Denise D’Agostino, HR Executive, brings a high level of energy and practical approaches enabling leaders, teams and organizations to perform and deliver.  Through years of coaching and collaborating in complex global organizations with Senior Executives and Leadership teams, Denise has honed her keen sense of perception and uses her genuine style to build trust empowering others to gain insights that drive change. She has a knack for starting courageous conversations that motivate and inspire growth.  Her passions include: Leadership Development, Coaching, Diversity & Inclusion, Women’s Leadership, Change Management and Team Building. She balances this passion and practicality with her 25 years’ experience working as an HR Business Partner both regionally and globally in pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, chemical and staffing industries.

As a Human Resources Executive, Denise has gained real world experience managing organizational and culture changes, building leaders and teams, and assessing and acquiring talent.  As a manager, she understands the importance of taking strategies and bringing them into manageable realities for others to digest. 

Denise gained global exposure while living abroad and working abroad in a headquarters environment.  With Senior Leaders, she shaped policy and effectively deployed talented resources on a worldwide basis.  As a senior leader, Denise embraced her passion as Executive Sponsor for initiatives such as Diversity & Inclusion and Women’s Leadership implementing practical solutions - Mentoring, Peer Coaching, Career Pathing, and Personal Branding.
She holds a BS Degree from Bryant University and is certified in Myers Briggs, DiSC, Prosci Change Management, Lominger Competencies and Situational Leadership.

Deborah Tomkins, Chief Plate Spinner, handles all business and project administration for possibilities & solutions.  She is the glue that holds all the schedules and pieces of delivery to our clients together. She manages all the administration of the assessment instruments (DiSC, Time Management, Conflict, MBTI, etc.).  She trains our partner clients in how to handle the administration of their subaccounts.

Her work and life experience has prepared her to do this job superbly! She spent several years as a teacher and another twenty years managing a household and the schedules of three very busy offspring.  Debbie is proficient at managing time, adapting to ever-changing conditions, juggling financial circumstances, scheduling, managing priorities, purchasing, and keeping the peace.   Her 15 year experience as the Director of Christian Education at Union Hill Presbyterian Church gives her insight in dealing with varying personality types, and extensive experience with planning large projects, trips, fundraising, and record keeping.  She also served as Elder and Trustee of UHPC for 6 years.

Debbie is well versed in bookkeeping, QuickBooks, Quicken and tax return preparation as well. 

She holds a B.A. degree in Elementary Education and English from Moravian College.

Terry Kersey expertise is as an organization effectiveness consultant with significant global experience in organization development, training strategy, design and delivery. She also specializes in teambuilding, process improvement facilitation, and style assessments.  She has demonstrated effectiveness in diverse cultures and industries and has worked extensively throughout Europe and North America and lived in Asia for three years while facilitating teams for business development (Japan), new market entry (India), and process improvement (Korea, Thailand, Australia, and the Philippines).

Terry has helped a number of organizations to maximize human resources by more effectively aligning people to support business issues. She helps businesses adapt to new competitive challenges, improve capacity and focus on high value tasks.

Terry has played key roles in companies immersed in change for merger and acquisition integrations, start-up training functions, and teambuilding for new or struggling teams.  She has a talent for assessing the broader business perspective and then focusing on the root cause of issues and on the identification and leveraging of opportunities. She drives for increased effectiveness and improved results.

Prior to establishing Kersey Consulting, Terry held senior level positions at Morgan Stanley, AT&T Capital, Travelers Insurance, Tupperware Worldwide and JPMorgan Chase.

Terry’s 25 years of experience includes:

• Leadership development
• Teambuilding (intact teams and cross cultural teams)
• Style assessment (DiSC) and coaching for maximum effectiveness
• Training Strategy Development
• Design and delivery of targeted programs
• Process Facilitation
• Performance management

Terry is certified in a variety of 360 instruments and other leadership assessment and career management tools. Terry holds a Masters Degree in Education from Boston State College and a BS Degree in Psychology from Purdue University.

Walter W. Hoff, M.B.A.

Walt provides leadership development consulting, facilitation, and curriculum design services to companies in various industries focused on building the skills of present and future leaders of people.
He has designed coaching and leadership learning event and has also created tools and templates that reinforced classroom learning sessions. He has conducted more than 600 face-to-face and virtual classroom sessions. 

Walt has more than 29 years of corporate experience, with 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry.  He spent the last 16 years with Johnson & Johnson, working for Janssen and Ortho Biotech, where he was Director of Leadership Development.  He held positions in sales, sales management, marketing, managed care, human resources, and training and development.  Walt contributed to bottom-line sales and to the development of people throughout his career.   

His diversified background enables Walt to connect well with sales, sales management, general management, and research and development audiences. As a facilitator, he is able to relate real-world experiences, especially with healthcare audiences that allow participants to be able to immediately apply the learning concepts back on the job.

Walt is certified in leadership and individual contributor development programs from Development Dimensions, Inc (DDI), and Edward DeBono (Creativity-Six Hats Thinking).

He is on the Alumni Board of Directors of the University of New Haven, where he attended undergraduate school.  Walt earned an MBA in Marketing from Pace University in Manhattan.