Leadership Advisory & Consulting Firm | ghSMART | Icebreaker

Leadership Advisory & Consulting Firm | ghSMART | Icebreaker

Members

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chairman & founder

Samantha Nicole Smith

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Fellow at ghSMART | PhD Candidate at Harvard Business School | AB Princeton

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Harvard MPA candidate

Sarvinoz Fahriddinova

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Vice President, Portfolio Talent at SK Capital Partners

Sumona De Graaf

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Psychologist | Board Member | f300 CHRO | Entrepreneur | Advisor | Faculty | Executive Coach | Mom | Wife

Erin (Stahmer) Aguglia

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Erin is Co-Founder & Chief People Officer at Ascend where she is building the talent and people operations engine for a new kind of financial services and accounting business. Backed by Alpine Investors, a people-driven private equity firm, Ascend brings the benefits of a large firm to entrepreneurial CPAs while preserving the independence and culture of their local firm. Ascend's People team provides support to firm leaders across recruiting, employee engagement, training and development, and retention. Learn more at https://ascendtogether.com. Before Ascend, Erin served clients at ghSMART, the industry leading firm for executive assessment, where she helped shape and deliver talent solutions for senior Private Equity and F500 leaders. Prior to ghSMART, Erin was a Vice President at Alpine Investors. In this role, she built and oversaw the firm’s value creation function, hiring subject matter experts and developing portfolio services that spanned pricing, sales, talent, and organizational change. She and her team scaled the firm’s PeopleFirst Leadership program and developed an in-house coaching offering to support both internal employees and portfolio executives. Additionally, her team hired and developed top MBA candidates into successful senior leaders as part of the firm’s flagship CEO-in-Training program. Before Alpine, Erin was a product manager at Zocdoc, a healthcare technology startup, where she led the sales engineering team on strategic sales and marketing growth initiatives. Erin holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and practitioner of Hogan Assessments and The Leadership Circle Profile (TLC).

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Senior Principal @ ghSMART | Trusted advisor to C-Suite, Boards, & Investors | Goldman Sachs & McKinsey alum

Mitya Voloshchuk

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I am a Senior Principal at ghSMART, where I advise boards and CEOs to improve outcomes of their executive selection, onboarding, and development, increase team effectiveness, and accelerate organizational change. I believe that great leaders elevate the quality of life of an individual, group, and society. Prior to ghSMART, I was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company. I advised executives on their top organization and talent priorities to unlock growth and strategy execution. I have served world-leading companies across industries (such as energy, pharmaceuticals, consumer health, medical products, education, and telecom) on operating model transformation, organizational design, top team effectiveness, talent management, and Organizing for the Future. For over 10 years, I have been a coach to senior executives and teams, focusing on topics of leading diverse teams, executive derailment, and top team effectiveness. I have completed my Executive Coaching certification at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, and am a certified practitioner with multiple personality assessment instruments, including Hogan Assessments. I have earned my MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and have a PhD in Economics and a Master’s in Systems Engineering. I live in Potomac, Maryland with my wife, daughter, and two sons. I enjoy reading, cooking, traveling the world, amateur woodworking, and spending time outdoors (all my kids had their first night camping before they learned to walk). Outside of work, I am also involved in community organizations focused on Jewish youth and education.