The United States

Billy Bennett Chief Executive Officer, Augusta Georgia Billy is the founder of Pyramid ODI and The Pyramid Group, an international organization development group. He is a recognized authority on the design and development of high performance organizations, often pioneering the use of large-scale “fast cycle” design techniques. Due to his deep international experience he is often called to help multinational and culturally diverse organizations. As an author, Billy has written many professional articles published in the Southeastern Academy of Marketing, the Best Cases in Teams by the UNT press, and The Proceedings of the International Conference on Work Teams. From 1992-1995 he was the editor of Team Leader Resource, a monthly magazine for team leaders. He was the first recipient of Sabena Airlines Supplier Award for Total Quality.

T. Reed Gary Vice President Talent Acquisition Reed brings 30+ years of Talent Acquisition & HR service to our multinational clients. His specialty is crafting high volume - high impact staffing strategies for “just in time staffing” pools of talented finalists. Reed’s ability to swiftly grasp the technologies & business objectives or our clients’ competitive space fits perfectly with Pyramid’s values. Prior clients include: RTI Metals; Howden; FutureStep / Korn-Ferry; Accenture; Microsoft; Home Depot; Motorola; Becton Dickinson; Sun Microsystems; Unisys; Panasonic; and MCI Telecommunications. Reed is a graduate of Clemson University and resides in Augusta GA.

Dan Harding Senior Vice President Houston, Texas Dan specializes in leadership and team development. A master facilitator and coach, his work is characterized by providing strong problem-solving skills to complex and difficult organizational change issues. He has extensive consulting experience in helping organizations adapt their culture to produce strong, bottom-line results and has worked with clients throughout the U.S., Europe, and The People’s Republic of China. Dan’s background includes twenty years in a variety of management and executive positions in energy, healthcare and consulting. Dan is certified in the Birkman MethodTM ; he has a BA from Indiana University where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and a MA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dan’s most recent assignments include developing and implementing collaborative work teams in a chemical plant and developing a coach certification training program for a large independent oil and gas company. Past assignments have included engagements with BP/AMOCO, Marathon Oil Company, Schlumberger Services, Kerr-McGee Corporation, Pennzoil Company, Tenet Healthcare, The Methodist Hospital, and Merichem Company. His consulting work has taken him to the UK, Germany, Australia, and the People’s Republic of China.

Robert Saenz Senior Operations Leadership Associate Knoxville, TN Bob is a former executive and top operations leader at Durakon Industries and Johnson Controls Automotive. Bob lived and worked in the US and Europe and had extensive global responsibilities. He knows how to lead dynamic change. He understands that for a company to be successful everyone must contribute. He models what he coaches – true empowering leadership which brings out the best in others. Our clients appreciate Bob’s combination of credible leadership and an approachability that breaks down barriers between all levels of the workplace – an absolute necessity for clients looking to move workforce engagement to a higher level. Bob is fluent in Spanish and provides consulting in operations and training in Lean Systems Development, Leadership, Communications and Change Management.

Michael Salmon Senior Vice President Europe St. Helens, United Kingdom Michael’s international background includes international change management and development roles in Monsanto, ICI, Tesco and Inmarsat. In his last corporate role, Michael was Managing Director of a high-tech business turnaround. Michael’s change leadership work with has often resulted in dramatic improvements and in at least once case influenced a change in national legislation. He is currently an Executive Committee member of the London Business School ’s International Alumni Council, where he chairs their Governance & Nominations Committee. Michael is Institute of Personnel & Development and Institute of Directors qualified.

Daniela Di Mauro Senior Associate for Leadership Development Rome, Italy Daniela helps leaders and teams to develop and achieve new levels of performance. A graduate of the University of Rome in Psychology, Daniela also holds a number of certifications in Coaching. Daniela’s clients have included leaders from the services and high tech sectors including BNL BNP Paribas Group; Galileo Avionica; Fondiaria SAI Group; Unicredit Bank; Eli Lilly; I.C.E.; Mercedes Benz and Smart; Telecom Group; Amgen; ENI Group; Vodafone; Scuola Superiore Amministrazione Interno (Home Office); Poste Italiane; Daimler Chrysler and Bank of Rome.

Dr. Gudrun Frank Regional Vice President Bremen, Germany Dr. Frank is our award winning “architect of measured change”. Gudrun is experienced the design and development of technical work systems. She is responsible for the development of “ABC” a patented digital competency measurement and assessment process. She was awarded the Innovation Prize of Lower Saxony in recognition of this work. ABC offered through our partner organization DIMESKO AG brings true quantification to the process of organization change and individual development.

Francine Vanhove Chief Talent Advisor Antwerp Belgium Francine was one of the original Pyramid founders. Francine has a strong human resources services background. She served as both Recruitment Officer and Management Development & Training Officer for Unilever Belgium for 15 years. In 1989, Francine and Billy Bennett began working with organizations in the Benelux in the development of Self Managed Work Teams in a number of organizations (including Chep, Tyco Electronics, and St Lucas Hospital) . During this time Francine played an instrumental training and coaching role with the employees of Chep Depots across the Benelux. Chep’s Self Managed Work Team process created a dramatic improvement in operations, more than doubling the productivity of the Benelux operations and resulted in a number of international awards. Francine holds a degree in Psychological & pedagogical sciences from the State University of Gent.

Francis Wingfield Regional Vice President Rome, Italy Francis has helped a number of organizations thru difficult change involving the development and implementation of new company strategies. He began his career with Proctor & Gamble in Brand management and joined Arthur Anderson and then Consiel. He was instrumental in assisting Agenzia del Demanio, conversion’s from a non-profit Agency into a public company and led the design and start of TILS – Telecom Italia Learning Services the Language School for Telecom Group. Francis’ depth of organization change experience provides a voice of reason and stability during unsettled times.

Shintaro Tominaga Regional Vice President Japan Chiba, Japan Shintaro provides cross-cultural business advice, consulting and training to both English and Japanese native speaking business people. Shintaro assist’s a number of international clients seeking to do business between Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Shintaro reflects Pyramid’s core value of providing "effective, practical and useful solutions", which can be immediately applied to the business in relation between Japanese and English speaking business people. His training includes "Effective Presentation for Japanese Business People", "Cross-cultural Communication with Japanese Business People" , "Win-win Negotiation with Japanese Business People".