DYNAMIC SOLUTIONS - Key Persons

Jan Maples is committed to leadership development/training programs and Human Resources consulting that teach people to accomplish unprecedented results, communicate powerfully and produce healthy, working relationships among staff and with clients. Combining 15 years of working inside industry with her consulting experience and a BA in Organizational Communication, Jan brings a remarkably realistic perspective to how we can lead with civility, respect and compassion to build organizations that we genuinely want to inhabit. She is passionate about working closely with growing organizations to create high performance teams and cultures. Her clients include high tech start-up operations in semiconductor technology, biotechnology, manufacturing, and design/build construction, to name a few. Jan launched her Human Resources career in Silicon Valley, and, after six years working with Memorex Corporation, a large, international leader in the disk drive industry, she moved to southern California, where she played a key role in growing two dynamic technology-based companies. One of those companies, a semiconductor start-up which has since gone public, she joined as the ninth employee, growing it to over 200 employees before she moved to New Mexico. In 1993 she formed The Connecting Point, whose mission is The Alignment of People, Purpose and Environment. A graduate of the University of New Mexico, Jan has 20+ years of experience in the fields of Human Resources and Training. She facilitates the nationwide hiring of world class teams of executives, senior management, engineers and scientists. In addition, she provides consulting in the areas of Employment, Compensation, Benefits, Employee Relations, Performance Appraisal Systems, and Employee Handbooks. Internationally, she has taught project management and facilitated project teams for a Fortune 50 client. A trained mediator in both the court and corporate arenas, Jan also serves as a facilitator of Board/management retreats, an executive coach, and as a public speaker.

Leon Spackman focuses on helping clients improve their processes and expertise in project management. He has been a program manager, project manager, quality improvement specialist and consultant for government and commercial companies for 20 years. Leon has established and run a Project Management Office for Lovelace Health Care and for TriCore Reference Laboratories, establishing standard practices across all project managers and business analysts. He played a major role in establishing projects to support the strategic development of his clients, analyzing workload, schedule, and employee expertise to ensure projects could be completed on time and on budget. He has also facilitated strategic management sessions with senior executives for multiple commercial and government agencies. He has worked with the US Army Corps of Engineers to improve and standardize their project management processes establishing documented standard operating procedures to increase efficiency and reduce waste in the system. He directed managed the government inventory for completing several projects to build sections of the border fence, working with contractors and government agents. Leon has also worked in the healthcare business running projects to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and better serve the patients using the medical systems. Leon has two master's degrees - one in Logistics Management and the second in Quality Systems Management. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He has served as the chair on local professional boards for PMI, ASQ, and the Albuquerque Quality Network. He was a state Baldrige examiner for three years and served as a national Baldrige examiner for one year.

Job Titles:

• President
• Leader for the American Management Association

Susan holds an MBA in Management and Organization Behavior from the University of Colorado and a B.S. in both Industrial Relations and Decision Science & Computers from Rider University. In addition, she holds the PMP designation (Project Management Professional) from the Project Management Institute, and is a member of the local PMI, ATD (Association of Talen Development), and ICF (International Coaching Federation) chapters. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.