Partners
Louis W. (Jody) Fry
Jody Fry has a Ph.D. in Organization Theory and Behavior from The Ohio State University, an MBA from American University, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Southern Methodist University. In addition to spending 8 years in private enterprise, he has been a faculty member at Texas A & M University and The University of Washington. Currently, Fry is a professor at Tarleton State University-Central Texas where he is the coordinator of their MS Management and Leadership Program and teaches the following courses: organizational change and development, organizational design, organizational behavior, ethics and leadership, managerial statistics, and business research methods. Jody has published in numerous scholarly journals including The Leadership Quarterly, The Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, The Academy of Management Journal, and The Academy of Management Review and has served on numerous editorial review boards. Presently, he is a member of the editorial review board of The Leadership Quarterly, Editor of The Journal of Management Spirituality and Religion, and the editor for Information Age Publishing for a book series, Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research, and Application. His teaching, research, consulting and executive development interests are focused on maximizing the triple bottom line through the spiritual leadership balanced scorecard business model.
Bethany Detrich
Bethany Detrich created Leadership Growth Partners in 1997 to support world-class companies in retaining and growing leadership to Level 5 standing in rapidly changing and competitive environments. She learned from public and private sector clients that instructing is not enough. Great leaders understand how to take a company vision, distill it down to its essential parts, and then execute against it.
Bethany united her more than 20 years of experience in the areas of marketing, sales, management, and high performance leadership training to create a robust, fast-paced leadership program that enhances individual team member skills and talents while also aligning these to a corporation’s mission, vision, and values. She created a rapid leadership development program that is customized to fit each client’s unique company culture, and that infuses new energy and leadership ability into new and existing leaders.
Leadership Growth Partners builds upon her proven accelerated leadership development model that has supported clients in rapidly expanding leadership teams and growing bench strength.
Bethany has a B.B.A. in Marketing from Texas Tech University and is a frequent instructor in the Executive and Management Development Department of the Cox School of Business at SMU. She currently advises the successful Sales Leadership Forum for Cox at SMU. She also serves on the business advisory board for Tarrant County College. She is a top-rated speaker who has spoken on the topics of leadership, management and sales.
Charla Mayo
President of The Bergerac Company, Charla Mayo in an expert at helping executives develop communications skills. She developed CultureTalk, a two-day seminar conducted in an interactive environment with individual and group feedback and skill practices throughout. CultureTalk will help you integrate disparate corporate cultures brought together by merger or acquisition, bridge cultural gaps within organizations and step into new markets without stepping on toes.
