
Alesia Latson
Chief Insight Officer
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Cheryl Wiles
Chief Learning Officer
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Tami Floyd
Chief Executive Officer
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Carolyn Halunen
Chief Relationship Officer, Emeritus
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Our evidence-based strategies build capabilities rather than merely transferring knowledge or raising awareness. Why is this important? Research shows that Deliberate Practice creates lasting change in individuals and their organizations.
Based on this foundation, we tailor each program to meet an organization’s specific needs, delivering personalized learning solutions for both individual and collective transformation.
Language is a creative force that can be harnessed for leadership excellence.
Alesia Latson
Chief Insight Officer
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Alesia Latson
Co-Founder & Chief Insight Officer
Alesia, the Co-Founder & Chief Insight Officer, is a thought leader, and a long-time student and practitioner of the art and science of inclusive leadership practices and organizational development. Her insight, creativity, and exceptional facilitation and coaching skills have informed LeadvantEDGE’s learning approach, which is centered around building inclusive leadership capability. Alesia’s focus is on coach development in support of experiential learning and expanding the organization’s reach.
Prior to co-founding LeadvantEDGE, Alesia held management and organizational development roles in healthcare and financial services organizations. She is an author, sought-after speaker, trusted advisor, and executive coach with over 25 years of experience.
A graduate of the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana with a B.A. in psychology, she also has an M.A. in training and development from Lesley University.
Cheryl Wiles
Chief Learning Officer
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Cheryl Wiles
Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer
Cheryl, the Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer, is an expert in interpersonal communication strategy, leadership development, and experiential learning. Her blend of experience in organizational leadership, executive education, and theatrical performance informs the LeadvantEDGE learning methodology. In addition to program facilitation and executive coaching, Cheryl directs the design of innovative, engaging solutions that build inclusive leadership practices.
Prior to co-founding LeadvantEDGE, she held management and leadership development roles and was a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia University Business School Executive Education and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Cheryl is a member of the faculty for the FDNY Officer’s Management School.
Cheryl holds a B.A. degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany.
Tami Floyd
Chief Executive Officer
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Tami Floyd
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer
Across diverse roles, organizations, and industries Tami consistently demonstrates a forward-thinking approach to the business landscape and brings a track record of maximizing resources and driving profitability.
Under Tami’s stewardship, LeadvantEDGE has thrived, achieving remarkable growth and cementing its status as a standout small business startup. Her leadership has not only propelled the company forward but has also instilled a culture of success and continuous improvement that resonates throughout the organization.
Carolyn Halunen
Chief Relationship Officer, Emeritus
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Carolyn Halunen
Founding Partner & Chief Relationship Officer
Emeritus
We honor and celebrate the unwavering dedication and exceptional contributions of our partner, and co-founder Carolyn Halunen.
As we reflect on the journey we’ve shared, we cannot help but acknowledge the immense impact Carolyn has had. Through her steadfast commitment, she has been instrumental in shaping the success and growth of LeadvantEDGE.
While Carolyn no longer serves on the LeadvantEDGE team in a formal capacity, her spirit and vision remain ingrained in the very foundation of our business, and it is through her hard work that we stand where we are today.
Deb Becker
Deb Becker
Deb Becker facilitates skill drills to support participants in developing the knowledge, ability and confidence to communicate and lead more effectively. Her coaching philosophy supports mid-to-senior level leaders moving from awareness and discovery to reflection and action, positively impacting their job performance.
Ed Stern
Ed Stern
Ed Stern helps employees tap into LeadvantEDGE proven tools and processes, bringing them to higher levels of collaboration and leadership in which their natural talents and lived experiences are made even more powerful. Driven by an insatiable appetite for learning, Ed seeks to imbue his coaching and facilitation engagements with this mindset.
Eva Medilek
Eva Medilek
Eva Medilek collaborates with LeadvantEDGE program participants to develop the communication skills necessary to create inclusive environments and career advancement. As a facilitator and coach, Eva leads participants to discovery, methods and outcomes that enhance their personal and professional lives.
Fernando Caramazana
Fernando Caramazana
Fernando Caramazana goal in working with LeadvantEDGE clients is to increase their self-awareness, and to assist in their developing skills that will contribute to their growth as influential leaders and allies. To this end, he seeks to serve as a competent role model and practitioner of what he is asking others to model and practice, based on mutual trust.
Floyd Carlson
Floyd Carlson
Floyd Carlson’s goal as a LeadvantEDGE coach and facilitator is to help participants build sustainable habits, elevating their leadership and confidence so that others seek to work with them. Through bringing his passion, creativity, skills, training and knowledge to each engagement, Floyd seeks to help participants accomplish positive change and greater impact within their teams and organizations.
Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson aims to aid in LeadvantEDGE program participants experiencing a shift in perspective so that they can more fully understand how the lived experiences of others differ from their own. Because encountering new perspectives can be humbling, he encourages participants to be gentle with themselves while taking steps towards more authentic communication.
Joann Baney
Joann Baney
Joann Baney’s objective in working with our clients is to help them achieve awareness of reflexive behavior patterns so that they can consider new interpersonal communication habits. To facilitate this goal, Joann creates an environment of comfort, kindness and respect, while acknowledging good faith effort and highlighting opportunities for improvement.
Larry Lewis
Larry Lewis
Larry Lewis facilitates the discovery of behaviors, insights, tools and techniques that contribute to the optimal performance of LeadvantEDGE client employees, teams and organizations. His coaching methodology seeks to identify habits and mindsets contributing to individual and team derailment, and then challenging those narratives to expand and improve performance.
Makeda Brown
Makeda Brown
For Makeda Brown, her natural drive and appreciation of learning and unwavering support helps provide a powerful opportunity to drive professional and personal growth. Makeda’s formula for LeadvantEDGE client success includes aligning purpose and values in a manner that supporting constructive change in perspectives, emotional reactions and behavior patterns.
Marcia Kimm-Jackson
Marcia Kimm-Jackson
Marcia Kimm-Jackson is committed to creating learning experiences that facilitate authentic self-expression and skill development in a safe and supportive environment. She aims to support participants in expanding their range of effective behaviors that lead to successful outcomes for themselves and their organizations.
Margie Gozdiff
Margie Gozdiff
Margie Gozdiff works with LeadvantEDGE clients and their employees to achieve personal and professional development, resulting in increased comfort and confidence in specific roles. Her coaching philosophy involves asking powerful questions, which offers the opportunity to learn through self-discovery, sparking growth and change.
Maritza Hall
Maritza Hall
In working with LeadvantEDGE clients, Maritza Hall aims to guide them on a journey of self-discovery culminating in an improved ability to solve today’s most challenging workplace issues. Her focus on self discovery facilitates improved confidence, enhanced skills and elevated inner strengths and capabilities, ultimately positioning employees and leaders to deliver increasing value to their organizations.
Pauline Huie
Pauline Huie
Pauline Huie leverages her coaching and facilitation experience to help LeadvantEDGE client employees build greater self-awareness to reshape mental paradigms, develop skills and stretch themselves to achieve higher levels of performance. To that end, she actively partners with each participant to explore, create, connect and expand their performance range to achieve their goals.
Samantha Tan
Samantha Tan
Samantha Tan seeks to empower the employees of LeadvantEDGE’s clients with the skill and confidence to bring out the best in themselves and others, across challenging workplace situations. By supporting employee’s strengths and potential, she meets them where they are, helping them build their capacity to master conversations central to their professional lives.
Scott Hilton-Clark
Scott Hilton-Clark
Scott Hilton-Clark seeks to connect the greatness that lies in the unique workplace contribution of each individual to personal fulfillment and enhanced organizational performance. By helping participants in LeadvantEDGE programs connect their talents, passions and uniqueness with their purpose, Scott facilitates increased employee satisfaction and happier, more productive workplaces.
Suzanne Frazier-Wilkins
Suzanne Frazier-Wilkins
As a LeadvantEDGE coach and facilitator, Suzanne Frazier Wilkins seeks to help employees align their impact with their intention through conscious and intentional choices. She helps individuals build robust and long-lasting support systems within themselves and their organization that will outlive the coaching engagement.
Terri Nimmons
Terri Nimmons
Terri Nimmons seeks to facilitate meaningful insights useful to LeadvantEDGE client employees in their personal and professional lives. Her belief that leadership is a human quality—not a position—and is highly scalable infuses her coaching engagements.
Will Herrington
Will Herrington
Wil Herrington aims to establish a nurturing atmosphere that allows participants to develop fundamental skills that lead to authentic interactions, regardless of their starting level. This environment enables skills to be applied in real-life situations, promotes peer learning, and empowers participants to take the initiative and engage authentically, even when the new skills push them to their learning edge.