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Our Certified Facilitators are rigorously selected by The L Group and are highly regarded in their fields. They each facilitate highly interactive, high-impact experiences for participants. Our Certified Facilitators have an average of 25 years experience spanning all industries and organizational levels. Their profiles appear below.
Shari Barth is one of The L Group’s select Certified Facilitators. She has more than ten years experience in training (assessment, design, development, and delivery), consulting (internal and external), coaching (individuals, teams, and departments), and project management (large and small scale).
Shari was a Performance Improvement Consultant for JCPenney Direct Marketing Services. While at JCPenney, Shari managed the design, development and delivery of customer loyalty training that helped retain 1.4 million policyholders. Prior to her work at JCPenney, Shari was a Senior Change Management Consultant for Andersen Consulting, where she helped develop the firm’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award training materials, and helped clients prepare for and successfully adapt to change.
Over the years, Shari has received numerous training certifications, awards, and honors. One of those awards is the prestigious Million Dollar Award, given to Problem Solving and Decision Making instructors whose workshop participants have used the tools they learned about in class to collectively save their organizations over a million dollars. Participants in Shari’s workshops have tracked savings currently in excess of $5,650,000.
Shari holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Michigan.
Julie Davis-Colan is an innovative business consultant who has 20 years of experience in sales and marketing to Fortune 100 companies. Julie has the ability to turn vision and marketplace opportunity into a profitable reality. She has built a track record of effectively creating and selling unique marketing initiatives to business partners including multi-million dollar corporate sponsorships, business-to-business and direct-to-consumer sales. Her clients included companies such as Home Depot, Westinghouse, Dean Foods and Coca-Cola Foods.
Prior to consulting, Julie conceptualized and managed several profitable business units and led successful turn-arounds at the American Heart Association’s National Center. The American Heart Association was recognized by the Harvard Business School as one of the best managed non-profit organizations in the United States.
Julie’s areas of expertise include business planning, revenue enhancement strategies, national sales, strategic partnerships and new product development in emerging markets.
Additionally, Julie is a compelling speaker and engaging trainer. Her passion for leadership and life create an infectious energy for audiences.
Julie earned her Master's degree in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, after earning her Bachelor’s degree from Florida State University.
Tim Durkin is one of The L Group’s select Certified Facilitators. He founded Seneca Leadership Programs 10 years ago in order to help people, groups and organizations move from promise to performance.
Tim has worked for Xerox, IBM, Ernst & Young, and Trammell Crow Family Interests. He is a sought after trainer, speaker and consultant. An expert on leadership, driving successful change within organizations, and results-based performance, Tim has worked with Ford, Bank of America, Ernst and Young, NASA, GE, Exxon Mobil, GM, IBM and many others. In addition, he has successfully helped many small, entrepreneurial companies, not-for-profits, and civic organizations develop healthy cultures of high performance.
Stephen Covey, acclaimed best selling author, called Tim Durkin “one of the most amazing people I have ever met."
 Ilayne J. Geller, Ph.D., is one the The L Group’s select Certified Facilitators. She has over eighteen years of experience in the organizational development, management development and training fields with a proven track record of increasing employee effectiveness in the accomplishment of corporate goals. Ilayne's ability to establish and foster trusting relationships with senior management and staff, achieve customer-focused results and solve organizational issues in an innovative, practical and bottom-line oriented approach are the key contributors to her success.
Ilayne is a seminar leader and designer for the American Management Association (AMA). In addition, Ilayne was featured in the article, "Trained to Sell" in the March 1998 issue of Selling Power and wrote an article for the November 1999 issue of Perspectives, a publication of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) Dallas Chapter.
Before starting her own consulting firm, Ilayne was an internal organizational development consultant for an international telecommunications company, a senior director of organizational development for a national health care alliance, a training director for a health care supply company and a trainer at a premier cancer center.
Prior to entering the organizational development and training fields, Ilayne was an adjunct professor and managed an instructional television facility at a major university.
Ilayne received her Ph.D. in culture and communications and her M.A. in instructional design and technology from New York University. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. from Queens College in New York.
Ilayne is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, the local chapter of the Organizational Development Network, and is a volunteer at Operation Kindness – a no-kill animal shelter.
Mary Beth May, is one the The L Group’s select Certified Facilitators. She began her career as an independent consultant in 1994. She develops and facilitates programs in leadership, time, stress, and change management, presentation skills, team building, and other people skills oriented programs. She creates an enjoyable, high-energy, results-driven atmosphere, which allows participants to receive the maximum benefit from the training.
Mary Beth has clients in the construction, healthcare, electric utilities, computer, and financial industries. Some benefits the participants gain are from her facilitation are: communicating with more clarity, group presentations skills, customer relations, interpersonal skills, leadership effectiveness, life/time management, attitude and stress control, team cohesiveness, and self confidence.
Mary Beth started her career with the Dale Carnegie organization in 1979 and, for 15 years, worked as a consultant, instructor, and an instructor trainer. This gave her the foundation for her present work.
Mary Beth has a BBA in Business Management and certifications in a variety of training programs. Her community involvement includes serving as a board member for The Clariden School in Southlake, Texas, serving on the board of the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of the Association for Psychological Type, and working with youth to help them build their leadership skills.
 David Reed is one of The L Group’s select Certified Facilitators. David is the founder of Customer Centered Consulting Group, Inc. Prior to founding Customer Centered Consulting Group, Inc., he served with Andersen Consulting, Exxon, and Walt Disney World.
David’s mission is to help organizations of all types and sizes improve their effectiveness by getting the right people (Human Resources) doing the right things (Operations) with the right attitude (Customer Service) with the right tools (Technology) and for the right money (Finances).
David is the author of an easy read customer service book titled Monday Morning Customer Service and conducts customer service training and consulting, and speaking for a variety of organizations. His focus is on facilitating change in the culture that will have a long lasting impact on the way a company treats their customers. He travels throughout the country, helping schools, churches, corporations, and government agencies identify their strengths and weaknesses. Then, by working with leadership teams and teaching simple processes, he helps organizations create and implement common-sense solutions to their problems.
David received degrees in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
 Carl Youngberg is one of The L Group’s select Certified Facilitators. Carl is the founder of Concepts 3. He helps people within organizations smash through self-imposed limitations to maximize the fullness of their potential. Carl has traveled extensively throughout the world and deeply values the lessons of learning through living, as well as the deep insights gained through having the courage to look within ourselves.
Carl is a big hit across many industries. He has a myriad of programs that are specifically designed to inspire and motivate people to grow and change as a way of achieving more success and happiness in their lives. Carl is frequently sought out as a contributor by the print media as commentator and writer. These include The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Women’s Wear Daily, and many newspapers and trade magazines and newspapers.
In his work experience, Carl has been associated with some of the top executives in specialty retailing in the world. His career includes over 21 years of executive experience at Neiman Marcus in Dallas and Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
Today, Carl specializes in working with organizations that want to create a positive attitude in their employees and wish to brand themselves in a positive way. He is an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a frequent presenter throughout the United States.
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