Jerry is dedicated to developing leadership and organization solutions that link individual executive effectiveness to team and organizational performance. He brings that expertise and experience to his applied work at The Catalyst Effect, LLC and to Butler University’s MBA program.For over 30 years as a Human Resources Executive, Change Agent, Educator, and Psychologist, Jerry has effectively worked with a wide range of individuals and teams to achieve their professional and personal goals in both mid-sized and larger organizations.

He worked in the business sector with Dow Chemical and Dow AgroSciences, where he held numerous leadership positions in Human Resources, both in the US and Asia (Hong Kong). As a trusted advisor and coach to executive leadership, Jerry demonstrated an accomplished understanding of key business, human capital, and shareholder value drivers.

Jerry’s academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Iowa. He was also named a “Diplomate in Counseling Psychology,” the highest professional certification, by the American Board of Professional Psychology. His highly regarded leadership book, The Catalyst Effect, was published in early 2018 by Emerald Publishing.

Jerry enjoys all things related to music, basketball and on occasion, golf, depending on the day and his putting success. And, most importantly, he delights in being a grandparent.

Nina Kanikar Meng You was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1970. She and her family were resettled as part of the refugees program to the US in 1975. Two decades later, Ms. You returned to Cambodia as an international consultant of the World Bank to the Cambodian government based in a project which developed informational resources for private sector development in Cambodia under the new investment laws. Ms. You continued to work and live in Cambodia for more than a decade, specializing in poverty-alleviation projects in sectors of women and children, gender education, community assessment, planning and building, and enterprise and trade development. She worked for several different organization includes UNDCP/CARERE, US/AID, Asia Development Bank, IMF/Mekong Planning Development funds to name a few.

Her contributions also include major important role as board member Board Member of the Samdech Reaksmey Sobbhana Women’s Foundation of Cambodia and the Somaly Mam Foundation of America. Ms You’s works also extend into the arts and culture of Cambodia: helped found the Cambodian Silk Forum and the Angkor Silk Fair and is a patron for Cambodian cinema from protecting the artform to supporting independent films, in particular nurturing new talents among emerging female directors and producers in Cambodia.

Currently, Ms You is engaged as the owner and de facto Director of the EG Conference of her late spouse, Michael Jerome Hawley who passed in 2020. She is also a devoted full-time mother of a preschooler.

Tripti Das has spent over 20 years in the Banking industry helping clients with their businesses. She specializes in building relationships based on trust and provides consultative expertise to government banking clients. As Head of Operations, she manages treasury solutions like lockbox, positive pay, payroll, and vendor payments for the bank’s municipal and business clients. She is passionate about continuously researching and creating innovative products and solutions to best service her clients' needs.

Prior to joining Leader Bank, Tripti worked as a branch manager and business relationship manager for Citi Bank. She serves on the board and is a founding member of HUM, a not-for-profit organization working for specially-abled children in India.

Over the course of his multifaceted career Roland Valliere has transformed and revitalized symphony orchestras across the United States and co-founded a pioneering educational venture with the esteemed Juilliard School. Valliere's CEO appointments include orchestras and performing arts organizations in Massachusetts, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and New Hampshire. 

Valliere has developed products at the forefront of music and technology. He created the Concert Companion, an innovative venture that enhanced the concert experience through delivering explanatory text, program notes and video images to hand-held devices in real time with the music (featured on All Things Considered). Valliere also created SyncNotes - explanatory notes & graphics synchronized to recorded music, prior to co-founding Cornucopia Arts, LLC in partnership with the Juilliard School.

He is married to the accomplished abstract expressionist painter, Milisa Valliere. They collaborate on the innovative multimedia exhibition Inspired by Music (featured on the NEA’s ArtWorks), where he chooses the music to which Milisa paints. Before becoming a sought-after performing arts executive, Valliere was a musicologist, teacher and performer. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from the New England Conservatory and a Master of Fine Arts in Musicology from Brandeis University, with additional studies at the School of Education and Littauer Center for Public Policy at Harvard University.