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 stands at the intersection of internal culture mastery and brand excellence—a rare combination that makes him the definitive advisor for businesses seeking to build powerful brands from within.
With more than three decades of experience architecting culture transformations for Fortune 500 leaders and emerging enterprises alike, Don brings a conviction built upon proven results: sustainable brand strength originates internally. The most compelling external brands emerge when organizational culture, employee engagement, and brand promise align authentically.
Core Expertise
Don specializes in culture architecture—the systematic development of organizational environments that become self-sustaining engines of brand authenticity. His practice centers on cultivating executive leadership, communicating strategic change, and developing employee engagement frameworks to eliminate friction between stated values and lived experience.
He excels at bridging cultural gaps that undermine collaboration and accountability, implementing communication strategies that improve both physical and psychological safety, and creating conditions in which diversity of thought becomes a competitive advantage. His methodology transforms internal stakeholders into genuine brand ambassadors whose daily actions reinforce external market positioning organically.
Strategic Differentiation
Don’s distinctive value emerges from dual mastery: he steers internal organizational dynamics with the same fluency he applies to external brand strategy. His comprehensive background spans strategic brand positioning, demand generation, public relations, and customer experience design—providing a panoramic perspective on how internal culture and external perception form an integrated system.
This all-encompassing command enables Don to diagnose organizational challenges at their root, recognizing that customer experience, market credibility, and brand perception are downstream effects of internal culture health. Where others address symptoms, Don engineers foundational solutions.
He possesses exceptional facility for interpreting intricate company goals into persuasive narratives that unite internal stakeholders with external commitments. His integrated approach has guided organizations through high-stakes transitions, corporate restructurings, spinoffs, mergers, brand repositioning, and market development—by ensuring cultural transformation delivers the authentic substrate essential for ongoing brand performance.
Client Partnership
Don has served as a trusted advisor to global industry leaders, including Dell, Motorola, Union Pacific, Texas Instruments, Emerson Electric, Freescale Semiconductor, 3M, Samsung, Trinity Industries, Cirrus Logic, and Tivoli, among others. This breadth—from multinational corporations to focused enterprises—demonstrates his adaptability and validates his methodology across diverse organizational contexts.
Whether architecting culture for established Fortune 500 companies or growing enterprises, Don brings the strategic sophistication, operational accuracy, and change-leadership acumen required to transform internal culture into a long-lasting competitive advantage.
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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