The Team

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.

Abby Wen Wu

Senior Consultant
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

Alison Lazenby

Senior Consultant
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.

Amel Murphy

Senior Consultant
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.

Bill Bradley

Senior Consultant
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.

Daniel Stane

Senior Consultant
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.

Kathy Nelligan

Manager, Finance & Business Operations
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.

Karen Lazowski

Director of Client Programs
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.

Kelly Lockwood Primus

Chief Executive Officer
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.

Perry Sholes

Senior Consultant
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.

Sheila Robinson

Senior Consultant
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.

Tim Kemp

Senior Consultant and Chair Center for Diversity & Inclusion