Meet Our Team
Penny McLeskey
Penny McLeskey is a results-driven C-level executive and corporate Board member with over 30 years of experience in scaling organizations and driving performance. Through strategic people and culture initiatives, she builds and leads human capital strategies that align tightly with business objectives, accelerate growth, and directly impact the client’s bottom line.
Known for her ability to integrate culture with business strategies, Ms. McLeskey has designed and led transformational change initiatives across complex and high growth organizations —fueling operational performance, supporting M&A integration, and strengthening leadership capability at every level. She brings deep expertise in organizational architecture, scalable HR infrastructure, winning talent management programs, executive coaching, and leadership development that empowers organizations to perform at their highest potential.
She is a dynamic facilitator and communicator, comfortable leading high-profile engagements and developing tailored programming that enhances trust, cohesion, and accountability within teams. Ms. McLeskey is passionate about aligning culture with mission and leveraging people-first strategies to unlock collective potential.
Her leadership style is collaborative and outcome-focused, leveraging data and insight to guide decision-making and ensure accountability. She has a record as a successful change agent and trusted advisor, particularly in navigating conflict, building trust, and driving alignment through communication.
Whether guiding executive teams through strategic pivots or leading enterprise-wide culture transformations, Ms. McLeskey delivers measurable results: stronger leadership pipelines, more resilient teams, and people strategies that sustained business success.
Don Michalik
Don Michalik is a distinguished communications executive who specializes in internal culture transformation and strategic leadership development. With over three decades of experience supporting Fortune 500 companies, Don has built his reputation on a fundamental belief: authentic external brands are built from the inside out, and strong internal cultures drive compelling external brand experiences.
Don focuses on developing organizational cultures that become the foundation for authentic brand expression. His expertise in change management communication, executive leadership development, employee engagement, and culture enrichment addresses critical challenges, including reducing culture gaps around collaboration and accountability, enhancing workplace safety, and fostering psychological safety and diversity of thought. By strengthening internal alignment, Don creates organizations where employees authentically embody and deliver on the brand promise.
Don’s unique advantage lies in his deep expertise in both internal culture development and external brand marketing. His background encompasses strategic brand positioning, public relations, demand generation, and customer engagement, providing him with a comprehensive understanding of how internal culture and external branding must work together. This holistic perspective enables him to approach corporate challenges, recognizing that what happens within an organization directly influences customer experiences, market perception, and brand credibility.
Throughout his career, Don has demonstrated exceptional ability to translate complex organizational objectives into compelling narratives that align internal stakeholders with external market commitments. His integrated approach has helped organizations navigate critical transitions—from major restructuring and corporate spinoffs to brand repositioning and market expansion—by ensuring cultural transformation creates the authentic foundation necessary for sustainable brand success. Don’s philosophy centers on building brands from the inside out, where engaged employees become the organization’s most powerful brand ambassadors.
Don has partnered with leading global organizations, including Dell, Motorola, Union Pacific, Texas Instruments, Emerson Electric, Freescale Semiconductor, 3M, Samsung, Trinity Industries, Cirrus Logic, and Tivoli, among others.
Cindy Yarbrough
Cindy Yarbrough is a trusted senior advisor to CEOs and executive teams, with a distinguished track record leading large-scale change initiatives and building high-performance cultures in fast-growth environments.
A recognized expert in conflict resolution, she is the creator of a proprietary conflict mediation model frequently called upon to resolve sensitive corporate situations. Her ability to navigate complexity, restore alignment, and drive results has made her a go-to consultant for organizations facing pivotal transitions.
Ms. Yarbrough brings a combination of expertise in human behavior, organizational change dynamics, and leadership development. With a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and extensive corporate leadership credentials — including the design and delivery of several statewide change programs — she specializes in neuroscience-based approaches to conflict resolution and executive development. As an independent business leader, she was selected to coach negotiation skills to all Motorola leadership, both domestically and abroad, and served as the Change Management Leader at a large state agency for an enterprise-wide multi-year technology innovation project. The change methodology she developed was the foundation for the subsequent change management team’s finalist designation for a Gartner award in Communications. Her background emphasizes strategies for developing psychological safety and leadership capacity for managing disruption (layoffs, leadership changes, buyouts, rapid growth) — strategies focused on business outcomes and cultural alignment.
With deep expertise in organizational change, executive development, and team performance, Ms. Yarbrough brings both strategic insight and practical execution to every engagement — helping companies build resilient cultures, empowered leaders, and bottom-line results.
Alicyn Yarbrough
Alicyn Yarbrough is a former CEO with deep expertise in building resilient, high-performing teams through complex challenges. During her tenure leading an international organization, she navigated unprecedented global disruption while maintaining exceptional team engagement and organizational culture-earning consistent recognition for creating a psychologically safe environment where teams thrived despite external pressures.
Her leadership approach combines strategic thinking with genuine emotional intelligence, helping teams navigate conflict productively and adapt to rapid change. She has extensive experience facilitating team development sessions and building cultures of trust and innovation.
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