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Leadership Biographies
 

Brenda Hampel

Noted for her expertise in leadership onboarding and development, this energetic consultant partners with clients to reach creative, business-oriented solutions. Clients invite Brenda to work with them on developing and implementing a variety of business solutions, examples include: onboarding and executive coaching, facilitating team building sessions, creating leadership development processes that includes identification of the leadership success profile, assessment (through 360 and custom tools) and development planning. Curriculum development and facilitation for competencies such as: Building Effective Teams, Conflict Management, Managing Up, Effective Communication, Organizational Savvy, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Presentation Skills. She has had the opportunity to work with executive teams, functional and team leaders to help them understand how to leverage their individual and combined strengths and creates strategies for addressing gaps. Clients include Cardinal Health, a Fortune 15 pharmaceutical services company, WD Partners, Chico’s FAS a top women’s apparel specialty retailer, TJX Companies, a leading off-priced retailer, Coach, Inc., VW/Audi Automotive, NCR Corporation, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Cedars Sinai Hospital and Victoria’s Secret Stores.

With expertise in the areas of leadership and team alignment, performance and onboarding coaching, this consultant designs and implements solutions that combine proven methodology and practical business application. She is a qualified interpreter of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and user of several 360 tools, as well as co-creator of a proprietary onboarding/alignment methodology. She works closely with the HR team in client organizations to build internal capacity where appropriate and serves as a credible external resource when an outside perspective and/or facilitator are needed.

Her Building Effective Teams session gives teams the ability to assess their current level of effectiveness and build a roadmap for developing gaps. This assessment coupled with the use of the MBTI tool, creates a dynamic and fun session that builds awareness of the team profile, what it means and how to leverage the information. This leads to a specific roadmap for addressing gaps and reaching team objectives.

Brenda’s unique combination of corporate human resources experience in a diverse set of organizations and consulting work provide clients with a consultant that understands how to build the business case for human resources initiatives and create the capacity for implementation. Brenda graduated from The Ohio State University with a BA in Communications. She has presented at several human resources association conferences, and participates in non-profit leadership development. Brenda has been interviewed and quoted in several business and HR publications on the subject of onboarding. She has continued her education by participating in executive programs (human resources curriculum) at the University of Michigan, and The Ohio State University.

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Erika Lamont

Working with operational leaders in leadership onboarding and development has been the focus of Erika Lamont’s consulting work. She has worked with a clients to create customized solutions for their business challenges that include executive onboarding, individual leadership coaching, alignment for mergers and acquisitions, as well as team and individual skills assessment and action planning. Clients have asked her to coach both leaders directly, and to train Human Resources partners to coach leaders. She has worked with top leaders such as Chief Operating Officers, Chief Financial Officers, and Chief Technology Officers. Erika always collaborates with clients to understand and articulate the organization culture, identify and leverage strengths, flag gaps, and then integrate that information into each customized solution. She has co-led team sessions for New Leader Assimilation, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Team Building, Change Management, and Talent Assessment. Some of her clients include; DSW Inc., Cardinal Health, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Audi/Volkswagen of America, WD Partners and Chico’s FAS. Erika has also held leadership roles inside large organizations such as Riverside Methodist Hospital, part of the OhioHealth Corporation, and Bath & Body Works, a division of Limited Brands.

Because of the credibility of her operational experience, Erika can effectively work with leadership teams to identify and articulate business objectives, assess their resources, and collaborate to create and implement a strategy to achieve their desired results. Project management and resources tracking are other skill sets that Erika makes available to her clients. Often she is also asked to create and implement a communication plan for the initiatives that are underway to build buy-in and support from the larger organization. These create momentum for the initiatives, as well as delivering key information to maintain alignment.

Erika brings a distinctive blend of operational experience and leadership development skills to her client base. She earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and has received extensive professional development in Leadership Coaching, Managing Teams, Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Development and Project Management. She has presented for hospital association conferences and professional procurement organizations.

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