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Our TeamWith Rose Group Int’l™️, you get what you see. We don’t pretend everything is okay when it isn’t. We don’t tell you things are a disaster if they aren’t. We address conflict productively. We unite your team, so they have each others’ backs. We move your people toward your goals. We get things done.
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Our Team
Dr. Rachel MK Headley
CEO
She is a powerful advocate of community: in her own team, among her neighbors, and her network of clients, colleagues, and friends.
She is a TEDx speaker and serves on the Council of Trustees at South Dakota State University. Rachel is a Mensa PhD scientist, a certified Project Management Professional, a global citizen, a choral singer, and an art patroness. Her great-grandfather homesteaded in Brookings County, South Dakota, and Rachel spent her formative years on a small family farm. She finds beauty in the prairie, its big skies, and its people.
Meg Kokesh McNeese
COO
Meg has a passion for helping others realize their full potential – breaking down social and personal barriers – changing their story. Her innate ability to recognize opportunity in weakness and present a strategic solution is unprecedented in today’s business world.
Meg is a ranch kid from western South Dakota, where she still puts in a hard day’s work on the family place. Ranch life gave her sticktoittiveness, passion for family and outdoors, and maybe a touch of stubbornness. Meg is an avid runner, an advocate of the well-rounded education of youth, and a major supporter of finding humor in all things.
Born and raised in western Nebraska, life after college took her to California for many years. Though she never expected nor wanted to leave the ocean, she returned to the captivating rural life in Spearfish, South Dakota to raise her girls in a community that values family. You will find she always has freshly brewed coffee and espresso in her hand. She is an avid plant lover, home chef and delights in baking everything from cinnamon rolls to delicate chocolate soufflé.
Kathy Luze
Project Manager
Sam Kenton
Sales/Marketing Specialist
Sam Kenton attended Augustana college, earning three undergraduate degrees. While acting as a detachment commander for a combat engineer company in the National Guard, Sam earned his Masters in Business Administration from Vucurevich. Prior to joining Rose Group, Sam was President of Business operations for Veritas Drilling Solutions. Sam has also been heavily involved in green energy business as Marketing director for a wind energy company.
Kelsey Ruzicka
About Kelsey
Wearing lots of hats and putting off projects is common for business owners and organizations. Moxie Marketing of the Midwest, LLC helps you strategically develop tools and branding to get your projects off the shelf and thriving.
These tools can consist of web design/hosting, graphic design, publication layout, digital design/strategy, PR, and consulting.
Laura Howard
About Laura
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Our Contributors
Susan Gielsel
About Susan
Susan is a lifelong learner and has a BA in Business Management and a Masters of Science in Administrative Studies. She continued her education by earning a certificate in organizational development and successfully completed two mediation trainings by accredited institutions.
Being passionate about business and her community, Susan volunteers on committees for 1 Million Cups Rapid City and the Performance Excellent Network in the Black Hills. In her spare time, you may find her in the gym practicing yoga or doing Pilates, cooking dinner with her husband, or taking a hike with her black Labrador, Koda.
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Steve Thomas
About Steve
40 years mining & construction experience/14 years as a Safety Manager
Experienced in Safety processes & programs/ Behavior-Based Safety/ Crisis Management
Dave Austin
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Sandy Hansen-Wolff
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Deb Schuelke
About Deb
Deb Schuelke is a Communication professional with more than 16 years of experience in training and education. She currently serves as the Program Director and lead faculty member for the Communication program at a small, private college in South Dakota, which boasts the most diverse student population in the state. With students from all over the US and around the world, she places a high emphasis on relationship-building to increase interpersonal understanding and to promote strong communication skills.
Deb has a broad base of expertise, with particular emphasis in interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, organizational communication and leadership, communication theory, and media studies. In addition to her teaching assignments, she has established an intercultural exchange program with a partner college in France and is part of a team developing a new study abroad experience in Ghana. She also provides ongoing training experiences for college faculty in the areas of teaching pedagogy, student motivation and engagement, and advising/mentor relationships.
Because communication is all around us, it’s common to underestimate the power of effective communication, but don’t be fooled! In reality, communication is something that can be studied, analyzed, and improved upon. It’s a complex social science, but Deb is an expert at helping clients conceptualize the relevant theories and apply them to particular problems or workplace culture.
Outside of work, Deb enjoys managing the chaos of her family of three children, Madeline, Claire, and Jack, and her husband Austin, who operates a grain farm.
Bob Greenfield
About Bob
Bob Greenfield is the principal of Greenfield Management Strategies and is based in Los Angeles. Bob’s consulting and coaching practices are tailored for organizations and individual leaders who want to take their game to the next level. During the past 30 years, Bob has worked with hundreds of organizations including fortune 500 and start-up companies; large multi-national, mid-sized, and small non-profits, and a variety of federal and state public sector agencies. He continues to enjoy a diverse clientele and practice.
Today, Bob works primarily with executive teams, boards, and individual leaders. He brings his extensive organizational consulting experience to his work as an Executive Coach and Advisor and works with Coaching clients both within and outside of the work setting. Bob is a valuable guide and partner offering clients an insightful sounding board that is both challenging and supportive.
In addition to degrees in Psychology and Public Management & Organizational Behavior and various professional certifications, Bob holds a Black Belt in Hap Ki Do and incorporates martial arts principles into his client work. Bob resides with his family in Los Angeles, is an avid reader, and enjoys playing basketball and practicing yoga.
Peggy O'Sullivan
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Bill Sanders
About Bill
Finding the right balance between chaos of innovation to drive people forward and the order of process to keep everyone on track and productive isn’t complicated, but it is difficult. No “one-size-fits-all” solution will bring the ideal into reality and strike the correct balance between chaos and order because there are no two organizations that are exactly alike.
But there are principles, which make Bill’s job so enjoyable. He will bring together those principles with the organization’s people, strategy, business model and technology to craft innovative processes and solutions that bridge the natural gap between strategy and execution while increasing the organization’s production capability.
Bill has been in over 200 organizations across four continents, from startups to Fortune 100 companies, and in such diverse industries as Civil Engineering, Not-for-Profits, Ecommerce, Software Development, Advertising Agencies, Retail Marketing, Construction, and Event Management.
Bill is a past President of the San Francisco American Marketing Association, have published in the American Management Association’s quarterly journal, and am also a co-author of “From Hierarchy to High Performance” (published August 2018).
He works with Roebling Strauss Inc., out of Clayton, California.
Lizabeth Wesely-Casella
About Lizabeth
Lizabeth Wesely-Casella is the Founder and CEO of L-12 Services LLC, a firm specializing in internal communications training, online business management, and executive virtual assistance.
She is a skilled strategic advisor who specializes in increased efficiency and effectiveness, enabling businesses to overcome challenges related to workflow management, process improvement, and culture.
Lizabeth has over 20 years of experience as an administrator and policy and programming consultant. Her work has contributed to successful project outcomes in federal health policy, international program development, and non-profit grassroots management. In 2014 Lizabeth organized, and lead process and communication change for First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature program Let’s Move!.
Using LEAN process improvement and her collaborative nature, Lizabeth calls on her vast range of experience to pass along insights in areas such as change management, workflow assessment and mapping, employee retention, and policy development.
Lizabeth helps clients increase productivity, improve delivery times, reduce employee attrition, and elevate customer service scores.
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