Wentworth Consulting

Affiliates

Wentworth Consulting Group builds effective partnerships to best serve client organization needs and desired outcomes.

Shelly Anderson

A Senior Process Facilitator, Shelly offers more than 20 years’ experience working with leadership teams to successfully transform organizational performance. She is a thought partner, strategist, and facilitator for leaders seeking productive change and breakthrough results from their organizations. Shelly helps build leadership team capacity and muscle for true collaborative performance; she guides groups to sharpen and solidify a shared strategic direction and to engage and align their organization for successful execution and transformation.

Shelly utilizes multiple sensory processes to engage group members and create recognition and appreciation for the individual strengths at the teaming table. She fosters teamwork, trust, commitment and accountability in group planning and visioning efforts and is passionate about the role a clearly defined vision for the future can play in strengthening a team’s efforts and organically leading to outstanding results.

Dave Blum

Dave Blum is the founder and President of Dr. Clue Treasure Hunts, which immerse corporate teams in challenging, clue-solving adventures in the parks and on the streets of fantastic historical districts and neighborhoods around the world. Along the way, participants explore vital business issues like brainstorming, problem-solving, time management, team communication, style differences, cooperation (vs. competition), adaption to change and innovation.

Dave holds a B.A. in English from Pomona College in Claremont, California and is continuing boardmember of the North American Simulation & Gaming Association. After a three-year stint teaching English in Japan for the Mombusho English Fellows program, Dave worked in tourism and the non-profit sector before discovering his destiny as a treasure hunt master, team-building trainer, and entrepreneur.

Michael Cherry

Michael Cherry, Ed.D. is an executive coach with experience assisting organizations and individuals in achieving strategic, business objectives through leadership development and performance management. He is versed in team development, strategic planning, Not-for-Profit management, merger and acquisitions and job transition coaching. He has know-how in training design and delivery, human resources management, group and individual facilitation, program and instructional design/development and change management. He has coached both domestic and international clients.

In addition to his coaching work, Mike teaches for the College of Business at Lewis University and serves as Academic Coordinator of Adult Business Programs. He teaches Business Communication, Marketing, Management and Organizational Development to both undergraduate and graduate students. As Academic Coordinator he is responsible for the overall character, content and quality of the University’s Accelerated Business Programs.

Patti DiVella

For the past 16 years, Patti has partnered with organizational leaders to achieve powerful and sustainable results through their people. She found professional success offering services in change management, organizational design, team management and executive coaching to a wide range of industries in Fortune 500 companies, such as McKesson, Gap Inc., PG&E, Adidas, Genentech, and Charles Schwab.

Patti earned her MS in Organizational Development during the early ‘90’s just when corporations began looking in earnest for tools and methodologies for coping with the ever-present cycle of change. The underpinning of Patti’s professional success is her belief that no problem is insurmountable if approached with trust, boldness, personal accountability and compassion. Her practice centers on instilling commitment and courage to make change a reality for her clients.

Collins Dobbs

Collins is an experienced Leadership & Organization Development Coach with a 15 years proven track record of helping organizations achieve both their strategic and operational goals through the use of a wide range of services, including: leadership coaching and development programs, diversity/inclusion workshops, conflict resolution skills development, and team building for intact and cross functional teams. Collins is appreciated for his ability to quickly partner with leaders to help assess, design and deliver solutions which blend human and operational processes in service of achieving the maximum desired outcomes for clients.

Collins brings a strong global perspective to his work as a result of his work in various countries, including: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya, Bangladesh, Uganda, Mexico, Germany, amongst others. He thrives on working with organizations and communities to understand and leverage their diversity to create a climate of inclusion and innovation, focused on achieving performance results while building organizational empowerment and efficacy. Collins spent 12 years working in the telecommunications sector. In addition, he has provided consultation and training services in other sectors, including: Stanford University, Princeton University, CARE USA, City of Washington DC, City of Rochester, and the Richmond Roundtable for Quality Teams.

Today, in addition to operating his independent consulting practice, Collins serves as a Leadership Coach in the Center for Leadership Development & Research in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. In this role, Collins works with emerging leaders to support their leadership development journey by providing both academic training, as well as direct leadership coaching to support them in dealing with their current leadership challenges associated with their various professional and on-campus leadership roles.

Tobey Fitch

Tobey has worked with a wide range of clients over the last 15 years. He provides the tools & support to help you focus and align your organization, clarify and resolve roadblocks to success, engage and motivate your people, and build the skills they’ll need to succeed.

Tobey began Fitch Associates in 1995. From 1988 to 1995, he led Organizational and Management Development projects at Apple Computer, including the Power PC transition, the Apple/Motorola alliance, and large scale organizational change projects in the U.S, Europe and Japan. He also facilitated numerous teambuildings and executive staff retreats.

Prior to Apple he was with US Sprint, as an Account Executive, Sales Manager, and Director of U.S. Sales and Marketing Training. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Progressive Securities in Portland, Oregon, Golden West Productions in Seattle, and has served on the boards of several organizations.

Ricki Frankel

Ricki Frankel has specialized in helping people and organizations navigate through big transitions since the mid-1990’s. Her typical coaching clients are senior professionals and entrepreneurs who have achieved some success in the world and are now seeking “more”: more meaning and significance, more impact, more leadership, more business – even more fun. Her coaching style combines well-honed professional coaching skills with sharp insight, organizational experience, intuition, compassion and laughter. She is particularly passionate about helping her clients make “work work” for themselves and the people who work for them.

In addition to her coaching practice, Ricki works with organizations and teams to create an environment where people believe that what they do matters. She helps develop leadership potential, expand employee engagement and increase effectiveness and satisfaction.

In her role as adjunct staff at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), Ricki is involved with the
design and the delivery of several MBA courses, including “Leadership Coaching,” “Interpersonal
Dynamics,” and “Taking Stock and Moving Forward.” In this capacity, Ricki works with emerging leaders to develop coaching, leadership, influence and communication skills. In addition, she has just been asked to join the team for the new Beacon initiative – a life initiatives for alumni who have achieved their career goals and now are looking to design the next stage of their lives with meaning and engagement results.

Giovanna Gherardi

Giovanna Gherardi has worked as an organizational consultant for over 25 years with a variety of companies, government and non- profit organizations. She values the importance of building strong leaders and healthy organizations. Her work focuses on one on one coaching, team assessment and development, strategic planning, transition planning, conflict resolution and meeting facilitation. Giovanna brings a wide range of skills and knowledge to support the development of current and emerging leaders. Currently, she is committed to supporting the complex needs of the diverse community of West Hawaii and feels strongly that through well planned and well facilitated meetings divergent needs can be surfaced and mutual goals be met.

Prior to her consulting work, she was a nursing and hospital administrator within the Kaiser Permanente Health Care System. Her years as a manager gives her a practical approach to guiding and assisting clients as they deal with the chaos and complexities of their organizational lives.

Denise Green

Denise is a coach, facilitator, speaker, and writer with deep experience in leadership development. Denise is committed to improving the corporate world one leader at a time. She partners with clients to increase their ability to communicate, relate, and create high levels of engagement and commitment. She is passionate about helping leaders bring more ease, grace, and satisfaction to all aspects of their lives.
Before starting Brilliance Inc. with Heather, Denise spent over 13 years inside Corporate America first at Oracle Corporation then Charles Schwab and Co., Inc., building pragmatic, powerful programs that got results. Her last corporate role was Executive Coach and Director of Leadership and Management Development in Information Technology at Charles Schwab and Co., Inc.
Denise holds a Bachelor’s Degree in French from Arizona State University (summa cum laude), a certificate from the University of Paris Sorbonne, and a Master of Liberal Arts from Stanford University. She is a New Ventures West- certified Coach. She is certified in FIRO-B, Fierce Communications, The Influence Edge, The Lumi Company Strategic Manager Series, The Extraordinary Leader 360, PDI, DDI, and others.

Kristen Jacobsen

Kristen Jacobsen is an organization development consultant, facilitating change and learning since 1989. Kristen brings clients a passion to link executive presence and interpersonal savvy with strategic thinking and building motivated teams to produce business results. Kristen coaches leaders and teams from different cultures and disciplines and provides perspective that they can apply to help their organizations manage tough times as well as good ones.

Her career has centered in Silicon Valley working with Bay Area firms at all stages of development, from pre-IPO to Fortune 500 companies. An innovative designer of learning and transformation, Kristen has led leadership, teamwork and change initiatives from Finland to New Zealand.

As an external consultant, Kristen has worked with nearly every industry, from internet commerce to hospice. Always committed to connecting business and personal dynamics, Kristen currently serves as core faculty on leadership programs for eBay, PayPal and The American Leadership Forum.

Eli Kass

Eli Kass, Ph.D. is an award-winning professor and lecturer. He teaches, writes, and consults on negotiation and leadership issues. He is a speaker, presenter, and workshop leader at
national and international conferences in the areas of negotiation and change management. His consulting engagements range from personal coaching and designing and facilitating workshops to large scale organizational and team diagnosis and change.

Dr Kass has Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Tulane University and B.A. in
Psychology and Economics, cum laude, from Brandeis University. He has also taken advanced training at Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and Northwestern University’s Dispute Resolution Research Center.

Eli has taught Executives and MBAs at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, The University of San Francisco, and NYU’s Stern School of Business and physicians at The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and Stanford Medical School.

Lanz Lowen

Lanz Rexford Lowen helps organizations find competitive advantage by enhancing their abilities to think strategically, creatively problem-solve and align cohesively toward a desired direction. Lanz works with leaders and teams to clarify purpose, define strategic priorities, resolve conflict, increase influence and effectively implement organizational change.

Lanz is an adjunct staff-member at Stanford University’s School of Business and at JFK University’s Coaching Certificate Program. Lanz has also been an adjunct staff-member of Catalyst Consulting Team for the last ten years.

Prior to establishing his consulting practice, Lanz was the Manager of Organization Development and Training in the corporate offices of Mervyn’s Department Stores. In this role, he helped senior managers strategize and communicate shifts in organization direction and culture, introduced quality and work improvement programs, and designed and implemented a corporate-wide survey feedback process to help managers modify leadership style.

Lanz Lowen has an M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from San Francisco State and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in San Francisco.

Betsy Merck

Betsy Merck is principal of her own consulting business focused on organizational effectiveness and executive coaching to leverage leadership for improved organizational performance. She works with small to large organizations where leaders are engaged in strategic change initiatives and are interested in improving their performance and/or that of their team and organization.

Betsy has over twenty years of experience in coaching, organizational and leadership development – from private and public sector organizations. She has worked in leadership capacities with both the Hewlett- Packard Company and Levi Strauss & Co. Having lived and worked internationally, she is experienced with different cultures and global business issues. She has worked with clients in Europe, South America and Asia.

A graduate of the University of Oregon with a Masters Degree in Industrial and Labor Relations, she is certified as a professional coach with New Ventures West. She is also certified with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

She is a member of the Organization Development Network and the STS Roundtable, a professional organization focused on organizational effectiveness guided by principles of participatory democracy. Betsy Merck was a commissioner on the Santa Clara County, Ca. Commission on the Status of Women in the early 1980’s and is trained as a conflict mediator for the City of Oakland, Ca.

Barbara Miller

Barbara Miller has thirty years of experience consulting to private, public and non-profit organizations. She has worked successfully in such varied cultures as The U.S. House of Representatives, financial institutions, health care systems, high-technology, rapidly growing entrepreneurial companies, public sector agencies, educational institutions and grassroots non-profit agencies. She has extensive experience working at all levels in an organization: CEO, mid-level manager and individual contributors. Her clients include: Stanford University, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Juniper Networks, HSBC, Accenture, Hewlett Packard, U.C. Berkeley, Agilent Technologies, The Ford Foundation, Lucas Digital, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Applied Materials.

Ms. Miller specializes in leadership development, executive and managerial coaching and organization change strategies. Barbara’s consulting work has included helping organizations to plan strategically, manage change, build teamwork, re-organize workflow and reporting relationships to improve productivity, downsize and merge. Barbara has coached leaders at all levels in Fortune 500 companies.

Richard Mirabile

Richard Mirabile is an organization consultant with more than 20 years of diverse, business, consulting and academic experience. In his current role, he specializes in leadership development, high performance teaming, organization and culture change, and executive coaching. Richard has consulted with many well-known, successful companies such as AT&T, Bank of America, McKesson, and Sun Microsystems.

Earlier in his career, Richard held the position of Assistant Professor at Purdue University, and was an adjunct faculty member at the California School of Professional Psychology and John F. Kennedy University. He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Nationally Certified Career Counselor with Southern Illinois University. Richard is a Guest Fellow in the Center for Leadership Development, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, a Master of Science in psychology and business all from Southern Illinois University. He has completed all coursework for the Master of Science in Organizational Development from Bowling Green University, holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Systems from Purdue University, and has several national certifications in counseling and human resources.

David Sals

David Sals is passionate about increasing trust and communication across all levels of an organization. As an executive coach and consultant, David works with executives to help them navigate professional relationships and increase their reach, influence and perceived value within their organizations, and with new managers, supporting them to become powerful leaders who know how to maximize the potential of their teams. As a trainer and facilitator, he creates engaging, interactive workshops that teach teams to collaborate efficiently and effectively.

In 2010, David co-founded the SF Behavior Lab, an experimental playground for exploring new leadership and team development methodologies. SF Behavior Lab incorporates tools from motivation theory, game theory, influence psychology and applied improvisation to create workshops that tackle subjects like collaboration, relationship building, influence and public speaking, and presents participants with a fun and easy way to explore these themes and gain valuable insights about themselves and the world around them. David also facilitates corporate treasure hunts for Dr. Clue, and leads weekend men’s retreats.

Bev Scott

Bev has used her consulting experience in the private, public and volunteer sectors for over 30 years offering a wide range of consulting services. She served fifteen years as the Director of Organization and Management Development for McKesson Corporation. Before joining McKesson, she worked as a both an internal and external consultant. She brings clarity, focus, integrity and a sense of purpose to her work.

Bev is author of the ASTD best seller, Consulting on the Inside: An Internal Consultant’s Guide to Living and Working Inside Organizations. She has authored several articles, and served as editor of Vision/Action, the professional journal for the Bay Area Organization Development Network for five years. She has been active in both the local and national OD Network, including serving as Chair of the National Board of Trustees.

She has presented her work a the professional conferences of the Organization Development Network, the American Society for Training and Development, Global Business and Technology Association, Institute of Management Consultants and the Association of Internal Management Consultants. Bev served as core faculty member for the Organizational Psychology Master’s program at John F. Kennedy University. She has Masters degrees in Sociology and in Human Resource Development and has completed doctoral course work at the University of Michigan.

Yifat Sharabi Levine

Yifat Sharabi Levine, MA, is an Organizational Consultant and a founder of Catalyst Circles LLP. She specializes in designing experiential based programs to enhance personal and professional growth in the areas of interpersonal dynamics, team and leadership development. Currently Yifat is a Leadership Coach at the Center for Leadership Development at the Stanford MBA program. In this role, she coaches students and support faculty members in courses such as: Paths to Power, High Performance Leadership, Interpersonal Dynamics, and Coaching -Mentoring. Yifat is a lecturer of the Interpersonal Dynamics Course at Stanford Continuing Studies.

An NTL member, she facilitates NTL Authentic Influencing labs. She is a co- founder of various Women Circles in the bay area to support and empower women. Prior to that, Yifat worked in Human Resource Development in the High Tech industry and coached managers and executives on various subjects such as: team development, organizational restructuring, downsizing and more. Yifat has worked as an Organizational Consultant in the Israeli military and managed organizational effectiveness for a full time staff of 450 people and 900 trainees. Yifat holds a Masters degree in Industrial Psychology from Bar Ilan University, and a BA with honors in Behavioral Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Sue Thompson

Sue Thompson is a management consultant and executive coach who helps leaders improve their individual and organization’s effectiveness. She is highly skilled in team building, organization survey processes and meeting facilitation.

Sue has over 30 years of experience in coaching, organization and leadership development. She has worked in leadership capacities at Pan American World Airways and Levi Strauss & CO. She has lived and worked in Europe and has extensive experience with different cultures and global business issues.

Sue was with Levi Strauss & Company for 21 years serving as the Director, Human Resource Development. She helped LS&CO’s executive management team articulate the company’s values and integrate those values into all aspects of the company’s business operations. During this time, Fortune magazine recognized LS&CO. as one of the 10 most admired companies in America.

Sue started her management consulting practice in 1997. The focus of her work is coaching leaders to ensure the effective operation of their organizations. She values high involvement in problem solving and believes the key to effectiveness is making sure management teams are working together effectively on the high leverage problems.