Ernie Turner
President and Partner, LIM LLC
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Ernie Turner
has more than thirty years
experience, working with a wide
variety of international
corporations in developing
high-performing teams and leaders,
managing organizational change,
making mergers work and executive
coaching. He has lived and worked in
Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe
and North America. Ernie is
co-author of "Action reflection
learning: solving real business
problems by connecting learning with
earning" (Davies Black, 2008) and
the author of the lntelitec Program
Planning Guide: The Team Approach.
He has also co-authored
articles on teamwork and Action Reflection Learning for the
American Management Association Management Review and the
ASTD Journal.
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Ernie has an MA in Educational Administration from City
College in New York and a BA in English Literature from
Wheaton College.
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Tony Pearson
Partner, LIM LLC
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Tony Pearson brings
twenty years of line management experience to his consulting
and coaching work in organizational change, leadership and
team development and gender work.
Tony has helped companies in Asia, Eastern and Western
Europe and Africa to improve the skills of managers at all
levels. He has been a presenter at the national conferences
of the American Management Association, the Organization
Development Network and the American Society for Training
and Development. His writing has been published in Training
& Development.
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Tony has an MA in
Organizational Psychology from Teacher's College, Columbia
University and a BA from Oxford University, England, in
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Isabel Rimanoczy
Partner, LIM LLC |
Dr. Isabel Rimanoczy is a
Legacy Coach, Partner in LIM, and co-author of “Action
Reflection Learning: Solving Real Business Problems by
Connecting Learning with Earning” (Davies-Black
Publishing, 2008). Isabel is a frequent speaker and
presenter at international conferences, and the editor of
LIM News, a monthly newsletter featuring articles on
leadership and learning challenges. She is on the faculty at
Fairleigh Dickinson University where she teaches
Sustainability.
Isabel grew up in Argentina, where she earned her BA and MA
in Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, as well as
an MBA at the University of Palermo. She obtained her
doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University, where
she researched business leaders championing sustainability
initiatives. She is currently writing a book on the
Sustainability Mindset. |
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She is the Founder and Director of MINERVAS, Women Changing
the World, a nonprofit organization that supports women
making a difference. |
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Willie Anderson
Partner, LIM LLC |
Willie Anderson joined LIM after a variety of management
positions at Amoco and BP Amoco where he successfully
implemented several major change efforts including
performance management, supplier alliances, diversity, cost
leadership and college recruiting. Willie led the following
departments during his tenure: refining operations,
maintenance, engineering, inspection, project management,
alliances and procurement. Through 20 years of management
experience he was a talented Leader/Coach at Amoco and now -
as a LIM Learning Coach - works to develop teams and
leaders.
Willie holds an MBA from The College of William and Mary and
a BSME from the University of Virginia. He also is a
licensed professional engineer. |
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Ronald Waugh
Partner, LIM LLC |
Ronald
Waugh has been working since 1999 to support LIM's
global and Latin American leadership development efforts
from his base in Santiago, Chile.
Born and raised in the
United States, Ron has worked extensively in Europe, where
he was a senior executive in a large, global manufacturing
concern, responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions and
Strategic Planning. He has significant experience with
organizational change and organizational culture, and was
part of an executive team that successfully led the company
through a global reorganization, a change of shareholder,
and then through a major acquisition.
Other key
accomplishments include designing and leading leadership and
team development programs in both Europe and Latin America. Ron
has his MBA from
Harvard University and holds a BA from Wabash College in
International Economics and German. |
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Beena
Sharma
Associate |
Beena Sharma in her last executive position, was Group
Vice President, Management Learning and Development, with a
large conglomerate of businesses in India.
Beena, having been a Practice Leader in Whole-system Change
efforts, and Large Scale Interactive Processes during her
consulting years, brings with her significant experience in
facilitating organizational development, including change
strategies, and designing and anchoring change efforts.
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A British Council Scholar from India in the field of
developing Thinking Skills and proficient in the teaching of
Creativity, Beena is currently a certified Learning Coach
and actively works with LIM in consulting assignments as
well as helping develop the LIM business in the North
America region.
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Mauricio Cardenas,
M.A. in Technology Management
and International Studies, is responsible for providing
overall linkage and coordination between LIM's Latin
American and the US operations.
He has spent the
past 20 years supporting organizations around the globe in
the development of their capacity to learn and change, so
that their people grow and business challenges are solved.
His more recent work has been
in the area of team, leadership, and internal consulting
skill development.
Mauricio has also been a professor at business schools in
the U.S. (Universities of Pittsburgh and North Carolina at
Greensboro), Mexico (Monterrey Tech), Colombia (Universidad
de los Andes), and Ecuador (Espol) |
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Vithal Nayak
CEO and
Regional Director, SAARC and Middle East |
Vithal Nayak has more than 25 years' experience, working
with a wide variety of international corporations in people
processes including developing high-performing teams and
leaders, managing organizational change, competency
management, talent management and coaching. He has lived and
worked in India and the USA. Vithal has undertaken over 500
programs in various countries including USA, Sweden,
Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, China, Singapore, UAE
and India.
He is a certified Predictive Index Assessor, Development
Centre Assessor and Learning Coach.
Vithal has an Graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and
a Masters degree in Human Resources. |
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Carole Brown has worked for
almost 15 years as a coach and facilitator of organizational
change. Since 2000, she has been an executive, career and
life coach with her own company, The Thinking Team, and
joined LIM as an Associate in 2007. Her work as a coach
developed from her work as a management consultant,
initially in the Organization Development group at Price
Waterhouse, and later with the outplacement group of KPMG
where she was a career consultant. It was at KPMG in 1991
that she first used Ned Herrmann’s ‘whole brain’ methodology
and thinking styles and has used the HBDI as a development
tool with hundreds of executives for individual and team
coaching.
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Carole holds a first class
bachelor’s degree in Physiology from the University of Leeds
and an MBA from London Business School. She also has also
continued her own professional development and holds various
coaching and other certifications. She has also studied
general psychology, developmental psychology, psychotherapy
and healing, and it is from this rich mix that she often
takes elements and synthesizes them to create new learning
interventions for the business world. |
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Ricardo
Escobar
Country Manager -Mexico
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Ricardo Escobar has worked
extensively throughout Latin America as an organizational
consultant and developer of human resources. Born in
Colombia, his consulting work has taken him to Mexico, Costa
Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Venezuela. A
partial client listing includes Coca-Cola, Schering Plough,
KPMG, Skytel, Chrysler, and Hewlett Packard. His line
management experiences include positions of Sales manager
and General Manager. Ricardo's specialization in process
re-engineering, accelerated learning, and creativity applied
to problem solving have made him a sought after keynote
speaker at conferences for the last 10 years.
He is co-author of the book Creatividad en el Servicio,
published by McGraw Hill 1996, and graduated in Humanities
at AMHA Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
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Ana
Emilia Ruby B. Palma
Associate
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Ruby is a seasoned Human
Resource professional with demonstrated and recognized
strengths in organizational development (OD) and strategic
learning and development. Before joining LIM she served as
Regional Learning and Development Director for AstraZeneca
in Asia Pacific where she designed the strategic learning
agenda, and development of talents for 14 markets in the
region.
Prior roles included being Human Resource Director of the
Philippine operations of two multinational pharmaceutical
companies she was played a strategic part in the merger and
integration of two companies Astra and Zeneca, then later on
UCB and Schwarz where she drove the evolution of the new
culture, led and navigated change, designed employee
communication strategies, and managed the HR &
Administration team. |
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As a big picture thinker, Ruby’s expertise includes a keen
sensitivity and ability to develop and motivate high
performing teams, and to coach executives in transition.
Ruby has an MBA from the Ateneo De Manila Business School.
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Vivien Pau
Associate
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Vivien Pau has over 25 years
management, marketing, coaching and training experience
across a broad range of industries including e-commerce,
market research and retail banking. She was the CEO of a
leading e-commerce business in Hong Kong, where she started
and built the business with no established industry model to
follow. When she left the business, it was the largest
Chinese e-commerce business in Hong Kong with a high
performing team, an established infrastructure and a growing
customer base worldwide. |
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Pam Birkett
Associate
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Pam Birkett is a LIM
Learning Coach and has over 20 years of coaching and
training experience, assisting companies to devise, develop
and deliver customized solutions to meet their business
needs. She believes strongly that the best results come
when the people themselves are actively involved in
co-creating the desired outcomes. She has worked with local
and international companies in Asia, Europe, America and
Australia.
After working for an international management consultancy
company for 7 years, she worked as a Performance Consultant
on a project basis for different organizations. She joined
LIM as an Associate in 2000.
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She is from the United Kingdom but has lived in Italy for
three years and in Asia for over 20 years. She has a BA in
Modern Languages from Leicester University and a Post
Graduate Certificate in Education from Oxford University.
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