DeeAnn Palin
Co-Founder
DeeAnn is the Co-Founder of OnPoint Impact, where she and her partner engage with mid-market companies and their executives to help them achieve personal and company growth, enhance profitability, foster a positive corporate culture, and prepare for strategic transitions. With over 20 years of corporate executive experience, coupled with 10 years of business ownership, strategy development and coaching, DeeAnn brings a unique and highly effective perspective as an expert business coach.
DeeAnn Palin possesses a unique mix of successful operations management, organization development, and culture transformation experience. DeeAnn is a seasoned expert in guiding businesses towards sustainable growth, scalability, and transformation. She is adept at homing in on critical business challenges, devising game-changing strategies, and delivering outstanding results. DeeAnn’s experience spans diverse sectors, including High Tech, Insurance, Retail, Private Education, Healthcare, and Sports and entertainment. DeeAnn is a certified Project and Change Management Professional, holding a Master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communication from Northern Arizona University.
Among her notable achievements, DeeAnn served as the Senior Vice President of Operations and Strategy for the Phoenix Suns, where she spearheaded corporate strategy and business planning while overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, and orchestrated transformation of the organization's technology infrastructure, Human Resources functions, and various critical operations. Additionally, she has restructured, privatized, and aligned several businesses, achieving significant growth through innovative solutions.
Ms. Palin is highly regarded for her coaching prowess, which extends to both businesses and executives. She excels in elevating leaders' self-awareness, enhancing their performance, cultivating stronger professional relationships, and driving exceptional business and operational outcomes.
Stuart Wachs
Co-Founder
Stuart is the Co-Founder of OnPoint Impact, where he and his partner engage with mid-market companies and their executives to help them achieve personal and company growth, enhance profitability, foster a positive corporate culture, and prepare for strategic transitions. With over 20 years of CEO experience in for profit and not for profit organizations he has successfully led organizational startups, scales, and turnarounds he has 10 plus years coaching and consulting. Stuart brings a unique and highly effective perspective as an expert business and leadership coach to help leaders and organizations define their purpose, align their direction, and develop strategies to increase their revenues and impact.
Stuart Wachs possesses a unique mix of successful operations and turn-around leadership, leadership development, and culture transformation experience. Stuart is a seasoned leader and coach helping guide organizations towards sustainable growth, powerful and positive cultures, scalability, and transformation. He brings his unique experiences and talents to guiding CEO’s and leadership teams in uncovering and addressing critical challenges/opportunities, building a strong organizational culture as a foundation, guiding development of strategies, and delivering outstanding results. Stuart’s experience spans diverse sectors, including Technology, Fin-Tech, Fitness and Recreation, Education, The Arts/Entertainment and Non-Profits.
Among his notable achievements, Stuart was the Founder and CEO of WachsField Technologies which he led to consistent 25+ percent year over year growth as CEO and sold in 2022 and has served as CEO at 3 different large non-profits,. Stuart also has successfully started other business including an Inline Hockey Center which turned a facility that was losing $200,000 a year into profitability by its second year. In his non-profit work Stuart led the successful turnarounds of 4 non-profits, one as COO and three as CEO. In all cases driving significant revenue growth, turning around very negative cultures and creating strong brand recognition.
Stuart Wachs is highly regarded for his leadership and coaching, which extends to both businesses, non-profits and executives. He excels in elevating leaders' self-awareness, focusing on values and culture, enhancing their and the company’s performance, cultivating stronger professional relationships, and driving exceptional business and operational outcomes.