Darsweil Rogers, Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Darsweil specializes in organizational Executive Coaching, Consulting & Group Management Training.  His clients are executives and business owners, and institutions.  He has 30+ years of experience and business skills that he acquired while working on Wall Street with JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he learned how to manage businesses and motivate employees to become their best and develop an effective, efficient, productive business team.

In 2013, Darsweil was appointed by the Fayetteville City Council to serve a 4-year term as a Commissioner on the Fayetteville Public Works Commission. He currently serves as Chair of the $1.1 Billion in asset provider of electric, water and wastewater services to over 120,000 customers.  Darsweil also serves on the board and as treasurer of the Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce and on the board of the Fayetteville Downtown Alliance. Darsweil hosts a weekly radio program, “Growing Your Business Today,” heard on 1600 AM WIDU in Fayetteville NC and on the web at www.widuradio.com every Friday morning from 9 -10 a.m.

Darsweil has general management & marketing, strategic planning, corporate banking, organizational development and risk-management experience.  He has worked and been involved in industries, such as hospitality, contract manufacturing, information management and processing, wholesale distribution, funeral services, and financial services. He has advised hundreds of businesses on organizational development, leadership, effective management, financings, risk and insurance in diverse industries across the United States and arranged over $1 Billion in financing.

Dorothea L. Williams

Dorothea Williams spent more than 24 years in public education.  She taught both general, alternative and special education in elementary, middle, and high school in California and Texas.  However, she spent most of her career in secondary education.  Dorothea started her work in education as a classroom assistant and later became a teacher. She was a teacher, vice-principal, and district office Coordinator.  She served on and chaired many district committees and facilitated a variety of workshops.  She has a deep understanding of curriculum and instruction, equity, diversity, and social emotional learning.

She has been working in the educational consulting space for the last 20 years.  She has worked for several educational consulting companies and served as the Director of Urban Accounts.  Dorothea has been providing research based educational consulting services for to schools and districts at all levels of the organization.  She believes schools and districts become successful through the collective efforts of, teachers, students, staff, administrators and parents who are the key to academic success for all students.  Dorothea strongly believes, when you support districts and schools in their efforts to support the teaching and learning process by improving teacher quality and student engagement, “student growth is maximized for every student”.

Dorothea has a Master’s of Arts degree from Azusa Pacific University in Educational Leadership, Master’s of Arts degree from the University of San Francisco, and an undergraduate degree from California State University, Los Angeles in Liberal Studies.

Darrell Kleinke,  Ph.D.

Darrell has worked as both an instructor and as a practicing engineer. As an instructor, he has taught all levels of mechanical engineering courses, ranging from freshmen courses such as Introduction to Engineering, up to graduate courses in Engineering Architecture. His specialization is in machine design. As a practicing engineer he has over 25 years of automotive engineering experience and holds three United States Patents. As a promoter of the engineering profession, he has worked with the Engineering Society of Detroit to deliver licensing review seminars over the past 15 years. His research interests include collaborative projects with health care professionals to develop assistive technologies for the disabled community. He is also investigating techniques to foster innovative design methods and to encourage innovation in corporate settings.

Lyle V. Harris 

 Lyle V. Harris’ career has spanned various roles including a reporter, media critic, and editorial writer for newspapers including the Washington Post, the Bergen Record, The New York Daily News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and also as a video blogger for the local Fox television news affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia. Lyle also served for seven years respectively as the Chief Media Spokesman for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and later as the agency’s Director of Customer Engagement. While at MARTA, he was responsible for launching MARTA’s public arts program and MARTA HOPE, which connected thousands of unhoused people seeking refuge on the transit system to safe shelter and other services. Lyle is also co-founder of PongATL, a business devoted to spreading his unrequited love for table tennis.

Karun Kur

Karun is an executive coach with a distinguished career spanning over 39 years in software engineering. For the past 20 years, she has dedicated her expertise to Agile transformations, earning recognition for her ability to drive meaningful change and deliver value in both government-related projects and the telecommunications sector. Karun’s commitment to continuous learning and her vast experience enables her to provide rich insights and effective coaching to individuals and organizations alike.

Karun is proficient in Agile frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban, and has extensive experience in project management, software development, and team leadership. She is skilled in fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, adept at bridging the gap between technical execution and strategic vision.

Glenn Marshall

Brenda F. Hunt

Brenda is an experienced HR catalyst who partners with senior leadership to influence and support operational effectiveness through employee & management engagement. She has a unique portfolio of experience and expertise and an innate ability to help leaders crystallize bold visions, accurately assessing current state and building tailored, data-informed strategies that translate vision into successful, sustainable outcomes that align employees with operational outcomes.  A few of her engagements include leading HR redesign and transformational changes, policy development and compliance design proactive, employee/labor relation planning, talent management and staffing effectiveness leadership with crisis and business management, employee relations/labor relation planning, successful deployment and separation planning.

With over 25 years of solid Human Resources experiences, Brenda has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management from Spring Arbor College and a Masters’ degree in Counseling Education from Wayne State University. She is a Certified Behavioral Based interviewer and a certified trainer with Myers’ Briggs.