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Our associates are extraordinary consultants in their own right. Take a look:
Andrea P. Howe, President and Founder
 Andrea P. Howe has been in the consulting profession for 20 years. From 1992 to 2000, she worked for American Management Systems (AMS), a $1B technology consulting firm, as a client relationship manager, program manager, project manager, business analyst, facilitator, and software developer. As a leader in a two-year proposal effort to develop software to be used by over 30,000 procurement staff, Andrea contributed directly to the award of the largest contract ever won by the company ($340M). Her last corporate assignment before taking the entrepreneurial leap was director of leadership development, where Andrea oversaw the design of AMS’s leadership and consulting curricula and managed a $1+ million budget for a variety of staff development programs.
Today, Andrea is one of four people in the world authorized by Charles H. Green, co-author of "The Trusted Advisor," to deliver programs on trust-based relationships. Her clients include top global firms in accounting, consulting, and other professional services. She is a returning guest lecturer for MBA students at American University and George Washington University. She is also the co-author, with Charles H. Green, of “The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook,” to be published in October 2011.
Some Credentials: MS in Organization Development from American University. Certifications in team development, collaborative problem-solving, and action learning. BBA in Computer Information Systems from Texas A&M.
Barbara Dammann, Executive Consultant
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Exuberant, caring, funny, passionate about developing others and achieving results. |
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Coach, relationship-builder, change catalyst, tennis buff. |
barbara@bossanovaconsulting.com |
Barb has over 25 years developing a successful consulting track record, across a variety of industries and roles, making significant contributions to clients' and corporations' bottom lines. She has consulted in business transformation strategy and planning, coached executives, built learning and leadership development programs, led business development and sales efforts, and driven team coaching and team effectiveness. Barb is a consultant at heart and has always used a consultative approach in managing people to achieve results and to bring out their best. Her greatest strengths are: inspiring leaders to envision and drive change, coaching leaders to achieve greater effectiveness, engendering trust and confidence, building dynamic organizational teams, and helping people plunge ahead in the face of ambiguity and the seemingly impossible.
Some Credentials: Masters-level certificates in Organization Development, Change Leadership and Executive Coaching from Georgetown University; Business Transformation Consulting and Collaborative Problem-solving from IBM; and Managerial Styles/Organizational Climate from They Hay Group. Bachelor of Science in Education from Valparaiso University.
Barry Edwards, Improv Contributor and Consultant
Barry has been in professional services for the past 18 years. He began his 10 year consulting career in training and organizational development at Stromberg Consulting, a NY-based change management firm working with such organizations as Nielsen, British Petroleum (BP) and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. He also created and facilitated management and employee trainings for Continuum Health Partners, the largest hospital consortium in New York City. Barry's specialty was working with hospital staff to ensure excellence in customer service.
Barry is currently working on completing a certification in coaching from Coaches Training Institute (CTI). He enjoys working with motivated individuals to define and pursue their own definitions of success in their professional and personal lives.
Prior to working in training & organizational development, Barry worked for 8 years in sales and marketing for some of the top cable television networks including A&E Television Networks, MTV Networks and Comedy Central. He was critical in the launching of The History Channel, the fastest growing cable television network at the time.
Barry is passionate about creating engaging experiences when facilitating management and employee trainings. He is currently a student of improvisational comedy performing a number of times at the DC Improv.
Some credentials: MBA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from City University of New York Baruch College. BS in Marketing from University of Delaware.
Cary Paul, Chief Improv Officer
Throughout his 16 years of consulting experience, Cary has helped dozens of commercial and government clients not only plan for the future, but enjoy the process of doing it. He has developed strategic plans, led decision-making off-sites, and created dynamic and exciting facilitated sessions. Clients have included Chevron, Speedway, Siemens, Booz-Allen, and Adventist Healthcare, plus public sector clients such as the Air Force Singing Sergeants, US Navy, Veterans Affairs, and Department of Justice.
Cary is a BossaNova’s Chief Improv Officer, and the founder of The Village Circle Company, a consulting firm focused on creating specialized, facilitated experiences. Prior to founding the Village Circle Company, he worked as a Senior Consultant at HuthwaiteGroup, American Management Systems, and Booz-Allen Hamilton. Cary worked as a senior facilitator and engagement/project manager in each of those organizations, delivering expert guidance and support to the teams he served.
Cary is highly passionate about creating and delivering great experiences for the people, teams and organizations he serves. During summer breaks in college, Cary worked as Davy Crockett at Walt Disney World. As a performer and guest host, he had a unique opportunity to hone his entertainment and service talents. Currently, he is leading The Village Circle Company as they develop their first Broadway-style musical.
Some Credentials: MBA in Organizational Behavior and Information Technology from George Washington University. BS in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. Instructed and mentored by management expert Jerry B. Harvey, author of the well-known concept of the Abilene Paradox. Discoverer of the color Rose Madder.
Deb Howard Greenleaf, Financial Manager
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Deb has worked in a variety of accounting and finance positions for over 19 years. Deb began her career in banking, working in credit analysis and as a commercial loan officer for small business clients. Deb left banking to join the management team of a Web design company, where she learned many of the hands-on skills that she shares with clients today. Deb also worked for several years at a CPA firm while earning the first of many certifications from QuickBooks. Her passion is sharing her love of “the numbers” and demystifying the accounting process for small business owners. She has become a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from QuickBooks to Finance for Nonfinancial Managers. Deb is a lifelong resident of northwestern Pennsylvania with her husband, two children and a half-dozen dogs and cats.
Some credentials: Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and IRS-licensed Enrolled Agent. BA in Economics from Bowdoin College.
Marisa Sanchez, Executive Consultant
Marisa brings 20 years of consulting experience in organization development, strategic planning, business process reengineering, and program management. Marisa is known for being results-oriented, productive, highly organized, and proactive. She combines her unique experiences in business, information technology, and organization development to understand her clients’ business needs and help them get results. Marisa has worked in the corporate, federal government, and non-profit arenas.
As a Principal consultant for 14 years with American Management Systems (now CGI-AMS, Inc.), she consulted to clients on a variety of engagements, including performing an organization design for the consumer banking division of the Australia New Zealand bank, defining services for an emerging business at AT&T, managing quality processes at the world’s first Internet-only bank, and developing a strategic business plan for an IBM subsidiary. She is highly skilled in project management, particularly involving large multi-initiative programs and information technology development/implementation life cycles.
Some credentials: MBA in Finance from Georgetown University. Masters-level certificate in Organization Development and Change Management from Georgetown University.
Masters Degree in Human and Organization Development
from Fielding Graduate University. Additional certifications in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance ™
Model. BS in Computer Science and Psychology from Duke University.
Sarah Agan, Executive Consultant
Sarah started her 16-year consulting career after having owned a small business where she learned the connection between profitability, building relationships, and understanding customer needs. She has worked at large and small professional services firms where she has held senior leadership positions such as Director of Leadership Coaching and Organizational Performance. Sarah’s diverse experience ranges from working with leaders to bring about cultural transformation to helping entrepreneurs build their businesses to using Improv techniques and trust-based approaches to enhance organizational performance. Whatever the client engagement, Sarah’s philosophy is fundamentally about keeping things real, creating conversations that matter, and having fun in the process. She believes that the power of intention married up with the courage to declare is what generates possibility and from possibility, committed action delivers results. Sarah has experienced first-hand that, regardless of role, the key to extraordinary consulting lies at the intersection of head, heart, and soul: any one without the others may deliver value, but all three combine to create remarkable client experiences.
Some Credentials: Professional certifications from Georgetown University in both Leadership Coaching and also Organizational Development and Change Management. Certification in team development. BA in International Studies and BA in Political Science from Virginia Tech.
Shawn Westfall, Improv Guru
The exclusive teacher of improvisational comedy at the DC Improv for more than eight years, Shawn Westfall teaches classes in beginning improv, advanced short-form and long-form improv, as well as improv workshops focusing on character, long form, and non-traditional improv techniques. His classes (and the numerous performances they’ve generated) have been featured in the pages of The Washington Post, The Washington Post Express, Washingtonian magazine, as well on Washington Post Radio, DC 101, WTOP Radio, Mix 107.3’s “The Jack Diamond Morning Show,” on The Food Network’s “Dinner: Impossible!,” as well as on such local media outlets as K Street Kate’s video weblog, and other local blogs, including WeLoveDC.com, among many others.
Not only has Shawn taught the principles of improv to individual students, he’s also taught improv as a strategy for fomenting creativity, teambuilding and organizational development to various private, public and non-governmental organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Discovery Channel, B’nai Brith Youth Organization, Touchstone Consulting, Booz Allen Hamilton, and The Washington Post Company, among numerous others.
Shawn has performed improvisational comedy for over 18 years with a number of professional improv troupes, including Loose Screws in Honolulu, Hawaii and The Oxymorons, a nationally recognized improv troupe in San Antonio. A former member of both DC ComedySportz and DCUPS (DC Unscripted Players), Shawn founded a sketch comedy troupe, Pretentious Actors Collective (P.A.C.), which played to audiences in Northern Virginia and Washington, DC. He was the founder and creative director of bright young things, an improv troupe specializing in long-form improv that played to audiences in Washington, DC, which also was the very first improv troupe to headline at the DC Improv, as well as in New York City at the venerable Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Theater. Shawn was also one of the founding cast members of iMusical, a nationally recognized show that improvises a musical (both music and libretto) based on a single audience suggestion. Currently, Shawn is a member of two improvisational comedy troupes that perform frequently throughout the DC area: The Score, which frequently performs as part of Washington Improv Theater’s runs throughout the year; and ShawnMikael(s), a two-person troupe he formed with venerated DC improvisational actor Mikael Johnson. In addition to a performance schedule that has them playing to audiences all over the Eastern seaboard, ShawnMikael(s) has racked up a number of accolades during its short time in existence: the show it mounted as part of the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival found the duo being awarded four stars and named “Best of the Fest” by DC TheaterScene; finally, the duo have twice entered the Harrisburg Comedy Improv Throwdown, winning both times against stiff competition from troupes from Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York City.
Shawn has has also performed stand-up comedy in Texas and throughout the Washington, DC area, even opening at the DC Improv for comedian Adam Ferrara, host of the U.S. version of “Top Gear.”
Shawn also has a day job as an ad agency creative: he’s a senior copywriter for Proof Integrated Communications, a division of Burson-Marsteller, where he writes, directs and produces print ads, radio spots, TV spots, as well as online and social media advertising. He’s also a freelance writer whose work has been published in newspapers, literary journals and magazines in Utah, Texas and Hawaii.
For information about his the classes he teaches at the DC Improv, visit www.dcimprov.com/school_shawn.html
Some Credentials: B.A., English, University of Maryland; M.A., English, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Susan Silver Levy, Executive Consultant
Susan entered the consulting industry in 1992 and began her human resource development consulting practice in 1996. She is passionate about conducting thorough needs assessments to make sure that her solutions correctly target the client’s needs or opportunities and align with the organization’s strategies and culture. Prior to starting her own business, she built her experience through a series of progressively challenging leadership and instructional design opportunities in the healthcare and insurance industries. As a sole proprietor, she works with clients in the fields of consulting, finance, healthcare, and information systems as well as numerous government agencies. She is a talented management coach, trainer, and facilitator who has designed and delivered hundreds of presentations, courses, and workshops related to job specific skills and management development topics.
Some credentials: MA in Human Resource Development from Marymount University. Certifications in Instructional Systems Design, Total Quality Management, and creation of job performance aids. BA in American Government from the University of Virginia.
Tracey DelCamp,
Chief Administrative Manager
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Personable, goals driven, innovative, energetic,
passionate about forward thinking. |
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Entrepreneur, wife,
mother, lover of all things Irish!, reader,
crafter. |
tracey@bossanovaconsulting.com |
Tracey’s career spans 19 years in the corporate
world, 14 of which were with one corporation. She
started her career as a Data Entry Specialist and
worked her way up to various management positions of
clerical staff. Tracey has a passion and keen sense
of success for reviewing current processes and
procedures and streamlining them to be more
effective and efficient. Her expertise encompasses
all things administrative, as well as tools for
marketing businesses online. Tracey’s experiences
include the legal industry, not-for-profit
businesses, insurance industry, coaches, health and
wellness businesses, as well as consultants. She
loves to come across a process that isn’t working
efficiently or is not cost effective and streamline
it, thereby saving time and expense. Tracey decided
to become a business owner so she could be a
stay-at-home mom while also contributing
financially. Tracey resides in New Jersey with her
husband and two children.
Some Credentials: Coaches a program on implementing
tools to help businesses be more effective, monitors
technological advancements and learns new skills
regularly to be an effective team member, member of
various VA and entrepreneur organizations.
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