Meet our Staff
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“ In a world that is rapidly moving towards technology, I feel it is important to give our children, especially those from less fortunate beginnings, an environment in which they can express themselves. I know from my seven years as a mentor that Big Brother/Little Brother relationships can provide a solid foundation of trust, which allows all who participate to experience personal growth.”
Doug Hodges
Big Brother
 
About ThinkWorkPlay...

ThinkWorkPlay is an organization committed to fostering an environment of trust in the golf swing, the workplace, and life. Through experiential learning, participants enjoy the freedom of playing the game, which ultimately translates into more fun on and off the golf course.

ThinkWorkPlay offers a variety of packages to the corporate client and individuals. Our premier offering is the ThinkWorkPlay TeamBuilding Experience, where participants explore creative right brain processing, gain detachment from the outcome of a shot and learn from the experiences of the entire team. We also host and facilitate corporate meetings and offer a variety of traditional group outings, ongoing team building activity, individual clinics and Individual Coaching.

 
Our Staff
Doug Hodges Doug Hodges, Founder, ThinkWorkPlay

Doug has extensive experience as a golf professional, training with The LaCosta Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California and The Heritage Golf Club in Wake Forest, North Carolina. For the past 10 years, Doug has researched and studied the mental aspects of the game and how to acheive optimal personal performance. By combining mental game coaching and the use of cutting edge biofeedback training, Doug offers his students the opportunity to play to their potential.
Doug Hodges, PGA Professional - Mental Game Coach

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Susan Maravetz Susan Maravetz, TeamBuilding Coach

Susan Maravetz is a business and teambuilding coach, group facilitator and consultant. She is a CTI-trained and CTA-certified coach, as well as a Licensed HeartMath® Provider. Susan has over 15 years’ practical experience in large and small organizations, having spent time with IBM, Software Spectrum, HAHT Commerce and Intervolve. Susan has coached and consulted with, among others, software organizations, accounting firms, and financial services organizations to define strategies that make better use of their most precious resource – their people.

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Stefanie Zizzo Stefanie Zizzo, TeamBuilding Coach

Stefanie is a career and life coach with more than 12 years experience working with individuals who are seeking greater fulfillment in their work and life. In this role, and as a leader in both a university and a communications company, she helps people gain greater awareness and clarity of their vision, develop better working relationships, choose roles that fit their needs and values, and find renewed energy in their work. Her passion is supporting people as they stretch beyond their comfort zone and explore new possibilities in what they believe, how they perform and what they achieve. Stefanie received her life coach certification through the Institute for Life Coach Training and is a member of the International Coach Federation. She has a Masters in Counseling and a BA in Psychology.

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Pam Rogers Pam Rogers, LPGA/PGA Professional

Pam has earned both LPGA/PGA cards and has over 14 years of teaching experience. She has taught golfers at all skill levels and can cater to individual or group lessons. Her major priority with every new student is to establish personal goals relative to golf and create a customized program that will enable them to achieve their goals. She emphasizes the importance of creating a "feeling" that her students can relate to when trying to make a swing change so that the students do not become overly mechanical and analytical about their golf swings.
Pam Rogers, PGA Professional - LPGA

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We give back to the community...

The ThinkWorkPlay team is pleased to give back to the community – specifically children in need. In a continuing effort to support children and create more matches, ThinkWorkPlay will donate 5% of its gross revenues from ThinkWorkPlay to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Wake County.

For almost 10 years Doug Hodges has been associated with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America as a donor, fund raiser and Big Brother. In 1997 he was matched with a 10 year old from the lower east side of Manhattan, and now more recently is matched with a 10 year old from Raleigh, NC. Doug has grown tremendously as a result of the mentoring experience and counts himself very fortunate to have two little brothers. Doug was a founding member of a 1,000-mile bike ride from Chicago to New York, which in 1999 and 2000 raised over $250,000 to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters and help create more matches for children from single parent homes. He believes that children should not be on a waiting list for something they all deserve.

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The Coaches Corner

We are pleased to announce our newest addition to the site, the Coaches Corner. Here you will find advice and insight to help you gain more benefit from the ThinkWorkPlay Teambuilding and ThinkWorkPlay Mental Game schools.

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