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We choose to be a small firm where all our consultants have a great deal of expertise and mastery of many disciplines. Be assured that in dealing with us, you will receive truly thoughtful attention from seasoned professionals who work collaboratively to meet your desired goals.
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Martha Legare has been coach, trainer and consultant to Fortune 500 companies since 1982. As CEO of the Gantt Group, she is also a certified PMP, member of the Project Management Institute’s National Marketing Team and mediator for the American Arbitration Association. Martha has designed and delivered numerous seminars and developed Project Offices in the US, Mexico and Europe. Prior to founding the Gantt Group, she attended John F. Kennedy University’s MBA program while being a principal in a San Francisco Bay Area organization development consulting firm. Martha’s management experience includes serving as a general manager of a leading manufacturer and establishing a retail business where she increased the initial investment by 16,667% in 3 years. Martha is an innately strategic thinker with strong cross-cultural skills and a steadfast commitment to improving clients’ businesses.
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Manya Arond-Thomas brings over two decades of experience to her work as a coach, consultant, and trainer. Her coaching approach offers a fresh perspective on the integration of individual performance, capability and well-being with organizational and business results. Manya has expertise in executive and leadership development, systems thinking, and team and organizational effectiveness. She is trained and certified in business and developmental coaching, planned change and organizational development, MBTI, conflict mediation, and use of multiple approaches to large-system change. Manya holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.D. from the University of Massachusetts with post-graduate training from Brown University and the University of Michigan. She brings a discerning and aesthetic nature to clarifying what really matters for people in organizations.
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Robert Carpenter began consulting as an extension of the internal design and training years he spent with IBM and Digital Equipment Corporation. At Digital he designed and facilitated workshops in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. The company’s Australian, Japanese and Caribbean-Latin American regions adopted his programs as a model. Bob holds an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BA from Howard University. As an entrepreneur, he has been a principal in two start-up companies, including Venture de Mexico, an agricultural exporter founded in Mexico City in 1996. Highly energetic and fast-paced, he brings both understanding and usable tools to some of the most difficult people-management problems, helping everyone in the client organization realize that he or she has a tangible stake in its effective operation.
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Ray Coker transferred his project management training and development skills to the field of consulting in 1992. Ray developed a software program that integrates Microsoft Project with the project management process itself. He has served as a technical editor for product manuals and numerous project management books. Prior to consulting, Ray was Senior Trainer and Consultant for Symantec in their project management group, where he had over 10 years of experience developing and training project management software products. After his M.S. from Portland State and post-graduate work at University of Arizona, he taught at Arizona, Temple University and the Wharton School of Business. A much-requested presenter, he has taught throughout North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, Ray brings an exceptional focus to balancing the human and technical aspects of project management work.
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Dave Ewert excels at the financial aspects of project management training and consulting. Dave developed and is Director Emeritus of the Executive MBA program at Georgia State University. Its program achieved a top-ten ranking in Business Week's Guide to the Best Executive Education Programs. Dave has a Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University. He has testified as an expert witness before a subcommittee of the US Senate and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He co-authored "Obtaining Unsecured Loans" and has built credit-scoring models that have successfully increased company revenues and reduced operating costs and bad debts. Dave’s enthusiasm in presenting financial management seminars in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America, makes what could be a complex subject, globally interesting.
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Stephen Gill has been consulting full-time since 1984. He specializes in organizational analyses and evaluations of corporate culture, operations and programs. Steve helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve their goals for organizational learning and performance improvement. He has published nearly 40 articles, book chapters, and books as well as manuals related to professional learning and development, including The Learning Alliance: Systems Thinking in Human Resource Development and The Manager's Pocket Guide to Organizational Learning. Previously he consulted for United Training Services and Formative Evaluation Research Associates. Prior to consulting, Steve was on faculty of The University of Michigan School of Education. He earned his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Northwestern University. Steve’s gifted analytical skills are strongly balanced with systematic thoughtfulness.
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Page Glasgow began consulting in 1980 when he joined Wilson Learning Corporation. Since then, his focus has been helping organizations achieve their full business potential in the realm of sales excellence, leadership and customer service. He has conducted seminars for major organizations all over the world. When he was with Wilson, he spent 2 years opening their London office. Prior to that, he taught sales training, was a product manager and manager of sales training for Burroughs International Group. Page has an MBA in marketing from Wayne State University. He understands that it is easy to tell people to solve problems or make the customer happy, but hard to implement these important actions. Page believes that in virtually any business the true differentiator is people. He brings extraordinary skill and insight to helping teams understand how their behaviors affect their bottom line results.
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Juan Lopez has 19 years experience as a consultant and trainer serving corporations and government at all levels. Juan created Diversity 2000, a national think tank that meets annually to influence compelling diversity issues. For three years he co-chaired the National Diversity Conference, the premier national event addressing diversity issues. He is co-founder of the Center for Reinventing Government. Juan began his consulting career in diversity and organization development working with Pacific Management Systems, one of the first nationally recognized firms to provide diversity training. Prior to consulting, he worked in government as Director for Consultation and Education, National Institute of Mental Health and has a M.S.W. from U.C. Berkeley. Juan brings great depth of understanding, flexibility and joy to his work.
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Peter Norlin has spent 25 years in the human systems development professions, as both an internal and external consultant, working in partnership with individuals, groups, and whole systems. He mobilizes the curiosity, creativity, courage, and commitment that enable others to discern and achieve their own particular requirements for success. He has worked with a variety of clients from two-person partnerships to Fortune 100 companies. Peter has a Masters from Johns Hopkins University, a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is certified in a number of large systems change technologies. He helps people throughout an organization embody leadership and move values into action, creating an agile, spirited, flourishing workplace. Peter brings wisdom and insight to identifying and sustaining the necessary balance between personal accountability, collaboration and teamwork, and whole-system change.
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Rebecca Ripley has been coach, trainer and consultant to a wide range of organizations since 1984. She also designed and delivered numerous seminars for the American Management Association, including the popular Creativity and Innovation program. Rebecca co-authored a book entitled Managing by Thinking Around that has been used by numerous organizations to supplement innovation workshops. Prior to consulting, Rebecca worked in higher education administration, state government, and corporate human resources. She has a M.S. from University of Wisconsin and is on the Adjunct Faculty at John Hopkins. Rebecca facilitates managing organizational change through a variety of idea generation techniques to identify innovative solutions to business challenges. Rebecca’s own creativity helps employees solve problems and make decisions through critical thinking and effective communication.
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Angyne Schock-Smith has been designing, developing and delivering acclaimed PM seminars, developing PM methodologies, designing and implementing Project Management Offices since 1993. Prior to consulting, Angyne was with AT&T where she managed a leading edge product development effort that grossed over $90 million dollars in revenue and performed within 5% of the original business case. Her background includes outsourcing, customer care, global strategy, product management, and IT and 5 years of manufacturing experience. With a M.A. from University of Pittsburgh and Masters Certificate in PM, Angyne is a certified PMP, Baldrige Examiner and on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Quality Consortium. Angyne excels at translating between organizational communities, integrating leadership and teambuilding into the fabric of project management.
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Jorge Vanegas has been researcher, educator, facilitator, trainer, technical advisor and consultant in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry since 1988. He obtained Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, and is currently Professor in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Jorge is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Urban Land Institute and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Jorge has managed more than 40 projects, documenting the results in over 90 publications. He has developed training programs for organizations in the U.S. and Latin America. Jorge is a visionary at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels of organizations. His unique ability to absorb, synthesize and execute advanced strategies and methods for effective, integrated lifecycle project management is aided by his multi-faceted, multi-lingual skills.
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Ted Williams began consulting and training in 1987, focusing on human resource management and employee education, specializing in resolving emergent and long-term workplace issues and initiatives. He has audited companies’ policies and procedures, providing cultural due diligence and risk management. Ted has successfully negotiated management/labor contracts and executive employment agreements. He has designed and implemented comprehensive policy and procedure manuals and employee handbooks. Ted has conducted training and consulting programs on workforce diversity, compensation, and mergers and acquisition. After earning his J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law, Ted was Director of Labor Relations and Director of Personnel at two hospitals and Director of HR for Iowa State board of Regents. Ted brings both humor and directness to his consulting work. |
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