Jim Sheegog

Prior to founding Rowhill Consulting Group, Jim served as the Vice President of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research. At ICEDR, Jim directed the Enterprise Learning System project, and participated in field studies examining leadership challenges in transnational companies.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was the Global Leader of Executive and Organizational Development, The Americas Leader for Learning & Education, and R&D Head for Learning & Education. Reporting to the Chairman, Jim was the partner responsible for development of PwC's talent pipeline, enterprise learning management system and led partnerships with the firms HR, knowledge management, and IT functions.

As the Assistant Dean of Global Executive Education at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, he worked with faculty teams to introduce the Global Executive MBA program in 1996, the world's first internet-based global MBA degree program.

Prior to joining Duke University, Jim gained 14 years of pharma industry experience. At Glaxo Wellcome, Mr. Sheegog led numerous functions as Head of Executive & Organization Development, National HR Director, and Director of Corporate Training.

In 28 years of consulting work, Jim has advised world-class corporations, including: Siemens A.G., IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, Ford Motor Company, Morgan Crucible plc, Pfizer, Philips Electronics, Deutsche Telekom, Royal Bank Canada Financial Group, FIAT, Maersk, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell ExxonMobil, Quintiles Transnational Corporation, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Exelon Energy Corporation, and leading medical practices.

Jim holds BA and MS degrees from the University of North Carolina. He holds a post-graduate BCD certification in clinical counseling.

Wendall Pietersen

Wendall Pietersen is South African, now Italian citizen, and a former professor and practitioner in the Social Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. In his academic positions, he led numerous projects focused on public health and community organisation activities. In addition to his academic activities, recently Wendall was designated as the lead coach for Royal Dutch Shell's global executive development programmes.

In 1978, he moved to the United States where he served as a graduate school visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he also lectured in the School of Public Health and the Department of African Studies. Working with the United Nations, Wendall was appointed as Assistant Director of the Council of International Programmes. Wendall provided the primary direction for staff and the university working with international executives living abroad. The Council hosted working professionals from over 15 different countries while they completed graduate degree programmes.

Wendall moved to Italy in 1980 where he took a post as full professor at the University of Modern Languages in Milan where he also started the first courses in the School of Public Relations. In Europe he has collaborated with various institutions such as the Research Institute of Mario Negri and the Assoreni Group. Wendall specializes in leadership coaching, conflict resolution, organisation behaviour and effective communication skills. He currently lives in Milan where he works as an executive coach and Leadership training consultant.

Ken Graham

Ken has enjoyed special success with engineers, scientists, physicians, and computer professionals. His extensive experience in other countries and cultures makes him look to variables of national cultures and enterprise cultures to build leader strength.

Ken served as Head, Global Leadership Development for Royal Dutch Shell Exploration & Production, living in The Hague. Ken built the series of leader skill development programs in use today across Shell globally. He partnered with Rowhill Consulting, LLC, to build and deliver this groundbreaking initiative that used inquiry, role play, and coaching to deepen both direction setting and behavior skills in Shell leaders.

Ken has been both supplier of leader development and head of those same efforts for three large companies. Ken was Vice President for Leader Development and Group Vice President of Strategy for Allstate Insurance. Ken was Director of Executive Development for a Fortune's 25 consumer products company Chicago in the 1980's.

He served as Associate Dean of Executive Education for Penn State Executive Programs, growing those programs at 35% per year for 5 years. Ken built the very successful Executive MBA in Mexico City with the University of Texas at Austin and ITESM, the leading business school in Mexico. Ken was co-creator of the Executive Engineering Management Master's Degree Program for UT-Austin.

Ken has consulted with an award winning financial services supplier, USAA, with high technology firms AMD, Applied Materials, Apple, HP, Motorola, IBM, and Intel, and with firms in health care, steelmaking, cement, and especially with the oil and gas industry. Overseas he is active with national oil companies in Nigeria, Norway, and Kazakhstan. He recently became an advisor to a sovereign wealth fund in the UAE.

Ken holds a Ph.D. in business strategy from The Pennsylvania State University, a Master's in Business Administration, and a Bachelor's with Honors in Business.

Steve Mitchell

Steve began his career as an Emergency Service Clinician in the Mecklenburg Mental Health System, a one-of-a-kind outreach program specializing in crisis intervention services for distressed individuals and families. Employing knowledge of human behavior and the context in which it occurs, Steve was called upon by law enforcement officials and family members to diffuse emotionally volatile situations and aid people in severe mental crisis.

For 15 years Steve served as Director of Corporate Training and Development and Corporate Organization Development Manager in two Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical companies. In these capacities Steve gained extensive experience in Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions, Organization Change, Globalization, and Executive Learning.

In the last 13 years Steve applied practical customized business approaches for over 25 companies, in the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, applying a wide variety of Organization Consulting services. Currently serving 5 clients around the world, the demand for Steve's services range from; Strategic Alliances to Executive/Talent Development, Coaching, Leadership Development, and Leadership Selection.

Steve holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina. Steve has also been designated as a Duke University Adjunct faculty.

Joan Roberts Eastman

Joan Roberts Eastman has twenty-five years of experience in leadership development and career coaching in the business world. She has expertise in working with executives, managers and other professionals to grow their leadership capabilities; and in creating productive teams where people make important decisions - particularly when they come from diverse cultures, functions, or viewpoints. She also coaches individuals who are transitioning in their careers, whether growing upward on an ambitious career path - or going onward beyond full-time work.

Joan worked for fourteen years inside GlaxoSmithKline, focusing on team and organization effectiveness in worldwide R&D and in US Pharmaceuticals. She worked with international, geographically dispersed teams in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. While on international assignment in Hong Kong and Singapore, she started up a training function in China, and instituted a leadership and organization development program spanning fourteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Her key clients were the Regional and Area Directors, and the Country Directors reporting to them.

Since 2001, Joan has built her own consulting business, Roberts Eastman & Associates LLC. Recent clients include Duke University Fuqua School of Business, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Institute, Royal Dutch Shell, and the City of Raleigh NC.

Through the International Coach Federation, Joan is certified as a Professional Coach. She has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Cornell University, a Master's degree in Organization and Community Studies from the University of North Carolina, and was trained in the Harvard University's Negotiation Project.

Ben Dean

Ben has a total of 16 years of professional experience providing one-on-one client counseling and practical coaching assistance to executives and senior leaders of major institutional and business clients. Previously, he served in The White House, as Assistant Counsel to the President the Office of the Counsel to the President. He regularly met one-on-one with individuals selected as prospective presidential nominees to counsel and advise them and also met one-on-one with Congressional members.

In 2007, he was certified through a private consulting group and began providing organizational leaders with coaching and training on team development and leadership effectiveness. Ben's executive coaching-related experience in 2008 includes a project he participated in conducting an organizational diagnostic assessment for Medical Assistance Programs International at its affiliate offices in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Ben earned a PhD in organizational leadership, as applied specifically to an international environment and has also taught masters level courses as an adjunct professor in Regent University's School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, focusing on effective organizational leadership behaviors, and on diagnosing and improving organizational dynamics. Ben was a licensed attorney in Raleigh, North Carolina for 10 years. He provided legal and operational counsel and on-site assistance directly to numerous executives and managers of major health care and insurance companies.

As Director of Global Partnerships within PIONEERS International, Ben acquired actual operational experience as an organizational leader and worked on-site with key organizational leaders in more than 20 countries. As a former active duty military officer, he holds extensive practical leadership skills along with a history of providing extensive one-on-one legal counsel and organizational advice to more than 30 different senior officers.