Class Leader - Foundational Leadership Program

• Mar 2020 - Present

Our Shared Purpose: To discover and fulfill the promise of our potential. Our Business: Established in 1999, the Stagen Leadership Academy partners with leaders who are committed to long-term personal development and using their organizational platforms for positive impact. We specialize in delivering high accountability programs for leaders serious about changing themselves as well as their organizations. Our members reject conventional “silver bullet” approaches to leadership development and choose the path of disciplined practice. Our Philosophy: In 387 BC, Plato established the first university in the Western world – he called it the "Academy." He based it on the notion that each person has the potential for greatness born of self-knowledge. Inspired by this classical Greek approach, our training programs are designed to expand a leader's capacity for awareness, choice, and responsibility. Show less

Executive Consultant

• 2018 - 2020

Talent Suite is a Texas based company that empowers organizations to achieve their potential through people using proven and validated methodology and data analytics. By bringing objectivity to a subjective process, we equip our clients with the ability to align, measure, and design optimal human capital performance for selecting and managing talent. We provide turnkey solutions and processes for our clients that add more structure and scientifically validated, sustainable methodology when selecting and managing talent either through our retained search practice or through our partnership with Predictive Index. Lydia is the VP of Professional Development and Training and joins Talent Suite from a dual career in public accounting and academia, where she led industry practice groups as an audit partner in the Dallas office of Grant Thornton, LLP and also as the Professional in Residence at UNT’s College of Business Accounting Department. Lydia has always been passionate about helping others become their best selves. She has focused on working with millennials as a coach, mentor and teacher in her leadership roles throughout her career in public accounting and academia. A lifelong learner, Lydia capitalizes on her business knowledge, skills and experience in in assisting clients with professional development and training programs, culture cultivation, executive coaching and applying neuroscience concepts and models to business. Lydia helps individuals and teams realize their highest potential by being honest, caring and courageous enough to implement lasting, positive changes to achieve better results. Lydia is a CPA and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, earning a Masters in Professional Accounting and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. Lydia volunteers her time as a financial coach, yoga instructor and community outreach program analyst at several local not-for- profit organizations. Show less

Partner

• Sep 1997 - Apr 2017

Lecturer and Accounting Professional in Residence

• Sep 2010 - Aug 2014