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Our Team

  • NJ Pesci
    NJ Pesci President and Founder

    With more than thirty years of global leadership proficiency, NJ Pesci has a demonstrated track record of helping businesses develop and transform through strategic and organizational excellence.  His career includes leadership roles at The Procter & Gamble Company, a C-Suite/Board facing role at Scripps Networks Interactive, multiple international and domestic acquisitions as well as roles with the U.S. Department of Defense.

  • Merle Hellickson
    Merle Hellickson Consultant

    For the past 25 plus years Merle Hellickson has been helping organizations, both domestic and international, realize their goals through Executive Coaching and Training and by applying innovative Organizational Development tools. A results-oriented practitioner, his clients include Paccar, Chevron, Harley-Davidson, and Montana IRS, to name just a few. He has held leadership positions in oil & gas and manufacturing firms and has been published in industry journals on the topics of safety, training and organizational culture.

  • Kim Gray
    Kim Gray Consultant

    Kim Gray brings with her over 30 years of leadership competency in driving business and organization operating objectives and strategic growth; with a history of developing high performing organizations to deliver results. Her career and experiences include leadership roles at The Procter & Gamble Company and AT&T. Kim has also been involved with acquisitions, is a Myers/Briggs Practitioner and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200 hours).

  • Jack Oney
    Jack Oney Consultant

    Jack’s consulting focuses include strategy, transformation, innovation, and Commercial negotiations, primarily in the industries of global logistics, IT technology and CPG. Prior to consulting, Jack spent 27 years with Procter & Gamble in a variety of global roles, including the transformation of their ocean freight and domestic trucking sourcing. He led a global team and a spend over $1.2B dollars. In addition, Jack managed key strategic accounts with many of their IT and outsourcing partners, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Accenture, Ernst Young and Infosys.

  • Ken Taylor
    Ken Taylor Consultant

    Ken Taylor has nearly 35 years as an experienced business executive and senior consultant with a history of breakthrough results in businesses and nonprofits. After 17 years in leadership roles at Procter & Gamble in Customer Business Development and Product Supply/Logistics, his career includes C-Level roles at Prolanthropy and Athletes in Action.  Ken brings clients his vast leadership skills and unique experiences – from soap sales and distribution to celebrity athlete mega-fundraising events. Business Operations, Sales, Fundraising, Team Development, and the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) are all part of his skill set.

  • Nello-John Pesci
    Nello-John Pesci Director of Operations, Consultant
    Nello Pesci is a consultant with a focus on sales and organizational design and is also our head of operations in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since leaving a career in enterprise sales with Workday he has spent time working with both Fortune 500 organizations and startups in a variety of capacities. He has led both sales teams and creative teams alike and enjoys startup environments with open space to build and be creative. He has lived and worked abroad in recent years in both Switzerland and the UK. His latest engagements have included a total business transformation project for a cybersecurity firm in the UK and a full sales organization launch for a fintech company in Utah.

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