Our team is dedicated to developing great leaders and helping them build great organizations.
Peter Thies, PhD
Peter is the President and Co-Founder of The River Group. He has 25 years experience helping global companies implement strategic organizational changes. Present and past clients include public company CEOs and executives in a range of industries including Financial Services, Consumer Products, Retail, Industrial, Professional Services, Telecommunications and the nonprofit sector.
Oliver Sommer
Oliver is a Partner at The River Group. He has over twenty years experience as a consultant and executive. He specializes in helping executive teams create and implement transformational organic and M&A driven strategies. He has consulted to organizations across the US and Australia.
Lisa Shall
Lisa is an Associate Partner at The River Group. Lisa is a seasoned talent management professional with deep experience in leadership assessment, organizational design, change management, and talent management processes. Savvy relationship builder with the ability to adapt quickly, learn on the fly and work across geographic boundaries.
Michael Franklin, PhD
Michael is a Partner at The River Group with over 25 years of experience helping CEOs, boards of directors and senior managers to design and implement large-scale organizational change and build leadership capability to drive successful business performance.
Bani Mahindroo Kumar
Bani is a Principal at The River Group. She has a wide range of experience in organizational effectiveness, culture change, performance management, and talent assessment and development.
Rachel Maxwell, PhD
Rachel is a Principal at The River Group, based out of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She has over 17 years of experience in global consulting and internal HR roles. She specializes in executive assessments for both selection and development, executive coaching, designing leadership development programs for high potentials, competency modeling, and succession management.
Fusako Matsui, PhD
Sako is a Principal at The River Group. She has many years of external and internal consulting experience helping global companies drive complex change, accelerate execution, transform leadership capabilities, and build culture of engagement, growth, and results.
Laura McLaine
Laura is the Operations Manager at The River Group. She is responsible for all aspects of day-to-day operations including scheduling, event planning, and data management.
Morgan Fioritto
Morgan is an Associate at The River Group. Her responsibilities include assisting with Intellectual Property and Data Management, as well as Marketing and Client Operations.