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Angie is passionate about coaching leaders and guiding teams to thrive. Driven by curiosity rooted in human connection, Angie leads teams and executives to redefine opportunities that bring out the best in others and increase the organization system's overall health and performance.

As an organizational development consultant and executive coach, Angie draws on her deep expertise in navigating complex systems to identify useful behavior patterns, anticipate impact, and determine necessary changes to optimize the way the team operates. By recognizing sustainable and meaningful changes, Angie helps build healthy teams that move forward with an approach to support the strategy, align behavior, and generate cross-system collaboration.

For the past 20 years, Angie has shared her organization and talent development expertise with various industry sectors nationally and globally, including healthcare, manufacturing, insurance/financial services, and pharmaceutical. She designed and led large-scale change with sales, quality, human resources, data science, and analytics divisions. Her approach leverages human-centered design methods and a deep understanding of system/group dynamics to heighten the awareness of individuals to their role as a leader, impact to the organization, and each other.

Angie has a Ph.D. in Organization Development and resides north of Denver, Colorado, with her husband and two children. She enjoys indoor rowing, pilates, and camping. She serves on the board of directors for a non-profit organization that supports stroke survivors by mentoring survivors on the path to recovery.

Natalie Link is a seasoned Chief Human Resources Officer with over 10 years of experience in the field. A licensed attorney, she brings a unique blend of legal expertise and HR acumen to her consulting services, specializing in strategic planning, talent management, and navigating complex employee relations situations. Natalie excels in reviewing and implementing policies, procedures, and processes, ensuring organizations operate smoothly and effectively.

Her approach is both data-driven and people-focused, fostering environments where talent thrives and organizational goals are met. Outside of her professional endeavors, Natalie enjoys camping and fly fishing with her husband and three children, reflecting her commitment to balance and teamwork both at home and in the workplace. Partner with Natalie to elevate your HR strategies and drive your organization toward success.

Neelima Paranjpey is the Managing Consultant and Head of Pharma Sector at Vaya Group. She has more than twelve years of experience partnering with clients to create leadership development solutions. Her expertise is in leading and developing high-potential programs, assessing leaders in critical roles, and designing leadership competencies for a wide variety of industries. She is a Neuroleadership “Results Trained” coach. Her clients appreciate her strong partnership and ability to simplify development by providing them tangible ideas that they can implement right away. She has led people through role transitions and successfully helped them achieve higher roles and responsibilities. She has partnered with Takeda, AstraZeneca, Astellas, Dexcom, Gilead Sciences, Citigroup, Carlyle Group on various talent management and leadership development initiatives. Neelima leads a team of consultants to develop effective talent management programs for clients.

Prior to Vaya, Neelima worked with the Chicago Transit Authority in a Human Resources function. In that role, she designed and implemented a research-based Appreciative Inquiry intervention to identify generative and innovative ways of engaging employees within the organization. Her work regarding generativity was published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner and SAGE Research Methods Case Study.

She continues to pursue her academic interests, such as writing research papers, and is a reviewer for journals such as OD Journal and Frontiers. She serves as an advisor on the Organizational Leadership Committee of Lewis University. She has her Ph.D. in Organizational Development from Benedictine University and Masters in I/O Psychology from Illinois Institute of Technology.

In her free time, Neelima enjoys traveling and exploring various cuisines and cultures with her son and husband.

Sarah brings humor, pragmatism, candor, and creativity to each of her projects. Her passion lies in helping to elevate individuals and teams through creative solutions. She brings a unique blend of experience across Human Resources functions creating people strategies to amplify the business strategy.

With a background in pharma, manufacturing, and tech she is a trained executive coach serving a range of teams and individuals supporting projects involving large scale organizational change, team development, talent strategy, and cultural evolution.

Sarah has an M.B.A. in Management, an SPHR certification (Senior Professional in Human Resources) and lives in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two children. She enjoys spending time outside, yoga, pilates, downhill skiing, and playing outside with the kids.

Jennifer serves as CEO of Triple W Forum, a personal and leadership development organization. As a certified coach and consultant, she leads retreats, workshops, keynote sessions, and provides team and one-to-one leadership development coaching both in the US and internationally. Jennifer works with global team development across regulatory, international business, sales, product development, strategy, communications, business operations. She supports DEIB initiatives for executive leaders and teams across health systems and government agencies.

Jennifer’s work in connecting individuals with their strengths and helping them become more effective paved the way for innovative training and development programs, executive and leadership coaching, and a work life integration retreat hosted annually in North Carolina which was featured in the Leadership issue of Yoga Journal. Additionally, Jennifer is a Founding Partner at The Soul of Leading Institute, an organization dedicated to developing people, organizations and communities in their efforts to connect with and lead from a soul level.

Jennifer is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and member of the International Coach Federation and a Newfield Certified Coach (NCC) with training from the international coaching and consulting organization, Newfield Network. Jennifer also received training from The Enneagram Institute and is a certified Birkman Method Consultant. She is a certified coach in the Tiara Model of True Leadership with Tiara International. Jennifer is also a certified Samapatti Yoga and mindfulness instructor and member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Previously, Jennifer served as executive director of the American Marketing Association, Chicago Chapter and director of engagement for WOMMA. She is the recipient of the Miami University Women’s Leadership and Male Ally Award for her dedication to the empowerment and advancement of women.

Jennifer is passionate about working with people at all ages and stages of life and being of service. She volunteers on the board of Mental Health America of NWI and is a member of the Newfield Network Alumni Committee. For more on Jennifer, visit www.jenniferhgconnelly.com.

“When we know ourselves and understand and appreciate others, we flourish. With self-awareness, you can know your strengths, see your value, and learn how to reach comfort and fulfillment in being exactly who you truly are.”
- Dr. Roger Birkman