Staff Accountant
Latoya Atkinson has significant experience in accounts payable and is in charge of accounts payable for TRG. She is responsible for the payment to outside vendors and processes payroll. She is currently in the Air Force reserve and has the rank of Senior Airman. She was previously with the Air Force full time and stationed at Dover Air Force Base. She has two children and enjoys going to restaurants and spending time with her children.
Senior Accountant
Rita Beckwith is responsible for accounts receivable for TRG including creating invoices and developing aging reports. She has over 20 years experience in accounts receivable. In her spare time, she is a horse farmer and runs a horse rescue.
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.
Senior Accountant
As TRG's Senior Accountant, 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.
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.
Production Assistant
Matthias Hess assists our consulting staff with preparation of training materials, logistical support for client events, and travel arrangements. Matthias also provides general administrative support to TRG by managing our common areas, maintaining our office equipment and supply inventories, and backing up IT services.
Matthias graduated Magna cum Laude from Houghton College in New York where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 2006. His prior work experience includes assisting his professors with research and editing projects, tutoring Somali Bantu refugee children in ESL, and assisting the director of sales for an event & catering company. He enjoys movies, reading, music, travel, cooking, and bicycling.
Accounting Manager
Nancy Lin was hired in 2009 as TRG’s first Accounting Manager, a position created to respond to the growing needs of the business and to strengthen our financial performance. As such, she is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of our accounting team, timely closure of accounting periods and preparation of financial reports, generation of financial statements, compliance with accounting principles and government regulations, enhancement and enforcement of internal controls, preparation for audits, and supervision of other TRG accounting staff.
Nancy is a certified public accountant with over twenty years of experience in corporate accounting and finance. Highlights of her career include seven years as a senior accountant with a professional services firm in Vienna, four years with a local CPA firm in NYC, five years as assistant controller for a holding company in Falls Church, and eleven years as an accounting manager for Columbia Hospital for Women in D.C.
In her personal life, Nancy enjoys travel and photography.
Project Assistant
Jiwon Paik is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy. She came to TRG in 2007 as our Production Assistant and was quickly promoted to the position of Project Assistant after demonstrating exceptional talent in administrative and technical services. As TRG’s Project Assistant, Jiwon provides project support to our staff consultants and assists in the development of high-quality client products by creating websites, surveys, reports, and presentations. Jiwon also assists with research, budgeting, event design, and production of materials, workbooks, and handouts. In her spare time, Jiwon enjoys oil-painting, listening to live music, and reading.
Program Officer
Kevin Price joined TRG in 2009 and works on the USAID-funded TeamSTAR project that provides organizational development support to PEPFAR teams around the world. In his position, Kevin oversees project operations, including financial management, contractual compliance, technical work, communications, and reporting.
Kevin has extensive experience developing and managing international health projects, including projects funded by USAID, CDC, and PEPFAR. He has worked in more than ten countries throughout Africa and Asia and has lived in Indonesia, Slovakia, and the Netherlands. Kevin also brings experience in curriculum development and facilitation—he previously worked in the training department at Chemonics International, and also taught overseas. In his spare time, Kevin enjoys running marathons, traveling with his wife (and former TRGer) Ananya, and updating his Netflix list.
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Rabinovich is a certified public accountant with over twenty years in corporate accounting and finance. As the Chief Financial Officer for TRG she is responsible for the strategic development and oversight of TRG’s corporate financial plans and policies. She provides guidance and coordination within the organization’s financial management program and operations.
IT Specialist
Alex works as TRG’s Information Technology Specialist. He has over 15 years experience in server management and end-user support in a multi-platform environment. He is responsible for all aspects of network administration and providing end-user support for office production, graphic and internet applications. He is formerly a professional dancer and has performed in various places including the Kennedy Center.
Director, Administrative Services
Ruth Tarbell has been managing TRG’s administrative services since 1998, overseeing the company’s technology, client support, and reception services. She also provides human resource services, facilities management, and assistance to non-staff consultants, and works closely with the CEO and other operations managers in developing company policy and procedures. Ruth came to TRG with 19 years of administrative and managerial experience, including 15 years as the business manager of a fine crafts and wearables specialty store, and 3 years as a program assistant for a national wildlife conservation organization. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in mathematics.
Ruth adopted her son Caelan as an infant from Korea in 1997. He keeps Ruth busy as an avid hockey mom. In her spare time, Ruth also enjoys the arts, cooking, shopping, reading, the beach, and riding her Harley.
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.
Consultant
Kathy Alison has worked in over 40 countries in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Eurasia, Africa, and Central and South America on capacity building, institution building, public consultation processes, collaborative problem solving, consensus building, strategic planning, knowledge management, policy formulation, training needs assessments, training design and delivery, and work plan development. Kathy is currently part of a TRG team that designs and facilitates a series of seven Foreign Service Institute training courses on Reconstruction, Stabilization, and Conflict Transformation for the State Department Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS). Course participants include senior Foreign Service Officers from the Department of State, Department of Defense, USAID and other USG agencies. Kathy also recently served as senior adviser to the CAPES (Communications, Awareness, and Public Education Support) component of the Supporting Activities that Value the Environment (SAVE) project in Cyprus. She supported the design and pre-and post-evaluation of a 6-month water conservation awareness campaign that was launched on World Water Day, March 2007. Kathy enjoys travelling internationally and loves music, particularly jazz and blues.
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.
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.
Consultant
Mr. Frelick is a fluent French speaker and a highly accomplished organization development specialist with more than 20 years experience implementing organizational improvement initiatives throughout the world. Expertise includes performance improvement and assessment, leadership development, training design and delivery, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and executive coaching. He serves a team leader for several of TRG’s projects including work with the IMF, Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the US Botanic Garden, and Santénet, a USAID-funded health project in Madagascar. In Togo and the DRC, Mr. Frelick supports the strengthening of stakeholder participation through Country Coordinating Mechanisms, and the management systems needed for oversight of activities funded by the GFATM. As team leader for TRG’s partnership role in Santénet, he has facilitated stakeholder participation, conducted leadership and management training and coaching and management development work for project staff, and worked for the development of a national cadre of trainers skilled in community capacity building. Mr Frelick is an instructor in Isshin Ryu Karate and an internal martial arts practitioner in Taiji, Xing I, and Bagua. He is also a Qi Gong practitioner. He is also a member of the Daoist Davinci Institute for Health Enhancement. Mr. Frelick is a father with two grown daughters and has one grandson.
Consultant
Maura Fulton has over fifteen years of experience in program start-up and management, staff and organizational development, and training design and delivery with the U.S. government and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Her unique expertise and interests lie in strength-based methodologies, experiential learning, Appreciative Inquiry, Assets-Based Community Development (ABCD), Open Space, and organizational storytelling. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in the remote outer islands of Yap State, Micronesia, an experience that fueled her commitment to international development. Ms. Fulton has also served as the Associate Peace Corps Director for Programming and Training in the Republic of Georgia and Thailand, collaborating closely with government ministries at the national, district, and local levels to assess community priorities, implement sustainable development projects and monitor and evaluate outcomes. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs, dual citizenship with Ireland, a zeal for Broadway musicals, independent films, Buddhist teachings and really good popcorn.
Consultant
Patricia García is a talented management, organizational development consultant and facilitator with more than 20 years of experience in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Ms. Garcia has a passion for strengthening multicultural teams, facilitating strategic planning processes and applying emotional intelligence at work. Ms. García has worked in a number of sectors, including education, environment, democratic governance, municipal development, health, housing and urban programs and telecommunications.
Currently Ms. Garcia is the adult learning specialist in the USAID/EGAT project “Capitalizing Knowledge Connecting Communities –CK2C”, project implemented by Development Alternatives Inc. with the Training Resources Group -TRG and the Academy for Education and Development - AED. She also designs and delivers training, facilitates retreats and coaches mid-level managers and assistants at the International Monetary Fund – IMF and the World Bank. Other current clients include the US Forest Service-International Programs, US Botanic Garden, Action Aid International, the Pan American Health Foundation –PAHEF and La Raza, her consulting services with these organizations include strategic planning facilitation, performance management training, coaching, training and retreat facilitation. Ms. Garcia is fluent in Spanish, is certified in Emotional Intelligence and Myers Briggs Type Inventory and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Development from The George Washington University. Her hobbies include martial arts (currently brown belt in Karate-do), dancing (certified in synergy dance) and Latino music and Latin dance.
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.
Consultant
Laura Guyer-Miller is a talented facilitator, trainer and management consultant with over 20 years of experience providing training and training management services in multi-cultural environments. Ms. Guyer-Miller specializes in the design of professional training programs and all aspects of organizational development. She has worked with public, private and non-profit clients in the United States and throughout the world including Africa, the Middle East, South America, Asia and Europe. Her clients include the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of Commerce, AMIDEAST, the UNDP, UNFPA, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the World Bank, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Most recently, she authored case studies and co-facilitated a global conference sponsored by the CGIAR and held at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio aimed at identifying the success factors needed to develop and retaing African women scientists and to create strategies to fast track their careers more effectively. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer and Training Director in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea and as a Training Specialist for the Peace Corps in Morocco. Laura has worked, lived and traveled in over 80 countries, and her current portfolio of work reflects an emphasis on development work in Africa
Consultant
Lisa Howard-Grabman is a facilitator, trainer and certified professional coach with excellent interpersonal communication skills. With over 25 years of experience in international development and public health, she has designed, implemented, managed, and evaluated many participatory community development programs in challenging settings in Africa, Latin American and Asia. She has extensive experience leading team building activities, facilitating events, and has strong capacity strengthening skills, especially in strengthening community-based organizations’ capacity. As a professional coach, she has developed curricula for Senior Managers and partners at a private management consulting firm, and coached a variety of individuals and groups to improve job performance, teamwork and communication skills. She is a published author of articles and books on various aspects of community mobilization, participation and communication. She is fluent in Spanish.
Consultant
Steven Joyce is a training and organizational development consultant with over 25 years of experience designing and implementing activities for private and public sector organizations in the United States and throughout the world. He has extensive experience assisting international and multicultural organizations including USAID, the IMF, Department of State, AMIDEAST, and the Peace Corps. Since 2002, Mr. Joyce has been a part of the decentralization effort in Albania, designing participatory processes for policy and technical interventions involving multiple stakeholders. He provided similar assistance to the USAID Agricultural Reconstruction and Development Program in Iraq from 2003-2006. For eight years (1994-2002), Mr. Joyce was the resident organizational development specialist for two USAID projects in Egypt. Mr. Joyce in those positions focused on public-private sector policy dialogue, capacity-building (government institutions and private sector associations), local and national awareness programs, and stakeholder participation. In recent months, Mr. Joyce has provided short-term assistance to governance and community development programs in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and to the Environmental Rangers in Jordan. In addition to Egypt, he has also resided in Nigeria and Benin.
Consultant
Sherise is an accomplished, results-driven organizational development consultant with over 7 years of experience. She has proven capabilities implementing strategic organizational change initiatives within both nonprofit and corporate environments. As a Technical Advisor for Namibia’s Ministry of Education, she managed regional programs overseeing all aspects of primary HIV/AIDS awareness programming and strategy. Her expertise is in program development and assessment, diversity, capacity building, data analysis, talent management and leadership development.
Consultant
Scott Loomis is an accomplished change management and organization development specialist with over 30 years of experience in domestic and international programs. Mr. Loomis specializes in helping organizations move forward in a changing world through, strategic planning, problem-solving workshops, team development and management and leadership development training programs. Since the 1970s, he has worked with public, private, and non-profit clients in the U.S. and throughout the world helping clients confront and respond to many of the challenges of our time, such post-conflict stabilization, climate change, pandemic influenza, and homeland security. His primary clients currently include the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Loomis has worked with the Foreign Service Institute on supporting a variety of management and leadership programs. Most recently, he is supporting the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stablization. In 2008, he was the TRG team leader for the preparation and facilitation of a start-up and planning workshop for a USAID sponsored program to support the Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Mr. Loomis has worked with many USAID field missions including Bangladesh, Bolivia, Botswana, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Nepal, Poland , Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda. He is also engaged with several EPA offices as they consider how best to emerging climate change policies. Mr. Loomis holds a Masters of Human Resources Development from University Associates and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Texas. He currently holds a Top Secret clearance.
Consultant
Jawara Lumumba has conducted a diverse range of organizational development interventions for clients in the United States and the developing world for over 20 years. An expert on helping institutions plan and achieve organizational change, he has conducted programs on collaborative partnerships, teamwork strategies, leadership and management development, valuing diversity, strategic communication skills and emotional intelligence. Mr. Lumumba has provided these services for clients in the United States and an expansive assortment of international settings; some illustrative examples are Mali, China, Brazil, Serbia, India, etc. Most recently he has provided concentrated organizational development support to HIVAIDS organizational clients in Uganda, Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa.
Consultant
Meredith MacDonald is a highly talented consultant and project manager with significant experience enabling the successful implementation of conferences, workshops, and training programs for international organizations. She has worked with numerous domestic and international clients including USAID, the World Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency, the International Monetary Fund, Biogen Idec, and many others. Ms. MacDonald is skilled in the development of highly effective participant materials and in the use of information technology in supporting the achievement of conference goals and objectives. She is an extremely competent writer and manager who engages actively and productively with client staff at all levels. Ms. MacDonald helps to design and deliver World Bank courses for ACS staff including Building and Sustaining Successful Team Performance I and II, Meeting Facilitation Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Critical Thinking, and Tips and Tools for Giving and Receiving Feedback.
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.
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.
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.
Consultant
Paul Purnell is a trainer, facilitator and organizational development consultant with over 30 years of professional experience. Paul’s areas of expertise include team building, strategic planning, communication, change management, and training of trainers. In December 2004 Paul joined TRG as a full-time staff member, and is currently working with TRG clients including the Foreign Service Institute, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. He provides leadership training to State Department employees and leads the TRG project that is providing training support to the Department of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS). Paul has an MS degree from the Southern Illinois University. In his spare time Paul enjoys listening to jazz, photography and running
Consultant
Fred Rosensweig is an organizational development and training specialist with 30 years of experience in the areas of human resources and institutional development in developing countries. He has extensive experience in the health, water and sanitation, and local government sectors. His specific areas of expertise include organizational assessments, design of activities to improve organizational performance, development of strategies that build local capacity, training design and delivery, and the use of participatory process to gain increased involvement and commitment of key stakeholders. Mr. Rosensweig has been the capacity-building team leader and a member of the senior management team for Health Systems 20/20 since the inception of the project in 2006. His focus in HS 20/20 is on developing the capacity of local organizations to provide technical assistance, training, and research in health systems strengthening. From 1981-2004, he served as Technical Director for Human Resources and Institutional Development under the Environmental Health Project (EHP) and the Water & Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project. In his work with WASH, EHP, and other projects, he has authored numerous guidelines, training manuals, strategies, and other documents. He has worked in numerous countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He speaks French and Spanish.
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.
Consultant
Stephanie Schalk-Zaitsev has 10 years of experience as a trainer, facilitator, and organizational development consultant. She specializes in providing organizational development services for government agencies, multinational and international organizations and non-governmental organizations. As a full time TRG staff member, she has designed and implemented a variety of trainings, teambuilding activities, strategic planning, and skill development workshops for clients in the U.S. and overseas. She has extensive experience with the World Bank Group, and currently serves as the project manager for a variety of services offered by TRG for the WBG’s Administrative and Client Support staff. She also has significant experience as a project manager for various EPA offices providing retreat design and facilitation services, strategic planning support and designing and implementing organization wide assessments which focused on evaluating the status of the divisions or offices. Additional clients include the Foreign Service Institute, Publix Supermarkets, Casals & Associates and the U.S. Agency for International Development. She works professionally in English and Russian.
Consultant
Linda Spink is a highly skilled organizational development professional with over 23 years of experience. She is also an effective and accomplished manager, having directed numerous complex and multi-faceted programs both within organizations and in a consulting role. Ms. Spink’s specialties include strategic planning meetings, team-building, group and organizational effectiveness, facilitation, and workshop design and delivery. Between January 1, 2001- December 2006, Ms. Spink served as the CEO for TRG. As the CEO Ms. Spink was instrumental in helping TRG implement management reforms and streamlining initiatives, manage change, institute a team-based approach to quality management and corporate governance, and lead the company in designing and moving into its new headquarters office. Prior to becoming TRG’s CEO, she managed a four-year Ford Foundation grant focusing on partnerships, teamwork, and knowledge management for the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR). In addition to the CGIAR, her clients have included the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Spink has a MS in Social Work from the University of Hawaii.
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.
Consultant
Stephen Yank is an experienced organizational development consultant and trainer with over 27 years of experience. He recently served as Director of Leadership and Organization Development at the Department of Housing and Urban Development where he designed and implemented two six-month leadership development programs, provided organizational development consulting and coaching to headquarters and field offices, and facilitated change management workshops. He served as Director of the Executive Development and Exchange Network (EDEN), an interagency network of over one hundred public and private sector professionals who provide and manage leadership development programs for the Federal government. Mr. Yank has work and volunteer experience in the Central African Republic and Haiti and is fluent in French.
Consultant
Leslie Zucker was hired in 2009 to serve as TRG’s training manager for RESPOND, a global health project headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Leslie came to TRG with 18 years of experience in teaching, training and organizational development in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. Her areas of expertise include project management, training curriculum design and experiential learning process facilitation. Formerly, Leslie served as the co-founder and vice-president of echange, LLC, an international consulting firm specializing in training, technology and change management of microfinance institutions. Her primary role was director of an Inter-American Development Bank project aimed at combining modern distance learning technologies with best practices for staff training in Latin America. Leslie has also worked in the performing arts field, serving as the director of programming for a national association for professional dance.
Leslie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Northern Arizona University and her Master of Science degree in International and Intercultural Management from the World Learning Graduate Institute. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in German. In her spare time she practices dance, enjoys the companionship of her dog Rosco and is learning to play the ukulele.