Tom CurrenOverall Engagement Manager
Specialty: Top Team Alignment
MBA Wharton Business School
30+ years relevant work experience
- McKinsey & Co
- SVP Marriott Corp
- Independent consultant
Other
- US Naval Officer
- Certified coach
“Tom has a skill for simplifying complex things so we can work with them in a practical way. He is a superb thinker and intellectually honest.”
- J.W. Marriott Jr., Chairman and CEO, Marriott
Adam Hartung
Specialty: Strategy Innovation
MBA Harvard Business School
20+ years relevant work experience
- Boston Consulting Group
- Pepsi
- DuPont
- Independent consultant
Other
- Book: Create Marketplace Disruption
- Columnist: Forbes.com
“Adam Hartung helped us realize new ways of growing our business that we had completely ignored. He helped us realize substantial improvements when we were completely out of ideas.”
- Bob Bellack, CFO, Los Angeles Times Company
Allison Conte
Specialty: Whole Systems Organizational Development
MSOD, Weatherhead School of Management (Case Western Univ)
20+ years relevant work experience
- BP
- The Cleveland Clinic
- National Association of Manufacturers
- Independent consultant
Other
- Faculty, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
- Articles: Gestalt, Holocracy, Integral Theory
- Certified coach
“Allison has a rare talent to inspire transformational change. For Rocky Mountain Institute, she was able to identify and discuss ‘taboo’ issues in a way that woke us up and got us moving. She has a rare talent for executive coaching. Overall, a skilled and creative consultant.”
- Michael Potts, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Charlie Crutchfield
Specialty: Committed action / mindset shifts
BA, University of Virginia
15+ years relevant work experience
- JMJ Consultants
- Lotus Development Corporation
- Independent consultant
Other
- Black Belt in Aikido
“Charlie helped create an entirely different culture around safety in all our operations. He is a skilled facilitator, coach and mentor.”
- Bob Ajax, COO AMP Corporation
Michael McElhenie
Specialty: Leadership and Organizational Development
Ph.D., psychology, Univ. North Texas
20+ years relevant work experience
- Unilever
- Wal-Mart
- Sepracor Pharmaceuticals&
Other
- Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
- Certified coach
“Michael was an outstanding resource for Sepracor during a vertical growth phase. He contributed wholesale knowledge, expertise and guidance in the areas of Organizational Effectiveness, Change Management and Leadership Development. His skills were invaluable. I would recommend Michael with no reservations.”
- Carl Wooten, Senior Regional Sales Director, Sepracor Inc.
Brian Emerson
Specialty: Culture-and-Strategy Alignment
M.A., Organization Communication
M.A., Human Behavior & Development
20+ years relevant work experience<
- PBS
- MedImmune
- Independent Consultant
Other
- Faculty, University of Maryland
- Book: A Manager’s Guide to Coaching
- Certified Coach
“Brian helped us identify the ways our culture needed to shift in order to ensure our strategic success, and then he helped us successfully implement plans that changed the way we do things. He brought insight and skills to our team that make a real difference in how we do business—and he’s great to work with!”
- Lauri Reishus, VP Operations, ARC
Robert Jacobs
Specialty: Large Group Events / Network Collaboration
MSOD, Pepperdine
20+ years relevant work experience
- Ford
- Independent consultant
Other
- Leading expert in “Real Time Strategic Change”
- Certified coach
“Jake moved our business further and faster than we thought possible. By getting everyone in the same room, we accomplished six months' work in two days.”
- Dennis Mullen, CEO Birdseye Foods
Allen Kraus
Specialty: Operations Execution
Masters in Urban Planning, Harvard University
30+ years relevant work experience
- Congressional Budget Office
- City of New York
- CSC Global Health Solutions
- Independent consultant
Other
- Not-for-profit board member
- Adjunct public administration professor
It was a unique approach in my experience. Every part of the work felt relevant. Allen and his team balanced structure and flexibility, facilitated a high quality of interaction and depth of conversation and added creative ideas of their own. The work established a language and structure for us as leaders, which we use today.
- Larry Busching, EVP, New York City Children’s Services
John Kelly
Specialty: Interactive Scenario Planning / Meeting Design
B.A. University of Michigan
M.A. Columbia University
20+ years relevant work experience
- Northeast Consulting Resources
- Nervewire
- Monitor Group
Other
- Future Mapping
- Collaborative Problem Solving
“John is fantastic at quickly assessing the situation and creatively drawing upon his broad experience and vast array of techniques to design and run group meetings that are insightful, engaging, and most importantly - create clarity and shared understanding where often none existed. I view him as my go-to guy when this need arises, and recommend him highly.”
- Steve Basili, Principal and Founder, Envision Interactive Strategies
Lois Todd
Specialty: Coaching Resources
BA, University of Colorado
20+ years relevant work experience
- Manager/producer radio stations
- Independent consultant
Other
- Masters, Neuro Lingustic Programming (NLP)
- Certified coach
“The insights I gained from my work with Lois helped me realize how important it is during a reorganization process to slow down and notice the people part of the equation. This helped in retaining our top talent.”
- Mark Swatek, CEO MWH Global
Sanjay Rajan
Specialty: High-performance project management
Global MBA (in process), Columbia Business School and London Business School
15+ years relevant experience
- Accenture
- IBM
- Independent consultant
Other
- Certified Project Manager Professional
“Sanjay is a gifted project manager.”
- Michael Potts, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Chris Bamford
Specialty: Executive Assessments and Development
M.A. Industrial/Organizational Psychology
25 years relevant work experience
- International GM
- HR Leadership
- Consulting
Other
- Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
- Certified Myers-Briggs, Wilson Learning
““Chris has a unique set of skills to maximize the effectiveness of his managers and of his organization to accomplish superior results while developing his team members to achieve even greater heights.””
-Dave Bouton, VP & GM, Americhem