WHO WE ARE
The Newfield team, in service of human flourishing
Newfield is a living community with a strong lineage, a robust faculty, and over 70,000 people trained across the world.
Stewards of Newfield
Meet Veronica and Alexander
Veronica Olalla Love
CEO · SENIOR FACILITATOR
Verónica Olalla Love, M.Ac., NCC, PCC is the Chief Executive Officer of the Newfield Network and the lineage holder of its ontological coaching tradition. A coach, acupuncturist, educator, and artist, her work brings together linguistic, emotional, and somatic awareness to support lasting change and a fuller way of being. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, a Newfield Certified Coach, and holds the ICF PCC Markers Certificate, along with a Master’s degree in Acupuncture as a nationally licensed practitioner. Over two decades, she has trained and educated thousands of coaches and leaders around the world, leading ICF-accredited coach training programs in eight countries and two languages, and reaching leaders from organizations including NASA, Google, and beyond.
Known as a coach’s coach, Verónica is recognized for the synergy of her deep listening and her compassion — a gentle, potent capacity to ask the questions that get to the heart of the matter, and a somatic, embodied approach that supports people connect with the intelligence of the body. She created Newfield’s ontological approach to somatic coaching, a one-of-a-kind body of work that brings the wisdom of the body fully into the coaching relationship. Verónica is also a practicing visual artist, working in oil painting and mixed media; her paintings have been exhibited across Colorado, and in 2024 she received the Artistic Achievement award at the Louisville Art Association National Fine Art Show. For her, making art is a wordless practice of slowing down and awakening to the aliveness of the present moment — the same spacious awareness she brings to her coaching and her leadership. As Newfield’s lineage holder, she carries forward a tradition rooted in her own family’s history of displacement and resilience, an inheritance that shapes the organization’s enduring commitment to meeting human suffering with wisdom, and to developing new ways of being that make for a fuller life.
Alexander Love
SENIOR FACILITATOR & DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Alexander M. Love, MCC, NCC, M.Ac. is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, author, and acupuncturist whose work lives at the intersection of human development, contemplative wisdom, and deep transformational work. He is a Master Certified Coach (ICF) and a Newfield Certified Coach, as well as a certified STAGES scorer and developmental coach through Stages International. At the Newfield Network, he serves as Director of Curriculum Development and Senior Facilitator. In that role, he has led a significant evolution of the CPPM program — bringing it into alignment with the latest ICF requirements and translating the depth of ontological coaching into clear, teachable frameworks that make it far more accessible. He also built Newfield’s extensive online library of training videos and practices, and created Studio Lab, a collection of recorded coaching sessions with expert commentary.
Alexander holds a master’s degree in acupuncture from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture. Alexander is the creator of the Lumina Process — a developmentally informed parts work modality that helps people work skillfully with shadow, shift their relationship to pain, and root more deeply in wholeness. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Gestures Trilogy, a mythopoetic work of magic realist memoir that explores the sacred gap between self and world, introduces a distinctive developmental vision, and opens toward post-tragic possibility. Over two decades, he has facilitated more than fifteen thousand hours of life-changing work with individuals and groups.
THE LINEAGE
“Learning must address not just our head, but also our body, soul and spirit. It must find a balance between the conceptual-linguistic on the one hand, and the emotional, physical and archetypal on the other, and begin to reveal the intrinsic coherences between these levels of experience."
– Julio Olalla, Founder of Newfield Network
Our Founder
Julio Olalla's path to founding Newfield began far from the world of coaching.
Born in Chile, he worked as a lawyer within Salvador Allende's government. When the 1973 coup took power, Julio spent four years in exile before emigrating to the United States in 1978 — an experience that would shape everything he built afterward.
In the years that followed, Julio became one of the original architects of ontological coaching. In 1991, he founded Newfield Network to carry that work into the world, and has since taught across the globe, working directly with tens of thousands of people.
Newfield exists because of Julio’s belief that we need a new understanding of learning and knowing — one that questions our fundamental assumptions and integrates multiple intelligences. A new learning that is relational and encourages people to connect with their own dignity, and to honor the dignity of others.
Julio’s legacy remains at the heart of everything we teach today.
THE WIDER CIRCLE
The team that brings this work to life.
Deanne Prymek
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS
With over two decades of experience in personal transformation, Deanne Prymek helps individuals and leaders generate lasting, meaningful change. She completed the Newfield Coaching and Ontological Learning program in 2003 and joined the organization internally in 2005, going on to coach and manage initiatives across Newfield’s global network.
Driven by a deep commitment to the field of ontological coaching, Deanne specializes in creating reflective learning environments where people experience true regeneration, uncover new possibilities, and build sustainable practices for growth. Deanne is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the ICF, a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach (NCOC), and holds a B.S. from Illinois State University.
Quentin Finney
Director of Client Engagement
Quentin is a human, father, Newfield graduate, best-selling author, international certified mindfulness teacher, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council. As Director of Client Engagement at Newfield, he helps individuals and organizations navigate their path into transformational learning.
After holding operational and executive leadership roles with organizations including Google, Red Hat, EMC, and six startups, Quentin spent the last decade coaching and consulting with dozens of Fortune 500 companies, international governments, and nonprofits. His work focuses on building high-trust environments where people can thrive in connection and community.
Quentin’s passion is supporting others discover the inner wisdom they don’t always recognize they have—and he firmly believes we’re simply not meant to do any of this alone.
Candace Elder
CPPM Program Coordinator
Kelly Matsudaira
Marketing Coordinator
Caroline Shapiro
Marketing Specialist
Ashley Kirchner
Conference DJ & Technical Facilitator
THE WIDER CIRCLE
The program coach team
Our team of program coaches works with participants through one-on-one coaching and mentorship throughout the CPPM program, bringing decades of experience into every cohort.
Angela Cusack
Mentor Coach
Barb Eisle
Mentor Coach
Bettina Mazarrino
Mentor Coach
Carol Harris Fike
Mentor Coach
Croft Edwards
Mentor Coach
Daniela Trocan
Mentor Coach
Dawn Hicks
Mentor Coach
Jack Johnson
Mentor Coach
Jean Kling
Mentor Coach
Jerry Zygmuntowicz
Mentor Coach
Kymberly Johnson
Mentor Coach
Leah Kedar
Mentor Coach
Marty Raphael
Mentor Coach
Pamela Barit Nolan
Mentor Coach
Stell Anderson
Mentor Coach
THE ALUMNI COMMITTEE
Alumni who help the Newfield community flourish
Audrey Davis
Alumni Committee Member
Brett Greene
Alumni Committee Member
Caroline Shapiro
Alumni Committee Member
Erin Curren
Alumni Committee Member
Hector Jasen
Alumni Committee Member
Jennifer Einolf
Alumni Committee Member
Julie Ann Martínez Rosario
Alumni Committee Member
Marzia Canepa
Alumni Committee Member
Wanda Heffern
Alumni Committee Member
Beyond graduation
Nine months in the program.
A lifetime of connection.
Newfield's alumni community spans more than 70,000 people across six continents — connected by a shared depth of training and a common commitment to changing how human beings live and work together. Ongoing alumni offerings create space for graduates to keep practicing together: exploring what it means to live, lead, and facilitate transformative dialogue in an ever-changing world.
The next step
