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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

Megan Leasher

ExecutiveĀ Coach & Strategic Advisor

Megan inspires leaders to fear less, connect more, and play often by breaking through barriers that prevent them from reaching their greatest abilities.

John Yockey

Executive Coach & C-Suite Leadership Expert

John helps leaders navigate change, accelerate growth, and build high-performing teams through pragmatic, collaborative coaching grounded in over 30 years of C-suite experience.

Meredith Meyer

Executive Coach

Meredith guides leaders to envision compelling futures and design the strategic plans and talent systems needed to achieve them, moving beyond reactive problem-solving to intentional, sustainable organizational transformation.

Juan Kevin Bailey

Organizational Development and Leadership Consulting


Juan helps organizations bridge generational divides and cultural gaps by creating psychological safety and ownership, transforming employees and leaders from participants into champions of business results and culture.

Laura Canter

Positive Performance Consultant

Laura transforms how leaders see themselves by shifting focus from managing weaknesses to maximizing character strengths, unlocking sustainable performance, resilience, and well-being without burnout.

Kevin Rains

Business Strategy Coach

Kevin guides leaders to align on vision, execute with traction, and build strong teams through the EOS framework, bringing both high challenge and deep empathy from his experience growing his own business 40x.

Mehmet Yuksek

Executive & Organizational Strategist

Mehmet partners with small and mid-market businesses to develop growth and turnaround strategies that build high-performing teams and drive sustainable results.

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.

Jessica Morris

Wellness Strategist and Culture Champion

Jessica helps leaders prioritize their wellbeing to lead more effectively, creating sustainable strategies that improve mental clarity, energy, and decision-making.

Julie Bauke

Executive Career Strategist

Julie guides professionals to understand their value, align it with organizational goals, and create actionable career plans that increase engagement, impact, and retention rather than leaving them stuck.

Thomas Mobley

HR Educator & Strategic Consultant

Thomas bridges academic excellence and real-world HR practice, helping professionals translate theory into actionable strategies through his proven HR Succeeds model and nearly four decades of experience.

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.

Karen Darpel

HR Leadership & Employee Relations Expert

Karen coaches leaders through complex HR challenges with integrity and business acumen, balancing organizational risk with employee needs while building trust through collaboration and understanding.

Charle Peck

Director of Education Leadership

Charle transforms stress-driven chaos into consistent, grounded leadership by teaching neuroscience-based regulation skills that help leaders stay composed under pressure and create accountable, high-performing cultures.

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

MeetĀ OurĀ Advisors

Brent Rippe

Partner
RKCA Investment Banking

Chris Bovard

Vice-PresidentĀ of Product
PAR Excellence

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Daniel Wachter

Chief Executive Officer
Colorado Symphony

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Beth Giglio

Chief Human Resources Officer
The Gorilla Glue Company

 

MeetĀ Our EmeritusĀ Advisors

Jamal Muashsher

President and CEO
Valvoline Global Operations

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Dr. Janet Reid

CEO and Managing Partner
BRBS World, LLC

Michelle Keating

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

 

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

Join The Talent Magnet Community to receive leadership development and support!

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Contact us today: Toll Free: 888-366-3870 | OH: 513-366-3870 | KY: 859-366-3870
E-mail: [email protected]

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