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Profiles of Guild Members
 Alan Rodda, Ph.D.
Dr. Alan Rodda, Managing Partner of Leadership Solutions, has been a consultant and strategic coach of top executives for the last ten years. He has an extensive background as an executive, organizational development and behavior strategist, communications consultant, and leadership coach working with top management and boards of Fortune 500 companies and large public and non-profit organizations. Alan is also a certified facilitator and systems analyst and has guided scores of leaders through his leadership development and strategic planning processes. Alan has advised technology and non-technology entrepreneurs in company launches, and served on their boards. His leadership and management experience includes non-profit organizations where he served as the Executive Vice President of a major non-profit; played a major role in restructuring their corporate headquarters, refocused its governing role resulting in millions of dollars in annual operational savings, and created and managed the human resources systems and management development programs worldwide.
 Cheryl Jordan
Cheryl Jordan is a Master Certified Coach of senior and mid-level executives providing coaching and organizational effectiveness services and brings over 10 years experience to the field. With her roots in organizational development and change management, Cheryl works with customers and partners to overcome professional impediments; have the ability to self-correct; continuously strive for excellence; improve interpersonal relationship skills; enhance communications skills; hone emotional intelligence abilities; and exhibit strong leadership competencies. Cheryl has served as an executive with a major corporation and was responsible for the Division’s $13 million marketing communications budget. In that capacity, she negotiated the marketing communications strategies for all global sales offices, facilitated and managed Department goals, handled the buys and helped to create the communications training and sales programs for all product lines. She then started her own marketing communications company advising government agencies, hospitals, utilities, and Fortune 10 corporations in the assessment, creation, and implementation of marketing and advertising strategies; helping them take advantage of all the potential media for maximum impact.
 Ron Sloan
Ron Sloan’s expertise is in providing dynamic coaching and consulting to businesses, organizations, and government entities who are trying to develop innovative programs and services. In a career spanning over 30 years, Mr. Sloan has significant experience in the senior management of several not-for-profit organizations as well as for-profit institutions. He has a strong background in leadership and executive coaching, operations, business development, joint venture marketing and development, strategic planning, organizational redesign/reengineering, and employee training and development. With an educational background that includes a Masters of Education in Counseling Psychology (MEd.), a Masters of Business Administration (MBA), and a Leadership Coaching Certification from Georgetown University, Mr. Sloan is uniquely qualified to help businesses focus on attracting and keeping the type of managers and employees that establish the foundation for greatness.
 Linda Hall
Linda Hall has over 25 years experience as an executive, leader, and manager and over 15 years experience as a Master Certified Coach (ICF designation) working with senior executives and their teams as they seek to grow in their ability to lead and have increasing impact in their work. Her clients use her as a sounding board and thought partner as they shape their workplace, grapple with difficult decisions, find their way through political situations, lead a team in a project, or find a leadership path that works for them and their organization. When working with clients, she has helped them master leadership skills and tools to enable them to envision, grow, shape, innovate, and take action masterfully. She has helped executives reach financial goals, achieve promotion, complete large projects, change cultures, transition to new roles, survive and thrive during organizational turmoil, become masterful in connecting and communicating, and reach personal goals while maintaining high level professional performance
 Manya Arond-Thomas
Manya Arond-Thomas brings over three decades of experience in human and systems development to her work as an executive and business coach, trainer, consultant, and public speaker. Her unique qualifications include process orientation; coaching, facilitating, consulting, and training experience in a broad range of contexts including business, non-profit, education, health care, and human development arenas; deep understanding of human behavior and effective use of insight to diagnose problematic situations and strategize and support planned change efforts; effective integration and use of behavioral & organizational assessments including MBTI, DISC, PIAV, Reiss, Infotool, and others; and skill in designing programs that integrate experiential and skill-based learning with didactic, information-based learning. She has designed and presented numerous workshops, classes, and presentations on such topics as: Women in Leadership; Leadership Development; Emotional Intelligence & Resilient Leadership; Giving & Receiving Feedback; Managing Difficult Conversations; Building Top-Performing Teams; Use of Dialogue for Facilitating Divergent Viewpoints; and How To Harness the Power of Strategic Intention to Develop Your Business & Organization. Her education includes post-graduate training in Psychiatry; M.D.; post-graduate pre-medical coursework at Harvard University; and a B.A. in Social Relations and Psychology.
 Tom Nees
Tom Nees has been an executive and leadership development consultant/coach in the nonprofit and faith-based world for over 35 years. Since 1975 as the founding director of the Community of Hope, a low-income neighborhood organization in Washington, DC, he has been involved in creating opportunities for others to serve as volunteers and leaders in their own neighborhoods. As the first director of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, USA/Canada he designed organizational development resources, including leadership training for over 200 neighborhood based organizations now located in every major US and Canada urban center with a combined budget of over $25 million. In 1995 became a director at the International Center of the Church of the Nazarene with responsibilities for leadership development for more than 5,000 parish clergy and judicatory leaders. He started Leading To Serve, in 2007, as a platform to continue writing, consulting and organizing programs to train and coach leaders in nonprofit and faith-based communities who serve the public good. He has published several books, numerous articles and essays.
 Brian Meshkin
Brian Meshkin is a responsible capitalist who has spent his life trying to prevent bad things from happening to good people by developing initiatives on childhood injury prevention, laboratory tests to prevent side effects to medication, and personalized treatments to stop the Top 3 Leading Causes of Preventable Death in the U.S. He is a Personalized Medicine Innovator leading the 1st blockbuster pharmacogenetics products that prevent injuries from adverse side effects and improve efficacy; and developing and launching the first commercially available nutrigenetic lab test and companion DNA-customized nutrigenomics programs targeting smoking, obesity, alcohol and drug addiction. He is an accomplished pharmaceutical executive in Health Information Technology having held progressive responsibilities for leading brands including Johnson & Johnson’s PROCRIT, and Eli Lilly & Company’s EVISTA and CIALIS. He is an experienced entrepreneur having started and sold companies, raised millions in private equity for numerous companies, and taken one venture on Germany’s Frankfurt stock exchange
 Lawrence (Larry) Solow
Larry Solow partners with clients to navigate complex change by strengthening and aligning people, processes, and strategy. Larry helps clients get results by creating customized solutions that are grounded in state-of-the-art theory while also being practical and user-friendly. Whether creating a “Total Learning Architecture” (People), implementing a Lean Six Sigma initiative (Processes), or facilitating a “Strategic Fitness Planning process (Strategy), he integrates the recognition of organizations as non-linear, “complex adaptive systems” (Alignment) into all of his projects. He brings real-world, hands-on experience and expertise to every client relationship. Larry has more than 25 years of internal and external change management experience. As an internal change agent, he has served as the Director of Continuous Improvement at Harley-Davidson and as Manager, Total Quality for a division of Honeywell (formally AlliedSignal Aerospace).
 Douglas Jordan
Doug Jordan's work is based in the belief that people can achieve their ‘calling’ through their work. As a management and career effectiveness coach, he seeks to help people achieve a fully congruent life: meaningful work and meaningful non-work. His mission is to help people achieve personal growth and ‘success’, however they might define it, and his gift is to listen to people in such a way that they hear themselves, and be energized in their discovery. With his roots in management assessments and coaching, Doug also works with customers and partners to provide strategic planning facilitation, assess organizational and management needs, and develop and deliver training programs. His clients have included Alcatel, Corel Corp, Adobe Systems, International Data Casting, Kinaxis Corp. Cognos Inc. Grenville Castings, Health Canada, Services Canada, Parks Canada as well as other Canadian Government Commissions and not-for-profit agencies.
 Alexander (Sandy) Davis
Sandy Davis has been coaching senior business leaders full time for the past 14 years. During that time span, he has developed a unique methodology for developing and sustaining personal resilience. Sandy has found that when his clients pay attention to this “atomic” or private aspect of their being, they become much more successful in the “molecular” or organizational aspects of their professional roles. The more resilient they become; the more agile and effective they become as leaders. They are able to increase their productivity, their level of success, and their personal fulfillment. Sandy has not only discovered what you can do to systematically increase your “resilience-readiness.” He has also codified precisely how to do this. Based on his successes in teaching others how to thrive in stressful times, he has authored and self-published a number of instructional manuals on this topic. He has also facilitated a membership-based resilience-readiness program that has been ongoing now for over five years. Through his speaking, writings, and teachings, he has become widely known as “The Resilience Guy.”
Sandy’s multifaceted career has spanned education, the arts, and business in roughly equal measure. He has made his living variously as an airplane pilot, a cabinetmaker, a freelance photographer, a teacher working with dyslexic children, a musician, a software engineer, a technical instructor, a manager, a business executive, and a professional coach. He brings this breadth of experience to his coaching and training. Before becoming a full-time leadership coach, Sandy spent 14 years successfully working inside several high-technology corporations, including nine years in director-level positions with global profit-and-loss responsibilities
 Ed Kropp, Ed.D. , PMP
With significant experience in private industry and government agencies, Ed Kropp's work has focused on serving the consulting needs of both areas. He specializes in the design and implementation of dynamic leadership training and development programs strengthened by his range of experience from military leadership to senior executive positions in industry. At the heart of his work is Ed’s strong commitment to individual growth and team building through counseling, personal development, and the application of leadership principles.
Ed also applies research techniques, honed by teaching for University of Virginia, to tailor individual programs to meet his clients’ objectives. Ed has led Marines in combat as well as organizing and executing major corporate initiatives, such as acquisitions and mergers and realignments. This broad experience has facilitated his focus on what is effective in both individual and team development as well as open and pragmatic communications throughout the client’s organization. Ed enjoyed parallel careers in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and several major corporations; specifically, AT&T, Science Applications International Corporation, and Bearing Point Consulting. His broad domestic experience includes managing the telecommunications and broadcast services for the International Olympic Committee during the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta. He has developed his strong international business knowledge through managing a worldwide Department of Defense contract on military installations throughout the Eastern hemisphere as well as managing major projects in Europe and Asia for prominent companies like Toshiba, British Telecom, and Olivetti.
 Lisa Marshall
Lisa Marshall is a nationally recognized authority on leadership maturity and the use of story in the workplace. Lisa brings an unusually eclectic approach to her work, combining interests in NLP, organization design, Speech Acts, strategic planning, neuroscience and chaos theory as well as her own original work in developing leadership maturity models. She specializes in working with strong technical leaders, whether in high tech, finance or start-ups. Through her work, she focuses on getting organizations to be as smart about their people as they are about their business. To do that, she works in three primary areas: leadership coaching with a focus on leadership maturity, scenario planning to face an uncertain and non-linear future, and helping organizations and their leaders build compelling stories for that future. Previously, Lisa was with Syntax Communication Modeling Corporation for 17 years, beginning as Office Manager and eventually becoming the Sr. VP. In that role, she both marketed and delivered communication and collaboration skills training to technical professionals. Realizing that “training” the soft skills required a very different approach; she helped develop a variety of follow-on coaching programs, and eventually transitioned full-time to organizational development and leadership/executive coaching. Lisa has consulted for Intel, the InterAmerican Development Bank, Capital One, EDS, Hewlett Packard, NASA, Taiwan Semiconductor and the Dept. of Agriculture. Her efforts have included developing leadership stories for organizations and individuals; motivating leaders to step up and helping to align their organizations; improving collaboration and team function; using coordinated coaching programs as a culture change tool. She has coached at senior executives at Intel, KPMG, Booz-Allen Hamilton, Accenture, the Department of Energy and EDS.
 Shelley Abramson
As a senior coach, Shelley provides leadership coaching and consulting for individuals and teams working inside organizations and on their own. Her breadth and depth of experience spans a wide range of industries, roles and levels. Shelley has in depth experience in the areas of executive coaching, legacy coaching, inter-generational coaching, team coaching and facilitation, virtual coaching, coaching internal coaches and line managers, work-life balance, corporate politics, conflict resolution, assertiveness and career development and management. Industries Shelley has worked in include Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Service, Retail Luxury Goods, Advertising, Marketing, Technology, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Not for Profit and Academia. Shelley began her leadership development career at Lee Hecht Harrison in Silicon Valley where she delivered coaching and career management services primarily for technology companies. After returning to the east coast in 2000, she played an integral part in growing and developing Lee Hecht Harrison’s practice into a prominent global talent solutions company of which she is still a part. Her primary focus was on quality delivery and she successfully designed and launched an internal certification program for what are now 240+ coaches globally. Shelley also develops and mentors executive coaches interested in increasing their own delivery skills.
 Rob McKinnon
The opportunity to witness growth in leaders and their executive teams has fueled Rob’s passion for working with companies as a coach and advisor. With over 15 years of practical experience leading organizations, coupled with formal post-graduate education in leadership consulting and coaching, Rob partners with corporate leaders to lead their organizations through periods of substantial change or turnaround, employing such critical skills as sound judgment, clear communication and effective execution; lead others by inspiring commitment, improving interpersonal skills, developing and empowering direct reports and turning internal conflict into constructive engagement; lead themselves through increased personal authenticity, courage, self-awareness and balance. Additionally, Rob coaches senior leadership teams to “get real work done” by cultivating the critical team ingredients of trust, unfiltered communication, commitment, accountability, and a focus on results. Rob has led or consulted with companies in a broad variety of industries spanning technology, military, financial services and banking, commercial construction, retail, hospitality, and biotech, as well as non-profits. He has shepherded organizations through start-up, turned around troubled companies, and infused new vision into established, mature businesses.
 Mary Ann Ruth
An award-winning manager, trainer, executive and career coach, and consultant, she is recognized for bringing out the best in people as a manager and coach. Throughout her career, she has significantly increased client and team productivity, and accelerated goal achievement. She served as nationwide expert in leadership development and change management and has designed and delivered innovative and award-winning programs including Career Development, Change Management, and Organization Development (OD). As Co-Leader for the IRS Nationwide Change Management Team, she designed and piloted a change and transition management process with employee engagement to assist restructuring and downsizing by 15,000 employees throughout the US. As an Executive and Nationwide Manager with 15 years supervisory experience, MaryAnn managed programs for a nationwide non-profit association as Executive Director; gained broader perspective on leadership and governance by serving on four boards of directors; directed the redesign and delivery of US & international executive and management training programs for 14,000 managers. led headquarters and field training and personnel programs for additional 10,000 clients (covering full cycle of HR responsibilities from recruitment thru retirement); and served as a government-wide advisor to other Federal agencies on management training and a resource for development of executive candidates through action learning at request of OPM. As a Senior Coach/Consultant, she has coached managers and advised executives on performance management and improvement; increased collaboration among subordinate managers, refined strategic planning, and trained teams in breakthrough problem solving to save an average of $500,000 per office. She has written, updated, and instructed more than thirty business skills courses. As a Senior Consultant, Facilitator, and Trainer, she has delivered over 1200 live and televised workshops and presentations to US and international audiences.
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Fairfax, VA 22030
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