Our Associates
HuWork
Huwork increases the effectiveness of organizations, teams, and leaders by aligning human behavior to business strategy. HuWork has been working with virtual and remote teams for more than a decade. They know how to build engagement, connection, and learning when people are distributed.
ProKo
is a highly selective network of professional independent consultants specializing in human capital services like OD, org design, change management, leadership development, and strategy implementation. We are a proud member of the ProKo network. www.ProkoConsulting.com
Onside Partners
is one of our partnering consultancies providing strategic guidance to leaders of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations promoting social justice, environmental sustainability, and public health. The principals, Samantha Graff and Christine Fry, bring deep legal and policy expertise and a combined two decades in nonprofit leadership roles. Clients include the Pisces Foundation, Kingfisher Foundation, Fund for Shared Insight, Public Policy Institute of California, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Laila Tarraf
is a senior human capital executive with more than 25 years professional experience across all facets of human resources, talent management and leadership development. Her experience spans multiple industries and companies of various sizes from technology start-ups to high growth consumer and retail companies as well as financial services and family run businesses. Laila served as Chief People Officer at Peet’s Coffee and Tea and served as the Director of Human Capital at GI Partners, a mid-market private equity firm in San Francisco. Laila works with company leaders and their boards in raising leaders to their highest level of consciousness so that they can create the conditions for people to do their best work. She leads workshops on leadership, mindfulness, engagement and culture, and is a guest lecturer at Berkeley Law School.
Beth MacLean
delivers key organizational change to clients in a variety of industries and disciplines, including supply chain, retail, wholesale apparel, and consumer packaged goods. She uses her expertise in organization design, strategy development, leadership facilitation, organization assessment, change management, process improvement, and large group meeting facilitation, while working with companies like Clorox, Nike, Levi Strauss, Gap Inc., Blue Shield of California, Electronic Arts, StubHub and NetApp.
Wendy Bowers
is an experienced management consultant to organizations pursuing strategic change and improved organizational effectiveness. She brings outstanding organizational skills, an effective partnering style, and strong business acumen to all of her engagements. She is able to dig deep and analyze the details while understanding the larger business and organizational context. Wendy’s clients are from diverse industries: apparel, ecommerce, data management and storage, digital entertainment, health care services, and not-for-profit community organizations. She has held internal transformation and project lead roles in the apparel, technology, telecommunications, natural resources, and legal industries.
