Enrique Washington

Partner and CEO

Enrique Washington has more than 15 years of experience in human resources and talent acquisition. He has enhanced hiring effectiveness for companies with interview training and instruction on selection methodologies. Currently CEO and cofounder of the Generator Group, Enrique received the “40 under 40” award by the Portland Business Journal in 2006 for his work and accomplishments in the Portland business and local community. Enrique has been recognized as one of the top minority recruiters nationwide by US Black Engineer Magazine. He has also been featured in Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology Magazine for his work helping Mentor Graphics build a recruiting strategy designed to hire diverse talent. Enrique has been featured or quoted in several other publications including Fortune Magazine, HR Magazine and the Portland Business Journal.

Enrique participated in the 1995 Olympic Festival Track & Field Team, being named a Track & Field All-American while in college. Enrique is an adjunct professor at Portland State University and holds a B.S. in Marketing and an M.S. in Corporate and Public Communication from Seton Hall University and is currently pursuing a M.S. in Industrial Organizational Psychology at Kansas State University. Enrique serves on the Board of Leave No Trace and Christian Family Adoption.

Jeremy Barnaby

COO and Managing Partner, Generator Group
President, EnGn

Jeremy has more than 15 years of experience recruiting and leading teams in high growth periods of large and small businesses. He currently manages operations for Generator Group and leads EnGn, LLC a subsidiary of Generator Group which focuses exclusively on technology recruiting services. Jeremy is a contributor to local technical organizations where he has held multiple HR and recruiting committee seats with Software Association of Oregon (SAO) and Tech America formerly American Electronics Association (AeA). His articles have appeared in publications such as Talent Management Magazine.

Jeremy is focused on accelerating the growth of EnGn, through a focus on customer service, operational efficiency, brand creation, and building a culture of connectivity between clients, candidates and the community.

Jeremy has a B.S. in Business Management from Linfield College and spends much of his extra time with his family enjoying the outdoors. A member of the Ambassador Board for the Friends of the Children, he is passionate about being a “capitalist with conscience.” Jeremy created EnGn’s Giving Partner model as a way to tie community with the organization’s short- and long-term business objectives.

TRUSTED ADVISORS

Bruce Griffiths

Trusted Advisor, Competency and Leadership Development

A senior talent management expert in the area of competency and leadership development, Bruce is responsible for organizational and leadership performance management using a variety of proven data-management technologies. Bruce received his B.S. in Marine Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and his M.S. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from San Diego State University. Mr. Griffiths has more than 34 years experience in the talent management field, including working internally for four years for The Wickes Company, a Fortune 150 company, where he was responsible for corporate performance management, engagement surveys and assessment centers. In 1980, Bruce founded Organization Systems International and has offered consulting services to more than 200 public, non-profit and private organizations in talent-management solutions.

Bruce has published several articles on leadership and strategy, and is the co-founder of the San Diego chapter of the Organizational Development Network (ODN) and the Personnel Testing Council (PTC). The local chapters of OD Network, ASTD, and the City of San Diego have recognized him for his professional contributions. He was recently part of teams that were awarded two American Society of Training and Development Excellence in Practice Citations. The citations recognized the innovative marriage of large-scale behavioral simulations and computer modeling in unique programs designed to teach strategy. Bruce has spoken and conducted workshops at local and national meetings of the OD Network, Personnel Testing Council, American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and the Western Academy of Management.

Bruce has served on faculty at a number of San Diego universities (University of San Diego, San Diego State University, and Chapman College) and has helped establish several out-reach and academic programs. He helped build and manage University of San Francisco’s Masters in OD Program in San Diego. Bruce also served on the design committee, and then as core faculty, for San Diego State University’s College of Extended Study’s most enduring basic leadership training program, “Action Management.”

Will Scott

Trusted Advisor, Organizational Strategy and Leadership, Public Transportation

Will is a 35-year transit professional, having held leadership positions with Veolia Transportation, Ryder Public Transportation Services, and ATE Management and Service Company. Most recently he served as President of Professional Transit Management, Ltd., a division of Veolia Transportation. There he oversaw management contracts with transit systems across the country. Formerly, he served as Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Services for Ryder Public Transportation Services, now First Group America.

During his extensive career in public transportation, Will recruited well over 50 transit CEOs and other senior level managers. He has developed an extensive network within the industry over the years. Prior to his public transportation career, he held managerial positions with the Xerox Corporation and the Ford Motor Company. He is also a military veteran.

Will currently serves as President of Will Scott and Company, a management consulting company that specializes in executive search, executive coaching, policy board training and development, and strategic and business planning. He has been active in numerous boards and committees over the years, including those with the American Public Transportation Association, Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, and others. He currently serves on three professional panel groups at the Transportation Research Board.

Will has a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia State University. He has also taken advanced leadership training with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Xavier University.

Gwynn Simpson

Trusted Advisor, Human Capital Development, Public Transportation

Gwynn is a full-time consultant and the sole proprietor for Phoenix Rising Consultants-Human Capital Development specializing in executive search, human capital management, labor and an array of human resources and organizational development consulting services. She has held a number of senior level human resources positions in the transportation industry; assistant general manager of Human Resources with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County in Houston Texas, vice president of human resources with the American Public Transportation Association in Washington, D.C., and assistant general manager for Finance and Administration with Phoenix Transit in Phoenix, Arizona. Gwynn has a lifetime of senior leadership experience in the transit industry at the national, local and international levels, including principal roles in key TCRP studies on workforce issues.

Gwynn chaired the panel for TCRP Report 77, “Managing Transit’s Workforce in the New Millennium”, was the Consultant for TCRP Synthesis 46, “Diversity Training Initiatives: A Synthesis of Transit Practice” and recently completed Research Results Digest 100 on Professional Certification and Credentialing Program For The Transit Industry, published April, 2011 by TRB. Gwynn has served as a sub-contractor with Booze-Allen conducting a Human Resources Audit for the Los Angeles MTA and has worked with a number of transit systems in consulting roles such as Denver RTD and Hart Line in Tampa. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychiatric Social Work and Organizational Development from the University of Denver.

Elaine Lees

Trusted Advisor, Talent Management

Elaine Less is a practical, results-driven HR executive with more than 20 years of broad-based human resources experience for such companies as Reliant Energy, Time Warner Cable, Intel, New Edge Networks (now Earthlink) and Unicru (now Kronos Talent Management Division). She most recently joined the Generator Group to more fully develop the company’s talent-management practice.

Elaine enjoys bringing fresh perspectives to challenge standard approaches. In her work she has developed distinctive, hard-to-imitate workplaces that attract like-minded people and has hands-on experience with human capital management practices that have bolstered company valuation during times of acquisition and mergers. She also has experience in cutting-edge HR practice areas such as advanced selection practices, off shoring, balanced scorecard and HR metrics, compensation/reward systems, workforce planning, retention, and all aspects of performance management. Her department’s human resources work has been featured in such publications as Fast Company.

Elaine graduated with distinction from University of Houston’s MBA program and her undergraduate degree is Urban Affairs from Virginia Tech. She has a lifelong SPHR certification and is also certified in the use of various personality assessments and succession planning instruments.

Jennifer McInroe

Trusted Advisor, Talent Management Solutions and Organizational Research

Jennifer McInroe is a talent management consultant with experience in improving the employee selection process for organizations. She currently serves as a full-time consultant for Marriott International, Inc. in the talent management analytics and solutions department. Her current role focuses on improving the talent management process by increasing the efficiency of employee selection tools, aligning job descriptions to a competency framework, creating interview guides, and conducting survey reporting and analysis.

Jennifer also worked with the Workforce and Economic Research Division of the Oregon Employment Department to study and classify occupations, as well as to improve the efficiency of the State of Oregon’s applicant tracking system. Additionally, during her career she has implemented organizational projects with the Toledo Zoo, Otterbein Retirement Living Communities, Friends of the Family educational consultants, and the Board of Directors at Bowling Green State University. Projects have included the implementation of a 360-degree performance feedback system for executive management, assessing the impact of a training program on learning outcomes, determining the impact of human service programs on specified outcomes, and measuring employee satisfaction and organizational culture. She also served as a fellow in the Oregon Health and Science University’s Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology where she was engaged in job analysis and occupational hazard analysis.

Jennifer is also an author on two grants from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, with which her teams conducted studies on work-life balance and stress at work. She is actively engaged in publishing research articles, and is an author on an article published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, which was nominated for the award of Best Paper in Journal of Organizational Behavior in 2010. She has also been cited by Portland Business Journal for her research on job skills that will be in demand in the future.

Jennifer is completing her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University. She received her M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University and a dual major B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Willamette University.