CHAMBERS BAY INSTITUTE - Key Persons
Al Gentle, Jr brings his 40+ years of subject matter expertise as a premier consultant in the areas of business management, government contracting, executive leadership, and training to offer large and small businesses expert advisory services, business development support, proposal preparation, and program management training. Retired from the U. S. Navy as a Supply Officer, Al has first-hand experience in DoD logistics and acquisition support services.
Al's knowledge spans from Supply Support Management, to Integrated Logistics Support Management, to Health Services, to Information Technology for product and services type businesses. His depth of understanding comes from providing support from the corporate perspective for a wide array of government and DoD agencies worldwide.
Having brought significant growth in revenue to every organization that he has been associated with, Al mentors and advises emerging and established leaders sharing his experience to assist them in their current positions and for their career growth.
Job Titles:
- Fellow
- Management Consultant
Bjarni Snæbjörn Jónsson is a premier management consultant and social entrepreneur, and focuses primarily on large-scale human system change and evolution. Bjarni is working in Iceland as an independent management consultant and is a founding partner at DecideAct Management, a Danish consulting and software company specializing in implementing large scale organizational and cultural change.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Member of the Leadership Team
- President
Bruce has focused his career on how to lead change in technologically complex organizations in both the public and private sectors.
His current research is focused on the future of work and how to lead humans in the age of AI. He has advised leaders around the world in municipal and national government, the US Department of Defense, aerospace, wireless telecommunications, cyber security, global logistics, financial services, and the nonprofit sector.
Bruce remains engaged with global consulting initiatives reflecting his life's work in leading large-scale change.
Chuck is proactive, and has a thorough knowledge of business processes. He coaches, coordinates, and calls out issues. He is an expert in moving clients from a place of simple consistency to a place where they leverage innovation and best practice to build their efficiency and effectiveness.
Chuck digs in, provides clients with a variety of business tools, shows them how to use each one, and walks them through using the tools themselves. He maps side-by-side processes and builds bridges to solutions.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Founding Partner
- Member of the Leadership Team
An accomplished leader, Jim's focus today is to share with others as a leadership coach, advisor, and author. Following his leader development studies at the University of North Georgia, Jim was commissioned and advanced in his 27-year U.S. Army career to the rank of Colonel. His global responsibilities in command and senior staff positions spanned from deployable combat units, complex field hospital operations, to the Pentagon.
Building upon this experience, he successfully pursued a corporate career, holding numerous leadership positions within global corporations, privately owned companies, and entrepreneurial startups.
In his current role, Jim is a Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer for Chambers Bay Institute, where he is dedicated to lending his skills and experience, and that of his team, to develop Integrator Leaders with strong values who can share their vision and set a strategic direction for their organization.
His spirit of service has led him to accept invitations to serve in leadership and advisory positions on various non-profit boards in academia, local government, and the community.
Jim is driven by his commitment to developing capable leaders for future generations and is guided by his leadership philosophy - it's all about WE, not ME.
Job Titles:
- Senior Executive
- Senior Fellow
Kerry is an experienced senior executive with an extensive background in organizational transformation and executive coaching. During thirty-five years working with senior executives individually and in teams, he has won a reputation for effectiveness as a coach and mentor, with an intuitive skill for assessing and developing individual talent and organizational culture.
Laurie St. George brings years of operational management experience from multi-million dollar, high demand global production corporations. She conveys a calm leadership style, critical during the height of demand, enabling her to orchestrate end-to-end processing and to enhance business operations.
Key to her success is her ability to build cross-functional internal and external teams resulting in high quality results. Laurie is gifted with the ability to identify, analyze, and develop improvements to existing business processes to optimize quality and output. Her approach engages all of the stakeholders within the organization to create unified buy-in ensuring success. She understands the importance of quality control and knows how to incorporate this vital function as a routine core practice.
Job Titles:
- Senior Fellow
- Founder and CEO of Gaiasoft Group Companies Combines a Deep Understanding of Personal and Cultural Transformation With a Rigorous Technical Mind
For over 20 years he has designed, patented and built systems, software tools and environments that enable lasting and meaningful change.
He holds BA and MA degrees in engineering from Balliol College, Oxford University and an MSC in design of complex systems. Morel's work and life reflect his commitment to making a positive impact on a global scale.
Morel Fourman, founder and CEO of Gaiasoft Group companies combines a deep understanding of personal and cultural transformation with a rigorous technical mind.
Tareena Joubert is a calm effective collaborator, a strategic thinker and is committed to bringing about positive change. She brings twenty years of experience working in the non-profit and public arena. She enjoys bringing diverse stake holder groups together to rethink systems, problem-solve and to help create a shared vision. She has a strong business acumen, refined with more than ten years in a government managerial positions and program management.
Tareena was responsible for budget development and program oversight and had a successful track record that exceeded earned revenue goals while maintaining the bottom line. She has experience securing Federal, State and local government funding sources, and has helped to land corporate support and foundation grants for a diverse array of programs.
She has consulted non-profit organizations in capacity building, performance improvement, budgeting and program evaluation. Tareena has facilitated workshops to promote awareness of cultural competency, to create an inclusive environment, and to recognize and dismantle institutional racism. She has studied and worked in the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America and speaks English, Spanish and French.