Jeff Arnold, MAM, CAE is an association leadership strategist and author who helps association CEOs and their Boards of Directors build world-class strategy, world-class boards and world-class board/staff relationships. He is President and co-owner of Leading Associations, a company that provides training, consulting, and management services, helping organizations provide visionary leadership, establish an aspirational culture, and produce remarkable results.

Rob Spangler, MPA, CSC is a leadership confidant who helps CEOs and their Board of Directors to clarify strengths and areas of challenge so they can build stronger leadership teams and organizations. He is co-owner of Leading Associations, a company that provides training, consulting and management services to organizations, showing them how to provide visionary leadership, establish an aspirational culture and produce remarkable results.

From training to group dynamic improvements Rob is an experienced speaker and facilitator for both large and small groups. By “meeting you where you are” he is skilled in clarifying issues and needs as well as helping a group to identify intermediate steps toward a stronger leadership teams.

Leon has held leadership roles in Fortune 15 and 300 companies and served in the public sector as a Chief HR Executive. He has provided strategic oversight of human resources departments and established foundations of respect, diplomacy, high ethical standards, and collaboration that have promoted the overall success of the organizations.

Kate has spent over 20 years working in Human Resources partnering with various business executives, managers, and organizations as a leader in Organization Development, Talent Management, and Human Resources. She is an experienced strategic partner who is able to translate business goals to achieve high impact performance. She has extensive experience in organizational effectiveness and leadership development. In her roles at DCP Midstream, Willis, MillerCoors, and McDATA, she developed and implemented human resources programs in the areas of leadership development, organization development and effectiveness, talent management, training, M&A integration, and change management.

She is certified in the EQi 2.0, EQ360, and EQ Leadership Report measures of emotional intelligence and also as an Emergenetics Associate. She uses these types of assessment tools in working with teams and individuals to help them better understand themselves and their teams to achieve extraordinary results.

She has a Master’s of Science in Communication from the University of Denver and a Bachelor’s of Arts in International Studies from the University of the Pacific.

For more than 10 years, Jessica has been specializing in the accounting of start-ups, ongoing businesses and non-profits that don’t require a full-time controller, but do have accounting needs. Her focus is on the building of client data files, all bookkeeping functions, sales tax returns, payroll and related filings, and assistance in tax filing preparation, budgeting, cash flow and financial projections.