Craig A. Stevens, President

Craig Stevens, Co-founder of Westbrook Stevens in Nashville Tennessee; has advanced degrees in Industrial/Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.  Craig has over twenty five years of experience working with large organizations such as The American Management Association, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, DuPont, Westinghouse, U.S. DOE, NASA, and U.S. DOD.   He has supported every level within an organizations from CEOs to New Employees and has worked with such industries as:  Agriculture, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation, Research, Waste Management and Environmental Restoration, Construction, Governmental Organizations, and the Tourism/Restaurant/Hotel/Motel Industry. 

Phillip Clifford, Ph.D. Chief Scientist

Dr. Clifford has a strong teaching background.  He was an adjunct professor teaching Anatomy and Physiology I. for Nashville State Technical Community College.  The University of Phoenix the Director of Academic Affairs, Nashville Campus, FlexNet® Program Chair, Nashville Campus, the Chair for College of General and Professional Studies, Nashville Campus, an online faculty member; and the Acting Chair, College of Information, Science, and Technology, Nashville Campus; and the Area Chairman for the Sciences, for the Dallas Campus, Responsible for screening science faculty candidates, curriculum betterment, course module development.

He has a strong background in aquatic weed research, quantitative ecological food-web modeling, environmental toxicology, risk assessment, project management, senior scientific review. Projects of interest include: Markham Park (shooting range lead and antimony management), West Valley Nuclear Demonstration Project (Department of Energy [DOE] radioactive waste remediation - National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA] - Supplemental Environmental Impact Survey [SEIS]), International Paper Company (pond eutrophication management), U.S. Gypsum (dredging permit support),  several Department of Defense [DOD] - Installation Restoration Program [IRP] Resource Conservation and Recovery Act [RCRA]) sites around the country, Missouri old and new lead-belt mine risk assessments (Comprehensive Environmental Recovery, Compensation and Liability Act [CERCLA]), CERCLA/RCRA brownfields sites on Lake Erie, and many others.

Jerry Westbrook, PhD. Senior Scientist/Consultant

Jerry Westbrook has served many years as Professor and Chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Department at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama. He has served in academia for over 35 years as lecturer and administrator. He consults and publishes in the field of engineering management theory and its applications in industry and government. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee and is a member of ASEM, IIE, and the ASEE. He was the 1999-2000 national president of the ASEM.

Patricia Leonard, HR Consultant

Patricia Leonard is a senior human resource and corporate training professional with expertise in training design and delivery, executive coaching, career transitioning and leadership development, organizational re-engineering and change management and new business startup and expansion.  As a high-energy visionary she is an actress, a comedian, and an excellent facilitator.  Some of her present consulting duties include, a focus on the ‘socio’ side of business, helping organizations to establish business direction and management strategy, providing management development, career refocusing and redeployment services, helping organizations on project management and group facilitation efforts and keynote and motivational speaking.

Steven Gambrell, Facilitator and Training Consultant

Steven Gambrell has delivered consulting solutions to a wide range of customers over the past 14 years. His abilities in consultative training and organizational research have allowed him to take on various challenges, which he helped solve with a "projectized" focus. Currently, with the American Management Association (AMA), he has served for three years as a key part of the project management best practices faculty team, both with customized on-site clients and AMA's public seminars, totaling over 50 deliveries. With NASA, he develops and delivers several courses in organizational development and performance. He also served in a project management role in the development of NASA's debut "corporate university" approach to training. 

Steven has maintained status as a part-time adjunct instructor for 6 years at the community college and university levels, developing and delivering courses in presentation skills and public speaking for both credit and non-credit sectors. Mr. Gambrell has presented at several regional and national conferences and has co-authored several articles and publications on organizational change and dynamics, presentation skills, and project management.