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The Human CapiTools™ team is comprised of talented, expereienced and passionate professionals. Led by Dr. Kathleen Miller, this team is well-versed in the cutting edge training techniques of Fortune 500 companies. Through Human CapiTools, these techiques are broken down into affordable tool kits for the small to medium sized business. Please select a name below to read more about the team member’s experience.
Dr. Kathleen Miller – Founder, Human CapiTools™
For over 20 years, Kathy has helped clients such as Nextel/Sprint, Toyota Motor, IBM, Brown-Forman, Shell Oil, Rohm and Haas, and Kawasaki Rail Cars deal with the leadership and organizational performance challenges of an ever-changing competitive arena. While guiding them to fast but lasting solutions to specific problems, she has shared her expertise, simultaneously building each client's internal capacity to deal with the various aspects of human performance in the work place. Over the years, she has continued to expand her company's tools, expertise, resource pool, and service options while maintaining a personal connection with each client. Her creativity, flexibility, sense of fairness, and willingness to do real work in the real world have earned her the respect of individuals at all levels of the organizations she has assisted.
Her recent projects include:
- Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority Organizational Assessment
- Ashland Chemical Leadership Development Initiative
- Lexis Nexis Coaching Workshop
- Department of Homeland Security On-Line Training Needs Assessment
- Brown-Forman Executive Leadership Development and Coaching
- Kawasaki Rail Car Organizational Change Issues Audit
- Rohm and Haas Organizational Development and Training Strategy
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Redesign of Human Resources Department
- General Electric Project Management for Innovation
- Strategic Leadership Centre Nairobi Kenya Change Management Training
Kathy's published works include:
- Retraining The American Workforce, Addison Wesley, 1989
- Getting Ready to Get Ready to Change, Consulting to Management Journal, September 2001
- Training Strategy Using Internal Experts, Purchasing Today Magazine, September, 2001.
- Continual Learning: The Ultimate Skill-set Builder, Inside Supply Management, March 2002
- Going Virtual, Consulting Today, Winter Edition, 2002
- Preparing Leaders for Change, HR.com, Nov. 3,2003
- Going Virtual, HR.com, Nov. 10, 2003
- Assessing Your Institution’s Culture, RMA Journal, January 2004
- All Eyes Are On You During Times of Change, Leadership Excellence Journal, 2006.
Leslie Hunt – Trainer
With 23 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering both technical and non-technical skills training for adults, Leslie possesses a remarkable understanding of the adult learner and a proficiency for creating engaging, interactive instruction. She is highly skilled in the creation and incorporation of innovative and creative instructional methods into classroom curriculum products as well as highly interactive scenarios into web-based and computer-based learning modules. She is experienced in managing multiple curriculum development initiatives and projects utilizing in-residence staff and virtual teams. She is a seasoned platform instructor and group facilitator.
Leslie's accomplishments include:
- Designed, developed, and implemented a web-based business acumen curriculum for the globally dispersed business and commercial employees of a major petrochemical company.
- Developed a prize-winning training game for a major telecommunications company
- Led training and organizational development initiatives for sales force of global chemical company
- Developed an internship program for world renowned health and wellness spa and resort
- Developed and coordinated a targeted selection process for the staffing of a new manufacturing facility
- Assisted with the design and implementation of a training and communications strategy for the rollout of a major business process improvement initiative
- Created training and certification curricula for various technical occupations
- Provided technical writing and instructional design support to subject matter experts.
- Designed and developed a first-line leader training program for newly-appointed supervisors employed by a semiconductor equipment manufacturer
Virginia Major – Trainer
Ginny brings to Miller Consultants expertise in executive coaching, training and development, personality and competency assessment, work-life balance, gender and cultural diversity, and organizational change management.
Some of her past experiences include:
- Provided executive coaching to a Big Four Accounting Firm
- Designed a training game for a leading telecommunications company
- Conducted organizational performance analyses for leading chemical company
- Designed and implemented a leadership team development process for a Japanese-American company
- Designed a worldwide training system for multinational chemical company and developing a coaching program to support its implementation
- Assessed work-life balance and employee stress in several organizations
- Designed and delivered training on numerous topics
- Conducted research on culture and leadership, work-family issues, gender and negotiation
Shari Lewchanin – Trainer
As a clinical psychologist and business consultant, Shari brings to the Miller Consultants team extensive expertise in diagnostics and in relationship management, change management, and conflict resolution strategies.
Shari's past work has includes:
- Research in Passive-Aggressive Organizational Cultures
- Planned, implemented, and evaluated programs
- Trained and coached conflict management skills and organizational change strategies
- Developed targeted selection processes
- Developed and administered client assessment instruments
- Developed an assessment process to measure leaders’ readiness for change
- Facilitated visioning processes for non-profit agencies
- Conducted strategic planning sessions for non-profits agencies
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