About BTA
Matt Bedwell is the founder of Bedwell Talent Advisory and delivers across BTA’s suite of services. Matt has extensive experience working with senior leaders at Fortune 500 clients on assessment, individual and group development and viability for top roles, including CEO, and has supported planning and execution of successful transitions across the C-Suite. Matt serves as an executive coach for leaders in senior business and functional roles across industries, including consumer products, technology, financial services, manufacturing, transportation, and energy.
Prior to starting BTA, Matt was a Managing Director with The Miles Group. Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude with honors, from Claremont McKenna College and a juris doctorate from the UCLA School of Law. Matt lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Jennifer Bruno
For over twenty years, Jennifer has coached, advised, and led strategic change alongside senior executives of Fortune 500s, government agencies, rural Latin American communities, and global non-profits. Whether it’s a new strategy, culture, operating model, or technology, Jennifer has delivered a broad range of services in assessment, change management, talent strategy, leadership development, and DEI. Her purpose is to be an instrument for transformation at levels of system: self, team, organization, and world.
Jennifer coaches executives and top teams to lead from their strengths with presence, purpose, and authenticity. Her 1:1 clients report deeper self awareness, increased clarity, faster decision-making, greater self-confidence, and improved relationships at work and beyond. Her team clients build greater emotional, social, and relational intelligence to cultivate cultures that are agile, generative, and innovative.
Her diverse career and life experiences equip her with context to relate to her clients’ diverse origins, contexts, and aspirations. She is a board-certified coach, seasoned management consultant, industry executive, and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. She has a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia SIPA and Bachelors in Business Administration from NYU Stern. She holds coaching certifications from the Co-Active Training Institute, The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, The Leadership Circle, and the International Coaching Federation. Jennifer lives in Taos, NM.
Emily Hagen
Emily Hagen is a certified executive leadership coach who has more than 20 years of experience working as a management consultant, Human Resources leader and executive coach in global organizations. She guides senior leaders, managers and high-potentials through 1:1 executive coaching to develop critical leadership skills; 1:1 executive transition coaching to support leaders moving into new roles; and group coaching with peer groups facing similar challenges.
Emily’s coaching is grounded in neuroscience and is informed by her many years working as a Human Resources executive in executive development and assessment, talent management, organizational development and effectiveness, and change management. Her coaching approach focuses on the whole person, helping leaders align their strengths, interests and values to increase their impact in all areas of their lives. As an executive development expert and avid continuous learner, she is skilled at helping clients learn and develop in a variety of ways to deepen their coaching experience. She coaches across a wide variety of leadership skills, including influence, resilience, emotional intelligence, executive presence, conflict resolution, communication, delegation, and change management.
Emily has more than 20 years of experience working at leading management consulting, payments and financial services organizations, including Booz Allen Hamilton, American Express and MSCI. She is on the Foundation Board of her local public library and lives just outside New York City with her family.
Rand Harbert
Rand Harbert is the former EVP and Chief Agency, Sales and Marketing Officer at State Farm Mutual Insurance Company who leverages both his deep practical experience and passion for helping leaders maximize impact and success to deliver exceptional coaching outcomes across both individual and group engagements. Throughout his career, Rand led across all aspects of the business, including time as President and Chief Executive of State Farm General Insurance Company and over 10 years leading both State Farm’s 19,000 independent agents and its iconic brand. Having both led in the C-Suite of a Fortune 50 Company and coached and developed C-Suite leaders, Rand has a deep understanding of unique challenges of leading at the top, motivating and aligning stakeholders at scale and delivering outstanding business outcomes.
Rand currently serves on the Board of Haggerty Insurance. He is a former Board member of the American College ;Teach for America; the California Business Roundtable, where he served as Chairman; the California Chamber of Commerce; the Reagan Legacy Foundation; Eureka College and the University of Central Missouri Foundation.
A graduate of the University of Central Missouri, Rand earned an MBA from Webster University in 1988 and graduated from the General Management Program of Harvard Business School in 2001.
Jeff Jones
With over 15 years of experience in leadership development and executive education, Jeff is deeply passionate about helping others grow. He has worked with hundreds of leaders from across the global and US Fortune 500, including clients in technology, financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and travel and hospitality sectors. Jeff focuses his practice on executive coaching and assessment, and team development services.
A former professor, Jeff is an ICF accredited coach, and a graduate of the Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara, California (September 2023). He is certified to work with a number of psychometric tools including the Hogan and DiSC assessments.
Jeff has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from George Washington University, a master’s degree in Political Science from University of Georgia, and a PhD (ABD) in Public Policy from Georgia Tech. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters.
Mitch Neuhauser
Mitch Neuhauser is a member of Bedwell Talent Advisory LLC, where, as a Certified Life Coach, he works with executives and professionals who want to become more effective, efficient and impactful corporate leaders in an authentic way that allows joy to permeate all aspects of their lives. Mitch focuses on 1:1 coaching and leverages his unique approach and significant experience as a senior executive inside a Fortune 500 Company to help leaders enhance fulfillment, lead more sustainably and increase their overall contribution to their Companies.
Prior to becoming a Certified Life Coach, Mitch served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Reynolds American. Mitch holds a bachelor’s degree in both public policy studies and religion, magna cum laude, from Duke University and a juris doctorate with Order of the Coif honors from the University of Virginia School of Law. Mitch currently resides in Englewood, Florida. Mitch provides similar coaching to individuals through his own LLC, Livin The Dream Today.
Joe Simms
Joe Simms is a seasoned HR executive and leader whose 30-year career with Fortune 500 companies includes business unit human resources partnership, and strategic development and implementation. Having worked in consumer goods and industrial businesses, Joe’s HR leadership experiences include national as well as global scope and range across multiple functions including sales, marketing, product management, engineering, and manufacturing. His broad HR leadership experience includes organizational capability, DEI, as well as talent pipeline management. As an HR executive, Joe has led large businesses and HR organizations through business transformations, integrations, multiple restructurings, and key executive leadership selections across a broad global footprint.
As a C-Suite executive, Joe advised management teams on enhancing talent management and succession planning processes to build the most robust and diverse talent pipeline. Joe has extensive experience coaching leaders within organizations to maximize their potential and impact. He brings a unique internal perspective to corporate talent management, succession planning and leadership development processes.
Joe has experience on non-profit boards including the Morgan State University Foundation Board where he currently serves as Board Chair. He has been a corporate representative with numerous external diversity-related and general business forums.
Stephen Subasic
Stephen Subasic is a former Fortune 500 CHRO and senior HR executive who leverages his deep experience in supporting the growth and development of senior executives through a range of coaching and team assessment and effectiveness engagements. Throughout his career, Stephen has established trusting and collaborative relationships with other executives as he served formally and informally as an internal coach and trusted advisor for the C-suite. Stephen understands the critical role of leadership behaviors and how leadership effectiveness can translate into organizational success from the “Board to the breakroom.”
The breadth of Stephen’s background includes large scale, transformational initiatives that integrate business and human capital strategies from the design and launch of new organizations such as breakthrough innovation, DE&I and artificial intelligence to successfully navigating the complexities of mergers and acquisitions among others. He has continually elevated the people agenda ensuring the right focus on talent, succession readiness, diversity and organizational capabilities & effectiveness.
Stephen’s HR organizations have been recognized among the best including the #6 ranking by HRO Today among consumer products companies and #11 by Comparably both with Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. He is a certified Sherpa Executive Coach, a former member of the G100 Talent Consortium and a Board of Trustees member for St. Francis University.
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