The Leadership Trust® Facilitators / Consultants

Dr. Ryan serves The Leadership Trust® as senior adjunct faculty, executive coach and organizational consultant. With leadership as his core passion and underlying theme, he focuses on both personal and organizational transformation, through in-depth coaching, organizational analyses and change initiatives, leadership workshops and university teaching.

Dr. Ryan has worked with such organizations as Accenture (Andersen Consulting), American Museum of Natural History, Bank of America, Banc of America Securities, Central Park Conservancy, Deutsche Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, Federal Reserve Bank NY, General Electric, Getty Oil, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, McGraw Hill, Merrill Lynch, Mastercard International, Morgan Stanley, The New York Times, PepsiCo, Standard & Poor's, Swiss Bank, The U.S. State Department, and Young & Rubicam.

Dr. Ryan led the creation and implementation of 360 performance evaluation programs at Banc of America Securities, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. He created and helped deliver hiring processes at Accenture, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. At Merrill Lynch Ted was also the primary trainer for over 20 years, of Merrill's managers on how to recruit and select financial consultants. Dr. Ryan helped lead the integration of the corporate and investment banking platforms at Deutsche Bank and Banc of America Securities. At JP Morgan Chase, he helped develop a "best in class" employee communication capability and helped to "operationalize" Chase's vision into its management practices.

Dr. Ryan earned a Ph.D. in Counseling/Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, did graduate work in the humanities at Princeton University and has a master's degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a Managing Partner of Tarxien Partners, LLC, a holistic leadership enrichment practice. Dr. Ryan has taught on the secondary, university and graduate levels. Currently, he is teaching a course on "The Ethics of Leadership" at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia.

Dr. Amat serves The Leadership Trust® in the performance of strategic culture studies and leadership impact studies. Specializing in qualitative research methods and in-depth interviews, Dr. Amat's core competencies center around narrative research, analysis, and interpretation. Dr. Amat earned a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from American University, Washington, D.C. and a MA in English from Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

Dr. Amat is the former principal of a 10-year-old information technology company. She combines interdisciplinary academic training as a linguist, writer, and social scientist with nearly 20 years of professional experience in the areas of corporate communications and information technology for large, not-for-profit, and start-up companies.

Dr. Amat is founder and president of AMATEA, LLC, The Change Brokers™, an interdisciplinary consulting firm guided by its mission to apply technology for social change. The firm integrates the latest social science theories and methods with state-of-the-art technologies to reach optimal solutions for all stakeholders.

Marlene is an executive coach for high-potential executives and managers who want to improve their leadership skills and achieve significant results both personally and professionally. She is also a certified trainer for the national Registered Corporate Coach Training Program (RCC) recognized by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC).

Marlene creates a safe environment and easily engages others in looking at issues and behavior patterns that are getting in the way of success. She uses assessments as tools to uncover a client's strengths and challenges. She believes that in order to have a positive impact on others, people must first come to know who they are and how they behave in different situations through others' eyes. Her thought provoking questions and brainstorming sessions help to support and build on the client's own innate wisdom. This discovery process helps the client get clear on what's important and focus on the task of doing what matters most.

Marlene founded and operated a successful 15-year newsletter marketing company in Atlanta, which has gifted her with the ability to understand workplace challenges from both sides of the table. Her other careers included executive sales, marketing, new product development and graphic design.

Marlene has a BS from the State University College at Buffalo New York. She obtained her professional coach training from The Coaches Training Institute, a school accredited by the International Coach Federation. She has studied abroad through the New York State University system in Siena, Italy. Marlene is founder and managing partner of Andiamo Coaching and Training, LLC.

If Marlene wasn't working as an executive coach and trainer, she'd be eating and drinking her way through Italy, making friends and coaching people along the way.