Our People
Richard T. Lippert
Managing Partner of Leathers Milligan & Associates – OI Partners, has over 30 years of senior executive and C-level management experience. Dick has an extensive background in sales and marketing, business development, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and organizational dynamics. Dick has worked in a variety of industries including high tech, consumer products, and services.
Dick’s executive management experience includes leading in global enterprises, operating in high-growth venture capital start-up businesses, post-merger organization cultural integration and facilitating generational ownership transition, improving intra-family communications and conflict resolution in closely-held and family-owned companies. He has achieved notable success building top-performing organizations through his focus on developing people with ethics and integrity to lead and succeed in today’s complex environment. Dick has degrees in political science and economics, is a retired US Naval officer and, in his spare time, is a national champion race car driver. Read more...
Jack W. Milligan, SPHR, GPHR
joined Leathers Milligan & Associates in 2000 and brings over 10 years of experience as a Practice Leader within the Career Transition / Outplacement industry. His previous background includes almost 20 years with ITT Corporation. Jack uses his successful human resources experience to consult with clients on a broad range of business issues including strategic and tactical planning, organizational and succession planning, and staffing and selection. He holds the distinguished GPHR Certification, the highest level of professional certification given by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and is the Arizona State Certification Director for SHRM. Jack earned a Master of Arts degree in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management / Labor Economics. Read more...
Gwen Merry Scheetz, CMF
is a Senior Consultant and Organization Development Practice Leader. She joined Leathers Milligan & Associates – OI Partners in 2001 after twenty-one years with Honeywell. Gwen’s background includes career counseling, team building, and consulting on human resources, training, and organization issues.
She specializes in learning and organization development (OD) initiatives including leadership skills, competency modeling, organization assessment, skills assessments, training design, development and delivery, and the use of technology to improve human resources (HR) programs. Gwen has a degree in education, with a minor in psychology, from the University of Illinois. Gwen is a certified Career Management Fellow (CMF). She is also a member in the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Read more...
Tony Neves
Tony Neves has over 15 years experience in the retained search industry and is Leathers Milligan’s executive search practice leader. He has personally successfully managed more than 300 senior executive searches covering virtually all critical enterprise disciplines including, product development, finance, supply chain, sales and marketing, information technology and human resources. He has helped clients ranging from early stage start-ups to multi-national corporations where his record of delivering timely, high quality solutions to critical talent acquisition challenges has earned him long term client loyalty and status as a preferred supplier and business partner.
Tony’s earlier professional experience contributed greatly to his success in building a strong search practice. For example, he held a leadership position in a non-profit agency providing employment, education and training services to low income residents where he oversaw a Ford Foundation grant tracking the agency’s effectiveness converting clients from welfare to work. It was in this environment that Tony was able to perfect superior interpersonal and communication skills as well as develop the talent to seek out and assessing the intangibles and soft skills that are key performance indicators at every level. Read more...
Mark W. Leathers, LPC
is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in the management and delivery of Executive Coaching and Career Management programs. Following his corporate executive experience, Mark founded Leathers Milligan & Associates - OI Partners in 1995 with the aim of assisting executives, managers and professionals in improving not only their own personal skills and performance but also the performance of their teams and organizations.
Mark has since worked with hundreds of executives, managers and professionals in coaching, outplacement, and management development. Mark holds a BA in Business Administration and a Master of Counseling degree. He holds the credential of Licensed Professional Counselor, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Read more...
James D. Paisley, Ph.D.
is a licensed psychologist with more than 35 years experience as a consultant and therapist. He has provided assessment, management development consulting and career counseling services to individuals and corporate groups. He joined Leathers Milligan & Associates in 1997.
Specializing in outplacement, assessment and coaching, and pre-employment evaluations, Jim has served a variety of Fortune 50 as well as smaller corporate clients. Jim received a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University, a Master's in Personnel Service from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Montana State University. Read more...
Daniel M. Leathers
Dan Leathers is a Senior Consultant with Leathers Milligan & Associates – OI Partners. His responsibilities include providing career transition coaching to both individuals and groups. He has successfully managed multiple career transition centers and worked with individuals at all levels in every stage of the job search process.
In addition, Dan’s experience also includes: coaching, facilitation, and the design and delivery of various training programs. Prior to his role with Leathers Milligan, Dan worked as an Investment Consultant with Charles Schwab and Co., Inc. Dan has lived in the Valley for over 30 years and studied Business at the University of Arizona. Read more...
Ramon A. Arevalo
Ramon Arevalo has been a consultant in the career transition / outplacement industry since 1998. He has coached, advised and mentored clients to achieve changes in current careers or to change careers altogether. Ramon works one-on-one with clients to enhance their skills in interviewing, negotiating and accepting the offer. He has also organized and managed a number of Career Transition Centers.
Ramon’s prior experience includes eighteen years with the IBM Corporation. He has over 1000 hours of formal IBM training on asset administration, communications, commissions, negotiation skills, and continuous improvement methodology. Ramon completed his Executive MBA at Arizona State University. He is bilingual and can read, write and speak Spanish fluently.
Gary Recchion
Gary Recchion is a consultant at Leathers Milligan & Associates-OI Partners, Inc. with more than 20 years of experience in global career development, human resource management and consulting, including on-boarding and employee retention programs, managing personal change and career transition. He has coached and taught thousands of individual and corporate clients across every level and discipline to take ownership of their work and life and to connect with their passion. Fortune 500 companies such as Honeywell, American Express, Digital, and IBM have benefited from Gary’s years of experience and expertise. Gary is a graduate of Waynesburg College, and did graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Read more...
Victoria Crawford
Victoria Crawford has been a Certified personal leadership coach and consultant since 1998. She began her career working with individuals and corporate management teams with clients such as Cox Communications, APS, PetSmart and Viad. In 2002, inspired by the flexibility and adaptability of small business teams, she began working with entrepreneurs and their teams to help them clarify their vision and values, create a plan and achieve their desired results. Victoria helped Mines and Associates, a nationally recognized psychology firm, increase their top line growth by 40% and reorganize their business for growth and scalability.
Victoria is a personal leadership coach working with managers and leaders to help them improve their communication skills, become more self aware and build trust for optimal performance. Her presence, listening and strength‑based style helps clients take quick and effective action for growth and positive results. Read more...
Ken Helman
Ken Helman has been providing professional executive coaching since 1997. Client industries include consumer products, high-tech, healthcare, financial services, legal, energy, recreation and sports, hospitality, insurance, non-profit, government and manufacturing. Individual clients include CEO’s, presidents, vice-presidents, directors, managers and small business owners. Through coaching individuals to improve business and leadership effectiveness, enhance the performance of others and successfully manage new opportunities, Ken has made significant impact on client performance and organizational success.
Ken is certified in Lominger’s Voices as well as Benchmarks and Executive Dimensions from the Center for Creative Leadership. Additionally, he is certified in Predictive Index and utilizes The Forte Institute Interpersonal Communication assessment instrument. Ken has a BA in Management from the University of Phoenix. Read more...
Ron Hudson
Ron Hudson is a Business/Performance Management professional with more than thirty-five years of experience providing a unique perspective into the principles that improve individual and company performance. Ron specializes in strategic planning, performance management, executive coaching and human resource development. Ron facilitates strategic and operational planning, conducts organizational assessments, conducts training and development, provides executive coaching, facilitates succession planning, provides human resource consulting, facilitates board development, conducts compensation planning, and establishes individual and company performance measures. Read more...
Patricia VanLeuvan
Pat VanLeuvan is a Career Management Consultant with over 20 years of Human Resources management experience having held a variety of HR management positions with companies such as Corning Glass Works and Digital Equipment Corporation. Pat provides organizational consulting, employee counseling and career management services for clients ranging from small consulting firms to large high technology Fortune 100 companies. She is recognized as an excellent trainer and consultant providing services to a wide range of people from individual contributors to senior level executives in a broad range of industries.
Pat received a BS in Psychology from Jackson College of Tufts University, an MBA from Northeastern University and a Certificate in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management from Columbia University. She is currently a member of the Society for Human Resources Management. Read more...
Caitlin Green-Cheney
is the Client Services Representative for Leathers Milligan & Associates – OI Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Caitlin worked for a Phoenix-based law firm as an Office and Client Manager. At Leathers Milligan Caitlin dedicates her time to providing excellent client services as well as operating all aspects of daily business. Caitlin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Modern Dance from the University of Utah and is a Phoenix native.
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