About us
Experienced professionals that deliver better business results through culture, strategy, sales, and people leadership.
Velocity brings extensive experience in strategic consulting, executive coaching, and developing the people side of the business.
We partner with clients to accelerate performance by helping them achieve clarity and make better decisions by empowering teams and organizations.
Meet the Partners
Dave Fechtman
Partner | CEO
Dave has the unique ability to connect with his clients on both a professional and a personal level, which has led to his becoming a de facto member of the leadership team for many of the companies he serves.
Dan Silvert
Partner | President
Dan is a behavioral expert, keynote speaker, and executive coach who has guided organizations through cultural transformations and coached hundreds of leaders to greater organizational success.
Bob Weinhold
Partner | EVP
Bob connects deeply to help businesses and individuals achieve results that they could not imagine while engaging employees to drive innovation, growth, and sustainability.
Brooke Page-Thompson
Partner | EVP
Brooke help clients think holistically about their objectives and goals. She understands the power of community and relationships.
Meet the Velocity Team
Alexis Werner
Culture & EX Advisor
Alexis is a passionate professional who supports clients through the creation and execution of employee experience programs, ensuring valuable insights and practical recommendations as outcomes.
Ariel Wescott
Executive Assistant
Ariel provides administrative support to the team at Velocity. Skilled in organizing meetings, arranging travel, and maintaining executives’ calendars with an innate ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
Amie Mansfield
VP | Data & Analytics
Amie has significantly impacted individual and organizational performance via organizational diagnostics, program design, implementation, and evaluation, across a wide range of industries.
Asley Pollas
Advisor
Asley has a strong track record in facilitating excellent leadership development training and workshops helping clients maximize clearer communication, self-awareness, goal attainment, and higher satisfaction.
Amanda Schlosser
People and Culture Analyst
Amanda utilizes her skills to support the team’s efforts in identifying efficient solutions to intricate business problems, as well as supporting survey response-based data analysis.
Cathy Pasternak-Knoedler
Enterprise Sales Account Executive
Cathy is an experienced transformation consultant and business development leader. She leverages her background to build relationships and drive growth.
Christy Guilfoyle
Senior Advisor & Consultant
Christy is an accomplished sales leader, trainer and performance coach who brings a successful, award-winning 20+ year career to the table. Christy is best known for enabling individuals, teams and companies, alike, to effectively, go further, faster in the highly competitive sales arena.
Dan Blake
Director, Internal Operations
Dan has worked for over a decade in the sports industry developing processes, systems, and business intelligence, and creating a culture that leads to scalable growth. He lead the Operations team to create internal efficiency and top-notch delivery tools for our advisors and customers.
Dmitry Rechnov
Service Delivery Manager
Dmitry is an innovative, proactive, and results-oriented individual who is passionate about helping people achieve their fullest potential.
Dymon Lewis
Senior Organizational Development Advisor
Dymon is an organizational learning expert and project manager with a passion for designing and deploying transformational solutions. She strives to enable individuals, teams, and organizations to perform at their best.
Grant Reitz
Intern, People & Culture
Grant is working on several projects during his internship. He supports Velocity by conducting market research, aiding Marketing with their initiatives, and collaborating with Operations on various projects. He is also researching innovative approaches for delivering virtual training.
Joe Witte
Director, Growth Partnership Programs
Joe has expertise in global entrepreneurship and business development; with prior service as an Army officer; he is able to facilitate vulnerable discussions that spark sustainable change, in both individuals and organizations.
Kaiser Ke
Intern, Construction
During his internship, Kaiser is conducting research on construction productivity and collecting cost escalation data. He is assisting our Construction team in building out the Construction Program by creating different organizational and accountability charts to assist in scaling construction companies.
Lauren Carlson
Solutions Advisor
Lauren has a diverse background working in leadership development, marketing, and entrepreneurship across multiple industries, supporting pragmatic research-based strategies and training programs that bring solutions to increasingly complex business problems.
Luke Berry
Graphic Designer
Luke is an intentional designer focused on bringing visual form and function to Velocity’s products.
Matt Webster
Senior Advisor
Matt is a construction management specialist who worked on state continuing service contracts for over 20 years and was involved with large capital projects in excess of $100 million. Matt brings real-world knowledge to Velocity clients from the Construction Managers’ perspective.
Michelle Goembel
Client Success Manager
Michelle has expertise in project management, team leadership, account management, sales of customized training, executive membership sales and support, and development of a sales operations team. In every role, the ultimate goal was to improve customer engagement and satisfaction.
Nicole Chiclana
Project Manager
Nicole has led project planning and development, quality control, and final review to control milestones and deliverables. She is a well-rounded and direct leader with extensive experience transforming operations: attracting, retaining, and developing top talent.
Rich Shannon
Senior Advisor
Rich is an accomplished leader with over 25 years of construction management experience in both startups and established regional contracting firms. Rich is passionate about helping clients build high-performance and winning organizations.
Ryan Payne
Senior Advisor
Ryan is skilled in many areas of insurance and large-scale operations including Leadership Development, Development and Execution of Training, Customer Service, and Strategic Planning. He also specializes in a people first environment by developing training to improve culture, core KPI’s and associate engagement.
Sarah Beth Blair
Marketing & Content Coordinator
Sarah Beth brings energy, enthusiasm, and fresh insight into advancing Velocity’s social media presence. Sarah Beth supports content creation and the company’s marketing efforts.
Todd Quarfot
VP | Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
Todd is a thought leader and practitioner in sales, marketing, and business development. He leverages his strong background in leadership and relationship building to help companies and partners challenge the status quo; to drive growth, revenue performance, and positive change.
Tom Feledick
Senior Advisor
Tom has worked with organizations in the US and globally to set the vision and execute roadmaps to strengthen market identity, operating effectiveness, and culture.
Meet the Velocity Coaches
Ana Ximenes
Executive Coach
Ana brings a mindful approach to the human experience and the business dynamic. Whether it is coaching an individual, team, or company, Ana knows that improvement in one aspect of professional development, team dynamics, or business processes will have a positive effect on the whole organization. How profound or transformative it is will depend on the clarity and confidence that arises in the execution of the actions taken to achieve the desired goal. Her approach will drive focus, clarity, confidence, and sustainability.
Barb Bergeron
Executive Coach
Barbara Bergeron has over 20 years of experience with training organizations and coaching executives to be more productive, by merging the latest research with traditional productivity and time management training. The result is a new approach to how we teach business leaders to leverage time and brainpower. Barbara’s solutions for her clients large and small, cut both costs and stress. Her client list includes numerous Fortune 500 organizations, such as Merck, QVC, ConAgra Foods, CertainTeed Building Materials, and Rohm and Haas.
Bonnie Wilson
Executive Coach
Bonnie has been in healthcare for the majority of her adult life. Consequently, her personality and coaching are often guided by skills she learned as an emergency department nurse and hospital administrator. She now uses her background to help her clients make conscious and deliberate choices by reminding them that few decisions in life are an emergency. Self-awareness and emotional intelligence are topics near and dear to her heart and where she has successfully coached leaders for over 25+ years.
Chris Campbell
Executive Coach
Chris has 30 years of experience as a leader in the Software Technology and Client Services industries. She has been a Chief Operating Officer and Chief Client Officer in private companies as well as held Senior Executive positions in publicly traded corporations.
Ed Forsberg
Executive Coach
Ed Forsberg orchestrates transformations in clients’ organizations and in their leaders’ capabilities. Ed attributes his success to his ability to think like an architect, visualizing unique solution structures and recognizing the potential in leaders and their organizations that others find hard to discern. His clients span a wide range from Industry Leaders to Middle Market companies in dozens of industries. Ed isn’t climbing the ladder anymore; he’s holding it for others.
Gladys Williams-Tillmon
Executive Coach
Gladys Williams-Tillmon has over 30 years of leadership/development experience in the Corporate sector, sales, for-profit and non-profit worlds. She has held Executive leadership positions in Human Resources and Sales for a Fortune 200 company, led various seminars, certified with the International Coach Federation, certified Trainer, certified Change Management Instructor, serves on various Boards and was once featured in an edition of Ebony Magazines, Women at the Top.
Janet Swaysland
Executive Coach
Janet works with organizations from start-up to midsize and at all stages, with experience in sectors including professional services, life sciences, technology, retail, and manufacturing. Clients appreciate her ability to help them pinpoint where to focus, her inspiring yet firm style, and smart use of data, gained from leadership roles in corporate global environments.
Ken Sher
Executive Coach
Ken is an Executive, Career, and Certified Life Coach with 28 years of experience leading and coaching individuals and leadership teams within Fortune 200 companies like Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Ken helps his clients identify strategies and tactics to more effectively lead their organization to goal attainment while helping them find a balance that leads to a more fulfilling life both professionally and personally.
Leila Ansart
Executive Coach
Leila Ansart helps executive leaders navigate perpetual change by intentionally increasing their capability to adapt, align (and realign) their people strategy with their business strategy, and solve their biggest business pains and the challenges of leading a distributed work force. Leila’s diverse background and personal experience allow her to approach the ever-changing challenges that leaders face with a unique approach that helps shift perspectives and find adaptive solutions to problem.
Molly Ryan
Executive Coach
Rebecca Haley
Executive Coach
Rebecca has 25 years of experience as a Human Resources executive in a wide variety of settings. She specializes in working with middle management to VP level to develop management and leadership skills and approaches that build relationships and increased employee engagement. Rebecca is passionate about supporting leaders in their ability to drive change and deliver results through partnerships and the creation and implementation of innovative initiatives.
Richard McCormack
Executive Coach
Richard is a transition leadership coach. His understanding of the fundamental challenge with all transitions – the Knowing-Results gap – allows him to provide ongoing value through the transition process from knowing what to do to accomplishing the desired results. Richard works closely with senior corporate officers and board members on post-transition issues including organizational effectiveness and executive productivity. Richard has applied his formula for success to numerous organizations including a Fortune 200 corporation, an international accounting firm and a national franchise.
Rick Mattson
Executive Coach
Rick Mattson co-founded a foreign start-up in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a Fortune 500 company. He has directed an Organizational Effectiveness Office and led various teams in project management, organizational change management, and compliance/quality. Rick is a certified Portfolio Management Professional, holds a masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Georgia and is completing his PhD in Learning and Leadership with a dissertation sponsored by the International Coach Federation on evidence-based coaching.
Tricia Seitz
Executive Coach
Tricia is an Executive Coach with 20 years of experience leading and coaching individuals within Fortune 100 companies. She is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to maximize their potential through one-on-one coaching, webinar and classroom training, and organizational sales consulting. She specializes in systematic, skill-based development style coaching as well as “just-in-time,” situational coaching. Tricia brings a natural curiosity and a healthy dose of optimism to every interaction. Her style is direct, high energy, and action-oriented.
Vickie Bevenour
Executive Coach
Vickie Bevenour is a Leadership Strategist. Using her natural passion for excellence, she inspires and activates business professionals to use their Inner Leader, all day, every day, to become the top 2% in their world. Her mission is to pave the path for leaders to truly embrace and leverage their personal competencies into a series of achievements that translates into personal happiness, a purposeful legacy, and a world where living at the top of one’s game is a constant state of being.
Yvette Costa
Executive Coach
With over 25 years in the biotech/pharma arena of the corporate world, Yvette is acutely aware of the shifting needs of businesses to strategically invest in programs that help employees accept and navigate change with a positive mindset. Her unique approach combines her corporate experience and additional training in a way that empowers employees to willingly take responsibility for themselves to be a productive and positive influence on all the teams they are a part of.
Strengthening leaders is our passion.
At Velocity, we get excited when our clients accelerate their success in ways that couldn’t have been achieved alone.
However, breakthrough business results are only part of the picture. The payoff extends beyond senior leadership teams and into the lives of employees and the surrounding communities. By working directly with leadership, the impact we can have ripples out a long way.
Our commitment is to be your trusted partner on the journey to organizational success that benefits all.
Dave Fechtman, CEO
Want to create a company culture roadmap, align your executive team, or put together a strategy for the future?
Let’s start a conversation that will lead to success.