LEI-CONSULTING.COM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Marketing Project Manager
- Project Manager - Marketing
As Marketing Project Manager, Ashley brings extensive experience in Project Management. She is dedicated to ensuring client and project satisfaction. Ashley has a passion for communication, relationship building, and content creation.
With over 5 years of Project Management and Marketing experience, Ashley has focused on her social media strategy skills along with her ability to convey the Leadership Excelleration mission.
Ashley manages critical client services, project management, and managing marketing efforts.
Ashley enjoys tennis, traveling, and playing with her two dogs, Coco and Jefferson. Ashley attended Miami University and took classes in Psychology and Communication.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach With Leadership Excelleration
Beth Conger is a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration. She has extensive professional experience and a passion for empowering clients to reframe their thinking, refocus on what's true and reveal the very best version of themselves.
Prior to shifting into a career in professional consulting and coaching, Beth spent over 20 years designing consumer and employment brands, leading human insights research, employee engagement, marketing, and communications initiatives for globally renowned companies, including EssilorLuxottica.
Beth's coaching focuses on helping clients understand what they value most, identifying the internal and external factors getting in their way, and coming up with new approaches to live a powerful, productive and fulfilled life. She works with leaders at every level to create cultures where every team member can become their best.
Beth received her coaching certification through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from Syracuse University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach With Leadership Excelleration
Brian Cunningham, Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration, has over 25 years of diverse experience in executive coaching, strategic planning, operations leadership, quality improvement, and organizational development.
Brian began his career at General Electric in their Leadership Development Program focusing on operations improvement - earning his Six Sigma Blackbelt - and participating on GE's Corporate Audit Staff. He continued his career in operations leadership with United Technologies before joining Definity Partners, a business improvement consulting start-up, as a senior principal. After helping grow the firm over four-fold, Brian's desire to have a more significant impact directly on the lives of executives led him to open a consulting practice to provide strategic planning, organizational development, and executive coaching services, all in one. Brian entered healthcare by joining Cincinnati Children's James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence to align his passion for the type of work he loved to do with a mission that would have a significant impact on the lives of children and their families. He also led their organizational development staff.
Now, Brian continues to create meaningful and sustainable impact through consulting, coaching, and developing executives and leaders.
Brian holds an engineering degree from University of Cincinnati, a masters in strategic management from Harvard, and coaching certificates from Coach U and Corporate Coach U with focuses in business and executive coaching. He has served clients ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to seasoned C-level executives, in both for-profits and nonprofits, and across a wide variety of industries.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach
As a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration (LE), Cindy Weingartner has extensive experience developing and coaching leaders at every stage of their development from emerging leaders to senior leaders. Cindy is dedicated to developing authentic leaders who live their values and develop their Emotional Intelligence skills to discover and overcome the hidden barriers to their success.
With over 30 years' experience in sales, sales leadership, Talent Management, and training, the last 15 years have been focused on developing leaders. Prior to joining the LE team, Cindy has been designing, developing, and facilitating Leadership Development Programs for global pharmaceutical organizations such as Novartis, Daiichi Sankyo, and AstraZeneca. In addition, she is engaged as an Executive Coach for several leadership programs such as the Cincinnati WE Lead Women's Leadership Development Program and the County of Santa Barbara Emerging Leaders program.
Cindy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Ohio University and is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). Cindy holds certifications through the following organizations: iPEC, International Coach Federation, Center for Creative Leadership Suite of 360 assessments, iPEC Energy Leadership Index, and Everything Disc by Wiley.
When she is not working with leaders, you may find Cindy and her husband, Paul planning another adventure around the world in search of the world's best wine regions, connecting with friends, or volunteering at the Animal Friends Humane Society to find homes for adoptable dogs and cats.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Founder
- Founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration, Inc
- Kent Clapp CEO Leadership Award
Diane Egbers, Founder and CEO of Leadership Excelleration, Inc. (LEI) and author of The Ascending Leader, engages with clients and guides a consulting team to provide all aspects of executive coaching, organizational consulting, and leadership programs. Diane understands her client's needs by leveraging experience serving more than 250 organizations and her prior role as VP of Human Resources.
For the past 25 years it has been her passion to serve leaders as a dynamic executive coach, master facilitator, and management consultant. Diane works collaboratively with leaders to set and achieve goals that involve acclimating to new teams, establishing a legacy for success, cultivating the strengths of key talent and realizing the potential for success at all levels. This may include: coaching leaders, strategy planning, conducting talent assessments, facilitating leadership teams, as well as assessing organizational capacity to enhance performance.
Diane holds a master's degree in Executive Human Resources Development from Xavier University and a bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from the University of Cincinnati. She is a dynamic national speaker and has published articles on leadership, executive coaching and organizational effectiveness.
Diane's certifications include: Emotional Intelligence (Hay Group), Executive Coaching (Linkage) and High Performance Culture Development (Denison), Cultural Intelligence (Cultural Intelligence Center), and Women's Leadership Advancement Certification (Linkage).
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach With Leadership Excelleration
Dr. Angela Crawford serves as a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration and is passionate about helping people and organizations grow.
Prior to joining Leadership Excelleration, Dr. Crawford spent over twenty years in senior level roles and consulting with Fortune 500 companies and six years in higher education. Beginning her career in operations and then shifting into leading sales, marketing, customer experience and research, she focuses on teaching organizations how to design winning strategies, improve marketing, develop leaders, and create cultures where customer and employee experiences thrive simultaneously.
During her career, she traveled across the U.S and internationally, working with clients and conducting a study on workplace motivation in the form of passion across 23 countries. Dr. Crawford graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a BBA in Marketing and Management, holds an MBA from Cleveland State University, and earned a PhD from Case Western Reserve University where her research on igniting passion within employees was recently published in the Journal of Service Research.
She is certified in Coaching, Cultural Intelligence, Mindfulness, and Strengths, and speaks often on topics such as igniting passion at work, design thinking, the power of personal branding and leveraging the strengths of generational differences.
Dr. Crawford believes that each person has a desire to become the best version of themselves. She takes a consultative approach in working with leaders and organizations to help them imagine a better future and achieve it.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach With Leadership Excelleration
Dr. Monique Johnson, Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration (LE), is an experienced versatile leader with over 20 years of experience in career development, diversity and inclusion, and leadership who has helped individuals and organizations open doors and break barriers.
As a Certified Master of Career Services (CMCS), she is a committed practitioner who provides services tailored to her clients. She enjoys coaching at all levels from the undergraduate college student to the executive-level professional who is looking to grow, transition, or pivot in their career. She is currently serving a three-year term as the Certified Master of Career Services (CMCS) Commissioner for the National Career Development Association. She has also completed a professional coach training program certified through the International Coach Federation.
She has demonstrated experience working with organizations to diversify their workplace cultures through inclusive planning, training, recruitment and retention, and program development. She has also worked with school districts to create more diverse and inclusive environments that support student learning.
Dr. Johnson has held positions as a college administrator, assistant professor, project director, and career services professional. She earned her doctorate degree from The Pennsylvania State University in Counselor Education with a focus in Higher Education Administration and a minor in Human Resource Development.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Senior Consultant
Dr. Rebecca Reder, Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration, has extensive experience in developing and coaching leaders. She is dedicated to developing leaders that can meet their own professional goals while also achieving great success in transforming their team's performance in attaining outstanding results.
With over 30 years of experience as a leader in healthcare, Dr. Reder has focused the past 20 years on developing leaders and high-performance teams. She is passionate about transformation and quality improvement and has significant experience with improvement science and evidence-based practice. She has lectured extensively on these topics nationally and regionally.
Dr. Reder holds a doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She is also a graduate of the CoachU Core Essentials Program and the Coaching Clinic Program. She completed the Advanced Improvement Leadership Program and the Intermediate Improvement Science Program at the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence and is also certified in Cultural Intelligence.
Her professional service has included teaching graduate courses in leadership and emotional intelligence as well as serving on advisory boards for three universities (The Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, and Xavier University). Dr. Reder has also served in several board leadership positions for the Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsemanship Organization.
Job Titles:
- Learning and Development Project Manager
Jackie McNary is our Learning and Development Project Manager and has 10 years of leadership experience working in non-profit and for-profit businesses. Her role focuses on client engagement, leading projects, and instructional design. With servant leadership at her core, Jackie's passions are centered around helping others.
Jackie is a graduate from University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor's degree in health education.
Jackie enjoys music, the arts, and being outside in the summer!
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach With Leadership Excelleration
Jeff Shaver, Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration (LE), is a seasoned certified facilitator and Associate Certified Coach. He believes that the key to success begins by co-creating a vision together with his clients to ultimately develop a roadmap toward a desired future state. He has witnessed individuals and teams achieve extraordinary outcomes when they are engaged throughout the process and leveraging their strengths to drive the best results. Jeff has an instinct for recognizing potential in individuals and draws on his background in organizational learning to foster strategic growth for both the individual and the organization. He brings over 15 years of experience in sales, training, organizational development, and process improvement leadership that equips him to better understand his clients' needs and how to best support them in accomplishing their goals. Jeff has worked with leaders across industries including higher education, retail, technology, service, and others.
Jeff holds a Master's degree in Human Resource Development from Xavier University and a Bachelor's degree in Interpersonal Communication from Miami University.
Jeff's certifications include: Associate Certified Coach credential (International Coaching Federation), Advanced Certified Personal and Executive Coach (College of Executive Coaching), Change Tools and Methodology (Change Guides, LLC), MBTI and CPI 260 Leadership assessment (The Myers-Briggs Company), and certified facilitator for Development Dimensions International (DDI) and LeanOhio.
As the Director of Operations for Leadership Excelleration (LE), Michelle Pennington plays a vital role on the team. She assists with decisions for operational activities, sets strategic goals, as well as plans and monitors the overall operations of the organization.
Michelle is a graduate from Mount Saint Joseph University with a Bachelor of Science in Business with a concentration in Finance.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant and Executive Coach With Leadership Excelleration
Nichole Sims is a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with Leadership Excelleration and has nearly three decades of experience as a Human Resources professional. Her expertise includes, high volume recruiting, workforce management, sales, competency modeling, talent forecasting, and relationship management.
Serving as the Talent Acquisition Manager at Enterprise Holdings for 22 years, part of Nichole's responsibilities included creating and facilitating professional development programs at every level, from frontline managers to executives. She has also been a mentor and workshop facilitator for Black Career Women's Network, and an Adjunct Professor with the University of Cincinnati where she developed curriculum and is currently teaching Career Success Strategies, while also facilitating programs for the Kenton County Library.
Nichole has a gift for taking professional development to the next level by engaging leaders who attend her sessions through application and storytelling. As an entrepreneur, she also started her own business called BOLD Career Consulting where she works one-on-one with clients seeking to hire top talent. Nichole's passion is in helping leaders achieve success by becoming their personal best. Clients benefit from her tenacious work ethic, experience and energy that helps move them forward.
She earned a BBA in Marketing from the University of Toledo and holds a certificate in coaching.