ABOUT US
Charles Follett
Co-Founder
Extensive consulting experience helping senior executives leverage culture as a competitive advantage. Successfully implemented culture change in diverse companies ranging from construction, utility, semiconductor, banking, insurance, automotive, and information technology - throughout North America and Europe.
Specialties: measurement, analysis, and design of an organization’s Strategic Framework and its implementation, executive coaching, communicating for action, process improvement, and mobilizing change initiatives.
Charles has a Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering degree from Northeastern University, MBA from Brenau University, Ontological Design Course certificate from Business Design Associates, and Leadership Exchange Council (LXC) certification.
Olga Stephan
Co-Founder
Olga excels at working with executives, managers, and their teams to enhance team performance and increase company, departmental, and program results. Her success is measured in terms of programs delivered on time, delighted stakeholders, and proud team members. Her skilled coaching with clients inspires them to greater ambition, fortified with new capabilities for thriving in the future.
Olga has 20 years of coaching experience, as well as a background in information technology. She has worked across North America and Europe, consulting to Fortune 1000 companies in healthcare, semiconductor, auto, energy, construction, insurance, banking, and accounting. Recent clients include Atlassian, Plantronics, Veritas, Cepheid, and Verigy (now Advantest), where she improved the performance of the CXO and their teams through individual coaching and implementation of new team management practices.
At Axolotl (now OptumInsight) she produced breakthrough results with the CEO’s team through team and individual coaching and the establishment of a “war room” to ensure on-time delivery of strategic initiatives. Specialties: Executive and leadership coaching; mobilizer for large strategic initiatives, communication and coordination effectiveness, stakeholder management and relationship building. Olga has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is a proud dual citizen of Canada and the United States and brings her love of travel and cultural diversity to her work.
Harold Gray
Director of Technology
Experienced entrepreneur, architect, solution inventor, application developer, and Business Process designer with a 30+ year track record of satisfying clients. Harold has applied his unique background in engineering, technology and Flores-Winograd 4phase action cycle to significantly improve business performance through decreased costs, cycle times and elimination of non-conformances.
Specialties: Technology and integration, SharePoint, Agile, E-Learning, systems architecture, systems creation, software development (C#) and integration, web parts. Expert in Microsoft Office Tools and Automation, Cloud, SharePoint 2013+, Infopath, Designer, SQL, Outlook, Excel Addins, large scale Oracle CRMoD / SharePoint / BPM integration, large scale ServiceNow / BPM Integration.
Richard Ogle
Director of Research & Development
Richard Ogle is a veteran academic, business consultant, and writer. His book, Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas, was published in 2007 by Harvard Business School Press, and has also been published in the UK and Korea. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA, and has taught for many years at the University of California, Davis, the University of Essex (UK), and in the Evening MBA Program of the School of Economics and Business Administration at St. Mary’s College, California.
His research papers include articles on linguistics, business innovation and communication, and bioethics.
Ogle’s consulting clients include Simon and Schuster, The Discovery Channel, the Electric Power Research Institute, Pfizer, Wells Fargo Nikko, The Axelrod Group, and Kaiser Permanente. His current research and consulting activities focus on breakthrough creativity and modeling culture in business organizations, using dynamic network science.
Born and raised in England, he came to the U.S. in 1968. His honors include being awarded a four-year Regents Fellowship at UCLA and a Fulbright Travel Scholarship.
PARTNERS
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Advisors
Ray W. Scott – Business Advisor
Mr. Scott co-founded Axolotl Corporation in 1995 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until its acquisition by United Health Group in August 2010. Ray now serves on several boards.
Jorge Titinger – Business Advisor
Mr. Titinger served as CEO for semi-conductor test equipment and high-end computing companies until 2018, twice being named “Latin American CEO of the year.” Jorge now serves on boards of companies in the US and LA.
Doug Lehrmann - CFO
Mr. Lehrmann is known as a hands-on CFO who understands the dynamics of high growth companies with limited resources. He works with CEOs and Boards to define corporate goals and plans.
Tom Williams - Strategic Advisor
Mr. Williams is an accomplished executive with domestic and international experience in advising emerging and growth companies. He consults with CXOs on strategic positioning and growth in high tech markets.