Our Team

Global Outreach

Tamara Nemo

New York, NY

Tamara Nemo has over 25 years of experience working with clients to formulate and execute their business and talent development strategies. Currently, she works with a broad range of clients as a facilitator, corporate trainer, and executive coach based in New York. Previously, she was the Global Head of Training for the Securities Division at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman, she designed, implemented, and led management, leadership, and technical training to over 5,000 colleagues across the globe.

Prior to her role at Goldman, Tamara provided executive coaching, consulting, and management training for Fortune 100 global organizations at Korn Consulting Group. Tamara was also a leader in the Strategy and Transformation Management Consulting Practice at Capgemini focused on Financial Services Companies. Tamara holds an M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business and a B.A. from the University of Rochester. She is also certified as a Six Sigma Greenbelt and in MBTI (Meyers Briggs) and HBDI (Hermann Brain) diagnostics.

  • Jeff Carlson

    Boston, MA

    Jeff brings over 20 years of professional training in psychology and organizational development experience to his clients. Jeff’s focus is working with senior leaders to drive business performance by aligning leadership, mindset and behavioral change.

  • Carson Johns

    San Francisco, CA

    Carson has over 15 years of experience in leadership development, training and coaching with expertise in the dynamics of human interactions. He excels in identifying and drawing out the unique talents and strengths of individuals and teams.

    Carson also has significant experience in designing and delivery diversity, inclusion and belonging programs across organizations of varying size and industries.

  • Brett Gajda

    Toronto, Canada

    Brett has 15 years of experience as a professional facilitator, has worked internationally with professionals, management teams, executives, and consultants in various industries – helping to design solutions from the ground up, and empowering individual performance through coaching, trainings, and workshops.

  • Val Tremblay

    San Francisco, CA

    Val’s contagious energy and pragmatic wisdom set her apart as a facilitator and coach. From new managers to established CEOs across numerous industries, she inspires people to gain life-changing insights and put them into concrete action.

  • Jyoti Balakrishnan

    Delhi, India

    Jyoti has 20 years of professional experience as a facilitator and executive coach. She brings a truly global perspective as someone who studied in Europe and has resided in multiple regions of the world, but now settled in Asia Pacific. She has mostly focused in the financial services and technology industries but also has experience working with marketing/advertising, manufacturing, hospitality and government clients. She is a certified coach with the Neuroleadership institute and has a passion for working with people across various levels of experience.

  • Ryan Schadt

    New York, NY

    Ryan Schadt is an executive coach, facilitator, and former financial risk manager whose focus is helping leaders and teams drive performance through purpose-based leadership, mindset, and behavioral change. Ryan spent the first 13 years of his career in investment banking and professional services, where he led individuals and teams through transition and change, across various roles including credit derivatives sales and risk management – specifically covering hedge funds and private equity. As an ICF accredited Executive Coach and a certified Financial Risk Manager Ryan also has held series 7 and 63 licenses.

  • Cam Smith

    Melbourne, Australia

    Cam has 11 years as a trainer, facilitator, pitch consultant and coach. He designs programs in a methodical, process driven and pragmatic manner, with a focus on understanding the client context and language.

  • Sharon Landau Berney

    Philadelphia, PA

    Sharon brings 30 years of experience in client success, advising clients across diverse industries including technology, telecom, healthcare and hospital systems, education, retail, financial services and non-profits. She brings a unique energy, creativity and relentless results-driven winning attitude to help build human-first, customer-centric organizations and unlock new opportunities for personal, team and business growth.

  • Carolyn Dewing-Hommes

    New York, NY

    Carolyn’s leadership training builds on a 20-year career in corporate and private banking. Previously, she served as a Senior Vice President with HSBC’s Private Bank managing a global team and spent 15 years with Citigroup in working in New York, Sao Paulo, London and Hong Kong holding various client-facing and leadership positions. She is the author of “fired Up or Burned out: How to Reignite your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity” and is conversant in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Carolyn is certified in Hogan Assessments and works extensively with MBTI and 3600 assessments.

  • Mac Ling

    Hong Kong

    Mac has over 13 years of experience working with leaders and organizations to formulate and execute their business and talent management strategies. Currently, he works with a broad range of clients as an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership consultant, based in Hong Kong.

  • Scott Wigley

    New York, NY

    Scott has 15 years of experience in developing leaders for some of the most well-respected Fortune 50 organizations. He works with senior executives primarily in financial services media and technology.

  • Leesa Shannon

    Sydney, Australia

    Leesa has spent the last 20 years consulting to a vast array of organizations, including blue chip multinationals, start-ups, not for profit and high-profile individuals. Her work focuses on the vision and messaging within organizations.

  • Jo Cohen

    London, UK & Jerusalem, Israel

    Jo has a background in the fields of Telecommunications and Financial Services where she engaged in Business Development and Account Management of global Blue-Chip organizations.

  • Ravi Hundalani

    Mumbai, India

    Ravi brings 27 years of industry experience including 23 years of enabling mid-to-senior leaders in Fortune 500 organizations to augment the productivity & morale of their teams, retain & develop talent, grow profits & achieve the strategic goals of the enterprise.

  • Kriti Payne

    Sydney, Australia

    Kriti has over 23 years of experience working with one of the Fortune 100 companies as a Service Delivery Leader supporting learning and development needs across the US, EMEA, and APAC regions. She spent 19 of those years as a global manager at American Express based in India. Kriti is also certified in multiple learning tools including Situational Leadership, DiSC, MBTI, DDI FCP Certified on Interaction Management.

  • Sara Ironside

    San Francisco, CA

    Sara brings over 15 years of experience in organizational development, at a global level. Sara has worked with clients in both non-profit and corporate environments globally and industries including healthcare, technology, and financial services.

  • Karen Gilhooly

    Chicago, IL

    Karen brings significant experience as a senior executive with expertise in directing diverse, cross-functional customer-facing teams across the globe. She has successfully implemented transformation agendas, and change management programs resulting in high performing sales cultures, increased employee engagement, and improved customer satisfaction scores. She has held a variety of senior leadership roles at HSBC and Citibank along with several payment technology firms and has deep experience in Cash Management, Private Equity Turnarounds, Venture Capital Start-Ups, Global Banking, and Public and Private Companies.

  • Avital Carmon

    Hong Kong

    Avital has over 15 years of experience as a leadership development specialist. Her work ranges from coaching individuals, intact teams, and groups, to facilitating custom designed programs and off-sites.

  • Karen Saravia

    Miami, FL & Latin America

    Karen is bicultural and brings a unique depth of knowledge and passion to her coaching work. Having spent the first part of her career as an executive recruiter at Spencer Stuart and Korn Ferry in Colombia with a diverse portfolio of companies, she developed a broad-based knowledge and understanding of different industries and cultures.

    Karen has worked with different executive levels from executives to individual contributors in the entertainment, retail, energy and biotech industries.