Russell Disberger is the founder of Aspen Business Group, L.L.C., a company providing professional consulting services, management and leadership training, human resource development, strategic planning & alignment, value building, and technology commercialization. During the last eighteen years, he has been an advisor to over 2,250 businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and educational institutions. Additionally Mr. Disberger helps managers align strategic, operational, and cultural functions and execute strategies to improve performance. His expertise is in organizational assessment, strategy, performance management, decision support and process management. His experience includes improving operations, transforming professional behaviors. Russell lectures on decision-making, business simulation, and strategy. He’s an author, speaker, radio talk show host, seminar leader, expert witness, and facilitator. Russell holds a degree from Kansas State University and has many Graduate level courses in Business Communication. He has been married for 24 years and is a father of six children. Russell enjoys youth sports and traveling with his family.

Oscar Montenegro helps businesses with strategy, operational, and talent development. His areas of expertise include organizational development, performance improvement, and talent management. He leverages these strengths to provide strategic direction and facilitation of initiatives related to business strategy, staff engagement and communication. He works with start-up and established businesses in implementing these key processes to maximize effectiveness and revenues across various departments. As an executive coach, he works with high-potential leaders to help them gain self-awareness, clarify their goals, achieve their development objectives, unlock their potential, and acts as a sounding board. He is a graduate of Kansas State University. Oscar is married and has two children. He enjoys the outdoors, music, and traveling.

Vondran is a senior consultant at Aspen Business Group. He has extensive experience in leadership, strategy, business development, operations and the management of companies ranging from start-ups to the $265 million division of a $1 billion organization. As a certified Strategy Professional utilizing the Balanced Scorecard, Vondran brings significant experience in building effective organizations and strategically aligning corporate efforts, with a strong emphasis on business development. He is a certified administrator and trainer of Professional DynaMetric Programs (PDP), a world leader in workforce research and development. He also holds a certification in Six Sigma. Vondran is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and holds a graduate degree in management and undergraduate degrees in business and accounting. He has been married to his wife Jodi for over 16 years. In his free time, he enjoys playing with his four dogs, lifting weights, golfing and boating.

Kelsey Couture, Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist and Associate Consultant at Aspen Business Group. She has a deep understanding of the complex interactions between organizational structures, human behavior, and leadership. Her experiences include building and facilitating strategy development and execution courses for MBA students and business owners, questionnaire design and survey research for large tech companies, consulting for small businesses and school systems, and scaling tech startups in the digital asset space. Additionally, she is an executive coach, employee trainer, advisor, and scientist. Kelsey understands enhancing effectiveness and enacting change in organizations demands a systems perspective, thus she identifies root causes of problems and drives results. Her skillsets improve organizational processes such as selection, performance appraisal, training design and employee development. Through a focus on trust, leadership, and relationships, Kelsey aids organizations in transforming their cultures to enhance employee engagement, retention, wellbeing, and overall productivity. As a highly trained statistician, scientist, and psychometrician, Kelsey uses her expertise to help organizations make data-driven decisions. Given the importance of culture in driving strategy, she custom-builds reliable and valid organizational tools to actively monitor key culture variables such as employee engagement, satisfaction, commitment, burnout, trust, and turnover intentions. Kelsey is passionate about improving the virtual work experience for both leaders and teams. While pursuing her Ph.D. at Kansas State University, her research identified three pillars of effective virtual leadership: trust building, team empowerment, and high-quality communication. Practical consulting experience, paired with her scientific expertise equip her to translate hard data and science into customized solutions for every organizational area.

Aspen Business Group’s Consultants Experience. Expertise. Energy. Enthusiasm. These are the capabilities and qualities of spirit that our consultants bring to each and every client engagement. Our consultants have an average of more than 20 years of diverse, practical experience across the full array of industries. Focused and committed to work with you every step of the way, Aspen Business Group consultants partner with you from project conception, execution and resolution. We have a talented team of professionals.

Erik Barstow has spent the last 14 years helping companies and nonprofits achieve organizational excellence through collaborative meetings and events. Solutions oriented, Erik’s focus is to help companies and individuals make measurable progress towards goals that are important to them. He is a certified administrator and trainer of Professional DynaMetric Programs (PDP), a world leader in workforce research and development. He also facilitates Leadership Management International (LMI) courses along with custom coaching programs to meet client needs. Married for 14 years with three children, Erik can be found coaching his children’s sports teams, fly fishing, or playing music in his free time.

Julie Kingsland has over 8 years of talent acquisition experience. From small start-ups to large corporations, Julie focuses on sourcing candidates that align with the client’s mission, vision, and values to create an engaged, loyal, and effective employee/employer relationship. She has experience hiring seasonal, full-time, and part-time employees at various levels, including high-level leadership. Julie has recruited for industries such as retail, technology, engineering, and digital marketing. She is also skilled in supporting employee engagement and retention initiatives, performance management, talent acquisition and development, and conducting complex investigations. Julie enjoys facilitating training on topics such leadership, anti-harassment, and unconscious bias. Julie has developed policies, processes, and materials for human resources functions such as employee handbooks, new-hire orientation, and performance management. Julie is a graduate from Kansas State University. She has three children and enjoys drinking coffee, reading books, and spending time outdoors.

Jay Disberger is the founder of HopeFilled Financial Coaching – a coaching practice dedicated to helping individuals and small business live out their HopeFilled futures. HopeFilled Financial Coaching focuses on budgeting practices, understanding retirement, money in marriage, and debt freedom. Employees can experience up to 40% less productivity if they are regularly under financial stress. HopeFilled currently offers a series of workshops to train your employees how to free themselves from feeling financially trapped so they can provide you with their full potential at work. Jay Disberger is trained by "America’s trusted voice on money and business," Dave Ramsey through Financial Coach Master Training. Financial Coach Master Training is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). In addition, Jay graduated at the top of his class with B.S. and M.S. engineering degrees from Kansas State University equipping him to solve an assortment of challenging problems. He currently resides in Kansas City, MO, with his wife, Amanda, and son, Oliver.