Kathy Church, Owner and Principal Consultant

Kathy Church is the Owner and Principal Consultant with Strategic Focus Associates. Based in Seattle, WA, she has more than 40 years of experience leading strategic planning, organizational design and change efforts in large, complex systems. Her participatory approach creates high performance work systems that align with business strategy and drive employee retention and engagement. Kathy has worked in a variety of public and private sectors including higher education, healthcare, aerospace, federal government, financial services, technology, sales and services, manufacturing, nonprofit, automotive, and telecommunications.

Cheryl Foss

Cheryl has over 25 years of Leadership Development, Team Development, Strategy Development, Organization Design, and Change Management experience. She integrates extensive experience and deep knowledge in these areas in her work as an executive coach and consultant to elevate performance in complex systems and help executives and organizations achieve unsurpassed results. Cheryl has deep experience in Healthcare, Hi-tech, academia, manufacturing, energy, financial, consulting, government and non-profit organizations. She draws from her understanding of organizational, interpersonal and leadership dynamics in her approach to ensure the greatest impact with her clients. Cheryl has assisted clients in mergers, building their executive teams, creating and deploying their strategies, building relationships, redesigning organizations, and many other leadership and strategic challenges.

Gary Frank

Gary has 40 years of experience consulting to private, public and non-profit organizations. Gary has consulted with organizations in a variety of industries including high technology fabrication and assembly, heavy manufacturing, consumer food products, health care, training and education, chemical production, oil transport, law enforcement and corrections, and public education. His consulting practice focuses primarily on guiding clients through major systems changes to create high performance work systems.

Susan Franzen

In addition to being an Associate at SFA, Susan is the owner and principal of PatternShifts, a performance improvement firm with a mission to inspire adaptable, people driven organizations to succeed in shifting environments through better thinking. She is a collaborative, strategic, and visionary leader with a focus on growth, change, and performance improvement. Susan has over 30 years of experience in leadership and organizational development in higher education, industry, government, and nonprofit sectors.

Zenia Raudsepp

Zenia is an Associate at Strategic Focus Associates, based in the Washington DC area. She has more than 30 years of experience leading major organizational change efforts from small startups to Fortune 50 businesses. Zenia has deep experience in working in the development and execution of comprehensive strategies to drive organizational change across large complex systems, incorporating organizational design, change management, integrated talent management, and team effectiveness interventions. Zenia has consulted to client organizations in a variety of sectors including higher education, financial services, federal government, technology, government contracting, manufacturing, and nonprofit.

Meg McConnell

Meg, an Associate for Strategic Focus Associates, is a communications professional with over 20 years of client-facing experience. Based in Colorado Springs, CO, she is the owner of Due West Design studio and has consulted with organizations in a variety of industries including higher education clients, technology companies, medical practices, fine arts organizations, and many in the nonprofit space. Her work with SFA primarily focuses on developing project communication materials, report design, and running planning and logistics for large group meetings. Meg holds a master’s degree in Communication and also has significant experience managing projects for national and international corporate, nonprofit, and small business clients.

Laura Tyler

Laura is a Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt certified MBA graduate and strategic thinker with a passion for continual process improvement. With a Master of Business Administration degree from Clemson University, Laura has honed her skills in project management and global management and brings a diverse educational background and scientific approach to her professional pursuits.

In her previous roles, Laura has demonstrated her ability to lead teams and drive operational excellence. As the practice manager of a specialty surgical practice, she continually drove team success implementing a series of digital transformations gaining efficiencies through streamlining workflows, reducing duplicated work, and reducing rework.