Tom Finn Associates
TFA’s Associates
TFA’s associates are long-time colleagues who have deep expertise and master-level comfort with groups and individuals. They have proven success with customers all over the world.
TFA’s associates are long-time colleagues who have deep expertise and master-level comfort with groups and individuals. They have proven success with customers all over the world.
Helen specializes in helping leaders and their teams influence change, develop their teams and organizations and communicate more effectively with their business partners. As a thought partner, trusted advisor and pragmatist, Helen draws from her research and the lessons learned of clients around the world.
Helen’s executive coaching, team-building, speaking, writing, and executive coaching focus on listening to the real-world challenges her clients face and offering tools they can use immediately to build cohesion, think, plan, and act strategically to deliver results. Helen shares best practices and illustrates them with real-life solutions leaders at all levels can relate to. Leaders and teams who work with Helen better understand the dynamics of teams operating in a complex global organization and find the shared vocabulary they need to talk about these complexities with their stakeholders and each other.
Helen is in the middle of writing and drawing a series of graphic novels for children about Natalie and a naughty pony.
Virginia loves helping leaders and teams work better together. She especially thrives when partnering with mission-driven organizations.
Over the past 25 years, Virginia has coached hundreds of executives and teams. She translates leadership theory into practical skills her clients use daily. An unbiased partner, Virginia is direct and supportive. She empowers leaders and teams to speak openly and constructively so they resolve the tough challenges that impact performance.
Virginia’s clients have spanned the public, private and non-profit sectors. Clients include the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Inova Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, BrainGu, Department of Health and Human Services, US Intelligence Agencies, Electronic Arts, and the Food and Drug Administration.
Virginia has a BA in psychology from the University of Chicago and an organizational development certification from Georgetown University. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and has certifications from New Ventures West and Strozzi Institute. Virginia is also a George Mason University Coaching Fellow teaching in the Leadership Coaching for Organizational Well-Being program. Earlier in her career, she worked in the corporate world for Accenture, AMS (now CGI), and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Outside work, Virginia enjoys good food, books, and travel with her family. She would love to fill her passport before it expires.
Maxine Fuller is an experienced consultant, facilitator, trainer, educator, and coach. Ms. Fuller has extensive experience designing, developing, facilitating, and conducting training programs for leaders and employees of federal and state government agencies, Fortune 500 corporations, and nonprofit organizations in the United States, Eastern Europe, Africa, and South America.
Current clients include the Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Department of Health and Human Services, American Management Association, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Georgia State University.
Ms. Fuller’s expertise includes nonprofit management and leadership development, online and onsite training design and delivery, diversity management, cultural competence, strategic planning, individual and team coaching, community partnership, coalition building, and substance use disorder prevention and treatment. She is a certified Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator administrator and holds certifications in online training from the American Management Association and Georgia State University.
As an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management at the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, Ms. Fuller teaches classes in Strategic Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Leadership and Management, and Introduction to Nonprofits. Before joining the faculty at Georgia State University, she co-designed and taught a graduate class in partnership and coalition building in Institute for Policy Studies at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ms. Fuller is a graduate of The American University in Washington, D.C., with an M.S. in Personnel and Human Resource Management. She also has certificates in online instructional design and training.
Ms. Fuller lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sara’s passion is helping leaders drive change in their organizations in ways that build resilience and sustainability.
Certified in leadership coaching through Georgetown University, Sara has coached hundreds of executives, mid-level managers and teams. She particularly loves supporting senior execs and their leadership teams. Sara combines challenge with support in her coaching approach. She is honest and practical, seeking to create a light, non-judgmental space wherein clients experience deep trust and can feel comfortable opening up about critical topics.
Sara has coached and consulted with federal, commercial and non-profit clients including the Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Alion, VeriSign, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Partnership for Public Service and Astra Zeneca.
Originally from Ireland, Sara has a BA in Business Studies and French from the University of Ulster at Coleraine, and a Master’s Degree in International Law from Queen’s University Belfast. She is certified in organizational development through Georgetown University. Her work experience includes running a financial call center; doing systems implementation, culture and change management, and performance consulting work; and managing a business unit for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton and Suntiva LLC.
Outside work, Sara loves to travel, spend time with her daughter and family, read, speed down water slides and make stained glass.
Dr. Anne Litwin has been an organization development consultant, coach, and trainer for more than 30 years in a wide variety of organizations throughout the world. Anne was the CEO of her family business and was past chair of the Board of Directors of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science. She specializes in leadership and team development and has been a certified Merging Cultures and Organization Workshop trainer since 1987.
Dr. Litwin provides team building, executive coaching and training to help executives, managers, and other professionals enhance leadership capacity by strengthening their interpersonal, cross-cultural and strategic skills. She works with clients to improve their ability to communicate their ideas, to listen, to give and receive feedback, to manage conflict, and to deal effectively with system power dynamics. Dr. Litwin also works with organizations to design and deliver training that will increase cultural competence, awareness of unconscious bias and the organization’s capacity to leverage diversity.
Dr. Litwin has a Bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters in Community Psychology from Marist College, and a Masters and PhD in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. She is co-editor of the book, Managing in the Age of Change, along with numerous articles on international consulting, gender differences and women’s leadership. Anne has written a book on women’s relationships in the workplace, entitled, New Rules for Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together (2014) based on her research.
Over a 40-year career focused on helping people learn and change, Peter has done his best to pay attention to his own experience as a leader and to figure out what works—and why. When he worked as the executive director of an international professional association, served customers as an internal consultant-leader in nationally-known business settings, or managed his own consulting practice, he watched carefully how powerful, effective leaders think, and then what they do to design and shape the future of their organizations. Specifically, the future that’s necessary . . . because they’re already living in it.
So now he’s able to apply his decades of experience to give the leaders and organizations he works with carefully-targeted, just-in-time support. How, for instance, do they develop the self-awareness and self-understanding that’s required now to welcome, value, and integrate workers with widely-different backgrounds and expectations? Or, depending on a specific, personal need, how can they sharpen their own strategic thinking, business planning, culture development, team collaboration, or influence skills? And then, of course, based on broader organizational needs, how can he help leaders to design and facilitate the best approach to guide their organizations through whatever they’re facing, whether entrepreneurial start-up, large-system change, cultural integration following mergers and acquisitions, or organizational renewal?
Also, since he’s both curious and (reasonably) courageous, Peter has worked with leaders in corporate, government, and not-for-profit settings; from two-person partnerships to Fortune 100 companies; and in manufacturing, health care, education, retail, hospitality, legal, financial services, entertainment, and professional services sectors. His teaching experience also includes faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University.