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Katherine Atkinson is happiest when uncovering what makes people tick and helping them connect to their purpose. It’s only fitting that as an ethOs employee experience consultant, Katherine knows how to ask the questions that helps our team identify the key strategies for enhancing our clients’ employee wellbeing, engagement, and leadership development opportunities. Katherine unwinds by spending time with her family, baking, traveling, exploring nature, and reading.

As the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) lead for the ethOs team, Nola Cartmill meets organizations where they’re at in their DEI journey. Whether they’re just starting to explore DEI planning or are continually evolving initiatives, she offers expert guidance to ensure all employees feel welcome and represented as they are. As a lawyer, Nola’s past experience in employment law means she offers a rich understanding of DEI issues and strategies. When Nola isn’t cheering on her clients, you’ll find her cheering for the Iowa Hawkeyes and Chicago Bears.

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Adam Falk is the ethOs go-to guy for strategic and technical guidance on all things organizational wellbeing, employee experiences, and sustainability. Adam keeps one eye on the ethOs business plans while also identifying opportunities for enhancing our clients’ experiences. Keeping with the team’s approach to helping people live happy, healthy lives, Adam is intentional about his own personal wellbeing to stay present and at the top of his game at all times.

Meredith Gallivan combines her appreciation for understanding people’s motivations and keen eye for detail to help organizations align their people strategies with their business strategies. Meredith’s experience with building employee engagement efforts and communications helps the ethOs team map out and share important resources companywide. Meredith most enjoys analyzing workplace experiences among different generations and identifying areas of opportunity that build great cultures. As the mother of two young children, Meredith doesn’t remember what “extra time” looks like, and yet she still manages to volunteer with several important community initiatives.

As a senior employee experience consultant, Brett Newman has the knowledge and passion to create strategies, partnerships, and technological solutions for taking workplace health and wellbeing to the next level. Brett spearheaded Amazing Me, an ethOs proprietary technology, that guides employees to explore personal values and wellbeing to create customized goals and a plan for reaching them. Brett’s entrepreneurial background, including involvement with several physical and mental health start-ups, offers our team and clients insights into data and analytic strategies, client services, and business development. Brett loves his time with his wife and two daughters, enjoys his quest to perfect smoked brisket, and is here to cheer on all Dallas sports teams.

As the ethOs visionary and leader, Ali Payne is known to be (very) enthusiastic about helping businesses and nonprofits create healthy and authentic organizational cultures. Ali has devoted more than 20 years to the study of organizational wellbeing and has built a team as passionate as she is for championing thriving cultures. As a marathon runner, CEO, wife, and mother, Ali invests seemingly endless energy into the pursuit of helping people live more meaningful, purpose-driven lives. Lucky for our clients, that means leading efforts to create healthier, happier brand experiences.

Ask Lou Raiola about the importance of sustainability initiatives for businesses and then sit back for a highly detailed and entertaining recollection of its evolution through the years to be more relevant today than ever. Lou is nationally recognized as an early pioneer of cause marketing and believes that that organizations can — and should — “Do well by doing good.” As a leading expert on sustainability strategies for public and privately held companies, you’ll often find Lou on a stage somewhere speaking of how sustainability initiatives effectively position organizations to make lasting impact with purpose.

To know Michelle Weil is to know that you matter. As a senior employee experience consultant, Michelle believes in the power of continual education and development, both of which can enhance life for every individual. She loves to help organizations state their purpose, enabling employees and stakeholders to align with and contribute their unique skills and personalities to impact the organization as a whole. Michelle’s background in human resources helps her connect organizational challenges with employee challenges to better analyze and plan the strategies for moving both in a positive direction.