What people are saying…

“Beza brings an incredible amount of creativity, energy and thoughtful ideas that greatly contributed to the success of our event. Her efforts incorporating leadership coaching and team building activities were particularly impactful, fostering a sense of unity and growth amongst our Senior Management Team.

She created an environment where people felt empowered to contribute and collaborate. Her vision and meticulous planning were productive and deeply insightful. The positive outcomes of the event will undoubtedly carry forward into our work. Overall, it was a meaningful and successful experience that ran smoothly and efficiently.”

— Melaku Dessie, Division Director, Global Health Bureau, Nov 2024 (previous client)

Companies

“Beza worked with my team for two years for our senior management and all team retreats. She also facilitated my leadership team’s growth as a senior leadership group. Across all of our interactions, she was thoughtful, kind, and thought-provoking in the most meaningful way possible.

Under her tutelage, our senior management team really grew and understood ourselves better and became a better management team-more committed to the psychological safety of our strengths and build our strategy in actionable ways. I fully recommend her for your team’s growth needs.”

— Julianna Kohler, Deputy Division Director, Global Health Bureau, Feb 2025 (previous client)

“Huge thanks to Beza for her phenomenal facilitation. Without her disarming presence, we would not have been as comfortable and candid. Thank you for creating the space for us to reflect on the past year, explore interpersonal development, celebrate successes, and have much needed conversations on difficult topics. We generated impactful solutions that I am excited for us to implement over the coming year.”

— Jasmine Buttolph, MPH, Division Director, Global Health Bureau, Nov 2023 (previous client)

“The Leadership Coaching course provided us with a much-needed safe space to disconnect from the hustle of our schedules and focus inward. We built connections amongst participants and the facilitator. There was sufficient time to reflect and think deeply about challenging topics. I really enjoyed practicing coaching techniques so we can be more confident in applying them in the future in all aspects of our lives.

I left with tools to approach future challenges and communicate more effectively with my team. I learned how to approach some personal challenges with a new perspective. It gave me a different lens to look at any future challenges. I learned to focus on what I can control, which includes how I react to a situation, and how I make others feel through my actions.

I learned to consider all sides of a story before jumping to conclusions. I am very inspired by the possibility of creating the life I want and allowing it to flow through me, rather than feeling victimized or powerless by life happening to me. The coaching course provided me with tools to approach future challenges and communicate more effectively with my team.”

— Camille Manoukian, MPH, Program Coordinator, Global Health Bureau, Jun 2024 (previous client)

“The Leadership Coaching course encouraged me to be more introspective and reflect on tough work situations. I learned key coaching skills, such as listening to understand, instead of listening to respond.

I enjoyed the hands-on exercise to address a current challenge I was dealing with at work. Going through the exercise provided me with new insights, a strengthened mindset (being more open-minded, such as the ability to see things from another’s perspective) and a clear approach to dealing with my pressing work challenge. I look forward to learning more from these coaching course series!”

— Atlang Mompe, Program and Data Quality Advisor, Global Health Bureau, Jun 2024 (previous client)

“Thank you for the lasting contribution you have made to Marine Corps University and History Division. You are a true professional who has shown by example that excellence is something to aim for every day.

Your assessments and guidance on solution development for some of our workplace challenges were truly appreciated and we thank you for your time and knowledge.”

— Brigadier General Walker Field, President, Marine Corps University, Commanding General, Education Command, Dec 2021 (previous client)

“Beza initially served as an Organization Development (OD) Specialist and within six months she established herself as our lead Senior OD Specialist, primarily servicing our most senior/high visibility clients. Shortly after completing her first year with us she competed for and was selected to serve as the supervisor for the OD Team. She possesses outstanding attention to detail skills and was responsible for providing reports for some of the most far reaching projects and conference/symposiums in the Marine Corps. She served as our senior analyst to the CEO of the Marine Corps, a 4 Star General, the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) as well as for the senior enlisted representative of the Marine Corps, the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (SMMC). Her and her team provided facilitation and technical support to include: symposiums, working groups, and critiques/surveys. She conducted extensive research to ensure her and her team had the most relevant and accurate information possible.

Beza is a true thoroughbred, she thrives on challenges, you can trust her for your most complex and challenging projects/customers. Her credentials are impeccable. She has the experience, education, leadership, command presence, and professional savvy to lead at the highest level. In my over 48 years in the workforce, Beza is one of the best hires I’ve had the honor to make. She will definitely take your organization to the next level.”

  • Beza’s strengths include: 1) She has keen insight and an uncanny ability to quickly analyze complex issues and come up with extremely well throughout solutions; to include providing customers with multiple options to choose from. 2) Her ability to fully engage with her customers. She really takes the time to fully understand her customers, to include their mission, inter workings, internal and external dynamics, challenges, and treats. 3) Her ability to gain the trust and confidence of her customers. She is compassionate, an outstanding listener, extremely perceptive, and has a calming effect that puts everyone at ease regardless of the task at hand.

    Her commitment to quality: 1) She possesses outstanding oral and written communication skills and has the ability to tailor her conversation/interaction, report or presentation to any audience, regardless of the size, composition, education, or complexity of the group. 2) All of her products are well crafted, precise, and serve as a standard for others to follow.

    Beza’s leadership/teamwork abilities: 1) Beza is the consummate team player who brings out the very best in those around her. 2) She is quick to lend a hand, offer assistance, or take a lower role/responsibility to ensure the success of a project. This includes things like taking team notes, setting up audiovisual equipment, setting up breakout rooms, facilitating smaller working groups, conducting interviews, and research in support of a team initiative. 3) Her and her team often worked together in developing their teams annual training plan and coordinated and supported each other in the development of their individual development plans.

    Co-workers may describe her as: 1) Humble and totally team oriented, 2) Fun loving, caring, and sharing, 3) A pleasure to work with. 4) Her and her team were very close, often taking time to get away for team building exercises as well as celebrating each other’s personal achievements (e.g., education, training certifications, weddings, etc.).

    Operating under stress: I have personally observed her ability to maintain her cool under very stressful encounters. During one of her facilitated sessions with one of our high visibility customers, our computer systems went out, she immediately went into action, using flip charts, sticky notes, and breaking attendees to smaller groups for targeted facilitated sessions. The meeting ended on time and the final product was outstanding as always.”

— William Whaley, Former Director of the Human Resources and Organizational Management Development Branch, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps (USMC), Dec 2022 (previous leadership)

“Beza is passionate about ensuring leaders, teams and organizations are operating at an optimal state, while adapting to change and driving innovative solutions. She always goes “above and beyond” for clients and holds that same high standard for her staff. She provided an inspiring strategic direction and developed the infrastructure for the Organization Development (OD) Team (e.g., OD Brochure, Process Map, Service Agreement, Logo, Onboarding Process, and the revamping of onboarding slides). Her warm and welcoming presence, as well as team building exercises created safety her team. Beza shifted the culture from initially operating in silos to being collaborative. She takes an “all hands on deck” approach to client projects and leverages strengths and interests of the team. Over the past 3 years, under her leadership, the OD products/services have substantially improved and transformed to better service clients/organizations. She is passionate about ensuring leaders, teams and organizations are operating at an optimal state, while adapting to change and driving innovative solutions. Beza is always willing to jump in and support me with initiatives/tasks required to support varying levels within USMC. We greatly benefited from her expertise, talents and commitment. I highly recommend her services."

  • “During the beginning of COVID-19, leadership anticipated OD Team’s workload might decrease as most of our work was conducted in-person, however the opposite was true as the number of clients increased. The OD Team sustained existent clients, while also securing new clients. Beza demonstrated leadership by embracing change to adapt to the virtual environment. She was able to do this by providing clear strategic direction, cultivating relationships, and leveraging technologies. She was selected to facilitate key aspects of the Distributed Work Environment (DWE) OPT (e.g., facilitating two-day kick off meeting) to support the entire organization to adapt to the virtual environment and leverage technologies. She briefed LtGen Broadmeadow on the development and creation of Opportunity Statements as an approach to position DWE through Opportunity Framing vice Problem Framing. She designed and implemented approaches for the OPT course of action (COA) development and served as an alternate lead for the COA development working groups. She contributed to the culture line of effort and provided valuable feedback to the Implementation Plan. She wrote the Conversation Guide to serve as a tool used for supervisors to facilitate meaningful conversations with their staff on a recurring basis to promote connection, engagement and well-being.

    Beza also provided strategic advising/consultations to our AR Front Office on a recurring basis and additional branches, such as ARD to identify ways to better adapt to the virtual environment to ensure employee engagement and quality customer service. I had the pleasure to partner with her on ARHM Management initiatives, including hiring efforts for vacancies. She led an ARHM Knowledge Management (KM) Leadership Project, which identified key attributed that make leaders successful. She briefed the findings that identified strengths to leverage and opportunities for improvement for our section.”

— LaVonda Lessane, Section Head, United States Marine Corps (USMC), May 2021 (previous supervisor)

“Beza is the kind of person you want on your team. She stands out as one of a kind in terms of hitting the ground running, contributing positively to projects in way that moves things forward, and is a great partner to hash out new ideas. She works extremely well with others and can navigate challenging contexts. Within weeks of starting her new role, she demonstrated leading a team via an Organizational Development project, delegating to peers, managing the project, working with high-level clients.

The impacts of her engagements with clients have generated positive feedback including that clients noting that Beza brought unique and needed level of support. She contributed to the development of her peers by encouraging peers to shadow her to learn best practices with various critical initiatives. She has the confidence to execute new projects/challenges.

When I was on leave, Beza served as Acting Section Head, taking on leadership duties and offering to provide support wherever needed (however big or small the task). She developed tools/standards to improve the quality of work for the section. Overall, Beza stands out as a top performing and highly emotionally intelligent leader!”

— Anyana Banerjee, Former Section Head, United States Marine Corps (USMC), May 2018 (previous supervisor)

“Beza is an extremely strong resource who demonstrates creative and independent thinking when leading and supporting different organizational development initiatives. During the time she supported on my team, she accomplished a number of tasks successfully, all of which resulted in accolades from the client.

As one of her first projects, she was responsible for leading a workforce planning initiative in support of the reorganization across NCEH/ATSDR and providing details that helped align the needs and priorities of the organization with the workforce. The resulting report became the start of the first-ever succession plan for the Center. Additionally, she conducted an analysis of the annual Employee Viewpoint Survey (EVS) and used the data to provide recommendations to leadership for improving employee satisfaction and retention. As with all of her work, this high-visibility project was completed with precision, and the documented results were well-received and easily understood by the NCEH/ATSDR leadership.

Because of Beza’s ability to lead and exceed expectations, during my maternity leave, Beza was trusted to backfill in my absence, and she did so without missing a beat. It is through this level of leadership and professionalism that allows me to wholeheartedly endorse Beza for a more senior position that draws on her creativity and allows her to lead a team and remain client facing – both externally and internally.”

— Latrisha Hernandez, Director, HR Transformation and HCM Workday, PwC, Jul 2018 (previous supervisor)

Leaders

“I was so grateful to be on Beza's team. Then and now Beza exudes positive connection. During a time of upheaval Beza was key in keeping our community together via frequent, encouraging communication and organization of thoughtful, constructive events.

Beza's magic is in her example. She embodies the intentional, heart-driven transformation that she nurtures in her coaching and facilitation clients. She constantly performs and shares reflection exercises, actively seeks feedback and acts on it, and embraces creative approaches to work smarter, not harder.

Beza's energy, sincerity, and joyful spirit are truly infectious, inspiring those around her to bring their best selves forward. I am confident that anyone who has the opportunity to work with Beza will be better for it.

— Sara Rachmeler, Strategic Operations & Finance Expert, May 2025 (previous colleague)

“Beza breathes a unique life into her facilitation and coaching, leveraging her engaging and curious demeanor to elicit authentic and active participant involvement in her inclusively crafted activities and discussions. Her coaching and organizational development craft are insightful, human-centered and proactive. She anticipates participant needs, provokes introspection, connects people to powerful concepts, and models lifelong learning throughout her process. She develops leaders, teams and cultures to improve engagement, performance, strategic direction and processes to achieve goals and make impact. She is an invaluable contributor and a true asset to cross-functional teams and organizations in multiple sectors.”

— Megan Corley, Instructional Designer & eLearning Developer, May 2025 (previous colleague)

“Beza is an excellent mentor who is highly knowledgeable about her area of expertise. During our conversations, she offered insights and strategies on how to navigate the job market after graduation, including the various opportunities available in global public health. Her approach focuses on co-creation which helped me to maximize my talent and the job opportunities I was targeting.

Beza was also earnest in sharing her own experiences and lessons learned; I am fortunate to have connected with her and I cannot recommend her enough to anyone interested in collaborating with her!”

— Martha Kamikazi, MPH, Jul 2023 (previous client)

“I have had the pleasure of watching Beza grow from a smart, thoughtful colleague into an inspirational leader and coach. She is quick to point out others' strengths and abilities and often knows the right thing to say to help you find your way. When I was recently transitioning to a new position, she gave me some useful resources to help me with the transition. It allowed me to be more mindful and deliberate during a stressful time full of change, and I feel like the transition was much smoother as a result. She is also naturally curious and loves to learn new things, so she always seems have new and relevant tools, articles, or resources to share, no matter what goal or challenge I'm working on.”

— Carolyn Acker, MPH, Jan 2021 (previous colleague & client)

“I connected with Beza at the beginning of this year as I searched for summer public health internships. She provided invaluable public health and professional development insights and resources. Beza also willingly connected me with public health leaders, which supported me to find this great opportunity. I am so appreciative of her time. I highly recommend her services to others!”

— Almalina Gomes MPH, Oct 2023 (previous client)