Joyce Reynolds-Sinclair, Ph.D., Founding Advisor
Joyce has a long track record of success in leadership coaching, teaming, and development. She brings deep expertise in designing and delivering virtual strategic services and adult educational programs for corporate business. As Managing Director for GEO Group Strategic Services, Joyce’s passion is focused on accelerating strategic action and facilitating collective intelligence through virtual processes. Joyce has held numerous prior leadership positions in organization development and transformational change in several San Francisco Bay Area organizations including Genentech, UCSF Stanford Health Care, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and Kaiser Permanente. She is currently Chair of the Board of the Magical Bridge Foundation, strategic advisor to the NorCal chapter of the Association for Strategic Planning, co-designer for the IntelliVen Manage to Lead Immersion Program, and a facilitator at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Joyce has a doctorate in Organization Development and Institutional Studies from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
Sonali Kothari, MBA
Sonali is the Chief Engagement Officer of Kothari Leadership Enterprises Inc., an executive advisory firm that has partnered with hundreds of business leaders to enable organizational breakthroughs over the last 15 years. Sonali particularly enjoys building products that make people’s lives better and building high-performing leadership teams. Most recently, Sonali was COO of JFFLabs, a nonprofit innovation lab for education and workforce, growing it to an impressive budget of $5.5 M and 14 FTE with 5 business lines including corporate advising, startup acceleration and investment. She spent over 7 years with Kiva.org, including as COO and CPO for the online crowdfunding platform that hit $1 Billion in loans worldwide during her tenure. She built her product and operations experience at Say Media, Google, Accenture and Autobytel combined with 10 years and Board Chair with the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. Sonali’s favorite colors are UC Berkeley’s Blue and Gold, and she completed her MBA at UCLA Anderson.
Terrie S. Rouse-Rosario, MPS, MA
Terrie is a newly retired arts executive and President of Rouse Consulting. Her most recent position was as a Mayoral Cabinet member acting as the Executive Director of the Commission on Arts and Humanities in Washington DC. Her career has spanned nonprofit, government, museums, performance, and accreditation. Her leadership roles include the Chief Operating Officer during the startup phase of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, the founding CEO for the Capitol Visitor Center at the U.S. Capitol Building, and the Executive Vice President/Director of Museums for Kansas City’s 900,000 square foot Union Station. Additionally, she has served as Executive Director of the Atlanta Ballet; President and CEO of the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Director of the New York Transit Museum, and Executive Director at the Children’s Museum of Maine. Her consulting clients include cultural, non-profit organizations across the United States and around the globe, from the City of Charleston on the development of the International African American Museum to the King Abdulaziz Center For World Culture in Daharan, Saudi Arabia. In addition, she has served on several professional associations and boards—including the board American Alliance of Museums or AAM.
Henry Whitlow, MBA
For the last 13 years Henry has been managing partner at Hudson Strategic Group. a consulting company that, at any time, works with a variety of businesses in Atlanta and around the country on ways to address their performance issues. The issues Hudson focuses on range from human resources to manufacturing to raising capital to sales & marketing. The focus of their practice is the development of minority suppliers and seamlessly integrating them into the supply chain of larger Fortune 500, type companies. Prior to that Henry held a variety of managerial positions within IBM. He was a HQ financial analyst, a supply chain analyst and a manager of analysts at various manufacturing and development locations. Henry is a visiting professor in the Decision Science Department at Clark University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches courses that include Quantitative Analysis, Management Information Systems, Enterprise Integration Systems, Quality, Productivity and Diversity, and Supply Chain Strategies.
Sharon Younkin, LICSW
Sharon is an independent clinical social worker, licensed in RI & MA. As a psychotherapist working for Rhode Island Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (RICBT), Sharon integrates evidence-based strategies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in individual and group modes of treatment to help people with depression, anxiety, stress management and life transitions. Prior to private practice, Sharon developed strong diagnostic and treatment skills by working in psychiatric research settings (Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Hospital) and a community mental health program (intensive DBT program for clients receiving day treatment and partial hospitalization). Sharon collaborates with clients to develop awareness, challenge negative thoughts, accept emotion, change problematic behaviors and use healthy problem solving and coping skills.
Carolyn Rouse, Ph.D.
Carolyn is a professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. She is the author of Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam, Uncertain Suffering: Racial Healthcare Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease and Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment. She is also a filmmaker and has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries including Chicks in White Satin (1994), Purification to Prozac: Treating Mental Illness in Bali (1998), and Listening as a Radical Act: World Anthropologies and the Decentering of Western Thought (2015).
David Gard, Ph.D.
David Gard received his Masters degree in clinical psychology from San Francisco State University in 1996 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005. He is a professor at San Francisco State University, the Coordinator of the SFSU Clinical Psychology Program, and has had a psychotherapy private practice since 2006. His academic research focuses on motivational and emotional issues in several mental health disorders, as well as understanding self-reflection and the process of ambiguity tolerance in individual narratives. He is currently a study lead on a novel project at UCSF to treat depression in bipolar disorder 2 with psilocybin.
Peggy Alfonso, MBA
For THRUUE, Inc., Peggy accelerated growth of the Emerging Markets unit, partnering with C-Suite leaders to set strategy and shift culture to drive growth. At two fast-growing consultancies, Peggy helped government leaders improve program outcomes by implementing transformational change. At FEMA, she led delivery of the first ever federal reinsurance program in six short months, saving $1B in hurricane relief claims. For more than a decade, she led large-scale IT and change initiatives for a major technology products and services provider and served as Vice-Chair of the Board for the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA from Mount Holyoke College; she earned postgraduate certificates from Georgetown University in both Organization Development and Team Building.
