ABout us

OUR VALUES

accountability

We hold each other responsible for our actions and work product.

authenticity

We communicate openly and with candor, handling matters with dignity, respect, and a heaping scoop of empathy.

integrity

Our moral compass points North reflected in how we treat clients, handle associate issues, and conduct our business.

respect

We believe in equality, equity, and respect as well as healthy debate.

trust

We give others the benefit of the doubt, assume best intentions, count on others to do what they say they will do, and use discretion when necessary.

urgency

We create a sense of urgency around things that matter most; product delivery, world-class service, and our people.

OUR TEAM

We focus on defining who our client is, what they want and need, and identifying what they value.

charles smith

Founder and CEO

Charles has led strategic organizational change as a senior executive, supported divisional startups, and directed complex reorganizations. As an executive coach and consultant, he has focused on M&A integration. Charles is collaborative yet possesses an individually focused style. He understands the internal dynamics of business operations and aligns work with key business objectives.
His career has focused on diversity, feedback, coaching, and leadership development. Charles has introduced talent attraction, compensation, and performance management competency models, facilitated a 360 feedback process for senior executives and implemented executive pre-employment assessments. His focus on results within a business context allows him to advise organizations on operational effectiveness. In addition, he has developed competitive total rewards programs and performance management systems that attract, motivate, and retain talent.

blue dickson

Consultant
Corporate Strategy
& Organizational Development

As an alumna of the prestigious Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business and Management, Blue specializes in corporate strategy, change management, and organizational development. With a background in adult education, facilitation, and coaching, her consulting always stems from a human capital foundation. Blue excels at both the people and theoretical sides of organizational development. She is a data-driven market and industry analyst, strategic planner, and project manager specializing in aligning overarching strategy with individual development plans for front-line staff. She understands even the best theoretical models won’t work unlesioned people executing the strategy understand the need for change and feel supported in their new roles.
Blue has experience with individual talent development, performance management, knowledge capital, program implementation, diversity and Inclusion, and international growth. She has had the privilege of developing both private and non-profit organizations and prides herself in her social and economic development expertise. Blue has a strong network of philanthropic and social advancement organizations through various volunteer positions, mentoring roles, and committee seats.

CURTIS FOSTER

Consultant
Project management

Curtis has more than 20 years of project management experience. He has the demonstrable ability to solve challenges by digging down to the details then simplifying the variables until the solution presents itself. He’s had the opportunity to work on and deliver several projects and programs as both a business and technical lead, knowing how to marry these two disciplines to produce quality results. He excels at building and leading cross-functional teams, empowering them to reach their full potential while working within timeline and budget constraints.
His areas of focus have included the development of enterprise mobile and web applications and services, implementing business and operations process improvements, incorporating change management, providing executive presentations and updates, and effectively engaging with stakeholders.
Most recently, Curtis launched a personal media management startup, Project Memories. Before entrepreneurialism, he served as a project and program manager for Fortune 100 companies such as Apple. Additionally, he served as a Retail Solutions Manager, a Project and Product Manager of store web applications, services, and new product launches. Previously, he served as a Senior Marketing Manager for Cisco, where he focused on demonstrations for retail vertical and cross-architecture solutions, and Gap Inc., where his focus areas were related to project management and business analysis of global store operational, technical solutions.

amina zamani

Consultant
Executive Coaching
& Leadership Development

Amina Zamani is the coach that teaches leaders how to coach others. Her work is designed to help professionals advance their personal life and career. She has been a professional coach for 12 years, specializing in executive leadership focused on three core pillars: leadership development, dissolving personal blockages to transform value-based leaders, and navigating conflict with empathy and compassion. Often her work cascades to the teams surrounding leaders, encompassing areas such as sales engagement, training, and manager effectiveness.
Amina comes with a diversity of training and education, including a certification from the International Coach Federation certification at the highest level of neuro-linguistic programming. She is certified as a Kundalini yoga and meditation instructor. She holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to one-on-one coaching, Amina’s experience includes corporate workshops, facilitated discussions, and serving as a keynote speaker. She has coached leaders in Google, Twitter, Intuit, and Oracle.
Amina also has a professional background in business, particularly in the tech industry, with expertise in client success and sales. She brings this unique balance of business understanding to coaching in a way that enriches the lives of professionals comprehensively. In addition, she provides actionable solutions that help leaders learn how to develop their surrounding organizations, communities, and personal relationships. Top professionals seek out Amina because they recognize the beneficial ripple effect of her methods — the results help the individual leader and extend to the teams and surrounding personal network.

Marc Shea

Owner
Bridgeview Solutions

Bridgeview Solutions, LLC (Bridgeview) supports its clients with solutions unique to their business needs in key areas of talent acquisition such as strategy, operations, and executive search. Bridgeview is working with brands in tech, CPG, management consulting and others to deliver impactful results that drive business outcomes. Bridgeview is owned and operated by veteran talent acquisition leader and SME Marc Shea. Marc has led the recruitment function for several organizations including multiple multi-billion dollar organizations, domestic and global in scope. Marc has worked in media, entertainment, technology and retail organizations, building high-performing teams designed to support organizational goals and objectives.

At the Guitar Center Company and Universal Music Group (UMG), Marc excelled at recruiting difference-making executive talent across human resources, marketing, technology, merchandising, planning and allocation, contact centers and more. These executives have driven significant engagement, EBITDA and sales results, overhauled legacy business processes, enabled departmental growth and organizational effectiveness, and helped fuel massive technology/digital transformation. At both organizations Marc led recruitment technology transformation projects designed to further enable enterprise-scale talent acquisition objectives.

Prior to his 4-year tenure at UMG, Marc owned and operated a successful independent recruitment practice focused primarily on supporting a variety of entertainment studios, providing a high-level full-cycle talent acquisition service uniquely geared to each individual client. Marc worked with a variety of organizations across many different industries, including: Twentieth Century Fox, Legend3D, Moving Picture Company, Method Studios, NBCUniversal’s digital properties Fandango, DailyCandy and iVillage and National TeleConsultants. Marc has also worked in-house and led recruitment for multiple boutique visual effects production organizations.