Driving great change

Compassionate Leadership Team

A ‘Leadership Gap’ exists in many organizations between what leaders think they are expressing and what their workers perceive or observe. Compassionate leaders are not weak. They are tough leaders who understand that they can be good to their people and deliver stronger results at the same time. In fact, taking care of your people actually leads to better results.

Natalie Alcantara

Natalie Alcantara is an advisor, coach, and facilitator who designs meaningful connections. She helps brands, businesses, and individuals create powerful engagement.

She is an XCHANGE Approach Certified Guide with expertise in experiential learning science. Natalie helps leaders, teams, and organizations establish psychological safety, elevate shared identity and work better collaboratively – At speed and scale!

With over 25 years of marketing, sales and consultancy experience across multiple industries, Natalie has developed a keen understanding of what matters most in the ‘New World of Work’.

As a compassionate leadership champion, Natalie inspires leaders to use empathy and take actions that positively and purposefully impact others in the world around them.

Clients love her energy, intuitive approach, collaborative spirit, and value her strategic insight.

She’s an avid traveler who loves to explore new countries and experience diverse cultures.

Tom Johnston

Tom Johnston is an executive & corporate consultant who specializes in delivering high-impact experiential keynotes, leadership, and organizational training.

Tom’s on a mission to help people lead with compassion and create people-first organizations equipped to adapt and thrive in today’s ever-changing business climate. He combines years of C-level business operations experience with data-backed tools and software to help you align your business strategy with people strategy. Blending the science of people data and the art of modern leadership, he helps organizations cultivate talent, inspire, and motivate people and build organizational culture, for a powerful and human-centered competitive advantage. The result is exceptional performance. With 20+ years in global corporations as an operations executive and extensive change management experience.

Prior to founding Talent Optimizer Group , Tom served in high-level and C-suite roles. Key specialties included operations management, business development, change management, strategic planning, sales and marketing, and finance. He has an extensive background in the corporate, fitness and wellness, and real estate services sectors. Tom has served as VP of North America Distributor & Global Vertical Sales for Core Health and Fitness, COO of American Leisure/LIVunLtd, and VP of Operations for Saw Mill Sports Management.

Tom holds a B.S. in Business Administration and is a Predictive Index (PI) Certified Partner, Certified XCHANGE Guide, Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner, and Positive Psychology Practitioner. He’s a dad, lives in Denver, an avid cyclist, enjoys skiing, backpacking, and practicing yoga.

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take small steps towards leading with compassion.

Throughout the course of my life, it has never been about doing something great; rather, it has been about doing little things that have the capacity to drive great change. It has been about serving as the conduit to bring people together from all walks of life, working collaboratively with the notion that it makes no difference how much you give. What makes the difference is that you gave. It makes no difference how much you do. What makes the difference is you did something.

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