COLE SCOTT GROUP - Key Persons
Amy Lynch is a generations expert who speaks from experience. While others talk about generational awareness, Amy's clients apply her techniques and strategies in their businesses every day. Her high content programs are filled with memorable stories punctuated with a generous dose of humor. Her book, What's Your Gen IQ? Grow Your Generational Intelligence and Thrive Through Change, is forthcoming this summer.
Her blend of humor, substance and authenticity make her a game-changing speaker.Amy has spoken to 100s of groups from MTV and Reynolds to Boeing, ConEdison, Cisco and the staff of the U.S. Senate.
She has been quoted in The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune and NBC Evening News, among others.
Job Titles:
- American CEO
- Contributor to Forbes
Carl Dorvil is the youngest African American CEO to take a company public in U.S. history. As the son of Haitian immigrants , he spent his formative years in Garland, Texas. He later graduated with distinction from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 2005 with a triple major in public policy, economics, and psychology; and subsequently received his MBA from the SMU Cox School of Business.
Dorvil epitomizes the spirit of a young entrepreneur with a passion for social enterprises. His first successful business venture was Group Excellence, an academic mentoring and tutoring company. Dorvil currently serves as CEO of GEX Management - a business management company representing a diverse portfolio of holdings supported by the world's first strategic business management ecosystem. He also serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of VICAR - a growing family of investment companies, and is an active Board Member/Investor for a number of private companies in Texas, Florida, and Delaware.
In addition, Dorvil is a regular contributor to Forbes. His most recent article is titled, How to Improve Your Response to the Unexpected. Dorvil carries Series 82 and Series 63 licenses.
Demetria Miles-McDonald is the Founder and CEO of Decide Diversity, a company focused on increasing the presence and effectiveness of underrepresented groups in the workplace, specifically in leadership positions. Demetria specializes in bringing the experiences of people who identify with two or more marginalized groups to the forefront, to better understand and utilize the strengths they bring to the workplace. Demetria's experience in industrial and organizational psychology have energized her to take action and lead today's leaders away from stereotypes and bias that prevent qualified people from reaching their highest potential.
Demetria's powerful presentations and workshops make leaders think outside the box and consider solutions that move organizations forward. As a partner to many leaders around the country, Demetria works side by side with teams to increase diversity and improve inclusionary behavior in an effort to positively impact business results. Demetria's unique perspective as an intersectional employee, leader, and researcher brings clarity, freshness, and focus to issues at
After a successful 17 year career as a head college women's soccer coach, Lisa Howe was named the first full-time Executive Director of the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce in February 2012. In the subsequent 5+ years, the Chamber has grown from less than 100 members to over 330 and added a Foundation. The Nashville LGBT Chamber has won 3 national awards for its initiatives and programs that have helped advance LGBT inclusion for its corporate members, helped LGBT business owners grow small businesses and provide local jobs, and helped serve the local, diverse LGBT community. Howe's title was changed in 2017 from Executive Director to CEO, and she has been recognized by Nashville Lifestyles as one of Nashville's Top Women in Business and was voted on by her peers as one of the Nashville Business Journal's Most Admired CEO's. In March 2016, Mayor Megan Barry appointed Howe to the Metro Sports Authority Board. Lisa married her wife, Wendy, on the first day marriage equality became legal in Tennessee. They have one daughter, Hope, who is 6 years old.
Neil is a consultant to organisation leaders, and specialises in the human aspects of formulating and executing core-strategy actions.
He is also an accomplished executive coach with a focus on aligning intent and action.
Before becoming a consultant and coach, Neil held several major corporate leadership positions including:
Head of Life & Pensions Systems Development - Prudential UK
Head of IFA Service Centre - Prudential UK (IFA = Independent Financial Advisor)
Director - Prudential Pensions Ltd (with P&L accountability)
Chief People Officer - Egg Plc (at the time, Egg was the world's largest purely on-line retail bank)
Neil has consulted and coached internationally in the Food & Grocery Industry, the Financial Sector and the News & Media sector.
He has also worked in the UK Public Sector and the UK Third Sector.
Neil's education background is a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Statistics. He has an MBA in strategic management and an MA in professional coaching.
Neil is an experienced and credentialed practitioner in:
Human Insight's AEM Cube & Growth Curve
Will Schutz's FIRO-B and Human Element
Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step 1 and Step 2
JCA Global's EIP emotional intelligence tool
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Founding Partner of the Culture Shift Team
Robert Lawrence Wilson is a consultant, speaker, facilitator and writer with expertise in diversity management, multicultural marketing, customer experience strategy, and leadership development.
A former Nissan executive and founding partner of the Culture Shift Team, Robert leads "soup to nuts" diversity strategy development and training for CST's corporate, retail and non-profit environments.
With more than 25 years in the military, university, non-profit, business, teaching and service, West brings keen analytic and mentoring skills to the task of organizational and leadership conditioning. Executives who work with him comment on the tireless innovation with which he turns theories into traction and traction into profit. Many are often surprised to learn he is a former drill instructor for U.S. Marine officer candidates, at least until they see him coach mediocre performance into excellence. He is especially skillful in helping teams: move beyond status quo, overcome systemic impairment, execute toward measurable results. He'll do so with humor, candor and professionalism. Dr. West has also written several books and designed graduate school curricula regarding organizational development.
As former CEO of Military Assistance Company and SVP Innovation & Sustainability at global companies Balfour Beatty Investments and Lend Lease Americas, Tabitha leverages years of successful experience with innovation program design, implementation, and leadership, as well as actualizing employee potential through inclusion. She has created profitable organizational models that target director strategies while growing individual employee contributions.
Tabitha created Cole Scott Group to accelerate the adoption of innovation and inclusion in the workforce through new science and tools that improve corporate agility. She is an international advisor and speaker on change management, innovation, and sustainability with several original published works and blogs.
Job Titles:
- Founder & Principal of Fe - Smart LLC
Terrian Barnes is the founder & principal of Fe-smart LLC, a consulting firm helping organizations win by embedding women's leadership skills and inclusive business practices. A nationally-recognized thought leader on diversity & inclusion, Terrian relocated to Louisville, KY to establish Yum! Brands' (parent of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut) Global Diversity and Inclusion Office, institutionalizing diversity as a corporate best practice and aligning diversity initiatives with core business goals.
Prior to Yum!, Terrian was a member of the DC-based International Franchise Association's executive team, advocating for economic development in underserved markets; spearheading women and minority leadership initiatives, and overseeing IFA's Educational Foundation & research activities. She served as a national spokesperson for franchising and minority business development, including an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Black Enterprise Magazine named Terrian one of 2011's Top Executives in Diversity. She currently serves on the boards of the Children's Hospital Foundation, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, the National Trust for Historic Preservation Community Investment Corporation, and Women Influencing Louisville, among others.