Get to Know Us
GCE is a consulting company that celebrates and creates collaborative engagement. Our culture revolves around putting people first and building capacity that "Powers-on” sustainable success. We strive to understand our clients’ needs and goals to design systems, processes and practices that calibrate needs with goals and resources. GCE provides each of our client organizations and communities with the essential real-time support they need to implement and nurture a culture that puts people first while enhancing performance. Whether its unlocking leadership potential or addressing underperformance or disengagement, we provide the support needed to navigate constant change, uncertainty, and beyond.
Our diverse backgrounds combined with experience across multiple fields allows us to provide a “not one shoe fits all” approach to projects. We partner with our clients to establish effective project management, organizational leadership and structure built around a diversity, equity and inclusion framework. We collaborate with our clients to design projects, programs, and business strategies that translate to effective operating models, systems, and processes that drive results—all by building and nurturing organizational culture and environment that puts people first.
Our diverse backgrounds combined with experience across multiple fields allows us to provide a “not one shoe fits all” approach to projects. We partner with our clients to establish effective project management, organizational leadership and structure built around a diversity, equity and inclusion framework. We collaborate with our clients to design projects, programs, and business strategies that translate to effective operating models, systems, and processes that drive results—all by building and nurturing organizational culture and environment that puts people first.
John Musau
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John spent 21 years in corporate leadership positions for various corporations before becoming a social entrepreneur. He was also an owner of a YUM Brands KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) restaurant franchise in Kansas City. John also served as the Vice President & Managing director for MSAA Partners LLC. John’s position at MSAA provided the opportunity for him to lead company operations for a 54 multi-brand restaurant company with $64M annual sales in multi-states. He played a leadership role in the implementation of the company’s M&A blueprint and people development strategy. He collaborated with corporate franchise business leaders in field pilot projects and facilitated the implementation of franchisor’s goals and initiatives.
Prior to joining MSAA LLC, John worked as the Director of Operations for Yum Brands, a leading global restaurant company. His passion for building competitive and winning teams allowed him the privilege to coach and lead a high-volume region of 42 restaurants with over $36M annual sales in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
Dr. Brad Maclauglin
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Brad is a former superintendent of schools who loves to identify and foster innovative approaches to education and community development. He was instrumental in implementing the cutting-edge Academies of the Independence School District in Missouri. Independence School District is the fourth largest school district in the state of Missouri with nearly 15,000 students. Brad oversaw instructional and educational activities in the Independence School District’s middle and high schools. Prior to joining the Independence School District, Brad spent 14 years in the Lexington Missouri School District as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent of schools.
Brad is also a Missouri cattleman, a proud owner of a cattle ranch that raises cattle for large scale beef production. Brad earned his bachelor’s degree at Northeast Missouri (now Truman) State University, his masters at the University of Central Missouri, and his specialist and doctorate degrees at William Woods University. |
Canise Salinas-Willich
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Canise Salinas-Willich began her career by receiving her BA in Education. When Canise began her undergraduate studies at Ottawa University, she was exposed to a full range of educational courses, which reinforced and solidified her intense interest in teaching. She taught elementary education, focusing on early literacy, comprehension, and fluency. In addition, she had the opportunity to study subjects in the social sciences, which were both enjoyable and enlightening, providing her with a new and different perspective on the world we live in.
Canise earned her master’s in counseling, and is currently pursuing her doctorate from William Woods University. Mrs. Salinas-Willich has developed a particular interest in education, school leadership, social justice, and 21st-century technology skills. She has sat on many boards and committees whose purpose spans from organizational planning to visionary leadership. |
Dr. Ronald Knight-Beck
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Dr. Ronald Knight-Beck is a current Adjunct Professor with specialty in Leadership, Management, Business, and Multicultural Education. Prior he worked as a Human Resources Director, as a Senior Learning Partner for an IT Healthcare company and a K-12 Instructor, who lives by the motto, “if you’re not learning, you’re not growing” and his three E model of being Efficient, Effective and Ethical.
Ronnie earned his bachelor’s degree at Missouri Western State University, his masters at Northwest Missouri State University, and his doctorate degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia |
Linda Un
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Ms. Linda Un has a Bachelors and Masters degree from the University of Kansas' Social Studies Teacher Program. She was born and raised in the Flint Hills of Manhattan, Kansas to first-generation South Korean immigrants. Her interest in education began in her youth reading history books and having great teachers as role models. As an education project coordinator and research assistant, she has supported students and teachers through pre-college readiness programs offering student development in Possible Selves, Strategic Instructional Model Learning Strategies, and professional development in Instructional Coaching. Former Telementor Project Coordinator for an online student mentoring partnership project between the Topeka School District, the University of Kansas, and International Telementor Program. She also has previous experience as a State Assessment Bias Reviewer for the Kansas Department of Education. In her spare time, she likes to read, ballroom dance, and cook/eat all kinds of food and flavors.
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Dr. Mena Hill
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Mena Hill earned her Doctorate in Educational Practice and Leadership, with an emphasis in Teacher Education from the University of North Dakota in 2022. She received her Master of Arts: Education from Western Colorado University in 2014. Before graduate school, Mena earned a Bachelor of Arts in Ministry: Christian Counseling from Nazarene Bible College in 2011.
She began teaching in 2008. Her classroom teaching experience includes preschool through third grade and fifth grade. Mena then served as a curriculum and instruction coach from 2016-2022. Now she is a district administrator, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, Reading, and Assessment. A seasoned professional development facilitator and staff developer, Mena has presented throughout Kansas at regional and national conferences on such topics as technology integration, curriculum design, and social-emotional support and reflective practices in the classroom. Her passion for teacher professional learning focuses on instructional practices, cultural competence, and reflective practice development. |
Diana Bailey
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Diana, Curriculum Design Specialist and Consultant, graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and then went on to Washburn University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. She pioneered the Blended Learning model for 21st century learners. Diana is the recipient of the Unusually Excellent Educator Award and the Lawrence School District Teacher of the Year. She has also been named a regional semi-finalist in the running for Kansas Teacher of the Year and is often utilized as a model classrooom teacher. Over the last five years, she has presented on global stages about her abilities to strategically weave standards based content with 21st century technologies while engaging her students in relevant, personalized curriculum in an accessible way for students of all abilities. Diana currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband and two daughters.
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