Our Team Karen DeYoung is the President/CEO of DeYoung Consulting Services, LLC.

Ms. DeYoung has worked as an instructional design and performance improvement consultant since 1996.

Her many years of work as a consultant have enabled her to quickly understand both an organization’s culture and the training content. She has a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instructional Systems from the University of Minnesota.

We also collaborate with a number of consultants who can provide our clients with support in the areas of documentation, evaluation and organizational development.

Affiliates

Linda Garrett-Johnson is the CEO/President of The Word Applied, LLC a management and organization development consulting company with a vision to “illuminate pathways to effectiveness and contribute to developing organizational capacity to sustain intended results.” Ms. Garrett-Johnson has 17+ years of combined corporate and non-profit experience in change management, strategic planning, and organization development, with a specialty in the areas of children, youth and family development. As a consultant she specializes in assisting corporate, nonprofit and public sector organizations with a variety services including strategic planning to identify long-term goals, emerging leadership development to enhance individual performance, preparing for and leading organizational change efforts, and designing infrastructures and processes to sustain intended results.

Leah Goldstein Moses, President and CEO of the Improve Group, works to address a need in the public and non-profit sectors to make better use of available information and find creative ways to answer questions. She specializes in evaluation and research design, facilitation and helping organizations use information for planning. She came to the field from a background in program management at a time when grant-funded programs were increasingly being asked to demonstrate results, sometimes for the first time.

Nancy Weiss President and CEO of the Catalyst Consulting Group, has over 15 years of experience providing organizations with tailored solutions to a variety of workplace challenges including training and education, performance improvement, organization development support and change management. Her education and training includes an M.ED, Instructional Systems and Technology from the University of Minnesota (1995) including a Professional Certificate in Training and Development. Ms. Weiss' broad experience spans the organizational landscape from small start-ups to large corporations and government agencies to Fortune 500 corporations. She founded Catalyst Consulting Group in 2006 to broaden services in knowledge management and work process improvement.

Amy Winkler, of Alva Consulting, has over seventeen years of documentation experience that includes coordination and management of various documentation projects. She has proven skills in technical writing, desktop publishing and online documentation.

Stella SiWan Zimmerman, President of ACET, Inc. has managed several projects, including statewide evaluations of the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office Get Ready/GEARUP program and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Reading Evaluation and Demonstration of Success Initiative grant program that included 86 schools across the state. She is currently leading a national cluster evaluation of the Postsecondary Education Programs Network E-learning transition project, a federal Community Technology Center collaboration with a high school in Gary, Indiana, and a quasi-experimental study of an early literacy program in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Ms. Zimmerman has presented and facilitated sessions on evaluation for the U.S. Department of Education and the American Evaluation Association.