Course Facilitators

Elizabeth Topliffe is a senior consultant and certified Leadership Practices Inventory coach. She has 30 years of professional experience in the business, nonprofit, and educational sectors. As a former Montessori educator, Elizabeth believes that learning is a cooperative process that fills learners' senses of curiosity. As a result, her instructional style involves more doing than telling.

 

Elizabeth's passion is working with people and organizations to transform for the better. She believes wholeheartedly that better people and better organizations result in a world that is also transformed for good.

 

Elizabeth holds her B.A. and J.D. from Indiana University. She is a Certified Process Consultant and coach. Learn more about Elizabeth here. 

Kim Stezala is a co-founder and facilitator at The Society for Process Consulting, creating a community for process consultants with standards and ethics, coursework, and credentials.

She has nearly 30 years of experience in nonprofit, education and business sectors in management, volunteer and founder roles. She helps organizations achieve better outcomes and impact through “figuring things out together.” Her inclusive and collaborative approach is a hallmark of Process Consulting, and her instructional style.

She has been a speaker and presenter across the U.S. and has previously co-facilitated the Society’s foundational courses.

Kim earned her master's degree in Urban Studies, bachelor's degree in Mass Communication/PR, and certificate in Nonprofit Management all from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She is an Executive Process Consultant™ through The Society for Process Consulting. Learn more about Kim here.

Lon L. Swartzentruber is Managing Partner and CEO of Design Group International. He has nearly 30 years of professional experience in human and organizational development, helping leaders and their organizations transform for a vibrant future. As a Process Consultant he has supported the leadership of over 150 Clients and their organizations.

Through this work, Lon has walked alongside organizational leaders to help them articulate their vision and craft strategic plans to achieve them. By taking a posture of listening, his service has helped leaders build consensus, obtain funding, and engage true and lasting change.

Lon earned his B.A. in Business from Goshen College and MBA from George Mason University. He holds multiple credentials including Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation, Executive Process Consultant by the Society for Process Consulting, and an Accredited Practitioner with iEQ9 Integrative Enneagram.  Learn more about Lon here.

Mark L. Vincent created Process Consultation Training 101 (PCT 101) to help other consultants live into the vocation of process consulting and thrive as individual consultants. 

He seeks to build the talent pipeline in this iterative, inquiry-based form of consulting to help organizations transform for a brighter future.  He helps individuals, teams, organizations and businesses apply the tenets of process consulting to help them grow and expedite results. 

Mark is also the Founder of Design Group International, a process consulting community of practice started in 2011 that has grown exponentially to create positive impact across the globe.  Read more about Mark here.