Freddie Payton
Senior Partner at Leah M. Joppy & Associates

• Experienced in managing people, leadership development, supervisory skills development and change management.
• Excellent facilitator of team building and conflict resolution.
• Recent Projects: Presented National Webcast for Lockheed Martin entitled
  ‘Networking Your Way to Success’ as well as a series of leadership development classes.
• Freddie's hobby is learning to play the guitar and cooking without recipes.

Dr. Sue E. Pressman
Specializes in Workforce Planning & Development, Career Management and Disabilities Program training

• Nationally recognized as a leading career management expert and counselor.
• Experienced in training and leadership coaching government sector executives, military and Foreign Service officers, managers, labor union personnel and people with disability.
• PhD: VaTech; MA: Gallaudet University; BA: University of Florida.
• Fluent in American Sign Language.
• Sue enjoys traveling, boating, gardening and reading fiction.

Meredith S. Levert
Senior Consultant and Executive Coach specializing in organizational change management

• Previously Vice President of HR for General Electric Consulting Services and then as a consultant for Cook Ross Inc.
• Clients include many Fortune 100 companies, healthcare systems, high-tech companies, not-for-profits and large national membership associations.
• BS and Graduate Studies: Colorado State University.
• Fishing, working on behalf of homeless families and grandbaby adoration.

Al Collins
Organization Development Consultant and Senior Trainer

• Specializes in large-scale Instructional Design to include: needs assessment, design, implementation and evaluation (500-9,000+ employees).
  
• Experienced in providing leadership training and OD interventions for federal and local governments and the financial, hospitality, healthcare and public utilities industries.
  
• Experienced in career development coaching and training.
  
• Al is an author and inspirational speaker who enjoys delivering messages of empowerment to women of all ages.
  

Mark Sachs
Organization Consultant and Executive Coach

• Specializes in coaching executives and managers to improve their leadership and management skills.
• Clients include: KUNI-FM, NASA, Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance.
• BA & MA: Rutgers University; BS: American University.
• Certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory, and Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Inventory.
• Mark enjoys attending both of his sons basketball games and is also a decent carpenter.

Dr. William J. Thomas
Organizational Development and Training Consultant

• Organizational development and training consultant.
• 32 years experience on projects around the world. Clients include: US Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, World Meteorological Organization, Ford Motor Company, Westinghouse Corporation, MedImmune Inc.
• BA: Catholic University; MA/PhD: University of Maryland; NDEA Fellowship.
• Bill Thomas' favorite pasttime is hitting a little white ball into the woods and hunting for it.  A successful round of golf for him is finding more balls in the woods than he hits into them.  Next year, he will take scuba lessons for retrieving his balls from the water hazards.  His motto: "It's not a game, it's an adventure!".

Sharon Armstrong
Skilled consultant in all areas of human resource training including counseling and coaching.

• Past experience in major law firms, AARP and universities.
• BA – University of Southern Maine.
• MS – George Washington University.
• Member of Society for Human Resource Management, HR Association of the National Capital Area and the Potomac Employers Roundtable.
• Loves to read and spend time with family and friends (and her dachshund, Dusty).

 

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