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Meet Your TMI Team, Faculty, & Board

It is the people behind Talent Magnet that help your business achieve results by helping YOU to make an impact! We have vetted leaders who have helped professionals achieve their big dreams. Together, we bring our expertise directly to you to partner with, elevate, and coach you to your fullest potential.

Our Team Is Committed To Your Success

Below are the people who make our team great and our clients even greater! 

Meet The Talent Magnet Team

Meet the TMI Faculty

Julie Bauke

Executive Career Strategist

Julie focuses on senior-level professionals and executives to plan their professional path and get more out of their career and life.

Dr. Megan Leasher

ExecutiveĀ Coach & Strategic Advisor

Megan focuses on breaking through the barriers that exist to bring out a leaderā€™s greatest abilities.

Don Frericks

Executive Coach Specializing in C-Suite Teams

Don focuses on coaching and investing in leaders through rapid leadership development coaching. His technique for focusing on the most leverageable change brings immediate results.

Erin Bledsoe

Business Strategy and Talent Strategy Advisor and Consultant

Erin focuses on aligning business strategy and people strategy. She provides client support by aligning concrete strategies with clear benchmarks.

Christopher Webster

Sales Coach & Business Strategist

Christopher focuses on coaching those who seek to be high performing sales professionals and can build a roadmap to help companies gain clarity on what is and isn't working.

Amy Waninger

Culture, Diversity & Inclusion Strategist

Amy focuses building inclusive cultures and diverse leadership pipelines. She also works individually with emerging leaders.

David Kiihnl

Strategic Advisor

David focuses on building high-performing teams and uses his expertise in strategic planning to help them through succession planning.  

Kristie Dierig

Collaborative HR Partner

KristieĀ believes that the work of HR can be the most powerful business strategy for any company, but often untapped or misunderstood.Ā 

Mark James

Executive Coach, Author and Speaker

Mark focuses on executives to plan their professional path and get more out of their career and life.

Lauren Ammon

Personal Empowerment & Self Mastery Coach

Lauren focuses on personal responsibility to maximize performance and impact.

Laura Canter

Positive Performance Consultant

LauraĀ focuses on developing and facilitating custom team building workshops.

Jessica Morris

Wellness Strategist and Culture Champion

Jessica is a board-certified wellness strategist and culture champion, empowers clients with holistic wellness strategies and health coaching to inspire sustainable well-being.

Dr. Leighann Rechtin

Assistant Vice-President of Talent and Organizational Development, Ivy Tech Community College

Leighann is responsible for leading talent development efforts to ensure Ivy Tech maintains a skilled and motivated workforce to meet its talent needs and drive success.

Lynne Ruhl

Culture and Leadership Advisor

Lynne Ruhl focuses on creating healthy cultures and has extensive experience in creating environments in which employees want to work and customers want to do business.

Elaine Suess

Executive Coach Specializing in Executive Performance and Team Development

Elaine focuses on helping leaders achieve positive, lasting growth for themselves and their organizations.

Mehmet Yuksek

Talent Magnet Advisor / Executive & Organizational Strategist

Mehmet focuses on strategy and heart and knows how to build comprehensive organizations that align, grow, and achieve their greatness.

Julie Turney

People Experience Professional

Julie focuses on technology and helping future generations develop their love and careers in the field at an early age, in addition to helping demystify the misconceptions about the Human Resources profession.

Charle Peck

Director of Education Leadership

Charle Peck, is the co-creator of Thriving School Community, empowers educators with transformative tools for student well-being and learning through her expertise as a veteran educator, clinical therapist, and global keynote speaker.

Jeff Wuenker

Career Happiness Coaching

Jeff is a career coach with 20+ years of experience helping professionals achieve Career Happiness by aligning their goals with personal fulfillment. He brings a marketing background to his work and is passionate about sports, dogs, and community involvement.

Kimberly Luse

Trauma-Informed Care & Mental Health Strategist

Dr. Kimberly Luse, president of Strategic Ethical Solutionsā„¢, is a seasoned leader with expertise in trauma-informed care and mental health. Her extensive experience and passion for authentic relationships make her a valuable member of the Talent Magnet Institute team.

Meet Our Advisors

Mike
Sipple Sr.

Co-Founder
Talent Magnet Advisor

Doug
Bolton

Talent Magnet Advisor

Meredith
Meyer

Talent Magnet Advisor

Todd
Pfister

Talent Magnet Advisor

David
Velie

Talent Magnet Advisor

Mehmet
Yuksek

Talent Magnet Advisor

Juan Bailey

Organizational Development and Leadership Consulting


Juan is a seasoned expert in organizational development and leadership, with over 35 years of experience, now leading a consulting firm specializing in diversity and executive coaching.

Kevin Rains

Business Strategy Coach

Kevin Rains is a business coach with a background in entrepreneurship and leadership, having grown his family's auto body shop from one location to five. After selling the business in 2021, he now helps leaders transform their organizations using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), emphasizing process-driven strategies for success.

Meet Our Board Members

Brent Rippe

Partner
RKCA Investment Banking

Chris Bovard

Vice-PresidentĀ of Product ManagementĀ Ā 
Appspace

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Daniel Wachter

Chief Executive Officer
Chromatic Technologies, Inc.

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Beth Giglio

Chief Human Resources Officer
The Gorilla Glue Company

 

Michelle Keating

Responsible AI for HR—
Global Lead and Strategic HR Transformation/Programs Director
Accenture

 

MeetĀ Our EmeritusĀ BoardĀ Members

Jamal Muashsher

President and CEO
Valvoline Global Operations

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Dr. Janet Reid

CEO and Managing Partner
BRBS World, LLC

Meet Our Co-Founders

Hello!

I am Mike Sipple, Jr., Co-founder and CEO of the Talent Magnet Institute. My dad, Mike Sipple Sr., and I laid the foundation for the Talent Magnet Institute in 2001. We continued to build on that foundation as we ran Centennial Inc., our 46-year-old executive search business.

In 2017, our clients and advisors encouraged us that now was the time to take our practices, solutions, and models to organizations in unique and focused ways. So we brought our proven talent solutions to leaders and teams by creating the Talent Magnet Institute®.

We believe we are better together, so we have assembled the best organizational and leadership consultants who are focused on and dedicated to helping leaders lead themselves and their teams to greater success.

  • More about Mike Sipple, Jr.  HERE
  • More about Mike Sipple, Sr. HERE

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Here's How Our Team Can Help!

Coaching

Our expert coaches meet you where you are and use their expertise to uplevel your organization.

Training

Check out our most recent training from our faculty here.

On-Going Support

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Contact us today: Toll Free: 888-366-3870 | OH: 513-366-3870 | KY: 859-366-3870
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