Our Team
Our Team
Quotidian Group is a premier executive development firm designed to help talented and dedicated individuals excel as leaders and thrive as people. Having studied clinical psychology before spending 20 years helping senior executives, Quotidian’s founder John Ficken, PhD, quickly learned that most development programs at best fostered transient changes and at worst perpetuated counterproductive habits. He was inspired to create Quotidian as a way to systematically capture and disseminate the most potent, time-tested mindshifts and practices for sustained fundamental change. John and his experienced team of coaching professionals have helped hundreds of executives step back from their hectic lives, reveal the deeply engrained patterns that limit them, and motivate them to progressively release more of their unique potential. At home and work.
Dr. John Ficken
John Ficken is the founder and CEO of the Quotidian Group, a leadership development firm specializing in the success of Fortune 500 executives. John works with senior executives and leaders, helping them and their teams handle increasingly complex business challenges with more passion, focus, and efficiency.
For more than 20 years, John has dedicated himself to coaching talented, dedicated, and ambitious leaders in understanding and releasing their unique potential, at home and work. He named his company Quotidian (Latin for “every day”) based on his understanding that leadership, like any other skill, can be developed much more quickly through intentional daily mindshifts and practices that progress over time.
Laura Lorenzen
Laura Lorenzen is a senior consultant with Quotidian Group, a leadership development firm specializing in the development of Fortune 500 executives. Laura partners with senior executives and their teams to address the unique challenges they face leading hyper-growth companies.
After spending a decade as an HR executive at Capital One, Laura knows how to help clients address both developmental and strategic business challenges, recognizing that working to build self-awareness helps individuals and teams perform more effectively.
Heather Richetto-Rumley
Heather partners with Quotidian Group as a skilled executive coach focused on accelerating individual and team performance. Known as a ‘catalyst’, she infuses others with her boundless energy, positive attitude, and candid approach - getting clients genuinely excited about embracing the changes needed to reach their goals and talent potential. She is grateful to work with inspiring leaders in a variety of companies across the globe including Aon Re-Insurance, Capital One, Comcast, Facebook, George Kaiser Family Foundation, and WarnerMedia.
Dana Baugh
Dana partners with Quotidian Group as an executive coach with a knack for spotting leadership talent and high growth potential in all walks of life and at all levels. She’s extremely energized by identifying potential in people, systems and situations – where she can help to unearth it, bring it to realization and see it used, recognized and enjoyed by others.
Having spent time at both GE and Gallup, Dana brings extensive experience as a business leader, executive coach and organization development consultant. She has worked with senior executives of some of the world’s leading organizations across North America and Asia.
Dr. Sarah Bridges
Sarah Bridges, Ph.D. and M.B.A, partners with Quotidian Group as a deeply skilled executive coach, psychologist, speaker, writer, and leadership advisor. Dr. Bridges is known for offering challenging, yet practical, solutions to help people break through their own assumptions, discover their potential, and build cohesive teams.
Madeleine Titze
Madeleine partners with Quotidian Group as a dedicated relationship-builder with a passion for leadership development, exceptional client service, and empowering individuals, teams, and organizations.
Madeleine leverages her background in adult learning to elevate her clients through research-backed, practical, and personalized coaching and team development. In her coaching practice, Madeleine supports senior leaders across industries including higher education, healthcare, manufacturing, private/public corporations, and not-for-profits to accelerate growth and foster sustainable development for key leaders.
Sarah Mankowski
Sarah partners with Quotidian Group as a seasoned leadership development consultant who has a knack for quickly building relationships, providing practical solutions to tough problems, and driving tangible results. She has deep integration experience and is able to identify critical elements needed to bring organizations and people together. As an executive coach, Sarah is direct and supportive, helping clients see possibilities in challenging circumstances.
Peggy Sousa
As an executive coach with the Quotidian Group, Peggy leverages her extensive experience as a corporate leader in Fortune 100 Financial Service organizations. Parlaying her business acumen and passion for people development, she specializes in helping current and soon-to-be senior executives across a wide variety of development challenges including influencing, navigating change, building a high performing team, and of course, delivering outsize business value for their organizations.