Staff Directory
Operations Team:
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RENE BERNIER
Director of Business Development
As Director of Business Development, Rene Bernier provides
leadership to TRG’s Business Development team, markets TRG’s
services to potential clients, and manages TRG’s proposal
development process. He joined TRG in December 2006. Previously,
Rene served as Deputy Research Manager on the 5-year USAID
Development Information Services Project with the Academy for
Educational Development, and as Program Associate with the
International Science and Technology Institute, Inc. Rene is
proficient in French and has professional experience in Madagascar,
Ghana, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland, Azerbaijan, South Asia, Cambodia,
and Morocco. Rene, his
wife, Mary, and two young children, Martin and Mary Clare,
enjoy outdoor recreation, including hiking, camping , and
cycling --- and when the weather is good, warrior weekends with
do-it-yourself landscaping and home improvements.
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CHRISTINA BUSHROD-LEWIS
Controller, Finance
As TRG's Controller, Christina is
responsible for project reconciliation and profitability analysis.
She works with Project Managers on various contracts making sure they stay
within budget. She has been a member of the Finance Team for 7 years.
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JONATHAN DARLING
Chief Executive Officer
Under TRG’s innovative and nationally recognized
governance structure of rotating leadership, Jonathan Darling was
appointed as TRG’s CEO for the period of 2007-2011. Mr.
Darling joined TRG in 1995 and for eleven years served as
the firm’s Director of Business Development. In that role he
collaborated with clients to identify organizational development and
training needs and develop approaches to improving organizational
performance and business results. He has also provided direct
training and consulting services for a variety of clients including
the Agency for International Development, the Department of
Commerce, and Major League Baseball. In addition, Mr. Darling has
served on the firm’s Board of Directors for the last six years and
has played an active role in matters of corporate governance and
strategy. Mr. Darling enjoys running, kayaking, rafting, and
wilderness adventures with his family.
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Associate Business Development Specialist
Maha joined TRG in
March 2007. As TRG’s Business Development Associate, she works
in close collaboration with the Director of Business Development in
implementing all business development and marketing activities as
well as providing on-going project management services and support to existing clients.
She previously worked with ARD, Inc. as an Assistant Project Manager
providing logistical and administrative support to long-term
overseas development projects and short-term field activities.
She holds a Masters degree from the School for International
Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Maha has international
experience living and working in the Middle East and has traveled
extensively throughout Europe. She is fluent in Arabic and
enjoys the outdoors with her husband and two children.
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RUTH TARBELL
Director, Administrative Services
TRG's Administrative Team Leader, Ruth Tarbell, oversees the firm's technology
management, receptionist services, production of training materials for
clients, logistical planning for client events, and general administrative
services. She also provides human resource support and facilities management
to the company. Ruth has over 20 years of business management experience,
the last 5 with TRG.
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CONNIE TEXEIRA
Receptionist
Connie has been TRG's receptionist and "voice to the public" since 1992. Prior to joining TRG, Connie worked for sixteen years as a secretary and executive assistant in the Mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Connie is by far the best person to contact when you're trying to track down fast moving TRGers. In addition to filling a key role at TRG, Connie is a dedicated mother and grandmother.
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Consulting Staff:
KATHY ALISON
Consultant
Kathy Alison is a senior
management consultant, trainer and facilitator with over 22 years of
professional experience. She
specializes in designing collaborative programs and activities involving
executive level staff and senior level officials from governments, bilateral
and multilateral donor agencies, scientific and technical institutions, and
major corporations. She has
extensive international experience on issues including strategic planning,
knowledge management, policy formulation, training needs assessments, training design and delivery, workplan
development, collaborative problem solving and consensus building, and
public participation processes.
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DAN EDWARDS
Consultant
Dan
Edwards has 30 years of experience in institutional development, strategic
planning, project management, management training, and program development.
He has extensive experience providing technical assistance to USAID missions
and host country ministry personnel in the areas of project design,
start-up, and planning, institutional development, conflict resolution, and
management development and training. He conducts needs assessments, designs
institutional and organizational development projects, coaches managers,
designs and conducts team building and train-the-trainer activities, and
manages conferences. He specializes in working with senior managers to
identify problems, plan strategies, and develop solutions. He has worked
throughout the developing world in such technical sectors as environmental
health, municipal development, business development, irrigation, water and
environment. He is fluent in Spanish. His spare-time is spent on his career
as an artist and you can see a selection of his work on the web site
fourwindsart.com.
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PAMELA FOSTER
Consultant
Pamela
Foster has more than 15 years experience providing organizational
development and consultation services for organizations in the U.S., Africa,
South America, Central Asia and the Middle East. Her areas of expertise include management coaching and training,
strategic planning, team building, workshop facilitation and a variety of
organizational development services. Her clients include the World Bank, the
International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), USDA Forest Service - International Programs, Abt
Associates, IntraHealth, the Global AIDS Alliance, Department of
State-Foreign Service Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency, the
U.S. Government Printing Office, and numerous international health
organizations. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnopsychology and is a licensed clinical
social worker.
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GRAEME FRELICK
Consultant
Graeme
Frelick is a talented consultant with over 20 years of experience. Graeme provides a wide range of training and consulting services to
organizations in specific areas such as performance improvement, strategic
planning, leadership development, institution building, management training,
executive coaching, and training of trainers. He has also designed and implemented numerous teambuilding and team
strengthening activities. Graeme is fluent in French and works mostly
in French-speaking countries when on overseas assignments. He is passionate
about working to improve the lives of people in developing countries, with a
special place in his heart for Africa, where he lived for seven years.
Graeme’s hobbies include martial arts and skiing.
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PATRICIA GARCIA
Consultant
Patricia
Garcia is a talented organizational and human development consultant with
more than 18 years of experience in organizational development, training,
facilitation and project management in United States, Latin America, the
Caribbean and South Asia (Bangladesh). Ms. Garcia has extensive experience in facilitating strategic
planning processes, providing leadership and management training, and in
multicultural communication. She is certified on Emotional Intelligence
and her experience includes significant work as human resources professional
within organizations in the private and non-profit sectors and as an
external consultant. She practices Karate do, dance and loves music.
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WILMA GORMLEY
Consultant
Since founding TRG in 1973, Ms. Gormley has specialized in improving the performance of individuals and organizations.
She has designed and conducted numerous organizational effectiveness
programs for both domestic and international organizations. These include leadership programs, organizational assessments,
organizational restructuring programs, retreats, team building workshops,
strategic planning efforts, management and leadership assessments and
coaching. For fun, Wilma likes to ride horses, hike, ski,
read, and hang out with friends. She
also loves visiting her daughters who live in Montana near Glacier Park.
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LAURA GUYER-MILLER
Consultant
Ms.
Guyer-Miller is a talented trainer and management consultant with over 15 years
of experience providing training and training management services in
cross-cultural environments. She specializes in the design of
professional development programs and all aspects of organizational
development and training. Laura is skilled at MBTI and experiential
activities to facilitate learning in training programs. She has worked
with clients throughout the world including Uganda, the Dominican Republic,
the Philippines, Morocco, Jordan, Yemen, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, and
Peru.
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STEVEN JOYCE
Consultant
Steve Joyce is a full-time
senior facilitator and consultant with over 20 years of experience in
designing and delivering human resources and institutional development
activities for private and public sector organizations in the United States
and throughout the world. He is currently working with a number of domestic and international organizations,
and specializes in two main areas – stakeholder involvement, and
leadership and management development. Leadership and Management
Development: Steve is
currently managing TRG’s support to the Foreign Service Institute which
includes a range of leadership and management training courses and other
interventions at the executive, senior and middle levels of the
organization. Stakeholder
involvement: Steve is currently assisting public and private sector
organizations in Iraq and Albania with an ongoing process of multiple and
highly participatory stakeholder workshops at various levels within an
organization and/or with a range of other stakeholders. These workshops are helping to get “collective” agreement from
groups of people on future actions that will bring change – institutional
change, policy change, and service improvement. Highly participatory workshops – often a new experience for people
who are used to operating in an environment characterized by fear,
intimidation and risk aversion – provide a "learning arena" for
people to practice openness and
transparency, to practice debating and consensus building.
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SCOTT LOOMIS
Consultant
Scott Loomis is an accomplished management and organization development specialist
with over 25 years of experience in domestic and international programs. Mr. Loomis
specializes in team development, strategic planning, problem-solving workshops and
management and leadership training programs. He has worked extensively with a wide
range of governmental and non-governmental offices, missions, and projects to analyze
organizational performance, develop and implement improvement plans, and strengthen
team functioning.
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JAWARA LUMUMBA
Consultant
For 15 years Jawara Lumumba has conducted team strengthening, management
improvement, and organizational development activities for clients in the
United States and the developing world. An expert on helping
institutions plan and achieve organizational change, he has conducted
programs on effective partnerships, teamwork strategies, leadership and
management, leading change in a multi-cultural environment, managing and
valuing diversity, and strategic communication skills.
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MARGARET MOREHOUSE
Consultant
Margaret
Morehouse is a management and organizational development consultant with
20 years of experience. She has worked with clients in the US and
internationally and is recognized as a results-oriented practitioner.
She specializes in organizational assessment, change management,
workshop design and facilitation, inter-organizational collaboration and
decision-making. Ms. Morehouse is particularly effective in the
application of participatory organizational development approaches to
internal and external programs. Recent activities include strategic and
operational planning, team building, development of training strategy
and training of trainers, facilitation of large scale meetings and
conferences.
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JIM McCAFFERY
Consultant
Jim McCaffery has 25 years of experience providing organizational
performance consulting services to clients that include international and
multilateral organizations, private companies, U.S. government agencies, and
nonprofit organizations. He is an expert at helping organizations become
more effective and competitive in today’s work environment. His
specialties include organizational development, management systems
consulting, strategic planning, team building, and executive coaching and
development. In his spare time, Jim likes to ski, golf, read novels, and
listen to Allison Krause and Michael Feldman.
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MEREDITH MacDONALD
Project Assistant
Meredith MacDonald, TRG’s Project Assistant, is responsible for
general administrative, project, and materials production support to
TRG’s consulting and operations staff. She is responsible for
editing, creating, and coordinating client materials, managing
logistics for in-house training events, and other general
administrative services. She also collaborates with the rest of the
TRG admin team on creative projects and supporting the Finance and
New Business teams.
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JOHN PETTIT
Consultant
John has a talent for creating the right context for good personal interaction.
As a TRG consultant since 1982, he uses this skill to prepare strategic
planning and team building events for a broad range of government agencies,
international development organizations and private sector groups. Clients
regularly describe his work as insightful, fun, beautifully run and that it
cut right to the point. John is
also a master trainer with years of experience designing and delivering
targeted training in communications, performance management, and leadership.
His superb platform skills make him an outstanding instructor for “train
the trainer” and “facilitator training programs”. John is also a skilled executive coach where he finds the more
intensive one on one relationship a perfect setting for his interest in
nurturing client insights about tough issues. Prior to joining TRG he earned a Ph. D. in Curriculum and Instruction
from the University of Wisconsin. Right now his major interest outside of
work is spending time with his wife Donna, 8-year-old daughter Lorraine and
6-year-old Victoria. This past December John and Donna traveled to
Kazakhstan where they met and adopted Victoria. He is quickly finding out
that when it comes to children one and one do not necessarily equal two.
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Consultant
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FRED ROSENSWEIG
Consultant
Fred
Rosensweig has 30 years of experience in training and institutional
development. He joined TRG in 1984 when the firm had only seven employees.
For over 20 years he has worked on human resources and institutional
development programs in the water supply and sanitation sector through the USAID-funded WASH and EHP Projects. His specialties include the assessment
of human resources development activities, the development of institutional
structures to improve the delivery of services, decentralization, policy
reform, and the use of participatory process to gain increased involvement
and commitment of key stakeholders. He works on a variety of TRG contracts
and serves as project manager for a number of USAID contracts. He was also
the chairman of TRG's Board of Directors from 1998-2001. When he is not
working Fred enjoys spending time with his family, which includes two grown
sons, David and Jason, following current events, running, and cooking
gourmet meals.
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ED SALT
Consultant
Ed Salt has over thirty years of experience providing management consulting, training and organizational development services to federal and state government departments, government agencies in developing countries, and private sector firms. He has been with TRG since 1984 and previously held senior level positions with the State of California. TRG has a practice of rotating the role of Chief Executive Officer and Ed served as TRG’s second CEO from 1996 to 2001.
Ed has worked in over fifty countries in all regions of the world beginning with service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. When not at TRG, Ed enjoys waking up very early and rowing on the Potomac River with the local rowing club, Alexandria Community Rowing.
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STEPHANIE SCHALK-ZAITSEV
Consultant
Ms. Schalk-Zaitsev is a talented trainer and organizational development
consultant with over 10 years of experience specializing in designing and facilitating training and team strengthening
services. She had designed and implemented a variety of teambuilding,
strategic planning, and skill development activities for clients in U.S. and
overseas. She has extensive experience with USAID, having worked with
numerous Washington offices and with the Missions in Nigeria, Hungary,
and Central Asia. Ms. Schalk-Zaitsev is also fluent in Russian.
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LINDA SPINK
Consultant
Linda Spink has been with the TRG since 1993.
Over this time she has displayed a dedication to TRG’s approach of
customer focus work, an internal participatory culture, and the
firm's passion for continually improving its own work processes. Ms.
Spink has also exhibited her talent in training and project
management. She was the Project Manager for the Ford Foundation
supported, Organizational Change Program for the Consultative Group
for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Through this
program, Linda guided the CGIAR centers to an improved capacity to
work in multidisciplinary teams and in collaborative partnerships.
She also assisted the CGIAR centers in their knowledge management
activities, increasing their ability to share information and
positively impact resource-poor farmers throughout the world. TRG’s
policy is to assign a senior consultant to function as Chief
Executive Officer for a five-year period. Ms Spink has served in this
role from 2001 through 2006. In this position she guided TRG in
maintaining its financial health while pursuing a broad range of
work opportunities and new corporate initiatives.
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Consultant
Rachael Wilcox is a trainer and
facilitator with over 10 years of professional experience. She
specializes in designing collaborative programs and activities
involving senior level officials from government agencies. Over the
course of her career, Ms. Wilcox has worked in strategic planning,
training needs assessment, training design and delivery, work plan
development, collaborative problem solving and consensus building. The
technical areas that she has worked in include democratic governance,
health policy and public administration. She also has substantial
international experience, having worked in Europe, Eurasia, and Asia in
curriculum development and teaching.
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