Kenya Rutland
Principal and Chief Enthusiasm Officer

Kenya is a passionate and trustworthy consultant who increases the confidence, motivation, and performance of others. He is a persuasive facilitative leader who uses his keen business acumen to build commitment and accountability among staff at all levels of any organization. Kenya has more than 20 years of experience delivering results-oriented consulting and facilitation to a diverse client portfolio.

Kim DeMur
VP of Strategy & Administration

With 15 years of experience in operations and administration, Kim brings deep expertise in streamlining processes, managing complex projects, and supporting organizational efficiency. Known for a detail-oriented and solutions-focused approach, Kim has successfully led initiatives that improve systems, optimize resources, and enhance team productivity.

Heidi Hanson
VP of Client Engagements

Heidi is a seasoned learning and change leader who helps organizations build high-performing leaders, teams, and inclusive workplace cultures. With over 25 years of experience, she designs dynamic learning experiences and partners with clients across sectors to align people, processes, and strategy for lasting impact. Certified in multiple tools and methodologies, she brings a thoughtful, customized approach to every engagement.

Christine Rose
Operations Administrator

With an impressive track record of two decades in the field, Christine brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our operations team. Throughout her career with industry leaders such as Liberty Mutual Ins. and Edward Jones Financial, her experience has equipped her with a deep understanding of operation intricacies and a strong client-centric focused approach. Please join us in welcoming Christine to the team. We are excited to have her onboard and are confident that her contributions will be instrumental in our continued growth and success.

Anne Grieves
Senior Training Partner

Anne Grieves is a Gallup certified CliftonStrengths coach / team-building facilitator. With a professional background in career coaching, Anne has the ability to guide individuals, groups, and teams to identify and achieve their career goals. Her unique approach provides people with the tools and insights they need to experience a paradigm shift in how to explore new possibilities.

Amnat Chittaphong
Consulting Partner

Amnat Chittaphong is a movement builder, diversity & inclusion educator, social justice consultant, and community activist. With over 25 years of accomplished leadership, Amnat has honed his expertise as a diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging (DEIAB) strategist. A proven leader in culture transformation and enterprise-wide DEIAB initiatives, Amnat is a highly sought-after C-Suite executive coach and inclusive leadership trainer and social justice and mission integration consultant.

Christa Whitten
Consulting Partner

Christa Whitten has been delivering dynamic, interactive team development programs, trainings and events for organizations for almost 20 years. Her focus is on creating impactful, results-oriented experiences through experiential learning and thoughtful conversations. Christa is a certified practitioner of the MBTI, both FIRO-B & FIRO-Business assessments, Dialogue Education, and is an adjunct professor of Adventure Education at NWCC.

Danni Pruitt
Consulting Partner

Danni is a modern leadership development professional who specializes in all aspects of the L&D eco space. She is a diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity champion who is committed to creating communities where differences are recognized, valued, and leveraged for the good of individuals, teams, and organizations. She is passionate about sparking positive change through creating continuous learning communities.

David Rowell
Consulting Partner

David is a speaker, facilitator, instructor, consultant, and published author who believes that working relationships based on authenticity, and open engagement are cornerstone to both individual and organizational achievement. Prior to private consulting, David enjoyed a storied career with the US federal government, where he taught diversity, leadership, and team building. He has also worked closely with a U.N. organization developing international gender policy and gender programs.

Ela Mesa
Consulting Partner

Ela is a speaker, trainer, and performer with a passion for igniting others to take inspired action. She is committed to serving as a resource for productive results-driven communities, promoting diversity, and creating social change. She has led various initiatives focusing on elevating workplace culture, raising consciousness, and building pathways. communities.

Fabian DeRozario
Senior Consulting Partner

Fabian J. DeRozario is a master facilitator and consultant with more than 20 years of experience spanning across higher education institutions, associations, and private industries. His presentation style is interactive, engaging, and focused on enhancing personal skills that contribute to creating world-class organizations. Fabian has international experience working with several industries in the U.S., U.K., and China.

Jason Asher
Consulting Partner

For over 2 decades, Jason has been partnering with executives, managers and teams in the areas of leadership, communication and performance management. He is a consultant, trainer and facilitator with a strong passion for coaching. In his various roles, Jason focuses on empowering his clients to maximize their potential, lead authentically and create a supportive culture of respect, empathy and accountability. He is an AMA-certified Myers-Briggs trainer.

Kathy Wilson
Senior Consulting Partner

Kathy is a speaker, author, coach and Change Strategist who challenges her clients to step outside of their comfort zones and reach their highest potential. A former collegiate and professional basketball player and coach, Kathy shares her unique combination of on-court experience and off-court knowledge to transform the way people lead change in their personal and workplace environments.

Katy Mayo
Senior Technical Training Partner

For over 25 years, Katy Mayo has provided software training to clients nationwide. As a trainer, Katy combines technical and subject matter expertise to provide comprehensive training on some of the most current, cutting-edge software used in the workplace. Katy relies on a hands-on approach that ensures participants develop the software skills they need to perform their jobs more effectively.  Katy is a Microsoft Office User Training Specialist and Certified Virtual Trainer.

Kenn Roberts
Senior Consulting Partner

With more than three decades in both corporate America and the US military, Kenn has developed a deep understanding of team development and an extensive expertise in advising leaders on how to leverage human resources. He has held critical HR roles during major business mergers and acquisitions and has coached leaders on how to assess and strengthen their skills at eliciting peak performance from team members.

Kinita Schripsema
Consulting Partner

Kinita is a GALLUP Global Certified Strengths Coach, published author, and international speaker with extensive expertise in Leadership Development and Cultural Education. She believes that fostering unity while celebrating diversity is essential to building healthy relationships. With over 48 years of cross-cultural experience spanning India, Canada, and the USA, Kinita brings a deep, lived understanding of diverse perspectives to her work.

Laura Hurlbirt-Brault
Consulting Partner

Laura has a passion for mission driven organizations that impact the communities in which we work and live. She believes that bringing out the best in the individual paves the way for businesses to realize greater growth and overall success. Laura has over 15 years of experience in organizational learning and development, human resources, communications, and executive leadership. She holds Master’s Degree in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology, and is a Board Certified Holistic Health Coach..

Nancy J. Lewis
Senior Consulting Partner

Nancy J. Lewis has over 30 years as an inspirational keynote speaker, trainer, author, and corporate coach. She works with organizations develop their people potential and helps executives and managers transform and enhance their careers. She conducts dynamic keynotes and seminars on diversity and inclusion, leadership, human resources and personal development. Her presentations are energizing, interactive, and content-rich learning experiences.

Roosevelt Smith
Consulting Partner
Roosevelt has twenty-five years of rich and extensive experience leading organizations and providing consulting services and training. As a consultant, Roosevelt believes in partnership, meeting people and organizations where they are and facilitating processes that surface possibilities while leveraging existing strengths.

Stephanie Sibille
Consulting Partner

Stephanie has almost ten years of experience leading and supporting large group events, designing and delivering experiential programming, and workshop development and facilitation. She is well-versed in an extensive library of team development programs, as well as the DiSC behavior assessment tool and Belbin Team Roles Inventory. Stephanie is bilingual and has rich international experience.

Steve Ockerbloom
Senior Consulting Partner

Steve has spent the past eighteen years delivering impactful workshops on the topics of leadership, individual, and team development. Steve is an expert in delivering 360-degree feedback tools and assessments such as Myers-Briggs, DISC, and Belbin Team Roles. What truly sets Steve’s workshops apart is his ability to use experiential activities to bring all of these topics to life for his participants.

Tara Flippo
Consulting Partner

Tara has over 25 years experience designing and delivering effective workforce development programs, advancing culture-building initiatives and facilitating high-impact interactive workshops using industry best practices in-person and online. Tara has held multiple management roles for the leading experiential training centers. One of Tara’s professional highlights was the publication of her first book – Social Emotional Learning in Action: Experiential Activities to Positively Impact School Climate.

Vanessa Spatafora
Consulting Partner

Vanessa Spatafora, is an organizational Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB) partner for business and HR leaders. With over a decade of DEIB Leadership experience across Professional Services, Big Law, Start-up/New Tech, and Big Technology industries, Vanessa combines deep subject matter expertise with practical systemic disruption strategies. Through engaging experiences, Vanessa helps teams to build critical inclusion capabilities and explore new solutions for equitable employee experiences.

Xavier Russell
Consulting Partner

Xavier has over ten years of broad-based experience in resource development, corporate and community engagement, project management and grassroots community development. He has a “passion for people” and has dedicated much of his career to connecting individuals and communities with resources and improving systems and programs that help create sustainable community development.

Tiffany Olson
Consulting Partner

For the last decade, Tiffany has helped corporate clients hone their communication skills through workshops and one-on-one coaching. She loves the work she gets to do and the impact it can make: building stronger teams, equipping managers to navigate difficult conversations, helping individuals gain confidence, and more. She frequently receives feedback that her training is not only fun and enjoyable, but also provides practical tools that attendees can immediately put into practice.

Katara Aleem-Young
Consulting Partner

Katara is a disruptor reimagining the future of work and putting it into action. She is an experienced Change Leader with over 12 years of cross-industry experience in digital transformation, organizational readiness, org design, and business process improvement. Her expertise in leadership development, team performance coaching and industrial organizational psychology uniquely positions her to dive deep with leaders to unlock barriers for growth and create breakthroughs for teams.

Jeff Flowers
Consulting Partner

Jeff is a passionate learning consultant with nearly two decades of experience designing and facilitating innovative learning solutions across corporate, non-profit, and educational sectors. Drawing from his diverse background as an actor, director, executive coach, mediator, and experiential educator, Jeff creates dynamic, active-learning experiences that help clients unlock authentic, impactful leadership skills. Known for his deep curiosity, he actively listens to understand the universal challenges people face in leading, influencing, and motivating their teams, collaborating with them to develop strategies and techniques for overcoming these obstacles. Jeff’s career began with using theater and social justice training to empower marginalized communities to lead positive change, an experience that taught him the power of facilitation and the value of fostering open, honest, and trustworthy learning environments for transformation.

Mariana Serrano
Consulting Partner

Mariana is a dedicated public health practitioner and the visionary Founder of The Cadence of Social Impact, a pioneering social enterprise focused on empowering communities by building resources and supporting community-led initiatives. With a deep commitment to advancing health equity and driving transformative leadership, Mariana has devoted years to working with communities, non-profits, healthcare institutions, and academia as a educator/facilitator, program director and consultant. Her work centers on advocating for social justice through innovative research, health and community programming, and social impact development. As a seasoned consultant, Mariana is instrumental in supporting the creation of inclusive environments within communities, where belonging and equity are central. Describing herself as a perpetual learner, Mariana embodies leadership qualities defined by liberation, authenticity, integrity, and curiosity. Her commitment and dedication to promoting health equity and social justice guides every aspect of her work, driving her mission to create meaningful and lasting change in the public health landscape.

Tabitha May-Tolub
Consulting Partner

Tabithais a dynamic leader in training and leadership development, known for her ability to align teams, foster growth, and empower collaboration. With over two decades of experience, she has cultivated a reputation as a trusted advisor and change-maker, creating cohesive learning environments where individuals and organizations thrive. Based in Easton, MA, Tabitha has held key roles, including National Director of Training at Multiplying Good and Founder of Roots & Wings Training and Consultation, where she transformed training programs, strengthened partnerships, and drove fiscal growth. Grounded in psychology and human behavior, with a B.A. from Clark University and graduate studies in Marriage and Family Therapy, Tabitha brings strategic insight and authentic engagement to inspire sustainable success and positive organizational impact.

Alana Lerch
Consulting Partner

Alana is a Career, Leadership Development, and Organizational Health Coach. She has 20+ years of experience in HR and Change Management Leadership at renowned organizations like Washington University and Bayer Crop Science. She’s successfully guided teams and individuals through transformative journeys to achieve career and organizational success.

Christian Shaboo
Consulting Partner

Christian believes lasting impact starts with strong relationships. With over 15 years of experience across the nonprofit, education, and social impact sectors, he has led strategic initiatives with organizations like The Obama Foundation, The YMCA, and Design for America. As a skilled facilitator, he brings curiosity, deep listening, and a commitment to helping people feel seen, heard, and ready to act.

Elizabeth Bashir
Consulting Partner

Elizabeth creates spaces for authentic dialogue and reflection that help individuals and teams grow, collaborate, and spark meaningful change. With over a decade of experience in leadership development, coaching, and organizational health, she designs engaging experiences that strengthen culture, deepen connections, and drive sustainable success. Her work is rooted in the belief that strong relationships and inclusive environments are key to lasting impact.

Sadie Rosethorn
Consulting Partner

Sadie is a dynamic organizational development consultant, trainer, and executive coach with proven expertise in transforming leaders and teams to higher levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and success. She is a reative and strategic thinker with a passion for solving tough business challenges.

Samantha Miller
Consulting Partner

Samantha has spent over 20 years designing and leading programs that improve educational outcomes for students in under-resourced communities, with deep experience supporting both direct service and leadership development. Her work spans instructional coaching, curriculum implementation, organizational capacity building, and cross-sector collaboration to better serve young people facing barriers to education and employment.