David Ransom is founder and president of The Ransom Group, an executive search group based in central Ohio. His responsibilities include providing overall leadership and strategic direction for the company’s ongoing business activities.

A graduate of Eastern Illinois University, Ransom utilizes more than 20 years of experience and knowledge in his field to improve the execution and performance standards for his company.

Ransom has built an extensive personal network of the industry’s top leaders and has personally completed hundreds of senior management searches. Prior to founding The Ransom Group, David was a partner in a national search firm specializing in managed health care. For more than eight years he was recognized as one of the firm’s leading consultants.

Ransom was chairman of the Administrative Board of the Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church and has served in leadership roles related to mentoring incarcerated men and working with ex-offenders upon their release. He also works with the church’s Youth Group and with the church’s partnership with a nearby low-income community.

Dave and his wife, Kim, have two daughters and live in Blacklick, Ohio.

Mrs. Shaw has been with Worthington Industries since 1976, in various commercial and risk management roles, and has spent the past 25 years fulfilling her passion to help people excel in their professional (and personal!) lives. 

Mrs. Shaw earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with an individualized concentration in small group dynamics from Otterbein College (now Otterbein University) in Westerville, Ohio in 1975. She is certified to teach the curriculum of Christian communication skills, Apples of Gold and Rational Christian Thinking.  She is certified to instruct and facilitate curriculum from Blessing-White (Managing Personal Growth), Development Dimensions, International (Interaction Management) and VitalSmarts, Inc. (Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, and Influencer).

Mrs. Shaw worships at Church of the Master UM in Westerville, where she and her husband are 40-year members of the Chancel Choir.  She has held roles on various committees, taught Sunday School for ten years, and was a youth counselor for seven years.  She also sang with the New Presence Gospel Quartet for thirteen years.

Mrs. Shaw lives in Sunbury, Ohio with her husband of 40 years, Greg.  They have two grown sons, two beautiful daughters-in-law, and three amazing grandchildren.

Bill Garcia is a contract negotiator, negotiation trainer and worldwide motivational speaker.  Garcia’s corporate career experience includes direct sales and sales management; export sales to Latin America; national sale and account management; and vice president of sales and marketing positions.   His entrepreneurial experience includes being a founder and board member of a business-to-business global sourcing company, as well as several other smaller LLP ventures. Garcia has demonstrated experience in idea generation, capital raising, business development, executive level team building and execution.

TableForce (formerly Garcia & Associates) began as counsel to various Fortune 500 companies during contract negotiations in 1997.  Garcia and his partners regularly sit at-the-table representing both buyers and sellers.  Additionally TableForce provides customized negotiation training worldwide (over 40 countries on 6 continents).

Garcia holds a Masters of International Management (MBA) from “Thunderbird”, and received his BA from the James Madison College of Michigan State University in International Relations.  He’s also completed the Kellogg School of Management, University of Notre Dame, Harvard Law School and M.I.T. programs on negotiation strategies. 

Nancy Pettigrew is President of The People Skills Company formed in 1989 and Founder of The Healthy Workplace, Ltd. established in 1995. Their combined mission is to help organizations create workplace cultures where people want to work as leaders and staffs come together helping each person contribute his or her talents to fulfilling the mission and goals.  She serves organizations of all types and sizes nationally and internationally.

Nancy is an Authorized Partner of Everything DiSC Workplace Solutions and an Authorized Partner and Accredited Facilitator of The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. She received her certification for the ESAP assessment from the Emotional Intelligence Learning Systems. In addition, Nancy has been awarded the following

certifications from Target Training International: CPBA (Certified Professional Behavior Analyst) CPVA (Certified Professional Values Analyst) and Certified Professional TriMetrix Analyst.

Nancy is a Founding Member of The Freedom’s Path Initiative, LLC, a member of the World Wide Network of Servant Leadership, a Past President of the Heartland Chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement, a member of Capital City Organizational Development Network, the Association of Talent Development and a founding member of the Columbus Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

Nancy has her degree in education from The Ohio State University where she participated in the specialized curriculum, “The Urban Teachers Education Project.”

Nancy and her husband Bob reside in Columbus.  They have three children and three grandchildren.