Meet Our Team

Virginia Diamond

President & Founder

Virginia loves helping leaders and teams work better together. She especially thrives when partnering with mission-driven organizations.

Over the past 25 years, Virginia has coached hundreds of executives and teams. She translates leadership theory into practical skills her clients use daily. An unbiased partner, Virginia is direct and supportive. She empowers leaders and teams to speak openly and constructively so they resolve the tough challenges that impact performance.

Virginia’s clients have spanned the public, private and non-profit sectors. Clients include the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Inova Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, BrainGu, Department of Health and Human Services, US Intelligence Agencies, Electronic Arts, and the Food and Drug Administration.

Virginia has a BA in psychology from the University of Chicago and an organizational development certification from Georgetown University. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and has certifications from New Ventures West and Strozzi Institute. Virginia is also a George Mason University Coaching Fellow teaching in the Leadership Coaching for Organizational Well-Being program. Earlier in her career, she worked in the corporate world for Accenture, AMS (now CGI), and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Outside work, Virginia enjoys good food, books, and travel with her family. She would love to fill her passport before it expires.

Cedric Ashley

Consulting Partner

Cedric has more than twenty-years of experience in the investigation, mediation, and litigation of employment disputes; and counselling as it relates to employment matters. This extensive experience has provided him with great insight into the importance of leadership development and employee engagement. The ability to provide early and significant support for leaders and employees is critical to developing successful and thriving workplaces. These experiences afford unique insights for him to providing training, speaking, facilitation, and coaching services in the areas of meaningfulness, values, well-being, and resilience for leaders, teams, and organizations. Cedric also focuses his work in the area of cultural competency.

To assist in achieving this purpose, Cedric holds the following certifications: for personality type, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner through the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT); for emotional intelligence the EQ-i 2.0 and the EQ-i 360 from MHS Assessments; and he is a Qualified Administrator (QA) for the Intercultural Development Inventory.

Cedric graduated from the Leadership Coaching for Organizational Well-Being Program from the George Mason University – Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, and is credentialed by the International Coach Federation as an Associate Certified Coach. He is also certified in Mental Health First Aid by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Cedric obtained his B.A. and J.D. from Rutgers University and his Master of Divinity degree from Drew University Theological School. Outside of work Cedric loves music, movies, theatre, cooking, and the wonder of nature.

Helen Baxter-Southworth

Consulting Partner

Helen specializes in helping leaders and their teams influence change, develop their teams and organizations and communicate more effectively with their business partners. As a thought partner, trusted advisor and pragmatist, Helen draws from her research and the lessons learned of clients around the world.

Helen’s executive coaching, team-building, speaking, writing, and executive coaching focus on listening to the real-world challenges her clients face and offering tools they can use immediately to build cohesion, think, plan, and act strategically to deliver results. Helen shares best practices and illustrates them with real-life solutions leaders at all levels can relate to. Leaders and teams who work with Helen better understand the dynamics of teams operating in a complex global organization and find the shared vocabulary they need to talk about these complexities with their stakeholders and each other.

Helen is in the middle of writing and drawing a series of graphic novels for children about Natalie and a naughty pony.

Mamie Bittner

Consulting Partner

Mamie loves partnering with clients to accelerate their professional
growth through coaching.

For more than 25 years, as a federal executive and on Capitol Hill,
Mamie was a senior advisor to dozens of agency leaders. She helped
them to manage complex challenges, maintain resilience during a crisis
and communicate about change and strategic planning initiatives. She
learned that successful leadership requires a laser-like focus on purpose
and people.

Mamie prepared leaders to testify at congressional hearings, produced
White House special events, led presidential nominees through the
Senate confirmation process and managed communications for a once-in-
a-generation restoration of the U.S. Capitol Dome.

Throughout her career, Mamie has been an organizational culture geek;
she has a passion for leadership development. It was a natural next step
for her to launch an executive coaching practice after leaving public
service. She uses the insights she gained through her leadership
experiences to coach clients that span Fortune 500 companies,
Congressional staff, agency executives and emerging leaders.

Mamie received her coach certification through George Mason
University’s Leadership Coaching Program for Organizational and
Individual Well-Being. She is credentialed through the International
Coach Federation and serves on the board of the DC Chapter. She has an
MA in human development and counseling from George Washington
University and a BA in political science from Fairfield University.

Mamie is fascinated by contemporary art, rides a bike whenever
possible and loves to turn up the music and dance in the kitchen.

Felicia Byrd

Consulting Partner

Felicia works with leaders to enhance leadership and organizational success, create diverse and inclusive environments, improve team effectiveness, and develop high potential and early talent. She is results-oriented and passionate about helping leaders become more skillful in a specific competency and attaining a deeper level of insight to enhance leadership capability and advancement toward organizational goals.

With over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry, Felicia coaches and consults to leaders in fortune 500 companies, non-profit and educational organizations. Her coaching and consulting style is described as transparent and genuine; balanced with compassion and candor. In addition to coaching, Felicia specializes in organization development and diversity & inclusion which she uses in her facilitation and consulting to help clients solve individual, group, and organizational concerns.

Felicia holds an MS in Organization Development from American University. She is a certified Integral Coach® through New Ventures West and is an Adjunct Faculty member for their Professional Coaching Course. She earned the Professional Coaching Certification (PCC™) designation with the International Coach Federation.

As a certified Diversity Practitioner, Felicia has led many workshops on unconscious bias, gender equity, and other dimensions of diversity. She is also certified in The Leadership Circle Profile™ 360 Leadership Assessment.

Felicia enjoys music, spending time in nature, walking and connecting with her adult sons.

Denise DeVaan

Consulting Partner

Denise is energized by helping leaders, teams, and organizations to be effective, especially in mission-driven environments. As a purpose driven leader herself, Denise likes to help leaders be their best so they can do their best work.

Over the past thirty years Denise has worked with federal, state, and local governments as well as financial institutions and nonprofit organizations to launch and implement asset-building and financial empowerment initiatives. In recent years she worked with US Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Denise was employed by ICF International as a consultant, thought leader, trainer, and coach on selected federal agency projects.
In prior years Denise worked as a leadership development coach and organization development facilitator and held public policy-related roles with the Minnesota Legislature and the Congress. Her work with senior leadership teams and governing boards in political environments continues to give insight to current-day leadership challenges. She has coached hundreds of emerging and senior leaders in industry and government to earn the ACC and soon to be PCC Credential with the International Coach Federation. In addition, she is certified to administer and interpret the EQi 2.0.
Denise is a Kellogg National Fellow in leadership, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, co-founder of the international Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance. She holds a BA in Theology, College of St. Benedict and an MA in Human Development, St. Mary’s University-MN. Her certifications include Strategic Leadership, Leadership Challenges, University of Notre Dame; Senior Executive Leaders in State and Local Government, Harvard University; Executive Coaching, University of St. Thomas.

Outside of work Denise enjoys hiking, biking, walking, reading memoir, and being with friends and family.

Karla Finger

Consulting Partner

Ms. Finger brings 25 years of experience as a coach, organizational development consultant, trainer and facilitator. Karla specializes in expanding individual, leader, team and organizational awareness, flexibility, and the capacity to grow trust, build collaboration, maximize human resources, achieve results, and sustain change. She has dynamic facilitation skills with high comfort in both small and large groups. Using an engaging and supportive approach, Karla effectively communicates with and adapts to diverse audiences. She expertly designs and delivers customized trainings to support the development of the skills required to enhance leadership presence, navigate through conflict, communicate effectively, manage stress, build political savvy, engage virtual teams, manage change, and build resilience. Karla provides leadership coaching, leadership development training, and group coaching to government and private sector professionals across a range of disciplines including acquisition, clinical, scientific, regulation, research, engineering, policy, and information technology.

Ms. Finger specializes in helping leaders and teams gain new awareness of the beliefs and patterns of behavior that both enhance interpersonal relationships and foster the ability to develop collaborative work environments. Through explorative conversations, education, and purposeful skill building, she helps her clients discover and adopt new ways of thinking and behaving to expand individual and team capacity to grow trust, maximize human resources, achieve results, and sustain change.

Kathleen Finn

Consulting Partner

Kathleen Finn has a passion for partnering with leaders and managers to help them enhance their influence and effectiveness while increasing their sense of self. Known for her calm presence under pressure, Kathleen helps leaders challenged with leading large, complex change initiatives achieve their goals. She loves to help leaders unearth their superpowers, identify patterns and/or behaviors that limit their effectiveness, and fine-tune their behaviors to achieve greater influence and success. Kathleen has a knack for speaking truth to power in a way that can be heard, and helps her clients do the same in crucial conversations.

Kathleen worked as an HR leader with a Fortune 500 multinational company for over 21 years. She has led large HR teams, served as the Chief of Staff to the VP of HR for an 18,000-employee sector, and helped stand up a new Organizational Effectiveness function. Other work experience includes international program management for a non-profit, leadership roles in banking, business development, training, and marketing.

Prior clients include OPM, State Department, Department of Energy, the World Bank, EPA, the Ministry of Transportation and Communication in Peru, the Ministry of Health in various countries, Waste Management, and Citibank among others. Her international work has been a career highlight, as she partnered with senior-level public and private sector officials to address strategic issues. In Peru she served as the Program Manager for the team that developed the plan to eliminate lead from gasoline. In Thailand, Kathleen collaborated with the King’s personal physician as well as several ministries to facilitate the proper handling and disposal of medical waste for the country’s university and hospital systems. She led a program under the Gore-Mbeki bi-national commission to help set up a business in the poorest township in South Africa.

With a double major in Psychology and Spanish from the College of William and Mary, Kathleen also obtained an executive master’s in business administration from the University of Maryland, University College. She holds certifications in coaching, the Prosci Change Management model, MBTI, PDI’s 360 tool, and bank marketing.

Tom Finn

Consulting Partner

Tom consults with leaders and organizations to improve their performance in a global marketplace.
He is a consultant, trainer, and executive coach, and the author of Are You Clueless? 7 Clues to Profit, Productivity, and Partnership for Leaders in a Multicultural World.

Tom has consulted with clients on organization system change efforts, coached leaders, led team building efforts, and trained thousands in leadership and cultural diversity. Tom offers a unique leadership development system called LifeLine, which is designed for leaders under pressure. The LifeLine approach links personal biography and history to the leader’s ability to handle pressure and overload. LifeLine is designed for turbulent times, and develops non-anxious courage, influence, and a wider range of skills in collaboration, assertion, and high-level accomplishment.

Customers include The Weather Channel, Fannie Mae, Verizon, Texaco, Inova Health System, Prudential, NASCAR, and several government agencies. Tom has coached and trained leaders in Spanish in seven Latin American countries.
Tom is a certified coach (ICF PCC) and is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Emotional Intelligence. He ran a retail business from startup to sale in the 1990s. He is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in International Relations and has an MS in International Business from Georgetown University.

Tom enjoys exploring his Irish ancestry, travel, and really good conversation. He can’t pull out of crossword puzzles. He exercises a lot but only so he can eat.

Sarah Herberg

Consulting Partner

Sarah loves to guide teams through transformational change, discovering clarity while strengthening their capacity to navigate change in the future.

Merging deep experience in brand and business strategy with organizational development, Sarah’s expertise lies in helping leaders and teams focus on the most critical issues facing them, creating clear and compelling visions of the future, and supporting them on the path to realizing their vision.

Over the course of over 15 years leading brand, product and organizational transformation at world-class agencies and consultancies, Sarah came to recognize that when it comes to change, strategy is just the beginning. This led her on a path of merging strategy and organizational development consulting practices. Through her work, she’s enabled Fortune 10s and emerging startups alike to more to sustainably navigate transformation.

Sarah holds a Certificate in Organizational Development through Georgetown University’s Institute of Transformational Leadership. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, travel, hanging with her young boys, and running throughout the long, cold Minnesota winters, where she resides.

Angelo Ioffreda

Consulting Partner

Angelo is an experienced change leader, facilitator, and strategic communications and management advisor skilled at helping groups devise approaches to engage people, facilitate innovation and change, and drive higher levels of organizational performance and business results. He brings a global perspective, international business experience, and a thorough knowledge of human capital / talent management / organizational effectiveness issues, and a wide range of experience in the private sector, government, multilateral organizations, and non-profits. Angelo is also faculty in American University’s Key Executive Leadership Program for government executives.

An ICF-certified leadership coach at the PCC level, Angelo takes a holistic approach in helping clients identify their priorities and make the changes that build their leadership capability. He believes that small changes over time can produce big results in leadership, business performance, and personal satisfaction. He has coached executives, including C-Suite, across sectors and industries.

Angelo has facilitated executive team leadership development across sectors and industries, e.g., government (AO, FEMA, DOT, CMS), automotive, pharmaceuticals, biotech, colleges and universities, international organizations, and local non-profits. He has held senior leadership roles with NII Holdings (Nextel International), IFC, the private sector arm of The World Bank Group, Sodexo, AOL & AOL Time Warner, RLM Strategic Communications, and the U.S. Department of State.

Angelo has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, an M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Chicago, and certificates in both Leadership Coaching and Change Leadership and Organizational Consulting from Georgetown University. Angelo was both a Presidential Management Fellow and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. He is a current board member of EcoAction Arlington, a local grassroots environmental civic organization.

Angelo is certified in several assessment instruments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), The Leadership Circle Profile 360, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Inventory (TKI), FIRO-B, and DISC.

Outside work, Angelo enjoys yoga, exercising, music, reading, making art, travel, and good food and drink.

Iris Ioffreda

Consulting Partner

Iris works with leaders on creating organizational vision and alignment, cultivating emotional intelligence, developing diverse and inclusive work environments, ensuring good communication, and improving leadership effectiveness.

Iris has over 25 years of management experience in corporate, non-profit, government and educational settings. She has an extensive coaching and consulting practice working individually with senior leaders, as well as coaching teams in both government and private sector organizations. She is a results-oriented coach whose background in organization and team dynamics make her comfortable in dealing with challenging interpersonal and organizational issues. Her organization development work includes organizational assessments, diversity and inclusion programs, leadership development, team building and facilitation with a wide variety of organizations, including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the University of Pennsylvania, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S Department of Transportation, the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Department of Justice and the IRS.

Iris is an ICF certified coach at the PCC level, has post-graduate certificates in Leadership Coaching and Organization Development from Georgetown University, and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She is an adjunct professor with American University’s School of Public Affairs’ Key Leadership Program.

Iris is fluent in Spanish and has lived and worked overseas. She enjoys travel, yoga and spending time with her wonderful adult children.

Angie Jordan

Consulting Partner

Angie Jordan is a dynamic coach and strategic planner, known for her ability to nurture leadership and foster organizational growth. With a strong foundation in program management and strategic planning, she creates environments that spur innovation and inclusivity.

Angie’s coaching and leadership development are deeply rooted in her commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). She skillfully guides diverse groups, fostering understanding and collaboration, and enjoys helping clients navigate complex challenges to achieve their goals.

Specializing in leadership development, Angie helps individuals enhance their impact through a mix of practical strategies and empathetic understanding. Her approach, shaped by a rich background in the educational and non-profit sectors, balances ambition with well-being.

Holding an MBA in Sustainable Business, Angie combines business acumen with an insightful understanding of organizational dynamics. She utilizes various methodologies, including mindfulness and reflective practices, for holistic client development.

Beyond her professional endeavors, Angie’s passion for the natural world and community engagement enriches her consulting practice, offering unique perspectives on leadership and organizational development. During the summer, Angie can often be found hiking, kayaking, or tending to her garden, while in the cooler months, she enjoys knitting cozily indoors alongside a good book.

Sara Keenan

Consulting Partner

Sara’s passion is helping leaders drive change in their organizations in ways that build resilience and sustainability.

Certified in leadership coaching through Georgetown University, Sara has coached hundreds of executives, mid-level managers and teams. She particularly loves supporting senior execs and their leadership teams. Sara combines challenge with support in her coaching approach. She is honest and practical, seeking to create a light, non-judgmental space wherein clients experience deep trust and can feel comfortable opening up about critical topics.
Sara has coached and consulted with federal, commercial and non-profit clients including the Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Alion, VeriSign, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Partnership for Public Service and Astra Zeneca.

Originally from Ireland, Sara has a BA in Business Studies and French from the University of Ulster at Coleraine, and a Master’s Degree in International Law from Queen’s University Belfast. She is certified in organizational development through Georgetown University. Her work experience includes running a financial call center; doing systems implementation, culture and change management, and performance consulting work; and managing a business unit for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton and Suntiva LLC.

Outside work, Sara loves to travel, spend time with her daughter and family, read, speed down water slides and make stained glass.

Nicole Curls Lewis

Consulting Partner

Nicole is passionate about partnering with her clients to bring about transformation. In her 20+ years of experience, she has coached hundreds of individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations to become more skillful and effective in articulating aspirations, finding alignment with their values, and creating greater impact.

Her approach is a balance of directness, openness, focus and warmth, in-sync with her clients and their goals. With insights, challenge and support, Nicole connects to build authentic relationships that foster growth, practical learning, and action. She has served in leadership roles as a consultant and in director and executive level positions in the construction, real estate, architecture, and engineering industries.

Nicole has a B.S. degree in Business Management from Pepperdine University and a M.A. degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. Nicole has coaching certifications from New Ventures West (Professional Coaching Certification) and International Coach Federation. She is certified with Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Emotional Intelligence (EQi) assessments. She is an Organization Development practitioner with training from the Institute for Organizational Development. She is also a massage therapist trained at the Institute for Psycho-Structural Balancing. Nicole is a co-owner of Alliance Property Group, a mission-driven, family-owned real estate development firm focused on affordable housing.

Nicole enjoys reading and curiously perusing in bookstores, music and dancing, nature-walks, gardening, travel, well-seasoned food, and time with cherished loved ones.

Daphne D. Miller

Consulting Partner

Daphne is a credentialed Executive Coach with more than 3,000 hours in one-on-one coaching. Her expertise is in working with individuals and groups with an emphasis on leadership development and developing strong cross discipline partnerships. She brings over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and leadership positions with the past 14 in leadership development, coaching and facilitation. Daphne challenges and supports her clients to meet their goals through finding new paths in meeting challenges.

Daphne has a BA in Communications and Business from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Before coaching, she was in Sales and Marketing with the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company and Kinko’s Corporate, where she served in leadership roles. She is certified by Newfield Network and George Mason University in its Advanced Coaching program.

In addition to her coaching practice, she also serves as a Coach Fellow in the George Mason University Coaching for Well-Being and Leadership Coach Training Program.

Daphne has worked with multiple federal agencies including the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Department of Justice, DHS, FEMA and HHS. She has coached a broad mix of leaders in military and civilian roles, from those who are new to management to senior and SES level executives.

In her spare time, Daphne loves to read, cook and spend time outdoors. She longs to live in the mountains where she can hike to her heart’s content.

Adam Molyneux-Berry

Consulting Partner

Adam thrives when working with mission-driven leaders and organizations – especially those that are navigating complexity.

Over the last two decades he has worked with hundreds of high-impact leaders across Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East – with governments, Fortune 500 companies, social enterprises, nonprofits, SMEs, and at the White House. Adam supports these leaders to thrive in the midst of the challenges of complexity and uncertainty, whilst showing up as their best version of themselves in their teams, organisations, and at home.

In his own leadership journey, Adam has launched over 10 organisations – including SMEs, nonprofits and social businesses. Having experienced the full-spectrum of leadership challenges, from personal and team burnout, to systems-level collaborations during extreme uncertainty and volatility, Adam understands first-hand just what it takes to thrive, individually and collectively, in the midst of complexity.

In his coaching practice, Adam uses multi-disciplinary tools – accompanying leaders in their self-discovery of what moves them to be forces for positive change in the world. In his systems-change work, he works with changemakers across entire ecosystems, using Collaborative Innovation, Human Centred Design and Social Impact methodologies to solve shared challenges and scale impact collectively.

Adam has a BA in Philosophy, an Executive Program in Creative Leadership, and is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. He is a Professional Certified Coach, from New Ventures West, and holds ICF coaching credentials. Adam is an experienced Focusing practitioner and guide. He serves as Adjunct Faculty for New Ventures West and is a senior advisor to several high-impact organisations.

In his spare time, Adam loves working with nature. He lives in a small house, in a big forest, and together with his wife is creating a retreat center for well-being and systemic change.

Kate Muñoz

Consulting Partner

Kate loves helping leaders challenge themselves, scale their impact, and make great decisions with their teams that advance their missions.

Kate developed a passion for this work while serving as an executive advisor with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a “start-up” federal government agency full of leaders with big dreams and a spirit of adventure. She supported executives to make these ambitions a reality by facilitating shared decision-making among mid-level managers and providing pragmatic advice to executive leaders.

Along the way, observing how the best leaders led teams through volatility and uncertainty, Kate developed a commitment to the co-existence of ambition and well-being within people who lead high-impact organizations. Kate has completed an accredited coach training program in Leadership Coaching for Organizational Well-Being through George Mason University, and she is a member of the International Coach Federation. As a coach, Kate has worked with leaders at major companies, nonprofit organizations, and in the federal government.

Kate holds a law degree (JD) and a master’s degree (MA) in Civic Leadership and Political Science from the University of Illinois. In addition to her work as a leadership coach, Kate remains engaged in work in public policy. Outside of work, Kate is an avid knitter and consumer of audiobooks on history, science and technology, public policy, and business.

Peter Norlin

Consulting Partner

Over a 40-year career focused on helping people learn and change, Peter has done his best to pay attention to his own experience as a leader and to figure out what works—and why. When he worked as the executive director of an international professional association, served customers as an internal consultant-leader in nationally-known business settings, or managed his own consulting practice, he watched carefully how powerful, effective leaders think, and then what they do to design and shape the future of their organizations. Specifically, the future that’s necessary . . . because they’re already living in it.

So now he’s able to apply his decades of experience to give the leaders and organizations he works with carefully-targeted, just-in-time support. How, for instance, do they develop the self-awareness and self-understanding that’s required now to welcome, value, and integrate workers with widely-different backgrounds and expectations? Or, depending on a specific, personal need, how can they sharpen their own strategic thinking, business planning, culture development, team collaboration, or influence skills? And then, of course, based on broader organizational needs, how can he help leaders to design and facilitate the best approach to guide their organizations through whatever they’re facing, whether entrepreneurial start-up, large-system change, cultural integration following mergers and acquisitions, or organizational renewal?

Also, since he’s both curious and (reasonably) courageous, Peter has worked with leaders in corporate, government, and not-for-profit settings; from two-person partnerships to Fortune 100 companies; and in manufacturing, health care, education, retail, hospitality, legal, financial services, entertainment, and professional services sectors. His teaching experience also includes faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University.

Vernita Parker

Consulting Partner

Vernita partners with senior leaders to facilitate individual and organizational transformation. She has worked with the federal government, private and non-profit sectors, and universities. Representative clients include: Booz Allen Hamilton, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, U.S. Department of Defense, INOVA Health Foundation, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Duke University/Southern University and the Global Coalition against Cervical Cancer.

Vernita’s coaching and consulting approach is collaborative and focuses on inquiry, gaining new insights, and action. She partners with her clients to explore new ways to leverage their strengths, and create strategies to address areas that may limit their organizational impact. Vernita is also a certified yoga Instructor, and has a deep understanding of mind, body connection. She incorporates this knowledge into her work, exploring how mind body integration impacts the way leaders show up in all areas of their lives. Her philosophy is: once you deepen your connection to yourself, you increase your capacity to deepen your connection to the world around you.

Vernita has a M.Ed. in Counseling and the following certifications: Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation; Resilient Leadership Coach; Certified Professional Integral Coach, New Ventures West (NVW). She is also an adjunct faculty member for NVW’s year-long Professional Coaching Course.

Vernita loves dancing, listening to music that touches her soul, being in nature and finding cool new vegan spots to dine.

Sukari Pinnock-Fitts

Consulting Partner

Believing strongly in an “action-oriented” approach, Sukari works with individuals and organizations to maximize human potential, cultivate talent and enhance group and individual performance. In the two decades spent as an Executive with a mid-sized nonprofit organization, she developed a unique understanding of the need for effectiveness, efficiency and commitment in both mission and profit-driven organizations. Sukari understands that in bringing about small shifts — in awareness, thinking, behavior, intention and action — significant change can emerge to help propel her clients forward.

Sukari is a seasoned Organization Development consultant and PCC-level ICF-certified Coach, specializing in cultural competency, leadership and executive development, organization transitions and team building. Her Master’s degree in Organization Development is from American University. Her undergraduate degree in Labor Studies is from National Labor College. She holds certificates in Leadership Coaching and Mentor Coaching from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is an NTL-certified Diversity Trainer and is also a certified Gestalt Organization and Leadership consultant.

Sukari has worked with clients in organizations including AARP, American Federation of Government Employees, American University, Atlanta Housing Authority, Busboys & Poets Restaurant Group, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Health Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Federal Reserve Bank, George Washington University, IRS, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, National Education Association, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Potomac Health Foundation, Service Employees International Union, and Weissberg Foundation.

Her favorite quote: “Chance favors the prepared mind.” (Louis Pasteur)

Abigail Thies

Consulting Partner

Abigail brings to her clients over 17 years of experience in strategic planning, project management, small group facilitation, training, and leadership development gained primarily working in the federal government and university sectors. She successfully helped internal client groups tackle their toughest challenges, to include developing effective leadership strategies for large change efforts, overcoming long-standing collaboration challenges, and integrating training to support effective skill development. Abigail is passionate about helping her clients make great organizations even better, and dedicated to partnering with leaders who want to transform their workplaces into organizations that truly serve both their own mission as well as the people who make it happen. Recent consulting projects have included building momentum for long-term change management projects, structuring effective organization development programs and deliverables, aligning strategic objectives with current resources and capabilities, workforce planning and training needs assessments, and creating programs that sustain employee resilience.

Abigail holds a Master of Public Service and Administration degree from the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M, accreditation from the Executive Program for Organization Development and Change Leadership from Georgetown University, and is credentialed as a PCC by the International Coach Federation (ICF).

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