Our Team
Katie Kozel is on a mission to help people create a culture of continuous improvement and sustained change.
Katie has spent the last 10 years working in various roles with Cardinal Health, a Fortune 20 company. As a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Katie is skilled in change management and facilitating cross-functional teams in enterprise wide problem solving. She has operational experience leading teams of both front line and professional employees in distribution and customer service organizations. Working as an expatriate in the Philippines, Katie is well versed in understanding and integrating cultures in a global environment.
Katie is passionate about the human experience as it relates to work and change. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from Loyola University Chicago.
By combining leadership coaching with strategy and operations consulting, Sarah Silverman helps leaders develop the skills they need to change anything—making her a trusted advisor to leaders in business, education, and government for 15 years. Through coaching and consultation, she builds practices that enable leaders to analyze and evaluate their opportunities and challenges to grow, change, and level-up as professionals—and to maximize the success of their businesses and organizations.
Sarah spent time teaching in K-12 and higher education before she became a consultant to state and local policymakers to help them translate research into policy and policy in to practice. Since then, she has advised governors, legislators, blue ribbon commissions, leaders of multinational corporations, and small business owners alike to make lasting change in their leadership.
She holds a Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership and a M.A. in educational psychology from The Ohio State University.
Alicia N. Garcia is an education consultant with over a decade of experience in education law and policy. Alicia has most recently led federally-funded technical assistance centers focused on supporting state and local education agencies in continuous improvement systems-building to improve the quality of education for all students. She is an experienced consultant in the areas of stakeholder consensus-building and agency restructuring. An effective communicator and relationship-builder, Alicia focuses on developing actionable strategies through a pragmatic, yet creative, problem-solving approach. Alicia was previously a practicing attorney in the field of education law. Alicia earned a master’s degree in cultural and educational policy studies from Loyola University Chicago and a juris doctor degree from The University of Texas School of Law and is a certified project management professional.