Galliard Team

Galliard Group Team

Lisë Stewart, Founder and Owner

After almost 20 years in business consulting, Lisë founded Galliard Group in 2004 to serve the unique needs of family-owned and closely-held businesses. Lise is a vibrant and sought-after keynote speaker who is passionate about raising the awareness of the importance of family businesses as the foundation of our nation’s economy. In addition to traveling the country advocating and teaching on behalf of family businesses, Lisë focuses her client work on organizational development, exit strategies, strategic planning, family governance and developing effective succession plans.

Amy Davis, Senior Associate

Amy offers leadership expertise built upon over twenty-five years experience in project, staff, and volunteer management serving as project director for non-profit organizations and public/private school/university projects. Amy served as Executive Director of Idaho's Women's Business Center for close to four years bringing it from probationary status to rank as the #3 Center in the country in 2004. Amy helps businesses and non-profit organizations revitalize their strategic plans by focusing on achievable goals and helping them to better utilize their current human and technological capital while creating opportunities for growth.

Camille Oldenburg, Senior Business Advisor

Camille enjoys collaborating with companies of all size; however, she has a particular interest in companies whose revenues are under $10 million and with non-profits who are seeking to grow and expand their services. Camille specializes in strategic business development, planning, marketing, project management and meeting facilitation. Prior to becoming a consultant, Camille held senior level management positions in Business Development, Marketing and General Management with national and regional companies. She works with family-owned businesses focusing primarily on growing the business. Having consulted for the last ten years, Camille has enjoyed diverse consultations with small-to-mid size companies, as well as international and national non-profits that have all desired and experienced strategic growth.

Bret Baker, Senior Business Advisor

Bret helps company owners and managers make their business more successful in improving profitability, increasing cash flow and achieving strategic objectives. For the past 15 years he has been an ad hoc financial officer, helping companies develop better financial reporting that provides the information needed to manage the business and designing metrics to monitor and improve performance on a weekly or daily basis. Previously Bret served as chief financial officer for a small publicly owned banking software company and a large family-owned commercial window manufacturer. He began his career as a certified public accountant with a national accounting firm.

Melissa Kelly-McCabe, Advisory Board

Melissa provides strategic thinking and growth planning, executive business coaching, board development, and professional facilitation and training services. Over the last 20 years Melissa has held positions with General Motors Corporation, Price Waterhouse LLP, the WNY Technology Development Center, Inc., and contracted with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In addition, Melissa assisted Dr. W. Edwards Deming for five years, researching thinking processes and teaching groups about Deming management principles. (Dr. Deming is credited with transforming Japanese management principles and causing the quality revolution.)

Paul Hajek, Senior Business Advisor

Paul started his career 17 years ago as a NASA scientist with MS degree in Optics from University of Rochester, NY. After about six years, Paul had become bored with "black and white" world of science, got his MBA degree, and spent next 6 years working for several large Fortune 500 companies in marketing and finance management roles. In additon to his consulting company, Synergy Business Solutions, Paul has also co-owned three small businesses during the last 10 years, but his main passion has always been helping other business owners to make ALL their business systems better."

David Meyer, PhD, Senior Business Advisor

David has a career dedicated to improving individual and team performance. He can provide performance measures and evaluation tools that demonstrate to your members, partners, and funding sources how well your goals are being met.
His private sector consulting has ranged from Fortune 100 companies to bootstrapped entrepreneurships. These projects have included the development of quality-driven performance measures, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and balanced scorecard approaches. In the public sector, he has provided evaluation services to the National Science Foundation, the United Nations, state agencies, and non-profit foundations.

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Laurel Lennon, Senior Business Advisor

Laurel shares nearly 20 years experience in finance and strategy at companies including GE, Proctor & Gamble and JP Morgan with Galliard Group clients. During her career she has worked with ventures of all sizes in industries ranging from media to manufacturing. Her knowledge encompasses corporate restructurings, transactions and valuations, with a particular expertise in capital markets and growth strategies. Additionally, she has experience in benefits planning.