iBossWell Consultants & Support Team
Our team of consultants bring a variety of perspectives and business experiences to the iBossWell team. From executive management to board leadership in both large for-profit companies and smaller or nonprofit businesses, our consulting team brings fresh perspective to your situation.
Denise McNerney
CEO & President
Denise is a Business Consultant specializing in strategic and business planning, organizational change, leadership and team development, and executive coaching. Denise has more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, strategic planning, healthcare service delivery, business operations, team dynamics, and customer relations. As Executive Director of Managed Care and Corporate Accounts at AstraZeneca, Inc., Denise directed business operations of national and regional accounts; book value of $4+ billion and a team of more than 200 associates and 17 corporate directors. She has hired and developed hundreds of managers during her corporate career.
Denise has special expertise in strategic planning. Her scope and depth of experience offers the extraordinary capability of developing highly efficient, focused plans, as well as the ability to position the organization to effectively implement the plan through processes, systems. Additionally, her skills also guide the advancing of the organizational culture needed for exemplary performance.
With extensive experience developing high performing teams, Denise has successfully facilitated strategic, business and reorganization planning, taking organizations from needs assessment and situational analysis all the way to strategy development, redesign and implementation. She has co-authored the book, "The PeoplePACT™ - Achieving Exemplary Performance through Humane Leadership". It is a culmination of her extensive experience in leadership development and excellence in performance. Denise holds a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy, a Master's degree in Counseling, and additional work towards a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology.
Greg Tiedeman
Vice President Programs
Greg has over 30 years experience in leadership, teaching and coaching. He has worked with executive, mid-level and front line managers and employees to build communication and change management skills. As a consultant, Greg has worked with a number of organizations in the areas of change management, leadership and organizational development, executive coaching, team building, conflict resolution and program facilitation. His clients have included Kaiser Permanente, Healthways, Inc., FDA Office of Clinical Pharmacology, and Wolf Creek Partners.
Greg's corporate experience includes 23 years at Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii. He served as Asst. Director Pharmacy Services and was responsible for leadership of Kaiser's Outpatient Pharmacy Services throughout the state. Additionally, he had extensive involvement in the Human Resources Department's inter-departmental programs involving supervisory skills building, customer service, re-engineering and continuous quality improvement.
Greg has a B.S. in Pharmacy and extensive continuing education in communication, organizational development and leadership skills. He also teaches seminars on individual and corporate culture change management. He is certified in The Leadership Circle Profile, multi-rater leadership assessment, and has coached hundreds of leaders in advancing their leadership skills.
Lynne Brown
Vice President Strategic Consulting
Lynne Brown brings more than 20 years of experience to iBossWell. Lynne began her career working on the staff of non-profit health care organizations where she gained front line experience in fund-raising, lobbying, member and community relations, as well as the art and science of working with board committees and volunteers. Those experiences proved valuable when Lynne moved to the for-profit world working in public relations and advertising at several agencies in Denver, including her own company, Spectrum Public Relations. Lynne's greatest insights come from her extensive experience as a volunteer organizer of non-profit events and activities and as a leader of non-profit boards. She is currently chairman of the American Stroke Foundation board of directors and also chair of the Johnson County Library Foundation board.
These experiences combine to give Lynne a deep understanding of the unique nature of the non-profit world: negotiating the sometimes delicate balance between board, committee and staff, the ever-present fund-raising challenges, the art of inspiring volunteers to devote time, energy and passion to an organization. Because she has worn many hats-staffer, volunteer, board member-she brings a unique perspective to every client and organization she works with. Lynne has successfully supported hundreds of iBossWell clients in strategic plan development and implementation.
Terri Harmon
Vice President Operations and Technical Translation
Terri Harmon offers clients a diverse set of skills and experiences that has been developed during her more than 20 year career in all aspects of business management and operations. Her career began in management roles with Best Buy that took her to stores throughout the Midwest. Terri also served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City for more than a decade, taking the organization from a newly established 501c3 to a fully functional arts advocacy agency supporting the Kansas City metropolitan area. The variety of duties embraced by Terri during her tenure at the Arts Council included strategic planning, fundraising, board development, technology implementation, grant making and succession planning. Terri is passionate about creating effective strategies and organizational growth through operational efficiency and effective change management practices. Her experience in both small and large organizational structures and as both a staff member and a board volunteer allows her to make a positive contribution to each client she advises.
Valda Gonzalez
Partner Consultant
Val Gonzalez grew up in Tampa, Florida in a multicultural neighborhood and a bicultural, bilingual home. Since then she has lived and worked in diverse places around the US including Utah, Louisiana, and Northern Michigan. Moving to Northwest Arkansas in 1983, Val now calls Fayetteville home. Val holds a master ’s degree in Communication from the University of Arkansas where she focused on intercultural communication, mediation and conflict resolution, and the rhetorical aspects of oppression. She attended her first diversity workshop in 1999, began co-facilitating the following year, and hasn’t looked back.
Val’s partnership with iBossWell, Inc. began through a partnership program: Inclusive Boards for a Diverse Community. This program included recruiting, training and placing minorities on nonprofit Boards in the Northwest Arkansas region, as well as training the leadership of the participant organizations. Val now facilitates workshops on many leadership topics, and has facilitated programs for global corporations, institutions of higher learning, faith groups, and governmental agencies among others. She develops and delivers meaningful workshops that are interactive, experiential, and fun. Val’s passion for learning and for serving others is reflected in her work and participants consistently give her sessions very high marks.
Advisory Group
In addition to our core group listed above, our team also includes a diverse advisory group. Click here to read more about this excellent group of advisors and the talents they bring to our team.
