GUTTMAN DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES - Key Persons
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Cindy Herman is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies (GDS), which she joined in 2005. She brings over 25 years of experience as a business leader, facilitator, executive coach and consultant in talent and organizational development.
Cindy is a strong relationship builder who brings an enthusiastic, focused and dynamic style to her work. She has worked with many GDS clients to meet their strategic and learning/development goals, including Atlantic Health System, Chico's, Endologix, Keurig Dr. Pepper, L'Oréal, GSK, Novartis, Pinnacle Foods, Mars, Inc., and Johnson & Johnson.
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Cynthia M. Goins is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. Her more than 25 years of general management and consulting experience have provided her with a broad range of business and focused expertise in human resources, marketing, and sales.
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Gregory Brewer is an associate senior consultant and a field-tested professional: a consultant, entrepreneur, and senior human-resource expert. He brings to his consulting assignments deep expertise in all facets of organizational development and design, business processes, executive coaching, leadership and team development, employee relations, and compliance.
"Organizations function best when there is top-to-bottom alignment, when decision making and communications move horizontally, and when people at every level want to and can make a difference"
Throughout his career, Gregory has achieved considerable success in strategic planning; talent management and acquisition; human-resource systems, processes, and practices; corporate integration and restructuring; quality improvement; coaching; human-resource development; leadership development; and equal-opportunity employment and training.
Gregory has served previously as vice president of talent management, organizational development, and strategic staffing at Sara Lee Branded Apparel, Inc. and as vice president of human resources at Sara Lee Intimate Apparel, Inc. At CIT Group, Inc., a leading publicly traded commercial finance company, Gregory served in numerous positions, including senior vice president, equipment financing, and vice president, human resources, sales financing, and consumer finance. Earlier in his career, Gregory served as director of human resources for Staples National Advantage; as manager, human resources, and employee organizational development at Unisys Corporation; and as manager, of administrative services and quality improvement process at Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
GDS focuses on aligning senior management teams, developing the strategy and implementation of "horizontal" organizations (brand teams, matrix structures, global teams), and executive development. Howard and his staff of consultants are known for creating programs and processes that are pragmatic, results-oriented, and produce observable change. His direct style enables clients to distinguish between symptoms and core organizational issues.
Howard is the author of Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance (John Wiley), named one of the Top Business Books of 2008 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. He is also the author of When Goliaths Clash: Managing Executive Conflict to Build a More Dynamic Organization. His third book, Coach Yourself to Win: 7 Steps to Breakthrough Performance on the Job and in Your Life, was published by McGraw-Hill in October 2010 (coachyourselftowin.com) and named to the Washington Post's list of Top 5 Business Books for April 2011.
Howards' article, "Are Your Global Team Members Miles Apart," appeared in The Harvard Business Review, OnPoint, Summer, 2013. An interview with him was included in Thoughts from the Top: A Collection of Interviews with Business Gurus. Harvard Management Update's interview with Mr. Guttman forms the basis of the chapter "Bury Your Opinion, Shortchange Your Team" in Teams That Click, a part of the Harvard Business School Press Results-Driven Manager series.
Articles by Mr. Guttman have appeared, and he has been quoted in broad-interest newspapers and magazines such as TIME magazine, American Airlines' American Way, Amtrak's Arrive, Business News New Jersey, Investors Business Daily, The Washington Post, The Newark Star-Ledger, U.S. News and World Report, and U.S.A. Today magazine.
He is also a frequent contributor to professional journals such as People & Strategy, Human Resource Executive, Chief Learning Officer, Leader to Leader, MWorld, Pharmaceutical Executive, and PharmaVOICE. He is a contributing editor to Leadership Excellence.
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Jay Redman, a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S., is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. He provides clients with unique strategies for improving team alignment, business performance, organization effectiveness during change, and overall leader-player engagement.
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Jim Bennett is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. Throughout his career, Jim has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to work with cross-functional and/or cross-company teams on complex projects. Jim's style, expertise, and techniques are uniquely suited for large, mission-critical initiatives. In his corporate and consulting roles, he has utilized his leadership experience to improve the results of dozens of companies.
He has had particular success in project implementation, especially in helping business and project teams mature quickly into high-performing entities. Jim's strong people skills and long corporate experience make him a highly effective executive coach who has helped dozens of senior executives achieve stellar results.
Jim began his career as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working as a project officer with civilian contractors on large flood-control initiatives and disaster-relief efforts. After leaving the military, he went to work for a division of Johnson & Johnson, where he held leadership positions in manufacturing, national planning, and major projects.
After ten years with Johnson & Johnson, he moved to the Philips Lighting Company. There, as logistics director, along with his day-to-day P&L responsibilities, he successfully led a critical re-engineering project to optimize the company's nationwide distribution-center network while improving the efficiency of order fulfillment, taking on new customers, and significantly reducing costs. Later, when selected by Benjamin Moore & Company as its director of logistics, Jim led that company's North American order-fulfillment process, as well as major mission-critical projects for improving customer satisfaction.
Jim later pursued his entrepreneurial aspirations and became an equity partner and senior vice president for a regional office-supply company, where he led operations for the company and prepared it for its eventual sale to a much larger entity.
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June Halper, an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc., has over 20 years' of experience as a consultant, facilitator, and manager in organizational, leadership, and executive development. She has consulted across various industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, retail, and other service-based businesses, and has worked with clients at all organizational levels to meet strategic goals.
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Leesa Wallace is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. She is unapologetically pragmatic in her approach to providing clients with the ability to help elevate senior leaders, teams, and organizational performance.
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Mark is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, focusing his professional expertise on the executive, management, and organizational development. Mark leverages his unique Fortune 100 experience in operations, P&L, and business development to accelerate his clients' business goals.
Mark's current assignments and principal focus include aligning senior management teams, developing the strategy for and implementation of horizontal, high-performance organizations (brand teams, matrix structures, global teams) and executive coaching and development. He also manages business-process redesign projects for various transformative operations and human resources-systems initiatives.
Mark began his career in organizational consulting and change management with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (formerly United Research Co.), designing and delivering labor-management initiatives that boosted productivity, enhanced leadership skills, and reduced arbitration.
Mark held key in-house management development positions at Merrill Lynch & Co., and American Express. He was instrumental in creating multi-level development programs for businesses across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Latin America, and Japan. He specialized in internal consulting, working closely with business units to develop training game plans to improve sales, marketing, and operational effectiveness.
Mark's corporate experience also includes Citigroup's (formerly Citibank's) Systems and Technology Division, where he was director of training and organization development. Within a matrix organization, he instituted performance management, high-potential identification and leadership development, assessment centers, succession planning, and project management across business lines.
Before his association with GDS, Mark was an area managing director with the global human resources and career services consulting firm of Drake Beam Morin. There, he improved operations and revitalized their practice areas in senior-level executive coaching and development, outplacement consulting, and training.
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- Associate Senior Consultant With Guttman Development Strategies, Inc
Martin C. Becker is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. Martin has more than 40 years of consulting experience in organizational change management, organization development, executive coaching, and management training and development.
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- Senior Consultant
- Associate Senior Consultant With Guttman Development Strategies, Inc
As an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc., Pete Elder develops and delivers interventions aimed at providing lasting improvements and breakthroughs in the way people view themselves and work with others and in the degree to which they add value and create impact in their organizations and communities. He is deeply committed to developing the vast potential within individuals and teams and brings to his work a strong background in interpersonal effectiveness, along with a great deal of energy and spirit.
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- Associate Senior Consultant, Uses a Blend of Tough Love and Sweet Talk to Catalyze Executive Elevation, Triage Team Tensions, and Deliver Firecracker Keynotes
- Member of the Forbes Coaches Council
- Vice President and Spokesperson for the New York City Marathon
In her roles as coach, speaker, and advisor, Raleigh helps leaders enhance their presence and become more influential, efficient, and effective. Her approach focuses on polishing communication among leaders and using specific strategies to help them become more intentional in managing their relationships and reputations.
Raleigh Mayer, an associate senior consultant, uses a blend of tough love and sweet talk to catalyze executive elevation, triage team tensions, and deliver firecracker keynotes.
A member of the Forbes Coaches Council, Raleigh has been featured in Fortune, O, The Oprah Magazine, and the "Leading Women in Business" issue of Entrepreneur. She has been quoted extensively in executive resource articles in the Wall Street Journal and has had many articles published in business journals and almost every section of The New York Times.
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- Senior Consultant
- Associate Senior Consultant With Guttman Development Strategies, Inc
Thom Radice has been an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. since 1992. He believes in the value of creating a "learning organization" that promotes an arena for development, valuing the growth of people and their talents.
Organizations currently work with Thom to leverage their competitive edge by creating high-performance teams and creating corporate cultures that drive accountability. This is accomplished by aligning senior management and business teams in support of their organizational vision, purpose, and objectives. A result is horizontal and matrix organizations that thrive on accelerating performance.
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- Senior Consultant
- Associate Senior Consultant With Guttman Development Strategies, Inc
Wendy is an associate senior consultant with Guttman Development Strategies, Inc., with over 20 years of experience as a manager, consultant, and trainer in an organization and human resources development.
She has a strong record of driving strategic organizational change and building high-performing organizations. She has successfully coached many leaders and teams through intense or turbulent change.