Trusted Performance Management Experts

I am a highly results-oriented and consultative global talent management senior leader skilled at bringing a breadth and depth of expertise to ideate pragmatic solutions and drive them to flawless execution for maximum impact. I am highly effective at collaborating and gaining buy-in from stakeholders, partnering successfully from the executive level down. My high standards coupled with curiosity, strong project management, and organizational skills result in high-quality work. I am a quick learner and thinker who is able to connect the dots, anticipate issues, and break down problems easily for swift resolution. I am regarded as a strategic problem solver that gets things done and gets them done right. Areas of expertise: Succession Planning - Leadership Development - Assessments - Project Management - High Potential Development - Learning - Coaching - Process Management - Performance Management - Consulting - Competency Management - Talent Systems

As a seasoned Learning & Talent Management Executive with extensive experience in learning, talent development, organizational development, and talent strategy, I have been responsible for end-to-end talent management in various industries. I have developed both synchronous and asynchronous Management & Leadership Development Programs, implemented numerous Learning & Talent Management systems, and have specifically focused on career mobility, performance management, succession planning, and retention of the workforce. I have developed and implemented competency models, aligned all eLearning with competency models, sourced, implemented, and maintained full suite talent management systems, and developed complex talent strategies for various clients. While in consulting, I have served as the head of Talent Management, responsible for external client engagements and the development of their Talent Strategies. My vast experience also includes creating and chairing Governance Councils, designing and facilitating workshops to address low-performing teams, and introducing the first use of eLearning at Tiffany & Co.

I am a trailblazing people and culture executive with experience building high-performing organizations in the life sciences, biotech, pharma, manufacturing, tech, telecommunications, logistics, fashion, travel and aviation sectors. I combine strategic vision with deep empathy and cross-functional relationship building to unlock both individual and business potential, specializing in scaling people operations for high-growth companies. My approach centers on authentic leadership and harnessing data-driven decision-making to consistently deliver demonstrated success. Throughout my career, I've driven significant organizational transformations, including growing companies 588% in headcount, reducing new hire turnover by 35%, and delivering $3.5M+ in cost savings through innovative talent management solutions. As a trusted C-suite advisor and board partner, I've led 7+ successful M&A integrations with up to $1.1B in value, built elite P&C functions from the ground up, and championed initiatives that resulted in recognition as an employer of choice. I am a passionate people leader who thrives in fostering cultures where employees thrive and businesses excel. I am an impeccable relationship builder with expansive industry experience & expertise with a relentless dedication to creating transformational people experience teams that drive employee engagement, disrupt the status quo, and position the company for maximum performance, competitive advantage, and bottom-line growth.

Stepan Kazaryan is a Business Management Consultant focused on digital presence, professional evaluation, and how public information shapes decision-making in modern business environments. His work centers on helping organizations and professionals understand how they are perceived before direct interaction occurs. In search-driven systems, evaluation often happens silently and quickly. Stepan advises clients on building structured digital foundations that support credibility over time. His approach emphasizes clarity, consistency, and responsible positioning rather than short-term visibility tactics. He works with executives, founders, and professional service providers who recognize that digital footprints influence trust, partnerships, and opportunity flow. By aligning websites, public profiles, and third-party references, Stepan helps create stable professional narratives that reduce uncertainty during evaluation. Rather than focusing on reactive measures, his advisory framework prioritizes preparation. This includes analyzing how search results present a name, how information connects across platforms, and how inconsistencies affect perception. The goal is to strengthen long-term positioning in a way that feels natural and sustainable. Stepan frequently writes and speaks about digital identity, credibility signals, and the structural factors that influence professional trust in online environments. His perspective reflects a broader shift in how professionals are assessed in the age of search and public information accessibility. Through disciplined strategy and steady execution, Stepan Kazaryan helps clients maintain clarity in environments where perception often forms before conversation begins.

Internationally experienced leadership professional, speaker, commentator and influencer. Recognized for global thought leadership in the leadership and people agenda in the workplace arena, particularly in relation to talent, transformation and post-pandemic human capital agendas. Currently undertaking a PhD by research in leadership for executives, focusing on the disparate experiences and successes in achieving executive leadership and board roles.Frequently requested guest/key-note speaker and talented moderator at energy, human capital and other leading conferences globally, with thought-provoking, well-researched, leading-edge and challenging presentations. A prolific author of presentations and articles published across a wide variety of media, acknowledged for coalescing often disparate but relevant topics in the energy transition, people and talent, transformation and leadership agendas.

I lead the staffing efforts in the greater Charlotte area for Amazon as Staffing Manager for the CLT Node. My team and I hire, on-board and engage the hourly workforce for Amazon's first mile, middle mile and last mile locations. Go to Amazon.force.com to create your profile and select the location and shift that works well for you. I love to help people achieve their goals. I am currently writing books on effective practices and models in talent management. Staffing, Executive Search and Human Capital expertise with strategic leadership and team building skills. Responsible for the development and delivery of training curriculum for effective communication and goal achievement. Areas of Expertise: * Staffing Leadership * Talent Management * Relationship Development * Engaging Facilitator * Talent Acquisition * Vendor Management * Human Capital Strategies * Talent Development * Learning & Development * Keynote/Motivational Speaker * Earned the professional designations of Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC) and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB)

Ashish Garg is a Principal Product Manager with 15+ years scaling AI/ML products and product operations at Fortune 100 firms. He works at the intersection of Product Ops, enterprise planning, and applied AI, focused on the "front door" of delivery: intake, triage, prioritization, and the rituals that turn strategy into shipped outcomes. In his enterprise planning work, he architected a centralized planning platform that institutionalized Continuous Planning and reduced PM coordination time by 40%. He also leads GenAI initiatives for product teams, including custom assistants and agentic workflows built on RAG and multi-contextual prompting architectures. His earlier work in Financial Planning and Supply Chain Finance delivered measurable operational impact through ML products spanning productivity, forecasting, and churn prediction. Ashish believes the failure mode in complex organizations isn't effort but unclear ownership, hidden dependencies, and decisions that can't be defended later. He designs AI-assisted workflows where humans stay in control, outputs are grounded in evidence, and decision trails are explainable to leadership. He's a recognized thought leader on enterprise AI productization, frequently speaking at industry conferences on his frameworks for scalable, trustworthy AI delivery.

I am a certification and career growth expert specializing in globally recognized programs like PMP (Project Management Professional). Through Certification Guide, I help professionals understand certification pathways, exam preparation strategies, and career advancement opportunities in project management and IT domains. I regularly share insights on certification trends, exam preparation techniques, and industry demand, helping candidates make informed decisions about their professional growth. My expertise includes PMP exam strategies, study planning, and practical approaches to passing certification exams on the first attempt. I’m passionate about simplifying complex certification processes and providing actionable guidance for professionals aiming to upskill and increase their earning potential.

Essence of education and experience can be summed up as fully developed competencies of:Planning and formulating prudent policies as well as implementing various Human Resource interventions.Anticipating future needs, evolving alternative solutions, evaluating efficacy of each and implementing the optimum solution.Detecting causes of failures of systems in advance and taking preventive actions to minimize damage to hardware and software in large organizational systemUnderstanding and anticipating employee expectations and responses;Designing and modifying services maintenance systems for optimizing employee satisfaction, always remaining close to ground realities and keeping superior organizational objectives in sight;Comfortably dealing with large groups of people and maintaining harmony at work-place.

As a Product Manager at Featured, I work with a team of developers and leadership to create and improve a Q&A platform that connects subject matter experts with top publishers. Our goal is to provide exposure for experts and content for publishers, creating a win-win situation for both parties. I have a BSBA in Marketing from the University of Arizona Eller College of Management, where I was involved in various extracurricular and internship activities, such as AdCats Consulting Club, Markitors SEO Agency, and Each Brain Matters Non-Profit Foundation. I have developed skills in customer relationship management, partnership marketing, and product management, which I apply to my current role and projects. I am passionate about creating engaging and informative content that benefits both experts and publishers, and I am always eager to learn from others and explore new opportunities.

Karen Zeigler is the CEO of The Human Score, a human-centered framework that helps leaders understand how work design, organizational structure, culture, fairness, and decision-making shape employee experience and business performance. Her work sits at the intersection of business strategy, leadership, organizational design, and the future of work. Karen helps organizations move beyond surface-level change by identifying the real conditions that drive trust, performance, innovation, and resilience. She is especially known for her perspective on AI implementation: that AI does not fail on capability, it fails on execution when leaders layer it on top of broken workflows, low trust, unclear decisions, and disconnected employee experiences. She is also the lead creator of Workplace Renaissance, a human-centered approach to AI implementation that helps leaders redesign work to elevate people rather than sideline them. The program focuses on co-creation, responsible implementation, leadership alignment, and the creation of the organizational conditions needed for AI to deliver real value. Workplace Renaissance was delivered at the 2026 AI Week, reflecting the growing relevance of her voice in the conversation around AI and the future of work. Human Score is recognized by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® and SHRM-SCP® recertification activities. Through Human Score, Karen Zeigler and the consulting team deliver practical learning experiences that help HR and business leaders apply human-centered leadership to strengthen culture, improve performance, and drive measurable results. Karen has also contributed to multiple books through forewords and featured sections; most notably, she contributed a section to George Anderson’s Design Thinking for Tech: Solving Problems and Realizing Value in 24 Hours, where she shared her perspective on human-centered design as a leadership practice and its role in shaping more adaptive, human-centered organizations. She is a strong source for commentary on AI implementation, workplace culture, leadership, employee experience, organizational change, and the future of work. Specifically, where human impact and business performance intersect.

Email me directly at: atarki@eca-partners.com  We are a world-class Executive Search firm. Our strength lies within our process driven and systematic approach. This enables us to connect star-candidates with opportunities that are right for them – faster! We also have a network of thousands of independent top-tier management consultants.A few of my pieces in HBR and Forbes are included here below. As always, I'd appreciate hearing any comments and feedback on these.

Jim Rembach is the Executive Director of the Leadership Execution Institute (LEI), and Founder of Execution Architects. He is a leading media source on post-AI corporate strategy, organizational design, and why enterprise strategies stall. His work centers on a liberating truth: when execution fails, it is not a deficit of human willpower, intelligence, or intent but a failure of the legacy operating system. Grounded in applied systems physics, Rembach isolates the cognitive limits of leadership under extreme market velocity. Author of the FONE framework (Fear, Overconfidence, Negative Impressions, Execution Blindness), he identifies the human response mechanisms triggering "Execution Drift." He explains why traditional leadership training fails, noting that asking leaders to navigate machine-scale velocity using only human memory leads to chronic cognitive saturation and operational heroics. To fix this, Rembach replaces behavioral policing with Operational Systems Design. He builds the structural scaffolding necessary to secure the Kinetic Chain of Execution. His Leadership Execution-as-a-Service (LEaaS) model embeds Alignment Levers and the AXIS Engine directly into daily operations, making strategic alignment the path of least resistance. As AI reshapes decision-making, Rembach provides the architecture for Culture-Calibrated AI. Using his 14-Dimension Framework and the C.A.L.M. protocol (Clarify, Assess, Limit the Noise, Move with Confidence), he ensures AI operates as a supportive lever to reduce administrative load, rather than scaling systemic inconsistency. His clinical frameworks are published via Zenodo (DOIs: 10.5281/zenodo.19897431, 10.5281/zenodo.17425566, 10.5281/zenodo.17394116) and linked to ORCID (0009-0004-6525-5634). Honed in the ultimate micro-logistics simulator (the high-volume contact center), his methodology is proven at scale. He also hosts Fast Leader Podcast for over a decade, building a global brain trust of experts and academics. Media regularly tap Rembach to discuss: • The Drift Tax and the Double-Investment cycle of execution failure. • Operational Heroics and the biological limits of human capacity. • Structuring post-AI corporate alignment and Culture-Calibrated AI. • The shift from strategic intention to physical infrastructure. Operational Systems Design, Strategic Execution, Kinetic Chain of Execution, Execution Drift, Systems Physics, Alignment Levers, Operations Consulting.

Nikita Patil Brennan is a senior program leader recognized in Marquis Who's Who 2026 for professional achievement and leadership. She brings experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives within both Fortune 500 and Global 500 organizations, with a background spanning program management, operations, enterprise systems, and large-scale transformation. Her expertise includes leadership, stakeholder alignment, organizational effectiveness, change management, process improvement, and driving execution across teams with competing priorities. Nikita offers practical insights shaped by real-world experience operating in large, fast-paced corporate environments where clarity, influence, and results matter. She is available to comment on program management, leadership, career growth, workplace trends, women in leadership, productivity, cross-functional collaboration, and business operations. http://www.nikita-patil.com

Proven ability to impact human resource effectiveness and decrease operational costs. Advisor to management interpreting and resolving employee relations, compensation, staffing and benefit issues. Goals: support business strategy and drive performance. Key character traits include leadership, assertiveness, reliability, and practical business sense.Specialties: Employee Relations Organizational Development Legal Compliance Staffing and Employment

Named one of Workforce Management's 2011 "Game Changers" in HR,Owner: PersonalityOnaPage.com Career Consulting & Resume Revision & TMurrayHRTech.com HR Operations & Technology ConsultingSolid Information Technology, Human Resources and Project Management Professional with 14+ years of experience working with organizations of all sizes to select, implement and manage new technology, particularly in the HR space, improve core talent management processes and provide HR organizations with the tools and best practices necessary to add value to the core business. Career Consulting Specialties: Resume Revision, LinkedIn Profiles, Interview Prep, Cover Letters, Executive Bios, Job Search ConsultingHR Operations/Technology Specialties: Recruiting & Applicant Tracking Systems, HRIS/HRMS, Talent Management Processes/Systems, Learning Management Systems, HRIS Vendor Selection, HRIS Implementation

I help organizations improve performance by developing leaders who can have the conversations that matter. Many organizations struggle with low accountability, poor communication, disengagement, change fatigue, and inconsistent leadership. These challenges reduce productivity, damage culture, and impact results. Through leadership development, executive coaching, team development, and culture transformation, I help leaders build trust, increase accountability, strengthen engagement, and improve performance. Over the past 18 years, I have worked with organizations across 21 industries, helping leaders create high-performing teams and cultures where people and results thrive. I am the author of 16 books on leadership and workplace performance and hold a Doctor of Education degree with a specialization in workplace culture. Because better conversations create better leaders, better teams, and better results.

Michelle McKee is the founder of Projectmanagertemplate.com, a premier global hub for project management resources including frameworks, blogs, checklists and how to guides. Projectmanagertemplate.com is trusted by over 40,000 project leaders monthly and specializes in helping teams bridge the gap between methodologies and project execution through templates and tracking tools.

Business Leader, Global Policy Expert, Media Personality, Author, Philanthropist, Founder at GCBR and TCSL Campaign Also Shinespot Light Cultivating Awareness Podcast, Fridays For Future Richmond (Richmond Park) and number of projects. Aquayemi-Claude Garnett Akinsanya is a multifaceted social entrepreneur, media strategist and sustainability advocate with over 7 years of experience in building impactful brands and campaigns. As CEO and founder of Garnetts Clothing Brand & Range and The Claudes SEN Law Campaign, he merges fashion, social justice and environmental advocacy to drive meaningful change. He is also a recognized public speaker and thought leader, featured by Forbes for his expertise in marketing and business growth strategies. Aquayemi-Claude has won the 2024 Global Recognition Award for his contributions to sustainable fashion, social justice and environmental causes. With a strong background in media, communications and nonprofit leadership, he actively mentors startup founders, influences policy on disability rights and promotes diversity and inclusion through board-level advisory roles.

With a passion for advocating outstanding workplace environments, I co-founded Amazing Workplaces , an integrated HR platform dedicated to enhancing, enriching, and endorsing the best practices that form the foundation of successful organizations. As a Culture & Best-Practices Evangelist, I specialize in guiding companies to strengthen their employer brand through our 9-pillar framework, which includes Culture, Leadership, DEI, and more.My journey in the HR space has been driven by a commitment to transparency, innovation, and the belief that every organization can create an inspiring and supportive work culture. From launching certification programs to conducting employee satisfaction surveys, my work is focused on building and celebrating Amazing Workplaces around the globe.Connect with me to discuss how we can collaboratively enhance your organization's people management strategies, creating a more engaging and inclusive workplace for you and your people while elevating your employer brand.