Annette Matthies is the Founder and CEO of Aspen Edge Consulting, LLC. Annette's 25+ years of experience spans across all facets of HR management. She is passionate about her work: supporting individuals and teams through training, facilitation and leadership coaching. While working in the corporate world, Annette spent several years in key executive positions in a variety of industries including software, financial services and manufacturing. In one business, she helped them achieve the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award. Annette has worked with small, medium and Fortune 500 companies, in a variety of industries, including the non-profit world, supporting them to develop their employees into amazing, highly engaged, inspiring leaders. Annette describes herself as a life-long learner and continues to add new skills to her toolkit. Among those are: Leadership Challenge, Myers Briggs, 360 assessments (EQi and Social and Emotional Intelligence), FIRO B, Reddy Process, Strengths Finder 2.0, Situational Leadership II, Leader as Coach, Introduction to Management and many more! She is also an authorized partner and certified trainer for Everything DiSC and 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. Annette also is expert at working with organizations on analysis and strategies to create intentional cultures with high employee engagement. She has also worked with many organizations to increase their talent management effectiveness. She also specializes in working one on one with leaders to increase their emotional intelligence and get better results.