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Ellard-James Hurley, PhD. – Sr Change Management / Training Consultant
Dr. Ellard James-Hurley is a leading international development and training programs consultant who has guided many dozens of public administration improvement programs (management/leadership, marketing and sales, public relations/recruitment, workforce development) worldwide. He designed and implemented major academic programs for the United States Department of Agriculture Graduate School and for the University of Maryland and has conducted training for the EU, the Government of the Virgin Islands, the insular governments of the United States territories in the Pacific, and for numerous foreign governments.
Dr. Ellard James-Hurley has served as Director for the Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture-International Institute, Washington, D.C. She was Program Manager, Virgin Islands Training Initiative, responsible for the management of the Virgin Islands Training Initiative (VITI) with the specified goal of ensuring that VITI supports the efforts of the Virgin Islands Government to improve performance in strategic planning, financial management, and human resource development by providing a broad range of training and development projects to the government leadership.
Dawn Lofton Bledsoe – Consultant & Field DataCollection Manager
Dawn Lofton is a consultant with Williams-Wallace responsible for research planning and field data collection on research and organizational development assignments for the firm. Dawn recently served as Deputy Project Manager for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s 4-year Annual Disparity Study Update, required by Federal Transportation Administration.
Steven Mark – Sr Consultant, Meetings, Planning & Conference Team
Over the past 25 years, Mr. Mark has planned, developed, implemented, and coordinated numerous corporate and professional development, government policy and community participation conferences and workshops. He has senior managed all aspects of the meeting planning process including conference theme selection, determining site locations, selecting and hiring guest speakers and workshop leaders, designing all necessary written materials including conference programs and conference evaluation forms, scheduling of speakers and workshops, and any other tasks necessary to ensure a well organized, well attended and received conference.
An example of Mr. Mark’s deliverables excellence has been his work on coordinating a Federal Court mandated community committee to advise the Court appointed monitors established by a Federal Court Education Consent Decree. This assignment included developing the selection process as well as the roles and responsibilities and structure of a broad based 250(+) member community committee, as well as identifying and recruiting both committee members and their consent decree funded staff. Mr. Mack also developed meeting notification process and materials, schedules, meeting locations, and post meeting public communications
Carolyn Pete, Research Data Manager
Carol Pete, Williams-Wallace data and systems manager for the firms research data collection assignments. She is expert in multiple data management programs and has converted and reformatted data to fit all of the major data management frameworks, including Oracle, Peoplesoft, ASCII databases, SAP, Excel spreadsheets Dbase, etc. An example of her data base design and adaptation work was the recently completed Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s 4-year Annual Disparity Study Update which was mandated by the Federal Transportation Administration. In this assignment, she was responsible for converting previously assembled data stored in a variety of data base formats and reconciling and then updating these data inputs with new data from a variety of listings and sources; which required cleaning the data and running tests for validity prior to forwarding the data for analysis to MGT of America in Florida.
Linda Kay Ricketts. Ed.D. – Sr Consultant Change Management Team
Dr. Ricketts has nearly 30 years of consulting experience in the disciplines of organizational development and communications, evaluations research, planning and development and project implementation and controls. She also has had a wide background in survey research with local governments.
Dr Ricketts has been a Corporate Faculty Trainer, at San Francisco State University and has developed training programs and materials for use in the management development and re-engineering environments of both private and public sector organizations including, AT&T and Pacific Bell. She is also certified with Development Dimensions International Training Organization, to deliver a series of up to 45 separate courses in areas of management, leadership development, team building, communications, customer service delivery, and managing individual and organizational change.
Helen Sculley – Sr Consultant, Personnel Leadership Development Team
Helen Sculley (Master of Science, Counseling) is a Nationally Certified Career Counselor- Employee Development/Workforce Transition Consultant. She has had sixteen years of experience in leadership development, training, organizational development, public speaking, career assessment, mobility coaching and facilitation of groups. Her OD experience has included work with such governmental agencies as the County of Sacramento, Ca, the Department of Transportation; US Army Corps of Engineers, University of California, Davis; Sacramento Unified School District and the California Youth Authority.
She has helped to design and implement comprehensive internal workforce development programs, conducted needs assessments, team building workshops and meetings; and developed customized internal career development web sites and employee development initiatives. She has counseled and train professionals in transition and has provided comprehensive career assessment and job search workshops. She has motivated clients to focus on goals, research options, make decisions and overcome obstacles. Translate goals into concrete strategies.
her teaching experience has included teaching graduate level courses in Career Development at California State University, Sacramento and National University. She has provided career counseling and workshops for staff at University of California, Davis on a contract basis; and was a designated career counselor for University of California, Davis Cal Aggie Alumni Association. She is author of Elevations™, patent pending career assessment for employee transition, retirement planning and career-paths for all levels with in the organization.
Sharon Bock – Sr Consultant, Team Building and Process Improvements
Sharon Bock is a nationally recognized workshop leader and facilitator who has developed and presented customized workshops and seminars that address human resources and leadership issues. Ms. Bock is also an expert in the fields of Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving, Decision making, and Team-building processes.
Lorie Hill, PhD. – Senior Consultant, Conflict Resolution/Leadership Team
Dr. Lorie Hill, Educator, Psychologist, Trainer, & Facilitator
She has provided extensive services in the fields of education, psychology, skills and aptitude assessment, management group facilitation, personnel coaching and training, and program design and implementation. Dr. Hill is an expert in sociology and group dynamics. She has developed a broad spectrum of training curriculums for government and private sector clients. She has also
conducted training sessions and taught courses in multicultural psychology for a number of graduate schools, clinics and organizations and served on the graduate program faculties at John F. Kennedy University, Saybrook Graduate School, the Graduate Theological Union, and the Center for Independent Living.
Private Sector Consultants
T. Paul Mauldin, Sr Consultant & Engineer
National Practice Director of the Energy Services Group, as well Project Manager for most Technology Evaluation, Development and Marketing Projects.
Paul Mauldin’s background includes over 25 years in electric and gas energy services management, including senior positions in the electric generation, gas and electric transmission, automation and customer side systems. He served as Research and Development Director at Pacific Gas and Electric Company where he led the development of innovative communication, sensor and control technologies to serve the restructuring utility industry.
Mr. Mauldin has managed venture investments for the unregulated utility enterprise sector, and conducted a worldwide evaluation of energy related technologies and companies for investment and/or acquisition. He has served as technology development and change management consultant for Fortune 500 companies and has represented the United State’s energy and environmental interests in Asian and European forums. Mr. Mauldin holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and is a Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer.
June Allen Jenkins – Consultant, Strategic Planning/Work Process Team
June Allen Jenkins has over 16 years of experience developing and promoting new business opportunities, promotions development, consumer and issues, and marketing and strategic planning. She has served to develop and implement internal and external organization business plans using communications and internal public relations tools and events. As a Williams-Wallace consultant she has worked for numerous local and state government agencies in developing internal and customer facing communications programs. She has also served as a Change Management Facilitator for internal company efforts designed to obtain important feedback from employees on new strategies, programs or goals of government and corporate organizations.
Ted Marsh –Sr Consultant Leadership Development & Change Management
Ted Marsh is a master coach to CEO's, COO's, CFO's and other senior leaders of the organization who are tasked with the challenge of leading and manifesting change. As a skilled facilitator, he is able to link critical strategic issues facing organizations from performance enhancement, and creative learning, to cultural diversity.
During Ted Marsh's 30-year professional career he has served in a wide variety of executive management positions, including CEO and CFO, as well as in positions responsible for the enterprise's marketing, strategic planning, sales and quality assurance programs. Mr. Marsh has written numerous articles, which have appeared in trade journals and industry newsletters and has been interviewed and referenced for his expertise by the San Francisco Chronicle, KGO-TV, etc. and has served on the executive board of the International Computers & Communications World Leaders Council.
Theresa Isaacs – Sr HR & Change Consultant, Meetings/Workshop Planning/Conferences Team Lead
Theresa Isaacs has more than twenty years experience in a variety of Human Resource (HR) roles with a demonstrated ability to lead, influence and gain support of strategic change initiatives. She is effective at building consensus among teams and across organizations forging ongoing collaborations to resolve complex workplace issues such as diversity. She is most able to direct complex projects from concept to fully operational status. Ms. Isaacs' is an experienced keynote speaker at national and statewide conferences and has a client following that includes senior HR leaders and business unit executives.
Theresa Isaacs has designed, developed and delivered HR, Performance Management and Leadership Development training programs for numerous industries. As an HR officer for a major corporation she managed the Employee and Manager Training Department for an organization with more than 2000 professional employees. She also developed, secured funding and led strategic diversity initiatives in R&D, Manufacturing and Sales organizations, resulting in tens of millions of dollars in new revenues from the sale of IT systems and solutions to business customers, local and state government institutions, and not-for-profit organizations.
Richard McCline, MBA, PhD. – Sr Consultant, Strategic Planning/Work Process Improvement Team Lead
Dr. Richard McCline's is an expert in strategic planning and supply chain and process reengineering. His academic seminars on Strategic Planning were part of the course requirements for graduate business majors at the School of Business and Economics, at California State University at Hayward. Dr. McCline has gained a strong client reputation for his ability to combine the real world planning process with the rigors of process engineering. He is a leader in the emerging private sector green solutions movement and recently co-founded the Center for Business and Environmental Studies (CBES) within the school of business at California State University to facilitate a dedicated approach to this particular area of management training. The Center has been contracted to provide strategic planning and advisory direction to the newly formed California Integrated Waste Management Board responsible for regulating the reduction of California's municipal solid waste stream.
Glinda Potts – HR Consultant
Glinda Potts is a Human Resources Manager who has spent the last 20 years with Lucent Technologies and AT&T. In her most recent assignments, she has served as a Human Resources/Business Operations Manager, supporting senior management teams and their employees. Her responsibilities have included providing overall Human Resources Leadership, consultative support, and project leadership. She has had great success in establishing teams to resolve various employee related issues, and in developing employee programs for organizations.
As a Human Resources Manager, she has a managed a variety of HR related functions, including staffing and recruitment; hiring and terminations; recognition programs and training and appraisals, performance management; etc. She has conducted annual EO/AA reviews, Sexual Harassment; and has worked extensively with labor relations issues; grievance processes and employment law.
Keith Quarles – Sr Consultant Global Public-Private Partnerships & Customer Contract Acqusition
Keith Quarles is a senior consultant who had a decade of management and corporate strategy experience before becoming a consultant. Mr. Quarles’ expertise is the development and implementation of public private partnerships. He has more than 15 years of experience in senior managing projects within politically-sensitive US and International government environments.
He has served as Consultant to multinational companies in their pursuit of major contracts in Sub Sahara Africa and Papua New Guinea. His consultant projects have included the following industry sectors: Public Services, Oil and Gas, Mining, IT, and Natural Resources. His past consulting assignments have included identification and sourcing of project financing and development of relationships with top-level in-country business, government, traditional ruler decision makers, and international donor agencies.
Linda Kay
Ricketts. Ed.D. – Sr Consultant, Cultural Change/Change Management Team
Dr. Ricketts has nearly 30 years of consulting experience in the disciplines of organizational development and communications, evaluations research, planning and development and project implementation and controls. She also has had a wide background in survey research with local governments.
Dr Ricketts has been a Corporate Faculty Trainer, at San Francisco State University and has developed training programs and materials for use in the management development and re-engineering environments of both private and public sector organizations including, AT&T and Pacific Bell. She is also certified with Development Dimensions International Training Organization, to deliver a series of up to 45 separate courses in areas of management, leadership development, team building, communications, customer service delivery, and managing individual and organizational change.
Ray L. Johnson – Sr Consultant (Business Development)
Ray Johnson has 27 years of experience as a Senior Human Resources Management consultant in profit/non-profit companies and the United States Air Force. He has provided leadership and strategic direction that adds and maintains value for organizations. He has provided strategic direction and human resource services for a 540,000 person Health Plan program, generating a billion dollars in annual revenue. Mr. Johnson has also created and implemented an HR Infrastructure linked to business goals & objectives for Biotechnical (research) and Technical Operations Business units of a Fortune company; facilitated and led a business unit reorganization resulting in identification of high performers, low performers, and approaches to support professional development positioning within a large organization for improved performance; achieved an aggressive recruiting strategy within the Air Force to fill critical positions linked to unit goals and facilitated an Air Force grade alignment project across multiple sites geographically (Berkeley, CA, Clayton, N.C. & Raleigh, N.C.).
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