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About LeaderThink Inc

We apply the science of business psychology to help leaders make critical talent decisions, optimize organizational design, and accelerate executive performance.

The LeaderThink Advantage

Expertise  |  Results Based  |  Innovative  |  Dynamic  |  Responsive

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TALENT SOLUTIONS FOR A COMPLEX BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT:
Talent selection, development and promotion, and organizational design are too critical for guesswork. Our advantage lies in our dual DNA: deep expertise in behavioral science coupled with decades of C-Suite experience. We help founders, investors and leaders de-risk talent decisions, optimize operating models, and unlock individual executive potential through data-driven career advisory.
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We focus on business outcomes, analyzing organizational culture and dynamics in light of our clients’ business, industry and strategy.
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WE KNOW WHAT WORKS. We’re business psychology and organizational behavior experts, connected to leading professional organizations and research institutions.
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We offer a unique partnership approach with our clients, and we customize our solutions to target unique human capital value opportunities to drive engagement and business results. About 80% of our work is repeat business with our clients.
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We offer a portfolio of the most innovative solutions in the human capital space and adapt them to our client’s needs.
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We are entrepreneurial and pragmatic, focusing on solutions that produce results and create value to our clients.

Meet Our Team

We are a team of experienced business psychologists and organizational behavior experts. We believe leadership does not happen in isolation, it is a function of a team, an organization, and a community of stakeholders. We strive to create agile, human workplaces where people are connected, engaged, and operate with a sense of accountability and trust. 

About Our Team

We offer a network of Executive Coaches and Organizational Consultants with extensive expertise who understand your business and leadership challenges. Our consultants are experts in their field, connected to a network of leading academic and research institutions with direct. access to the latest knowledge, tools and best practices in leadership and organization science. We worked in multiple industries and geographies with a deep understanding of diverse cultures.

Selva Blum

Founder and Principal Consultant

Selva helps leaders and organizations improve their performance, implementing sustainable change to realize their potential and achieve their goals. She brings over 20 years of experience in executive leadership roles and business psychology consulting in various industries.

Selva is a Board-Certified Coach and ICF Certified Coach with extensive experience coaching senior and emerging leaders in various industries, startups, and nonprofits, focusing on executive presence, career development and transition, resilience, work-life balance, and emotional intelligence.

Selva is passionate about helping leaders enhance their performance, and advance their career. in balance with a fulfilling personal purpose. She believes that when leaders and teams create diverse, healthy and productive organizations, they can positively contribute to their community.

Melissa Stack

Executive Coach

Melissa is an Executive Leadership Coach with 25 years of experience as a professional
coach, consultant and facilitator working in a range of industries assisting individuals and
teams across multiple levels.
She brings extensive corporate experience as a former Director of Leadership Development at a major information technology & insurance corporation where she developed leadership programs, implemented career development strategies and created learning programs and workshops.
Melissa holds an ICF certification as an Associate Certified Coach, an MS from Antioch New England College and a BA in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire. She is also certified with multiple talent assessments including Hogan and 360-Feedback tools.
Melissa lives in Tennessee with her husband. When not working, Melissa enjoys traveling and
learning about new cultures as well as helping those less fortunate through her work with Operation Santa and her own Diggity Dog Bookclub.

Christopher Awad

Senior Associate Consultant

Chris is a senior business psychology consultant dedicated to fostering organizational growth and development through his assessment and coaching practice with individuals and teams.
Chris also brings a wealth of corporate experience, currently serving as VP of HR for NexGen Power Systems, an exciting technology start-up in the power electronics industry. Previously, Chris held senior roles in global corporations, including talent management, talent acquisition, and learning and development globally for Equifax, talent management leader for SunEdison, and also served as CHRO of Answers Corporation and its three portfolio technology companies. Chris began his consulting career as a consultant for CMA (management consulting firm) and as a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia while also consulting for its Center for the Study of Organizational Change.
Chris earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he also received his Master of Public Administration degree. He earned a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Virginia.
Chris currently resides in the northern suburbs of Atlanta with his family.

Gloria Pereira

Executive Leadership Coach

Gloria has over 25 years of work experience as a consultant and executive coach. She has experience coaching women in leadership positions. She has helped her client companies improve performance though assessment, coaching, and development of people. She focuses on long-term results that build on solid evidence-based practice.

She has worked across different industries such as manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, healthcare, aerospace, pharmaceutical, government, petrochemicals, banking, airlines, and railroad.

Her coaching clients say that she fosters personal growth and development by asking questions and listening to their concerns. She is very detailed oriented and offers insights from leadership assessments tools that can help identify key learnings and awareness of strengths and areas of development. She likes to focus on client’s key challenges and offer practical advice that can help them achieve results.

Gloria holds, a Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston. She is a member of the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Society of Consulting Psychology, Houston Association for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Houston Organization Development Network. She also has presented and published her research in national psychology forums. Gloria is fluent in English and Spanish and is a native Spanish speaker. She is also a member of the faculty at Rice University.

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