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 Joe Steele consults to international corporations and non-profits on strategically managing their human resource needs in today's global economy. His areas of expertise include executive coaching for senior and middle management, design and implementation of formal mentoring programs, and design and facilitation of workshops dealing with the challenges of communicating cross-culturally in the workplace. Joe also has extensive experiences in supporting GLBT and People of Color employee affinity groups and with management teams addressing relevant challenges in the workplace. Joe has delivered his services throughout the United States, England/Scotland, Canada, Australia, United Arab Emirates, China, and Brazil.
Clients have include numerous Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit organizations, including BP OIL, Deloitte & Touche, Eli Lilly, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley Investment Bank, the Kellogg Foundation, and Oxfam America.
Joe served on the board of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis from 2001-2007. Currently, he serves on the board of VISIONS, Inc., a non-profit consulting organization focused on diversity and inclusion initiatives for foundations and independent schools. On occasion, Joe serves as a substitute teacher for the Hudson, NY public schools.
Prior to consulting, Joe held various positions in banking and corporate finance, working with Chase Bank, Citibank, CBS Inc. and Bankers Trust. His work at CBS involved extensive experience in Latin America and while at Bankers Trust, he lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Joe is conversant in Portuguese.
Joe was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio where he attended St. Xavier High School. In 1979, he received a BA in Economics from Harvard College. In 1983, Joe received his MBA from Harvard Business School with a concentration in Finance and International Business.
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 Tamara L. Nall is the President and CEO of TLN Worldwide Enterprises, Inc. (also known as “The Leading Niche”). The Leading Niche is a global management consulting firm that offers strategic, operational, and technology consulting. With major clients both domestically and internationally, the Firm’s worldwide consultants specialize across a number of industries and functions. The Leading Niche prides itself on offering top-tier consulting services to clients while taking into consideration the nuisances of cultural and regional dynamics. Most recently, The Leading Niche developed the 3-year growth strategy for a leading bank in West Africa. Additionally, Ms. Nall has performed independent consulting work for the Coca-Cola Company and the Board of Directors and President of Hilton International, UK and Ireland.
Prior to founding The Leading Niche, Ms. Nall was a Senior Associate with Booz & Company (formerly Booz Allen Hamilton). While at Booz & Company, Ms. Nall led engagements in industries, such as healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and government in the United States and Canada. Ms. Nall’s work focused on assisting senior clients with corporate strategy, growth strategy, mergers/acquisitions, restructuring and market and pricing strategies.
Ms. Nall is a 2008 graduate of the Institute for Leadership Development & Research sponsored by the Executive Leadership Council (ELC). ELC is an organization dedicated to providing networking and leadership opportunities for African-American C-suite executives. As well, she serves on the Advisory Board of several institutions, including the Biomedical Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, the Marketing Advisory and the Entrepreneurial Advisory Boards at the University of California Irvine, and the Board of Directors of Ciuci International Limited, a consulting company based in Nigeria. She proudly serves on the executive leadership team of NextGen Network, a pipeline organization committed to the development of mid-level managers in corporate America and was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for the Allied African Nations Chamber of Commerce in New York. Besides her professional and community involvement, Ms. Nall also develops and teaches business courses at several universities.
Ms. Nall holds an MBA from The Harvard Business School in Boston, MA. She earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology and a BBA from Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
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 Alton J. King is the youngest of four sons to Willie Mae King and the late William H. King and a native of Hendersonville, NC. He is a graduate from North Carolina State University with a BS degree in civil engineering and a minor in environmental science. He is also an MBA graduate from Wake Forest University.
Mr. King has been able to travel across the globe - many friends and family members have called him a world traveler. He spent three years working in Mexico, Venezuela, Aruba, and Panama for a marine construction/dredging firm. And while in graduate school, he went on a two-week immersion study to China. Such travels have served him well in understanding what it means to be a global citizen.
After grad school, Mr. King started his own professional services firm and worked mostly with biotechnology/life sciences companies. His passion for healthcare work is driven by the fact that his mother is an end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patient.
Recently wrapping up a two-year positing in Ethiopia working for the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, he along with diplomat wife Kimberly Wright-King will be headed off to Haiti with the US Government in January 2010.
Alton J. King received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. Having specialized in structural design and transportation systems, he later completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Wake Forest University (WFU). While at WFU, Mr. King designed and implemented a new health care course and aided in the creation of a health sector focus within the MBA program. Additionally, Mr. King worked on an NIH study for early detection of myocardial injury in cancer patients.
Mr. King joined HHS/CDC in Ethiopia in September 2007. As Facilities Project Specialist, he oversaw all construction and renovation efforts in-country. Through his managerial leadership in infrastructural development for optimized HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services, PEPFAR-funded health facilities are becoming more environmentally sustainable. Mr. King´s concurrent role as Associate Director of Operations has spurned innovative digital solutions for higher productivity and heightened monitoring efficiencies of foreign assistance expenditures over the past nine months.
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 Forrest P. Branch is a business-startup consultant based in Windhoek, Namibia with twenty years of business development experience in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is an equity partner in Imaging Solutions, (Pty) Ltd. a Namibian registered company positioned in the country’s growing medical imaging industry. Forrest is the former Managing Director of Namibia based Clearstone Investments, (Pty) Ltd., the first U.S. owned and operated diamond cutting and polishing plant which ramped up operations in 2001 and was later acquired by Trau Brothers, a DeBeers sight holder in 2007. Prior to that he served as General Manager of ProGem (Pty) Ltd. a semi-precious gemstone processor.
Forrest has over ten years of global non-profit management experience as Country Director for Africare, America’s leading NGO dedicated to development in Sub-Saharan Africa. He led a major USAID funded, human capital development initiative, in cooperation with Xerox World Wide Quality Services, Citibank and General Motors. He served as program manager for Africare in the Republic of Malawi designing and implementing development programs with USAID, UNDP and UNICEF. Forrest has undertaken project missions to numerous countries including but not limited to, Ethiopia, South Africa, Somalia, and Guinea Bissau. He has also appeared on numerous C-SPAN programs discussing various Africa related issues.
Forrest holds a bachelor’s of science degree in quantitative economics from Eastern Michigan University and is currently based in Arizona undertaking post-graduate work in innovation strategy at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, where he will return to Windhoek in 2010. He is happily married to his wife of ten years Shireen and is blessed with two wonderful children Daniel, and Bethany. In his spare time Forrest enjoys his Nikon camera, South African Jazz, and English Premier League and UEFA Football.
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