
Paul Gilbride, PCC, CDTLF
Paul is a former CPA with close to 20 years of experience in corporate America. He has been an executive coach for 10+ years serving leaders in some of the most prestigious companies in the world including Boeing, KPMG, Deloitte, Bloomberg Corporation, Lionsgate Entertainment, Royal Bank of Canada, U.S. Department of Defense, PhRMA and the USOPC. He is a PCC with the International Coach Federation and a Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator based on the work of Brene Brown. Balance was always paramount to Paul, so much so he spent 12 years as a stay at home dad to make work and family work.
Rachel Allender, LCSW
Rachel Allender, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and a trained gestalt therapist with a private psychotherapy practice in Philadelphia. She splits her time between virtual and in-person sessions. She works with individuals, couples and groups and has spent many years thinking about and exploring the issues related to Shared Care parenting. Rachel has trained in Emotionally Focused Couple's Therapy which is an effective, attachment-based model for working with couples. She lives in Philadelphia. And she and Jessica DeGroot have been sorting through what it takes to apply the ThirdPath Approach since Jessica founded ThirdPath.
Susan Sapiro MA
Susan pursued a MA Degree in Gender Studies from the New School for Social Research. Early in her career she created programs and resources on social change issues for women locally and nationally. She then helped manage leadership transitions in nonprofits and recruited nonprofit executives. She then shifted her professional focus to grant proposal writing and prospect research, most recently with the Pace Women’s Justice Center, which provides direct legal representation, service coordination, and referrals for victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse.