NOTRE INTERNATIONALE - Key Persons
Carson Johns is a consultant for Notre Internationale and has over 15 years of experience in leadership development, training, and coaching. Carson is an expert in the dynamics of human interactions. He excels in identifying and drawing out individuals' and teams' unique talents and strengths. Learn more about Carson's work by visiting St. Charles Consulting Group.
Chelsea Spencer Smith brings to Notre more than 20 years of executive sales and business development experience across various market sectors. Her extensive healthcare market and pharmaceutical sales background offer Notre Internationale's clients a unique leadership, DEI, self-awareness, and team development perspective. Chelsea is also the founder of the St. James Xavier Group.
Chloe advises senior and emerging leaders on a broad range of topics, including leadership effectiveness, high-performance team development, interpersonal communication, executive presence, and cross-cultural collaboration. Chloe also provides leadership and career coaching as an adjunct leadership and career coach to MBA and EMBA students and alumni at Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley.
Chloe brings two decades of experience in leadership and talent development, strategic change and communication, and organizational development to her clients. In her coaching work with senior leaders, Chloe creates a non-judgmental environment that provides leaders unique opportunities to critically reflect on their challenges, gain perspectives and move to tangible actions.
In her facilitation work, Chloe is warm, engaging, and inclusive. She encourages conversational dialogue among participants and is skilled in designing learning experiences that are impactful and memorable. Chloe has coached, designed, and facilitated programs for clients including Deutsche Bank, Deloitte, KPMG, Dropbox, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Consultant
- Well - Being Leadership Coach
Coach Myra Capri is a Well-being Leadership Coach.
A champion for women owning and embracing their power within, Coach Myra Capri helps ambitious female leaders to unlock their divine design, enabling them to lead more effectively through the holistic development of personal brand strategy, executive presence, and overall well-being.
With a mastery of story, its construction, and presentation, Dennis serves authors, corporations, and startups from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Called America's #1 ghostwriter, his seminars on story engineering are legendary. High-profile books, from business to law, self-help to autobiography have all been successfully placed in his hands to ghostwrite for thought leaders around the globe. Dennis is the founder of Book Ambition, Inc.
As Head of Research Operations for Notre Internationale, the Self-Awareness Company, Heather McLeod works alongside founder Tia Buckham-White, curating and delivering transformative client experiences. She leads TeamNotre, a curated ecosystem of internal and partnered professionals and consultants, in providing unique solutions to businesses of all sizes across various industries, including several Fortune 500 companies.
TeamNotre's facilitated conversations and high-touch activities emphasize the power of self-understanding and the promise of self-aware relationships. Together with Notre Founder Tia Buckham-White, Heather consults with leaders and illuminates how self-awareness informs diversity, corporate culture and engagement, customer service, leadership development, and change management.
Innovatively leading results-driven initiatives for Notre's clients, Heather applies her expertise of more than 22 years to maximize resources and secure strategic capital imperatives. Her skills in project management, strategic planning, professional corporate sales, and talent development enhance the impact and execution of Notre's core mission. Heather's most reputable work entails her ability to optimize TeamNotre operations by fully processing and coordinating research efforts, building and maintaining partnerships relations, and overseeing company-wide objectives.
Her personable approach and magnetic energy equip her to support, nurture and evolve Notre's existing and future success as a top-performing competitor in the Human Experience Management (HXM) consulting space.
Heather plays a pivotal role in creating a genuinely connected client and partner experience by engaging TeamNotre and working collaboratively with clients and champions. She is a crucial contributor in helping clients journey toward self- and intercultural understanding through her work in operational leadership. Ultimately, Heather is committed to serving and assisting businesses to advance to their following the desired phase by building and fostering strategic business relationships and executing customer experience projects.
Kathy has built a storied career as a high-performance coach, keynote speaker, and skilled program facilitator in the legal profession for several decades. She practiced and taught law school, is a pioneer of attorney development for large firms, and led the training team at the first law firm Chief Learning Officer Magazine named an Elite Learning Organization. Kathy advises legal professionals, from law students to senior attorneys, executive directors, managing partners, and business executives in the legal, finance, marketing, and client service industries. Named the Best Member Leader of the Women Coaches Group on the Forbes Coaches Council, she now serves as the Council's Member Leader Emerita. Kathy always brings her depth of knowledge, persistent innovation, pleasantly infectious personality, and engaging enthusiasm to her work, enhancing inclusive leadership and organizational learning. Kathy founded Under Advisement, Ltd.
Job Titles:
- Government Practice Leader
Kelly Richards is the Government Practice Leader at Notre Internationale and leads our growing Government Solutions team. She is responsible for bringing Notre's unique brand of HXM and DEI consulting, leadership development, executive coaching, and team building to Federal, State, and Local Government agencies by applying her career of 20 years working for the State of Illinois. Kelly brings to Notre an extensive background in supporting government entities through training, policy implementation, and leadership development.
A 20-year veteran of the State of Illinois, Kelly Richards has dedicated much of her professional career to improving the lives of underserved, disconnected and disenfranchised Illinoisans. Kelly worked for the Department of Human Services from 1999 to 2018. At the Department of Human Services, she worked for Family Community Services from 1999 to 2016. She served as an Assistant Local Office Administrator at the South Suburban Family Community Resources Center. Kelly was the Local Office Administrator at the Lower North, Woodlawn and South Suburban Family Community Resource Centers. She then became the Regional Administrator of eight Family Community Resource Centers on the South Side of Chicago and South Suburbs.
From 2016 to 2018, Kelly worked for the Department of Developmental Disabilities as the Center Director for the Elisabeth Ludeman Center. The Ludeman Center is a residential facility for Intellectually/Developmentally Disabled Individuals. In 2018, she came to the Department on Aging and served as the Illinois Deputy State Long Term Care Ombudsman.
In May of 2019, Kelly was appointed as the State Long Term Care Ombudsman. In her capacity as the Illinois State Ombudsman, she monitors the Regional Ombudsman Programs, conducts various trainings and provides technical assistance when issues arise with regards to residents' rights and the treatment and care of residents who reside in long-term care facilities. She also speaks before legislators and provides testimony, to alert them of the issues and challenges that residents face on a daily basis.
Kelly is also the Government Liaison for Notre Internationale, a Human Experience Management (HXM) consulting company. At Notre, she heads the growing Government Solutions team. Kelly brings Notre her extensive background in supporting government entities through training, policy implementation, and leadership development.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Executive Coach
Ken shares with Notre his 25 years of experience as a leader in high-performance Fortune 50 corporations as a Vice President of Sales and Operations. He specializes in solution-driven executive coaching that enacts change through leadership development and increasing self-awareness. Ken develops specialized action-oriented plans to elevate executive presence, facilitate personal branding and rebranding, improve intercultural competencies, and prepare tomorrow's leaders for the Future of Work.
Tia Buckham-White is the founder of Notre Internationale and has more than 15 years of corporate experience in enterprise sales, business partnerships, and leadership consulting. Notre Internationale has developed executive-level workshops and programs for corporations, government agencies, and universities, both independently, and as a strategic business partner.
Tia developed Notre Internationale to offer CXOs at privately held, government sector, and Fortune 500 corporations an understanding of the challenges associated with developing inclusive environments. Tia demonstrates her commitment to organizational talent development and management by helping leaders think about self-awareness and how it informs diversity, corporate culture and engagement, customer service, leadership development, and change management. Tia is passionate about this work, and Notre Internationale was awarded the 2015 Excellence in Diversity Leadership Award by the Technology Association of Georgia.
Tia is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and a member of the International Association of Women and the American Business Women's Association. She holds a Qualified Administrator designation with the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) assessment and is a Certified Administrator of The Five Behaviors® and Everything DiSC® with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Tia is also a KnowledgeWorkx Inter-Cultural Intelligence Champion and facilitator, and a certified administrator for the StandOut® Assessment with The Marcus Buckingham Company®. She is a Foresight practitioner certified by the Institute for the Future, and a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Step I™ and Step II™ Instruments. Tia earned her Certified Professional Coach (CPC) credential from the College of Executive Coaching and is a candidate for the Certified Diversity Executive® credential from the Institute for Diversity Certification™. Notre Internationale is a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA).