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Our Team

Jennifer Comeau
I-Amplitude. LLC Founder

Jennifer Comeau has one focus: to inspire and unleash the human spirit. She does this using retreat workshops, motivational speaking, coaching and leader development, instructional design, and through her original music.

Founder and CEO of I-Amplitude LLC, and JenniferComeau.com, Jennifer has for decades led organizational initiatives in strategy, leader development, and operational improvement for non-profits and corporations.

Clients include National Wildlife Federation, Buffalo Olmsted Conservancy, Maine General Health System, ABET Inc., Bank of The Bahamas, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Prudential Real Estate Headquarters, Transamerica Corp., Hilton Hotels Worldwide Headquarters, Hyundai, and 20th Century Fox.

In addition to her Masters of Engineering degree from the SUNY at Buffalo and a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from General Motors Institute, Jen is a coach certified by Front & Center Communications. Her post-education in organizational development includes workshops in Strategy, Assessment, Balanced Scorecard, Gestalt Techniques, Facilitation, and Instructional Design.

Jennifer now spends much of her time conducting retreat workshops for people who are changing the world or who wish to. These are time-out-of-time experiences of personal growth and exploration, refocusing and replenishment. As a seasoned performer and motivational speaker, Jennifer has spoken or performed at conferences and events such as the International Coach Federation, NH Women's Leadership Summit, Maine Human Resources Conference, Hospice of Southern Maine, and International Manufacturing Technology Conference.

Jennifer’s innovative “give back” strategy donates 100% of the proceeds from her music CD, “Feed the Tribe” to the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust locally and the Central Asia Institute globally. The Trust is dedicated to preserving wetlands, woods, fields, islands, beaches, wildlife corridors, and all of the special places visitors and residents love in Kennebunkport Maine, USA.  Greg Mortenson of The Central Asia Institute is featured in the NY Times bestseller, “Three Cups of Tea”. His work in building schools for mostly Muslim girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan is aligned with three of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals: fighting poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, and promoting gender equality and empowering women.




Heidi Collins
Knowledge Management
 

Heidi Collins is an experienced chief knowledge officer and information management executive. She possesses a unique background combining strategy development, program management, and change management with technical expertise.  Adept at planning and implementing information management strategies that support business initiatives, Heidi led the Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, and Information and Library Services virtual team members at Air Products and Chemical (Fortune 100 Company). 

 

Heidi established the Knowledge Management Center of Excellence to manage knowledge assets for timely, context-relevant content to improve decision making.  Her Knowledge Management program generated over $100 million dollars in hard dollar benefits each year from 2002 through 2004.

 

Heidi architected, designed, and delivered one of the first enterprise information portal software applications into the US market.  Sales of the commercial software exceeded $20 million in per year from 1998 through 2000.

 

Heidi holds a Masters of Science in computer information services from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in decision information services from The University of Texas.  She is the author of, “Corporate Portals” and “Information Knowledge Portals,” as well as numerous articles on knowledge management.  She recently co-authored “Collaboration Commerce” with Dr. Cindy Gordon and Dr. Claudio Terra.  Heidi is a member of the KM Review editorial staff.


Karen S. Hinchliffe
Strategic Leadership

Karen is an experienced speaker and innovator of culturally sound strategy to private, public and not-for-profit leaders. She has earned a title among her peers as “an advisor’s advisor” and is devoted to improving the quality of advice provided by the consulting profession.

Karen has roots in agriculture and family business operations, as well as more than two decades in international management consulting: Braxton, Arthur D. Little, Temple Barker & Sloane (Mercer), Harbridge House, Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She served as Managing Director in London and Stockholm before returning as Principal to the US where she founded KSH Strategyhouse, LLC.

She has held national responsibility for the P&L and growth of a European regional business. She led internal change programs and managed senior professionals across an array of HR disciplines, including policy, compensation, cost management, executive development and retention, succession planning, and particularly merger & acquisition.

Karen is published in the International Review of Strategic Management, and serves as professor and thesis advisor to MBA executives studying in Switzerland and Singapore. She holds an AB from Bowdoin College, an MBA from Cornell University, and a post-graduate certificate in Law from Oslo University.



Jennifer Jones
Strategic Communications

Jennifer has more than 20 years experience in developing strategic communications programs that advance business objectives, including labor and environmental communications, fund raising, crisis management and public affairs. She has directed the corporate positioning and communication strategy for industry leaders in the aviation, energy, automobile, and hazardous waste sectors. Jennifer has also directed the creative strategy for scores of branding campaigns and direct mail fund raising and grassroots lobbying programs. With her Rising Star Coaching™, Jennifer has coached young professionals on the fast track. She has also developed S.A.M.E.™, a Strategic Asset Management Evaluation, to help companies achieve the full benefit of corporate social responsibility initiatives. In 1998, Jennifer started Cardea Communications, and prior, was Senior vice President, Chief Creative Officer and Partner at The Hawthorn Group, a public affairs agency in the Washington DC metro area.

Jennifer holds a Masters of Arts in Corporate and Political Communication from Fairfield University; an Organization, Systems and Development certification from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and a Bachelor of Arts in History/Journalism from the University System of New Hampshire, Keene State. Jennifer is an avid white water kayaker, having kayaked some of the world's most beautiful rivers.



Melissa S. Kelly-McCabe
Strategic Planning

Melissa is a strategist, business advisor, and dynamic public speaker. Having worked in industry and with corporate executives for over twenty years, she has assisted hundreds of leaders and boards create clarity of strategy, cause positive and lasting change, and realize their visions. With hands-on experience in manufacturing, engineering and private and public service organizations, Melissa's reach spans hundreds of manufacturers, non-profit firms, and industrial economic development corporations in 50 states, Canada, and the Caribbean.

President and CEO of Clear Intent Strategy, Inc., Melissa formerly held positions with WNY Technology Development Center, Inc., Price Waterhouse LLP, and General Motors Corporation. Melissa was an assistant to Dr. W. Edwards Deming for five years, researching thinking processes and teaching groups about Deming management principles.

Melissa holds a Masters of Science in Organization Systems, focusing on Change Processes (University of Southern California,) and a Bachelors degree in Statistics, minor in Industrial Engineering, (University at Buffalo). Memberships include International Coach Federation, International Association of Facilitators; OD Network, and the Gestalt Institute Working Group.


Michael Stone
Strategic Research

Michael assists clients in making strategic decisions by conducting detailed research and analysis on markets and competitors, and by modeling costs and profitability. For nearly twenty years, Mike's consulting experience has included Fortune 1000 manufacturing companies, and government and non-profit organizations that serve manufacturing markets. His engagements have focused on market research and analysis, competitor assessments, and strategic cost and profitability analysis. His assignments have required an understanding of global markets and competitors throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In 1995, Mike formed Stone & Associates, Inc., a strategic management consulting firm focused on industrial and business-to-business markets. Prior to Stone & Associates, Mr. Stone was a Managing Consultant at Telesis, the strategic consulting arm of Towers Perrin.

Mike holds a degree in Developmental Studies from Brown University, and recently applied his business skills as a volunteer with The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation where he was instrumental in forging a landmark procurement agreement with leading generic pharmaceutical companies that reduced the price of key HIV/AIDS drugs for millions of people in Africa and the Caribbean.


Board of Advisors

I-Amplitude cares about positively impacting each and every person and the organization in which they belong.  We humbly seek advice from some highly regarded leaders in their fields. 



I-Amplitude LLC, founded by Jennifer Comeau, is a speaking, coaching and business advisory firm which
provides motivational and leadership performance services.  We enable individuals and organizations
to
Live Full Measure ©.

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