Kendra Gladych
Principal Consultant
Kendra has spent her career helping organizations grow and tell their stories.
For ten years, she worked at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on a team that helped over 1,000 companies in emerging markets scale. She led global marketing campaigns, built systems that increased productivity and allowed capital to be reallocated, produced an Emmy Award-winning short film on female entrepreneurship, and launched the award-winning Grit & Growth podcast.
Before Stanford, she managed public relations at the Council on Foreign Relations. She ran campaigns for foreign policy experts and coordinated events with Fortune 500 executives, government officials, and heads of state.
Today, Kendra specializes in marketing strategy, operations, and growth systems. She builds solutions that work in the real world, not just on paper.
Education: MBA, University of Illinois. BS in Journalism and Political Communication, Emerson College. Executive training at Stanford and Georgetown.
Trevor Gladych
Principal Consultant
Trevor helps people solve problems they can't solve alone.
He's a practicing attorney who has worked with a complex business litigation firm off and on since he was a teenager. In Washington, D.C., he worked on federal legislation and contracts. At Georgetown Law, he taught in 17 D.C. public high schools and trained law school deans and professors around the world on how to teach.
Before law school, he raised $5 million as an undergraduate to launch a documentary film program. His team sold a screenplay to HBO. He spent six years as a high school English teacher and has coached water polo and swimming at every level from age-group to collegiate.
He finished an Ironman and bicycled across the United States. He currently serves as president of Navigate, the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce's young professional group, and was named Navigate: Young Professional of the Year in 2025.
Education: JD, Georgetown University Law Center.