Meet the RLD GROUP Leadership Team
Lisa Duerre | CEO, Co-Founder
Lisa Duerre is the CEO and Co-Founder of RLD Group, a WBENC-certified leadership development firm specializing in leadership development, workplace culture transformation, and burnout prevention for tech leaders, teams, and organizations. With over 20 years of Fortune 500 leadership experience, Lisa is a recognized thought leader who helps organizations align people strategies with business goals to achieve sustainable bottom-line results.
Lisa and her team use RLD Group’s proprietary FIRM Leadership™ model—grounded in neuroscience, Appreciative Inquiry, and positive psychology—to empower leaders to foster resilience, inclusivity, and innovation in high-pressure environments. Through tailored consulting, executive coaching, and interactive workshops, RLD Group transforms workplace cultures and builds high-performing teams that thrive in today’s complex and ever-changing business landscape.
As the host of CTRL+ALT+DELETE with Lisa Duerre™, she shares candid insights on leadership, culture, and performance, earning recognition from NBC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.
Whether delivering keynote experiences, facilitating transformative workshops, or leading her team, Lisa helps organizations break reactive patterns, foster resilience, and unlock the wisdom needed to adapt, align, and thrive.
Randy Duerre | COO, Co-Founder
Business ownership is not new to Randy. As the General Foreman of Applied Anodize, he helped establish, grow, and sell this family business at a 65% profit margin.
In 2017 he co-founded RLD Group bringing his business acumen and knowing that leadership development is a critical component to any successful business.
Randy’s extensive success in the areas of client success, software integration, manufacturing, engineering, and team leadership are assets tor the RLD client experience.
Ginger Derrickson | Systems Administrator
Ginger makes sure that our proprietary and confidential coaching portal is easy to use, up to date, and provides maximum value for each client engagement.
Meet the RLD Group Collective Members
Gabriella (Gabes) Coplan
Strategic Advisor
Experience Includes:
- 20+ years of global tech leadership experience managing high performing cross functional teams & businesses
- Sales, Marketing, Talent Development and Customer Enablement Expert
- Executive Coach and Consultant
- Organizational Design and Process Improvement Advisor
- Burnout Prevention Sensation-based Leadership Consulting and Motivation and Mindset Coach
- Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach
Alicia Couri
Kolbe Certified Coach
Experience Includes:
- 20 years leveraging the power of brain science and data to understand strengths, talents, and the best pathway to achieve your organizational goals.
- Right Fit Hiring and Leadership Pipeline Development
- Assimilation and Onboarding Leaders and Teams
- Team Synergy, Collaboration, and Effectiveness
- Ineffective Leader Transformation | Imposter Syndrome Eradicator
- High-Potential Leader Empowerment
Marcia Haber
Gallup-Certified Clifton Strengths Coach
Experience Includes:
- 25 years of expertise as an attorney, mediator, educator, and coach
- Conflict Dynamics Expertise
- CliftonStrengths Expertise
- Helping leaders play to their strengths to enhance effective communications, innovative problem-solving and a sense of fulfillment in the VUCA and BANI world.
- Coaching leaders and individuals to strengthening their own natural talents to bring out the best in themselves and others.
Cheri Honeycutt
Self-Leadership Coach & XCHANGE Facilitator
Experience Includes:
- 30 years experience as a trainer, speaker, coach and facilitator
- Organizational alignment expert
- Growth mindset for individuals and teams
- Learning community development and fostering inclusion and belonging
- Capturing institutional knowledge and collective wisdom of team and organizations.
- Strategic consulting to establish and embody purpose, vision and values across organizations.
Karen Matsueda
Leadership & Professional Development Coach for the “Neglected Middle”
Experience Includes:
- 30+ years HR experience in global high-tech Silicon Valley firms.
- Partnering with people at all levels and functions: internal incubators, suddenly reabsorbed spin-offs, high-stakes pioneering teams and established functions.
- Coaching new and middle managers - the “neglected middle”- who form the backbone and future of an organization while navigating pressures from all sides.
- Applying research-based coaching methods that fit the person’s current needs as a human being and a businessperson, helping uncover the ecosystem they work and live in and the part they play in it, identifying and understanding the complexities, and determining the most powerful path forward.
- Transforming traditional HR practices into a vibrant, human-centric talent ecosystem.
- Creating systemic team infrastructure for high-stakes project teams.
- Building high-performing HR teams.
- Driving new org design, creation, and stabilization for evolving organizations.
Michelle Mendoza
Strategic HR Advisor & Executive Coach
Experience Includes:
- 25 years HR consulting and executive coaching
- Career planning & role progression
- Executive onboarding and coaching including 360 degree feedback and development plans
- Workforce planning, Talent & Development, Recruiting & Hiring
- Employee Relations, Terminations & Outplacement Support
- HR Compliance
- Bilingual (English and Spanish)
Susan Nelson
Human Resources Expert & Integrative Leadership Coach
Experience Includes:
- Silicon Valley HR Leader with 20+ years in Tech.
- Executive & leadership coaching.
- Work/Life integration & burnout prevention.
- Influence & Negotiation Skills Development.
- Team & group facilitation.
- Employee experience and engagement.
- Change management.
- Values/Culture alignment.
Rachelle Niemann
Self-Discovery & Well-being Expert
Experience Includes:
- 10+ years experience in cybersecurity and risk assessment.
- Certified XChange facilitator
- Self-discovery and well-being advocate, coach, and guide.
- Dedicated to helping others create environments that allow for self-discovery, self-care, and self-love.
- Author of "Breaking Free From the Hustle for Worthiness".
- Creator of 40 Self-Care Practices card deck.
Linda A. Thompson
Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach
Experience Includes:
- 30 years progressive experience in operations, management, and leadership in health and human services, nonprofit and philanthropic industries.
- Integration and maintenance of Strengths-based approach in organizational culture.
- Development and management of high-performing teams.
- Manager-to-coach transitions and ongoing support.
- Individual orientation to Clifton Strengths profile.
- Team orientation to, and application of, Clifton Strengths team grids.
Sue Trace
Resilience & ADHD Leadership Expert
Experience Includes:
- ADHD Life Strategies & Leadership Skills.
- Burnout prevention, stress management.
- Personal & Professional Resilience & Well-being.
- Leadership Coaching to sustain high performance.
- Positive/collaborative workplace culture transformation.
- Mental fitness assessment and analysis.
- Growth mindset acceleration.
Alenka Žnidaršič
People, Processes and Systems Consultant
Experience Includes:
- 20+ years of experience in project management, leadership, research, and marketing in medium-sized solution/service-oriented companies
- Helping break engineering culture stereotypes to see engineers as human, in front of technology.
- Helping tech organizations develop, advance, retain, and attract high-performing talent that Practitionerincreases a business’s agility and competitive advantage.
- iPEC Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
- Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)
- Certified XCHANGE Guide
- Certified Conversations Worth Having Practicioner
