• Guides strategy and client partnerships supports relationship-building, scoping, and ensuring deliverables meet executive-level needs.

• Leads leadership and organizational development integration ensures analytics and evaluation findings translate into practical leadership actions, coaching priorities, and sustainable organizational change.

• Oversees the firm’s work and standards ensures projects align with TheStriekerGroup’s mission, quality expectations, and client commitments.

• Provides quality assurance at the executive level: reviews high-stakes conclusions and recommendations for clarity, feasibility, and alignment to organizational realities.

• Supports delivery excellence helps keep timelines, roles, and communications on track, so clients experience consistent, professional follow-through.

• Directs client-facing narrative and deliverables: executive summaries, reports, presentations, and “marketing-safe” claims that are accurate, defensible, and easy to understand.

• Provides project leadership manages stakeholder alignment, maintains scope/timeline coherence, and ensures analytic outputs answer the intended questions.

• Sets the analytic agenda translates client priorities into clear evaluation questions, success metrics, and decision points.

• Designs the measurement plan selects/aligns tools (assessments, surveys, observations), defines key constructs (e.g., implementation phase/dosage), and ensures data can be linked over time appropriately.

• Establishes analytic standards that defines comparison logic, subgroup plans, growth metrics, and rules for handling missing data/outliers and clustering (children/classrooms/schools).

• Grounds analytics in real practice ensures analyses and interpretations reflect child development, classroom realities, and implementation conditions, so findings lead to practical next steps—not abstract statistics.

• Leads validity and meaning checks: reviews patterns for plausibility, flags data concerns that require follow-up, and ensures interpretations are educationally sound.

• Interprets findings and builds recommendations converts results into actionable guidance (what to sustain, what to adjust, what to test next), aligned to recognized frameworks and client goals.

As an executive coach, Marilyn specializes in leadership development and is a coach for leaders and managers in such companies as Siemens, Disney, Lockheed and Solvay Pharmaceuticals. Her unique focus is providing customized coaching materials that leaders can apply directly to improve their operations in areas of strategic planning, reengineering/process improvement, and coaching others for high performance.​

• Manages data ingestion and quality control cleans (“scrubs”) datasets, resolves duplicates/inconsistencies, standardizes formats, and documents data dictionaries and transformations.

• Builds and maintains the data infrastructure establishes secure repositories, file structures, version control, and repeatable workflows.

• Builds client capacity creates templates, documentation, and “how-to” guides so teams interpret outputs consistently and use the same measures across sites over time.

• Implements privacy and security workflows: de-identification/anonymization procedures, access controls, and secure sharing protocols.

• Executes analyses and reporting outputs runs statistical analyses, produces tables/figures, and builds dashboards/scorecards that support leadership decisions.

• Supports leadership through analytics translates findings into decision-ready metrics (KPIs, thresholds, trend indicators) leaders can use to prioritize resources, set targets, and monitor progress.

• Supports organizational change with measurement systems: designs feedback loops (monthly/quarterly scorecards, implementation monitoring, early-warning indicators) that help organizations sustain improvements and course-correct during rollout.

• Supports operations and monitoring: tracks data submissions, creates progress checks, and ensures analytic deliverables stay on schedule and aligned to the plan.

Early in his career, Chip held the position of Principal at Ernst & Young, where he was responsible for leading the Southeastern finance and strategic planning practice. In this capacity, he provided services to a wide range of clients, including those at local, regional, and national levels. Chip’s experience also includes serving as a regional manager for a major investor-owned, multi-hospital system, where he further developed his expertise in healthcare operations and management.

Chip is actively involved in professional organizations within the healthcare field. He is an affiliate of the American College of Healthcare Executives and maintains membership in the American Association of Healthcare Consultants (AAHC). As a certified healthcare consultant within the AAHC, Chip stands out as one of the select healthcare executive recruiters to hold this distinction. In addition to his professional affiliations, Chip has made significant civic contributions, most notably through his years of service as Chairman of the Board for the American Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute.

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Chip earned his undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina and went on to complete a master’s degree in health systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With more than 25 years of experience in executive search and leadership selection across a diverse range of industries and client engagements, Mr. Nagle brings a comprehensive background in both retained search and organizational development, as well as expertise in strategic planning.

Dr. Susan Stockdale is a seasoned educator and consultant with more than 30 years of experience helping schools and universities strengthen teaching, learning, and leadership. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Tennessee and has spent her career bridging research and real-world practice.

Ayesha brings both classroom and administrative expertise to TheStriekerGroup. She has three years of experience as a Teacher Associate at Suzuki Montessori School in Atlanta, GA, where she worked with children from birth to age five, supported teachers in implementing developmentally appropriate practices, and strengthened school–home communication.