Meet the Team

Dain Dunston has spent 30 years as an advisor and coach to leaders, helping them frame the foundation of their personal and professional journeys. He is author of Being Essential: Seven Questions for Living and Leading with Radical Self-Awareness. Other books include Nanovation: How a Little Car Can Teach the World to Think Big and Act Bold with Kevin and Jackie Freiberg, The Downside of Up: A Comic Novel of Outrageous Fortune and The Straight Dope: A Novel of Sex, Death and Rock & Roll. He is a frequent speaker on leadership, culture and coaching topics. Dain is the founding partner of Reservoir.

Mark Lipton is a Professor Emeritus of Management at Parsons School of Design and The New School in New York City. He has advised Fortune 500 corporations, think tanks, philanthropies, not-for-profits, and start-ups. His diverse client base includes founders of transformative start-ups in technology, manufacturing, media, education, health care, finance, and marketing. His coaching skills, organizational assessment techniques, and leadership development programs benefit C-level executives.  From 2015 through 2022, he led Deloitte’s Chief Executive Program research strategy. He was included in the “World’s Top 30 Management Professionals for 2024.” Beyond authoring pieces reflecting his applied research in journals such as Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review, he created Guiding Growth: How Vision Keeps Companies on Course(Harvard Business School Press), which is considered ‘the vision playbook for CEOs.’ His 2017 book, Mean Men: The Perversion of America’s Self-Made Man, garnered media praise for its intelligent, no-holds-barred analysis of entrepreneurism’s dark side. Mark received his Ph.D. from the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and was an Erik Erikson Visiting Scholar-in-Residence in 2009 at the Austen Riggs Center.

Melinda Buckley is a creative director, writer and executive speaker coach with a theatrical arts background. Her extensive stage, film and storytelling experience informs everything she does. Whether it’s a brand or an individual, live or virtual; she works organically to discover the core elements of a clients’ message and then helps them deliver it through compelling creative content and presentations that make a positive difference. From staging a Superbowl CBS promo to developing creative concepts for global events to coaching executives for Broadcast media, she has a wide range of skills and a collaborative spirit to help individuals as well as teams shine.

Jackie Freiberg is a powerful thinker, writer and speaker. Recognized as one of the “Top 30 Best Minds on Leadership”, Jackie is one of the most sought-after business speakers in the world. With her husband, Dr. Kevin Freiberg, she is the co-author of eight books, including Nuts! Southwest Airlines Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, Cause! A Business Strategy for Standing Out in a Sea of Sameness, and with co-author Dain Dunston, Nanovation, How a Little Car Can Teach the World to Think Big and Act Bold.

Kevin Freiberg is on a short list of global thought leaders that Fortune 1000 CEOs turn to for the kind of disruptive thinking that drives growth and gets people excited about the future. Kevin has appeared on CNBC, CBS Sunday Morning and the CBS Morning News for his views on the critical links between leadership, corporate culture, change, and innovation. With his wife, Dr. Jackie Freiberg, he is a co-author of eight books, including Nuts! Southwest Airlines Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, Cause! A Business Strategy for Standing Out in a Sea of Sameness, and with co-author Dain Dunston, Nanovation, How a Little Car Can Teach the World to Think Big and Act Bold.

Reinoud Driebergen has 35 years of experience in the biopharma industry in various global CMC roles and leadership positions. He has a down-to-earth, authentic, pragmatic, and transparent leadership style, mixed with a healthy dose of humour, supporting psychological safety, trust, and empowerment, and leading to strong individual and team performance. He has been involved in individual and collective leadership development programs since 2015 and is certified by Leadership Circle® as a Certified Practitioner.

As a no-nonsense, practical, results-oriented leadership coach, he offers individual, inspiring, 1-on-1 coaching sessions to help the client (re)centre, increase self-awareness on leadership effectiveness and clarify what the client really wants.

Emma Garcia Purvis is the Executive Director of Workforce Innovation & Smart City Engagement at Zpryme in Austin, TX. Her passion lies in advocating for a world of work built on principles of empathy and equity, fostering inclusive cultures where individuals can bring their whole selves to the table, promoting peak performance. Emma champions workforce development and innovation through the lens of her deep commitment to trust, honest communication, psychological safety, and accountability.

She is a board member of Solar Austin and a self-professed GenAI geek. Emma leads outreach and engagement efforts to create a robust community in support of smart city workforce development and sustainability initiatives. Her mission is to help organizations foster and promote a world of work that is equitable, prosperous, and sustainable for all.

Vince Poscente helps business leaders with massive breakthroughs to accelerate leadership growth. His approach to obstacles and resilience has been used by Fortune 500 executives across the globe. He’s a New York Times bestselling author of eight books, which include The Earthquake, The Ant and the Elephant: Leadership For the Self, and The Age of Speed.

David Irvine is a widely sought-after speaker, author, and trusted leadership advisor. With over forty years of experience, he is one of the most respected voices on authentic leadership, accountability, and creating courageous cultures. David guides leaders to connect with their true nature and to express it consciously in their work and life. David is a bestselling author of seven books, the latest of which is The Other Everest: Navigating The Pathway To Authentic Leadership. He hosts the podcast The Leader’s Navigator with his daughter, Hayley. David serves on the board of the Wayfinders Wellness Society, an organization that provides a safe space for military and first responders suffering from PTSD.

Daniel Edds has spent the past 25 years as a professional management consultant, working with over 200 organizations in state & local government, healthcare, nonprofit, and education. Dan helps high performing organizations approach the discipline of leadership systemically. Helping them attract and retain the best talent, enjoy lower cost, higher productivity, higher quality and have higher stakeholder returns. Based on this experience and ten years of research, Dan as written his second book, Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, cracking the code of sustainable team performance. He is passionate, articulate, compelling and a teller of stories.

Amy Wolfe is a South African, scientist, continuing professional development practitioner, business owner and leadership coach. Her extensive experience in the healthcare industry shed a light on the complexities that healthcare professionals and their communities face in a highly pressurised and ever-changing ecosystem. As founder of Small is Mighty, she is now on a mission to empower overwhelmed leaders to embrace discipline, discomfort, and collaboration to build a life they love.

In her spare time, Amy chases her dream of travelling to every country in the world with her husband while eating amazing food and meeting interesting people. She is an avid volunteer, mentor, nature enthusiast, reader, cat lover, and scientist.

Herb Dyer is a proven, holistic leader with a dynamic, inspirational style and reputation for motivating and directing high performance teams to deliver exceptional results. Herb is a consultant with Reservoir, and he consults as an executive coach, chairs peer advisory boards, DEI facilitator, coordinator of leadership development, and an expert advisor to organizations on strategic planning. Herb served recently as Vice President for Ascension Health, responsible for shared services across twelve hospitals serving the greater Austin area and is the CEO of Hospice Austin. He has a long successful history of leading complex capital projects and diverse teams.