Who We Are

A longtime expert in leadership development and workplace culture, Ron has helped companies create high performance teams for over 20 years. With 1000+ EOS® sessions to date, he takes a deep dive into companies to help them build sustainable and profitable businesses. 

As an entrepreneur, he is the Founder and Visionary of CultureShoc. Ron’s client list ranges from World Shipping, Acutec and Bravo Wellness to rapidly growing Inc. 5000 companies. He has served as board member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Cleveland, U.S. Central Chapters and EO Global, and was named an honoree of Northeast Ohio’s Smart 50 Award for top executives in 2017.

In his free time, he enjoys time with his family of six, either baking pizzas in the backyard, paddling on Lake Erie, or taking vacations around the globe.

As a Certified EOS Implementer®, Kimberly helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams continuously improve every aspect of running their business. In addition, she brings her expertise in predictive productivity using her certifications as a Kolbe Certified Consultant and The Six Types of Working Genius.  With a focus on alignment and employee effectiveness, she brings a clear understanding of how to make things run better and make people work better together.

When she’s not with clients, Kimberly loves working with nonprofit boards and their leadership teams to bring about organizational and operational improvement. To fulfill their love of travel and culture, Kimberly and her family have been to six different continents, all while never losing a piece of luggage!

As a Certified EOS Implementer, Derek brings a lot of energy to the room. He combines a laid back approach to a work hard play hard mentality, ultimately helping his clients become their best self. Derek offers a unique perspective of working alongside an Implementer to insert EOS into a large staffing business as their COO and Integrator. His experience in staffing & recruiting led to him scaling his practice rapidly helping 50+ staffing companies across the country implement EOS. Eventually that led to him taking a CEO seat running a staffing business for over two years before ultimately realizing his true passion was back at the helm of guiding and coaching teams through the EOS process. Derek’s experience of running back office functions, integrating acquisitions, and leading the overall business, offers real practice experiences his clients can learn from beyond just teaching the tools leading to a faster adoption of EOS.

On the personal front, Derek has spent time in public office, is married and has four wonderful children. He enjoys spending time with his family, close friends, working out, traveling and taking on the occasional hobby like golf. Nothing excites him more than the opportunity to have an intimate conversation with a friend or two over a bourbon and maybe a cigar here or there!

As a Professional EOS Implementer®, Kurt helps his clients by leaning on his experience growing up in a family business, where he learned the realities of entrepreneurship early on. After time in both small companies and Fortune 500s, he was brought in to lead a third-generation family business—where he helped implement EOS®, made several acquisitions, grew top line and bottom line, and built a thriving culture. That experience inspired his mission today: helping entrepreneurs get what they want from their businesses through EOS®.

Outside of work, he’s a proud husband and dad to four kids. He stays busy coaching and cheering on his kids in their sports and activities. He also enjoys golfing, woodworking, vacationing to new and exciting places, staying physically active and rooting for all things Cleveland sports.

With a personal mission statement of “Develop People & Change Lives,” Joe has invested 20+ years of his career leading organizations (for-profit and non-profit) that value the same thing. As a Business Owner, Entrepreneur, Leader & Integrator, Joe has worn many hats, and his aim is to help people learn and grow.

He is a graduate of Miami University (OH), with a double major in Accounting & Finance. He also obtained a Master’s of Accountancy from Miami University (OH) , and became a Certified Public Accountant and Auditor for Ernst & Young shortly after. He left Ernst & Young in 2006 to continue co-leading a company he founded in 2003, while a college student, called University Tees.

Today, Joe is the Fractional Integrator at CultureShoc. He’s also leading The #2 Forum where he helps COO’s, Integrators and second-in-command leaders elevate their leadership skills.

Joe Haddad is currently very happily married and has four children. He enjoys coaching them in youth & travel sports, hiking, swimming and taking joy in their interests. He also serves on boards for a number of non-profits.

Pete has been serving CultureShoc clients for over a decade. His experience and passion facilitating high-energy, team development training has allowed over 300 organizations to improve their relationships, alignment, and productivity. He’s also the co-creator and facilitator of the ITS (Into The Storm) Leaders programs and CultureShoc’s Senior Coach.

Drawing on experience as a small business partner, Fortune 500 team building facilitator, and a former collegiate athlete, Pete helps teams and individuals adopt CultureShoc’s ITS Mindset to improve their performance.

An author of two books, he holds a Master’s Degree in Communications from John Carroll University. In his free time, Pete enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters at their home in the Cleveland area, as well as exercising and writing.

Joe co-created ITS Leaders because he needed it before he knew it existed. He’s a father, a builder, and someone who has done the hard work of rebuilding himself – attributing much of that to the principles, tools, and models that are now part of the ITS Leaders program, and now helps leaders do the same.

His background runs through Sony, Sears, energy trading, and two SaaS companies. He’s led teams, created culture from scratch, and learned most of his best lessons the expensive way. Since 2016 he’s worked exclusively in the entrepreneurial space, where leadership theory meets Monday morning and one usually loses.

He facilitates the way buffalo move, toward the storm, not away from it. His Kolbe is 5-3-9-2: built to read a room, adapt to what’s actually happening, and move before the blueprint is finished. Direct and pattern-oriented, he’s unwilling to let a room stay comfortable when something honest is below the surface. He believes vulnerability is strength and that leaders go first, so he models that tone to connect authentically and create an opening for others.

Amy makes the magic happen. Balancing a group of Initiating Quick Starts with her eye for detail and heart for creating incredible experiences both internally and externally. From scheduling sessions and planning events to coordinating team building experiences and development programs, she brings unique value to the CultureShoc team.

Liz has established a successful career in running everything and everyone efficiently. With over 20 years of experience in Executive Assistance and Project Management, along with her ‘get things done mentality’, she’s tenacious at leading CultureShoc’s Operations. 

Having been a fitness coach and podcast host, Liz brings another level to the ITS Coaching Program at CultureShoc. Sharing her experiences along with her focus on alignment of Head, Words and Heart, she has helped clients move forward with a growth mindset.

Liz holds a Bachelors Degree from Grand Canyon University but her biggest accomplishment is managing the chaos of her 4 children.