With over 20 years of experience and a doctorate in human resource and organization development, Virginia Bianco-Mathis is considered a leader in her field. Her background includes a core set of industry positions, extensive consulting with corporate and agency executives, and publications and presentations in the areas of performance management, organizational change, leadership development, executive team building, coaching, and strategic planning.
Bianco-Mathis has held positions in human resources and organization development at C&P Telephone, AT&T, Lockheed Martin, and the Artery Organization. Presently, she is a professor in the School of Business and the department chair of Management Programs at Marymount University. She teaches courses in organization development, team and group dynamics, leadership, and strategy. She is also a partner with the Strategic Performance Group. Her present consulting engagements include leadership development, executive coaching, strategic planning, team building, and organizational change.
Bianco-Mathis has given presentations at several international conferences, including such titles as A Multidisciplinary Approach to Implementing Total Quality and Change: Best Practices. Her journal publications include “Consulting Dilemmas” in Training and Development Journal, “Cross-Functional Teams at AOL” in OD Practitioner, “Learn to Speak IT: OD Consulting Within the World of Technology” in ASTD Links—Consultants in Practice, and numerous articles for the Washington Business Journal. Her book publications include Faculty Handbook, Change in Organizations: Best Practices, Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model, and The Dialogue Deck.
Lisa Nabors is a partner with Strategic Performance Group and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a professional certified coach. Nabors often presents on the topic of coaching to industry and professional groups. She began coaching while pursuing a 16-year stint as a senior-level human resource/training and development professional in private industry. Her passion is in optimizing individual, team, and organization performance, and her coaching clients include managers, executives, and teams in organizations such as America Online, AARP, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Kaiser Permanente, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Nabors’ expertise includes gathering and feeding back data, cutting to the core issues, helping clients consider choices, and creating action plans designed to achieve specific, measurable results.
Nabors is a certified user of all Center for Creative Leadership 360 degree feedback instruments, the BarOn EQi and EQ 360, LEI, APT 360 Instruments, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and many other customized instruments. Nabors earned her bachelor of arts and master of education degrees from the University of Maryland where she also completed doctoral level coursework on leadership effectiveness. In 2007, she served as subject matter expert and editor for the ASTD Coaching Certificate Program and delivered the program to an international class prior to ASTD’s International Conference and Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an adjunct faculty member for Marymount University and George Washington University, and she is the co-author of The Dialogue Deck and Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model.
Cynthia H. Roman is an executive coach and organization development professional who coaches, trains, and consults in a variety of organizations, including federal, not-for-profit, higher education, and professional services sectors. She has assisted organizations with critical management and leadership issues, such as coaching, mentoring, executive presence, leadership development, communication, conflict management, team development, supervision, and performance management.
Roman founded the Graduate Certificate Program in Leadership Coaching at the George Washington University (GWU), and she often gives presentations on coaching topics. She also teaches in GWU’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. Roman is co-author of Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model.
Roman earned her bachelor of arts degree with distinction from the University of Virginia, master’s degree in counseling from the University of Georgia, and doctoral degree in adult education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Roman has served as an adjunct faculty member of GWU, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, University of Maryland University College, Marymount University, and National-Louis University.