Driven by insight, focused on outcomes: that’s how we approach leadership development and talent management at the Gerald Hannah Group.

Our goal: give your managers and leaders the tools and skills to inspire your employees, spark their passion, and kindle the kind of performance that achieves measurable results.

Our management consultants draw on their extensive experience and research in executive coaching, behavior psychology, leadership development, and diversity recruitment and training to cultivate an organizational culture that delivers sustainable results.

We’ve worked with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and higher education institutions with best practices and the latest research findings to transform top talent into high-impact leaders.

Dr. Tammy E. Smithers is an interdisciplinary scholar, published researcher, writer, consultant, and thought leader on race, culture, diversity, equity, and inclusion. In addition to leading diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts for M-Pact Global Leadership and Diversity, a boutique consultancy, Dr. Smithers is an executive consultant at the Gerald Hannah Group, a firm that provides leadership development for senior leaders and managers, and at Bridge Philanthropic Consulting, a firm that supports fundraising efforts of higher education institutions and social justice philanthropy for nonprofit organizations and private foundations.

Dr. Smithers has taught management and marketing courses in the Jesse H. Jones School of Business at Texas Southern University. Dr. Smithers earned a doctorate in ethical leadership from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, where she also serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Education and Human Services. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Rice University, and a Bachelor’s in Journalism/Public Relations from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Minority Serving Institutions and Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice both housed in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.