Rebecca Bea Thompson is an experienced speaker, writer, consultant, facilitator and coach with more than 30 years in the manufacturing, aerospace, and healthcare industries. She has been an internal and external consultant for many years, working with such companies as Eastman Kodak, General Motors, and Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina.
She is currently the principal of Evolve Without Limits, a coaching and consulting practice. Her areas of expertise include leadership and team development, work systems redesign, organizational change, and culture change.
Rebecca holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, and an M.A. in Organizational Management & Development from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA.
In addition, she is a graduate of the Professional Coach Certification program at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA and holds the credential of Professional Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation.
A two-time speaker at the Women Veterans Alliance Un-conference, she has been a guest lecturer for the University of Maryland Industrial & Organizational Psychology Department, and a speaker at the Working Mother Magazine Work-life Congress.
Frustrated by her (now ex-)husband’s increasing alcoholism, Rebecca embarked on a healing journey which led her to explore a variety of spiritual practices. She learned how to love herself, and found freedom from a situation in which she thought she was stuck. Along the way she became a Reiki master, certified Crystal Therapist, and Shamanic coach, and incorporates these areas of expertise into her consulting and coaching practice. As a coach, she is passionate about helping people to learn about self-love, to recognize their own strength, and to live with freedom, passion, and intention.
Rebecca is the author of Rebecca Rising: How I found courage and self-love through friendship, coaching and conversations with the moon, a memoir chronicling her healing journey. In addition, she and her friend and colleague Darlene Ryan co-authored Sunday at 8:30: Two Decades of Life Planning. This book shares the life planning process Darlene and Rebecca personally use and have honed for over twenty years, and includes helpful worksheets for creating your own life plan. In addition, it offers an eclectic reading list of over 200 books that the two authors explored together during those years.
