Our Team is comprised of highly select, leading subject
matter experts. Each with proven records, influential, and successful in their chosen specialty. They help to develop leaders who lead transformational change to build the future.
Kerry Larson, Ph.D., Senior Fellow 
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Organizational assessment and transformation
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Senior executive coaching
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Creating a culture of innovation and change
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Leadership and team development
Kerry is an experienced senior executive with an extensive background in organizational transformation and executive coaching. During thirty-five years working with senior executives individually and in teams, he has won a reputation for effectiveness as a coach and mentor, with an intuitive skill for assessing and developing individual talent and organizational culture.
He has a gift for building trust and a record for delivering practical results. Having worked successfully with organizations through rapid growth, mergers, crises and turnarounds, he knows how to inspire others towards positive change in an environment of uncertainty.
Kerry’s ability to create powerful work environments is rooted in executive leadership experience. While he was Senior Vice President at AT&T Wireless, it was named best large company to work for by CEO magazine for three years running. He was Senior Vice President at McCaw Communications, and Vice President at Teledesic and Avia International. Kerry is also a co-founder of Applied Leadership Strategies specializing in executive and organization development.
Morel Fourman
, Senior Fellow
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Personal and cultural transformation
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Commitment to making a positive impact on a global scale
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Designs, patents and builds systems, software tools and environments that enable lasting and meaningful change
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Inspirational Speaker, facilitator and process designer
Morel Fourman, founder and CEO of Gaiasoft Group companies combines a deep understanding of personal and cultural transformation with a rigorous technical mind.
For over 20 years he has designed, patented and built systems, software tools and environments that enable lasting and meaningful change.
He holds BA and MA degrees in engineering from Balliol College, Oxford University and an MSC in design of complex systems. Morel’s work and life reflect his commitment to making a positive impact on a global scale.
Alfred (Al) F. Gentle, Jr.
, Fellow
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Senior Corporate Leadership
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Advisory Services
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Business Development
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Capture, Proposal Preparation
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Government Contracting Program Management Training
Al Gentle, Jr brings his 40+ years of subject matter expertise as a premier consultant in the areas of business management, government contracting, executive leadership, and training to offer large and small businesses expert advisory services, business development support, proposal preparation, and program management training. Retired from the U. S. Navy as a Supply Officer, Al has first-hand experience in DoD logistics and acquisition support services.
Al’s knowledge spans from Supply Support Management, to Integrated Logistics Support Management, to Health Services, to Information Technology for product and services type businesses. His depth of understanding comes from providing support from the corporate perspective for a wide array of government and DoD agencies worldwide.
Having brought significant growth in revenue to every organization that he has been associated with, Al mentors and advises emerging and established leaders sharing his experience to assist them in their current positions and for their career growth.
Bjarni Snæbjörn Jónsson, Ph.D.
, Fellow
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Management Consultant
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Social Entrepreneur
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Large-scale Human System Change Initiatives
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Large-scale Organizational & Cultural
Bjarni Snæbjörn Jónsson is a premier management consultant and social entrepreneur, and focuses primarily on large-scale human system change and evolution. Bjarni is working in Iceland as an independent management consultant and is a founding partner at DecideAct Management, a Danish consulting and software company specializing in implementing large scale organizational and cultural change.
Since 1995, Bjarni has consulted with organizations in all sectors within the private and public sector. He works primarily with Boards and CEO‘s of his clients, assisting in management of total organization change and development.
In his approach Bjarni‘s philosophy is that all human systems are in essence living systems and operate as such. From the start of his consulting career, he has applied the theory of Corporate Lifecycles and Spiral Dynamics, as well as other systemic theories and approaches with the mission to develop organizations and human systems in line with their capacity for change.
Stephanie Galindo, Ed.D., Consultant
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Major Areas of Expertise
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Design Thinking
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Program and Project Management
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Entrepreneurship, Resilience
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Quality Assurance, Process Improvement
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Transition Management
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Research, Editorial
Dr. Galindo contributes insights gathered during years of virtual leadership in SMBs, primarily online higher education and OEM manufacturing. She has a natural talent for quickly analyzing complex procedural issues, and for envisioning opportunities, cost/benefit, and timelines.
With a patent, a doctorate, and having participated in dozens of research studies, she enjoys the process of investigation and assessment. Her administrative skills, organizing numerous off-site workshops for example, compliment an entrepreneurial creative spirit.
Dr. Galindo combines innovation with strategic thinking to craft systems that streamline operations and assure quality – essentially designing, editing, and shaping networked processes as if they were parts of a document. In new enterprises she will operationalize policies, assure regulatory compliance, and develop protocol and infrastructure to nurture stakeholder relationships and market presence.
Dr. Galindo inspires active collaboration and shares tactics that support individual resilience. She recognizes the nuances of motivation such as choice theory, persistence failure, transition management, and socialization. She understands Spiral Dynamics model of socio-cultural evolution and organizational lifecycle pathologies.
Timi Gleason
, Consultant
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Leadership Development
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Strategic Thinking Support
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Outside the Box Solutions
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Collaboration and Teambuilding
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Assessment Debriefs
Timi has honed her skills to address many of the tricky 21st century challenges facing leaders today. She has Gold Mastery Certification in Systems Thinking and Strategic Management and is a Marshall Goldsmith certified global coach.
She writes books about the challenges of strategic thinking, and has extensive experience working with leaders to find ways to tie their training and knowledge back into practical uses and enjoyable leadership techniques.
Tareena Joubert, Consultant
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Strategic Planning
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Operation and Process Improvement
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Community Engagement and Outreach
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Facilitator
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Program and Project Management
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Customer Service Training
Tareena Joubert is a calm effective collaborator, a strategic thinker and is committed to bringing about positive change. She brings twenty years of experience working in the non-profit and public arena. She enjoys bringing diverse stake holder groups together to rethink systems, problem-solve and to help create a shared vision. She has a strong business acumen, refined with more than ten years in a government managerial positions and program management.
Tareena was responsible for budget development and program oversight and had a successful track record that exceeded earned revenue goals while maintaining the bottom line. She has experience securing Federal, State and local government funding sources, and has helped to land corporate support and foundation grants for a diverse array of programs.
She has consulted non-profit organizations in capacity building, performance improvement, budgeting and program evaluation. Tareena has facilitated workshops to promote awareness of cultural competency, to create an inclusive environment, and to recognize and dismantle institutional racism. She has studied and worked in the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America and speaks English, Spanish and French.
Chuck Scharenberg
, Consultant
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Vision and Strategy
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Business Acumen
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Empowering Teams and Organizations
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Change Management
Chuck is proactive, and has a thorough knowledge of business processes. He coaches, coordinates, and calls out issues. He is an expert in moving clients from a place of simple consistency to a place where they leverage innovation and best practice to build their efficiency and effectiveness.
Chuck digs in, provides clients with a variety of business tools, shows them how to use each one, and walks them through using the tools themselves. He maps side-by-side processes and builds bridges to solutions.
Laurie St. George
, Consultant
Major Areas of Expertise:
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Operations Management
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
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Building Cross-Functional Production Teams
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Process Improvement
Laurie St. George brings years of operational management experience from multi-million dollar, high demand global production corporations. She conveys a calm leadership style, critical during the height of demand, enabling her to orchestrate end-to-end processing and to enhance business operations.
Key to her success is her ability to build cross-functional internal and external teams resulting in high quality results. Laurie is gifted with the ability to identify, analyze, and develop improvements to existing business processes to optimize quality and output. Her approach engages all of the stakeholders within the organization to create unified buy-in ensuring success. She understands the importance of quality control and knows how to incorporate this vital function as a routine core practice.
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