Gaylyn Sher-Jan is a principal of OnCourse Group, an innovative human capital consultancy. Gaylyn has over 15 years of results producing experience in leadership assessment, skills development,
and accelerating strategic change initiatives within organizations as
a strategic partner.

Gaylyn’s experience spans small to large enterprises across a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, high technology, healthcare scientific research and non-profit. Additionally, Gaylyn’s experience includes environments from start-ups to small businesses to ‘bricks and mortar.’ She’s earned her business skills from highly successful line leadership experiences domestically and internationally. Her international experience includes work in Holland, Spain, England and as an expatriate in Ireland.

Clients value and appreciate Gaylyn’s direct line experience providing deep business knowledge for her clients coupled with hands on, direct work in change management, strategic planning, coaching, facilitating, and training. She has been coaching executives to success for the past 10 years, facilitating and designing strategic planning and business management off-sites, and directly training managers at all levels of an organization in solid management fundamentals. Hewlett-Packard executives relied on her change management expertise to transform the existing, passive culture and create a new, agile culture during the Compaq acquisition. Oregon Health Sciences University brought her in for their monolithic strategic change management effort implementing the complex and ever-changing Presidential HIPAA requirements. In support of her expertise Gaylyn brings a suite of time tested and impactful tools for individuals; she is qualified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Step II and the highly acclaimed Hogan Assessment tool.

Gaylyn hold’s a Bachelor of Science degree in MIS and started her career as a systems analyst in a manufacturing environment. Before starting her own consulting practice Gaylyn served as the Human Resources Manager for the $1B personal printing business of Hewlett-Packard in Vancouver, Washington. She is an American Electronics Association (AeA) committee chair and an active member of the Society for Human Resources, the Software Association of Oregon, and she serves on the board of directors for Share House.

To reach Gaylyn directly, email her at: gaylyn@oncoursegroup.com

Rachelle Jacover is a premier consultant for OnCourse Group, an innovative human capital consultancy firm providing organizational development, training and coaching. Both Fortune 500 companies and small businesses within the High Tech, Manufacturing, Health Care, Finance, Retail, Service, Education, Outplacement and Non-profit industries regularly engage Rachelle for their consulting needs. Multi-talented, Rachelle’s experiences range from strategic partnerships with HR managers on performance/talent management, executive coaching and training design/delivery to, rolling-out global initiatives, leadership and management of remote teams.

Rachelle’s background is a blending of education and on the job experience. Building upon an earlier graduate degree in Divinity/Pastoral Counseling Rachelle is currently completing her Masters in Organizational Development. Rachelle serves as an adjunct professor for Portland and Clackamas Community College’s Institutes for Management Development and is certified to deliver numerous up-to-date assessments, profiles and leadership programs. The quality of her work and innovations early in her career drew national attention when she was a featured presentation on Charles Kuralt’s “On the Road.”

Rachelle’s delightful personality, respectful style and creativity provide clients with practical solutions and resources to achieve outcomes that match the mission, values and goals of their organization, which has become a trademark of her success. Whether in the auditorium making public presentations to large audiences, in the conference room with managers and executives to craft development remedies, off-site with work teams to apply “action learning” or at home in her office completing her book on work/life balance Rachelle is committed to deliver excellence in all that does.

To reach Rachelle directly, email her at: rachelle@oncoursegroup.com