Merrilee Buchanan
CEO
"Leadership at all levels."

Merrilee has more than thirteen years of experience working with executives, groups and organizations as a trainer, coach and consultant.  She is trained and certified in a variety of assessments, including the EQi and DISC, with a working knowledge of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and the Success Insights (registered trademark) PIAV (Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values) and Attribute Index. She works from a philosophy of strengths-based evaluation and management for success through targeted results.

Merrilee often works with women executives for coaching in leadership development, life-work balance and conflict resolution. She has been successful working with her clients nationally and internationally, utilizing phone coaching, teleclass training and on-site consultation. She is currently a part-time faculty consultant for the European Business Technology Office for McKinsey Consulting.

Merrilee has both B.S. and M.S.W. degrees and is a licensed psychotherapist. She is a native of Salt Lake City with her office in Park City, Utah, where she currently lives.

Clare has over 20 years of experience in the human services field with 11 years in management. She managed a staff of 30 and was responsible for a multi-million dollar budget. Clare's focus has been in strategic planning, quality improvement, personnel training, and team building. She has been invited to present at several local and regional conferences for her specialty in mental health care treatment. Clare has the unique perspective of having worked her way through the ranks in a large company and being able to see the larger picture from several different vantage points.

Clare's education includes a bachelor's degree in education and a masters degree in social work. She uses her education to assist her in designing and implementing interactive and effective training courses. She is passionate about building high performance teams and using a strength based approach to optimize human potential.

When not working, Clare enjoys river rafting, road biking, running, backcountry skiing, cooking, knitting, and traveling.

Jonathan is a tactical relationship strategist, trainer, coach and consultant.

He has an extensive background in human relationships, system dynamics, and organizational cultures. He consults for corporate, educational educational consultant and leadership and teambuilding. He speaks locally, regionally and nationally on a wide-range of relationship excellence topics.

He is trained in a variety of assessments, including the EQi, DISC, 16PF and 360º feedback. He works from a of strengths-based and solution-focused approach for success through specifically targeted results.

Jonathan specializes in the arena of developing work and family balance. He often works with executives for coaching in developing self-mastery, marriage transformation, and parenting finesse. He utilizes a mult-modal support approach involving in-person coaching, tele-coaching, teleclass and webinar training, and on-site consultation.

He is currently authoring Great Relationships Don't Just Happen! They Are Created, Sun Tzu on the Art of War: The Annotated Leadership Edition, and Powerful Presentation. Memorable Message: The "No Snooze" Presenter's Guide to Delivering the Memorable Message.

As an entrepreneur and marketer he founded Sherman Design & Marketing Solutions Jonathan learned the lessons in the trenches of not only what's required for companies to succeed via branding, marketing, sales and customer service, but also how these same lessons are crucial in creating great relationships with others and ourselves.

"Greatness in relationships" is both Jonathan's mission and his passion. He is the founder of Bardos Relationship Consulting. Jonathan has a M.S. and is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT). He comes from a long line of leaders in the human development field—it's in his blood: His grandmother received a Presidential Commendation from Richard Nixon for her extensive advocacy on behalf of the mentally ill; His mother was a social worker and his greatest example of what a truly great relationship can be; His father is the author of The Uncommon Leader, Raising Standards in American Health Care, The New American Hospital, and most recently Gold Standard Management, as well as the founder of Management House, Inc., and the leadership clearinghouse GoldStandardManagement.com.

Jonathan is married to a lovely and skilled husband trainer. They live in eternal bliss (okay, fairly peaceably) with their four children in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.

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Lana Stohl
Senior Consultant, Former CEO

Lana has over 30 years of senior level management experience and has been directly responsible for staffs of more than 250 persons and budgets in the 12-15 million dollar range.  She has been a consultant for many years and, in that role, her areas of focus includes: organizational assessment and development, executive assessment and coaching, leadership development and training, conflict management, strategic planning and team development. She is experienced in personnel management, training, contracting, marketing, corporate compliance, and budgeting.

Lana’s educational background includes a master's degree in  business administration with an emphasis in Human Resource Management  and a master's degree in the behavioral sciences. She has taught Administration and Supervision  at the graduate level at the University of Utah.  Her consulting relationships are with the following organizations:  CEO - Behavioral Health Strategies, LLC; Senior Consultant - Larcen Consulting Group; and Consultant/Team Leader - United States Department of Health and Human Services - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Lana  was fortunate several years ago to be trained in the use of the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory and have worked extensively with some of the pioneers of emotional intelligence.  She has done numerous workshops and presentations on emotional intelligence and its application in a variety of settings including: employee recruitment and retention in corporations; Star Performer profiling, educational environments, public agencies, & not-for-profit organizations. 

One of Lana’s passions is leadership and its critical link to success of organizations. She has  devoted much of her time over the past several years to leadership development activities including coaching, training and mentoring and has conducted several leadership academies with 20-25 participants in each academy. 

Dr. Rich Handley
Senior Consultant

Dr. Handley is President and Founder of EQ University.  He is a pioneer in bringing emotional intelligence to the workplace and in corporate applications of emotional intelligence.  He is a leading business strategist in leveraged, high-performance human capital solutions using the power of emotional intelligence to optimize individual and organizational performance.  He has worked extensively with Fortune 500 firms world-wide in areas such as employee selection, organizational and leadership development, employee development, and sales training.  He also conducts the EQ-i® and the EQ360® certifications for EQ University, having certified more individuals world-wide than anyone.  Rich is the co-author of the book, Optimizing People, the EQ360 Assessment, the EQ Interview, the Behavioral Health Survey, and the Benchmark for Organizational Emotional Intelligence.  His work has been featured in Fast Company Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Harvard Business Update, Training Magazine, H.R. Magazine, Controller Magazine, Selling Power, The Dallas Morning News, MSN, ABC and Fox News. 

Linda Gaddie
Senior Consultant

Linda is a highly experienced organization development and business consultant. Prior to joining Larcen Consulting in 1996, she served for 11 years as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a division of a hospital system. Her areas of business experience include finance, accounting, marketing, human resources, information technology, and operations.

Ms. Gaddie has an MBA as well as a Master's degree in the counseling field. Her consulting competencies include: Organizational Assessment & Development, Executive Assessment & Development, Team Development, Conflict Management, Culture Integration, Strategic Planning,  Financial Management.

Ms. Gaddie has consulted with a number of clients in the financial services, high tech, health care, and governmental areas. These include GE, TSMC, TechTV, Ultratech Stepper, Ziff-Davis, Concentric Networks, Aspect Telecommunications, First Union National Bank, Delta Air Lines, Scientific Atlanta, and the United States Government.

Katherine Hoggan
Senior Consultant

Bio pending...

Megan Nielson
Business Manager

Bio pending...