https://www.751grow.com/home daily 1.0 2022-06-28 https://www.751grow.com/team daily 0.75 2022-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62157711be67b33aa67a8c99/604fc5e5-2808-48df-ba3f-b4254e1c700c/MEP_6561-1_Original1X1fTN.jpg Team - Jared Bleak Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62157711be67b33aa67a8c99/b4e6bfb3-77f6-45b9-8eca-4bb11a33f8cb/c2161a27-4896-44c7-ab56-a3e802c333df+copy+2.png Team - Tom Hughes Tom develops leaders around the world through his teaching and coaching. He has spent many years focusing on communications, team and individual performance improvement, innovation, change leadership and general management and leadership development, leveraging his background in Organizational Psychology and Organization Development. Tom has had the good fortune to work with many exceptional organizations in the professional services, technology, healthcare, food and beverages, defense, government, and not-for-profit sectors. All told, he has worked with clients in 31 countries on 6 continents. Appian Leadership is the most recent of Tom’s entrepreneurial ventures. He has previously founded or co-founded four companies focused on various domains of the leadership development industry, ranging from advanced leadership communication to high-impact, high-intensity experiential learning. He is pleased to bring together these experiences to provide a full suite of executive development services through Appian Leadership. In addition to these ventures, Tom was also previously a Managing Director at Duke Corporate Education, one of the world’s leading providers of customized executive education, where he led teams to design and deliver exceptional learning experiences for their clients. Prior to his time at Duke CE, he was a Senior Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton’s award-winning corporate university. Tom’s academic career is varied—he holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University in Organizational Psychology with a focus in Organization Development consulting; a conservatory certificate in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard; and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard University. He has written several fiction and non-fiction books, and published articles in the Encyclopedia of Career Development and the journal, Dialogue. His most recent publication is The Leadership Check-Up, which he co-authored with Jared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62157711be67b33aa67a8c99/57fdea5e-7dae-4636-b2c0-a4b07d1f109a/graduate-50.jpg Team - Maddie Johnson Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62157711be67b33aa67a8c99/e4c198a8-6fd0-4ea0-b76c-f1ab0b0c2e50/IMG_171325_0.jpg Team - Carrie Hughes Carrie Hughes is our Brand & Experience Strategist and brings a passion for creating engaging and meaningful experiences across our various platforms. She combines strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and a research-driven approach to building brands that resonate with people and create lasting connections. Carrie holds an MBA and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from the University of Utah, bringing together business strategy, continuous improvement, and a deep curiosity about human behavior. Her professional experience spans employee experience, organizational communications, enterprise research, and experience design, where she has developed strategies and initiatives that connect organizational goals with the needs and perspectives of people. Carrie's leadership development experience focuses on supporting emerging professionals navigate the transition into the workforce, develop foundational leadership capabilities, and build the skills needed for long-term professional growth. Her approach is grounded in her early experience at Utah State University's Stephen R. 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