Meet Your Cohesion Consulting Team
Dorothea Renner Founder and CEO
Dorothea is an innovative leader and entrepreneur with a passion for the collective human capital that makes an organization successful. She creates unique strategies, processes, and programs to enable organizations to become more change agile and increase the engagement of their workforce. She partners with her clients to create custom solutions while leveraging her diverse corporate experience that spans big four consulting, fortune 500 companies, international assignments and work across multiple industries.
Prior to founding Cohesion Consulting, Dorothea built and transformed Organizational Development and Talent Management functions at both public and private companies. She has developed progressive methodologies in Change Management, Succession Planning, Development Modeling, and Emotional Effectiveness. She earned a Master of Science from Villanova University and a Bachelor of Arts from Arcadia University.
Dorothea holds certifications and licensing in Emotional Intelligence Assessments (EQ-I), Insights Discovery, Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Coaching, Korn Ferry Leadership Architect, 360 Evaluations, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and accreditations as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Project Management Professional.
Dorothea believes that each of us has an innate leadership baseline, that can be effectively developed and unleashed when leaders become self-aware and committed, and when organizations embed creativity and rigor into their human capital strategy and process management the collective power of their workforce is amplified.
Meet Our Affiliate Coaches
David Brown Jr.
David Brown Jr. is an executive coach and senior operations leader across the financial services, professional services and facilities management industries. He has led operating teams and provided strategic consulting to product and service lines that include credit cards, mortgages, facilities maintenance, asset management and individual life insurance. David’s passion for operations, change management, and leadership development has made him adept at turnarounds and transformational change initiatives.
Amidst success in his career, David experienced a personal tragedy that became the catalyst for a professional transition and sparked a search for deeper meaning on how he could contribute to the development of leaders and organizations. At that time, David took time away from his corporate leadership role to train as a coach and write his first book Letters for Lucia: 8 Principles for Navigating Adversity.
David holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Delaware, and an Executive MBA at the Villanova School of Business where he later served as an adjunct professor. David is an Executive Doctorate in Business Administration candidate at Temple University’s Fox School of Business.
David offers a unique perspective on leadership development by combining coaching methodologies with his business acumen and experience as a senior operations leader. He believes that leaders can be catalyst for organizational transformations by increasing their own level of authenticity. This is the foundation of David’s doctoral research on authentic leadership.
Barbara Dalle Pezze, Ph.D.
Barbara Dalle Pezze, Ph.D. is an internationally respected coach, life strategist, author and leadership development expert with over 18 years of global experience living and working in Hong Kong, China, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Italy, Canada and the USA. John Mattone, global authority in executive coaching, and former coach of Steve Jobs, said: “It is rare in the world of executive coaching to have a coach who combines incredible intellect, heart, passion and instinct. Barbara Dalle Pezze is a rare talent.”
Barbara is a member of the Leadership Development Faculty for the Asia Pacific Region at a top global financial institution, and visiting professor at SFU, Beedie School of Business, where she teaches Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the MBA program. She is the author of two books and she has just completed her new book: “The Unexpected Gift. Emerging Anew After The Unthinkable And Embracing Our Intrinsic Excellence” (Forthcoming 2020).
Barbara holds a Ph.D. in Ontology from The University of Hong Kong, a Masters in Counseling from Monash University (Australia), and a Post graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management and Organization from LUISS Business School, (Italy).
Barbara specialties included developing conscious leadership, managing difficult conversations, and transforming cross-cultural conflicts into opportunities for collaborations. Barbara believes there are rarely solutions to problems which do not begin in the hearts and minds of people, hence she focuses her coaching work on the inner work of leadership.
Meet Our Senior Consultant
Laurel Paige Kramer
Laurel is a creative and data driven professional with a talent for solving complex employee and customer engagement challenges. She leverages her strategic thinking capabilities and Six Sigma experience to help clients improve their processes and guide teams to deliver exceptional results.
Prior to her consulting work at Cohesion, Laurel spent 10 years transforming guest experiences in the hospitality sector. She held corporate and field operational management roles, and led projects that resulted in operational efficiencies, financial improvements and increased employee service delivery at the Ritz Carlton, Marriott International, and boutique luxury brands. Her work has contributed to achieving the coveted Forbes Five Star Status and highest levels of ranked service in the industry. Additionally, Laurel has led the design and delivery of multiple quality and leadership training initiatives.
Laurel holds a dual Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University in Business Administration and Hospitality Administration. Additionally, Laurel is a Six Sigma Green Belt and holds certifications in Lean, Design Thinking, Enneagram, and Adult-Learning.