Leadership
Lisa Duerre | CEO & Co-Founder, Executive Advisor, AI Leadership Alignment & Leadership Systems Strategist
Lisa Duerre | CEO & Co-Founder, Executive Advisor, AI Leadership Alignment & Leadership Systems Strategist
Lisa Duerre | CEO & Co-Founder, Executive Advisor, AI Leadership Alignment & Leadership Systems Strategist
Lisa Duerre is the CEO and Co-Founder of RLD Group, a WBENC-certified leadership consulting collective that helps organizations strengthen leadership alignment, leadership systems, and cross-functional execution in the AI era.
Drawing on 20+ years of Fortune 500 technology leadership experience at Synopsys and Applied Materials, Lisa bring
Lisa Duerre is the CEO and Co-Founder of RLD Group, a WBENC-certified leadership consulting collective that helps organizations strengthen leadership alignment, leadership systems, and cross-functional execution in the AI era.
Drawing on 20+ years of Fortune 500 technology leadership experience at Synopsys and Applied Materials, Lisa brings an enterprise-wide perspective spanning executive development, talent strategy, engineering enablement, organizational communication, and large-scale cross-functional initiatives.
Under Lisa’s leadership, RLD Group helps organizations reduce fragmentation, strengthen decision-making, improve collaboration, and build leadership systems that can adapt and perform during periods of rapid AI-driven change.
Through RLD Group’s I–WE–US leadership lens, the collective helps leaders reconnect individual leadership capacity, team dynamics, and organizational systems to strengthen alignment, communication, and execution across the enterprise.
Lisa works closely with senior executives and leadership teams navigating organizational change, AI-driven transformation, leadership effectiveness, and the operational realities of scaling complex organizations.
She is the creator of the REBOOT™ Leadership Drive framework and the FIRM Leadership™ model, helping shape RLD Group’s applied research and approach to AI Leadership Alignment, organizational effectiveness, and the future of work.
RLD Group was founded following Lisa’s personal experience with severe burnout and chronic illness, shaping her belief that burnout is often not simply an individual issue, but a signal of larger organizational and leadership system challenges.
Lisa is also the host of CTRL+ALT+DELETE with Lisa Duerre™, where she explores leadership, communication, organizational effectiveness, and the future of work. Her work and insights have been featured by The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Association for Talent Development, and Forbes.
Randy Duerre | Co-Founder, Technology & Internal Operations Lead
Lisa Duerre | CEO & Co-Founder, Executive Advisor, AI Leadership Alignment & Leadership Systems Strategist
Lisa Duerre | CEO & Co-Founder, Executive Advisor, AI Leadership Alignment & Leadership Systems Strategist
Randy Duerre is the Co-Founder and essential technology and internal operations lead for RLD Group, ensuring the firm’s System Design Practice operates with the technical integrity and execution clarity demanded by enterprise clients.
Drawing on decades of experience in manufacturing and core engineering operations (including his current w
Randy Duerre is the Co-Founder and essential technology and internal operations lead for RLD Group, ensuring the firm’s System Design Practice operates with the technical integrity and execution clarity demanded by enterprise clients.
Drawing on decades of experience in manufacturing and core engineering operations (including his current work as a Calibration Technician), Randy specializes in optimizing the internal tech stack, A/V production systems (livestreaming), and core processes that enable RLD Group's high-touch consulting engagements.
His expertise in connecting operational efficiency to quantifiable financial results is rooted in his successful tenure as the General Foreman of Applied Anodize, where he helped establish, grow, and sell the family business at a 65% profit margin.
Randy's focus on technical system integrity and streamlined process optimization guarantees that RLD Group’s people and process solutions are delivered with the reliability of a high-performing operations team. He is the internal champion who ensures every co-created intervention is seamlessly supported and translates to measurable business impact and definitive ROI for the client organization.
Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD | Engineering Leadership Architect & System Design Expert
Lisa Duerre | CEO & Co-Founder, Executive Advisor, AI Leadership Alignment & Leadership Systems Strategist
Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD | Engineering Leadership Architect & System Design Expert
Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD, is an Engineering Leadership Architect and System Design Expert at RLD Group, where she helps organizations strengthen leadership alignment, reduce fragmentation, and design leadership systems that can scale in periods of rapid AI-driven change.
With 20+ years of experience spanning engineering leadership, applied re
Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD, is an Engineering Leadership Architect and System Design Expert at RLD Group, where she helps organizations strengthen leadership alignment, reduce fragmentation, and design leadership systems that can scale in periods of rapid AI-driven change.
With 20+ years of experience spanning engineering leadership, applied research, R&D, academia, and executive coaching, Alenka brings engineering rigor and deep systems thinking to the human, operational, and structural dynamics that shape organizational performance.
Her background includes applying AI and machine learning approaches within complex engineering and industrial environments, giving her a practical perspective on how technical systems and leadership systems intersect in real-world execution.
Using RLD Group’s I–WE–US leadership lens, Alenka helps leaders move beyond symptom-solving to address the underlying conditions driving burnout, silos, trust breakdowns, duplicated efforts, stalled execution, and uneven adoption. Her work focuses on reconnecting people, teams, and organizational systems so communication, decision-making, governance, and execution move together more effectively.
Alenka also co-leads RLD Group’s applied research on AI Leadership Alignment, helping organizations navigate how AI acceleration exposes gaps in leadership systems, collaboration, organizational design, and operational readiness.
She is known for designing co-created, structurally sustainable solutions that strengthen trust, resilience, cross-functional execution, and lasting behavior change across complex technology environments.
Susanne Brothers | Client Success Manager
Ginger Derrickson | Internal Systems & Client Operations Lead
Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD | Engineering Leadership Architect & System Design Expert
Susanne is the Client Success Manager at RLD Group, anchoring the client experience from engagement kickoff through measurable impact and long-term success.
In this role, Susanne ensures that every client touchpoint — from onboarding to project delivery and post-engagement support — is executed with clarity, responsiveness, and strategic a
Susanne is the Client Success Manager at RLD Group, anchoring the client experience from engagement kickoff through measurable impact and long-term success.
In this role, Susanne ensures that every client touchpoint — from onboarding to project delivery and post-engagement support — is executed with clarity, responsiveness, and strategic alignment. She is the connective force between RLD Group’s expert team and client partners, making sure expectations are met, outcomes are tracked, and communications are seamless.
Ginger Derrickson | Internal Systems & Client Operations Lead
Ginger Derrickson | Internal Systems & Client Operations Lead
Ginger Derrickson | Internal Systems & Client Operations Lead
Ginger Derrickson is RLD Group’s essential Internal Systems and Client Operations Lead, ensuring the seamless, scalable execution of the firm’s System Design Practice.
She is responsible for the technical integrity and optimization of RLD Group’s core platforms, specializing in two key areas: Customer Support Systems (ensuring seamless cli
Ginger Derrickson is RLD Group’s essential Internal Systems and Client Operations Lead, ensuring the seamless, scalable execution of the firm’s System Design Practice.
She is responsible for the technical integrity and optimization of RLD Group’s core platforms, specializing in two key areas: Customer Support Systems (ensuring seamless client portal access and issue resolution) and Marketing Systems (managing outbound communication workflows and integrations).
Ginger’s expertise guarantees that every touchpoint and communication workflow is reliable and provides maximum, seamless value. Her focus on technical and process optimization is critical to supporting RLD Group’s co-created engagements and translating them into measurable success for the client organization.
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.
AnnMarie McKenzie
Energetic Leadership Strategist, Master Numerologist, Visionary Facilitator
Experience Includes:
- 30+ years facilitating leadership, community development, and group learning experiences.
- Strategic Planning Advisor specializing in long-term visioning, leadership identity, and organizational direction.
- Creator of the Energetic Intelligence™ Framework for leaders and conscious companies.
- 10+ years integrating emotional mastery, heart coherence, and nervous system capacity into leadership development.
- 4+ years applying numerology and pattern analysis to clarify people, purpose, planning, and profit pathways.
- Speaker and educator for conferences, retreats, and organizational development programs.
- Program and community development expert with a focus on engagement, cohesion, and growth.
- Consultant supporting leadership transitions, culture evolution, communication enhancement and team dynamics.
Michelle Mendoza
Strategic HR Advisor, Executive Coach, Career Coach
Experience Includes:
- 25 years of 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)
- Executive Career Coaching
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
Certified in Leading-Edge Coaching & Change Tools
International Coach Federation
FIRM Leadership
C2IQ
Co-Active Training Institute
mbti Certified
GALLUP CERTIFIED CliftonStrengths Strengths Coach
GALLUP CERTIFIED CliftonStrengths Strengths Coach
GALLUP CERTIFIED CliftonStrengths Strengths Coach
Somatic Coaching Academy
iPEC Certified Professional Coach / Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner
KOLBE Certified
Conversations Worth Having
Organizations Impacted By Our Work
The Essential External Advantage:
When you have access to excellent internal L&D teams, why bring in an external partner?
Today’s leadership models were designed for stable growth — not AI-accelerated disruption.
AI doesn’t cause breakdowns — it exposes where leadership systems were already costly or misaligned.
When strategy, governance, and human decision capacity can’t keep pace with AI, cost and risk multiply quickly.
RLD Group doesn’t deliver theory or repeatable programs. We diagnose and fix the systemic conditions that slow execution, increase risk, and fragment strategic alignment.
We bring:
1. Objective clarity — neutral diagnostics and decision support beyond internal teams
2. Executive credibility — experience solving complex alignment problems in high-pressure tech environments
3. System focus — deep work on system conditions that determine performance, not quick fixes
4. Impact orientation — outcomes tied to execution velocity, risk mitigation, retention, and strategic ROI
