Meet our CEO, Laurie Battaglia, the creator of the Aligned for Life Model™️ and the Aligned Leader™️ Model.

A long-time corporate leader with over thirty-five years of experience, Laurie is an expert at solving people problems before they become profit problems. Her work as a thought leader, author, and speaker contributes to her innovative approach to developing next-generation leaders who build inclusive work environments and understand that people are the heart and soul of business. 

Known for transforming people, cultures, and workplaces, Laurie uses her abilities as a Leadership Consultant, Trainer, and Executive Coach to help leaders discover who they are and how they lead. With her assistance, companies can expect more engaging, human-centered environments where leaders and their teams thrive.

Tish Times is a Senior Leadership Consultant who brings her experience as a senior leader in the staffing industry into her work with other leaders. She is known for her facilitation and coaching of corporate leaders and teams, as well as entrepreneurs.

Tish uses a unique approach to networking to help companies increase employee engagement, develop brand ambassadors, and teach communication in the workplace. Tish also coaches entrepreneurs to amplify their business and increase profits with unparalleled networking strategies.

Because of Times’ expertise and skill, her workshops, one-to-one consultations, group facilitations, and individual performance coaching are not the typical “packaged” programs.

As an Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Master Certified Coach with more than 3,000 coaching hours, Lauren has worked with hundreds of clients in tech, design, health care, nonprofits, and financial services. Lauren creates safe and supportive spaces for incoming and existing leaders to harness their unique voice, develop necessary skills for constantly changing environments, and build leadership pipelines for the future.

Before becoming a coach, Lauren served as Executive Director of three global trade associations and has over 20 years of professional experience. Lauren also is the Innovative Mindset facilitator for Capital One’s Catapult program.

Mary Beth’s career spans more than three decades in the corporate financial services industry, during which time she has volunteered with various local non-profits. This diversity of experience gives her powerful insight into the realities faced today by leaders of all types and in enterprises of all sizes.

Mary Beth inherited a storyteller’s gene. She blends hard-hitting facts with courage, common sense and a quit wit. In her consultations and workshops, she emphasizes her strongly-held belief that people are far more than the work they do—and that with the right tools and support, they can grow both personally and professionally. 

Fred Amador has spent over the last 20 years as a career coach, educator and a mentor in higher education and non-profit environments. He has developed ways to listen, reflect and provide a safe space for people to grow and develop. In his current role as a Counseling Faculty member he helps students, faculty, and staff through the career development process and has served on over 30 hiring committees representing all levels of the organization. 

Fred serves as an internal coach for new and mid-level managers who are new to the community college system. He works with managers to interpret their 360-feedback report to identify strengths and weaknesses to create goals for coaching. He assists new managers with conflict resolution, stress management, navigating politics, personal and team development. 

Ombretta Mancini is an accomplished Certified Leadership Coach, Consultant and Facilitator, with over 15 years of industry experience. She holds a BSc in Organizational Innovation, a Graduate Certificate in Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne, and a Graduate Certificate in Design Strategy and Innovation from Swinburne University. She is a PCC ICF-accredited Leadership and Executive Coach, a LEGO® Serious Play® for Positive Psychology Certified Practitioner, a Conversational Intelligence® Enhanced Coach, and is certified to deliver the full suite of Core Strengths and Energy Leadership Index™ assessments and workshops.

Throughout her career, Neha has been fascinated with leveraging creative tools such as storyboards, sketchnotes, and graphic recording to help visualize and build the larger picture.

Chris offers seminars in communication, strategic thinking, leadership, team-building, time management, conflict resolution, and more. He has also given seminars in the United States, Canada, and England, including at New York’s Open Center and the Omega Institute.

Having successful tenures as a senior leader, university professor, marketing manager, and numerous consultant roles, Chris has a unique ability to identify root causes of non-performance and team engagement. Chris resides in Pennsylvania and is available to facilitate sessions in-person and virtually.

Her emotional branding style has generated over $2M in direct campaigns. She is an award-winning speechwriter who is passionate about equipping people with the expertise needed to tell their stories and raise their voices so that they are impossible to ignore. Shereese is an advocate for social change and believes story is the one thing that truly brings the world together.

Dr. Alejandra Rodríguez Mielke is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Consultant and Executive Leadership Coach. Alejandra is a former education research project manager, consultant, professional development writer, and trainer whose roles include co-leading a federal literacy initiative; managing longitudinal, multi-site research projects, and facilitating more than 1,000 hours of training sessions nationally and internationally.

Alejandra holds a Ph.D. in Language & Literacy from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MA in Education from Framingham State University and a BA in English & Linguistics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).

Danny has worked with hundreds of highly motivated middle and senior managers to excel in their performance – to bring lasting change and high impact strategy execution to their teams and organizations. He specializes in DEI work – “building better bosses” with his training and coaching work.

Wilma is an accomplished executive coach and facilitator who  specializes in leadership development, transformation, and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) leadership coaching.

Wilma is a curious, solution-focused and people-centered executive  coach with diverse life, work, and multicultural experience across  different countries, and regions to guide international leaders. She has  an inherent ability to read the audience in the moment, adjust and  address the executives’ needs to facilitate and deliver highly interactive  and engaging group/team sessions.

Brian Fishbone is an accomplished Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)Consultant with over 20 years of experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and human resources. Brian is passionate about education and community building, which he uses to advance diverse representation and cultivate inclusion, equity, and belonging in the workplace. Brian takes a hands-on approach with each client to identify their needs.

Brian has extensive experience in corporate learning and university teaching and holds an MBA in human resources management. 

Barbara is a results-driven Executive Coach and HR Consultant, with over 20 years of Human Resources experience across various  industries. Recognized as an influencer and skilled presenter, Barbara Basel drives for people and cultural connections to bring entities together, build strong communications, and engage in activities that support successful job/talent alignment.

Barbara focuses on connecting with diverse levels of organizational design and development yo understand and appreciate the possibilities and potential of others’ unique talents and gifts.

Intuitive, insightful, and passionate, Joseph Battaglia is our Chief Relationship Officer with Aligned at Work® and he is the creator of the Immersive Intimacy® Model for communication.

With nearly four decades of experience in the medical field, Joe has an Associates Degree in Nuclear Medicine Technology from Gwynedd-Mercy College and Radiologic Technology certification from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has observed patients and people at their best, worst, and most vulnerable. This has led him to focus on mending and strengthening the relationships that allow people to thrive. .