Our Team

Gib Kerr, Principal, KerrWerx, LLC (he/him)    

As a retired U.S. Navy Captain, who has also been a corporate executive, a senior executive in government, an executive coach and a professor (teaching leadership and Program Management), Gibson (Gib) Kerr has over 40 years’ experience working in a variety of organizations and developing teams as small as 5 individuals to as many as 300. A highly skilled facilitator and master trainer, he is able to draw on his extensive range of experience to help organizations improve outcomes.

Though trained as an engineer where typically coming up with technically excellent solutions was enough, Gib is often quoted as saying “soft skills enable hard results.” To this end he has devoted his varied career to learning, applying, adapting and integrating a cornucopia of team skills and technical tools to improve the interactions of those with whom he works. He loves helping teams succeed, and really enjoys making the complicated simple- so people and teams have the knowledge and tools they need to address the challenges they face.

He takes very seriously his personal mission to help people understand themselves, interact better as individuals and in teams, and to learn and apply new tools and techniques in order to generate improved outcomes for themselves and their organizations. He once stated in an interview, “I wish I had these tools and been this self-aware back in the late 1970’s when I first started working in teams…I would have made waaayyyy fewer mistakes.”

Roberta Wilmore (she/her)

Roberta is a coach and consultant who helps individuals and organizations access their untapped potential. She has decades of experience in executive and organizational development, nonprofits, commercial and residential real estate, creative entrepreneurship, and the equity and inclusion work that is so fundamental to success across the globe.

Roberta has served as a trusted advisor, executive coach, and board member for dozens of nonprofit organizations and businesses, ranging from creative arts organizations, to academic institutions, and philanthropic and community organizations.

She has a long term interest in the horse world and in 2001 she founded the Children’s Equitation Center, connecting children of color to the world of equestrian sports. In 2022, Roberta co-founded the Ethos Awards at the Washington International Horse Show, which recognizes the contributions of African Americans to equine sports.

Roberta’s photo by Veronique Bryant

Richard Hansen, Principal, Hansen & Associates, LLC (he/him)

Richard coaches government and corporate leaders through all levels of management, across a wide variety of products and services lifecycles. These multiple domains include high-tech program management, financial management, information technology/cyber, healthcare, non-profit, production, and logistics. Using a refined, proven coaching model and process, Richard partners with key leaders to reflect on what’s possible (vs. predictable/status quo) to design and implement an extraordinary future for their teams, organization, and enterprise.

As a solid foundation for leadership coaching in large and complex organizations, Richard served twenty-six years as a leader with the US Army from 1982-2008. He held various command and staff positions in armored and airborne artillery and infantry units. His research, development, production, and sustainment experience includes various assignments as a product, project, or program manager in electric guns, armored vehicles, precision guided munitions, and critical clothing and equipment for aviation crewmen, dismounted Soldiers, and vehicle crewmen.

Additionally, he established and led an ICF award-winning enterprise coaching program growing a cadre of 10 coaches and 20 clients to well over 100 experienced acquisition practitioners, who have coached over 600 senior government leaders to create and sustain a coaching culture that improves their business performance, organizational alignment, and leadership capacities.

John Driessnack, Principal, Olde Stone Consulting (he/him)   

John’s experience spans 30 years supporting federal civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies, including 20 years on active duty in the United States Air Force. He specializes in solving wicked problems by combining his industrial engineering and institutional economics education with evolving practices in systems leadership and management within a portfolio/program/project framework.

Since retiring from the Air Force in 2004, John has worked with both federal agencies and contractors to streamline processes and solve programmatic issues. He has also collaborated with American University to set up the first Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) approved cohort Senior Program Management Certificate Program for federal employees.

As a member of the National Defense Industrial Association, he enjoys working with industry and government colleagues to advance the state of the art in systems engineering and program management.

John also works as a professor focused on senior level complex PEO/Program simulations,  a video series called the DAG Dialogs, and updating the Integrated Program and Process Development (IPPD) Handbook. He teaches at American University and the University of Maryland.

Happily married for over 35 years, he and his wife live and work on their 40-acre farm in Loudoun County Virginia.  They enjoy time with their 7 children and their new families as well as developing their fruit orchard and renovating John’s two Willys jeeps.