Susan Reece, Ph.D.
Susan serves as president of Dalton Spencer Consulting, Inc. and consults in leadership enhancement, organizational effectiveness and strategic planning process facilitation.

Susan draws upon broad business expertise honed through operational, human capital and international leadership roles along with her passion for coaching executives to maximize the true potential of leaders and their organizations. Susan guided leadership and strategy development transformations in organizations at all phases of the corporate lifecycle and in varied industries including pharmaceutical, distribution, consumer goods, manufacturing, and medical device.

Susan led human resources as well as the corporate strategic planning functions as the senior executive for over ten years. Susan served as Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Unisource Worldwide, Inc. and prior to that she was Vice President of Strategic Development for Leupold & Stevens, Inc. with responsibility for corporate strategy, human resources and risk management. Earlier in her career, Susan managed all aspects of the Human Resources function during her tenure with GlaxoSmithKline in the US and abroad. Susan was seconded to Japan and held responsibility for the Human Resources function as well as expatriate affairs and she consulted with corporate Human Resources in the UK. Susan directed Organizational Effectiveness for St. Jude Medical including integration activities for acquisitions. In addition to her senior leadership roles, Susan has taught Business Strategy in the MBA program at Portland State University and has consulted in a variety of industries in the areas of business strategy, as well as organization and executive development.

She is a licensed industrial/organizational psychologist with a PhD from the University of Georgia. Susan’s extensive business education was acquired at the London Business School, Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

Susan is the creator of the Dalton Spencer Strategy Preference Indicator© . Her speaking engagements include the MKG Financial Hour radio show, the Oregon Leadership Summit, and the Pacific Northwest Human Resource Strategic Forum. Susan’s article, Strategic Thinking. Learn to Optimize its Power, was published in the January 2008 edition of Leadership Excellence.

In addition, Susan has provided leadership through voluntary service. She served as the founding chairperson of the Manufacturing-21 Coalition, a public/private partnership focused on job sustainability and manufacturing excellence in Oregon. She has served on the Board of Directors of Ethos, the School of Business Administration at Portland State University, the Oregon Workforce Investment Board and as Treasurer for the Oregon Coalition of Healthcare Purchasers.

Kevin R. Hummel, Ph.D.
Kevin has more than twenty years of consulting experience, often focusing on how best to identify, develop, deploy and inspire talent in organizations to create competitive advantage. He has worked with senior staff in numerous organizations to build and implement successful management practices, and he brings an ideal blend of technical expertise and practical experience to these engagements. His experience spans many industries, including Retail, Insurance, Professional Services, Publishing, Utilities, Restaurant, Education, Communications, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Technology, Financial Services, Hospitality, Entertainment, Manufacturing, Consumer Services and Consumer Goods. His clients range from small privately owned organizations to some of the largest companies in the world, from new ventures and start-ups to well-established global operations, and from not-for-profit organizations to Fortune 50. All of these organizations have at least one aspiration in common -- maximizing performance through people.

Kevin consults regularly in the area of leadership enhancement, where he concentrates on executive assessment and feedback, management coaching, succession planning, senior staff teamwork, and executive selection. He also works with companies to clarify their business priorities and identify what is needed to maximize organizational performance, primarily through organizational diagnostics, change readiness assessments, and competency-based research and applications. All of his work starts with a thorough understanding of the clients’ business challenges, and a focus on the strategic business needs of those organizations.

Kevin Hummel is founder and owner of Lighthouse Consulting Group, Inc., a business consulting firm that provides advisory services and solutions to senior management regarding organizational effectiveness. Kevin also held senior roles in two international management consulting firms, Hay Group and Towers Perrin. His responsibilities included major client and project management, consulting practice leadership, consulting staff management, intellectual capital development, and business development -- all on a national and worldwide scale. Before that, he worked for BellSouth Corporation in both human resources and field sales management.

Kevin holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Furman University, earned MS and Ph.D. degrees in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Georgia, and is a licensed psychologist.

Andrea Chilcote
Andrea Chilcote, CEO of Morningstar Ventures, transforms business outcomes by serving as a trusted advisor to leaders as they conceive and enact sustainable strategic objectives that align opportunities, talent, processes and structure. Andrea’s leadership and business change management strategies have enabled organizations to prosper as market leaders or weather unforeseen industry or economic downturns. For over seventeen years, she has inspired leaders and their teams to tackle the perceived insurmountable obstacles that are the key differentiators between mediocre outcomes and peak performance. Trust in Andrea’s expertise and values enables leaders to take a courageous risk that is transformative in their lives as well as the viability of their organizations.