Marietta received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Wayne State University in Detroit; she holds an MBA from Michigan State University as well.  Currently, she is Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the College of Social Science at a well-known U.S. university.  Previously, she was Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University and founding director of the Business and Industrial Anthropology program there.  From 1994 to 1996, she was Program Director of the National Science Foundation's industry-funded research program entitled "Transformations to Quality Organizations," which studied successful organizational change.

Marietta has led multidisciplinary industrial research teams whose efforts have focused on cultural analysis and development of factors to facilitate transformation of the product development process in the automotive and aerospace industries.  She devotes a portion of her professional time to business research and consulting and has recently advised Procter & Gamble on virtual (global) teaming.  Among her other clients are Pharmacia, Motor Coach Industries International, American Axle & Manufacturing, Whirlpool, Ford, General Motors, Upjohn, and McKinsey.

Marietta is author of more than 65 publications about organizational culture, technological change, and evolutionary processes.  Titles include Business and Industrial Anthropology: An Overview (1986) and articles such as "The Cultural Ecology of the Corporation: Explaining Diversity in Work Group Responses to Organizational Transformation" (1995).  She holds U.S. Patent No. 4773862 for ethnohistorical mapping methodology.

Marietta enjoys listening to jazz.  Her daughter, Alexia Nicole, is an assistant to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
-

A native of Germany who immigrated to Canada in 1972, Leonore was educated in Germany, the United States, and Canada.  She holds a degree in International Commerce and a diploma in Adult Education and Development from the University of Toronto.  After six years as a telecommunications industry salesperson -- twice named Top Salesperson of the Year -- Leonore turned her attention in the early 1990s to the delivery of business training, research, and marketing services in North America and Europe.  Today she specializes in delivering executive coaching, intercultural competency development, advising for cross-border operations, and specialized consulting services including cross-cultural problem-solving, team-building, and win-win negotiating.

Leonore has facilitated numerous coaching sessions, training events, and business briefings in North America and Europe.  She once designed a training program for international employees and their families that, a dozen years later, still serves as a standard.  She also has developed a train-the-trainer program that is used by high-level professional training teams worldwide.  Leonore's clients include Lucent, GM, VW, Nortel, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell, Bausch & Lomb, Schering Plough and others.  She is especially proud of her highly successful experience as co-trainer of a 5-day management and leadership program for the Agricultural State Marketing Board of Bangalore, India.

Leonore, a passionate traveler, is fluent in English and German, and has a good working knowledge of French.  She has toured the world twice.  When at home in Canada, she volunteers for the Centre for Victims of Torture.  During the summer, she likes to canoe and camp in Canada's North.
-

A native of Toronto, Sandro obtained a Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from California State University in Los Angeles and earned a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.  He is active in professional associations on both sides of the border including the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario.

Sandro has extensive experience in the areas of leadership assessment and development, executive coaching, performance management, succession planning, human resources strategy development and execution, organization design and development, and senior team effectiveness.  He has managed large consulting practices in the United States and Canada.  Sandro worked at Hay Management Consultants as a senior consultant in the Toronto practice and as the regional director in Dallas, where he also headed the human resources planning and development practice.  He then joined KPMG in Dallas where he headed the workforce transition group; later, he moved back to Toronto, where he led the human capital group with Mercer Human Resource Consulting.  He now owns and operates his own human capital consulting firm, which he founded in 2003.

Sandro has consulted to the private and public sectors in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.  His most recent engagements have included large scale executive assessment, multi-rater and executive coaching, Board-driven CEO performance evaluation and system development, senior executive competency profiling, performance management system development, assessment for selection purposes, organization design and structure work, and human resources strategy development and execution.  A sample of the organizations he has served includes the Royal Bank of Canada, Sears, Aventis, the Ontario Public Service, JC Penney, Strauss Elite, Johnson & Johnson, the United Nations, and Microsoft.

Sandro lives with his wife and three children in the Toronto area.  He serves as a board member for non-profit organizations including the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Toronto and Kingsway College School.  He regularly provides pro bono career counseling assessment and advice for those starting their careers or looking to establish themselves in a new country.  Sandro speaks his first language, Italian, at every opportunity.
-

Shannon holds an M.A. in intercultural communication, with an emphasis on organizational development and management training, from American University’s School of International Service, in Washington, D.C.  She has moderate Swedish proficiency after one year living and studying in Sweden and attaining a minor in Swedish as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota.

Shannon began in 1994 to work for ProGroup, a provider of diversity consulting, training, tools, and products.  First as a senior consultant, then as vice president, Shannon designed multi-year strategic global diversity initiatives, consulted with corporate executives to promote inclusion strategies across business units, developed qualitative and quantitative data gathering and analysis tools, led client delivery teams of up to forty consultants, and launched and managed a global affiliates program on three continents. As Vice President, she had P&L responsibility for over 45% of ProGroup’s annual revenues.

As an independent consultant since 2004, Shannon consults and trains internationally on the globalization of diversity, cultural competencies, multicultural customer service, emerging markets, intercultural teaming, and the creation of inclusive work environments in ways that are sensitive to local cultural mores. She has extensive experience in implementing large-scale, complex global initiatives, including one for the Deluxe Corporation that involved all 18,000 employees, and another for Deloitte & Touche that involved all 26,000 employees.  Among her other clients have been Intel, GlaxoSmithKline, Deutsche Bank, Philips Consumer Electronics, American Express, Aetna Healthcare, Medtronic, and the United States National Park Service.

As a leading practitioner in both the diversity and intercultural fields, Shannon speaks regularly at international conferences.  For example, in 2005 she delivered “Global Diversity & Inclusion – A Strategic Approach” at the Conference Board’s annual workshop in Chicago; and “Creating Value By Valuing Differences” at the Women’s International Network (WIN) conference in Geneva.

A native of Minnesota, Shannon now resides there with her husband, Gerald, an attorney, and their two young daughters, Gabrielle and Rachael.  Shannon spends her free time writing books, searching for bugs with her two daughters, and planning the family’s next travel adventure – favoring tropical scuba and snorkeling destinations.
-

A native of Croatia, Iva holds a bachelors degree in business from DePaul University and a masters degree in organizational development from Loyola University.  She has studied at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, and she holds a diploma in business coaching from Corporate Coach University International.  Iva has served on the faculty of Thunderbird University’s international MBA program in Geneva, teaching classes in global leadership, competing through people, and cross-cultural communication.  Iva is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in leadership and change at Antioch University.

Iva began her professional career in Croatia.  In 1993 she moved to the U.S. to start up the American operations of a Swiss-based firm.  After holding a number of management and consulting positions, in 2003 she joined Allenbach Consulting in Switzerland as a managing partner, opening new markets in the energy sector and integrating management support services for companies in Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States.  Iva has worked extensively with clients in Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Armenia, and Croatia; in addition, she is familiar with business practices in Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Georgia, Serbia, and Bosnia. 

Iva is currently a senior consultant for Keane Consulting, working in their business transformation services department.  In this role, she advises clients’ senior leadership teams, helping them build capabilities for organizational change, including the tactical implementation of change initiatives.  Most of her work focuses on building commitment for change, strengthening sponsorship and planning for culture change, and developing communication and learning strategies. She is also responsible for creating human performance measures and standards.

With her wealth of global management experience and keen understanding of the challenges managers face when working across borders, Iva recently partnered with the Technical University “Gh. Asachi” in Iasi, Romania, to create the Center for Advanced Leadership.  This Center will provide learning opportunities for a new generation of Eastern European managers, enabling them to successfully bridge gaps between local and global environments, practices, and mindsets.

Iva is based in Illinois to be near her daughter, Ana, who is pursuing her degree in international relations at DePaul University.
-

Kathleen earned a masters degree in intercultural communication from the University of Texas at Austin.  She has held faculty positions with the Texas International Education Consortium, Institut Teknologi Mara, the European and Asian Divisions of the University of Maryland, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.  She is a qualified administrator and interpreter of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and a graduate of Corporate Coach University (CCUI).

Kathleen has worked in leadership and advisory positions in non-U.S. organizations in various countries and cultures.  This has included service as liaison and advisor for the Saudi Arabian Educational Mission to the United States, which involved her in decision-making, motivation, communication, relationship development, and helping the Saudis and Americans mutually understand how their counterparts really get things done. 

As a business consultant, Kathleen has dedicated herself to the development of processes that build global leadership competencies by capitalizing on international and intercultural experiences for both individuals and organizations, with the objective of building truly global systems and practices.  Her consulting clients have included Hewlett-Packard, Enron International, Singapore Technologies, Singapore National Heritage Board, International Flavors and Fragrances, Federal Express, Nortel Networks, Honeywell Aerospace, MobileOne Singapore, Discovery Channel-Asia, Esso Singapore, AMC-Melawar Zecha, and Isis Pharmaceuticals.

Kathleen was a resident of Southeast Asia, principally Singapore, for more than a decade beginning in 1986.  Since returning to her roots in the American South, she has continued to live and practice her passion for that region of the world by maintaining a dual-continent lifestyle at every opportunity.
-

Patricia earned a bachelors degree with honors from the School of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University, and a masters degree in Latin American studies and international economics from the University of California Los Angeles.  She also studied at the University of Madrid. 

For more than 15 years, Patricia has served as an independent consultant, advisor, and trainer in areas such as leadership development and strategic planning, global change management, global outsourcing and off-shore partnerships, global communications, multicultural team building, and country-specific executive briefings and coaching, including U.S. business awareness for foreign nationals based in the United States.  Past and present clients include American Express, AT&T, Berlitz, British Petroleum, Chase Manhattan, Computer Sciences Corporation, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Frito-Lay, Harvard University Business School, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson, Landmark Graphics, Halliburton, Merck, Philips Lighting, and Sabritas/Mexico.

Patricia speaks Spanish and French fluently and has a working knowledge of Portuguese and Italian.  She has lived and worked or traveled extensively throughout Europe, Latin America, and parts of the Middle East. 

Originally from New England, Patricia now lives in Texas with her husband and two children.  In 2003, Patricia was honored by being appointed to serve on the U.S. State Department’s Subcommittee on U.S. Public Diplomacy.
-

Orlando attended high school in Puerto Rico, college at the University of Notre Dame, and graduate school at Stanford University. After attaining a masters degree in economics, he lived briefly in Miami and Chicago, then in Panama for one year and Venezuela for over two years before finally settling in New York City. Spanish was his first language; he also acquired English at an early age and Portuguese as an adult. 

Orlando's career has been in international finance, working with corporate and individual clients in Latin America. His skills and experience include sales, management, corporate finance and lending, wealth management, and estate planning. His employers have included First National Bank of Chicago, Crocker National Bank, Marine Midland Bank, First National Bank of Boston, and Brown Brothers Harriman. At one time or another, Orlando has had responsibility, including P&L and personnel responsibility, for business units dedicated to Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Central America. He also has been the sales manager for ZonaFinanciera.com, a tri-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English) portal providing financial information and access to financial services for web users in more than 20 Latin American nations. Recently, Orlando relocated to Miami, where is now serves as a director of CIMA Capital Partners LLC, a financial advisory firm proving services to a variety of domestic and international clients. 

Orlando has traveled extensively throughout Latin America, and also enjoys scuba diving and bicycle riding. He recently helped his father write his autobiography, which documents clandestine groups active in Cuba against the Machado, Batista, and Castro regimes. As well, he's an author in his own right, having wrtten a spy thriller that he hopes will be published one day.
-

A native of Connecticut, Lynn lived and worked in Belem, Brazil, as a young woman, then briefly resided in London, finally settling in Miami for nearly a decade.  There she was employed for seven years as a human resource specialist at the world headquarters of the Burger King corporation.  Subsequently, Lynn gained her bachelors and masters degrees in counseling from Florida International University.

Lynn relocated to Puerto Rico in 1998, opening a consulting business as well as a private counseling practice.  She traveled to the U.S. mainland to become certified as a cross-cultural trainer.  Today, Lynn is completing her first book, Living & Working in Puerto Rico, and is the only business consultant on the island trained to provide intercultural coaching and adaptation support services.  Her clients have included Prudential, Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, Glaxo Smith Kline, Merck Sharp & Dohme, AT&T, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Wyeth Pharmaceutical, Proctor & Gamble, Pfizer, Daimler Chrysler, Shepfield, Praxair, Brystol-Meyers Squibb, Pepsico, and Clorox. 

Lynn takes pride in her success in enabling senior managers and executives of large corporations to come to terms with, and master, both business dilemmas and cross-cultural challenges.  One coachee wrote, “I credit my coaching sessions with Lynn with providing me the essential skills for changing my managerial approach with my executive team.  I have recommended her to my best friend, also a high level executive.  [Lynn has the] capacity to help you turn ‘knowing how’ into actual performance.”  Another coachee said, “After many sessions with Lynn, a recurring thought pops into my head, ‘Boy, she’s good!’” 

Lynn has been a guest speaker at schools, seminars, and other functions throughout Puerto Rico and has appeared as well on radio and television.  The topics of her presentations include culture shock, cultural awareness, and cultural adjustment as well as a variety of other personal and family challenges. 

Lynn resides in Puerto Rico with her two children, Jessica and Peter.  One of Lynn’s passions is working out on a daily basis, often by engaging in an outdoor sport such as cycling, sailing, or running.
-

Top of Page  |  Contact Us  |  Comprehensive Site Map  |  Home