About Us 

Linda Zuk, Company Owner - Master Facilitator and Coach

Gordon Rude MS MPH - Advisor

Harry Rodenhi, Master Coach and Facilitator

Marie Cameron, Healthcare Advisor  

Patty Farinola - Trainer and Certified Businesss Coach

Leah Henderson - Trainer and Business Coach

Jeff Jarosinski - Facilitator

Linda Zuk - Master Facilitator/Coach

As an executive coach, consultant and facilitator, Linda Zuk has worked with teams and individuals for more than 14 years. Her previous experience in counseling people has translated into a remarkable ability to support teams and organizational change.

One of her specialties is working with teams to identify and create missing structures and processes critical to the functioning of an organization. Once identified, her expertise in creating accountability structures provides management and team members with a way to measure and evaluate performance.

In 2005, along with Gordon Rude, Linda was a driving force in establishing a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, Fast Forward Restart, which has used Fast Forward Process to help restart over 150 small businesses that were affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans.  The mission of Fast Forward Restart is to assist 500 entrepreneurs in rebuilding their New Orleans and Gulf Coast based businesses and beginning the restoration of the entrepreneurial spirit to the city and gulf coast communities.

Linda has worked with businesses, non-profits and government organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, State of Georgia Department of Tobacco Use Prevention, Keep Roswell Beautiful, National Association of Women Business Owners, Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Crisis Management International, as an executive coach, consultant and facilitator.

Gordon Rude, MS, MPH  - Advisor

His clients have included  leading edge technology companies and healthcare organizations including; Group Health of Puget Sound, Seattle; Henry Ford Health System, Detroit; The Methodist Hospital and DeBakey Heart Center, Houston; The Lahey Clinic, Boston; Lovelace Health System, Albuquerque; St. Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia and other community hospitals.  

In 2003 Gordon and Linda Zuk founded Fast Forward Process to assist CEO’s and Management teams to achieve their strategic goals and vision. 

In 2005, with the help of other dedicated professionals, they founded the 501(c)3 non-profit, Fast Forward Restart, to assist small business in New Orleans recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Over 200 companies, entrepreneurs, government, healthcare and nonprofit organizations have completed the process. 

Previously, Gordon served as a Principal Consultant to the California Senate, the Michigan Legislature, and the Illinois Governor's Office of Human Resources. He also taught organizational development and strategic planning at the University of Missouri. 

Gordon holds a Master of Science from Southern Illinois University and a Master of Public Health from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Harry Rodenhi, PCC - Master Coach

Harry Rodenhi is the Master Coach and Manager of Fast Forward Process’s Coaching Program. Harry is also the Founder & President of All-About Enterprises, a coaching/training practice dedicated to supporting individuals and organizations in taking charge of their Enterprises – “those complex and often challenging undertakings that demand systematic & purposeful action”. 

Harry is an IT management professional with over thirty years experience including fifteen years leading product and service organizations in the high-tech sector.  He has significant experience in Management and Executive Support Systems.  His expertise includes: knowledge management, learning organizations, change management, strategic planning, program and project management, IT operations and management, organizational development and business process re-engineering.  He is experienced across many industries, and especially in consumer products and logistics. 

Previously, as Regional Vice President for an international consulting firm, Harry managed a $35 million system integration practice in the Southeast, reorganizing the 180-person operation into service lines enabling focus and growth on CRM and e-Business offerings.  In prior positions he had built and managed multi-million dollar consulting operations for two other firms here in the Southeast, taking one from under $1 million to $15 million in less than two years. 

Harry left his IT management career in 2001 to pursue a more personally rewarding and interesting career in coaching. Harry has coached with over 75 companies and more than 200 executives since completing his coaching training. 

Harry holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Dayton.  He is a Certified Coach University Graduate and is certified by the International Coach Federation at the Professional level.  He is a qualified instructor on a variety of management issues and facilitates workshops in many personal development areas, and is a certified analyst for the Personal Interests and Values assessment, the DISC Behavioral Profile, the Hartman Value Assessment, and the Denison Leadership Development 360-Survey.

Marie Cameron, MS, FACHE - Healthcare Advisor  

Marie Cameron, FACHE, is an executive-in-residence and instructor at the Institute of Health Administration in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia and a Senior Advisor in Fast Forward Process.  

She also serves on the Board of Governors of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is board certified in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow. Ms. Cameron previously served as the ACHE Regent-at-Large for District 2 from 2002 to 2006. 

In her role as executive-in-residence and instructor at the Institute of Health Administration in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Cameron is responsible for teaching and serving as the liaison between the academic program and practitioners in the healthcare field.  

She has previously held positions of president and chief executive officer at Southwest Hospital and Medical Center in Atlanta, interim executive director and chief executive officer of Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C. and associate executive director and chief operating officer also at Howard University Hospital in Washington D.C. Additional senior management level positions were held at Children's National Medical Center, Washington D.C and Physician Memorial Hospital in Maryland.  

As a healthcare management professional, Marie Cameron, FACHE, has provided consulting services to healthcare organizations and related entities, including Schneider Regional Medical Center, HCA (Diversity Department), Matrix Group, Ionia County Hospital, Care Payment Systems, Sparrow Health System, The Joshua Group and the Black Nurses Foundation.  

Ms. Cameron has served on the board of the Georgia Hospital Association and as Chair of the Hospital Advisory Board of the Georgia Department of Community Health. She is a board member of the Atlanta Metropolitan Chapter of the American Red Cross, Advisory Board Member of the Georgia Association of Healthcare Executives (GAHE) and of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Health Administration. Among her many other affiliations, Ms. Cameron was also  adjunct faculty and preceptor for the master’s of health administration programs at Florida A&M University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.   

She received her Master of Science degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth, Mn.  

Patty Farinola - Certified Coach 

Patty Binns Farinola is a professionally trained speaker, instructor and coach who specializes in helping professionals to create success in all areas of their lives through powerfully-connected relationships. Patty pulls from her own personal experience and many levels of training to provide coaching and classes that have clients look deeper into their personal patterns around relationships, communication, taking action and delivering on results, so they can open themselves up to the true possibilities of business success and personal fulfillment.

Patty has been coaching since 1998 in the areas of leadership, communication, team-building, career development, achieving life goals and creating profoundly fulfilling relationships. Patty is an experienced speaker and seminar leader; she holds workshops in addition to individual sessions. She received her training at CoachU and is professionally certified through the International Coach Federation. Other education includes leadership development and/or coach training through Landmark Education Corporation, Turknett Leadership Group, and the Center for Inner Knowing.

Leah Henderson, M.A. - Coach 

Leah Henderson is President of Leah Henderson & Associates, LLC and a Coach for Fast Forward Process and Fast forward Restart.

Leah has worked with companies, government, non-profits and higher education as a coach and counselor; trainer and consultant in program development.  Her workshops are designed to teach better leadership skills, teambuilding, and to coach leaders of organizations and employees to successfully reach common goals.

Prior to starting Leah Henderson & Associates, Leah was co-owner of Arcuragi and Henderson Marketing Communications, an international advertising and marketing communications company that catered to the needs of the pharmaceutical industry and with a primary focus on Diabetes with clients such as Nordisk, Inc and Squibb.

Leah helped develop the State PERMES program with the State of Georgia, a quality assurance program targeted towards measuring outcomes in efficacy and satisfaction for those being served under Medicare waivers in the areas of DD/MH/SA within the State.

Leah has also been involved with Katrina and Rita Relief through volunteering with the American Red Cross, helping individuals in the weeks after the hurricanes struck the Gulf Coast, through volunteering through her local church in helping to rebuild houses in Biloxi, MS, and through an ongoing, empowering seminar/coaching program helping small business owners through Fast Forward Restart. 

Leah taught Psych 1000 at Georgia Tech University, a program designed to help students plan for success in the university setting and in career planning.

Leah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and a Master’s degree in Counseling.

Jeff Jarosinski, Ph.D. - Facilitator

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