EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING - Key Persons
Dr. Ortiz provides executive assessment, coaching, and talent management consultation services aimed at creating sustainable improvements in individual and organizational performance. By leveraging industry-leading assessment techniques to define and objectively measure the leadership skills that impact key business drivers, he helps senior executives and organizations to establish targeted plans for increased effectiveness.
Adam brings a broad and pragmatic perspective to his clients' unique business needs and circumstances. This perspective has evolved over the last 20 years through working with leaders from around the world and across a wide range of Fortune 500 companies in industries such as financial services, technology, manufacturing, retail and energy. He is particularly known for his work assessing executives and assisting them to develop core leadership, self-management, and communication skills.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Coca - Cola in 2003 As a Program Manager
Cade Cowan has worked around the globe with some of the world's leading companies. His work in leadership development and organizational capability building has exposed him to leaders, entrepreneurs, academics and others in over 30 countries on five continents. Cade is noted by his clients for his energy and his creativity in the design and delivery of unique learning experiences that allow leaders to approach their organization's challenges in new ways. Additionally, his experience in coaching senior-most leaders provides him insight to the complexity of leadership in today's ambiguous environment. Cade has worked with leaders from Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Walmart, Thomson Reuters, Glaxo SmithKline, Aetna, Lookout, AbbVie, PayPal, Cox Communications, Five Below, Johnson & Johnson, Sprint, and Western Digital. Along with David Dotlich and Peter Cairo, Cade coauthored The Unfinished Leader: Balancing Contradictory Answers to Unsolvable Problems, published by Jossey-Bass in 2014.
Prior to entering consulting, Cade served as Director, Coca-Cola University, Bottling Investments Group (BIG), where he directed all global learning and development initiatives for the company's wholly owned bottlers, an organization of 85,000 global associates. Though focused primarily on building BIG's leadership development capability, he also worked with BIG's respective bottler organizations to apply relevant training programs from Coca-Cola University's commercial and supply chain curricula. While in this role, he completed short-term assignments with bottlers in both the Philippines and India.
Cade initially joined Coca-Cola in 2003 as a program manager responsible for a global leadership development program targeting the company's middle managers. He later assumed responsibility for the global development of frontline leaders. In 2007, he was promoted to Director, Coca-Cola University, Global Leadership Development, responsible for the entire suite of the company's leadership development offerings.
Chris brings over twenty-five years of consulting experience in both internal and external roles. An Industrial/Organizational Psychologist with expertise across a range of leadership and organization development areas, he provides clients with tailored solutions in the areas of executive assessment, individual coaching, succession planning, team optimization, and performance management and training systems. In all of his projects, Chris employs a scientist-practitioner model by which the interventions he provides are grounded in data-driven analyses to ensure maximum impact for individual clients and their organizations. Some of his clients include The Home Depot, Capital One, Nike, Guardian, Illinois Tool Works, Ford Motor Company, LensCrafters, Lowe's, and Amway.
Christine Linder brings over 20 years of business and creative leadership experience to EDC's materials development. Prior to joining EDC, she founded Free Radical Collective, a boutique creative agency where she worked with leading brands to develop marketing collateral, learning materials, presentations, and visual communication assets. Her recent client work includes projects for Adidas, Cisco, Docker, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Service Now, Jobvite, and Johnson & Johnson as well as several local government agencies.
Dr. Lucy Dahl provides executive assessment, coaching, team intervention and organizational development to help individuals and organizations reach their peak performance and achieve business results. She brings over twenty-five years of experience, both as an external and internal consultant working with large multi-national Fortune 500 companies, as well as medium-sized businesses. Her clients have included Aetna, AMD, American Express, Balfour Beatty, BlackRock, Dell, Dealers Manufacturing, HEB, IPG, Johnson Controls, K & L Gates, Kestra Financial, Lilly Pulitzer, Nike, Medtronic and Royal Dutch Shell among numerous others.
For over twenty years, Dr. Stacey Philpot has advised some of the world's most admired companies on how to use leadership development to accelerate growth and increase their competitive advantage. Her work has helped companies such as Apple, Bristol Myers Squibb, Ernst & Young, Exelon, General Mills, Harley Davidson, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, Mass Mutual, Nike, PayPal, and Time Warner more effectively navigate disruption, lead large transformations, and inspire culture change.
Stacey has personally coached CEOs of Fortune 500 companies on how to develop their executive committees, manage complex board dynamics and prepare their successors. Her work as a coach combines her practice as a licensed psychologist and her own experience as an executive. Previously, Stacey was the head of Deloitte's Leadership practice where she guided the firm's work with clients on matters of succession, talent assessment, leadership development, and inclusion. While there she increased revenue for her practice over 250% and tripled the size of her organization in under three years. Prior to Deloitte, Stacey worked as Managing Partner for a high growth boutique consultancy where she was responsible for setting the firm's strategy and market positioning.
Stacey is a regular speaker at conferences and executive retreats on how companies can navigate the political aspects of succession planning and more accurately identify high performing leaders to improve inclusion. She is the author of several articles, including: "A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Future Leaders" (MIT Sloan Management Review), "Transition Support Best Practices" (The Pfeiffer Annual Leadership Development series), and "Transforming Teams: A Personal and Team Development Approach" (Developing High-Performance Work Teams).
Stacey graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in psychology from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received her doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her doctoral research explored how early family experiences influence women's career expectations and selection of work roles. Stacey lived and studied in both London, England and Osaka, Japan.
Originally from California, Stacey now resides in Haddonfield, New Jersey with her two children and a very friendly retriever.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consulting and Executive
Dr. Ted Freeman draws on twenty years of consulting and executive experience to catalyze sustainable financial growth, while deepening wellbeing in client companies. He works with CEOs and other executives to expand leadership capacity, optimize team performance, generate high-impact cultures and navigate leadership transitions.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach
James Brooks is a leadership consultant and executive coach who engages with companies and executives to maximize business results. He specializes in executive development strategies, assessment and coaching, helping companies find, assess and develop world-class leaders and a robust talent pipeline. He has consulted with some of the world's largest and most admired companies, including AbbVie, BlackRock, Cisco Systems, Morgan Stanley, Nike, the NBA (National Basketball Association), and Johnson & Johnson.
Jayne Ramirez Spector has more than 30 years experience developing and facilitating corporate learning experiences. She began her career on the technical side as a consultant in New York City in 1987 helping law firms adopt the latest technology. After nine years of mostly technical consulting in a variety of industries including pharma, finance, telecom, auto, and retail. JR had an opportunity to facilitate soft skills programs for technical customers. It was challenging and exciting to present the tools which she deemed essential in her business practices. The years of technical consulting enabled JR to relate and communicate to a technical audience. The courses she has delivered have focused on Leadership, Conflict Negotiation, Team Building, Influencing, and Diversity and Inclusion. Her driving force is to help people improve their lives through learning.
Job Titles:
- Human Resources Consultant
- Project Manager
Julie Walker is a Human Resources Consultant with close to 20 years of project management and consulting experience in talent management and talent acquisition.
Kesha Farrow supports EDC as a Project Manager. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Kesha assists EDC with scheduling and project management. She has a reputation of streamlining operations, building global processes, and successfully executing large scale and multi-million-dollar programs and events. She has the keen ability to scan the environment, collect relevant data and provide useful and clear interpretation of complex issues. She has been successful in managing client relationships and establishing an excellent rapport with individuals on all levels of the organization.
Kesha has a Bachelor of Science from Guilford College. She currently resides in North Carolina, where she enjoys traveling and spending time with her family and friends.
Kiana King is a 1st year graduate student in the M.A./Ph.D. program of Industrial Organizational Psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She desires to specialize in leadership development and workplace Diversity and inclusion efforts and seeks to promote more equitable, non-discriminatory practices in hiring and workplace environments. Kiana is currently interning at EDC on client projects related to competency modeling, executive assessment and coaching.
Kiana was formerly an undergraduate student at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri (MU), where she was involved with various organizations and businesses. She was the most recent President of the Legion of Black Collegians Gospel Choir on MU's campus and an esteemed McNair Scholar. Her research was featured in the 2019 edition of the MU McNair Journal and selected for presentation at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association conference. Kiana gained great leadership experience at MU and her undergraduate efforts were noted through her McNair scholar recognition and her continuous presence on the MU dean's list.
During her early years at MU, Kiana served for AmeriCorps as a member of the Jumpstart Organization promoting diversity, equity and inclusion by assisting preschool children from under resourced communities with language and literacy skills to prepare them for success in kindergarten. Kiana also served as an assistant teacher/ support staff for various childcare centers while also tutoring student athletes at the University of Missouri Athletic training center.
Kiana graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in General Psychology and a minor in Statistics from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Her senior honors thesis focused on exploring the role of mentorship, sense of belonging and non-discriminatory campus climates on leadership self-efficacy in black women collegians, and earned her psychology department and university honors.
She currently lives in Bloomington, IL.
For nearly 20 years, Lindsey Hayes has helped companies better know, grow and leverage talent to enable their business strategy and growth. She specializes in leadership development, talent management, team development, succession planning and coaching, incorporating inclusion and diversity practices throughout.
Lindsey draws on her experiences in corporate Talent, business leadership, and leadership consulting roles to deliver solutions for her clients that combine business insight, talent theory, creative design, and pragmatic execution. She has worked with leaders from around the world and across a wide range of industries, including BASF, Charter Communications, Harley-Davidson, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Nike and Spectrum.
Lindsey has held executive Talent and HR leadership roles at ITW and IDEX Corporation, both large global B2B manufacturing companies. In these organizations, she was instrumental in human capital strategy development, design and implementation of enterprise talent management solutions, and served as a champion of diversity, equity and inclusion. As a member of the senior leadership team for an ITW division, she successfully led change management and organizational development efforts to integrate ten global locations under a shared brand and culture, accelerating business transformation and growth.
In addition to her corporate roles, Lindsey was a senior consultant with Deloitte where she worked with Fortune 500 companies to design and deliver accelerated development programs, 360-degree feedback and coaching. She also worked with executive teams to help them effectively navigate disruptions and lead transformation.
Lindsey holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Illinois. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Leadership Consultant
Bart is a leadership consultant who uses evidence-based methods to help individual executives and managers adjust their behavior to become more effective personally and improve their organizations' business results. A world-class expert in psychological measurement and assessment, Bart specializes in helping leaders understand themselves, identify their development needs, and make lasting changes that take their success to new levels. He has consulted to many of the world's most important organizations, including BlackRock, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, AMD, BASF, Grainger, Hershey's, Motorola, the U.S. Army, the University of Virginia, and the National Football League.
Vanessa Lee is a specialist in international talent development with over 25 years' experience as an in-house senior regional executive and as an external lead consultant for Fortune 50 companies for over 10 industries in 15 countries. She designs and facilitates multi-lingual, cross-cultural leadership development programs with business simulations. She has over 2500 coaching hours of work with hundreds of global C-suite leaders to lead change and strive for success in the volatile and complex business environment. Clients have provided the highest recommendation for her professionalism, breadth of corporate experience and wealth of real-life leadership lessons. Vanessa specializes in boosting career development for senior leaders, driving enterprise cultural change across cultures & building leadership pipelines that focus on agility, entrepreneurial leadership and driving business results.