Our People

Contact David: hello@orgshakers.com

David Fairhurst is the Founder and CEO of OrgShakers, a practitioner-led global HR consultancy helping founders, CEOs, Boards, and senior HR leaders build stronger organizations through people strategy, leadership, culture, workforce transformation, and human-centered innovation. 

Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading HR practitioners, David brings more than 30 years of corporate experience across hospitality, retail, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, distribution, and aerospace. He has operated at the highest levels of global business, including as Global Chief People Officer during one of the most significant business turnarounds of its time. That experience shapes his belief that people strategy is not a support function, it is a core driver of business performance, growth, resilience, and transformation. 

David founded OrgShakers to bring together senior practitioners who have led real change inside complex organizations. Under his leadership, the firm combines board-level advisory, hands-on delivery, associate expertise, partner ecosystems, proven methodologies, and practical tools to help clients move from insight to execution. This means clients benefit not only from David’s personal experience, but from the collective depth of a global team built to solve complex people and organization challenges at pace. 

David personally advises CEOs, founders, Boards, and newly appointed Chief People Officers on the moments that matter most: shaping people strategy, building leadership capability, strengthening culture, navigating transformation, improving organizational performance, supporting growth, and preparing workforces for the future. He is known for combining commercial judgment, hard data, and practitioner instinct to challenge conventional thinking and create pragmatic solutions that work in the real world. 

In 2014, David predicted in the Financial Times that major global economies were approaching a “workforce cliff”, a period of labor scarcity that would materially affect business growth. That early insight, now widely reflected in today’s workforce challenges, reinforced his reputation as a forward-looking thinker who helps leaders anticipate change before it becomes urgent. 

David’s influence extends across business, media, government, and the HR profession. He has been referenced by major media organizations, including the BBC, has advised government and public-sector bodies, and is a respected speaker on the future of work, leadership, culture, and the evolving relationship between people and technology. 

‘David is just one of the best HR people I’ve run into.
He has great insight into the business and great instincts on what HR can do to help.”’
Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business

For four consecutive years, David was voted HR Magazine’s “Most Influential Practitioner,” receiving its lifetime achievement award in 2012. He was also the first HR professional to be named “Business Communicator of the Year” by the Institute of Internal Communications, an award previously given to figures such as Anita Roddick and Richard Branson. 

‘Business Matters. Business Success Matters. But above all, it’s a matter of people.’
David Fairhurst, from his 2009 book ‘Words for the “Whys”’

David is a Chartered Companion of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, its highest honor, and previously served as Vice President of Learning, Training and Development. He is also a Fellow of the RSA and a graduate Fellow of the CEO Perspectives program in the United States. He holds degrees from Lancaster University and Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by Manchester Metropolitan University and Middlesex University. 

Across his work, David remains focused on a simple conviction: business success depends on people, and organizations perform best when their leaders have the courage, capability, and clarity to shape the future rather than simply react to it. 

If you would like to connect with David or learn more about his professional background, please visit his LinkedIn profile here.

Contact Lauren: hello@orgshakers.com

 Lauren Kincaid is passionate about helping organizations unlock their potential through their people. She has a natural ability to cut through complexity, working alongside leaders to shape practical, impactful solutions that create real momentum.  

With over 15 years of experience across industries including retail, FMCG, construction, manufacturing, and aerospace, Lauren brings a thoughtful, grounded approach to her work. She’s equally comfortable supporting global organizations and fast-growing start-ups, quickly getting to the heart of what matters and turning ideas into action.  

Lauren thrives in dynamic environments and enjoys partnering with leadership teams to build clarity, strengthen capability, and set people up to perform at their best. Her style is collaborative, pragmatic, and focused on outcomes, always balancing big-picture thinking with what will actually land in the real world. 

Having lived and worked across the U.S., Europe, and Australasia, Lauren brings a global perspective and a genuine appreciation for different cultures and ways of working. Originally from New Zealand, she is energized by helping organizations think bigger, move faster, and realize what’s truly possible. 

Contact Therese: hello@orgshakers.com

 Therese Procter is a highly experienced Chief People Officer and trusted advisor to CEOs, Boards, and senior leadership teams navigating large-scale transformation, organizational change, and workforce performance. 

Formerly Chief People Officer at one of the UK’s major retail banks, Therese played a key leadership role in reshaping people, culture, and organizational effectiveness during one of the most significant periods of change in financial services following the global banking crisis. 

Today, she advises organizations across Financial Services, Telecoms, Hospitality, Retail, Healthcare, Distribution, Construction, and Property, helping leaders align people strategy with commercial priorities to deliver sustainable growth and transformation. Her expertise spans leadership effectiveness, workforce transformation, organization design, culture, employee experience, and executive advisory. 

Known for combining strategic thinking with practical delivery, Therese helps organizations create high-performing, resilient workplaces that strengthen capability, accelerate change, and improve long-term business performance. She is particularly valued for helping leadership teams navigate complexity with clarity, pragmatism, and pace. 

Alongside her consulting work, Therese serves on the boards of organizations across financial services, technology, and the not-for-profit sector, bringing a broad commercial perspective to the challenges facing modern organizations. 

Contact Natasha: hello@orgshakers.com

Natasha is a commercially focused HR leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations build stronger people foundations, navigate complexity, and create workplaces where employees can thrive. With experience spanning telecommunications, renewable energy, food, and construction, she brings a practical, hands-on approach to solving business challenges through people, culture, and operational excellence. 

Known for transforming fragmented HR operations into strategic, high-performing functions, Natasha works closely with leaders to strengthen compliance, reduce risk, and build scalable people practices that support growth. Whether establishing HR departments from the ground up, improving employee relations, or implementing fit-for-purpose people processes, she combines strategic thinking with a strong delivery focus to create measurable business impact. 

Natasha has deep expertise in employment law, HR compliance, and risk management, helping organizations identify both vulnerabilities and opportunities while creating cultures built on accountability, engagement, and belonging. Her approach is grounded in pragmatism, positive leadership, and a belief that strong organizational performance starts with people feeling supported and connected. 

She holds a Master’s degree in Law from Florida State University and maintains both PHR and SHRM-CP certifications. Natasha is also a former VP of Professional Development for the Greater Miami Society for Human Resource Management (GMSHRM), reflecting her ongoing commitment to advancing the HR profession. 

Contact Jenn: hello@orgshakers.com

Jenn Oswald is a seasoned People and Culture executive with 25 years of experience helping early-stage, high-growth, and scaling organizations build the people foundations needed to grow with confidence. 

As a Fractional Chief People Officer, Head of People, and Operating Partner, Jenn partners closely with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams at critical stages of growth. She has served as the first Chief People Officer or Head of People for eight companies, building People functions from the ground up while helping organizations move quickly, hire effectively, strengthen leadership capability, and create scalable operating rhythms. 

Jenn brings particular expertise in designing practical people infrastructure for fast-moving businesses. Her work spans recruiting and hiring systems, people operations, organizational design, leadership development, performance frameworks, culture building, and employee experience. She is known for combining strategic clarity with hands-on execution, helping leaders solve immediate people challenges while putting in place systems that can scale as the business grows. 

Her background across startups, a technology unicorn, Fortune 500 and Fortune 200 organizations, and hospitality gives Jenn a broad perspective on how people systems need to evolve at different stages of maturity. She brings a strong bias toward practical, high-impact solutions that are efficient, human-centered, and commercially grounded. 

Jenn’s approach is modern, pragmatic, and tailored to each organization’s stage, pace, and leadership needs. Whether supporting a founder as their first People leader, strengthening hiring and retention, preparing for growth, or helping leadership teams build healthier and more effective cultures, she helps organizations create the people foundations that enable sustainable performance. 

Contact Gordon: hello@orgshakers.com

Gordon is a trusted advisor to senior leaders navigating complex organizational change, helping businesses strengthen leadership, accelerate transformation, and build high-performing teams in times of disruption. 

With more than 28 years of experience advising both private and public sector organizations, Gordon specializes in the people side of transformation, supporting leaders through shifts in culture, operating models, leadership effectiveness, workforce dynamics, and technology adoption. His work focuses on turning complexity into practical action, helping organizations lead change with clarity, confidence, and measurable impact. 

Earlier in his career, Gordon built and led both the Global Change Management and U.S. Management Consulting practices at a top-ten global consulting firm, delivering large-scale transformation programs across telecommunications, healthcare, financial services, insurance, retail, transportation, government, and technology sectors. 

An experienced executive coach trained in the NeuroLeadership Institute’s Results-Based Coaching System, Gordon works closely with senior executives and leadership teams to strengthen executive presence, accelerate leadership transitions, improve strategic relationships, and navigate workplace complexity. He is particularly skilled in supporting C-suite leaders and newly formed executive teams to align quickly and perform at their best. 

His client portfolio includes senior leaders and executive teams from organizations such as Verizon, AT&T, Microsoft, Accenture, PNC Bank, McDonald’s, Levi’s, Converse, Goodwill Industries, and multiple state and city government bodies across the United States. 

Gordon holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an undergraduate degree from NYU, and a certification in Organization Development and Change Management from Georgetown University. He is also Founder and Chief Facilitating Officer of the Wharton International Network of Entrepreneurs (WINE). 

Contact Anya: hello@orgshakers.com

With more than 20 years of international experience across the US, UK, and global markets, Anya Clitheroe helps organizations unlock performance by aligning leadership, talent, culture, and people strategy to business outcomes. 

Beginning her career in commercial roles before moving into senior people leadership and consulting, Anya brings a practical, business-first perspective to organizational performance and transformation. She has partnered with organizations ranging from fast-growth businesses to complex global enterprises, helping leaders navigate change, strengthen capability, and build high-performing, engaged teams. 

Anya specializes in leadership development, executive coaching, talent and succession, organizational effectiveness, change, and team performance. She is particularly skilled at helping senior leaders and people teams accelerate impact during periods of growth, transformation, and evolving business demands. 

Known for her pragmatic and highly collaborative approach, Anya combines deep expertise with real-world delivery to help organizations create stronger leadership, better team dynamics, and lasting people outcomes. 

Anya is accredited in a range of leading assessment and coaching methodologies, including ICF, Hogan, HBDI, TMS, and MBTI. 

Contact Tara: hello@orgshakers.com

Tara is an experienced HR professional and CIPD-qualified practitioner who brings a practical, people-first approach to helping organizations build strong employee foundations and high-performing teams. 

With experience across financial services, retail, and hospitality, Tara has developed broad expertise across core people practices including employee relations, talent acquisition, performance management, and organizational development. Having spent several years in HR advisory and partnering roles, she is particularly skilled at working closely with leaders to solve people challenges in a pragmatic, commercially grounded way. 

Tara is known for her collaborative style, operational credibility, and ability to build trusted relationships quickly. Whether supporting day-to-day people priorities or contributing to wider workforce initiatives, she brings energy, professionalism, and a strong commitment to creating positive employee experiences that support business success. 

Passionate about continuous improvement and personal resilience, Tara is also a keen walker and marathon runner, reflecting the determination and discipline she brings to her work with clients. 

Contact Ken: hello@orgshakers.com

Ken Merritt is a trusted C-suite advisor, facilitator, and organizational strategist who helps senior leaders align business ambition with organizational capability to drive sustainable growth and transformation. 

With experience at global advisory firms including Korn Ferry and Deloitte Consulting, Ken brings deep expertise in helping organizations navigate complex change, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and align talent, structure, and performance with commercial priorities. He is particularly experienced in partnering with CFOs, finance leaders, and executive teams to improve organizational effectiveness, accelerate transformation, and build leadership capability that delivers measurable business outcomes. 

Known for combining strategic insight with practical execution, Ken works with organizations to tackle enterprise-wide challenges ranging from operating model transformation and leadership development to organizational design, talent strategy, and performance improvement. His experience spans mid-market organizations, private equity-backed businesses, and complex global operations, giving him a strong appreciation for both pace and scale. 

Alongside his transformation work, Ken has advised organizations on advancing leadership equity and creating more inclusive pathways for underrepresented talent, helping businesses strengthen both performance and culture. 

Ken holds a BS in Accounting from the Willie A. Deese College of Business & Economics at North Carolina A&T State University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Contact Juliet: hello@orgshakers.com

Juliet is an accomplished HR leader and trusted advisor with deep expertise in people strategy, leadership development, HR transformation, and organizational change. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), she has partnered with senior leaders to build high-performing people functions that align talent, culture, and capability to business growth. 

With experience spanning FMCG, hospitality, and FTSE 100 organizations, Juliet brings a pragmatic and commercially grounded approach to helping organizations navigate complexity, strengthen leadership capability, and create workplaces where people and performance thrive. She has a strong track record of leading large-scale transformation programs, embedding practical people strategies, and helping leadership teams accelerate business outcomes through stronger organizational effectiveness. 

Known for her energy, clarity, and collaborative style, Juliet works closely with leaders to solve complex people challenges, strengthen engagement, and build cultures that enable sustainable performance. Her expertise spans leadership and team development, talent and capability, HR transformation, employee experience, and senior stakeholder partnership. 

Passionate about supporting others to succeed, Juliet is also an active mentor, charity supporter, and advocate for developing people and potential. 

Contact Brittany: hello@orgshakers.com

Brittany Burton is a strategic operator and problem-solver who helps organizations create clarity, build scalable processes, and unlock capacity for growth. Known for her ability to bring order to complexity, she partners with leaders to simplify challenges, accelerate execution, and create the structures needed for teams to perform at their best. 

With experience spanning both high-growth start-ups and established organizations, Brittany brings a practical and commercially minded approach to transformation. She has worked across a range of sectors, including consumer goods, automotive, government contracting, and manufacturing, helping organizations navigate change, improve ways of working, and strengthen operational effectiveness. 

Brittany excels in environments where ambiguity, pace, and competing priorities are the norm. Her systems-thinking approach enables her to connect people, process, and priorities to identify the most effective path forward. Whether supporting organizational growth, implementing new initiatives, improving workflows, or helping teams operate more effectively, she combines strategic thinking with hands-on delivery to create momentum and measurable impact. 

A skilled communicator with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication – Rhetoric from East Tennessee State University, Brittany is passionate about helping leaders and teams cut through complexity, build capability, and focus on what matters most to achieve sustainable results. 

Contact Richard: hello@orgshakers.com

Richard Summerfield is a commercially focused Chief People Officer, Board Advisor, and Non-Executive Director with more than 25 years of international experience helping organizations navigate growth, transformation, and change. 

Having held senior people leadership roles across high-growth and complex businesses spanning telecoms, technology, financial services, private equity portfolios, and professional services, Richard brings a rare blend of strategic insight and practical execution. He works closely with founders, CEOs, Boards, and leadership teams to strengthen organizational performance through leadership effectiveness, culture, workforce transformation, and people strategy. 

Known for his commercially grounded approach, Richard is particularly skilled at helping organizations through periods of rapid growth, organizational redesign, leadership transition, and change of ownership. He combines strong business acumen with deep expertise in leadership, employee engagement, performance, and culture, ensuring organizations can grow while maintaining a strong values-led identity and inclusive, high-performing environment. 

A recognized thought leader in leadership and organizational performance, Richard is the author of Loving Leadership and is passionate about helping leaders create workplaces where people and performance thrive together. 

Richard holds a first-class degree in Biology and Psychology from Durham University, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), and is a qualified British Psychological Society (BPS) Level A and B Psychometric Tester. 

Contact Darren: hello@orgshakers.com
 

Darren is a CIPD-qualified Strategic HR Consultant, Non-Executive Director, and former Chief People Officer with extensive experience helping organizations navigate transformation, complexity, and growth. 

A trusted advisor to Boards, CEOs, and executive teams, Darren works at the intersection of people strategy and commercial performance, helping organizations solve complex workforce challenges, strengthen leadership capability, and deliver sustainable organizational change. His experience spans large-scale transformation, industrial relations, organizational design, culture, and executive advisory support. 

With particular expertise in private equity-backed and unionized environments, Darren is highly skilled at balancing pace, performance, and people priorities in high-stakes situations. Whether supporting business turnarounds, leading workforce transformation, or strengthening leadership effectiveness, he brings a calm, pragmatic approach grounded in real-world delivery. 

Known for his collaborative style, sound judgement, and ability to build trust quickly, Darren has led talent transformations, cultural change, and strategic HR initiatives across a range of sectors successfully. He provides both interim leadership and advisory support, helping organizations move confidently through periods of challenge, growth, and change. 

Contact Beth: hello@orgshakers.com

Beth Molinaro is a dynamic and commercially minded HR leader who helps organizations turn complexity into clarity. Known for her human-centered yet results-driven approach, Beth partners with leaders to align culture, leadership behaviors, workforce strategy, and organizational effectiveness with business goals. 

She brings deep expertise in helping organizations navigate transformation, strengthen leadership capability, and create high-performing cultures built on trust, accountability, and purposeful communication. Whether supporting senior teams through organizational change, improving workforce effectiveness, or helping leaders create greater alignment and momentum, Beth combines strategic thinking with practical delivery. 

With experience across a range of industries, Beth has a talent for simplifying complex people challenges into clear, actionable solutions that leaders and teams can immediately apply. Her ability to balance commercial outcomes with employee experience enables organizations to strengthen engagement, improve decision-making, and build resilience through change. 

Curious, entrepreneurial, and highly collaborative, Beth is passionate about helping organizations translate ambition into action and create environments where leaders thrive, teams perform, and people strategies deliver measurable impact. 

Contact Verity: hello@orgshakers.com

Verity is an experienced HR and talent specialist with deep expertise in leadership development, talent strategy, performance, and learning. She partners with organizations to unlock capability, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and build cultures where people can grow, perform, and thrive. 

With a strong foundation in corporate HR, Verity brings a practical and people-centered approach to helping businesses develop the skills, behaviors, and confidence needed to drive sustainable performance. Her experience spans talent management, leadership development, learning & development, performance management, and talent acquisition, enabling her to support organizations in aligning people capability with business priorities. 

Having started her career in broad HR leadership roles, Verity developed a particular passion for accelerating individual and team performance through impactful development experiences, coaching, and capability-building initiatives. She is especially skilled at helping organizations create environments where learning is embedded into everyday work, and leaders are equipped to bring out the best in their people. 

Verity has worked across a wide range of sectors, including retail, automotive, leisure, pharmaceuticals, and engineering and research organizations, giving her a broad commercial perspective and the ability to adapt solutions to diverse business environments. 

She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in HR Management from Middlesex University and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. 

Contact Andy: hello@orgshakers.com

Andy Parsley is a trusted advisor to senior HR leaders and executive teams, helping organizations turn employee insight into meaningful action that strengthens culture, leadership, and business performance. 

With more than 35 years of corporate experience, Andy brings deep expertise in employee listening, people strategy, organizational transformation, and stakeholder communications. He has supported organizations through complex business turnarounds, major mergers, workforce transformation, and cultural reinvention, helping leaders navigate change with confidence and align people strategies with evolving business priorities. 

Known for his ability to interpret both qualitative and quantitative workforce data, Andy helps organizations better understand employee experience, strengthen engagement, enhance employer reputation, and build cultures that reflect the needs of their people and customers. His work has also supported organizations in diversifying their workforce and creating more inclusive, community-connected cultures. 

Alongside his strategic advisory work, Andy is a valued executive counselor, coach, and confidant to senior leaders, bringing a thoughtful, pragmatic approach to leadership, influence, and organizational change. A biosciences graduate of the University of Durham, Andy is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (RSA). 

Contact Nicole:  hello@orgshakers.com

Nicole Barringer is a highly experienced People Operations and HR executive who helps organizations build strong, compliant, and scalable people foundations that support sustainable growth. With over 20 years of experience across global retail, manufacturing, technology startups, and federal contracting environments, she brings a unique blend of employment law expertise, operational excellence, and pragmatic people leadership. 

Holding a Juris Doctor (JD) in Employment Law and Labor Relations and certified in ethics and compliance, Nicole partners with executive teams to navigate complex workforce challenges with confidence. She specializes in aligning people practices with business strategy, helping organizations strengthen governance, mitigate risk, and create HR frameworks that enable performance while protecting organizational integrity. 

Nicole is particularly valued for her ability to simplify complexity, translating evolving labor regulations, workplace risks, and compliance requirements into practical, business-focused solutions. From policy design and workforce compliance to employee relations, workplace investigations, and organizational readiness, she helps businesses make informed decisions that balance legal precision with commercial outcomes. 

A trusted advisor to leaders, Nicole also supports organizations through periods of growth and transformation, building scalable people operations, strengthening leadership capability, and embedding ethical, high-performing workplace cultures. Her approach combines rigor with practicality, ensuring organizations are not only compliant but positioned to thrive. 

Contact Sonya: hello@orgshakers.com

Sonya Alexander is a seasoned HR leader with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations build practical, scalable people foundations that support growth, performance, and employee experience. 

She brings deep expertise across employee relations, recruitment and retention, performance management, benefits, payroll, HRIS, talent management, and HR operations. Having led HR across banking, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and multi-location organizations, Sonya is known for bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to complex people challenges. 

Before joining OrgShakers, Sonya served as Director of Human Resources and Chief People Executive for Morris Bank. She has spent 17 years as the top HR executive in organizations of up to 2,200 employees across fourteen locations, leading HR teams, modernizing systems, strengthening compliance, and implementing programs that improve engagement, accountability, and operational effectiveness. 

Sonya also brings a strong talent and leadership development lens to her work. Her experience in Central America gives her a valuable perspective on multicultural workforces, helping leaders create inclusive, connected, and high-performing environments. She is especially effective with growing organizations that need hands-on HR leadership, stronger people processes, and confident support through periods of change. 

Sonya holds a BBA in Management and Human Resources Management from Georgia Southern University and is a member of national and local SHRM chapters. 

Contact Andy: hello@orgshakers.com

Andy is a global talent and leadership advisor with more than two decades of experience helping organizations identify, assess, and secure the senior leaders they need to grow, transform, and compete. A former Managing Director for EMEA and Asia at one of the world’s largest recruitment firms, Andy has led operations across more than 350 locations and supported a business generating over $1 billion in annual revenue. 

Andy has advised boards, CEOs, CPOs, and executive teams across more than 30 countries, working with high-growth SMEs, complex multinationals, and organizations preparing for IPO, turnaround, expansion, or strategic transformation. His expertise spans executive search, leadership assessment, succession planning, talent pipelining, and strategic talent advisory, giving clients a practical and informed view of both current capability and future leadership needs. 

Most recently, Andy served as Vice President of Executive Resourcing at Alshaya Group, a $7 billion multinational employing 50,000 people, where he led accelerated executive hiring and strengthened approaches to internal and external talent identification. As an accredited leadership assessment practitioner, he brings rigor, insight, and evidence-based judgment to critical talent decisions. 

Known for his relational and commercially grounded style, Andy builds trusted partnerships with clients by understanding their business context, leadership challenges, and growth ambitions. Originally from the UK and now based in the United Arab Emirates, he brings a truly international perspective shaped by extensive experience across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. 

Contact Chris: hello@orgshakers.com

Chris is a trusted advisor to boards, senior executives, and compensation committees, bringing more than 35 years of experience across consulting and corporate leadership. He has advised organizations through complex moments of growth, restructuring, merger integration, and business transformation, helping leaders design people, reward, and benefits solutions that are practical, commercially aligned, and built to last. 

Having also served as an executive in a Fortune 100 company with responsibility for global compensation and benefits, Chris brings a rare blend of strategic design expertise and hands-on implementation experience. He understands how to move from concept to execution, ensuring programs are not only technically sound, but also clear, sustainable, and understood by the people they affect. 

Chris is particularly effective in high-stakes environments where clarity, credibility, and stakeholder confidence matter. Whether advising a Compensation Committee on executive incentive design, supporting a business through M&A or restructuring, or helping leadership teams strengthen reward and performance frameworks, he brings calm judgment, deep expertise, and a practical focus on outcomes. 

Contact Amanda: hello@orgshakers.com

Amanda Holland advises executives and leadership teams on workforce readiness, future of work, people strategy, and the practical integration of people, knowledge, data, and technology with organizational direction. 

With more than 30 years of government leadership experience across operations infrastructure, transportation, law enforcement, and budget strategy, Amanda brings a rare blend of public-sector insight, organizational expertise, and hands-on transformation experience. She has advised more than 25 state Departments of Transportation on building talent ecosystems, strengthening organizational dynamics, and connecting workforce, knowledge management, and technology strategies to operational performance. 

Amanda’s work helps organizations prepare for change, build leadership capability, improve resilience, and create the workforce foundations needed for long-term success. Drawing on her academic background in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Organizational Leadership, she brings a practical, evidence-based approach to helping agencies and complex organizations improve efficiency, unlock capability, and design more future-ready ways of working. 

Contact Marty: hello@orgshakers.com

Marty brings more than 30 years of HR leadership experience, helping organizations align people strategy with business priorities to improve performance, engagement, and organizational effectiveness. 

He has worked across global Fortune 500 businesses in both domestic and international roles, with deep experience in business operations, multi-site HR leadership, cultural transformation, change management, and high-performing team development. His background spans union and non-union environments, giving him a practical understanding of how to build people strategies that work in complex, real-world settings. 

Marty is particularly skilled at helping leaders connect strategy with execution, strengthen organizational capability, and create cultures where people can perform at their best. His work has included re-engineering business processes, leading diversity and inclusion initiatives, and supporting leaders through transformation at local, divisional, and corporate levels. 

He has served on the Diversity Committee of the American Red Cross of Chicago and Northern Illinois and was named a top executive in Corporate Diversity by Black Enterprise magazine. 

Marty holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management Executive Network, HR People + Strategy. 

Contact Karen: hello@orgshakers.com

Karen Cerrato is a seasoned HR leader with deep experience helping growing organizations build the people foundations, operating rhythms, and leadership capability needed to scale effectively. 

With a strong background in high-growth, fast-paced environments, Karen brings practical expertise across HR operations, workforce transformation, employee relations, talent, reward, performance, and people experience. She most recently served as Director of Human Resources for Lennox National Account Services, a division of Lennox International Inc., where she led HR operations for a national services organization that grew from approximately 300 to more than 800 employees across the United States. 

Earlier in her career, Karen held progressive HR leadership roles with Kos Pharmaceuticals, supporting complex operational environments and strengthening core HR practices across multiple Florida facilities. Her experience gives her a grounded understanding of what organizations need as they expand: scalable processes, clear policies, effective managers, engaged employees, and HR support that is both commercially aware and people-centered. 

Karen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Studies with a certificate in Human Resources from Barry University and a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management from Nova Southeastern University. She also served for six years on the Board of Directors for HRABC, the local SHRM chapter in Broward County, reflecting her long-standing commitment to the HR profession and to helping people and organizations perform at their best. 

Contact Dacia: hello@orgshakers.com

Dacia Faison-Roe brings more than 20 years of executive people leadership experience, helping organizations navigate growth, transformation, and the realities of leading through complexity. A trusted advisor to executives and leadership teams, she has built and led people functions at some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Apple, Pandora, Starbucks, and Etsy. 

Unlike consultants who advise from the sidelines, Dacia has held the roles she now supports, from HR Business Partner and Head of Learning & Development to Director of Internal Communications and Chief Human Resources Officer. Her experience spans people strategy, organizational design, leadership development, performance, employee experience, and culture transformation, giving her a practical understanding of how organizations create meaningful change at scale. 

Dacia is known for helping organizations close the gap between strategy and employee reality. She works with leaders to strengthen organizational effectiveness, elevate leadership capability, improve performance, and build cultures where people can thrive during periods of rapid change. Combining commercial pragmatism with a deeply human approach, she helps organizations move quickly, make better decisions, and turn ambitious people strategies into practical outcomes. 

Clients value Dacia for her straight-talking style, operational credibility, and ability to challenge constructively while building solutions that work in the real world, not just on paper. 

Contact Nakisha: hello@orgshakers.com

Nakisha Hicks is an executive coach and HR leader who helps leaders build the clarity, confidence, and emotional intelligence needed to lead effectively in today’s complex workplace. 

With more than 15 years’ experience supporting leaders, teams, and organizations through growth and change, Nakisha brings a practical, human-centered approach to leadership development. She is known for helping clients simplify complex challenges, strengthen trust, and translate insight into action. Her work supports leaders in becoming more self-aware, inclusive, and effective in the moments that matter most. 

Nakisha has coached and developed mid-to-senior-level HR professionals, high-achieving leaders, and leadership teams across corporate, nonprofit, and government environments. Her style is authentic, relatable, and direct, creating a space where leaders can challenge themselves, build capability, and improve the way they engage, influence, and lead others. 

Her expertise has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, EBONY Magazine, and Forbes HR Council, and she has spoken at leading industry events, including Transform, SHRM, NAAAHR, and Lattice. Through one-to-one coaching, group workshops, leadership development, and strategic HR consulting, Nakisha equips leaders with the tools to strengthen performance, elevate teams, and create lasting organizational impact. 

Contact Sayid: hello@orgshakers.com

Sayid Hussein is a seasoned technology and transformation leader who helps growing organizations build the digital, operational, and security foundations needed to scale with confidence. 

With more than 20 years’ experience across software development, systems architecture, network design, cyber security, and enterprise technology leadership, Sayid brings a practical, commercially focused approach to complex business challenges. He has led multi-million-dollar global change and transformation programs across IT, finance, legal, and business operations, supporting organizations through periods of growth, modernization, and strategic change. 

Sayid is particularly effective with small-to-mid-sized organizations and start-ups that need senior technology leadership without unnecessary complexity. Through virtual and onsite CIO, CTO, and CISO support, he helps clients strengthen their technology strategy, improve resilience, manage risk, and create systems that enable rather than slow business growth. 

A graduate in Law and French from De Montfort University, Sayid combines technical expertise with strong governance, commercial judgment, and change leadership capability. In 2017, he was recognized as winner of the IT Leadership category at the British Legal Technology Awards. 

Contact Mark: hello@orgshakers.com

Mark Quinn helps organizations create reward, performance, and compensation strategies that strengthen business performance while ensuring people and organizations get the best possible return from their investment in each other. 

With experience spanning consulting and senior in-house leadership roles, Mark brings a practical, commercially grounded perspective to complex people challenges. He has served as a Consulting Business Leader, Reward Partner, Head of Executive Compensation, Head of Reward, and HR generalist, giving him a broad understanding of how reward decisions connect to business strategy, leadership accountability, organizational design, and employee experience. 

Mark has worked with major organizations across financial services, energy, healthcare, technology, consumer goods, public sector, and professional services, including Korn Ferry, Mercer, NatWest, EY, Sainsbury’s, Hiscox, GSK, ADNOC, Aon, Aviva, BMW, Bupa, Coca-Cola, DHL, Lloyds Banking Group, Nestlé, OECD, Santander, Tesco Bank, Unilever, Virgin Media, and many others. 

His work focuses on the strategic relationship between organizational performance, individual performance, and reward. He supports clients with reward strategy and governance, executive compensation, incentive design, sales compensation, compensation structures through mergers and acquisitions, job measurement, organization design, HR function effectiveness, and people leadership in growth-oriented businesses. 

Mark holds a B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy from Hull University. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, and a member of the Royal Edinburgh Merchants Company. 

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Anju Jain, PhD, is a global business executive and leadership advisor with deep cross-functional experience across Marketing, Finance, Purchasing, Operations, and Human Resources. Having held senior roles in Fortune 500 and mid-sized organizations, she brings a commercially grounded perspective to helping leaders align people strategy with business strategy, strengthen organizational capability, and lead through change. 

During 17 years with Caterpillar, Anju held multiple leadership roles across the U.S. and Asia. As Head of HR for Caterpillar India and ASEAN, she partnered with business leaders to shape strategic priorities, define key performance indicators, and drive transformation across complex, multi-market environments. Her earlier roles in market research, customer loyalty, product development, and process improvement give her a distinctive ability to connect customer insight, operational execution, and people performance. 

Anju has also served as CHRO at Fermilab and held specialist roles with Avon Products and Kraft Foods, where she applied advanced research, analytics, and experimental design to understand markets, customers, and performance. This combination of analytical rigor, business leadership, and HR expertise enables her to advise senior executives with clarity, practicality, and impact. 

Anju is also the author of three books on leadership, reflecting her commitment to helping leaders build the mindset, capability, and confidence needed to navigate complexity and deliver sustainable results. 

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Joanna Tippins is an experienced international HR leader and consultant who helps organizations strengthen leadership, talent, culture, and workforce capability during periods of growth, change, and transformation. 

With more than 20 years’ experience across FMCG, pharmaceutical, and corporate environments, Joanna has held senior generalist and specialist HR roles spanning the UK, US, EMEA, and Asia. Her background in geographical expansion and multicultural leadership enables her to support organizations as they scale, integrate, and build the capability needed for future success. 

Joanna works with executives, leadership teams, and individuals to unlock strengths, improve team effectiveness, and align people solutions with business priorities and organizational values. With a Master’s in Strategic Change Management, she brings particular expertise in executive coaching, leadership and team development, talent optimization, and organizational change. 

Practical, thoughtful, and commercially aware, Joanna partners with clients to create people strategies and leadership practices that are grounded in real business needs and designed to deliver lasting impact. 

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Safaa Wahmane is a multilingual, culturally fluent professional who helps organizations communicate, collaborate, and build trust across borders. With an MBA and fluency in Arabic, French, English, and Spanish, she brings particular strength in supporting work connected to the Middle East and North Africa region, where language, culture, stakeholder expectations, and relationship-building are critical to successful outcomes. 

Safaa supports organizations operating in complex international environments by providing translation, interpretation, cultural insight, and practical guidance on communication, etiquette, and stakeholder engagement. Her experience spans infrastructure, sustainability, consulting, customer-facing, and business support environments, enabling her to understand both the commercial and human dimensions of cross-cultural work. 

At OrgShakers, Safaa helps clients and project teams bridge cultural and communication gaps so that international partnerships, negotiations, and transformation initiatives can move forward with greater clarity and confidence. She combines precision in language with sensitivity to context, helping leaders engage respectfully and effectively with diverse audiences. 

With a background across business, finance, and customer experience, Safaa brings a practical, relationship-centered approach to her work. She is passionate about helping organizations build genuine understanding across cultures and continues to deepen her expertise through ongoing development in cultural competence and accredited interpretation. 

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Michael Lawson plays a key role in ensuring OrgShakers’ client work is coordinated, well-managed, and delivered with professionalism and pace. 

As Client Support and Project Manager, Michael works closely with consultants, clients, and internal stakeholders to support the smooth running of projects from planning through to delivery. He helps coordinate timelines, communication, documentation, meetings, and follow-up activity, ensuring that client engagements remain organized, responsive, and on track. 

With more than 14 years’ experience in Human Resources and executive team support, Michael brings a strong understanding of how effective coordination, clear communication, and disciplined execution contribute to successful client outcomes. His background spans the automotive, consumer packaged foods, and consumer products sectors, where he supported domestic and global teams and collaborated with colleagues across multiple locations and time zones. 

At OrgShakers, Michael provides the project and client support infrastructure that enables consultants to focus on delivering high-impact work. Calm, organized, and highly dependable, he helps ensure that each engagement is managed with care, consistency, and attention to detail. 

Michael holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 

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Nicola Hunt is a highly experienced PR and communications specialist with nearly 30 years’ experience helping organizations build visibility, credibility, and influence in competitive talent and business markets. 

With a strong background in press relations, thought leadership, and strategic communications, Nicola has worked with market leaders across HR, management, leadership development, and business education. She brings a deep understanding of the issues shaping work, leadership, and organizational performance, helping clients translate their expertise into compelling narratives that strengthen reputation and support talent attraction. 

Nicola began her career as a press officer with Texaco before working with an international communications consultancy and later founding her own PR agency. Her extensive international media network enables her to secure high-quality coverage in respected outlets, while her editorial experience as co-founder and features editor of Management-Issues.com gives her a sharp sense of emerging workplace trends and the stories that matter. 

Cross-culturally aware and internationally minded, Nicola has lived and worked across the UK, France, Italy, South Africa, Australia, and Switzerland. She holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology and brings a thoughtful, issues-led approach to helping organizations communicate with clarity, authority, and impact. 

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Dr. Alex Hofeldt helps start-ups and growth-stage organizations accelerate customer growth, strengthen go-to-market execution, and build the commercial foundations needed to scale with confidence. 

With experience across SaaS, EdTech, enterprise partnerships, and business development, Alex brings a practical, data-informed approach to sales strategy, marketing execution, customer acquisition, and long-term customer success. He helps organizations sharpen their value proposition, improve lead generation, strengthen sales processes, and design enablement strategies that turn growth ambition into repeatable commercial performance. 

Alex also brings deep expertise in learning science, behavioral psychology, and instructional design, shaped by 16 years in K-12 leadership, curriculum innovation, and teacher development. This gives him a distinctive ability to translate complex ideas into practical tools, training, and behaviors that teams can apply quickly. 

By combining sales and marketing expertise with AI-enabled insight and a strong understanding of how people learn and change, Alex helps businesses scale efficiently, improve customer engagement, and build stronger, more sustainable routes to market. 

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Sharon is a Global Mobility and HR leader with more than 20 years’ experience helping organizations navigate the people, reward, compliance, and operational challenges of international growth. She brings deep expertise in international hiring, relocation, cross-border working, assignment structuring, compensation, benefits, payroll, tax, and global workforce policy. 

Sharon has advised global clients through major professional services firms and has also operated inside a fast-growing scale-up business, giving her a strong blend of technical depth and practical, in-business delivery experience. She understands how to design people solutions that are commercially sound, compliant, and workable for leaders and employees in fast-moving environments. 

Having lived and worked in the UK, Sweden, and the USA, Sharon brings a genuinely international perspective to her work. She is particularly skilled at helping organizations expand into new markets, support globally mobile talent, and create flexible approaches that reflect the realities of modern work. 

Sharon holds an MA in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University and is a Product Advisory Board Member for Localyze, a global mobility platform, where she contributes expert insight on emerging mobility trends and future developments. 

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Clare Parkes is a results-driven CHRO and senior people leader with 30 years’ experience across global, consumer, entrepreneurial, B2B, and matrix organizations, with particular depth in FMCG, retail, and technology. 

A strategist, change leader, and trusted executive advisor, Clare helps organizations create commercial value through people. She has a strong track record of shaping and delivering people strategies that support growth, improve organizational effectiveness, strengthen leadership capability, and build high-performing cultures. 

Clare brings a practical, business-led approach to transformation. She works closely with senior stakeholders to align people priorities with commercial goals, helping organizations streamline operations, improve engagement, strengthen talent acquisition and retention, and build the capability needed for the future. 

Known for her inclusive leadership style and clear counsel, Clare supports leaders and teams through periods of complexity, growth, and change. She is passionate about creating working environments where people feel connected to the customer, committed to their work, and able to build a lasting sense of achievement. 

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Lori Rubin is a seasoned talent and recruiting leader with more than 20 years’ experience helping organizations identify, attract, and secure the talent they need to grow. She brings deep expertise in executive recruiting, talent strategy, workforce planning, and resource management across professional services, healthcare, retail, energy, utilities, and legal sectors. 

Lori has held senior recruiting and talent leadership roles in both corporate and consulting environments, most recently serving as Vice President of Sales and Recruiting at LocumTenens.com, a Jackson Healthcare company. Earlier in her career, she led recruiting for Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and Greenberg Traurig, building a strong foundation in high-volume, specialist, and professional hiring environments. 

With a practical, commercially focused approach, Lori helps organizations strengthen their talent pipelines, improve hiring effectiveness, and make more informed workforce decisions. Her experience is particularly valuable for growing businesses and senior leaders who need clear talent insight, disciplined recruiting execution, and scalable people solutions that support long-term business performance. 

Lori earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Florida. 

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Christian Fernandez helps organizations design the future of work in practical, commercially grounded ways. With 15 years’ experience across talent transformation, work optimization, agile business transformation, organization design, and process re-engineering, he partners with leaders to align people, process, technology, and structure around higher performance. 

Blending Industrial Engineering discipline with deep Organizational Development expertise, Christian brings a distinctive perspective to workforce transformation. He helps organizations build the roadmaps, operating models, and capabilities needed to improve agility, productivity, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness. 

Christian has held senior transformation roles at major financial services organizations, including co-leading the Organizational Design practice at Prudential Financial and operationalizing a future of work model that supported a three-year enterprise transformation across work, workplace, and workforce. He later joined Northwestern Mutual to build and lead its Strategic Workforce Planning capability. 

A frequent speaker on work design and organizational agility, Christian has shared his insights at forums including UNLEASH America, CLO & CHRO Exchange, and the Reimagined Workforce Podcast. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s degree in Organizational Behavior with a concentration in Enterprise Change Management from NYU Tandon School of Engineering. 

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Claire Tingsager brings 20 years’ experience helping organizations strengthen leadership, learning, culture, and workforce capability through practical, people-centered transformation. 

Her career spans senior HR and Learning & Development roles across retail, telecoms, hospitality, education, SMEs, start-ups, consulting, and academia. This breadth gives Claire a distinctive ability to connect business priorities with the skills, behaviors, and organizational conditions needed for people and teams to perform at their best. 

Born and raised in Brussels, and having lived and worked in the UK, USA, and Spain, Claire thrives in multicultural environments and brings a global perspective to her work. She supports leaders and organizations through learning design, leadership development, team effectiveness, organizational development, change, and future-of-work initiatives. 

Over the past decade, Claire has worked at the intersection of business and education, including as an examiner for the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a guest lecturer in Human Resource Management, and a Lecturer in Management at Sussex University Business School. She has a particular interest in how organizations and the education sector can work together to build the skills, confidence, and adaptability required for the evolving world of work. 

 

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Alisa Cardenas is a compensation and total rewards leader with nearly 15 years’ experience helping organizations build reward strategies that support growth, retention, performance, and transformation. 

She brings deep expertise in global compensation, job architecture, career frameworks, incentive design, sales compensation, mobility, and reward governance. Alisa has led large-scale compensation harmonization and modernization initiatives for complex, multinational organizations across supply chain, healthcare, automotive, technology, and hospitality sectors. 

Her work is grounded in a clear understanding of how reward decisions influence business performance, employee experience, and the ability to attract and retain critical talent. She has designed practical, market-informed compensation programs that create clarity for leaders, strengthen accountability, and help organizations make more confident workforce investment decisions. 

Prior to consulting, Alisa served as Head of Global Compensation for a multinational corporation, where she led enterprise-wide programs across the compensation and rewards landscape. She is especially experienced in designing annual bonus, project incentive, and sales compensation plans that align commercial priorities with measurable performance outcomes. 

As a Senior Consultant with OrgShakers, Alisa partners with business and human capital leaders to create reward and performance solutions that are commercially sound, easy to apply, and meaningful to employees. She brings energy, approachability, and a fresh perspective to every engagement, helping organizations invest in their people in ways that support both individual contribution and long-term business success.

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Cindy Strong brings broad HR leadership experience across public utilities, manufacturing, media, technology, hospitality, retail, and private-equity-backed businesses. She has led HR functions through periods of growth, change, and operational complexity, helping organizations strengthen their people foundations while aligning talent, culture, rewards, and workforce strategy to business priorities. 

Her expertise spans people development, employee experience, total rewards, strategic workforce planning, recruitment marketing, leadership development, employee wellbeing, technology selection, and organizational strategy. She is particularly effective at helping businesses translate commercial goals into practical people solutions that improve capability, engagement, and performance. 

Since 2016, Cindy has worked closely with Austin-area organizations across manufacturing, hospitality, technology, and retail. During her time in the semiconductor industry, she also contributed to local initiatives addressing the skills gap and supporting manufacturing reshoring, including partnerships with technical colleges, career pathway education, and talent brand development. 

Cindy holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from LeTourneau University. She is certified as both a Senior Professional in Human Resources and SHRM Senior Certified Professional, is a certified John Maxwell trainer, and has served on the board of AHRMA. She currently contributes to committees for DisruptHR and ATX PX.

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Maggie Schrock partners with startups, scaleups, and larger organizations to build practical people, talent, and culture strategies that support growth, strengthen operations, and create a better employee experience. 

With more than 12 years of experience across eCommerce, digital health, SaaS, technology, and global growth environments, Maggie has helped organizations shape the people foundations needed to scale with confidence. As a four-time founder of the people function, she brings first-hand experience building HR capability from the ground up, while also leading work across business operations, strategy, IT, and project management. 

Maggie is particularly effective at connecting people strategy with the realities of business execution. She helps leadership teams design practical structures, processes, and cultural rhythms that enable teams to grow, perform, and adapt without unnecessary complexity. 

She holds a degree in Business Management with an emphasis in Organizational Leadership from Southeast Missouri State University, a Strategic HR Leadership Certificate from Cornell ILR School, an active Professional in Human Resources certification, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification. 

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Martin Tiplady, OBE is one of the UK’s most respected senior HR leaders, with a distinguished career spanning the private, public, housing, healthcare, and policing sectors. 

A former HR Director of the Metropolitan Police Service, Martin led one of the most significant people transformations in UK public service, strengthening HR capability, modernizing workforce systems, reshaping training, and delivering major cost savings while supporting substantial workforce growth. His work helped reposition the HR function as a trusted, high-performing strategic partner and contributed to wider national reform across policing. 

Martin brings deep expertise in leadership, organizational transformation, people strategy, workforce modernization, reward, performance, and senior HR advisory. He has operated at board level, reported directly to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and held responsibility for large-scale HR, leadership, training, logistics, and operational budgets. 

Recognized as HR Director of the Year by The Daily Telegraph, Martin was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to policing. He is a Chartered Companion of the CIPD, a qualified mediator, and has held a range of board, trustee, and non-executive roles across major public and private institutions. 

At OrgShakers, Martin helps leaders and organizations navigate complex people challenges with authority, judgment, and practical experience gained from delivering transformation at scale. 

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Gary DePaul, PhD, is a leadership and talent development expert who helps organizations strengthen the capability, confidence, and effectiveness of their leaders at every level. Blending academic rigor with practical business application, Gary brings deep expertise in leadership development, workforce transformation, performance improvement, and organizational learning. 

As an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Gary teaches leadership and management, helping current and future leaders build the skills needed to navigate complexity, create clarity, and drive meaningful results. He is also a Distinguished Principal Research Fellow at The Conference Board and host of the Unlabeled Leadership Podcast, which reaches listeners across 82 countries and more than 800 cities. 

Gary’s work is grounded in research, but focused firmly on real-world impact. He partners with organizations to develop leaders, improve team effectiveness, strengthen people practices, and translate insight into practical action. His experience is particularly valuable for businesses seeking to build stronger leadership cultures, enhance employee experience, and prepare their people for the evolving relationship between humans, work, and technology. 

Gary holds a PhD and EdM from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a Certified Performance Technologist through the International Society for Performance Improvement. 

He is the author of  The 2022 HRBP Report, Nine Practices of 21st Century Leadership, Second Edition, The Most Effective and Responsible Clinical Training Techniques in Medicine, and What the Heck Is Leadership and Why Should I Care?

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Camille Belle, PhD brings a distinctive blend of psychological insight, leadership experience, and deep expertise in identity, inclusion, and human development. With a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, along with advanced academic training in educational psychology, Africana Studies, psychology, and sociology, Camille helps organizations better understand the human dynamics that shape leadership, culture, and workforce experience. 

Her background spans research, clinical practice, outreach, and leadership development, giving her a rare ability to connect evidence-based thinking with practical organizational impact. Camille’s work has focused extensively on equity, inclusion, identity development, belonging, and the experiences of marginalized and minoritized groups, including research exploring racial identity, campus climate, and organizational affiliation. 

With nearly seven years of clinical experience across community mental health, university counseling, outpatient psychiatry, and private practice settings, Camille brings empathy, integrity, and a strong understanding of individual and group behavior to her work. She is especially skilled at helping people and teams navigate identity, purpose, career development, and interpersonal dynamics in ways that build trust, strengthen leadership capability, and support healthier, more inclusive organizations. 

 

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Adam Scopp helps bring OrgShakers’ thinking to life through clear, compelling content that speaks directly to the challenges facing founders, CEOs, and growing organizations. 

As Editorial Assistant, Adam works with the team to capture practical insight, emerging ideas, and real-world experience in a way that is accessible, engaging, and commercially relevant. His writing supports OrgShakers’ focus on helping businesses build stronger people foundations, navigate growth, and make confident decisions about leadership, culture, and organizational effectiveness. 

A graduate in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Kent, Adam combines strong writing and editing capability with the organizational and commercial understanding he developed while leading a UK non-profit community interest company.

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Mogamat “Mo” Noah is an experienced HR and organization leader with more than 20 years’ international experience helping businesses align people strategy with commercial growth, operational performance, and cultural transformation. 

Having lived in Dubai for 10 years and worked across 19 countries, Mo brings deep regional insight across the Middle East, GCC, Levant, Northern and Southern Africa, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. His background spans hospitality, services, and manufacturing, giving him a practical understanding of how people challenges play out across complex, multicultural, and fast-moving environments. 

Mo has led and supported major work in HR strategy, workforce planning, organizational design, restructuring, employee engagement, labor relations, and culture change. He is particularly valued for his ability to partner closely with operational leaders, translating strategy into clear, actionable people plans that support growth and strengthen organizational effectiveness. 

Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Mo brings a pragmatic, action-oriented style and a strong appreciation of the nuances of emerging and established markets. He helps organizations build capability, navigate change, and create people strategies that are grounded in business reality. 

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Mike Dwyer is a talent acquisition leader with 20 years of experience helping high-growth companies build the talent strategies, recruiting infrastructure, and leadership pipelines needed to scale. 

He has led talent acquisition in early, mid, and late-stage startups, including Series A through Series D businesses and two companies that achieved unicorn status. Across these environments, Mike has developed hiring roadmaps, strengthened recruiting operations, and implemented practical talent strategies that enable organizations to attract diverse, high-performing talent at pace. 

With experience overseeing 200–400 hires per year, Mike brings a strong understanding of what it takes to support rapid growth without losing focus on quality, culture, or long-term capability. His expertise spans executive search, commercial and go-to-market hiring, product and marketing talent, and specialist recruiting across SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, martech, and Web3 industries. 

Mike partners with founders and leadership teams to turn talent acquisition from a reactive function into a strategic growth engine, helping organizations build the people capability they need for their next stage of success.

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Sandy Mohonathan is a seasoned global HR leader with more than 25 years’ experience helping organizations align people strategy with business performance. She has worked across industries and government institutions, partnering with senior leaders to strengthen leadership capability, shape workforce strategies, and create people practices that enable sustainable organizational success. 

With deep experience across the full employee lifecycle, Sandy brings practical insight into how organizations attract, develop, engage, reward, and retain the talent they need to grow. She is also a trusted coach and mentor to senior executives, supporting leaders to build capability, navigate complexity, and deliver stronger commercial and cultural outcomes. 

A graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Sandy is a past President of the Institute of People Management, South Africa’s HR professional body, and has advised universities and governments on people and organizational effectiveness. 

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Carlos is a global people and business strategist who helps organizations modernize how they attract, develop, organize, and engage talent in complex, fast-moving environments. With more than a decade of leadership experience across technology, finance, supply chain, product, and sales, he brings a practical, commercially grounded approach to aligning people strategy with enterprise priorities. 

Carlos specializes in building future-ready workforce models that connect talent, culture, and operating performance. He has led large-scale transformation work across global organizations, helping leaders move from legacy HR practices to more agile, data-informed, and scalable approaches that support growth, efficiency, and long-term competitiveness. 

A core strength of Carlos’s work is designing inclusive leadership and market-aligned talent strategies that reflect both business ambition and changing workforce expectations. He helps organizations embed inclusion and belonging across the talent lifecycle, from attraction and development through succession, leadership capability, and employee experience. 

At OrgShakers, Carlos supports clients with strategic workforce planning, talent optimization, fractional HR leadership, and people experience initiatives. His work is particularly valuable for organizations looking to grow with greater clarity, strengthen leadership capability, and build people practices that are as forward-looking as the technology and markets they operate in. This aligns closely with OrgShakers’ focus on practical leadership development, workforce transformation, scalable growth support, talent strategy, and evidence-based people experience.