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What entrepreneur, founder, owner, manager, leader, decision-maker of each and every stripe has not faced the lonely do or die, it&rsquo;s all up to you, it&rsquo;s on your shoulders, it&rsquo;s all come down to this scenario? Sink or swim. You ready? Maybe. And to those certain in their skin, confident in their abilities, we wish you Godspeed. For the rest, like us, with a tinge of doubt, a need for a bit more study prior to the big test, come &lsquo;round for some stimulating conversation with those who have &lsquo;been there, done that&rsquo; numerous and humorous times. We&rsquo;ll laugh at disaster, take a poke at failure, and quip wise over whatever success is supposed to look like. Along the way, we will learn a thing or three from the fears and the tears and the gaffs and the laughs. Who said learning was dull?

Kimberly Kyle House is an Executive Consultant, Coach, and Faculty Member for&nbsp;Leath Group, LLC&mdash;a dynamic curriculum development and intellectual property greenhouse that grows leaders and shapes cultures. She is also Founder of&nbsp;K. Kyle &amp; Associates, a talent brokerage firm representing professionals in the top of their fields.
Having begun her relationship with Leath Group as a client, Kim now possesses 28 years of extensive sales and service management experience. She has served in roles as diverse as Personal Lines Manager, Vice President, Consultant &amp; Vice President of Sales, Senior Leader of Employee Development &amp; Engagement, Talent Development Partner, Senior Manager of Organizational Effectiveness, and Manager of Training &amp; Development in industries ranging from retail, insurance, consulting, and financial services to aeronautics, defense, pharmaceutics, and luxury retail design.
Possessing such a vibrant, talented network, today she endeavors to connect great people with great need, often catching them at an inflection point.
Kim&rsquo;s expertise includes oversight and leadership of instructional/curriculum design, mentor programs, performance management solutions, executive coaching, facilitator/instructor pools, public relations and corporate communications projects, sales/operational enhancements, and cultural transformations writ large, be they domestic or international. She is also author of Women Working with Women, a profound and popular workshop that untangles, restores, and renews female executive relationships in the workplace.
She has taught extensively through the years, and served on numerous community and affinity advisory boards including Youth Leadership Program (Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce), The Make-a-Wish Foundation of New Mexico (President), UNM MBA Alumni Association, GRACE Grapevine (Board Member), Wounded Warrior Project, Fellowship Church, Club Corp (Board Member, La Cima), and in various capacities at local Chambers of Commerce from DFW to San Antonio.
As a teen&mdash;with the love of family, friends, and faith&mdash;Kim overcame Hodgkin&rsquo;s lymphoma. As an adult, she battled and beat breast cancer in a fight that would last for years. Her indomitable spirit, grace, and sassy wit are on full display in preliminary drafts of Fight &amp; Claw, her love letter to those who have tangled with Mr. C, and her manifesto for those (approximately &frac12; of males and&nbsp;⅓&nbsp;of females)&mdash;and their loved ones&mdash;who will eventually be drafted into the theater of war.
A native Texan, lifelong learner, and undaunted volunteer, Kim attended Texas Tech University, earned her BBA in&nbsp;Marketing &amp; Management&nbsp;and her Executive MBA (with an emphasis in&nbsp;International Business) from Anderson School of Management at University of New Mexico, and is a Certified&nbsp;Human Capital Strategist.
Today, this itinerant gura and connector of ideas and people can be found traveling, writing, speaking, solving, encouraging, talking back, and introducing.
But when she is not, one will likely not find her at all, for she has traded her kingdom for a horse and will be ankle-deep in manure in some remote southeast Texas barn or stall: shoveling, shampooing, grooming, shoeing, or perhaps even buying or breeding his majesty&rsquo;s greatest mammal. And eventually, come rain or shine or dawn or dusk or midday beam, Kim-the-equestrian will be but a blurry speck off in the distance, a thunderous beast galloping her into some Christopher Cross oblivion beyond the horizon, the future on her face and troubles to the wind.

Kimberly Kyle House

Joe Brouillette is an Executive Consultant, Coach, and Faculty Member&nbsp;for&nbsp;Leath Group, LLC&mdash;a dynamic curriculum development and intellectual property&nbsp;greenhouse&nbsp;that grows leaders and shapes cultures.
Joe has five&nbsp;decades&nbsp;of leadership, consulting, teaching, and global project management experience in finance, marketing, sales, new business launches, business transformation, technology enablement, and executive team development.
Through both entrepreneurial endeavors and corporate assignments, Mr. Brouillette has produced value across numerous industry segments in senior leadership roles with global firms, including Vice President, Capgemini, Senior Executive Global Business Development, Accenture, and Strategy Director, Verizon&nbsp;Enterprise Solutions.
In addition to numerous other senior positions in technology system design and development, Mr. Brouillette served as President of the American Airline Tech Subsidiary, AMRIS, and President/CEO of TelAmerica&mdash;two global telecom service providers.
Joe&nbsp;formerly served&nbsp;as an independent Board member for a number of public and private organizations and as an adjunct professor at <a href="http://www.neeley.tcu.edu/">M.J. Neeley School of Business </a> at Texas Christian University and Tandy Center for Executive Education, both in Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Brouillette earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance &amp; Economics from the University of San Diego and attended the University of Chicago and Stanford University focusing on graduate studies.
He is widely known for his work in Human Capital Development and serves as an advisor and executive coach for many organizations focused on optimal performance. He is a certified Heart Centered Leadership facilitator and counselor.
Joe&nbsp;lives in Wilsonville, OR where he currently serves as Chairman of Delta Energy &amp; Communications.

Joe Brouillette

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Ashley Acker, PhD, is an&nbsp;Executive Consultant,&nbsp;and both a&nbsp;Faculty Member&nbsp;and&nbsp;Program Advisor&nbsp;for&nbsp;Leath Group, LLC&mdash;a dynamic curriculum development and intellectual property greenhouse that grows leaders and shapes cultures.
With expertise in instructional design, individual and organizational assessment, and leadership development, Ashley has spent the last several years partnering with companies both large and small, across a wide variety of industries, to develop solutions in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>People Operations</li>
<li>Change Management</li>
<li>Flexible Work Practices</li>
<li>Management Training</li>
<li>New Hire Onboarding</li>
<li>Customer Service</li>
<li>Leadership Coaching</li>
<li>Customer Service</li>
<li>Marketing Strategy</li>
</ul>
Ashley is passionate about changing the way we work and helps organizations increase the flexibility of how, when, and where they work in order to boost productivity and profitability. She frequently speaks and consults on the topics of results-only work environments, managing virtual teams, online collaboration, and the changing nature of work and leadership.
She has served as an instructional designer, curricula developer, trainer, presenter, project manager, coach and director of operations. Her entrepreneurial nature, creativity, and attention to detail make her an indispensable asset in both large and small engagements.
Ashley earned her BS in&nbsp;Psychology&nbsp;from Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX, her MS in&nbsp;Industrial Organizational Psychology,&nbsp;and her PhD in&nbsp;Experimental Psychology from The University of Texas at Arlington. She is a graduate of Coach U, the leading global provider of coach training, and is a Certified Director of Operations.

Ashley Acker

Gary Moreau is an&nbsp;Executive Consultant and Faculty Member for Leath Group, LLC&mdash;a dynamic research, curriculum development, and intellectual property greenhouse that grows leaders and shapes cultures.
In his fourth decade of leadership, Gary has served as consultant, global executive, private equity partner, General Manager of a large multinational in China, and always as writer, thinker, and pragmatic philosopher.&nbsp;
As former President &amp; COO of Oneida, CEO &amp; Operating Partner of Lionel LLC (Lionel Trains)/Wellspring Capital Management, Managing Director and subsequently VP &amp; GM (Asia Pacific) of Libbey Inc., Gary has thought often and deeply about the disciplines of leadership, collaboration, communication, strategy, and the nature of ethics in the workplace.
He is the author of the Understanding series of books with volumes devoted to doing business in China, general business and leadership, and living a fulfilling life. Understanding Business: The Logic of Balance was named a 2017 Top 100 Business Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and one of his fictional books, The Message, written under the pseudonym Avam Hale, was given a perfect 4/4 rating by the <a href="http://onlinebookclub.org">onlinebookclub.org</a> and subsequently named book of the day.
Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader for Tomorrow in the Class of 1993, which also included Bill Gates and Michael Dell, Gary&rsquo;s abundant curiosity and thoughtfulness are animated through research, consulting, speaking, and ongoing contributions to scholarship and personal and professional service. You can find many of his articles on leadership and management on LinkedIn.
Gary studied&nbsp;Economics at Middlebury College, from which he graduated with honors.&nbsp;
Having spent eight consecutive years leading in China, Gary is now stateside again, where he makes his home in Rochester, Michigan. A voracious reader, Gary is an Amazon Top 500 book reviewer and has a large following for his book reviews on Goodreads, where he reviews a wide range of genres from classic literature to philosophy and business.

Gary Moreau

Mary Ober is a&nbsp;Practitioner Consultant, Coach, and Faculty Member for&nbsp;Leath Group, LLC&mdash;a dynamic curriculum development and intellectual property greenhouse that grows leaders and shapes cultures. Mary partners with businesses&mdash;big and small&mdash;to plan and deliver Human Resource practices and programs to increase effectiveness at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
Mary&rsquo;s passions and expertise lie in culture analysis and transformation, coaching, change management, organization effectiveness, leadership development, performance management, training and development, and instructional design and delivery. To illustrate, one example of her work includes conducting a cultural analysis for two companies to determine which aspects of each organization would help or hinder the potential merger.
As a coach, Mary partners with individuals to identify and take action to foster strengths and address areas needing improvement. Mary brings her authentic self to each coaching opportunity in order to listen fully, provide helpful feedback and work toward agreed upon goals and outcomes.
Mary also designs and delivers training courses on a variety of topics for employees at all levels and works with teams to optimally deliver results, resolve conflicts, and identify potential strategies and actions. She creates succession planning and leadership development programs and also coaches C-level executives in a range of issues from business strategy to personal effectiveness.
Mary has over 25 years of corporate experience and most recently served as the VP of HR for a multi-billion-dollar company headquartered in Dallas, TX. Mary&rsquo;s education includes Master degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Curriculum Design &amp; Instructional Design. She earned her undergraduate degree from Purdue University. Mary has received an industry award for best practices in diversity, as well as a Chairman&rsquo;s award for cultural transformation.
Mary and her husband (a practicing psychologist) and their four dogs make their home in the hill country. She is active in her church and in the Austin Arts community.

Mary Ober

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You are not alone.
"Losing," they say, "is part of living." To be alive is to know both loss and death, and to be human is to know grief. Colleague Susan Thoma once said, "Everyone has a cup of sorrow," and in our work with such a broad swath of humanity worldwide, we have come to know professional and personal grief at scale and intimately in our own lives.
The processes of losing, grieving, and recovering are not the same for everyone, but we do understand their nature and get the opportunity nearly every single day to help someone through something. We hope that when loss finds you&mdash;and you find it difficult to lead&mdash;you'll find us.
It would be our privilege to be part of your recovery process.
See&nbsp;<a href="../learning/loss-and-recovery-series-continuum">How Our&nbsp;Loss &amp; Recovery Series</a>&nbsp;is organized.

SINK OR SWIM

From the WAS thru the IS to the WILL BE

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Kimberly Kyle House

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