Amie Rowe, PHD

I/O Psychologist

In terms of process, Amie believes in starting fast, digging deep and ending strong, so clients gain both immediate impact and long-term sustainability of enhanced leadership abilities and skillsets. She works to build trust and connection quickly and focuses on an individual’s most critical, high-value, and personally meaningful topics. By cultivating self-insight, she helps her clients think practically and strategically about their development. She is known as a leading expert in the use of personality assessments and has an affinity for gaining insight about individuals using multiple assessment tools. This enhances her understanding of the whole person, which grounds her approach to coaching. Utilizing an action/reflection cycle, she supports individuals acquiring and applying new behaviors in novel ways or situations. Then, she extracts maximum learning by facilitating reflection on the effectiveness of those actions, continuing to hone behaviors, and encouraging clients to stretch to the edge of their comfort zones.

Over her career, Dr. Rowe has held leadership positions within several large organizations, has served as a consultant for several management consulting firms, and successfully founded and managed her own independent practice. Her work spans multiple industries, with particular focus in healthcare, energy and utilities, consumer products, retail, financial services, non-profit organizations and state governments. Clients have included the Molson Coors Beverage Company, Walmart, the Henry Ford Health System, ProMedica, Duke Energy, and Deloite.

Angela Chang, MS

Organizational Development Principal

Angela achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Sciences from UC Irvine and will graduate in December 2021 from Northwestern University with a Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change Management.

Having worked for organizations such as Hulu and Resources Global Professionals, she is excited to serve as a resource to your organization in assessing and evaluating all-star executive talent.

Jill Geehr, PHD

Work Psychology

As a consultant to both organizations and individuals, Jill has provided a wide variety of human resources services to a range of industries. She has been a human resources executive with a fortune 500 company, an assessment and career consultation firm, and has been the President of her own HR consulting firm. Additionally, she has served as an adjunct professor at Tulane University, University of North Florida, and Flagler College.

Jill has presented several papers at events including: HR Florida, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Treasury Management Association. Her knowledge of human resource best practices is sought for group meetings as well as organizational planning retreats. She is constantly looking for opportunities to improve best practices in human resources management.

Daphne Smith, PHD

Industrial & Organizational Psychology Practice Lead

Daphne possesses significant experience in talent attraction, recruitment, behavioral and competency-based interviews, talent assessment, and selection. She is also experienced in leadership and management coaching, cultural coaching, onboarding programs, workplace diversity and inclusion, retention, and job analysis, in addition to organizational needs assessment. Additionally, Daphne has an effective mix of organizational effectiveness, organizational cultural audits, change management, workforce engagement, and employee satisfaction.

Daphne has experience working in a multitude of industries, including corporate, higher education, healthcare, nonprofits, and cultural institutions, and she has held various positions from recruiter, human resource business partner, corporate talent acquisition manager, regional talent manager, diversity and inclusion director, and industrial and organizational psychologist.

Daphne’s entrepreneurial experience has provided a strong foundation that allows her to engage and build alliances with management and leadership in change management environments to gain buy-in and commitment to execute on talent management strategies in order to improve organizational effectiveness and performance.

During her time working at DePaul University, Daphne retained DG&A and partnered with Christopher Gomez on various search assignments, and the seed of their relationship was planted. Most recently, that seed has blossomed as Daphne and Christopher have implemented and made progressive improvements in hiring processes through their Executive Search and IO Psychology work at Duke University Health System.

Daphne holds a Master’s of Arts in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. In addition, she has earned a Masters of Jurisprudence & Employment Law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Since 2016, Daphne has been working to complete her education by obtaining a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Northcentral University.

Colin White, MS, JD

Organizational Development Consultant

Colin began his career as a litigation attorney, representing everyone from police officers to Fortune 100 companies. He decided to pivot careers and earned a Master’s in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University. It was at Northwestern that he coached a team of high potential leaders. He loved the connections he made with his clients and the positive impact each one-hour session had.

Colin then worked at a Fortune 100 company as a lead consultant tasked with helping leaders and teams be more effective. There, he coached leaders, designed workshops and led change management initiatives. He uses a data-driven approach, coupled with pragmatic tools and techniques to help leaders and teams work more effectively together and deliver greater value to their customers.

Colin holds a B.A. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He is a certified practitioner in Human Centered Design.

Margaret Douglas, MBA

Organizational Development Consultant

Margaret is a trusted advisor and results-oriented leader with thirty years experience in talent development, relationship building, management consulting and executive coaching. She provides executive coaching and I/O psychology consulting to Spirit Consulting clients and stakeholders.

To complement her work at Spirit Consulting, Margaret designs and facilitates leadership workshops, courses and retreats for The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She currently directs the Leadership and Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) course for working professionals and previously led their Booth Women Advance program.

Previously, Margaret held Senior Vice President and Managing Consultant and positions at Leo Burnett, Digitas and Gemini Consulting. Her responsibilities included relationship building, business development, service design and results management.

Margaret holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School and an Organizational & Leadership Coaching Certification from Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy.