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Karen M. Pierce

Karen Pierce is an accomplished business leader and a highly sought-after trusted advisor and organizational transformation expert. Karen is passionate about guiding C-suite leaders and high-performance business owners to streamline their talent strategy and grow their leaders and their businesses exponentially.

With 20 years of global corporate experience and 16 years of consulting and coaching, from start-ups to global enterprises such as Google, Nvidia, and Danfoss, Karen leverages her deep understanding of human nature and culture, to skyrocket top and bottom-line success.

Karen’s approach to Leadership Performance and Employee Engagement is based on her belief that "Humans are the Heartbeat of Business." Her framework encompasses the entire corporate experience, creating success for employees, stakeholders, and customers. Karen's coaching processes have dramatically increased employee engagement, reduced turnover, and transformed company culture, yielding equally dramatic productivity and profits.

In addition, her background in Aerospace Engineering provides her with a strong foundation in technology and problem-solving skills for such demanding industries as aviation, technology, and manufacturing.

The result? Exponential growth. A positive, winning company culture. Highly effective leaders.

Jeannie Duncan, PhD

Jeannie works with brilliant leaders to make a big difference in the world.

A graduate of Fielding Graduate University’s Evidence Based Coaching Program and certified in group coaching, Jeannie also has three Master’s degrees in Educational Administration, Human Resources Management and Development, and Organizational Development―and her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems.

Jeannie has 25 years of corporate executive experience in talent management and organizational development roles across the U.S., Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America.

She is passionate about helping technical experts who become organizational leaders align their quest for excellence with the talents and well-being of their teams and organizations.

With her support, leaders have shifted organizational cultures to strengthen engagement and contribution at all levels, and re-engineered talent management processes resulting in increased productivity and unparalleled employee and community loyalty.

She now serves the top executives who need her most, across a broad range of industries from retail to mining and manufacturing, to create successful, healthy, mutually rewarding and thriving workplaces everywhere.

Tom Pierce

Tom works with senior leadership teams to align and transform their organizations, make better decisions, execute their strategy, improve accountability, and scale their businesses by doing the right work, in the right order, at the right time!

He has lived and worked on six continents, leading and growing global businesses to deliver results in culturally diverse organizations, including a business in a Fortune 75. He provides companies with critical insights and connects them to their desire for business success through a unique and creative methodology. 

Tom was brought in to turn around a failing division of a large international company.  This division lacked a market-centric strategy, its staff was demoralized through yearly leadership transitions, and it struggled with an ineffective management operating system. Tom installed a growth strategy, built a robust management operating system, and rebuilt the culture within two years.  Business performance dramatically improved, and employee and executive leadership confidence was restored.

His leadership experience spans high-growth startups to running a business unit for a Fortune 75. Tom has worked with organizations worldwide: US, Europe, India, China, Asia, and South America. His ability to strategically unify leaders and their people is fueled by his dedication to creating a culture of leadership alignment, decision making, and accountability to drive results and long-term growth and success.

Scott Knutson

Scott has been in the employee and organizational development field for over 25 years. He has worked with multiple national and multinational organizations in the U.S. and abroad, including Seagate Technologies, Freeport-McMoRan, Inc., CEA Study Abroad, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Climax Molybdenum, Sociedad Minerales Cerro Verde, and Carvana. For the last 10 years, he worked specifically in leadership and organizational development, working with individual leaders and teams to improve performance. Scott is certified in the LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) methodology, and has used LSP to coach leaders, as well as helping dyads and teams improve communication, productivity, and engagement.

Scott has an MBA with an emphasis in management and is currently working on his dissertation that focuses on servant leadership. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and is a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD). In addition to his passion for helping others improve, he has a passion for working with non-profits. He has served on several non-profit boards, and currently serves as the past president of Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun (RTVOS).

Joe Mitchell

Joe Mitchell is an Executive with experience managing emerging technologies and mature market organizations. His expertise lies in challenging the status quo to steer innovative, multimillion-dollar global operational and commercial strategies that build profitable ventures from the ground up and revitalize mature businesses into more competitive enterprises.

His knowledge and success in implementing effective Management Operating Systems in multiple organizations have improved business and financial processes, discipline, and governance to drive growth and improve competitive position, profitability, and value.

Joe has international experience at a C-suite level with an emphasis on Operational Excellence. This includes Product Development, Business Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Governance with a focus on smaller new technology companies. In addition, Joe has an MBA from Vanderbilt University, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt and certified ISO 9001 Lead Auditor. With a deep understanding of critical topics, Joe brings a valuable perspective to the table that shapes organizations and industries, which continuously helps organizations optimize their operations and achieve sustainable success.

Cyndi Laurin, PhD

Cyndi (Crother) Laurin, PhD is a Business Advisor/Coach with 25+ years of experience specializing in business operations, leadership, employee engagement, and continuous improvement. She is an award-winning business author and speaker. She is MIND Methodology™ Certified and Certified LEGO® Serious Play Facilitator with a passion for people and performance improvement solutions to advance organizational value and effectiveness.

Cyndi's latest book, BE A FRONTLINE H.E.R.O. provides tools and language to immediately manage others more effectively. She also authored the bestselling CATCH! A FISHMONGER'S GUIDE TO GREATNESS after spending one year working alongside the World-Famous Pike Place Fishmongers in Seattle and THE RUDOLPH FACTOR: FINDING THE BRIGHT LIGHTS THAT DRIVE INNOVATION IN YOUR BUSINESS, detailing the phenomenal cultural transformation of The Boeing Company's C-17 Program in Long Beach, California.

Steve Buchanan

Steve is an experienced business and leadership consultant. He works with business leaders and business owners to accelerate business growth through alignment, focus and execution.

Spending over 30 years with State Farm Insurance, a Fortune 50 organization, Steve held various operational and leadership positions. Over his career, he successfully led organizational improvement, change management and leadership succession efforts.

To Steve, coaching businesses is like solving fascinating and unique puzzles. He thrives on learning the ins and outs of each individual organization he consults with, as well as building value-based relationships with leaders and teams. All organizations are so different, and whether he’s working with a nonprofit, a corporation, a small business, or a professional practice, he’s been honored to continually be trusted as an advisor who delivers measurable results.

Aligning people with clear goals and providing the pathway to individual and organizational success have always been Steve’s focus.

Karen M. Pierce

Karen Pierce is an accomplished business leader and a highly sought-after trusted advisor and organizational transformation expert. Karen is passionate about guiding C-suite leaders and high-performance business owners to streamline their talent strategy and grow their leaders and their businesses exponentially.

The result? Exponential growth. A positive, winning company culture. Highly effective leaders.

Jeannie Duncan, PhD

Jeannie works with brilliant leaders to make a big difference in the world.

A graduate of Fielding Graduate University’s Evidence Based Coaching Program and certified in group coaching, Jeannie also has three Master’s degrees in Educational Administration, Human Resources Management and Development, and Organizational Development―and her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems.

Jeannie has 25 years of corporate executive experience in talent management and organizational development roles across the U.S., Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America.

She is passionate about helping technical experts who become organizational leaders align their quest for excellence with the talents and well-being of their teams and organizations.

With her support, leaders have shifted organizational cultures to strengthen engagement and contribution at all levels, and re-engineered talent management processes resulting in increased productivity and unparalleled employee and community loyalty.

She now serves the top executives who need her most, across a broad range of industries from retail to mining and manufacturing, to create successful, healthy, mutually rewarding and thriving workplaces everywhere.

Tom Pierce

Tom works with senior leadership teams to align and transform their organizations, make better decisions, execute their strategy, improve accountability, and scale their businesses by doing the right work, in the right order, at the right time!

Scott Knutson

Scott has been in the employee and organizational development field for over 25 years. He has worked with multiple national and multinational organizations in the U.S. and abroad, including Seagate Technologies, Freeport-McMoRan, Inc., CEA Study Abroad, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Climax Molybdenum, Sociedad Minerales Cerro Verde, and Carvana. For the last 10 years, he worked specifically in leadership and organizational development, working with individual leaders and teams to improve performance. Scott is certified in the LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) methodology, and has used LSP to coach leaders, as well as helping dyads and teams improve communication, productivity, and engagement.

Scott has an MBA with an emphasis in management and is currently working on his dissertation that focuses on servant leadership. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and is a Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD). In addition to his passion for helping others improve, he has a passion for working with non-profits. He has served on several non-profit boards, and currently serves as the past president of Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun (RTVOS).

Joe Mitchell

Joe Mitchell is an Executive with experience managing emerging technologies and mature market organizations. His expertise lies in challenging the status quo to steer innovative, multimillion-dollar global operational and commercial strategies that build profitable ventures from the ground up and revitalize mature businesses into more competitive enterprises.

Cyndi Laurin, PhD

Cyndi (Crother) Laurin, PhD is a Business Advisor/Coach with 25+ years of experience specializing in business operations, leadership, employee engagement, and continuous improvement. She is an award-winning business author and speaker. She is MIND Methodology™ Certified and Certified LEGO® Serious Play Facilitator with a passion for people and performance improvement solutions to advance organizational value and effectiveness.

Steve Buchanan

Steve is an experienced business and leadership consultant. He works with business leaders and business owners to accelerate business growth through alignment, focus and execution.

Spending over 30 years with State Farm Insurance, a Fortune 50 organization, Steve held various operational and leadership positions. Over his career, he successfully led organizational improvement, change management and leadership succession efforts.

To Steve, coaching businesses is like solving fascinating and unique puzzles. He thrives on learning the ins and outs of each individual organization he consults with, as well as building value-based relationships with leaders and teams. All organizations are so different, and whether he’s working with a nonprofit, a corporation, a small business, or a professional practice, he’s been honored to continually be trusted as an advisor who delivers measurable results.

Aligning people with clear goals and providing the pathway to individual and organizational success have always been Steve’s focus.

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