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 Andrea Chilcote, CEO of Morningstar Ventures, transforms business outcomes by serving as a trusted advisor to leaders as they conceive and enact sustainable strategic objectives that align opportunities, talent, processes and structure. Andrea’s leadership and business change management strategies have enabled organizations to prosper as market leaders or weather unforeseen industry or economic downturns. For over eighteen years, she has inspired leaders and their teams to tackle the perceived insurmountable obstacles that are the key differentiators between mediocre outcomes and peak performance. Trust in Andrea’s expertise and values enables leaders to take a courageous risk that is transformative in their lives as well as the viability of their organizations.
Andrea has created unparalleled results with a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies in diverse business sectors. Her expertise spans:
- Leadership development through proven and innovative processes.
- Team and individual assessment to uncover hidden enablers or derailers of optimum collaboration.
- Innovative learning opportunities that strengthen technical and leadership competencies.
- Executive coaching that is personal, customized and gets results.
- Organizational design for a complex global world.
- Communications skills that make an intentional impact in a world of double speak and political correctness.
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Andrea’s work includes enterprise-wide organizational development initiatives as well as specific assignments with executives and their teams. One recent challenge was to engage leaders in a Fortune 500 company to build an organization that reflected a new purpose, mission, and values after years of constant change and turmoil within the industry and the organization itself. She created a custom competency model and corresponding 360 assessments, a performance management system that links business unit goals, core values and competencies to performance metrics, led succession planning and developed core leadership curricula with unique simulations and action learning projects.
Andrea is recognized as a trusted partner that gets results, as evidenced by the success of her practice and longevity of her client relationships. Her programs and methods meet leaders where they are in their own development and move them beyond the superficial to integrated behavioral change.
She has created numerous popular programs such as Courageous Conversations and Coaching Agility. Her Advanced Consulting Skills Course is sought-after, and she has authored diverse articles on the nature of change, leadership development and communication.
Andrea received her Bachelor of Science from Millikin University, her Consulting Practices Certification from the Meridian Institute, and she completed graduate studies at University of Kentucky, Lexington. She is certified in the Birkman Method and draws from an abundant collection of tools for assessment, facilitation, leading change, process improvement and personal development.
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 Carol
Horner
Carol Horner has extensive
experience in both the design and
facilitation of alignment
initiatives in corporations, small
businesses and non-profit
organizations. Her efforts create a
direct connection between the
vision, values and strategies of a
company and the day to day
activities of their people.
Carol's style is engaging and
impactful. She believes that in
order to affect positive and
productive changes in people's
attitudes, behaviors, and
relationships, you need to actively
involve them in their learning
process. Based on this principle,
she designs and delivers
state-of-the-art experiential
exercises that produce lasting
change.
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Karla Boyd, Ph.D. brings experience as a coach, teacher, therapist, group facilitator and community resource developer. The diversity of her practice includes teaching a wide range of topics at Universities, to individuals and to groups that reflect a cross section of society.
Karla is simultaneously powerful and compassionate, intuitive and practical. Her passion involves helping clients identify and pursue their own passions. She designs and delivers leading edge personal development workshops that create transformational change in individuals.
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 Suzanne Ficquette
Suzanne Ficquette brings 19 years of consulting experience to the Morningstar team. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Organizational Communication. Her client base is in the lumber and building industry, the insurance and financial services industry and as well she has worked with the Coca-Cola Company in Florida.
Suzanne frequently lectures on suicide intervention to local colleges and other organizations. She lives in Florida with her husband and two teenage children.
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Lisa Jackson
During Lisa Jackson’s 20 years working in the human performance business, her unique combination of honesty, humor, and directness has inspired hundreds of people to exceed their desired performance goals.
She successfully managed two businesses through significant growth and profitability, focusing on building commitment, accountability, and loyalty among individuals and teams.
Lisa’s current focus is on helping business leaders commit to realistic and sustainable steps to achieving their vision and reducing communication gridlock in organizations.
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Marie Louise LaFond
Marie Louise has over 20 years of experience as a leader within the telecommunications and insurance industries. Her hands-on experience in both corporate and field office settings gives her a working knowledge of the many business challenges that confront her clients. Marie Louise’s talent for helping people discover and apply common sense solutions to business issues helps her partner with her clients, facilitate effective group meetings and present training that gets results. Her areas of expertise include teambuilding, leadership training, business planning as well as organizational design and implementation.
Marie Louise holds a Master of Science in Organizational behavior providing a foundation of academic theory and best practices that support her practical approach.
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 Deborah Sparks
Deb’s outstanding work as a classroom facilitator is the result of business practice rather than business theory. She has extensive experience leading sales force development, interpersonal and customer service skills, and coaching skills for managers within a rapidly changing call center environment.
Deb’s industry focus is Wireless Telecom including Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS, Nextel, Cingular as well as mass media companies such as Turner Broadcasting.
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John Stoker
John has a wide spectrum of consulting experience in a variety of industries: electric utility, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, banking, telecommunications, aerospace, and state government. Much of his experience is centered in deep-change interventions, which focus on creating a vital culture. Because the primary goal of such intervention work is continuous improvement to assure organizational vitality, John possesses strong professional competence in creating and implementing programs in leadership development, mental model shifting, performance management, dialogue, rewards and recognition, and change leadership. He is also an experienced one-on-one coach in communications and leadership development.
He holds advanced degrees in Organizational Behavior and Development as well as Law, and he has taught at Brigham Young University for the past 13 years. John authored the program “DialogueWorks.”
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 Susan
Reece, Ph.D.
Susan Reece
Ph.D., president of Dalton Spencer
Consulting, Inc. partners with
Morningstar to guide insightful
transformations in leadership and
strategic thinking with leaders and
their teams.
Susan Reece consults with leadership teams
to create human capital and business
strategies that produce profitable
growth and sustainable success. She
draws upon broad business expertise
honed through operational, human
capital and international leadership
roles along with her passion for
coaching executives to maximize the
true potential of leaders and their
organizations. She has worked with
organizations at all phases of the
corporate lifecycle and in varied
industries including pharmaceutical,
distribution, consumer goods,
manufacturing, and medical device.
Dr. Reece led human resources and
corporate strategic planning
functions as the senior executive
for over ten years and is a licensed
industrial/organizational
psychologist with a Ph.D. from the
University of Georgia. Her extensive
business education was acquired at
the London Business School, Duke
University and the University of
North Carolina. Susan is the creator
of the Dalton Spenser Strategy
Preference Indicator©
and her speaking engagements include
the MKG Financial Hour radio show,
the Oregon Leadership Summit, and
the Pacific Northwest Human Resource
Strategic Forum. Her article,
Strategic Thinking. Learn to
Optimize its Power, was
published in the January 2008
edition of Leadership Excellence.
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 Betsy Pickren
Betsy Pickren, MS. Ed., CPCC
spent fifteen years with one of the nation’s largest training and consulting firms where she helped create the training and consulting division, and managed the group responsible for serving the needs of more than 3000 clients.
In addition to a Masters Degree in Adult Education, she is certified by many of the nation’s leading experts in change management, team development, personal growth and organization development.
Betsy’s talents are broad, but her passion is coaching. In addition to her professional work in this area she volunteers in community and non-profit projects and is a mentor for Georgia 100, a prestigious mentoring program for women in business.
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 Deborah
Waitley, Ph.D.
Deborah
Waitley, Ph.D., has over 20 years of
experience designing and
implementing talent development,
performance management and employee
engagement initiatives. In
consulting, coaching and executive
management roles, she has been
instrumental in the implementation
of top leadership training, team
development and change management
programs within a variety of
industries.
With Deborah's expertise in brand
imaging, consumer psychology and
internal communications, combined
with her unique skills and knowledge
in organizational behavior and
transpersonal psychology, she
provides a creative approach to
achieving results.
Deborah is co-author of Executive
Excellence's "The Psychology of
Winning for Women," and has traveled
throughout the U.S. and
international lecture circuit. She
has been featured on numerous
cable-TV and radio programs as an
expert in personal and professional
development. Her style is dynamic
and engaging, with a focus on
practical application and behavioral
change.
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Gerry L. Schmidt
Gerry Schmidt, PhD brings over
thirty years of experience to his work as a consultant, coach, and trainer; helping organizations improve business results through people. He has spent his career studying the predictable behavioral and thought processes of exceptional leaders.
Gerry offers three significant distinctions in the consulting field:
- Deliver results rather than advice
- Strengthen the capabilities of clients, rather than create dependency
- Find the smallest solution to make the biggest difference.
In addition to his work as a consultant he has served as Executive Vice President of Arc International, a consulting firm specializing in large scale organizational change; is the author of a best-selling Nightingale-Conant audio program, and has been a senior trainer and consultant for an internationally renowned professional training company.
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 Linda Tennant
Linda Tennant has a passion and talent for helping individuals and business leaders create positive change in the areas of Strategic Planning, Personal and Team Productivity, Goal Achievement and Leadership. Using a unique process, clients identify their desired outcomes, internal and external obstacles, and gain insights that lead to permanent behavior change. Linda believes that long term behavior change is a result of personal vision and buy-in, internal motivation, skill development, and accountability.
Formerly, Linda was Vice President of an international hotel chain. She proved herself in direct sales, after which she progressed into sales management and then branched further into training. She has trained over 2,000 hotel managers and salespeople throughout the world. Today Linda specializes in designing and delivering change programs in a variety of industries; most recently focused on the transportation industry.
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