Mason Holloway, Senior Director of Consulting Services, oversees both the federal and commercial sides of Beacon’s consulting business line. He is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience in senior leadership, organizational effectiveness, strategy development, performance improvement, and change management. Mason is a senior analyst, performance technologist and experienced thought leader and practitioner of the HPI processes. He has proven skills and expertise in assisting organizations in meeting and exceeding aggressive and competitive organizational goals and improving overall business results. As a respected consultant in the areas of organizational effectiveness and performance, Mason applies the combination of his extensive real world business experience and acumen with a deep understanding of the fundamental principals of performance in the service of accomplishing business goals.

Follow Mason on Twitter @masonholloway.

Linda Robertson is a Certified Financial Planner™ with Financial Finesse, the leading provider of unbiased financial education for employers nationwide. With over 20 years of experience, Linda has facilitated thousands of financial education workshops to employees on a variety of topics ranging from basic money management and retirement planning to advanced estate planning, in addition to providing financial coaching to numerous employees one on one over the phone and in person at their worksites. Linda writes a nationally syndicated weekly blog on workplace financial education. As a full-time educator, Linda has acquired a good feel for what does and doesn't work in the way of making a lasting impact on employees with financial education.

Scott Franklin is a well known Organizational Change Management educator, facilitator and consultant. A graduate of the US Naval Academy and former nuclear trained submarine officer, Scott started his career as an IT director then focused the next 8 years as the Senior Vice President leading a 60 person organizational change consulting practice. Scott has provided education, training and coaching to companies all over the world on leading organizational change. His articles have been published in numerous professional periodicals and he is a frequent speaker and presenter at industry conferences and workshops. A natural entertainer, Scott’s workshops are active learning events featuring stories, activities, and class participation.

Jennifer Robin is a Research Fellow and an Adjunct Consultant at Great Place to Work®. A former Senior Consultant with the company, she led the Advisory Practice, helping senior leaders integrate their organization’s culture with its strategy and aligning efforts to be a great workplace. She has coauthored two books, one entitled The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters released in January 2011, and a second entitled A Life in Balance: Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World. Jennifer has experience in diverse industries such as manufacturing, biotechnology, information technology, professional services, and healthcare.

Follow Jennifer on Twitter @jenrobinindeas.

Ann Rhoades is a dynamic and visionary Human Resources Executive with over 25 years experience in a variety of service-based industries. She held the position of vice president of the People Department for Southwest Airlines and executive vice president of Team Services for Promus Hotel Corporation and most recently, the executive vice president of People for JetBlue Airways where she currently remains as a Board Member as well as President of People Ink, her Human Resources consulting company.

Rhoades has a respected reputation in the industry for her creative approach to creating cultures around fun and for blending cultures in merger situations. During her tenure with Doubletree Hotels, later Promus Hotel Corporation, she built a service culture focused on delivering outstanding service to Guests. During the time Rhoades headed the People Department at Southwest Airlines, she solidified Southwest’s reputation of retaining and hiring the best people in the airline business despite Southwest’s rapid growth during that time. Most recently, Rhoades took responsibility for the creation of JetBlue Airways Corporation’s People Team in New York.

In her role as head of Human Resources, Rhoades has been a key member of the executive team, and is extremely successful in her role as internal counsel to executives in every discipline in the organization.

Rhoades is a popular speaker on the subject of customer service and how to build a strong service culture. She has great passion for certain industries such as healthcare where she is making a great contribution to revitalizing the workforce and culture of our nation’s hospitals. She serves on patient safety and quality task forces with the Texas Medical Institute of Technology involved in setting metrics used in pay-for-performance programs across the country such as the Leapfrog Group. She is co-founder and CEO of CareLeaders Corporation a company dedicated to help US hospitals attain a new level of performance. Her community involvement includes the University of New Mexico-Robert O Anderson School of Business National Advisory Board and former Board of Director, Albuquerque Community Foundation. Rhoades currently serves on JetBlue Airways Corporation, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Accion New Mexico, HireVue, Inc., and executive council, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Boards and as chairwoman for Safer New Mexico Now. Rhoades has an MBA in Management from the University of New Mexico.

With over a decade of experience in Fortune 500 organizations, Laurie Ruettimann is an influential speaker, writer and social media expert focused on the human capital management industry. She received her SPHR certification in 2001 from The Human Resources Certification Institute and is an active member of The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM). Ruettimann is also a certified recruiter and trainer through various credentialed organizations.

In addition to creating Punk Rock HR, which was recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 100 blogs for women, Ruettimann was the co-founder of New Media Services LLC, HR Bloggers, and HRM Today, the first social network for HR professionals. She is a columnist for The Conference Board Review and an advisor to SmartBrief on Workforce. Her HR, career and social media advice has been featured in various publications such as The New York Times, Reader's Digest, U.S. News & World Report, CFO magazine, and Men’s Health. Listed as one of the Top 5 career advice websites by CareerBuilder and CNN, her work has also been featured on the Suicide Girls, AOL, and Lemondrop websites.

As a “Recovering HR Manager" Richard Fagerlin, has led Peak Solutions, a leadership development firm for the last 20 years.

Born out of the simple idea that we should love what we do and who we do it with, Peak Solutions is dedicated to helping build wise leaders, strong teams & healthy cultures & has served countless organizations in over 50 countries worldwide. Richard is also a leading authority on the topic of Trust and is the author of Trustology: The Art and Science of Leading High Trust Teams.

Richard is from Fort Collins, Colorado where he enjoys an active lifestyle following the interests and passions of his four boys and making memories and enjoying experiences every step of the way.

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Jerry Seibert is Global Director, Diagnostic Services for Metrus Group. He has 20 years of experience working with organizations to measure and improve customer, employee and other stakeholder perceptions. He has designed and implemented employee surveys for numerous organizations, ranging in scope from global entities to small privately held firms.

In addition to leading a wide range of client engagements, Jerry has also led research in internal customer service and its connection to business outcomes. He has more than 20 publications to his credit in a variety of peer reviewed and professional journals.

In his spare time, Jerry enjoys outdoor sports and camping with his family.

Mr. Mankin has over 28 years experience in the study of Human Performance Technology (HPT), management consulting, coaching, training, and organizational analysis roles in both government and commercial sectors, worldwide. He is an accomplished Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) and a Managing at Partner at Platinum Performance Partners (PPP), an International training and consulting firm. He is also the co-author and co-publisher, with ASTD, of the acclaimed Performance DNA processes and tools used by over 6,000 HPT analysts worldwide. In this capacity Mr. Mankin delivers workshops and consulting for ASTD worldwide and at three Universities as an adjunct professor. He is also a founder and Managing Partner of Outcome Systems a performance-based software company and co-creator/author of Performance DNA Desktop and the Performance DNA Dashboard.