Abby Wen Wu is a Senior Consultant with Leading NOW and has an extensive background in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Leadership, and Organizational Transformation and Change.

Alana Hill, Senior Consultant with Leading NOW, is an international change leadership expert, inspiring professionals to lead change in themselves and others to create inclusive, resilient, and competitive organizations. She is a passionate energy industry veteran who has paved the way for women leaders, with a focus on women of color.

Alison Conigliaro-Hubbard, Senior Consultant, has over 26-years in global tech enterprise Sales and Product Marketing Leadership within large and mid-sized enterprises, such as Cisco, Brocade, Autodesk, Riverbed, and a start-up exit to Microsoft.

Alison Lazenby is a senior consultant with Leading Women, a division of Leading NOW, and brings over three decades of cross-industry business experience to her role. A change and leadership expert, Alison’s strengths are simplifying complex issues, building

An experienced inclusion, leadership and culture change facilitator, with over 15 years’ experience designing and facilitating transformational spaces that allow individuals, teams and interested communities to access and develop their leadership, resilience, creativity and their capacity to solve their most complex challenges and transform individual and collective mindsets and behaviours.

With a background in change management, diversity & inclusion, operations, and consulting experience leading and transforming individuals, teams, and organizations to deliver exceptional results, Bill brings more than 35 years of experience to Leading NOW.

Courtney Burton, Senior Consultant with Leading NOW, is a catalyst for professional and personal growth in individuals and teams. Her work centers on guiding leaders through organizational culture change initiatives, strategic planning, conflict resolution, and communication enhancement.

Daniel Stane is an international expert in developing conscious and inclusive leaders and organisations. He has fifteen years’ experience in consulting and the design and facilitation of leadership, diversity, inclusion and organisational change programmes focused on raising employee engagement, innovation & collaboration among mid to senior level leaders and their teams in global organisations. He has consulted and facilitated for such clients as Microsoft, Diageo, Expedia, 3M, British Airways, Altria, Cisco, Accenture, Nestle, Maersk, PayPal and Shell.

Diane Coffey Chaput joins the Leading Women team as Vice President, Communications & Engagement and brings with her more than 20 years of public relations and brand-building experience.

Joyel Crawford joins Leading NOW as a senior consultant in our leadership development practice.

Julia joins Leading NOW after a distinguished 20+ year career leading B2B sales teams across diverse channels in the consumer products industry. A proven results-oriented leader, Julia is passionate about forging mutually beneficial and lasting partnerships with her clients. With expertise in strategy and business development, Julia, as President, will oversee Leading NOW’s growth, and the expansion of our impact globally.

Kathy Nelligan, Manager, Finance & Business Operations, joined Leading Women in 2019 after spending over 20 years in the banking industry. After leaving banking behind, Kathy’s entrepreneurial spirit took hold and she started her own business working in Estate Management.

Karen Lazowski is Leading NOW’s Director of Client Programs, working in tandem with the business development team, and acting as the day-to-day client liaison to manage program delivery for the Leading Forward and Leading Women brands.

Kelly Lockwood Primus, Chief Executive Officer for Leading NOW oversees the strategy, research development and solutions focus to help our clients reach their global diversity goals.

Makeda Brown, Senior Consultant with Leading NOW, specializes in Professional and Leadership development. She dedicates herself to helping individual leaders as well as teams unleash their potential to create value and achieve results. She has helped individual contributors and leaders accelerate their ability to navigate their professional journey, embrace their authenticity and manage change.

Nicole Gionet joins Leading Women from Alcatel-Lucent where she was Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) based in Paris, France.

Perry joins Leading NOW after a successful career in Human Resources and Operations. In his roles, he helped to drive profitability at complex global organizations that included private equity portfolio companies, large public companies, and privately-owned businesses. Perry’s unique background in Human Resource management and Operations, where he worked as a GM at McDonald’s Corporation in New Orleans, as a District Manager at Taco Bell Corporation and as a Regional Foodservice Manager at Target Stores Corporation, all roles with P&L, operations, training, and people development responsibilities.

Quendrida Whitmore, senior consultant, gained her extensive leadership experience leading teams in the retail industry for over 25 years.

Samantha Furbush Taraskiewicz is the Director of Operations for Leading NOW, LLC.

Sheila Robinson, Senior Consultant with Leading NOW, is an expert with over 20 years of experience in Human Resource Management and effective change management for teams. Sheila has effectively designed and implemented key strategies to engage all employee levels from the C-Suite to Interns. She is results-driven and has a proven track record in positively shifting company culture while prioritizing company goals and revenues.

Tim Kemp, senior consultant, is a global expert on diversity and gender dynamics with over 32 years of experience as a Learning and Development specialist.

Vanessa Phipps, a Senior Consultant with Leading Women, has over twenty years of successful executive and management development learning facilitation.

Veena Puri, Senior Consultant with Leading NOW, is a seasoned executive with a rich background in leadership and transformative business strategies and has demonstrated a relentless commitment to driving organizational success and fostering positive people-centric change.