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Lynn Greene is one of the founders or the Performance Enhancement Group (PEG, Ltd.) and has extensive consulting experience in the oil industry. He has been a Birkman Certified Professional for over 20 years and is passionate about helping others develop systems of metrics for organizational planning and development.
Lynn has been a long-time, strong proponent and purveyor of this particular application of The Birkman Method®, and he has shared the secrets of his success in several venues through the years. We are delighted that he has accepted the invitation to do so one more time. Join him for this entertaining and enlightening session. Who knows – you might just walk out with a new business strategy! Even if you are among the few who are already utilizing Birkman this way, you might gain some new insights that will energize you and your practice.
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S. Blake Lanier, MSW, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, consultant, and trainer, as well as the founder of The Lanier Practice, Inc., a boutique human-centered design consultancy working at the intersection of mental health and organizational health. For 25 years, Blake has provided clinical services to youth, adults, and families while also delivering training and consultation to both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Blake is a Birkman Certified Professional, Gottman Method Couples Therapist, and a Mental Health First Aid Instructor for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Previously, Blake served as clinical professor in the graduate social work program at Kennesaw State University and as a Cirque du Monde Master Trainer for Cirque du Soleil’s Global Citizenship Division.
He and his wife, Jill, live, work, and play in Atlanta, Georgia. He stays fueled by third-wave coffee, reading, running, and rhythmic living.
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Laura Rohde is a learning leader, strategic thinker and focused on creating measurable impacts. She is experienced in all facets of leadership development, group dynamics training, executive coaching, performance management and personality testing. Laura assesses, manages and supports organizational needs to foster an environment that maximizes each employees personal and professional growth by creating clear career paths in the organization.
As a certified instructional designer and facilitator, she is also involved in the design and delivery of course curriculum, as well as creating in-house universities, train-the-trainer programs and leadership development programs. Her experience in the field of learning and organizational development spans more than 20 years.
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Stacey Mason is a Master Certified Birkman Consultant with 20+ years of experience using the assessment. She is also a seasoned Executive Coach, a thought-leadership columnist for several B2B publications, and the founder of the wildly popular platform The Improv Lab. Using insight, perspective and humor, Stacey serves as the leading voice in the conversation of merging the business of art with the art of business.
Her most recent project is the creation of For the Good of the Order where she shares all her coaching content amassed over the years. And before any of that, she survived a lifetime growing up in corporate America at Walmart Inc.
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Torri Olanski leads Birkman’s Product and Research team, where she helps shape what’s next in The Birkman Method—translating behavioral science into practical, modern tools that elevate human performance at work. A top-rated speaker at Birkman’s 2018 and 2020 conferences, Torri is known for bringing fresh thinking to the Method, advancing the instrument, and making complex insights accessible to coaches, leaders, and teams.
For the past ten years, her work has been grounded in a belief that organizations grow fastest when they understand, appreciate, and develop their greatest asset—people—and when the diversity of personality is treated as a performance advantage, not a complication.
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Amy Shepley is Director of Innovation at Birkman and a third-generation family leader, granddaughter of founder Dr. Roger W. Birkman and daughter of President & Chairwoman Sharon Birkman. With twenty years of experience in organizational behavior, she leads a global network of consultants and corporate clients applying The Birkman Method to modern challenges. She holds a psychology degree from the University of Texas and an MBA from Tulane University.
Before her current role, Amy founded Percepte, an independent consulting practice serving Fortune 500 companies in team effectiveness, change management, and leadership development. Her career began humbly — filing paperwork and answering phones at Birkman — and grew through a formative mentorship with her grandfather, Dr. Birkman himself. She is especially proud of directing the creation of the Birkman Signature Report and the High-Performing Teams workshop.
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Dewitt Dees is a Principal and Executive Coach at Iridium Leadership, a firm that specializes in creating positive, sustainable change in leaders and their teams. He has over three decades of experience in strategy, sales, and business development, and has held various senior leadership positions, such as CEO, Director, and Senior Vice President, in the water industry, working with global organizations and delivering innovative solutions.
As a Birkman Certified Consultant, a Mindset Certification holder, and an ATD Certified Master Trainer, he uses a range of tools and frameworks to provide insights, feedback, and guidance to my clients to help them leverage their natural talents, enhance their emotional intelligence, and improve their performance and productivity. He is also pursuing post-graduate studies in Family Systems Leadership Theory and Coaching Certification, as part of his continuous learning and professional growth. Dewitt's mission is to raise the bar of organizational performance by empowering leaders and embedding a culture of accountability and growth.
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Mark McGowan brings over 15 years of global leadership development experience and a deep passion for equipping professionals to thrive in complex, human-centered work environments. Currently serving as Training Manager at Birkman International, Mark manages the certification and continuing education of more than 1,500 Birkman Certified Professionals (BCPs) worldwide.
Since joining Birkman full-time in 2023, Mark has managed the development and delivery of training programs that support both new and experienced consultants. He is a Birkman Certified Professional (since 2015) and an Authorized Trainer (since 2020), with extensive experience facilitating Signature Conversations with over 300 individuals worldwide.
Before transitioning to his current role, Mark led the integration of the Birkman Method within a large international organization. Under his leadership, Birkman expanded into three new countries—Mongolia, Uganda, and Ethiopia—and more than 75 new professionals were certified in just three years.
