AvoLead helps leaders and their organizations navigate the waters of transition and change.
Our Company
Meet our Leaders
Charles EakesFounding Member, President,
Chairman Board of Managers
Charles leads AvoLead LLC as President and Chairman of the Board of Managers. His vision for AvoLead was to create a talented team of experts to identify and selectively develop future Hall of Fame leaders. The AvoLead team is comprised of proven mentors, coaches and facilitators to guide leaders and their organizations through the waters of transition.
Nigel AdamsMember, Vice President, Secretary
and Board of Managers
Nigel is a member, Vice President, Secretary and serves on the AvoLead LLC Board of Managers. He is the Chief Talent Officer at Rosetta, an international advertising agency headquartered in Princeton, NJ. He serves clients as an executive coach, specializing in leadership development and business performance coaching.
Lynn MalmstromBoard of Managers
Lynn serves as a member of the AvoLead LLC Board of Managers, lending more than three decades of expertise in driving success across public, private, non-profit and government entities. A powerful and creative problem solver, Lynn excels in working with companies to achieve superior results in both high growth and restructure situations.
Senior Consultants
Nicole K. BerriosBDA & Consultant
Nicole serves AvoLead clients as a consultant and business development ambassador. With her polished interpersonal skills and a keen ability to spot the positive in most situations, Nicole works seamlessly to establish and maintain long-term relationships enjoyed by AvoLead members with their clients.
David DornSenior Consultant
David serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and leadership development facilitator. Raised in a Peace Corps volunteer training camp in the U.S. Virgin Islands where his father worked, David developed a passion for working with leaders who are intent on improving the lives of others.
Anne E. DosterSenior Consultant
Anne serves AvoLead clients as an organizational effectiveness consultant, facilitator and executive coach. Experienced in performance management, training and leadership development, she has spent more than 20 years as an executive coach and career and organizational development consultant.
Ann FlahertySenior Consultant
Ann Flaherty serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and organizational consultant. Drawing on a rich career spent designing and implementing effective learning experiences in clinical and corporate settings, Ann’s coaching and consulting style is both engaging and effective.
Tracy Daly FloriSenior Consultant
Tracy serves AvoLead clients as a strategic leadership consultant in talent management, team performance and organizational development. Specializing in the design of global strategies for profitability and growth, she has a unique talent for maximizing corporate, team and individual performance.
Pandora GordonSenior Consultant
Pandora serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach, specializing in 360° feedback coaching, developmental coaching, and career coaching. She believes every coaching session gives clients a unique opportunity to discover something new about themselves, and that this can only happen when they feel their coach is truly present for them, and not just for the company.
Connie GrantSenior Consultant
Connie serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and organizational consultant. With more than 20 years of experience coaching at the executive level, Connie can quickly establish the trust vital to an effective coach-client relationship. Her coaching reflects two core beliefs: one, that balanced life planning is essential for personal health and high individual productivity; and two, when leaders model healthy balanced lives, it has a positive impact on the productivity of the entire company.
Dawn HolzerSenior Consultant
Dawn serves AvoLead clients as an organizational development expert, strategic thinker, change agent and executive coach. Drawing on 20 years of business acumen in the areas of leadership development, succession planning, training and organizational change, Dawn has demonstrated that she is a trusted partner, innovative leader, team player and force for driving change.
Michael H. HoppeSenior Consultant
Michael serves AvoLead clients as program facilitator and executive coach. Life experience in a variety of cultures, leadership development expertise gained within a world-class business institute and extensive research leading to his participation in the largest-ever cross-cultural leadership study, all prepared him to provide AvoLead clients with practical, innovative and culturally calibrated solutions to leadership challenges.
Barbara HunterSenior Consultant
Barbara serves AvoLead as an executive coach and Human Resource Development consultant for leaders who want to achieve significant personal and organizational results. Clients come to her committed to balancing the complexity of industry and organizational challenges with the need to effectively lead others.
Rob KramerSenior Consultant
Rob, Senior Consultant with AvoLead LLC is the director of the Public and Academic Leadership Alliance and the owner of Kramer Leadership Consulting & Coaching in Chapel Hill, NC. He serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and organizational development specialist with an emphasis on practical knowledge, reflective learning and specific actions that have application to real world situations.
John LybargerSenior Consultant
John serves AvoLead clients as a curriculum designer, program facilitator, executive coach and organizational development consultant for public agencies and private sector organizations. A nationally known workshop facilitator and keynote speaker, John is continuously honing his ability to engage learners, increasing their competence at mission execution and creating sustainable results.
Joanne McCreeSenior Consultant
Joanne, Senior Consultant with AvoLead LLC serves clients as an executive coach in strategy development and organizational change. In more than 20 years with IBM, she led in a corporation undergoing transformational change – cultural, strategic, product and business model – and is uniquely qualified to lead clients through the complexities and pressures in today's rapidly changing organizations.
Amy MillerSenior Consultant
Amy serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and organizational consultant. Specializing in emotional intelligence, leadership development, and assessment of team and organizational dynamics, Amy has coached hundreds of executives and mid-level managers in corporate, governmental, and non-profit organizations to help them set and achieve meaningful, ambitious goals for themselves and their organizations.
Judy PlinerSenior Consultant
Judy serves AvoLead clients seeking to increase individual and organizational performance through executive assessment and coaching. A practicing psychologist, Judy has a particular affinity for–and skill in–executive coaching. This skill set makes her uniquely adept at providing feedback that helps clients gain the understanding and self-awareness necessary to achieve quick and significant improvements in personal and professional effectiveness.
Mike RosenthalSenior Consultant
Mike serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach, facilitator and organizational consultant. He specializes in team building, delivery of 360-degree feedback and helping organizations transition through significant change. His counseling and teaching background–coupled with his own business experience–enable Mike to quickly identify clients’ needs and deliver meaningful, relevant feedback that is heard and understood.
Collin RustinSenior Consultant
Collin serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and mediator. His inspiring blend of mediation and coaching expertise makes him an ideal resource for clients seeking to manage conflict and reduce tensions that can occur among teams with members from different ethnic groups or disparate business units.
William van BarkSenior Consultant
Bill serves AvoLead clients in the areas of organizational development, executive coaching and leadership assessment. Bill’s practical and direct approach quickly empowers leaders to confidently navigate complex organizational challenges with greater speed and clarity. He is able to rapidly assess, understand, design and implement solutions that target organizational competencies, leadership development, and change management.
Bonnie WrightSenior Consultant
Bonnie brings a strategic mindset, organizational savvy and an intuitive grasp of human interactions to her work as Leadership Coach and Organizational Consultant at AvoLead. Her unyielding belief in the possibility of individual and organizational transformation led Bonnie to cofound a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that promotes economic development for low-wealth communities, and a charter school for economically disadvantaged students.
J. Thompson B. WyattSenior Consultant
Thompson serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and an organizational consultant. His experience in both applied and academic settings helps him create the most effective learning experience for each and every learner. His insight, focus on the individual, and approachable demeanor allow Thompson to deliver tough messages in a consistently gentle fashion that are effectively heard and received.
Consultants
Jaime Gómez García-VerdugoConsultant
Jaime serves AvoLead clients as an organizational consultant specializing in corporate strategy and sustainability. His commitment and passion quickly earn him the confidence of his clients, enabling him to effectively guide them in leading their organization toward transformational change. His unique contribution comes from a thorough understanding of structured planning and business decision-making models and tools.
Amanda HardingConsultant
Amanda serves AvoLead clients as a Consultant and Assessment Administrator. With a career distinguished by service in the public and private sectors, she contributes a unique perspective to relationship building and operational management within large-scale, complex organizations. Amanda has worked with clients from a broad range of socioeconomic groups and organizational levels, including C-level executives, government officials, Wall Street lawyers, families and students.
Linda SchmidtConsultant
Linda serves AvoLead clients as an executive coach and business consultant. Drawing on her deep understanding of business and of people, and experience coaching CEOs and other executives, she delivers high-impact results in improved performance. Linda is known for guiding the embracing of change, asking the right questions, bringing clarity to complex issues, increasing the effectiveness of teams and bringing focus to strategic planning.
Frank H. (Josh) StroupConsultant
Josh serves AvoLead clients as a consultant and leadership coach. Experienced in working with leaders of all levels, he strives to act as listener, guide, supporter, challenger, “truth teller,” trainer and mentor. Josh also uses various assessments to help leaders learn effective new behaviors.