Connie Charles
CEO / Founder  Connie Charles has over 20 years experience in human performance consulting. In 1990, Connie left her position in Employee Development with the Dupont Company to found a consulting practice, Strategic Solutions International, Inc. As demand grew for the products and services offered by SSI, Connie created an Executive Golf School program to drive growth by appealing to the passion of business golfers while giving them tangible solutions for business challenges. As a result of this unique marketing strategy, Connie has been able to build a strong client base of domestic and international Fortune 1000 corporations. In the ten years since she first began her consulting practice, Connie has created a product line of golf and business training programs, developed a network of consultants and instructors to deliver the services and built alliances with a variety of distribution channels including, Princeton Review, Junior Achievement and Management Learning Resources. Connie holds both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Education as well as several certifications in Instructional Design.
... Richard Tito
Board Member Dick Tito joined the management team of SSI in 2006. Previously, he spent over 30 years in the financial services sector at such firms as Federated Investors, Bank of America, PNC Financial Services, and Mellon Bank. His expertise in the capital markets allowed him to lead large teams in the global fixed income securities trading and institutional sales areas of those institutions. He has served as a Board Member for The Bond Market Association and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. He is also a former President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. During his career, Dick focused on team building, individual and team performance improvement, leadership development, and sales marketing and training. In 1999, impressed by the array of products and services offered by SSI, Dick joined the SSI Board and helped form its Advisory Board, a network of business leaders from leading Fortune 500 companies. A passionate golfer, Dick has hosted numerous Executive Golf Schools for SSI; helping to introduce the unique way SSI uses the game of golf to connect business golfers to solutions that allow them to improve their companies. Dick holds an undergraduate degree in History from Union College (Schenectady, NY) and an MBA from West Virginia University. He also served as a military intelligene officer for the US Army. He and his family live in Sewickley, PA. ... Doug Leonard
Executive Consultant An Executive Consultant with Strategic Solutions Mr. Leonard specializes in coaching senior executives and their teams. Doug’s experience ranges from large-scale project and employee management in both the public and private sectors to entrepreneurship and new business ventures. Prior to joining SSI, Mr. Leonard was the Executive Administrator of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). During his tenure as court administrator he also served 5 terms on the Board of Directors and 1 year as President of the Pennsylvania Association of Court Management. Prior to his working in the court system Mr. Leonard served in a senior management role at Sunquest Information Systems. During Mr. Leonard's tenure at Sunquest, Inc. Magazine recognized Sunquest as one of the "Inc. 500", for 3 consecutive years. Doug previously maintained a private mediation practice that focused on resolution of business and family disputes. He has experience in a wide range of employment and labor dispute resolution settings such as grievance hearings and arbitration. He has experience in negotiating on behalf of business entities in collective bargaining agreements with organized labor and professional unions. Doug holds a Bachelors Degree in Management & Economics, a Masters Degree in Business Administration, and is a certified mediator. In addition to his corporate work Doug is a Certified Sports Counselor of the National Institute of Sports Professionals and is recognized as equipped and skilled to provide assistance to athletes seeking peak performance. ... Ginny Corsi
Private Client Services Ginny Corsi is an Executive Consultant with Strategic Solutions where she works with CEOs and senior executives in consulting and team-building. An experienced large group facilitator, she also has led many company, association, foundation and family office retreats. She has been a keynote speaker on topics relating to personal and professional leadership and conducted workshops on sales and client service at national and regional conferences. Ginny spent many years in financial services in New York with a private investment counseling firm, and later with the institutional division of PaineWebber. She served four years as Executive Director of the Institutional Investor (magazine) Institute, annually coordinating several conferences and seminars for the leaders in the investment management field. She came to financial services from executive search and an appointed position in the U.S. State Department as a senior advisor to the Director of the Agency for International Development. Ginny spent three years prior as Associate Director of the Executive Seminar Program, developing corporate leadership seminars for the Aspen Institute, based in New York and Aspen, CO. She served for many years on the Board of Trustees for the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE). A former Trustee of Russell Sage College, she is currently a Trustee of the Hurricane Island (Maine) Outward Bound School. In addition to her corporate work, Ginny has specialized experience with executive women's groups, members of family businesses, and Young Presidents Organizations. ... Don Paddack
Executive Consultant As an Executive Consultant with Strategic Solutions, Don Paddack works with executive leaders and their teams. Don has been an executive business partner for more than twenty years in the mutual fund and telecommunication industries. His experience includes 10 years of management with Sprint’s long distance division in operations and organizational development, as well as, 13 years as the head of Human Resources and Administration with Amvescap’s U.S. mutual fund operations, INVESCO Funds Group and AIM Investments. Don has demonstrated success in linking daily workforce activities to corporate strategic business plans, building and leading effective teams, and has an extensive background in coaching key executives in developing solutions to complex business issues. ... Barger Jeutter-Robertson
Consultant Barger Jeutter-Robertson has over 24 years experience in the field of marketing and training. Her consulting services cover a diverse range of projects including executive level management training, strategic planning, behavioral profiling, team-building, marketing, motivational speaking and designing innovative approaches to individual and team training plans. Prior to her independent consulting practice, Barger was employed with DuPont as the Training and Development Manager for the Agricultural Products Department. Additionally, she has worked for a national computer software company as a Regional Sales Manager and for the Forum Corporation as a Project Development Manager. Barger brings a unique blend of work experience in sales, marketing, training and personnel management. Barger graduated from University of Virginia with a BS in Education and is located in Waynesboro, VA in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. | 
