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Chapter Leadership
The ICF AR-OK Board of Directors is a dedicated group of volunteers committed to serving our chapter in a variety of roles. Feel free to reach out to any member of our leadership team with questions or feedback about their area of oversight. Click here to learn more about each position and how you can become a part of the chapter leadership.
Each office is a two-year commitment with overlapping terms to ensure continuity of leadership and chapter initiatives.
| PRESIDENT - CRYSTAL WAGNER Email: president@icfarok.org Crystal Wagner is a professional life coach, coach educator, and facilitator. Her mission is simple and deeply personal: to support women to do what they love in a way that aligns with how they are uniquely wired. A multi-passionate, neurodivergent thinker with a love of learning and nature, Crystal integrates a variety of coaching approaches to help clients slow down, quiet the swirl of thoughts, and uncover what lies beneath the surface. Crystal is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, an EMCC Accredited Coach at the Senior Practitioner level, a Professional Certified Life and Leadership Coach through PCCI, a trained facilitator of the LEGO® Serious Play® Method and Materials, and a Strengths Champion Certified Coach®. She also holds a Master of Accountancy and a Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring. In addition to coaching women, she serves on the faculty at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute. You can connect with Crystal at https://crystalwagner.net/. |
| PRESIDENT-ELECT - MARLIN BLANKENSHIP Email: presidentelect@icfarok.org Dr. Marlin Blankenship is an executive coach, educator, and leadership development specialist who works at the intersection of coaching, workforce and adult education, and personal/organizational resilience. He is currently an executive leadership coach with Strata Leadership and an adjunct professor in the Native American Leadership graduate program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Over the past two decades, Marlin has coached and trained leaders across sectors including global energy, manufacturing, finance, higher education, healthcare, and tribal government. His background in emergency management and higher education leadership informs his systemic, resilience-oriented approach to coaching—helping individuals and organizations navigate complexity with clarity, agency, and adaptability. Marlin holds a Ph.D. in Workforce and Adult Education from Oklahoma State University, a Graduate Certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching from the University of Texas at Dallas, and certifications in multiple coaching methodologies. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the current President-Elect for the International Coaching Federation Arkansas-Oklahoma chapter. |
| Director of MEMBERSHIP - Brice LongEmail: members@icfarok.org Brice Long is a WeAlign Certified Coach, a Strengths Champion Certified Coach, and is currently working towards his ACC certification through the ICF, as well as his Certified Professional Leadership Coach (CPLC) certification through the Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI). While he has spent many years informally coaching friends, colleagues, and clients over the years; he is dedicated to mastering his craft to the highest levels to best serve his clients. Brice’s mission is to step into the chaos with leaders to help them navigate through complex, messy, and difficult situations. He has a passion to help build strengths-based, performance-driven cultures where leadership and employees can grow, develop, and thrive individually and as a collective organization. He believes every individual and company is unique, and approaches each engagement with an open mindset and honest dialogue. Along with being a strengths and leadership coach, Brice is an entrepreneur and a strategic consultant. Over the last 26+ years, Brice has helped numerous clients improve business processes, execute marketing initiatives, and create technology solutions to help them solve complex problems, improve operations, and grow their businesses. |
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| MEMBER-AT-LARGE - Jesus A. SampedroEmail: mal@icfarok.org Jesus is the founder/president of Leadershift - Global Leadership Consulting, a leadership training, coaching, coach-certifying, and consulting firm (Since 2005). He has catalyzed leadership development in 30+ countries. He has been a certified/licensed Leadership Coach-Trainer since 2003 with Lifeforming Leadership Coaching. Jesus has authored and co-authored various leadership books, including Código de Honor (2024), Becoming a Leader (2021), Exceptional LEADER Transformational COACH (2020), and Inspiracion para Liderar (2019), among others. He has served in various nonprofit roles and boards, including global marketplace organizations and executive chambers. Jesus’s teaching journey in business schools started in 2003 and has included Regent University, IESA Business School, and Universidad de Carabobo. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Business Leadership and Program Director for the Master of Arts (MA) in Leadership at Mid-America Christian University in Oklahoma City (MACU). Jesus holds a Doctor of Strategic Leadership (DSL) degree and an MBA from Regent University (USA). He is a member of the International Leadership Association (ILA 09’). He is married to Gaby, an award-winning Christian singer. They have two girls and currently live in Edmond, OK. You can connect with Jesus A. Sampedro at https://linktr.ee/DrJesusSampedro |
MEMBER-AT-LARGE – CELESTE DAVIS Email: mal@icfarok.org Celeste Davis retired from FedEx Services as Director of Global Customer Experience Systems, Engineering and Education. During her 28-year career, she held several analytical and leadership positions in logistics marketing, international sales, and customer experience organizational learning. After her FedEx retirement, Celeste and her family moved to Bentonville, Arkansas where she joined Accenture Consulting as an Organizational Change Leader through the end of 2023. Late in her FedEx career, Celeste pursued her passion for leadership coaching and attained an ACC level ICF accreditation from the University of Texas – Dallas (UTD). She continued her studies at UTD to complete a Master of Science degree in Leadership, Organizational Development and Coaching in 2019. Celeste utilized her leadership experience, ICF accreditation and education within FedEx Service and Accenture to lead and coach complex organizational and system implementations to achieve measurable, sustainable change at all levels within an organization. In her first year of retirement, Celeste continued to focus on coaching and mentoring through volunteering. She is a mentor circle lead at NextUp women’s leadership organization and involved with other non-profit organizations supporting under-served families in Northwest Arkansas. She is eager to join the AR/OK ICF Board of Directors to grow personally and professionally as a coach and serve in a new capacity. |
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