Our Network of Partners
George Pohle, Senior Consultant
George has had extensive strategic and operational transformation experience in executive line roles and as a consultant to many industries on a global basis. His last project focused on developing a complete strategic redirection and operational turnaround of a global technology firm based in New Zealand. George has led numerous similar large-scale transformation efforts over the last thirteen years as a partner and practice leader at IBM Global Services, Mainspring, and Gemini Consulting. He has also supported multiple startups and not-for-profit organizations, including Project Literacy U.S., the Association for Management Consulting Firms, and the African Medical and Research Foundation (Flying Doctors). George has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and other publications, as well as on live television and radio.
Vicky Keith, Senior Consultant
For over twenty-five years, Vicky has consulted with large corporations in the areas of complex organizational change and strategy implementation. She specializes in getting groups of powerful people to come to conclusions that they will stand behind. Vicky is formerly the director in Boston University School of Management’s Executive Programs. Before entering the consulting field, she was on the faculty of the University of Missouri, the University of Maine, and the University of Maryland Extension in Japan.
Lawrence Epps, Jr., Senior Consultant
Lawrence Epps, Jr., is a former IBM executive with over thirty years of global experience in the IT industry and over fifteen years of executive consulting experience in the areas of leadership and organizational development, human capital management, and client satisfaction management. During his tenure at IBM, Lawrence provided executive coaching and consulting services to IBM’s senior executive team. Lawrence led the delivery of over twenty-five large-scale change engagements that touched virtually all of IBM’s worldwide functional disciplines and contributed to the accelerated execution of several of the company’s key transformational initiatives.
Tony Gallo, Senior Consultant
For over thirty years, Tony has been helping senior decision makers and their teams navigate organizational transitions. He has worked with late-stage start-ups to help them transition from the tactical start-up mentality and structure to a more strategic “we’re in it for the long run” mentality, including helping to formulate workable strategic, organizational, and cultural change. At the other end of the spectrum, Tony has worked with large global multi-nationals to help them assess where there is misalignment between organizational structure, processes, and business strategy; identify how best to correct for that misalignment; “sell” the proposed changes into senior leadership and the board; and partner with internal action teams to implement the changes.
Kathryn Rafter, Senior Consultant
Kathryn Rafter is valuable resource for organizations with a mandate to accelerate sizeable transformation. She is known for providing the practical framework, tools, coaching, and support to drive change in a way that instills coinfidence and builds lasting capabilities. Kathryn has helped executives and their teams to change a culture, accelerate new strategies, embrace innovation, and solve complex execution hurdles. For twenty-five years, she has worked side by side with clients of all sizes and complexities to deliver rapid results,.
Molly Alexander, Senior Consultant
An organizational change management and talent development expert, Molly focuses on enabling purpose-driven individuals, teams, and organizations align culture and actions with their values and aspirations to create outsized impact, often in resource-constrained environments. Molly’s track record spans innovative design, execution, and facilitation of immersive learning experiences and targeted content development to improve organization effectiveness and leadership change capacity and alignment.
John Griffin, Senior Consultant
Dr. John Griffin has been a trusted global expert for thirty years, and his work has taken him to over forty-five countries to work with his clients on vital global issues in need of systemic change. He has worked with Wall Street and Fortune 500 CEOs, United Nations officials, civil servants, senior government officials, ministers and ambassadors, and citizens of various cultures. John served as an organizational effectiveness and strategy advisor to a major global transformation process for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group. He facilitated an organization wide change process to align technical assistance (TA) and investment operations.
Nicki Roth, Senior Consultant
Nicki brings the full force of her network and experiences as a psychologist, consultant, and executive to her dedication to transform leaders and organizations. Her work weaves together the mosaic of human behavior, organizational effectiveness, and leadership development to unleash the highest potential for individuals, teams, and organizations. With extensive experience in psychology, change, organizational cultures, and executive leadership, Nicki offers a unique and real world perspective to her clients.
Sylvana Rochet, Senior Consultant
Sylvana lives to fire up human potential. As a consultant and coach, she guides individuals and organizations to cultivate sustainability and success in the face of transition using a versatile set of human-centered tools. Sylvana has spent the past ten-plus years of her career harnessing her unique global perspective to build teams, consult on management and leadership development, and manage international projects. Trained by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching, she takes a new approach to old problems, helping executives and social innovators develop and implement strategies for effective communication, resource optimization, and leveraging individual strengths and passions to create collective value. Developing holistic intelligence is at the heart of her work.
Jeff Slater, Senior Consultant
Jeff has thirty-two years of corporate and consulting experience in human resources. He has held top HR roles in several globally recognized companies based in the US and overseas. His more than fifteen years of consulting engagements has allowed him to work and learn across a broad range of industries, including consumer goods, high technology, distribution, restaurants, financial services, retail, and IT consulting. His HR practice areas have focused on strategy; culture; governance; talent development and leadership; HR–IT strategy and implementation; HR analytics; rewards; executive and incentive compensation; general compensation; and benefits.
Kathleen Yazbak, Senior Consultant
Kathleen brings more than twenty years' experience building the talent strategies of high-impact philanthropies and social sector organizations, as well as mission-driven corporations. She founded Viewcrest Advisors to bring best-in-class executive search practices to a select number of clients seeking a highly personal approach to searching for diverse CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and other senior leaders. Bilingual, and a dual French and American national, Kathleen has co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review and has been widely quoted on leadership- and diversity-related topics in Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, the New York Times, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Julia L. Ritchie, Senior Consultant
Julia is a superior process facilitator who has been facilitating strategy development and organizational change initiatives for boards of trustees and executive management teams for over twenty years. She brings a unique blend of organizational development and training expertise to consult on a number of workplace-related issues with particular specialization in the following areas: Strategic Planning and Facilitation, Assessment and Program Design, Professional Development Training, and Executive Coaching. Julia has spearheaded strategic planning processes in four continents for a broad range of mission-driven enterprises, including: international nongovernmental organizations, philanthropic organizations, social enterprises, as well as federal and state public institutions. She has established a reputation for effectively managing group processes to promote dialogue, bridge agendas, build consensus, while successfully meeting project objectives.
Luciano Sappia, Senior Consultant
A seasoned business advisor to organizations of all sizes, Luciano specializes in assisting mission-driven organizations develop co-creative cultures that foster innovation while maintaining a balanced triple-bottom line. Luciano is a professor of business and entrepreneurship in the Massachusetts higher education system, where he focuses on the development of the entrepreneurial mindset in the student body and in the community. He is also a former entrepreneur and senior business advisor for the Massachusetts Small Business Development Network. Luciano is a native of Argentina and is proficient in both English and Spanish, and has a command of conversational Portuguese.
Briana Lichter, Senior Consultant
Briana brings to her clients more than twenty years of strategic, forward-thinking corporate finance experience. She has developed this expertise through a diverse finance career, from leading finance organizations across public Fortune 1000 organizations to advising companies in many vertical industries to being CFO of several small businesses. She is passionate about helping organizations of any size better understand how their money is working to support their strategic and operational goals, and developing comprehensive, but flexible, forecasting systems in further service of that objective.
