Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Michael Nobleza

Michael Nobleza

Michael Nobleza is a social impact strategist, purpose coach, and cultural change agent committed to helping teams and organizations to get to the next level of impact and effectiveness. Currently, Michael is working with the Los Angeles County Office of Immigrant...

Anese Cavanaugh

Anese Cavanaugh

Anese Cavanaugh is devoted to helping people show up and bring their best selves to the table in order to create significant positive impact in their lives and organizations. She is the creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®), an advisor and...

Cile Johnson

Cile Johnson

Cile has over 20 years of experience helping organizations create and execute strategies focused on talent development, leadership capability and organizational effectiveness. She is co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Talent Dimensions, a company she and her...

Lynn Cowart

Lynn Cowart

Lynn’s business and operational experience spans over 20 years working with senior leaders in diverse industries. Her corporate background includes HR and financial positions for companies such as GE, Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin. Through the lens of strategic...

Joseph Santana

Joseph Santana

Joseph Santana is the Chairman of The CDO PowerCircle, a leading association of top DEI leaders from companies generating nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in revenue and employing over a million people. The CDO PowerCircle develops DEI leaders at every...

Wil Lewis

Wil Lewis

As Experian’s Global Chief Inclusion, Belonging & Talent Acquisition Officer, Wil Lewis is building on the company’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity by driving innovation in product development, building on the company’s culture of belonging and...

Nathaniel M. Hyde

Nathaniel M. Hyde

Nat is the Carolinas and Tennessee Market Trust Executive for Bank of America Private Bank. He joined the private bank in 2004. His 40 year career at the bank includes Consumer and Commercial Banking, Training, Marketing, Wealth Management, and market leadership...

Richard L. Nichols, Jr.

Richard L. Nichols, Jr.

Richard Nichols is the South Atlantic Division Executive for Bank of America Private Bank. Richard leads the overall effort to serve the wealth management needs of high net worth individuals and families in the South Atlantic U.S. which includes District of Columbia,...

Sven Thiele

Sven Thiele

A chemical engineer who became a technology entrepreneur after graduating from the University of Cape Town; riding the technology waves from the mid 80’s to 2010, primarily servicing the finance sector ranging from exchanges to investment banks and hedge funds....

Shayna Shulz

Shayna Shulz

Shayna Schulz is senior vice president, enterprise transformation, at Blue Shield of California, a $20 billion healthcare plan with more than 4.3 million individual, commercial, and government members statewide. Schulz and her team are creating a new operating model...

Mary M. O’Hara

Mary M. O’Hara

Mary O’Hara is Chief Human Resources Officer & Senior Vice President of Internal Communications at Blue Shield of California, a 4-million-member nonprofit health plan serving the state’s commercial, individual and government markets. She is responsible for the...

Edie Goldberg

Edie Goldberg

Edie Goldberg, Ph.D. is the President of E.L. Goldberg & Associates in Menlo Park, California. She is a nationally recognized expert in HR and talent management strategy and organizational effectiveness. She is the co-author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped...