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Meet the thought-leaders behind this issue of The Jabian Journal.

Robert Amberg

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Robert Amberg is the chief marketing officer at Jabian, where he leads the development and execution of the company’s marketing strategies. With over 20 years of experience in marketing, branding, and communications, Robert has a passion for creating meaningful connections between brands and customers, and believes in the power of storytelling to drive business growth. Under his leadership, Jabian has experienced significant growth in its brand awareness and market presence.

Noah Cotton

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Noah is a consultant with several years of experience working with financial service providers focusing on technology delivery, optimization, and strategy. He has a broad array of experience helping clients solve IT challenges requiring IT project management, Agile transformation, and data strategy and execution.

Karen Dernavich

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Karen brings more than 12 years of consulting experience across various industries. She loves helping clients solve problems, innovate, and drive results. Her work is focused on business transformation, employee and client engagement, sales enablement, and operational efficiencies. She is passionate about clear communication and building relationships to make a difference in the world.

Scott Gardner

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Scott is a senior manager with Jabian Consulting focused on product management and delivery. Prior to consulting, Scott had over 12 years of experience in various product management roles, launching new business intelligence applications. He has studied and performed improvised theater for the last five years and is a board member at Out of Hand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.

Danny Gattas

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Danny is a senior manager at Jabian who helps high-growth and mature enterprises define executable strategies, enhance operational processes, and unlock the power of people to drive transformation. Through his work, he has been able to work with organizations to devise solutions that leverage people, process, and technology to drive results. He takes pride in helping organizations bring and adopt innovation to solve their most complex problems.

Sean Gold

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Sean is a management consultant with extensive international experience in technology, business strategy and analytics, and strategic planning. He is passionate about providing clients with innovative and actionable solutions with regard to people, process, and technology. His experience touches a broad array of industries, such as high-tech, health care, and financial services.

Andrew Hardin

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Andrew is a senior manager with more than 15 years of experience in technology strategy, policy, and operations. His work is focused on partnering with businesses to achieve success through disciplined application of thoughtful technology solutions, rigorous data science, and effective processes. As a senior member of Jabian’s Data and Sustainability offerings, Andrew is passionate about applying technology to some of the world’s most challenging problems — from artificial intelligence governance to advanced logistics optimization to climate change — helping to drive change at all levels of business and government.

Rob Harper

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Rob has more than 25 years of consulting experience, with much of that time focused on large-scale business and technology transformations. He is an advocate for robust data governance supporting all business capabilities and a self-described “data nerd” driven to transform mindsets to view data as a highly valued enterprise asset and to treat it accordingly. Within Jabian, he leads the data and information management offering.

Fred Jewell

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Fred is a senior strategic advisor at Jabian. He spends most of his time working with his clients on strategy, transformation, operating models, organization design, change management, culture, engagement, and communication. Fred is also an executive and team coach, speaker, and author of the book We Can’t Do It Alone: Building Influence With Simple Strategies.

Jonathan Katz

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Jonathan is a strategy consultant with demonstrated experience driving operational excellence. Jonathan holds a passion for health care with additional cross-industry experience spanning the life sciences, retail, government, and automotive sectors. By taking a data-driven approach with a people-first lens, Jonathan helps his clients navigate transformation and change gracefully.

Emily Kelly

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Emily is a senior manager at Jabian who focuses on data-driven strategy. She leads Jabian’s business insights and analytics offering and has used data to produce results for clients ranging from hospitals to state government agencies, technology companies, and nonprofits.

Fletcher McCombie

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Fletcher is a director at Jabian helping clients convert strategy into guaranteed results. He speaks and writes extensively on change management and business transformation. Fletcher believes in “illuminating opportunity through unifying experiences.”

Michael Murph

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Michael is a manager with more than six years of cross-industry consulting experience. His work is focused on business transformation, people strategies, and strategic planning. He leads the Jabian Employee Value Proposition (EVP) offering and is passionate about connecting with his clients to help them build a better experience for their employees and customers.

Ray Reboulet

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Ray is a senior manager at Jabian with over 10 years of consulting experience in product management and data analytics. His work focuses on wringing the value out of data through solution development and data strategy implementation. When not bringing order out of chaos (one client at a time), Ray enjoys writing screenplays that audiences will love. Someday.

Tracy Reznik

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Tracy is a director at Jabian with extensive experience in progressive people strategies, including change management, leadership development, and organizational development at the enterprise, team, and individual levels. She is passionate about coaching, mentoring, and bringing out the best in people.

Will Schrensky

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Will is a consultant at Jabian. His work is focused on using insights from behavioral sciences to design better customer and employee environments. He is a member of Jabian’s customer experience team and is passionate about understanding the hidden influences behind decision-making and bringing out the best in people.

Chuck Sparrow

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Chuck is a director at Jabian. As a consulting executive, he has partnered with clients across a wide range of industries to lead transformation and optimization initiatives, architecting solutions for IT business management, mergers and acquisitions, enterprise integration, and organization design.

Dan Sterling

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Dan is the market launch center executive director at Jabian with over two decades of experience developing innovative solutions and driving those solutions to results. He is passionate about helping companies understand their business models and their resiliency in the face of market, technology, and competitive pressures. His expertise includes business model transformation, spanning pure-play strategy, growth, and innovation to technology-driven business model disruption.

Carson Topping

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Carson is a senior manager with more than 12 years of cross-industry experience, primarily focused on process optimization, business analytics, and economic development. He has a wide range of experience helping clients achieve value through cost reduction, empowering organizations with data-driven insights, and his genuine approach to leading teams. He is passionate about helping organizations build a more sustainable employee experience and shaping leaders of the future.

Callie Wheatley

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Callie is a senior manager at Jabian who develops customer-centric strategies to deliver desirable experiences for her clients and their customers. She also focuses on designing strategies with her clients that create mutual value between them and their employees.

Deonesha Williams

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Deonesha is a consultant with over seven years of experience ranging from technology implementation to operational risk and transformation. Her client service skills include project management, disaster recovery planning, and ERP system testing. She currently leads the external partnerships workstream of the JBEN ERG (Jabian Black Employee Network Employee Resource Group), where she works to cultivate working relationships with local organizations.

Guest Contributor

Maged Roushdi

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Maged has been improvising in the Atlanta area since 2001 and has been with Dad’s Garage Theatre Company since 2016. As an ensemble member there, he has worked on performing, teaching, and developing shows at the theater and around the Atlanta Improv community. Currently, he is the education director at Dad’s Garage.

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