Owner, Principal Consultant
Monita has 20 years of experience working in academia, healthcare, and government. She is a solutions-oriented, top performing team builder with many accolades and accomplishments throughout her professional experiences. She provides services in performance consultation, facilitation and training, coaching, instructional design, and program development and implementation. Monita has a unique ability to guide and support leaders and teams within highly matrixed environments through strategic objectives and functional goals.
As the owner of Cultivating Excellence in Organizations, Monita offers short – and long-term engagements to clients in private and public sectors, and not-for-profit organizations. She helps enhance leaders, teams, and organizations’ knowledge, skills, and practices to increase their performance and effectiveness. To get results, she uses systematic processes, adult learning techniques, and best practices to design and customize relevant instructor-led and online courses, programs, and strategy sessions. Her goal is to provide clients with optimal productivity and results; therefore, as needed, she assembles a team of highly experienced facilitators, executive coaches, authors, or private and public -sector subject matter experts (SMEs) to offer a variety of expertise and personalized approach.
Monita is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) through the International Society for Performance
Improvement (ISPI) and has a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Mercer University School of Medicine, a Master of Science in Education (MSEd) as a Training & Performance Improvement Specialist from Capella University, and a Bachelor of Science in Health Education specializing in Community Health and Human Services.
Senior Consultant
Adena is a nationally recognized leadership, strategy, and organizational development consultant. For 30 years, she has helped public and private organizations determine their best strategy in changing situations and develop the leadership, managerial, relationship and operational capacity to achieve success. She has facilitated sessions at CDC University and throughout CDC for over a decade. Her consulting has attained results that include:
Building cohesive teams and organizations with renewed commitment to goals, priorities and team members’ success
Re-aligning structures and systems to meet evolving demands
Enhancing leadership capacity to anticipate and address challenges
Creating an inclusive, culturally competent organizational culture.
Reducing turnover, absenteeism, and complaints
Clarity on changing roles & responsibilities
Increasing the productivity and performance of virtual teams
Resolving new or festering conflicts
Adena received her bachelor’s degree from Spelman College, her MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and doctoral studies in Organizational Development and Change at the Fielding Graduate University. She was Associate Director and faculty member of UCLA’s School Management Program for nearly 15 years where she specialized in organizational alignment, leadership, change and inclusive planning and decision making. Adena held Human Resource Management and Organizational Development positions in multiple industries.
Senior Consultant
Deborah has an MBA and BSBA at Ohio State University. She is Certified in several assessment instruments including DISC, Birkman MethodÒ, Emotional Competency Inventory (ECI) and Lominger 360. She is also certified in the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching and as a Registered Corporate Coach (RCC). Deborah has over 30 years of corporate and consulting experience and over 20 years working with clients in leadership and organization effectiveness, diversity management and executive coaching. She works with individuals and organizations in changing behavior to align with their vision, mission, and core values to enhance their overall performance and results.
Senior Consultant
Matt has a PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. He has over 6 years of experience working with leaders to create cultures that foster flow and peak performance. He guides clients in bridging the gap between what work is and what it could be – where people see their jobs as a source of growth connection, and energized focus.
Matt completed his PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, where he was awarded the inaugural Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dissertation Award for Excellence in Positive Psychology for his research on cultivating flow in the workplace.
Senior Consultant
Yvonne has an MBA from Emory University. She is an award-winning and Certified Wiley Authorized Partner of Everything DISCÒ Workplace, Certified DISC Practitioner, PXT Select Hiring Assessment and The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive TeamÒ. Yvonne has over 20 years of experience working with clients to improve performance. She helps build leadership skills and develop high performing teams through executive coaching, facilitation of learning sessions, team building and consulting. Yvonne’s focus is leadership development, sales, customer service, and DEI.
Senior Consultant
Carol has over 18 years of experience in the field of training and consulting. Her training and delivery expertise is in the areas of leadership principles, coaching and supervisory skills, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, diversity & inclusion, and customer service. Carol is recognized for her strong facilitation skills and her ability to engage clients using adult learning techniques.
Senior Consultant
Judith has a Master’s in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She has over 11 years of experience in training, facilitation, coaching, career development and wellness. Her expertise is in the areas of DEIB, leadership, communication skills, sales, customer service and project management. Judith is passionate about using a strengths-based approach to help clients realize their full potential.
Senior Producer and Consultant
Tamiko has a Master of Arts in Organizational Management at Ashford University. She is the producer for all the virtual and hybrid courses. She has over 8 years of experience in producer services, facilitation, coaching, and marketing. Tamiko’s expertise is in the areas of operational excellence, organizational development, DE&I, content strategy, and strategic human resources. She encourages clients to dream, strategize, and envision the best for their career. Her background in Human Resources & Operations helps her connect with clients and focus on their growth and transformation.
