Bio

Judy Vernick, founder and owner of Pittsburgh-based Quantum Leap Coaching, is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), specializing in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC™).  Judy leverages the ORSC™ model and principles to integrate her range of credentials and professional development activities including:

• Assisting in the delivery of ORSC™ Training
• Project Management Professional (PMP^®) credential from the Project Management Institute
• World Business and Executive Coach Summit (WBECS)
• Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and Leadership Program through The Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
• Leadership Pittsburgh

With decades of professional and life experience, Judy has excelled as an educator, facilitator, consultant, speaker, researcher, writer, project manager and leader in technology venues, academe and the non-profit arena. She is also an award-winning triathlete.

Judy is uniquely positioned to help her clients effectively navigate their diverse personal, professional and life-cycle transitions for sustainable impact.  Why?  Her nearly twenty-year coaching portfolio is enhanced with track records in communications, marketing, project management, organizational development, and transition of technology into widespread use.

Clients love her quick wit, laser-style communication, clear thinking, discipline, professionalism, engaging warmth and compassion, and her ability to deeply listen as well as swim with them in any water.

Judy holds a PhD in Educational Communications and Technology and MA in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh.

She began her career as faculty in the Linguistics Department and Director of the Language Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh.  Her research focused on second language acquisition and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance language learning systems.  Her interests in instructional systems engineering and the emerging area of AI was a logical gateway to the pioneering community of Carnegie Mellon spinoffs.  There she held positions in human factors engineering, intelligent systems design, product development and marketing management.  She also wrote for the Pittsburgh High Technology Council (now Pittsburgh Technology Council).

Judy later served as Senior Member of the Technical Staff and as Senior Member of the Operational Staff at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute.  Her work there focused in three key areas:  product development and marketing; technology commercialization and diffusion; and organizational development, employee engagement and business process improvement.

She has served in leadership roles on numerous local and national boards of directors and advisory councils, including National Council of Jewish Women, Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, Friends of the Riverfront, International Coach Federation (ICF) Pittsburgh and ICF Midwest Region.  Judy has been a consultant for the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Chatham University, and a popular guest speaker for organizations including Point Park University’s Sports, Arts and Management degree program.  She is also a licensed esthetician and makeup artist.

Judy was born in the City of Brotherly Love and grew up in New York City and Rye, New York.  She resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.