Meet the Team
Vincent R. Brown
President & CEO
Email: vbrown@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is a successful entrepreneur, published author, motivational speaker, executive coach and experienced training developer and facilitator.
- His expertise includes diversity and inclusion, organizational and team development, executive coaching, creating and sustaining change.
- Was a founder of Global Novations, an international management consulting firm and former Goldman Sachs portfolio company.
- Partners as a trusted advisor and consultant with premier organizations spanning multiple fields and practice areas for the Health Care, Financial Services, Retail, and Professional Services industries.
- Received the Herrmann International Big Thinker Award for groundbreaking approach and results in innovative training design and delivery.
Janet B. Reid, Ph.D.
Email: jreid@vrandolphbrown.com
- Serves a select group of forward-leaning clients whose growth is dependent upon building world-class leaders with a consortium of senior consultants.
- Has extensive board experience and is active in civic affairs on the local, state and national levels.
- Was a founder of Global Novations an international management consulting firm and former Goldman Sachs portfolio company.
- Spent a decade at the Procter & Gamble where she was a pioneer in leading diversity initiatives.
LaToya Everett, Chief Administrative Officer & Consulting Partner
Email: leverett@vrandolphbrown.com
- Focused leader, recognized for delivering superior results and exceeding client expectations.
- Well qualified executive with over 10 years of experience managing high level corporate operations and client engagements.
- Articulate communicator, accustomed to addressing clients, vendors, and consulting partners.
- Capable of building lasting relationships with senior management of clients, partners and vendors. Partners as a trusted Consultant with premier organizations within the Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail and Professional Services sectors.
- Known for managing turnaround projects with 100% success rate.
- Experienced in the negotiation of high level contracts.
- Well versed in content development/design, diversity, inclusion, leadership development, talent optimization and team effectiveness.
Pamela Ramsey
Email: pramsey@vrandolphbrown.com
- Seasoned administrative consultant with over 30 years experience supporting top leaders in global consulting and manufacturing firms.
- Has worked for Fortune 100 companies including Procter & Gamble and General Electric.
- Served as the executive assistant to Vincent Brown and the Managing Partners of Global Novations for 10 years.
- Ability to establish and maintain relationships, with her passion for creating presentations that has a direct impact on the success of client engagements.
Angie Dodge
Email: adodge@vrandolphbrown.com
- Seasoned Executive Assistant with 17 years experience supporting C-Suite level Executives
- Strong reputation as the girl that "gets it done!"
- Has worked for Fortune 100 companies including Fifth Third Bank and Cincinnati Bell
- Administratively supported the USAF while stationed at Lajes Field, Azores and Spangdahlem AB, Germany where she won Civilian of the Year
Adam Brown
Email: abrown@vrandolphbrown.com
- Obtained business degree from Hampton University
- Certified in HBDI and Emotional Intelligence
- Four years of Social media and Internet Marketing Experience
- Known for being extremely helpful, and also believing that building and maintaining relationships is the single most important element in business and life.
- Has worked with teams and engaged in team building activities for over 15 years.
Lisa Banks, MBA
Email: lbanks@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is a seasoned researcher and brand management executive with more than 20 years of experience in the retail, consumer products and direct marketing industries.
- Has held leadership roles managing corporate multi-cultural/inclusion initiatives, complemented by experience as an entrepreneur.
- Is a superb communicator with a proven ability to develop and manage businesses and deliver measurable results.
Marie Gemelli-Carroll, MBA
Email: mgcarroll@vrandolphbrown.com
- Helps clients in corporations, local governments, nonprofit organizations and communities build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with key audiences.
- Delivers key stakeholder research, strategic planning and focused communications and business development programs for several organizations, boards, work groups and teams in both the private and public sectors.
- Graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Villa Maria College in Erie, Pennsylvania; earned her M.Ed. in communication arts and MBA in marketing from Xavier University in Cincinnati.
- Recently awarded a certificate of completion for the Mobilizing Your Nonprofit Board Program from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education.
Patrice Baughman Borders, JD
Email: pborders@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is a credentialed executive coach and diversity and inclusion strategic change agent.
- Translates the value of human capital and the currency of relationships into implementable strategies, accountability, and return on expectations.
- Evolved her legal background and expertise into a distinguished consulting and coaching practice.
- Leverages her thorough understanding of anti-harassment laws and workplace compliance to meet the dynamic needs of organizations and their employees.
- Conducts organizational assessments that uncover root causes of issues and then assists organizations in the creation of appropriate strategy.
Kimberly DiStefano
Email: kdistefano@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is an accomplished business leader and advisor with a passion for optimizing an organization's best asset, its talent.
- Leverages over 15 years of experience in human resources, talent management, and organizational development and effectiveness to provide strategic and sustainable solutions to top tier clients across a spectrum of industries.
- Partners with executives, teams, and individuals to create vision and structure where none exists and to construct comprehensive, end-to-end human resources solutions that optimize organizational performance and productivity.
- Graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from Harvard University.
Wayne Box Miller
Email: wmiller@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is a diversity, marketing and communications professional with expertise in the areas of diversity training and consulting, marketing strategy, and effective communications.
- Has more 25 years of work experience in health care, media and corporate environments and include ground-breaking efforts in cultural education.
- Is a certified trainer with the Ralph Brandt and Associates “Connecting with Others™” curriculum.
- Currently developing several new education and training models focused on sports and blind interaction.
- Is a graduate of Morehead State University, where he was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame.
- Produced "Respecting Diversity" Book; A Guide for Addressing Unique End of Life Beliefs and Cultural Perspectives for Diverse Patients and Families
- Launched "We Honor Veterans" Initiative through NHPCO for specialize End of Life Care for Military Patients
- Developed "We Ask Because We Care Cards" for diverse patients understanding of inquiries about culture and its relevance to health care
- Led Award Winning ERG's including African American, Veteran, LGBT, YP’s and Disability
- Co-produced Diversity Summits for 11k+ healthcare organization
- Facilitator with Crossroads Church Undivided Racial Reconciliation Diversity Training
Kimberly Post, M.Ed.
Email: kpost@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is an expert in talent optimization, and diversity and inclusion leadership.
- Creates solutions that address the talent lifecycle, including inclusive recruiting, onboarding, talent development, and leadership development, advancement, retention, and culture.
- Focuses on empowering executives, managers and employees to build effective working relationships, based on trust and clear, culturally appropriate communication that results in delivering outstanding business results.
Diane Jordan, M.Ed
Email: djordan@vrandolphbrown.com
- Diane has more than 20 years of executive experience in organization development, talent and leadership development, executive coaching, and change management. She is certified in Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ and Voices® 360 Feedback and Coaching; Herrmann Brain Dominance, and Emotional Intelligence 2.0.
- Designs and facilitates organizational culture surveys, learning experiences that help individuals, teams, and community groups to unlock their purpose, passion and the power to achieve results together. Diane has a master’s degree in education.
- Promotes strategies that increase employee engagement and retention.
Rod Colon
Email: rcolon@vrandolphbrown.com
- Has 30 years of experience as a corporate HR management insider, agency recruiter, professional speaker, diversity and inclusion consultant, professional networker, author and executive coach.
- Reveals his depth of his career management experience and shares the wisdom he has acquired over the years by demonstrating the power of networking as a giving and sharing activity, and aggressively challenges professionals to be relentless in building their networking skills while managing their careers as a business - the CEO of ME, Inc.
- A published author, he hosts an interactive weekly call-in radio show entitled Own Your Career.
Rico Rice, M.Ed.
Email: rrice@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is a visionary, change agent and social justice advocate with over 15 years of experience in facilitation and initiative development related to diversity and inclusion, leadership, and positive male identity.
- Has facilitated conversations regarding race, masculinity and gender justice at local, regional and national levels.
- Utilizes his expertise in assessing the “pulse of an organization” to create effective strategies that enable positive organizational change.
- Possesses a distinctive ability to relate to individuals across the spectrum from youth to C-Suite executives.
- Is a CITI Certified Human Researcher.
John Grooms
Email: jgrooms@vrandolphbrown.com
- Possesses more than 20 years of experience combining research and product development, and marketing and brand management expertise with a proven ability to innovate and drive business results.
- Is a veteran researcher adept at uncovering deep human insights via research and analytics and crafting them into meaningful, compelling stories that build relationships between brands and consumers.
- Is ccompetent technically and demonstrates strong intellectual curiosity as a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Mech. Eng. B.S.
Amy Loges
Email: aloges@vrandolphbrown.com
- Is an accomplished and results oriented business leader and master facilitator with over 30 years of experience working with individuals, teams, and executives in organizational leadership and development.
- Leverages her expertise in cultural agility, cognitive diversity and effective communication styles to help companies create competitive advantage by connecting business priorities with people strategies.
- Has partnered with executives across five continents on the development of critical leadership skills and productive cross-cultural teams and understands the leadership challenges of building high performing teams in customer focus cultures.
- Is an advocate of developing and empowering women for leadership opportunities. Her “Women’s Leadership” program was recognized as one of the top five women’s leadership programs in the country.
Garry Horton
Email: ghorton@vrandolphbrown.com
- A result driven and people-oriented professional with sound business acumen, known for building collaborative work relationships and public-private partnerships that maximize performance and organization outcomes.
- Serves as a trusted partner, talent consultant and advisor to senior level executives across various industries and sectors.
- Known for delivering results through providing senior executive level talent solutions and recruitment services with expertise across various functional areas and industries including, non-profit leadership, arts administration, higher education, athletics, construction, commercial real estate, financial services, sales, and human resources.
- Has over 10 years of collegiate division-I basketball coaching and recruiting experience (with Xavier University, Furman University and the University of Louisville) .
- Experience in successfully establishing a wide range of new client and community-base partnerships and spearheading internal talent solution strategies and DEI talent initiatives.
- Has a strong community presence, actively serves on various local non-profit boards and cross-city initiatives. He is also a very talented self-taught Hyper-realism Visual Artist.
Patricia Bready
Email: pbready@vrandolphbrown.com
- Knowledgeable, results oriented executive with more than 30 years of experience managing in corporate, not-for-profit and community settings.
- Skillful content designer and developer.
- Experienced executive coach and leadership development professional .
- Proficient lobbyist in the areas of public utility and telecommunications issues.
- Proficient in the development of economic inclusion practices/policies.
- Result oriented trainer with more than 1,000 hours of classroom instruction.
- Top-notch administrator and project manager with a proven track record.
- Excellent oral, written and culturally competent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
- Experienced facilitator of community engagement and outreach strategies.
- Strategic thinker with experience in crisis communications that creates comprehensive solutions.
Margo James Copeland
Email: mcopeland@vrandolphbrown.com
- Retired Board Chair and CEO with the KeyBank Foundation. Trustee and Vice Chair of Government Affairs and Community Engagement with the Cleveland Clinic.
- Is a dynamic keynote presenter and a nationally recognized forefront leader of philanthropy and diversity and inclusion.
- Experienced in establishing strategies and infrastructures to drive a culture of inclusion through recruiting and hiring, college relations, and employee retention & advancement.
- Dedicated board member and corporate executive with experience in corporate philanthropy, community engagement, and diversity and inclusion in the banking, higher education, and healthcare industries.
- Is a dynamic strategic thinker, influencer, and innovative problem solver with an analytical and decisive approach who strives for excellence and delivers high impact results.
- A dedicated member of Corporate Responsibility Leadership Team focused on philanthropic investments, corporate citizenship, and regulatory and compliance matters.
- Skilled in guiding strategic philanthropic investments in education, neighborhood prosperity, workforce development and community service.
Kortni Beeson
Email: kbeeson@vrandolphbrown.com
- Kortni is an associate consultant and has been at VRBC for two years. She recently graduated from Xavier University with a master's degree in industrial-organizational psychology. Her master's thesis assessed organizational attraction in the presence of organization personality and salary information.
- Has research knowledge and experience in both applied and academic settings.
- Skilled in job analysis, training and development, scale development, and data analysis.
- Enjoys working and engaging with clients to ensure long term success for clients and their organizational goals.
Poppie Parish
Email: poppieparish@gmail.com
- Poppie has more than 40 years of business expertise in designing and leading initiatives that foster diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Possesses an admirable 16-year career with KeyBank where she championed the diverse culture of KeyBank and its partners.
- Leverages the strategic and tactical direction of supplier diversity efforts, with a focus on developing and securing business relationships with minority-, women-, veteran-, and LGBT-owned businesses and individuals with disabilities.
- Under her tutelage, KeyBank’s supplier diversity business model and efforts achieved national status, reaching as far as the #4 position on DiversityInc’s list of “Top 10 Companies for Supplier Diversity.”
- Leader of an award-winning Unconscious Bias awareness course, “Realizing the Power of Inclusion: Identifying and Addressing Unconscious Bias.”
- Experienced in serving on various advisory boards and with numerous diversity and inclusion, and economic and community development organizations.
Fred Keeton
Email: fkeeton@vrandolphbrown.com
- Owner/Principal at Keeton Iconoclast Consulting since 2015, where he offers his expertise in business strategy and leadership development, DEI, government, regulatory and public affairs.
- Keeton has helped organizations create capacity to effectively challenge their own thinking, evolve their leadership to new and advanced levels, and drive broth enhanced business positioning and profitability outcomes.
- He has enjoyed a 30+ year career at Caesars Entertainment as VP of External Affairs and CDO, other positions held were VP in Finance and Risk Management, Government Affairs, New Gaming Jurisdiction Development and gaming operations Business Affairs.
- Worked as a personal lines insurance claims representative, an insurance broker, and a commercial claims manager
- As an active business leader he has served on the boards of Harvard Medical School’s Joslin Diabetes Research Center, the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada, National Minority Supplier Development Council, and currently serves on the Nevada Public Radio board among others.
Patricia Melford
Email: pmelford@vrandolphbrown.com
- Pat brings deep diversity, inclusion, and talent management expertise to clients across industries.
- She has twenty years of extensive experience in diversity and inclusion consulting, with a focus on the healthcare and financial services industries.
- Her expertise includes organizational assessments and analysis, strategy development, implementation and measurement, human capital development, coaching, business resource group development and facilitation.
- Pat manages a portfolio of clients that includes major healthcare and financial services organizations.