Kenneth W Miller spent over 20 years as a CEO, served on the Boards of Directors of multiple organizations public, private and civic, was for nearly a decade an M&A, investment and strategy advisor to businesses and investors internationally. He is a serial entrepreneur, having organized or acquired dozens of companies in a wide diversity of sectors including private equity/venture capital, energy, transportation, recreation, commercial finance, real estate development and management, insurance brokerage, and biomedical technology development. This background, coupled with decades of direct experience in individual, group, and organizational behavior management in a variety of military and business settings, provides a uniquely solid foundation for his current focus and commitment to workplace dynamics—in particular, leadership enlightenment, organizational culture evolution and workforce engagement.
Ken is a founder of ACTAdvisory and creator of CultureDynamics, a comprehensive custom program adaptable to organizations of all sizes that pursues performance excellence through sustainable managed culture transformation and intensive development of what he calls ‘enlightened leadership’. He is also the author of a forthcoming book tentatively titled PLEASE–NO MORE LEADERSHIP BOOKS!
Gail K Bernstein, MBA is a widely respected senior leader who has spent nearly her entire career in the finance industry. As a banker with stints totaling over three decades at three of the top ten US banks, she is expert in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, finance, asset-based and international lending, and has a strong track record of establishing and growing startup businesses for large financial institutions, assuming significant P&L responsibility with a history of exceeding profit and growth expectations.
Ms Bernstein is a seasoned and incisive board director and committee chair and has served as a World Bank consultant. She is valued for her financial and strategic planning expertise as well as exceptional reputational integrity and robust network of global professional connections. As one of the first women to represent a US bank in Latin America, Gail is recognized for career-long successes in opening new markets and developing early relationships with both government representatives and privately-owned companies in Mexico and South America.
An award-winning strategic thinker, dynamic speaker and writer; skilled communicator, marketer and negotiator, Gail is sometimes introduced as ‘President of the Badass Women’s Club’, and keeps her colleagues ever reminded that ‘a woman’s place is on the Board’.
Gail brings to ACTAdvisory an unrivaled depth of insight, perspective, and keen observations of life inside some of our largest institutions.
Paras P Rawal, MBA is a seasoned business executive and entrepreneur with over 14 years of expertise in information technology, finance, marketing, logistics and supply chain industry verticals. With a MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), Paras has a passion for creating business and customer value utilizing agile methodologies. He is equally committed to support continuous improvement strategies that enable effective change management, improve customer satisfaction, boost workforce morale and promote performance at all levels of the organization.
Paras is an effective leader and communicator with complementary skill in diversified stakeholder management, relationship and team building, bustiness analysis, project and program management. He also has extensive experience in analyzing and improving workforce engagement to attain sustainable growth and progress; and assist in the alignment of corporate culture to reinforce a unified and cohesive synergy across globally dispersed channels and divisions.
William J Carr, MBA has had a career highlighted by success in a variety of endeavors. He served for several years in a series of planning and executive financial management positions within a Fortune 50 company, including CFO of a subsidiary operating nationally; spent two decades as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer in an entrepreneurial private equity setting which included a wide-range of start-up and acquired businesses in numerous industries, and later served as CFO of a non-profit foundation providing services to the under-served urban population of a large southern city. He has since graduated to a role as a school of business college professor, teaching courses focused on entrepreneurship, management and leadership, and finance.
Janice P Tanno, PhD is a veteran of the financial services industry, earning CLU and ChFC designations at an unusually early age. Ever curious, Janice went on to earn three MS degrees in Management, Financial Services, and Pastoral Studies, and capped her academic pursuits with a PhD in Management, Leadership & Organizational Change. Her doctoral dissertation, Servant Leadership: What Makes It an Effective Model, is in the process of publication as a text book.
Colleagues in her business and civic endeavors alike have referred to Dr Tanno as an organizational game-changer with demonstrated expertise in Board development and governance, complex adaptive change planning, team development and comprehensive business evaluation.
John P Digits, Jr, DPA is a distinguished behaviorist of long standing. Starting out as a clinical social worker, Dr Digits subsequently oversaw the development of a behavioral health organization that became a model human service provider, spending nearly three decades as its CEO. He frequently interacted with local, state and federal government officials in the advancement of educational initiatives and community development and served on numerous boards of directors, holding various leadership positions positively affecting the development and success of those organizations.
