Who We Are

When you ask Ami how her career took her from a limestone quarry to a receivership in hospitality, her explanation is simple, “I’m inspired by a challenge and the opportunity to redesign success.” Ami’s focus is your people, process, and finances to create a unique strategy for growth. She parachutes into a problem, deep dives into the detail, uncovers opportunity and then delivers on a plan. She has the courage and clarity to have the tough conversations that lead change. She will translate her recommendations and company initiatives into easy to understand goals. Ami is the bridge from the management team to the front line employees to the customers to the community… and to your success.

- Ami Gignac

Jamme joins the Collective with nearly 20 years of experience in turnaround management, operational performance improvement, market development and strategic growth planning. His industry experience includes recreational properties, hospitality, and restaurants – but he’s quick to point out that his real experience is developing people. As the Director of Operations for Granite Golf Properties, Jamme realized that the key to success is shifting employees from checking boxes to embracing new ways to do the same thing better. “You can’t expect success if you’re doing it the way you’ve always done it.” His passion is developing people and creating a growth strategy to make your business more profitable.

- Jamme Powers

From small family businesses to global corporations, Katie, has always felt that a workforce is any organization’s truest asset. Grounded in an Art History education, she has a knack for finding clarity in chaos and connection when it is often dismissed. It was when she returned to school to pursue a newfound interest sparked by a decade of retail management and years as a safety officer that she found her passions to be rooted in Organizational Development and Leadership. She embraces the motto “go slow to go fast”, and strives to always pause and reflect when finding new avenues of growth for organizations in places that may have been overlooked.

- Katie Woodhall

Meredith comes to the collective with 15 years of experience in operations management, financial analysis, and strategic planning. Her industry experience includes fleet management, supply chain, warehousing, and rental portfolio management of apartments and single family homes. She's a financial statement wizard and passionate about creating opportunities to increase revenue and reduce costs. "By holding everyone accountable to a plan for profitability we allow all team members to contribute to a shared goal. We make a game plan, we execute, and we absolutely keep score. It's how we build a winning business."

- Meredith Fox

Brent’s addition to the Collective brings with it a thoughtful approach to web development and a dynamic connection between client and audience. He masterfully sees the development process of honoring brand messaging with simple streamline functionality. Years of experience in multiple agencies and also as a freelance developer has gifted him with adaptability and a quiet agility to find creative solutions to the most difficult projects. He has an eye for detail and flow and quickly understands a marketplace within which a client lives and the best way to showcase their products and services.

- Brent Ransom

With a curiosity that drives him and a knack for stepping into new environments with confidence, Josh joins the Collective ready to support and guide clients into new paths of innovation and opportunity. A true artist at heart, Josh, boasts a career spanning multiple states, experience in a variety of construction materials, and a portfolio of positions. He has run crews, managed his own company, and carved out sales territories investing in human connection as a catalyst for companies growth and profitability.

- Josh Hostetler

Kelly’s superpower is digging into a brand and its people to create a voice that’s relatable to target customers. She’s a ruthless jargon-slayer who gets a thrill out of making brands sound human. Her persuasive copy combines empathy and problem solving to tell brand stories across marketing channels. She joins our collective with 30 years in copywriting, marketing, and graphic design. Kelly understands how words and design work together to direct a buyer’s journey. She knows that our message to employees is as crucial as what we say to customers and must align with a brand’s values. She’s excited to get you in alignment.

- Kelly Hambly

With more than 20 years of agency experience, Matt believes a key ingredient to achieve growth is having a solid marketing plan that is tied to your business goals, is executed properly, is measured monthly and is flexible. Matt’s strength lies in his ability to help clients develop a customized growth roadmap for their business, with generous room for detours and evolution. When approaching new marketing opportunities he likes to engage clients by getting them to identify and dig into their loftiest goals. He says “Your business is the fire. Marketing is gasoline. The more gas you throw on the fire, the bigger it gets...or the faster your business can grow”. Matt’s work in the Collective will help drive many businesses to new heights.

- Matt Roskie

Jason shares a depth of web development to the Collective stemming from agency experience and years of working as a freelancer developer. He combines his technical approach with intuition and adaptability allowing him to interpret what clients want in order to deliver what their business needs. He builds custom, user-friendly WordPress sites that provide clients easy control of their brand content and messaging to better reach their audience. Jason can confidently lend his skill set to any client as his ultimate goal is to help push clients' virtual presence to the next level.

- Jason Stutz

After 12 years of experience leading teams Cari knows anything can be accomplished when we put human interest first. She has extensive experience working with people, from dual-leadership roles to managing the box office of a San Francisco theater. Her formal training in improv allows her to find presence in every moment and look for creative and innovative solutions. She believes that no job is too big or too small with the right team in place. Cari lends her expertise to areas such as leadership training, facilitation, workforce development, and change management. Her energy, adaptability, and vision makes her unstoppable when helping you and your business create change.

- Cari Graham

Cory comes to the Collective with an incredible keen eye for design and the foresight to bring a client’s brand presence and culture to fruition on a digital platform. He loves to push past boundaries, explore new avenues of creativity, while adopting new strategies and techniques to bring his clients brands to life. His projects reflect a love of travel, sports, and music and the designs that he creates embrace the depth of color and texture, impression of agility and ease of use, and the thick layers he finds in his past time interests. Cory thrives in using a streamlined process that helps illuminate the needs of the client while partnering a strict sense of ease and useability. His approach is simple: explore, visualize, create, repeat.

- Cory Andres

Tyson joins the Collective driven by the mantra that effective communication is the key to successful endeavors, both personally and professionally. As an experienced Safety Professional, successful team manager, college instructor, and technical writer, Tyson, effectively bridges the gap between what is being said and what is being interpreted. His sensitive and nimble approach in establishing trust with clear, concise communication reflects his experience from a distinctly diverse professional work history. He can interpret, articulate, and connect with a varied audience to strengthen systems of communication and build effective workforces.

- Tyson Abraham