Network Board

HSD Institute is pleased to introduce the 2012 Network Board of Directors:

Denise Easton

Denise Easton is chief executive officer and founder of Uliveandlearn, a leading digital learning development and business strategy firm Ms. Easton is regarded as an industry expert and is a frequent speaker and panelist on the topic of technology and effective learning program development.

Before founding ULiveandLearn, Ms. Easton spent more than 15 years in financial services marketing, product development and sales. Easton has also managed national financial services direct marketing programs for television, radio, and print media. Easton received a BA from The College of William and Mary and holds a graduate certificate in public communications from Boston University.

Ms. Easton was certified as a Human Systems Dynamics Associate and is currently working on the integration of HSD and technology driven engagement.  In 2009, Denise co-founded a consulting firm focused on the dynamical interplay of learning within complex systems.

Ms. Easton is on the board of Nibipedia, a social media video platform, and the network board for the Human Systems Dynamics Institute

Steve Hearsum

Steve Hearsum runs Deboxing, a niche consultancy specialising in the working with top teams to align change programmes at organisation, team and individual levels.

As well as Deboxing, he is co-founder of The Fit Forum (www.fitforum.org), a trustee of Brighton & Hove Community & Voluntary Sector Forum and a self-confessed coffee nerd. Steve is on a never ending quest for the perfect blend of bean, grinder, milk and steam, and the best way to combine them. The interconnectedness of ingredients and process has become a defining metaphor, and this coffee-infused philosophy informs his practice.

Steve works with clients to help them work better together, and is passionate about sensitizing people to the role that human interactions play in delivering high performance. In no small part, that is what led him to HSD, which has become another valuable lens through which to look at organisational relationships and patterns of interaction. 

Steve works with commercial and public sector organisations as well as social enterprises and other not-for-profits.

Mary Nations

Mary's passion is to work with organizations and the people in them to be more effective, authentic and flexible in changing environments.  For over two decades, she has worked as a consultant, manager, team player, and coach. She has extensive experience leading change efforts in corporate and nonprofit organizations. Recent work includes facilitating culture change programs, guiding intensive leadership workshops, and collaborating with an internet-based radio show that featuring a broad range of diversity and inclusion topics.

Megan Rounds 

As a teenager just entering the workforce, Megan Rounds, Ed.D, HSDP dreamt of a world where work was fun to the point where the word "work" no longer applied, where people loved what they did, did what they loved, and were appreciated and rewarded accordingly. Being the adventurous, free-spirited, idealist type, she pursued an informal education through living in multiple states within the US, traveling to over 16 countries and working in a multitude of very diverse jobs along the way before landing in her first professional career in Human Resources. In her various jobs, Megan observed the dramatic effects that work culture, and different approaches to change, had on the morale and productivity of employees (including her own). In her professional roles, where she worked in non-profit, government and for-profit organizations, Megan applied what she’d learned in her earlier experiences, specifically with reference to how organization culture and change linked to individual and corporate performance. She also completed her formal education (BA in HR Management, MA in Organization Management, and EdD in Organization Development) and, in 2006, formed her consulting company, perculcha, LLC, with a focus on, surprise, surprise, performance through vitality, culture through intention and change through awareness. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with her husband, daughter, dog and two cats.

Janice Ryan

Janice is a Doctor of Occupational Therapy and a Certified Human Systems Dynamics Professional. As owner of Human Systems Occupational Therapy, she provides system-wide services that address the common needs of people with dementia and their caregivers, whether living at home or on any scale of long term care. Janice’s program applies four cornerstones to create an enriched and therapeutic environment. By focusing on the entire caregiving system - interpersonal relationships, meaningful activity engagements, memory retrieval and awareness of self - a person with dementia can interact in a more connected way with others and with their environment.  Meanwhile, everyone benefits from interventions supporting the healthy inter-relational dynamics of a more relaxed caregiver.  

Janice is currently an adjunct professor in the University of Tennessee, College of Allied Health Sciences Department of Occupational Therapy. She leads student research groups exploring the benefits of therapists and caregivers learning to use a technique called therapeutic-use-of-self in their daily interactions with people with dementia. Janice is also on the national Board of Directors and is an international trainer for the American Association of Multi-Sensory Environments. In this role, she teaches practitioners how to encourage clients’ sensory processing of the current world around them, increase awareness for reactivating personally meaningful memories and improve self-motivation for purposeful engagements.  

A cognitive care occupational therapist since 1985, Janice earned her Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 2007 with a focus on studying the health and wellness benefits of spiritual occupations during aging and in dementia. Since that time, she has embedded her program in assisted living communities in six states, adapted it for use in hospice care and is a frequent speaker on the enhanced social-spiritual-sensory dynamics of therapeutic memory care.

Rebecca Korphage

Rebecca (Becca) Korphage, owner and principle consultant for KOR Solutions, LLC, has 17 years of professional experience crossing the corporate, entrepreneurial and non-profit environments in a broad range of industries.

She has conducted a myriad of projects in the areas of strategic planning, process analysis, design/redesign, program development, strategic communications, curriculum and training development and other organization development initiatives.

A few examples of Rebecca’s projects: whole-system/business process assessment/design/redesign and documentation for an innovative construction industry company;  taking a new specialty patient service from a pilot program to being accepted hospital-wide, developing the organizational infrastructure and communications efforts to support the initiative; redesign of the New Employee Orientation program for an engineering firm, etc.  Rebecca also has facilitated numerous teams and organizations through strategic planning and organization design.

Rebecca has a Masters in Human Resource Development and Organization Development.  Her Bachelors degree is in Political Science with an emphasis in Leadership Development.  She also has certification in Team Facilitation. Rebecca is a Kansas City metro native with a passion for growing businesses, community non-profits and the arts. She continues to be active in the political, entrepreneurial and non-profit communities through volunteer efforts and as a member of several Boards of Directors.

Ex-Officio

• Sally Gritten
• Judy Tal