Globally recognized Executive Leadership Consulting Experts, helping some of the world’s best-known companies deliver exceptional business results for the past 30 years.

As executive leadership consulting experts we work with you to ensure that an organization’s most valuable resources – it’s Leaders and Teams – are fully leveraged and deployed in ways that achieve and exceed desired business results.

Leaders

1. We believe leaders must be community builders who communicate transparently about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
2. We believe the best leaders set clear direction, offer feedback and coaching, and provide autonomy to get the work done.
3. We believe great leaders hold difficult conversations rather than glossing over the difficult truths. 

Teams

1. We believe that beyond good chemistry, high-functioning teams must have a strong sense of purpose, communicate transparently, and commit to establishing and maintaining mutual trust.
2. We believe high-functioning teams must recognize and resolve conflict before it becomes divisive and distracts from business priorities. 
3. We believe high-functioning teams must accept mutual accountability for results.

Culture

1. We believe many leaders understand that culture is important, but don’t fully grasp how it impacts their business’ performance.
2. We believe the quality of a company’s culture must be evaluated on two dimensions; the business results being achieved, and how people treat each other in the process.
3. We believe an outside perspective is helpful in accurately assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a company’s culture.

Strategic Partnerships

1. We believe successful strategic relationships benefit from  transparent communication between parties.
2. We believe when both parties are open to “third way” options, value-expanding solutions to problems are more likely to be found.
3. We believe healthy conflict in business relationships can add value when both parties are willing to search for mutually beneficial outcomes.

Jeannette Terry | Founder and CEO

Jeannette is a human capital management consultant who partners with senior business leaders to build sustainable organizational capability, maximize resource utilization, and attract and retain top talent. For much of her career, she has used this expertise in executive leadership consulting to coach leaders and teams on major capital projects across five continents. Jeannette’s methodology for improving cross-cultural teaming reduces cultural barriers and prevents communication breakdowns in these consequential business relationships for TerconPartners. Jeannette received her Master of Arts in Organizational Communication from the University of Kansas and completed pre-doctoral studies in Curriculum Design at the University of Missouri.

Mark Hodson | Senior Vice-President Business Development & Strategic Alliance Management

Mark joined TerconPartners after a 32-year career at a global Fortune 50 company where he held senior positions in Process Engineering, Capital Performance Improvement (Six Sigma), and served as Global Director of Sourcing. For TerconPartners, Mark has responsibility for strategic alliance management and global business development. He also consults with clients in building high-performing teams and provides customized coaching for senior leaders and project managers. Mark received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute and an MBA from Indiana University.

Ken Martlage | Senior Consultant

Ken is a seasoned executive coach and organizational development expert with 30 years of experience consulting for the U.S. and multinational organizations in pharma, engineering & construction, oil & gas, agribusiness, and manufacturing. Clients benefit from Ken’s practical, hands-on approach to solving problems and ability to remove performance barriers. He holds a Master Practitioner Certification with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, FIRO- B, CPI260 and Asherman Negotiation Models.

Larry Murray | Senior Technical Consultant

Larry has over 25 years as a practitioner of Continuous Improvement consultant and 10 years of operations and engineering experience. He has assisted companies to achieve performance excellence in nearly every environment. With a background in operations and engineering management, he resolves challenges to minimize risk and maximize performance. Industry experience includes aerospace, paper, plastics, oil & gas, and manufacturing. Larry received his Bachelor of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and is a certified Lean Sigma Master Black Belt.

Brenda Poor | Manager of Marketing and Communications

Brenda is a communications, marketing and public relations leader with extensive experience in developing effective marketing strategies, content development, and integration of digital and social media into traditional communication strategies to optimize target audience engagement. A veteran journalist, Brenda spent over 25 years in television news; 10 years as an Assistant News Director. She earned her master’s degree in Integrated Marketing Communications from the University of Kansas, and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Kansas.