Robert Wright III

Managing Principal

Bob Wright is an organization development consultant and executive coach committed to helping organizations clarify and realize their missions, and to encouraging employees to bring more of who they are to what they do. In his role as a principal with the New England-based Panta Rei Consulting, Bob actively serves clients throughout the U.S. and around the globe. 

He assists corporations, government agencies and NGOs in developing and executing strategy, and in building effective managing processes that raise productivity across borders. He has designed and implemented leadership development and organizational change programs throughout North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. His long-standing interest in the impact of organization culture on performance has led to research projects examining best practices for leading dispersed teams and for the development of global leaders. 

Ana de Andrés

Senior Consultant

Ana de Andrés is a leadership and organization development consultant with more than 20 years of comprehensive experience in the areas of capacity building, leadership and executive development, strategic planning, and knowledge and talent management. Ana has a proven track-record of strategy design and implementation in multicultural and complex environments, including executive and management experience in Fortune 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies, and in international development institutions. She has held Management and Executive positions at organisations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the Dannon Group and Procter & Gamble. Ana is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English and French.

Elizabeth Robinson

Practice Lead:  Leadership Curriculum

Elizabeth Robinson is a master facilitator and leadership program designer with 25 years of experience in the leadership and international development arenas. She specializes in working in developing countries with emerging women, youth, and civil society leaders. Her work in international development began with a sixteen-year career at Georgetown University where she developed and led five USAID-funded capacity building and leadership programs for emerging leaders in Central America and East Timor. Within the NGO community, Elizabeth designed and directed the launch of the Hope Fellowship Programme, a USAID-sponsored initiative for women leaders from Kosovo that has been expanded to other countries in the Balkans and is still being funded today. The unique signature of programs designed by Elizabeth is the deep commitment fostered within participants to lead positive change in their communities, institutions and countries.

Sheila Ramsey, PhD

Practice Lead:  Leadership Development

Dr. Sheila Ramsey is known globally for her work in international leadership development and creativity. For over thirty years, the purpose of her work has been to design communication processes that explore the interface between creativity, leadership and human development.

Sheila is a Founding Partner of the ‘Personal Leadership (PL): Making A World of Difference’ process technology. The purpose of this technology is to enable those who live and work across difference to use such diversity as a creative resource. Since 2006, this approach has been applied around the world and with diverse groups, contexts and ages.  This methodology is now available to the public in Making A World of Difference. Personal Leadership: A Methodology of Two Principles and Six Practices, FlyingKite Publications, March 2008.

Corky Potter

Practice Lead: Team Development                                                                                       

Corky Potter is a group facilitation practitioner and organization consultant with extensive experience in design and delivery of creative and powerful personal and group learning events. His work supports individuals, teams and whole systems to increase effectiveness, achieve goals, and create desired futures.

Corky works with a wide range of organizations, challenges and disciplines. Every facilitated event is conducted within the context of each client’s organizational history, culture, people, systems, leadership and desired future.  Where appropriate, he designs a content-linked experiential exercises to support targeted learning or results.

Jennifer Beer, PhD

Practice Lead: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Dr. Jennifer Beer is a mediator, facilitator, professor, trainer, writer and anthropologist who guides organizations and communities in negotiating conflicts and cross-cultural issues.  She works around the world in these roles to enhance understanding and productivity across borders.

Since 2001, Jenny has taught Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.  She also regularly teaches negotiation at ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens, Greece and has led the Certificate in Conflict Resolution program at Bryn Mawr College.  She is the author of The Mediator’s Handbook, a comprehensive, award-winning guide to the mediation discipline.

Jodi Paloni

Senior Coach and Principal

Jodi Paloni has worked in progressive learning communities for the past 25 years. As teacher, mentor, coach, facilitator and trainer, Jodi has initiated engaging experiences that encourage people to explore themselves and develop skills as self-directed learners and personal leaders with purpose and intention.  Her passion is to be of service to lifelong reflective learning, personal and professional leadership and compassionate interactions among people around the world.

Jodi has worked with children, young adults, master educators and elders in the pursuit of providing meaningful learning experiences.  Her experience has led her to private and public school systems, non-profit organizations, graduate school programs and state agencies.  Her training has included human development, instructional systems design, learning styles, group process, environmental systems and research. 

Christiane Frischmuth

Senior Consultant and Coach

Christiane Frischmuth works around the world as an organization, leadership development, and learning consultant. Born in Germany and based in Washington, DC, she is skilled in global results-based facilitation, multi-stakeholder and partnership processes, mergers, new leader on-boarding, transitions, organizational development, change management, organizational learning and knowledge management, facilitation, team building, process consultation, workshop and conference design, networking, training, Rapid Results Approaches/Work Out Processes,  the Logframe/Results Framework (ZOPP) methodology, personal growth work and large systems methodologies. 

Yoichi Shimakawa

Senior Consultant and Intercultural Programs Designer

Yoichi Shimakawa, a native of Japan, specializes in globalizing training and development programs across cultures, facilitating global teambuilding and developing organizational cultures.  For 25 years his passion has been developing systems and skills for communication across cultural borders.

With extensive expertise in intercultural productivity assessment, corporate culture development and instructional design for bicultural and multicultural audiences, he has delivered leadership and global management skills training programs in the US and throughout Asia. He is a certified facilitator of BlessingWhite’s Technical Leadership and MPG (Managing Personal Growth) programs.  He helps both individuals and organizations increase their business productivity through effective skills for communication, conflict resolution and problem solving.