Senior Associates
Marguerite Mcleod-Fleming
Marguerite
Mcleod-Fleming has worked on over 100 programs with local and
international companies including IBM, Deloitte & Touche, BMO Capital
Market, Xerox, EDS, and Symcor.
Marguerite was formerly a Sales Manager for Xerox and IBM. She graduated with Honours from the MBA program at the Schulich School of Business. She has a Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto and a Certificate of French as a Second Language from Laval University.
Keith Merron
Keith
Merron is an organizational effectiveness and executive development
specialist, he has more than 25 years of experience assisting executives
and managers in business, government, and education. In
partnership with his clients, he has successfully conducted over
twenty-five large-system strategic, cultural and technical change
efforts resulting in a measurable increase in organizational
productivity, employee performance, and employee satisfaction.
Keith received his Doctorate from Harvard University in 1985, where his studies spanned the fields of human and organization development. He has conducted extensive research on the relationships between human development, managerial effectiveness and high performance, and has published numerous professional journal articles. He is also the author of three books on organizational change: Riding the Wave: Designing Your Organization for Enduring Success, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1995; Consulting Mastery: How the Best Make the Biggest Difference, published by Berrett-Koehler, Inc. in 2005; and The Golden Flame: The Heart and Soul of Remarkable Leadership, published in 2010.
Jane M. Hewson
Jane Hewson serves as BAA’s strategic advisor on Gender Intelligence and Inclusiveness, with a specific focus on creating accelerated breakthrough results. Jane directs the development of each BAA relationship – working closely with Barbara Annis and clients during the Project Design phase – and is responsible for ensuring all aspects of subject matter delivery and client relations are to the highest standards. Jane conducts research and workshops throughout a project life cycle.
Over the past 30 years, Jane has counseled many of the world’s leading financial services firms, law firms, and corporations in the areas of management, communications, client development and marketing. In addition to her Gender Intelligence focus, in recent years her work has ranged from enterprise-wide projects building effective teams and establishing systems and techniques for penetrating targeted global clients to coaching senior leadership in business network development and public profile enhancement.
A graduate of Princeton University, BA in Psychology, Jane serves as a Trustee of the Down Town Association in New York, a Governor of the Princeton Club of New York, and a Trustee of the Cap & Gown Club of Princeton University.
John Fayad
John
Fayad serves as our senior facilitator, researcher and writer on Gender Intelligence. He is writing
Barbara and Keith’s upcoming book entitled The Gender Intelligent
Organization and updating and editing the second edition of Barbara’s
first book, Same Words, Different Language.
John began his
professional career with the Coca-Cola Company in 1979 and in 1982
became one of a four-member team selected to design and run Coca-Cola
USA’s first new product development department. In 1999, an
entrepreneurial spirit compelled John to focus his efforts on the
creation and growth of Business Book Review®, an online leadership and
management development resource for the burgeoning corporate university
market. By 2003, John had built BBR to the stature of a premier business
book summary company, growing his startup to over 700,000 readers
worldwide.
In addition to providing individual coaching and
creative workshops on book concept and proposal development through his
new start up, The Literary CoachTM, John delivers best practices
seminars and webinars on a variety of business and personal skills
development topics with special emphasis on Structured Thinking &
Writing, Purpose & Alignment, and Social Intelligence Skills. He has
lectured at the Library of Congress and to growing list of companies,
including AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ford Motor Company, General Motors
Corporation, Nintendo, Rockwell Collins, and Siemens Health Care
Division.
Claudia Studle
Claudia
Studlé is a training consultant since 1990 with a strong experience in
sales, leadership and communication training, coaching, bi-lingual
intercultural seminars and management training. Claudia’s areas of
specialism are sales, negotiation, telephone sales, presentation skills
and leadership.
She works with small industrial firms, SME and
global organisations all over EMEA. These include IT companies, banks,
investment companies, food industry, building and production companies
and Government Departments.
Clients Claudia has worked with
include Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, HP, Symantec, American Express,
Haagen-Dazs Cafes, Abbott Laboratories, Covidien, Masterfoods, Bank
C.I.C. EST, AVAYA, Nike, Merrill Lynch, DSM, Coca-Cole, ABF Ingredients,
St Jude Medical, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Brown-Forman, Willis, Securit,
ENA (Ecole National d’Administration), …. She is particularly
experienced working with managers, salespeople, technicians and
administrative staff.
Claudia has also advised German companies
with branch offices in France on how to work more efficiently and
understand the German or French culture. She translates both German to
French and French to German. She has been an interpreter in both these
languages.
Claudia has considerable HR and sales experience and
spent five years in Germany working as the deputy managing director in a
recruitment agency.
Other Diplomas: Diploma as professional
training manager, Master Coach Certified by ICI Coaching, Master NLP,
Stress management Trainer, Diploma in Appreciative Inquiry, Trainer for
Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Pilates and Sports supervisor diploma.
A native German, Claudia lives in France since 1991. She facilitates
in French, German and English. She is married and has two children (a
son, 17 years and a daughter, 14 years). Her hobby is painting and she
has had her work exhibited a number of times.
Steve Minshull
Steve
– from the UK - is a multi-lingual, multi-cultural consultant. His
original background was in international sales, where he travelled
extensively and managed teams. For the last 20 years, he has provided
consultancy, coaching and training across the world to large global
organisations in a range of vertical markets. His key clients include
Thomson-Reuters, HSBC, Discovery Channel and Cisco. Steve delivers in 7
different languages: English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish
(Spain & Latam) and Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil).
He
specialises in leadership, motivation, a range of communication skills,
accelerated learning and cross culture. He has worked with thousands of
people in these areas and is qualified in NLP, emotional Intelligence
and relevant cross cultural tools. He has a good understanding of the
workings of the brain and key gender differences.
George H. Labovitz, PhD
Dr.
Labovitz is a senior associate with Barbara Annis & Associate and the
Founder of ODI, an international management training and consulting
company. He counsels senior executives on organizational alignment and
execution strategies as well as quality and productivity management.
He is also professor of management and organizational behavior at
the Boston University School of Management. He has published or
contributed to management articles in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal,
Quality Progress, and Quality Management in Healthcare. He is the
co-author of Making Quality Work (HarperBusiness, 1993) and lead author
of the bestselling book The Power of Alignment (John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.1998).
Dr. Labovitz has presented keynote addresses to
diverse audiences such as world congresses on quality in Singapore,
Jerusalem and Euro-Disney to national meetings of the American Hospital
Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has
delivered numerous presentations to the annual meetings of ODI’s
international customer base, which includes 12 of Fortune’s 20 top
companies. He has twice been the plenary speaker at the annual meeting
of the Federal Quality Institute, and has made presentations to the
command structure of the United States Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.
ODI was twice named to Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest
growing privately held U.S. companies. AT&T, Federal Express, Nextel,
Procter & Gamble and British Airways are among the leading corporations
served by ODI. Government clients include the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S.
Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Air Force, and the
U.S. Postal Service. ODI was chosen by the United States Postal Service
as the Quality Supplier Award Winner in the small service company
category from among 60,000 suppliers. ODI's healthcare division provides
Continuous Quality Improvement services to over 240 medical centers in
the U.S. and Europe.
Dr. Labovitz received Boston University's
highest teaching award, the Metcalf Cup and Prize, which is awarded to
the outstanding teacher from among the 2500 member faculty. He has been
a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Naval, Air Force and Army War
Colleges. He has served as National Consultant in Administration to the
Surgeon General of the Navy as well as the Surgeon General of the Air
Force. He has also been an advisor on alignment to the Chief of Naval
Operations. He frequently serves as a faculty member in executive
programs at Boston University, The Defense Acquisition University,
University of North Carolina as well as the Harvard Business School. He
also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Naval Postgraduate
School.
He holds a BS from Boston University, an MBA from Boston
College, and a PhD from Ohio State University. Prior to his graduate
studies, Dr. Labovitz served in the U.S. Air Force with the rank of
captain, and was a pilot and aircraft commander.
Ranjiini Manian
Ranjini
has Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and French from Elphinstone College,
Mumbai, and a Diploma in French literature from the University of
Sorbonne, Paris. Ranjini is fluent in French, Japanese and Spanish
besides English and several Indian languages.
During the past 15
years working in the relocation industry in six cities in India, Ranjini
has worked with thousands of clients from over 75 nationalities. Her
passion for quality relocation and cross-cultural coaching services
began quite by accident when an American friend needed help
acclimatising to the challenges of living in India. Ranjini’s deep
knowledge of the Indian ethos, her excellent orientation and
communication skills and understanding of western etiquette proved to be
the perfect combination to help expatriates understand the nuances of
Indian culture for personal as well as business needs. What began as a
two-people workforce has now grown to a 50-strong company, with offices
in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, and an exhaustive client base that
includes companies including Nokia, IBM, Ericsson, Motorola, Saint
Gobain, Dow Chemicals, Caterpillar, Daimler, BMW, Fidelity, GE Capital,
Goldman Sachs, and Cisco to name a few.
Ranjini was mentored for
ten years by Robert Kohls, the American cross-cultural pioneer, and is
an expert at sharing this knowledge with Indian and foreign business
professionals and coaching a new generation of aspiring ones.
Author of Doing Business in India for Dummies and co-author of India
chapter in The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence. Editor of
Culturama, India’s first free cultural magazine for expatriates
(formerly known as At a Glance – Understanding India), architect of
www.globalindian.com, an e-learning portal for young Indians. Co-chaired
the Worldwide Employee Relocation Council’s Global Workforce Symposium
and received their ERC Meritorious Service Award. Ranjini is the only
Indian Executive Committee member on the Women’s Leadership Board at
Harvard University. She recently founded the India Immersion Centre in
Chennai, and produced Aikya India 2010, the first in a series of annual
cultural events celebrating the spirit of oneness in India. She writes
regular columns in leading business dailies and is a sought-after
speaker.
Hubert Saint-Onge
Hubert Saint-Onge
has a special focus areas in leadership development, talent
management, and post-M&A strategies. Over the past 25 years, he has held
senior management positions in leading companies and subsequently has
provided corporate clients with innovative coaching in business
strategy, leadership and people management.
Recognized by Harvard University for his thought leadership in the field, Hubert was Visiting Scholar at Harvard in 2005-2006, where his main areas of focus were organizational learning, knowledge management and leadership development. He has given presentations globally on organizational learning, leadership development and knowledge value creation, and since 2002 has co-authored two leading-edge books in the field. Following a book he co-authored on communities of practice, his second book, The Conductive Organization, provides a blueprint for creating knowledge-based cultures in organizations to achieve breakthrough performance. His most recent book, Beyond the Deal, published by McGraw Hill in 2009, focuses on how an organization can best integrate newly acquired businesses.
Marty Kaplan
Marty
Kaplan is an organization development practitioner with more than 35
years experience consulting to private and public sector organizations
in a range of industries and business functions, helping leaders at all
levels make sense of and respond to the challenges they face in the
context of their changing worlds. He is a Senior Facilitator at
Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Kaplan brings to his
practice considerable experience developing executive teams, intervening
in complex systems, facilitating conflict resolution, coaching leaders,
and building productive business relationships within and between
organizations that collaborate on complex projects. He's worked in
construction, health care, education, publishing, information
technology, financial services, manufacturing, marketing and public
affairs, and with not-for-profit arts and advocacy organizations.
A partial list of his clients includes UC Berkeley, Kaiser
Permanente, Earthjustice, Palantir Technologies, the City of San Jose
Redevelopment Agency, Rudolph and Sletten Builders, the County of
Sonoma, Livermore Berkeley National Laboratory, Monterrey Bay Aquarium,
Xerox Corporation, the US Army, the Marine Corps, and Dance Magazine.
Dr. Kaplan has produced a ground-breaking set of tools to help team
leaders improve the performance of their work groups without the use of
a consultant.
His leadership and coaching expertise also finds
expression in his passion for bicycling. An accomplished ultra-distance
bicyclist, Marty coaches riders at all levels who want to break through
to their personal best.
Marty has a Ph.D. in Organization
Behavior from Case Western Reserve University and holds memberships in
the Organization Development Network and the American Psychological
Association.
Jan Hill
Jan
Hill is an expert at helping individuals, teams and organizations
discover their full potential and then develop and execute strategies to
make their visions a reality. Highly engaging and intuitive, Jan is a
master facilitator with a knack for helping diverse groups work their
way through difficult challenges.
From her early years as a sales manager with Procter & Gamble, Jan has been an impassioned advocate for inclusive leadership. Now, with over 20 years of coaching, consulting, facilitating and program design experience with a global audience, she enjoys helping her clients find solutions for the issues that confound them.
As a certified Hudson Institute Coach, Jan brings empathy and humanity to the personal development process. Satisfied clients include Microsoft Corporation, Procter & Gamble Distributing Company, Intuit, 3M Company, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Hershey Chocolate Company, AstraZeneca, and a wide range of entrepreneurial organizations. She is the author of Smart Women, Smart Moves.
Holly Taylor Sargent
The Founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Women's Leadership Board and former Senior Associate Dean for Advancement and Senior Director for women’s initiatives for Harvard University, Holly Taylor Sargent has focused attention on public and private opportunities for enhancing efficiency, productivity, and expanding opportunities for women in leadership capacities. Prior to serving Harvard university-wide, Dean Sargent spent 15 years at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as senior strategist and fundraiser building the infrastructure, creating new global fellowship opportunities, and catalyzing support for new centers whose academic research and policy issues centered on business and government, economic development, and democratic governance at the local and global levels.
Ms. Sargent has traveled extensively in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe interacting with government and business executives at the highest levels to secure institutional partnerships. She currently serves as founder and CEO of HTSargent LLC, a consulting firm specializing in creative and entrepreneurial advice to nonprofit organizations, businesses and individual philanthropists. Drawing from her extensive background and broad reach across industries, sectors, and geographies, HTSargent LLC helps people and companies explore and implement innovative opportunities, manage and sustain their philanthropic vision, and maximize revenue income. Among her high profile clients is The Rhodes Trust, the British charity administering the Rhode Scholarships.
Concomitant with her successful professional career, Ms. Sargent has been instrumental in launching and supporting other institutions supporting women. In addition to developing the Women’s Leadership Board, Sargent was the Founding Director of The Council of Women World Leaders, served on the Women Leaders Initiative of the World Economic Forum, and is on the international advisory board for the Cherie Blair Women’s Foundation. Other board commitments include People’s United Bank, Right To Play, and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Ms. Sargent received her bachelor’s degree in government and political science from Harvard University in 1978, and studied toward a master degree at Rice University.
Clare Beckton
Clare Beckton has worked with Barbara Annis & Associates for the past
10 years on matters of gender and cultural equality and leadership. In
her work in both the public and private sectors, she has constructed key
partnerships with stakeholders and citizens across Canada to develop
public policies, laws and regulations, and to provide services and to
deliver programs in periods of significant change for Canadian society.
Clare received her LLB and her BA from the University of Saskatchewan
and spent an LLM year at the University of Illinois. She taught law at
Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1974 to 1984, and, in
that capacity, published a number of articles and several books. In
2005, as a Fulbright Scholar, she obtained an MPA with a focus on
leadership from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In
recognition of academic excellence and her exceptional contribution to
public service and leadership, Ms. Beckton was awarded the Littauer
Fellowship. In 2008, she was appointed to the Women's Leadership Board
of the Kennedy School of Government, received the Woman of the Year
Award from the Federated Press for "exceptional achievement and
outstanding leadership by a Canadian woman," and was selected by the
Women's Executive Network for a Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100
Award. She is also the recipient of a Canada 125 Medal.
Beginning in 1984, Clare held various positions in the Canadian
government, including within the Department of Justice, and most
recently as the deputy head of Status of Women Canada.
She is the author of Media and the Law as well as
numerous journal articles. She has extensive experience related to
equality rights, leadership through change, governance, gender,
diversity and Aboriginal policy issues . Ms. Beckton has served as a
presenter on diverse topics for domestic and international conferences
and symposia. She has been an active contributor to various executive
and community-based committees.
Sheila Harloe
Sheila
has been consulting in the area of change management, culture and
leadership for the past 25 years in Australia. With a degree in
psychology and an interest in behavioral psychology, Sheila has focused
her work on organizational culture and the difference that individual
behavior change can bring to the whole organization. This is
demonstrated by the sound return in business results as well as
increased engagement of employees with the companies she has worked
with.
She has consulted with Australian companies such as
Telstra, National Australia Bank, Westpac, Bank of Queensland, GESB,
Insurance Australia Group and BHP in areas of coaching, mentoring,
developing leadership capabilities of women, building high performance
teams, sales and service skilling as well as leadership and management
skills.
Sheila is a certified Master Coach, is accredited in
Myer Briggs and is a member of the Australian network of facilitators,
the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Human
Resources Institute. She is also accredited in the area of Corporate
Culture Transformational Tools instrument designed by Richard Barrett
and used worldwide by international companies in Corporate Culture
Assessment for Strategic Management Planning.
Debbie Merkenhof
Debbie
has been consulting in the areas of organisational change, customer
focused sales & leadership capability and coaching for the past 7 years
in Australia. Debbie has over 25 years experience in senior positions
involving the implementation of sales strategies and leadership & people
management for leading Australian and international organisations. With
a focus on creating sustainable sales cultures, leadership capability
and bottom line results, this approach has resulted in successful
transformation of the sales and customer service cultures of some of
Australia’s largest companies.
More recently, Debbie has been
partnering with organisations committed to aligning their organisational
culture and leadership capability to their gender diversity strategies.
She has consulted to organisations such as Westpac Group, Perpetual,
Telstra, National Australia Bank, IAG, Lumley Insurance and NRMA.
Debbie is a Certified Master Coach accredited by the Institute of
Master Coaches and a Member of the International Coaching Council (ICC),
MBTI Accredited Practitioner and she holds Certificate IV in Training
and Assessment.
Kate Sweetman
Kate Sweetman has been a leadership consultant for almost 20 years,
working across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia with a broad
range of clients, including Goldman Sachs, Abu Dhabi Investment
Authority, Novartis, Verizon, Nokia, Qatar Petroleum, Saudi Aramco,
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, Omnicom, and DHL. She is also
currently working with the American Democracy Institute to help develop
high potential young women for leadership positions in public service in
the government.
Kate is also co-author of The Leadership Code: 5 Rules to Lead
By, and author or co-author of many articles about leadership
and related topics in publications including Harvard Business Review,
Sloan Management Review, and The Economic Times of India. Kate is a
former editor at Harvard Business Review, where she acquired and edited
leadership articles. Currently an instructor at MIT’s Legatum Center for
Development and Entrepreneurship, she collaborates with gifted young
entrepreneurs from emerging and developing countries including India,
Rwanda, Colombia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and North Africa.
Associates
Barbara Annis & Associates maintains a global array of Associates, including:
| Associate | Location |
| Susan Aaronson | Boston |
| Lesley Abdela | London |
| Kenchiro Akiyama | Tokyo |
| Farah Bhakshay | India |
| Robert Bowen | San Diego |
| Etienne Couture | France |
| Judy Dahm | Toronto |
| Maria Flannigan | Los Angeles |
| Maureen Gaffney | Ireland |
| Barb Galyen | San Francisco |
| Christie Hardwick | San Francisco |
| Delton Hebling | Brazil |
| Lisa Hirsh | Boston |
| Irene Hughes | San Francisco |
| Benedikte Jacobs | Italy |
| Marcia Jimenez | Costa Rica |
| Charles Jones | New York |
| Marty Kaplan | San Francisco |
| Akihiro Kodaira | Tokyo |
| Anita Krishnaswamy | India |
| Jane Lavelle | London |
| Maria Lerose | Vancouver |
| Annelisa MacBean | San Francisco |
| Jerry Manas | New York |
| Ranjini Manian | India |
| Elvio Martini | Italy |
| Catherine Mullally | New York/Los Angeles |
| Shobha Naidu | India |
| Jill Nyren | Toronto |
| Heather Price | New Zealand |
| Shanti Puducheri | India |
| Susan Reimer-Torn | New York |
| Marcia Ruben | San Francisco |
| Eiko Saito | Tokyo |
| Daniela Schulz | Germany |
| Tim Shea | New York |
| Rochelle Sherlock | San Francisco |
| Duncan Smith | Australia |
| Ruchika Srivastava | India |
| Terry St. Pierre | Belgium |
| Sue Stockdale | London |
| Susan Sussman | Boston |
| Patrizio Timentel | Mexico |
| Cindy Tortorici | Portland/Seattle |
| Carolyn Turner | Ottawa |
| Mark Voorsanger | San Francisco |
Scientific Partners
Dr. Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher, Ph.D. is a Research Professor and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. From 1984 to 1994 she was Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at The American Museum of Natural History. She received her PhD in Physical Anthropology at the University of Colorado with a dissertation on the evolution of human female sexuality and the origin of the nuclear family. Dr. Fisher has lectured internationally since l983 discussing the evolution of human sexuality, romantic love, marriage and divorce, gender differences in the brain and behavior, temperament and mate choice, and the future of men and women in business and family life.
Dr. Ruben Gur
Ruben Gur, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gur received his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1970 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from Michigan State University in 1971 and 1973, respectively. He did Postdoctoral training with E.R. Hilgard at Stanford University and came to Penn as Assistant Professor in 1974. His research has been in the study of brain and behavior in healthy people and patients with brain disorders, with a special emphasis on exploiting neuroimaging as experimental probes. His work has documented sex differences, aging effects, and abnormalities in regional brain function associated with schizophrenia, affective disorders, stroke, epilepsy, movement disorders and dementia.
Dr. Marianne Legato
Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P. is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer and specialist in women's health. She is Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Founder and Director of the Partnership for Women’s Health at Columbia University. She is a practicing internist in New York City. Dr. Legato founded the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University in 1997. It is the first collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focussed solely on gender-specific medicine: the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and of how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. Dr. Legato is also the founder and editor of The Journal of Gender Specific Medicine, and is founder and editor of Gender and Health.
Dr. Sandra Witelson
Sandra F. Witelson, M.Sc., Ph.D., FRSC is Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada. Sandra researches the Neurobiological Basis of Cognition in Health & Disease in Men & Women: focusing on hemispheric functional specialization and language and spatial cognition; postmortem anatomy and in vivo MR Imaging; structure-function relationships in the human brain; developmental neurobiology, microscopic neuroanatomy and immunocytochemistry; sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to behavior and lateralization; neurobiological basis of sexual orientation; neuroanatomical and neuropsychological aspects of congenital cognitive disorders; and human brain banks. Sandra is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.