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Michael Cassella, Ph.D.
Michael J. Cassella, Ph.D., is a leadership psychologist and executive advisor with over 20 years experience helping organizations and individuals improve working relationships, and enhance personal and professional performance. He works across a broad spectrum of business sectors, including healthcare, technology, banking & financial services, insurance, federal & local government, consulting/recruiting, and education.
Dr. Cassella began advising managers for a Fortune 25 technology firm, providing coaching to nearly 100 managers in the organization. He provided executive assessment and coaching while he worked for a major human resources consulting firm, coaching many of their clients including the U.S. Postal Service, Nortel Networks, and a variety of pharmaceutical companies. For the past seven years, he has consulted with a top- five global strategic management firm, providing coaching and development to their associates and partners. He is also currently working on a series of projects with a global financial services firm, one of which involves assessing and selecting individuals for VP-level management roles and providing extensive feedback and developmental planning to these potential managers.
Michael has extensive experience designing, delivering and managing learning and development programs and utilizing other behavior change technologies, addressing both individual and group dynamics. He is an expert in the use of projective measures to assess underlying behavioral precursors. He developed and managed the learning and development functions for two global financial services organizations. He consulted to the Executive Committee of a private psychiatric hospital on the development and implementation of survey instruments to track the quality of patient care. He evaluated the efficacy of the diversity awareness change efforts for a major metropolitan city. Michael has taught graduate-level psychology classes in assessment methodologies and as an adjunct professor, Michael was part of an alliance with John Hopkins University and Montgomery College developing curriculum and providing instruction in leadership development.
Michael earned a dual Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Clinical Psychology from the Marshall Goldsmith School of Business and the California School of Professional Psychology, an M.B.A. from the School of Business at the University of New Haven, and a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Saint Michael’s College. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and resides in the Boston area with his very patient wife, Patricia.
Tresa Eryes
Tresa Eyres is a world class process design and training development expert who has helped numerous organizations improve their productivity and profitability. She designs, develops, delivers and implements practical programs that cultivate a well-trained and motivated work force. Through flawless and collaborative team building, team planning and execution, Tresa ensures the right results.
Tresa Eyres has spent more than 25 years helping clients improve their productivity and profitability through skillfully-targeted and effective projects and training programs. She has earned her stripes in industries ranging from trade associations to finance to high-tech She is an accomplished instructional designer, business analyst, and project manager who is at her best clarifying the needs and expertise of her clients in order to help pave their way to success. She designs, develops, delivers and implements programs that cultivate a well- trained and motivated work force. Her on-target exercises and tools make it easy for people to learn new skills and repeatedly apply those skills on their own at any time.
Programs with Tresa’s signature have been used to train and assist hundreds of corporate employees nationally and internationally. She has filled management, team, and project management roles in the U.S., Singapore and Turkey. She works with both individuals and teams in mid-market companies and major divisions within large organizations. She helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and non- profit organizers. Her programs apply to all public and private companies as well as non-profits in any industry and service area. She is co-author of three highly regarded self-help business books. Her client list includes Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 clients in financial services, high-tech, bio-tech, retail, and energy industries.
Tresa has an MA in Education as well as certification and on-the-job experience in instructional design, project management, computer programming and technology applications. She is a certified facilitator for Development Dimensions International (DDI) programs and a California Department of Government Services approved contractor.
Tresa avidly supports volunteerism, regularly donating her time and expertise to global and educational charitable organizations that reflect her convictions about community, collaboration and communication.
Ray Grymski
Ray Grymski has 25 years of experience consulting to over 100 organizations that include Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized businesses, and hospitals.
He specializes in helping Boards and executives implement strategic change. Specific assignments include: organizational redesign, Executive Team development, mergers and acquisitions, and Change Management. Clients include: 3M, Motorola, Allstate, Ascension Health, RR Donnelley, and Kaiser Permanente.
Ray’s consultation often includes coaching CEOs and other executives by providing helpful feedback, provocative insights and specific action steps to help these individuals simultaneously pursue organizational goals and personal success.
He held Senior Manager positions with Deloitte Consulting and Ernst & Young. Early in his career, he was employed in the Human Resources Department of the Miller Brewing Company. He received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University, which included doctoral-level coursework in Organizational Behavior and a concentration in Information Technology, and he pursued post-graduate education at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Carol Limperos - Houston
Carol Limperos is an expert coach and facilitator for senior business leaders, high-potential managers, and their teams. Carol works with leaders who want to continue their success and provides insights from her real-world business experience as a catalyst to enhance individual and organizational performance. She specializes in areas of executive presence, organizational savvy, and accelerated leadership development.
She is engaged by professionals who must step up in ways new to them during high-stake situations as they encounter challenging promotions, make-break decisions, communication conflicts, or organizational shifts. Clients rely on Carols pragmatic approach and mentoring style inspiring them to take action and drive visible results in context with their organizations strategic goals, values, and political culture. Location: South Central USA.
Carol draws on her personal experience as a corporate senior manager, entrepreneur, and executive search consultant. Clients use the insights from her real-world business experience as their own catalyst to success.
She specializes in areas of executive presence, organizational savvy, and accelerated leadership development. Her work as a coach and facilitator supports her clients and their teams as they: increase their leadership skills, revive organizational cultures, and expand their influence. Prior to becoming a coach, Carol led sales and marketing organizations for two publicly traded companies; she then founded and managed an executive search firm that placed senior executives. This combined experience permitted her to have in-depth conversations with hundreds of top-level professionals gaining greater understanding of the executive skills, thinking, and behaviors that create extraordinary leaders. She considers this unique access to the many sides of success a rare asset and shares it readily with her clients during their work together. Carols education includes: MBA from Texas A&M University, BS from the University of Texas, advanced certifications in coaching from the University of Texas and from the international Coach Federation. Additional certifications: Extraordinary Leader, Spiritual Intelligence, and Appreciative Inquiry.
Carols work includes CEOs, managing partners, senior executives, and functional heads in industries such as technology, management consulting, healthcare, transportation manufacturing, human services, venture-backed start-ups, not-for-profit, waste management, distribution, finance, and aircraft.
Example coaching assignments
- F50 company, 12-member senior management team faced intense organizational change with high political risk. Focus: Members desired to move through the change as grounded leaders able to take on new and greater leadership challenges
- The board of an international services firm stopped the promotion of the EVP to President. Focus: The EVP worked on formal and informal communication skills, appearance, and body language for more effective interactions with various audiences including board members and industry and financial analysts.
- High-tech SVP recently promoted to head up a 3000-member team lacked comfort transitioning to the new role. Focus: The SVP accelerated the job learning curve, created a roadmap for functional success, and established quality relationships with key stakeholders.
- Forty-five members of a high-growth team in a nationwide service company were chartered with repeating the past years success while avoiding burnout from over zealous planning. Focus: The teams managers restructured the way they would work to allow for organic growth around realistic goals.
- Senior-level clients who desire to expand their sphere of influence and position themselves for progressively visible assignments. Focus: Executives develop communication skills and compelling strategies to advance their initiatives to become more effectively known internally and externally able to bring value-added insights back into their organization, adeptly represent themselves and their direct reports, and effectively communicate throughout and external to their organization.
Carol enjoys the opportunity to work with business leaders who want to continue their success. Her own career experiences opened her eyes to the fact that excellent leaders can derive benefit from a coach who has traveled a similar path she now has an opportunity to give back in this way. She understands that coaching is a personalized relationship and customizes her coaching to the specific requirements of the individual and the organization. Carol is passionate about helping people succeed and organizations succeed through their people
Jacob Kupietzky
Jacob Kupietzky serves as President of HealthCare Transformation, LLC, (HT) an innovative company that provides tools and deep consulting support to Healthcare Providers across the country. He provides operational oversight for the company’s key strategic services including change management, strategic planning, operational effectiveness, quality process improvement and service excellence. HCT Consulting has serviced 5 of the 10 largest providers in the country.
Kupietzky formed the company after serving as a Vice President for Tenet Healthcare Corporation where he provided operational oversight and strategic direction for the company key initiatives including Commitment to Quality, Clinical Program Development, Balanced Scorecard and Target 100. Prior to that, he was a consultant for Fortune 500 companies on efficient ways to leverage technology in their core businesses.
Kupietzky has served a public sector consultant to the United States Marine Corps and the Department of Health and Human Services. He has also worked as a political consultant on a number of local and national political races where he had served in a variety of roles including speech writer, policy and minority outreach. Kupietzky is a noted public speaker in the area of healthcare transformation and change management.
Kupietzky holds a bachelor degree in political science with honors from Columbia University, New York and a masters degree in public policy where he was named an International Fellow and a Certificate of Excellence in Business Administration from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Kupietzky serves on the boards of a number of not for profits and is on the Deans Advisory Board at Columbia University and is a noted speaker in the area of change management in healthcare.