The team that makes TWF work.
Our greatest asset isn’t a methodology, a framework, or a playbook. It’s the people who built all three - and who show up to deliver for every client, every engagement, every time.
SCAN.BUILD.STAY™
Our Team
The people behind the firm.
Named, accountable, and personally invested. Three attorneys, a Fortune-500 operator, licensed clinicians, and the visionary who built it all from scratch.
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
Leadership
Built TWF from the field. Sets strategy across HR Advisory, hospitality staffing, and government contracting, and publishes the market data the firm operates on.
George Harrington
Chief Business and Strategy Officer
Leadership
Dynamic executive with 30+ years building and leading sales, marketing, and service organizations through start-up, turnaround, and rapid-growth phases. Drives strategy, business development, and positioning across the firm.
Briana Beatty
Chief Human Resources Officer, HR Advisory · Founding Partner
Founding Partner
Runs HR Advisory delivery end to end: client engagements, recruitment, and the people systems behind every SCAN, BUILD, and STAY phase.
Dr. Fred Kendrick, PhD
Chief Human Resources Officer, Predictive Analytics & IP · Founding Partner
Founding Partner
Owns the predictive analytics and people analytics lane: the models and intellectual property that turn workforce data into foresight for HHS operators.
Cuabeya Woods
Founding Partner · GovCon Division Co-Lead
Founding Partner
Leads the GovCon build: entity registration, federal readiness, and the compliance backbone for workforce delivery to primes and agencies.
David Lowell
Founding Account Executive, Hospitality · Founding Partner
Founding Partner
Drives sales and account development for the hospitality staffing division across the Southeast's hotels, venues, and event operators.
Damion Rowe
Podcast Producer
Media & Content
Production lead for TWF's media operation. First reviewer on every clip and the producer behind the firm's interview series.
Lawrence Furing
Short-Form Video Creator
Media & Content
Creates the short-form video that carries TWF's workforce commentary across platforms.
Zain Sheikh
Short-Form Video Creator
Media & Content
Edits and packages TWF's clips and social video from the firm's media pipeline.
Juni
Podcast Clipper
Media & Content
Turns long-form TWF conversations into the moments worth sharing.
Chief Legal Officer · Senior Counsel · GovCon Division Co-Lead
Leadership
Former EEOC Administrative Law Judge. One of the few in private practice who has actually ruled on the laws he now advises our clients about.
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Dion Beatty, JD, MBA
Employment Attorney
Senior Advisor
Thinks like a lawyer, runs the math like an operator. Counsels clients on worker classification, termination sequencing, PIP structure, and multi-state compliance.
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Michael Berger
Senior Advisor, Operations
Senior Advisor
32 years at Nissan North America. Brings Fortune-500 workforce systems thinking to HHS organizations that have never had access to it.
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Beverly King, LCMHCS
Clinical Workforce Advisor
Senior Advisor
Former UnitedHealth Group. Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor. Advises on clinical team design, credentialing, and the burnout patterns behind direct care turnover.
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Amy Ford, LCMHC
Medicaid Workforce Advisor
Delivery & Ops
Licensed clinician who spent years inside the Medicaid system. Supports program delivery for clients navigating documentation, credentialing, and payer compliance.
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Director of Community Partnerships
Delivery & Ops
Built the Workforce Partnership Exchange™ from scratch. Runs the peer network, partnership programs, and connects HHS leaders so nobody solves every problem alone.
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By the numbers
Three figures describe the sector. Five describe what we build toward. We separate them on purpose.
37.1%
Direct support professional turnover, nationally
Weighted mean, 2024. Range across states 16.7% to 53.7%.
9.7%
Average full-time DSP vacancy rate
2024. Range across states 5.9% to 17.2%.
26.6%
Agencies that turned away referrals over staffing
Stopped or declined new service referrals in 2024 because of DSP staffing.
150+
HHS organizations served
Team career total across our advisory and consulting bench.
28%
Target client turnover rate
What we build engagements to reach, against a national mean of 37.1%.
94%
Target compliance score
Internal audit standard applied to client documentation sets.
32 days
Target time to fill
Direct hire, clinical and direct care roles.
Zero
Target CARF deficiencies
For clients on an audit-ready documentation set.
Sector figures: National Core Indicators, State of the Workforce in IDD, 2024 Survey Report, NASDDDS and HSRI, published December 2025. Figures labeled target are TWF engagement objectives, not reported results.
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