TALENTTELLIGENT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
Alexandra is passionate about helping companies find the right talent to fuel their success, as well as assisting people in finding positions where they will feel challenged, fulfilled, and successful. She has consulted in various areas, including developing talent acquisition assessments, developing leadership effectiveness assessments, succession planning, and talent management. Alexandra holds a B.A. in Psychology from Washington University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
For over 15 years, Amanda has assisted a wide variety of organizations with implementing best-in-class talent management processes using her psychological expertise coupled with her real-world, entrepreneurial skills. She has consulted in various areas, including talent acquisition assessments, executive development coaching, and guiding CEOs and their teams to improve management practices ranging from personnel selection to compensation. Amanda holds a B.A. from Smith College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
Carolyn's 15 years of organizational consulting experience, coupled with her background in Counseling Psychology, gives her a unique perspective into helping clients develop strong performers. She has consulted across the talent-management spectrum, from 360-degree feedback, executive coaching, and team effectiveness, to the design and delivery of innovative, researched-based leadership development solutions. Carolyn holds a B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology from Emory University and a M.A. degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Organizational Development from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Chris was a contributor to the development of Lominger International's Succession Architect®, a systematic research-based process for identifying, assessing, differentiating and developing high potential and high professional talent.
In a career that spans 30+ years, Chris has worked within a diverse range of industries such as high-tech, insurance, healthcare and education both in the US and Europe. During this time, Chris held a variety of management and internal consulting roles in the fields of talent management and organizational development. Chris joined BettSolutions LLC in 2013 as Managing Partner.
Clarke Peterson has over thirty years of experience in strategic human resource arenas, including executive assessment, leadership development, talent management and succession planning. He has experience working inside an organization at the senior team level and has also consulted extensively with many client organizations.
Prior to founding Atlanta Leadership Consulting in 2007, Clarke had over a decade of experience as the senior vice president and human resources director for a national property and casualty insurance company. He uses that experience to quickly establish rapport and credibility with CEOs and other senior leaders.
He has deep expertise and a special interest in 360-degree feedback and leadership development, having delivered over 1,400 feedback sessions for leaders on five continents, and he has published research in the field.
Colby has more than 20 years of leadership and human resources experience in for-profit and non-profit organizations. He started his career at PepsiCo and YUM! Brands serving in several staff and field positions.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Client Engagement Officer
Dan enjoys nothing more than delighting clients and prospects by being a trustworthy guide as they seek to solve the most evasive of talent challenges. After 20 years in the assessment-based training and development arena, he shares a wide range of knowledge, experience, perspective and competitive intelligence around the value and application of world-class, valid and reliable tools to enrich and advance talent management practices, while lifting up the professionals who lead these. With deep experience in the areas of psychological type, traits, emotional intelligence, brain-based learning and coaching, competency-based assessment and development, programmatic talent development and a wide range of 360° multi-raters, he has directly supported more than 200 organizations seeking practical and powerful best practice approaches and stellar results. Perhaps unique to Dan, he sees everything through a brand lens. That means he's being mindful of your personal brand reputation as well as that of your organization and will guide you as you practice at the highest possible level of professionalism and effectiveness.
David is an experienced global leadership development facilitator, consultant, and coach. His mission is to enable the global success of people, teams, and organizations by driving inclusive systems, thinking and behaviors.
Dr. L. Diane "LD" Bennett has an impressive career that spans 30+-years in government, corporate and nonprofit sectors. She held a rare dual-hatted role as Special Assistant to the Director and to the Associate Director for Field Operations - U.S. Census Bureau. She received U.S. Commerce Dept. - Bronze Medal - For Superior Federal Service (highest civilian service award).
She has also held senior positions as V-P - Business Development at a Top 5 minority-owned marketing and communications firm and global Diversity Director - Habitat for Humanity International.
For the past 18 years, "LD" has been Chief Evangelist of Maximize Consulting, LLC, a thriving boutique firm specializing in organizational effectiveness, leadership development and executive coaching. Her client base includes telecommunications, education, nonprofit and government entities. Dr. Bennett is committed to solutions that enhance workplace and leader productivity, in sync with key performance indicators.
She is a highly active Senior On-Call Faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership (9 yrs.) co-facilitating programs for a range of CCL clients. She is co-facilitator of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) - Betsy Magness Leadership Institute, telecommunication industry's highest-rated leadership development program.
Dr. Bennett is a "thought leader" who uses her intellectual curiosity to design and deliver programs that help create dynamic and productive workforces. Her diverse career and life experiences enable her to customize executive coaching strategies that deliver results. Specifically, Dr. Bennett's style and expertise make her uniquely qualified to work with high potential or plateaued minority and women leaders, who face a distinctive set of challenges and opportunities not readily perceived or appreciated, in a general context.
"LD" holds Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration (Walden University), Masters of Regional Planning (UNC-Chapel Hill), triple-major BA (UNC-Charlotte), and graduate certificates: Executive Women's Leadership (Northwestern), Gamification (Wharton School) and Design Thinking for Innovation (Darden School of Business) and is certified in several psychometric assessments. Dr. Bennett is an author, college lecturer, innovator and sought-after inspirational speaker.
Dr Rogers has worked in the field of industrial/organizational psychology for more than 30 years. From 1979-1982, she worked in management research for American Management Association designing research methods, developing survey instruments, preparing statistical analyses and the presentation of results.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Member of the Executive Team
- Associate and Chief Product & Services Officer
He's been in your shoes, as Garrick is a passionate HR practitioner who brings an internal HR leader's point of view to our team. His career has centered on the belief that culture drives results and he has brought this belief to life across talent systems in a variety of industries. With experience that includes financial services, healthcare, higher education, and consumer goods, he has played influential roles to drive results while viewing human capital through the lens of its broad impact on employee well being. Best in class - His work has garnered the attention of the Wall Street Journal, Harvard University, and most importantly the employees whose lives are positively impacted. Garrick has an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences and Psychology from Bradley University, a master's degree in Counseling from Wake Forest University and resides in beautiful Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Senior - Level Coach, Trainer
Glenn T. Rupert is a senior-level coach, trainer, and facilitator with over 20 years of experience. He currently divides his time evenly between coaching, leadership facilitation, and training. His coaching engagements-with individuals and teams-tap his expertise in team dynamics and process analysis.
He is known for his ability to facilitate his clients to a deeper understanding of themselves to achieve sustainable, lasting change and create learning and training transfer back to the job in his educational and entertaining engagements.
Glenn has provided coaching for senior-level executives to address strategy, behavior, role transition, and organizational culture issues. This coaching experience spans positions from Senior Manager to C-level in a number of different industries, including professional services, manufacturing, high-tech, dot-com, pharmaceutical, and healthcare. Glenn is a coach who believes heavily in process and metrics to add value in a way that is meaningful to both the coachee and the organization. Coaching can be beneficial to both high performers and executives who are headed for a derailment path. Glenn has a record of high success with both of these types of engagements. There is an ecosystem in the organization surrounding the person being coached, and Glenn honors the confidentiality of the coachee while positively engaging the ecosystem to achieve lasting results.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Leadership Development Consultant
Gretchen Twiss is a Leadership Development Consultant who focuses on research-based techniques and solutions. She held leadership positions at Lominger International, Inc., (co-founded by Bob Eichinger and since acquired by Korn/Ferry) for 10 years helping the organization grow from servicing three countries to forty-four, including over half of the Fortune 500.
During that time, she gained expertise in all Lominger products and solutions, directed the company customer intimacy strategy and implementation, managed the internal Account Executive group and the internationally deployed implementation experts.
Recently, Gretchen has helped her clients improve leadership and human capital strategies, plan future development, and implement new customer acquisition and intimacy capabilities. In addition to her background in leadership and consulting, she has also been a successful practitioner in her roles at five organizations throughout her career.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
For over 10 years, Jessica has utilized her own leadership experience, coupled with her talents as a clinical psychologist, to uniquely evaluate cultural fit and develop talent for her clients. She has consulted in various areas with a focus on psychological assessment, talent acquisition, leadership development, executive coaching, and selection and succession planning. Jessica holds a B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Stanislaus and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of Missouri - St. Louis.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
For over 10 years, John has used proven, science-based assessment tools to guide clients through not only their selection of high-performing talent but also developing their existing talent to achieve performance goals. He has consulted in various areas, including talent acquisition assessments, executive development coaching, creating mentoring and onboarding programs, and leadership development effectiveness assessments. John received his M.A. in Psychology from Roosevelt University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
For over 25 years, Karen has been a trusted advisor to many business and HR leaders to help them acquire and develop top-tier leadership talent. She has been sought after nationally for her unique ability to identify and develop high-performing C-suite executives that give their companies a competitive edge in organizational excellence.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Owner and Partner With BettSolutions LLC
Kate Bett is the owner and partner with BettSolutions LLC a talent management and leadership development consulting practice. Kate is an organizational performance and leadership development specialist with over 25 years of both practical and consulting experience as an independent consultant, and formerly as a managing consultant with Deloitte & Touche and heading global assessment programs for Computer Sciences Corporation.
Kate works with organizations and senior management groups to create and facilitate talent management processes aimed at identifying, assessing and developing organizational leaders. She specializes in competency-based programs such as succession planning, high potential identification/assessment and development, executive coaching, 360 feedback process and facilitation, competency modeling, role profiling, and standardizing HR talent management processes and procedures.
In partnership with Bob Eichinger, Kate co-authored Lominger International's Succession Architect® program; a process for organizations to identify and develop high potential and high professional talent. In addition, she has developed and delivered a variety of programs in the areas of leadership development, high potential development, facilitating 360 feedback, coaching and interviewing/selection.
Kate has been working with Korn Ferry (formerly Lominger International's) Leadership Architect® Suite of Tools for 25 years and is certified in the entire Leadership Architect® Product Suite. Kate is also certified in MBTI and ESCI.
In addition, Kate is an Adjunct Professor at Nichols College for the Master of Organizational Leadership (MSOL) program for the College of Graduate and Professional Studies.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal at Kathryn Spinelli & Associates
Kathryn is the Principal at Kathryn Spinelli & Associates, a leadership and talent development consulting firm. A former Human Resources and Talent Management Executive in multiple industries, Kathryn has broad experience in formal corporate leadership positions. In addition, she has worked as both an internal and external consultant and coach for organizations ranging from large publically traded global organizations to mid-size privately held companies.
Katie Marshall is a presentation coach, trainer, and assessment facilitator. As a presentation coach, Katie serves clients in all communication realms, ranging from public speaking to conflict management to webinars.
She coaches from the belief that authenticity is the core of what we do. There is no perfect speaker, nor perfect leader. There is just you, operating at your most self-aware and authentic, doing your best to make the impact that you intended to make.
Katie believes deeply in doing the work that her clients do. While she makes self-development a priority, she also hones her communication and presentation skills through experience. She was a selected speaker for TEDxGreensboro 2013, a keynote speaker at PILOT International's 2016 Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada, a featured speaker at several women's leadership events and young professional events in North Carolina, and a regularly requested speaker at University career services center and entrepreneurial networking and training events. She is the TED coach for 10 unique speakers for TEDxUNCGreensboro 2019.
Prior to consulting, Katie worked for Volvo Financial Services Global Headquarters as a communication specialist, trainer, and employee network builder for five years. She served as a manager and consultant at the University Speaking Center in Greensboro, North Carolina where she coached speakers one-on-one and led workshops engaging international, non-native speakers on crafting and delivering high-quality presentations.
When she is not consulting or traveling, Katie trains in Martial Arts. She is a Black Belt level instructor in Nan Sho Budo Kempo JuJutsu.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Founder and President of HODGE
- Founder and President of HODGE & Associates, Inc
Linda Hodge is the founder and president of HODGE & Associates, Inc., a talent management consulting firm. Her company specializes in executive and leadership coaching, designing and implementing selection and development processes, succession planning, strategic planning, and developing strategies for strengthening the talent bench.
She is a certified facilitator for several instruments, including Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, MBTI, viaEDGE, Benchmarks 360 and Voices360, and has provided feedback and coaching to hundreds of managers and executives in domestic and multi-national companies.
Prior to starting her consulting practice in 1997, Linda had 20 years of business experience in manufacturing, consumer goods, electronics, and health care organizations, including three Fortune 500 companies. She also served as an adjunct faculty member for Sinclair College and Edison State College.
Linda has worked with more than 75 companies in North and South America, Europe and Asia. She works with senior management groups to create talent management systems aimed at selecting and developing future organizational leaders. She consults with operational and functional groups in the areas of leadership, high potential identification, coaching, selection, performance management, team development, and organizational development.
She is a frequent presenter at national conferences speaking about her work in the areas of selection and leadership development and is author of "Using the Career Architect to Assess and Develop Leadership Competencies," "Early Career: Focus on Firsts," and "Middle Career: The Paradox of Fit and Flexibility," published in the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. She worked with Mike Lombardo and Robert Eichinger to create tools for selecting high potential candidates: Interview Architect Express™ and Learning From Experience Interview™.
Linda Hodge is founder and president of HODGE & Associates, Inc., a talent management consulting firm. Her company specializes in executive and leadership coaching, designing and implementing selection and development processes, succession planning, strategic planning, and developing strategies for strengthening the talent bench.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Member of the Executive Team
- Associate and Chief Learning & Marketing Officer
Lisa-Marie Hanson is a Facilitator, Certifications Business Lead, TEDx Speaker-Coach, Keynote, A talent practitioner's practitioner, Assessment Delivery resource, 360 Feedback Coach (over 500 1-1 sessions strong), and more.
Lisa-Marie (LM) has been working in talent management for over 30 years and has been training top talent consultants on how to facilitate industry-recognized certifications in the talent space, much of that time. She has a robust background in all aspects of talent management, adult learning, extreme facilitation, stand-out instructional design, trainer certifications, recruiting techniques, 360 feedback coaching, executive presence consulting, and recruiting strategies. She is a professional moderator, on-camera host, online seminar facilitator - and professionally trained voice-over talent.
At Talenttelligent, LM lends her expertise as an associate/consultant and business contributor. She works to create learning systems for the intellectual property that is transferrable to the practitioners who use it through certifications and coaching. She has used the Lominger approach devotedly inside organizations as well as being a proud past Lominger team member.
Before joining Talenttelligent, Lisa-Marie was a product leader at Korn Ferry and led the global product certifications business for the last 12 years. Prior to consulting, Lisa-Marie has held vital talent management roles inside organizations; Organizational Effectiveness at The Hartford, Manager of Training and Development at General Growth Properties, and seven years with fashion retailer, Saks Fifth Avenue / New York (Corporate Headquarters) where she held positions in management, human resources, training and recruiting.
Notably, Lisa-Marie has; Run an extremely profitable Certification business, Facilitated sessions for over 12,000 HR/OD practitioners from major corporations within certification programs (she designed the course and is an expert in Lominger and KFLA competencies); Identified, positioned and developed high potential leaders within organizations (experienced in KFALP, Talking Talent, Talking Development); Created interactive leadership development designs; Delivered coaching for 360 feedback (VOICES, KF360 tools; Designed and delivered the certifications); Co-designed award-winning eLearning; and Rightsized a failing performance management system. She's a sought-after speaker and facilitator who has helped shape how organizations think about the science behind best practice talent management.
As a hobby, she taught Lamaze childbirth classes for 10 years and has attended 45 births as a birth doula. Most currently, LM volunteers as the leader of the local TED Talk speaker support team for the process of coaching invited speakers on the TEDx Minneapolis stage to convey an idea worth spreading and make every word count.
Lisa-Marie received her Master of Education (M.Ed.), Human Resource Development and Adult Learning (2011), as well as her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology (1993) from the University of Minnesota. She has earned additional test user verification by the British Psychological Society (BPS) in 2017 and professional certification in Human Resource Management from Florida International University.
You may have attended something she facilitated and remember her as one-part practitioner and one-part research nerd. She is a facilitator, certifications business lead, 360 coach, instructional designer and is especially passionate about adult learning techniques to create education that sticks. Her experience includes over 30 years in the talent space - as a product leader in a large consulting firm as well has having held vital talent management roles inside organizations within the Financial, and Fashion Retail Industries. An expert in adult learning, professional moderation, and onsite/online seminar facilitation- she brings our learning strategy and client education experience to market in a memorable, best-in-class approach - via many modalities. As a serious card sort facilitator she knows this approach can really bring about needed rich discussion and make a difference for the people within an organization. LM has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a master's degree in Human Resource Development and Adult Learning from The University of Minnesota. She resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota (but don't ask her about the weather).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
Over the past 15 years, Melanie has designed and delivered leadership development and culture change initiatives to universities, family-owned businesses, Fortune 500 and non-profit organizations in a wide range of industries. She has consulted in areas including talent acquisition assessments, selection and succession planning, executive coaching, team effectiveness, and designing innovative and customized programs for training and development. Melanie holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Missouri and a B.S. from the University of Montana.
Michelle is a consultant specializing in integrated talent management practices and change management. Michelle focuses on building comprehensive, business-focused and practical talent management systems linked to organizational strategy.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
Nicole had dedicated the last 20 years to helping clients develop effective people strategies and implement practices that enable organizations to embrace a talent mindset and realize its benefits. Her passion lies in helping executives to prepare for greater leadership responsibilities and to adapt to changing business environments. Nicole has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from St. Louis University and a B.S. in Psychology from Southern Methodist University.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- President of Good Works Consulting
Paul is President of Good Works Consulting, a consulting firm he founded in 2006. He is a member of The Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and Society of Consulting Psychologists (SCP). He also serves as adjunct faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). Prior to founding Good Works Consulting, Paul was full-time Senior Faculty at CCL from 1999-2006.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Alliance Team
Peter's real-world management experience, coupled with his psychology skills, has helped many clients achieve their organizational objectives and identify high potentials among their top talent. He has consulted across varies organizational areas including talent acquisition, executive coaching, creating mentoring and onboarding programs, and leadership development assessments. Peter holds a B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology from Washington University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from North Carolina State University.
Robert T. Sicora, EdD, creator of Leading from the Helm, brings 30+ years of experience in business and consulting to his practice. Sicora's background includes strategic human resources, organization development and process management in the pharmaceutical, technology, foods, marketing, hospitality, government and premiered industrial manufacturing industries.
Roger brings a business leader perspective having been a CEO at Leadership Performance Systems; A Partner at Matrix Insights; Co-Founder of TalentTelligent, LLC and a Board-Certified Coach.
You'll remember him most as an award-winning author (I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You, Hardwired Leadership, Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness and co-author of You), personality expert, and psychological type authority.
Roger has extensively consulted with executives and leaders in government, business, and education across the world through training programs that focus on leadership development and change management, executive team development and team performance, succession planning and talent retention, and leading through company lifecycles and culture development for financial returns. He has trained and certified more than 15,000 professionals on assessments like the MBTI, FIROB, CPI, Strong, EQ, and others.
He now offers another powerful tool for business people through his ongoing partnership with Bob Eichinger. He is passionate about enhancing individual effectiveness through appropriate assessment and development strategies.
Roger did his undergraduate studies at Wake Forest University, and holds an EdD, Organizational Development and Leadership from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
View our Virtual Brochure to see how Roger's experience has shaped our unique solutions or read Roger's most recent thought leadership articles.
Rony Rinat, Ph.D. is a Social/Organizational Psychologist with over 30 years of experience. He is the founder of Leadership Aspects, a consulting firm specializing in organization, leadership, and talent development, executive and team coaching, and change leadership.
Rony has always been fascinated by the psychology of groups and organizations and the impact they have on individuals and vice versa. He believes that the key to organizational success lies at the intersection of leadership and culture. A leader's role is to courageously envision a future, incorporate individual interests into a collective one, and create psychological safety for others to willingly and enthusiastically follow.
In his 30-year career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, most recently as its Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of Leadership and Organization Development, he enhanced employee skills and engagement; led organization development initiatives for executives, management, and staff; launched talent management, organization development, and leadership and learning development initiatives; established and implemented an organization-wide learning strategy and infrastructure; and oversaw the execution and evaluation of structured learning programs that reached all 19,000 employees.
Prior to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rony served as the Director of Management and Organization Development at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which operates the public hospitals and clinics in the city. Rony also taught in the Master of Science Program in Industrial and Labor Relations at City University of New York Baruch College.
Rony earned a Doctorate Degree at Columbia University in Social and Organization Psychology. He studied with Professor Morton Deutsch, a pioneer in social psychology, and Professor Warner Burke, one of the founders of organization development.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Founder and Principal of Positive Developments
Stephanie is the founder and Principal of Positive Developments, a consulting firm focusing on helping organizations strengthen their competitive advantage by growing and maximizing human talent. She brings significant experience in executive and organizational development. Specific areas of expertise include leadership development, leadership, and organizational assessment, executive and development coaching for individuals and teams, curriculum design and facilitation, and helping organizations transform their culture.
Tom is a 30+ year veteran of business and IT leadership. His experience includes business operations, IT deployment and large IT programs, training and communications, multi-unit management, P&L responsibility, and innovation.