Coaches
Jim Davidson
Managing Partner, Certified Team-Performance Coach, Qualified Emotional Intelligence Trainer & Speaker
Bio: With a reputation for developing courageous leaders and brave teams, Jim both challenges and inspires his clients, making a lasting impact on their work and personal lives. He is driven by building great teams, and places people firmly at the centre of business growth. Over the last thirty years, he has developed his expertise in leadership, team development and training, in roles such as Group General Manager, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Operations and Franchisee across a broad range of industries. As Managing Partner of Performance Culture Australia, Jim’s deep knowledge of emotional intelligence combined with his coaching expertise and facilitation skills guarantees optimal results for clients. Past and present clients include NSW Health, Westpac, Oporto Franchising, McDonald’s, Wagamama, THR1VE, Frontline Recruitment, Greenstone Financial Services, Anytime Fitness, The Alternative Board, and Affinity Accounting.
Specialties: Delivering team coaching and performance management within professional services, franchising and government, and supporting emerging business professionals to develop new teams and bigger businesses.
Brian Smith
Certified Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Brian is a senior executive with experience in a wide array of business situations and uses this knowledge to facilitate peer advisory boards and engage in personal executive coaching. Prior to Cornerstone. Brian was a founding member of Life Equity, LLC, and helped secure over $1 billion in financing from Berkshire Hathaway, Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, etc. as well as negotiating the sale of a majority interest to Kohlberg & Co., in 2011. Brian was also the President and COO of Cole National Corporation, a $1.1 billion company, operating over 3,400 retail locations. Brian earned both his B.A. in marketing and his M.B.A in Accounting and Finance from Cornell University.
Specialties: Leadership Development, Succession & Coaching, Strategy, Process Improvement, Organizational Design & Effectiveness, Advisory Board Facilitation, Private Equity Investments, Family Business
Angela Conicelli
Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Angela came to Performance Culture with experience in a variety of arenas. From the stage to sales, from leadership to lectures, from MBA to motherhood, she has found a common thread. People are people, and to get the most out of people, you must earn trust, set clear expectations, and be willing to have fun. Angela specializes in Learning and Development, sales, leadership, and system training, and team management. She thrives on showing businesses and the humans in them new ways to engage with themselves and each other to achieve personal excellence and drive business results. Her goal is to help give people the tools, courage, and confidence to lead the best teams in the world!
Specialties: Leadership & Organization Development, Change Leadership & Change Management, Engaging Employees, Manager and Employee Training
Rob Campbell
Certified Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Rob Campbell is a retired Army Colonel, husband, father, author and leadership speaker. He is a 27-year Army veteran, paratrooper and ranger with service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rob led organizations ranging in size from 24 to 5,000 people overcoming challenges and leading change. As Commander or CEO of a 5,000-person Infantry Brigade, Rob and his team achieved Army-leading (#1 of 34 Brigades) results in personnel performance, soldier retention and promotion selection rates. Rob’s core purpose: “To make a difference in the lives of others through optimistic leadership.” With his new book It’s Personal, Not Personnel, Leadership Lessons for the Battlefield and the Boardroom, Rob shares his years of combat-tested leadership experience adaptable to businesses of all types and sizes.
Specialties: Leadership & Organization Development, Change Leadership & Change Management, Organization Assessment and Readiness, Engaging Employees
Kathy Denlinger
Certified Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Kathy Denlinger joined Performance Culture, Inc after spending 30+ years leading sales and marketing teams in the high technology industry. She has career expertise in designing, launching and leading innovative operating models and developing high performing executives and teams. As Vice-President of Technical Sales Kathy led 500+ technical sales professionals to exceed revenue and growth goals while supporting corporate customers and partners. Kathy also served as a succession planning coach and trainer for her company's top-talent management development program, served as Executive Sponsor for two enterprise customers, and led go-to-market task forces supporting two multi-billion dollar mergers. Kathy is passionate about working with mission-driven executives and teams to help them develop in ways that are important to them and their organizations.
Specialties: Leadership & Organization Transformation, Executive Coaching, Succession Planning, Change Management, Sales & Go-To-Market Strategy
Greg Ballard
Certified Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Greg Ballard is a certified Performance Culture Coach. He has extensive and diverse business experiences with companies large and small, public, private, and nonprofit. He has developed numerous leadership development programs and is passionate about helping leaders create environments that link individual performance to organizational results.
Specialties: Leadership & Organizational Development, Change Leadership & Change Management, Organization Assessment and Readiness, Executive Coaching, Engaging Employees, Talent Management
Amy Barnhill
Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Amy is a certified Performance Culture Coach and Director of Customer Experience. She has a background in marketing, application development, and coaching. Drawing on her experience as a Vice President of Operations and Marketing for a software and financial services company she has developed product design, processes, and leadership coaching content to help our clients fully embrace excellence in performance management. She is an Accredited Coach with the International Coach Federation and Certified in Social and Emotional Intelligence coaching. She is passionate about how the user experience drives adoption and assisting our clients in creating a coaching culture.
Specialties: Customer Support, Software Design, Operational Management, , Personal and Professional Coaching
Madeline Alden
Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Madeline Alden is an Account Manager and Onboarding Consultant at Performance Culture, Inc. Before working with Performance Culture she worked at Organic Valley located in Cashton, Wisconsin on the Learning and Organizational Development team. Madeline graduated from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse with a B.S in Business Management. Madeline helps clients build high performing teams through the Performance Culture Coaching Process of Align, Coach, and Lead. Starting from a company's vision, mission, and core values, she helps clients define key performance and behavior indicators for employees to achieve company goals.
Specialties: On-boarding Consulting, Manager and Employee training, Employee Engagement, Leadership & Organization Development
Steve Wilkinson
Performance Culture Coach
Bio: With over 30 years experience in CEO and General Management roles with small to medium sized businesses in NZ and Australia , Steve brings a down-to-earth and practical approach to the challenges associated with running such businesses. He gained his first CEO role at the age of 28 and ran 11 different businesses over the ensuing 30 years , until 5 years ago when he set up a business under The Alternative Board banner, supporting a wide range of businesses in the Christchurch NZ catchment area. Steve’s broad commercial skill set has been developed through exposure to a wide variety of industries including banking and finance, automotive, hospitality and property and with responsibilities ranging from developing and managing the execution of Strategic Plans to financial management to developing, motivating and managing staffing levels ranging from 10-200.
Specialties: Team Development & Coaching, Leadership Alignment, Employee Engagement
Rich Novak
Performance Culture Coach
Bio: Rich has led numerous strategic business initiatives to increase sales, upgrade quality, enhance customer service and improve productivity. His experience ranges from Fortune 100 companies to mid-sized privately owned businesses. As an equity partner in a business owned by a private equity firm, he had the opportunity to play a major role in transforming a business to meet the financial return required by the private equity investors. Rich has conducted strategic planning reviews, implemented benchmarking and competitive assessments, and performed SWOT analyses at all organization levels. He works with peer advisory boards organized by The Alternative Board®, conducts “Creating Effective Workplace” workshops based on Marcus Buckingham’s “First, Break All the Rules,” and serves as an Executive Business Coach. He also undertakes private equity/restructuring assignments. Prior to joining Cornerstone Advisory Partners, Rich held senior level organization management and human resource positions and was a member of several Executive Committees in diverse business sectors. Having walked in the shoes of the leaders he consults, Rich brings tremendous credibility and wisdom to improving business processes and organizational effectiveness. Rich earned a Bachelors of Science in Economics from Rutgers University. He has served on the Boards of UNC-Greensboro, School of Human Environmental Sciences, Guilford County Partnership for Children, and North Carolina Manufacturer’s Association. Currently, he is a member of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington Cameron Executive Network.
Specialties: Strategic Planning, Employee Engagement, Leadership & Organization Development, Change Leadership & Change Management, Executive Coaching