Organizational Leadership Consulting

Bill Adams
Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder

Bill loves people and is passionate about relationships, leadership, and business. He is a serial entrepreneur who has started, owned and sold multiple businesses. As a founder and CEO of Leadership Circle, a premier leadership consulting firm, Bill brings thirty years of experience to his clients – the CEOs of major Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits, and private equity start-ups. In addition, Bill recently co- authored Mastering Leadership, An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results and Scaling Leadership, Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most. As a trusted advisor, teacher, consultant, and coach, he works with CEOs and top teams in fulfilling the promise of leadership.

Bob Anderson
Chief Knowledge Officer | Co-Founder

Bob has dedicated his career to exploring the intersections between leadership and personal mastery, and between competence and consciousness. The creator and author of The Leadership Circle Profile, an integrated and innovative leadership assessment tool, Bob is a true pioneer in the field of leadership development and research. As a founder of Leadership Circle, Bob lends his expertise to developing practitioners around the globe to carry on the powerful work derived from the tools and offerings these two companies provide to leaders. In addition, Bob recently co-authored Mastering Leadership, An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results and Scaling Leadership, Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most.

Betsy Leatherman
Global President of Consulting Services

Betsy brings deep passion, intuition, and an intense drive for success to Leadership Circle’s business and clients. In her role as President of Leadership Circle Consulting Services, Betsy derives great pleasure from helping executives understand their executive assessment in meaningful ways that impact how their teams function and their business grow. She is a driving force behind helping our clients become more effective leaders so that they may make the most courageous choices and decisions that inspire and engage the members of the organizations they lead and the customers they serve.

Cindy Adams
Global President and Chief Learning Officer – Cornerstone

Cynthia Adams is Global President of Cornerstone.  She leads our global leadership teams initiatives focused on transformational change, systems perspective, and alignment.  Particularly important to her is advancing leadership Creative capacity and expression, organizational scale, and ensuring the capability to fulfill upon purpose and vision for evolving conscious leadership worldwide. Cindy combines a deep understanding of leadership development, whole systems change, adult development, and business process performance to guide outcomes that matter, engagement, adaptive capacity, and fulfillment. As a fellow traveler on the leader’s path, both personally and professionally, she is intimately familiar with the challenges that leaders face throughout their careers and the adaptive challenge inherent in meeting today’s turbulent conditions. As a founding partner and leader, Cindy has worked with leaders from a wide array of businesses and industries.

Aaronde Seckou Creighton
Chief Diversity Officer

Aaronde Seckou Creighton is the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) of The Leadership Circle. As CDO, he creates our strategic approach to Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (JEDI-B) and supports our community of practitioners in JEDI-B work. Additionally, Aaronde ensures we continue to do our own development within the organization in JEDI-B. He also serves as an Account Lead for our global clients, ensuring that the delivery of our services to clients meets the high expectations that the industry has come to expect from our company. In addition to these responsibilities, Aaronde continues to serve our clients directly as a consultant, executive coach and facilitator.

Suzanne Kietselaer
President of Consulting Services – Coaching

Suzanne Kietselaer is an acknowledged global specialist in adult development and executive coaching and an experienced executive coach and senior leadership facilitator, facilitating transformation with leaders, leadership teams and organizations. 

She has over 15 years of experience as a facilitator and coach and she worked at various international coaching and training companies. She fulfilled a number of leadership roles herself, most recently as VP of Coaching at a Dutch-based global training and coaching firm, where she has built a coaching department of >100 coaches executing more than 15.000 hours of coaching per year