About Us
Talent Today Consulting helps organizations develop, communicate, and cultural awareness strategies to shape the current workplace. Our areas of expertise include Global & Cultural, Coaching & Leadership Development, Training & Organizational Accountability and Talent and Culture. We can help you be more responsive in assessing, developing, training and managing your organization's challenges. We are a full-service, training, people, culture and connection consulting firm.
Management Team
Our Management team members include:
Connie Robinson
COO, Chief Operating Officer
As a consultant and executive with TalentTodayConsulting, Ms. Robinson has over 25 years of people, culture and connection. She is highly skilled in strategic corporate engagement – building trusted relationships with companies, executives, and community partners. Using her skills in leadership
Connie helps global companies move candidates within the organization that contributes to people growth and the bottom line. For her work, she received the highest honor - the President’s Award in a non-technical role.
Connie leads in people, culture and connection; specifically, developing preparation and retention measurement objectives for Fortune 500 corporate, manufacturing, judicial, non-profit and retail companies.
She delivers innovative and integrated talent solutions and strategic engagement processes that expand opportunities for employees, helping companies identify and advance high potential candidates while exceeding hiring goals. She is consistently successful building business and community engagement strategies focused on organizational and cultural awareness and relationship building.
Connie is a management graduate from Arizona State University and Philanthropy and Leadership graduate sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Carlian Dawson
Director, Training and Education
A leader, consultant and executive with TalentTodayConsulting in diversity education, Carlian W. Dawson, Ed.D is the Director of Training and Organizational Development and has nearly 30 years’ experience including education and management consulting. A leader in diversity education, Carlian is a skilled facilitator and builder of leadership teams for businesses, school districts, post-secondary institutions and faith-based organizations.
Her clients range from corporate CEOs to government officials to educational leaders. Senior management, supervisors and professionals have benefited from her skillful coaching, and training and development techniques.
Carlian has also been recognized for her organization and leadership development, efficacy-based training, neurosequential modeling and structural racism skills, and trainer of trainers for trauma informed practices. She facilitates a positive working atmosphere where people become goal-focused and feel vested in policy, establishing a win-win relationship.
Dr. Dawson has a Master's Degree from Arizona State University and a Doctorate in Education from Illinois State University.
Roy T. Dawson
Director, Executive Leadership and Organizational Development
Roy T. Dawson is the Chief Human Resource Officer of the Gideon Group. He began his professional career with the City of Los Angeles and transitioned from public service to the private sector when he accepted a position with the Honeywell Corporation.
In 1988, the United Technologies Corporation recruited Roy to serve as executive leader for HR in 13 European and Asian countries,as well as, the United States and the Caribbean. Over his career as a global HR leader, he was a pioneering expert in the fields of Change Management and Global Executive Leadership Development. Today, Roy Dawson is a consultant.
As a retired Aerospace Executive, Roy, is an active and committed member of the board of directors of the Arizona Center for African American Resources, where he serves as a Volunteer Child and Family Advocate. From this role he has shown how tools and techniques used in the private sector can be applied to help solve problems in public and community service.
Mr. Dawson has an MBA from Pepperdine University, with certificates in International Management, and Executive Leadership from Thunderbird School of Global Management, Duke University and the University of Virginia.
Sheneka Coleman
Project Director
Sheneka Coleman has 20 years of experience as a consultant and executive driving organizational transformation by helping companies translate key business initiatives into actionable systems and processes.
Having worked for Fortune 500 corporations and government entities, Sheneka has considerable experience executing and managing change throughout organizations.
She has managed and implemented global initiatives in the United States, Europe, and Asia with a keen awareness of cultural norms and practices. She delivers consistent and transforming programs that communicate changes to systems, people, and culture.
Sheneka has an Electrical Engineering graduate from Morgan State University, a certification in project management from George Washington University, and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.