Our Thought Leader Team
Dr. Matthew A. Woolsey is a certified professional coach, consultant, and facilitator with expertise in the areas of executive communication, leadership development, and building high performing teams. Matthew has over 20 years of experience in Management, Organization Development, and Learning Consultancy across all sectors including corporate, non-profit, and higher education.
Amrita brings 22+ years of robust experience in multiple industries across business operations, strategic planning and execution in complex environments across Asia Pacific and Europe. In her last role, she served as Vice President – Global Strategic Talent Development in HSBC. Currently, Amrita teaches at Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania and works closely with the Wharton School of Business, Penn Medicine, Penn Law and Penn Engineering. Her teaching focus covers 2 broad arcs.
Over a 20-plus year career in consulting, Lynae has worked with global companies to design and deliver training and coaching programs in the UK, Mexico, South America, Canada and throughout the United States. From multi-national firms to neighbourhood non-profits, Lynae has extensive experience supporting teams of varying sizes and leaders at all levels of an organization. Her experience extends to working with individual executives providing one-on-one coaching.
Kevin Barnhart is a facilitator, technology consultant, and data analyst with more than twenty-five years of experience creating and delivering presentations to diverse corporate audiences. Kevin’s background in engineering, marketing, and business development helps provide clients with a structured approach to create compelling technical communications to drive innovation.
Ashleigh Miller, founder of Amplify Excellence LLC, brings over 20 years of experience working in professional services organizations serving large multinational companies. She has spent time leading teams around account management, growth strategies and sales and negotiation methodologies. She is a certified TRACOM SOCIAL STYLES facilitator and develops and delivers customized programs for small and enterprise companies.
Dynamic speaker and life coach, Carrie Williams holds a certificate in Evidence-Based Coaching from Fielding Graduate University, and is a member of the International Coach Federation. Carrie energizes audiences, helping them set and reach G.R.E.A.T. Goals, create their detailed action plan, work smarter, and make their dreams their reality. Through her workshops, speeches, and coaching, Carrie inspires hundreds of creative professionals, entrepreneurs, and artists across the country every year. Her Amazon best-selling book Eyes on the Prize: A Kick-Ass Guide to Setting and Achieving G.R.E.A.T. Goals allows readers to tackle their goals at their own pace.
Mandeep Rai is a global authority on values, working with companies, institutions, and individuals around the world. She has travelled to more that 150 countries and reported as a journalist for the BBC World Service and Reuters, amongst others. She began her career in private banking at JPMorgan, and later worked for the United Nations, the European Commission, and grassroots NGOs before setting up the UAE’s first media venture capital fund. Mandeep studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), has an MSc in development from the London School of Economics, and completed an MBA at London Business School, with a year at Harvard Business School and MIT. She also holds a PhD in global values.
Alain Hunkins has decades of experience training tens of thousands of leaders across 25 countries. Clients served include 42 of the Fortune 100 companies, including Citigroup, State Farm, Microsoft, Kroger, General Electric, Pfizer, and GM. In addition to being a speaker, consultant and coach, Alain is the author of the new #1 Amazon Bestselling Book – Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets To Building Strong Leaders.
Corena Chase is an executive coach and facilitator who works in an array of industries including law, financial services, media and entertainment. She has expertise in communication, leadership development and behavioral change. She earned her coaching certification through The Columbia Executive Coaching Program and is certified by the International Coaching Federation. She has an MFA from Yale University, a BA in theater from Connecticut College and has done extensive coursework in psychology.
Erica’s career is centered on starting uncomfortable conversations. She began as a strategist in the advertising world, helping brands understand multicultural audiences and how to connect with them the most culturally-relevant and empathic way.
A passion for people, culture and the human experience, combined with herself being all things ‘multi – multiracial, multilingual and multicultural – infuses Erica with the passion and sensitivity to lead discussions around implicit bias, cross-cultural communication and diversity, equity and inclusion. After spending nearly a decade in the advertising and branding world, servicing clients such as Google, L’Oréal and General Motors, she now focuses her efforts on facilitating conversations around the things she feels are most important for folks to be talking about today.
Robb (Zuh-BURR-Ski) is a professional speaker, trainer, best-selling author and personal coach with Freedom Personal Development.
Working with companies across a broad spectrum of industries, Robb helps clients develop professional skills and positive mindsets that let them discover their potential and maximize their results. Robb’s purpose is to inject excitement into everything he does. This purpose provides Robb the means to guide others (and himself) to become more effective in what they do while enjoying every minute of doing it.
John is a companion to leaders digging to unleash the intersection of personal and organizational core values as the most untapped and impactful resource available to them as leaders. Following an 18-year career at Arthur Andersen, John is just completing his 24th year as a full-time national speaker, thought leader and author on integrity. His most recent books both titled, Return on Integrity, helps leaders at the top and individuals throughout and organization redefine what they first think about when they think of ROI. Leading business author Patrick Lencioni described Return On Integrity as “the most comprehensive compelling guide to core values I’ve ever seen. It’s a treasure for leaders who understand the importance of culture.”