MEET THE CORE TEAM
Project Nomad’s core team is a small group of talented volunteers with a wide range of skills and experience. Furthering organizational culture tradecraft is what we love. If you have the same calling, then contact us to find out how to become a Nomad. We’d love to meet you!
Craig
Instructor
Craig Buying is an innovation enthusiast, musician, and dog dad. His professional passions are project development and building highly functional teams.
Veronica
Operations
Veronica is a servant altruist who thrives on cultivating improved organizational structure for the collective. With over 20 years of leadership and management, she is committed to creating an inclusive workforce backed by authentic behavior. Culture plays a critical role in the unit, starting with demolishing barriers to behavior dynamics.
Barb
Research
Barbara Hopkins, Ph.D., holds a Doctor of Philosophy with a specialization in Clinical Health Psychology. In her professional life, she is a Work/Life Consultant and True North/Military & Family Readiness Liaison employed by the Department of Defense. Dr. Hopkins is proficient in the facilitation and teaching in the areas of family life skills, relationship enhancement, and crisis intervention advocacy for marginalized communities. Furthermore, she has diverse experience in realms of diversity, inclusion, equity and equality, and accessibility initiatives. Dr. Hopkins is the recipient of a U.S. Army Civilian Achievement and U.S. Army Civilian Commendation for her work in social services, concentrated on leadership, human resource management, project management, team building, and improvement processes. Dr. Hopkins has extensive knowledge of military structure, missions, programs, and organizational relationships and utilizes a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to improve complex management processes and program effectiveness.
In her personal life, Dr. Hopkins a diehard Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan, a member of the APA Div 44 Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, contributing writer for the Bi Women’s Quarterly, and a panelist and presenter for the Walden University Ph.D. Psychology Webinars.
Shana
Operations
Shana is a passionate people developer. She specializes in crisis counseling, humanitarian disaster response, human-centered design, high-performance coaching, and EQ-driven community relations. She loves to help teams navigate through the complexities of psychological safety, decision-making, and creativity. Shana focuses on developing teams of limitless innovators that can maneuver through ambiguous problems and win.
Kiara
Engagement
Kiara is an intrinsic thinker, typically gravitating towards the deliberate development of others. She has over 10 years of leadership and management experience and believes in granting personnel opportunities that will, in turn, sharpen their competence and confidence, which is key to the success of any organization. Kiara is passionate about empowering others and cultivating an environment (culture) for them to thrive while minimizing barriers in their journey.
Jessica
Research
While also being a full-time dog mom, Jessica has over ten years of leadership and management experience. As a culture coach, she is obsessed with assisting organizations through the journey of diagnosing and shaping their culture.
Zach
Branding
Zach is a data-loving, innovation-obsessed, and organizational structure enthusiast who doubles as an Air Traffic Controller and Monday morning quarterback. He uses his 10 years of leadership experience and passion for energizing and improving each team he has the pleasure of working with or around.
Devin
Technological Integration
Devin is a data analyst & computer programmer with more than 7 years of innovation experience. His passion lies in easing team burdens with automated/augmented solutions so they can meet their collective potential and more deeply enjoy their lives.
Aidan
Human Integration
Aidan is a quiet nerd and culture coach with 12 years of small-team leadership experience and a passion for celebrating diversity and championing inclusion in the workplace. He is excited about helping others be who they deserve to be, including helping leaders know, participate in, and manage the culture of their organization
Kristina
Development
Kristina is passionate about helping individuals learn and grow to their maximum potential. Throughout her 12-year career, she has had the opportunity to work from the Strategic down to the Tactical level and has used these experiences to better understand how teams work from the top down. Kristina is excited to help different units and organizations better understand how to work together to accomplish the mission!
John
Operations
John is an Organizational Culture Coach and aspiring Data Scientist passionate about leveraging human-centered systems thinking and analytics to grow high-performing teams. It’s not just about analyzing data or being a charismatic leader, but weaving the two together #GreenBlue #FourLenses.
Shannon
Strategy
Shannon is a lover of life with more than 20 years of leadership and management experience. He dwells within his passion for helping people become the best humans they can be, which feeds his love for helping organizations reach their full potential by creating work environments where people can thrive.