Meet Our Team

Kathleen Bader is a results-driven executive and consultant with over 25 years of experience leading complex transformation initiatives for large, international organizations. She partners with clients to reimagine how work gets done—helping them build innovative, customer-focused capabilities that drive customer satisfaction, employee engagement and operational impact. 

Her expertise spans:

• Leadership & High-Performance Team Development
• End-to-End Enterprise Transformation
• Strategic Planning & Execution
• Customer & Operational Excellence
• Artificial Intelligence & Process Automation
• Business Architecture & Process Management
• Organizational Change & Design Thinking
• Process Re-engineering & Lean Six Sigma

Kathleen has led strategic transformations driven by shifts in corporate strategy, rapid growth, digitization, new product launches, and the pursuit of greater efficiency, quality, and customer excellence focus. She has held senior leadership roles at Intel Corporation, USAA, Wells Fargo, and Laureate Education. Her industry experience includes financial services, insurance, healthcare, high tech, aerospace manufacturing, education, credit rating and data intelligence, government, and the nonprofit sector.   She is the creator of the TEAMS Assessment® for high performance teams.

Outside of her consulting work, Kathleen is deeply committed to helping veterans successfully transition from military service to corporate careers.  She lives in Southwest Florida with her husband where they enjoy boating and the outdoors year-round.

Industry Recognition and Certifications: 

A recognized though leader, Kathleen was awarded  one of six “2015 Power Players” by the Women in Housing Leadership Forum/ Mortgage Report for “leadership qualities including intelligence, drive, and pursuit of innovation in shaping the industry.”

• Awarded a Consortium Business Process Management (BPM) Deployment Award for “Best Overall Enterprise-wide BPM effort” while Serving as Chief Business Architect at Intel Corp. Award submissions included public and private corporations, non-profits and the education sector. 
• Keynote speaker for several international leadership and operational excellence conferences across the US, Asia and Australia. 
• Sought after by the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) as an expert to collaborate with leading academic and industry practitioners in creating innovative best practices.   

Kathleen’s Credentials:

• Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
• Certified Lean Expert
• Certified Senior Business Architect
• Certified Executive Coach
• Certified, TEAMS Assessment® for Extraordinary Teams
• She holds an Engineering BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Karen Arnold is a seasoned executive coach and strategic business consultant who specializes in driving transformational results for complex organizations.  As a former US Army Officer with multiple peacekeeping deployments, she brings proven experience leading high-performance cross functional teams under pressure while maintaining operational excellence.  Karen's pharmaceutical career includes managing global supply chains for two internationally approved drug launches, navigating complex regulatory environments and coordinating multi-million-dollar operations across continents. Most recently, she led strategic planning and implementation initiatives for two military medical centers, developing leadership capabilities and optimizing operations for enhanced patient care delivery. Her organizational design expertise has consistently delivered measurable improvements, including restructuring cross-functional operations at a women's health research nonprofit to dramatically improve grant outcome delivery.

As a certified executive coach and team coach, Karen brings assessment capabilities through her partnerships with leading platforms including Hogan Assessments, Everything DiSC®, and The Predictive Index as well as the TEAMS® Assessment. Her approach combines strategic visioning with tactical execution, ensuring sustainable change that drives both immediate results and long-term organizational capability.

Karen earned a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical (Aerospace) Engineering, United States Military Academy at West Point. 

Certifications include:

• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
• Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation
• Independent Consultants Network for Hogan Assessments
• Authorized  Partner, Everything DiSC®
• Certified Partner, The Predictive Index
• Certified, TEAMS Assessment® for Extraordinary Teams

Brenda Lee brings over two decades of proven leadership in strategic business transformation and regulatory compliance. As Founder and CEO of Corporate Research Systems for 17 years, she delivered mission-critical strategic insights and solutions to Fortune 500 energy companies and major public works organizations nationwide, building the firm into a recognized industry leader before its successful acquisition. Brenda specializes in guiding privately held companies through complex regulatory landscapes while architecting scalable systems and processes for exponential growth. Her expertise spans regulatory compliance strategy, organizational modernization, and system optimization for companies navigating the intersection of rapid expansion and stringent regulatory requirements.

A distinguished educator and thought leader, Brenda has received multiple awards for excellence in instruction and advisory services at both secondary and collegiate levels. Her academic credentials were further enhanced through selective advanced studies at UC Berkeley, Yale University, and Columbia University, where she was personally invited to participate in specialized executive programs.

Currently serving as Associate Professor of Business Administration, Business Law, and Ethics at Yavapai College, Brenda actively shapes the next generation of business leaders while maintaining her consulting practice.

Brenda holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Arizona State University and a Master of Business Management from Phoenix University.

Brenda is TEAMS Assessment® for Extraordinary Teams Certified.