The Full Circle Group
New York, NY 10004
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Alicia Williams's Bio
Mrs. Williams serves as the President and Managing Director at Full Circle, Inc., a leading provider of talent management, computer and career training through local workforce development initiatives, open enrollment courses and corporate training initiatives. Her responsibilities include leading the firm’s capabilities around: workforce development; talent management; training; career coaching; strategic planning; and workforce analysis. Mrs. Williams is also responsible for the company’s management, client experience, and growth. Mrs. Williams leads Full Circle with a passion for developing corporate client and governmental agency relationships that have individual attention, superior client service, thoughtful solutions, and dynamic results.
Prior to Full Circle, Mrs. Williams was a Principal and the General Manager of ADC Designs LLC. Her responsibilities included staff training, workforce development, planning, leading new business development, and general management. ADC Designs is a boutique consulting agency specializing in design training and implementation; graphic tool training; website design; website copy; website collateral; planning; and marketing and sales collateral. Under Mrs. Williams’ leadership, the firm successfully completed workforce projects with: Johnson & Johnson executive members; Aflac Insurance Company executive members; Cobbs Creek Healthcare Group; The Hubbard MD Neurology Group; Anchor Risk Investments; Cameron Capital Management; and My Guys Moving and Storage. Prior to ADC Designs, Mrs. Williams was the General Manager of East Coast Salon Services. As a 3-State wide general manager, she was responsible for staff training, workforce development, store operations and sales. Mrs. Williams worked her way up from a store clerk to general manager of three states, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, in 5 years.
Mrs. Williams holds a B.A. in design from Drexel University. Mrs. Williams is the former Co-chair of The Pennsylvania Ballet gala. Mrs. Williams is active in the Radnor School District PTO.
Denean Williams's Bio
Mr. Williams serves as a Managing Director and the Chief Financial Officer of Full Circle, Inc., a leading provider of talent management, computer and career training through local workforce development initiatives, open enrollment courses and corporate training initiatives. His responsibilities include leading the firm’s business development, financial management, and strategic planning. Mr. Williams also provides a leading role in Full Circle capabilities around talent management and its custom technology services. Prior to Full Circle, Mr. Williams was an executive at SEI Investments (NYSE: SEIC) where he was the Global Head of Quality.
He began his career researching quantitative investment managers on SEI’s investment management Tiger Team, in addition to roles in product development, compliance, and advanced investment technology. Previously, Mr. Williams was a senior management consultant with Deloitte & Touche specializing in financial service product design, beginning his professional career in 1992.
Mr. Williams holds an MBA in general management from the Harvard Business School. He holds both a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in engineering degrees from Purdue University and the Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Williams sits on the Bryn Mawr Trust Company (NASDAQ: BMTC) Wealth Management Advisory Board, and Egan-Jones Ratings Company Board. Mr. Williams is the Board Chair of the ‘Urban Affairs Coalition’ pension committee; Board Treasurer & trustee of the ‘Northern Home For Children’ investment committee, trustee of the ‘Volunteer Nursing Association’ investment committee, and board member of the United Way of Southeast PA and NJ. Mr. Williams is a previous board member of the ‘Money Management Institute’ committee and has previously received the prestigious Philadelphia Business Journal’s “40 under 40” award.
Richard Bennett's Bio
Mr. Bennett serves as the General Manager for the Full Circle Group. His responsibilities include Strategy, Business Development, and P&L.
He brings 24 years of construction experience, working for three companies in the elevator industry; Otis, ThyssenKrupp, and TEI Group. He also has 7 years’ experience with two financial service companies in problem solving and risk management (Bank One, SEI Investments).
His experience is truly general management, having focused on Safety, Quality, Construction Operations, P&L, problem solving, and risk management. He has successfully used tools such as Six Sigma coupled with problem solving techniques to yield dramatic improvements across a wide variety of business measures, and these measures go across three industries – elevators, credit cards, and asset management.
Mr. Bennett holds an MBA in General Management from the Harvard Business School. He holds both a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Swarthmore College. He earned a Six Sigma Black Belt from Villanova University. He also attended United Technologies ITO University and studied Japanese Quality Techniques. He has led and participated in various Kaizen activities. He has been an instructor for Kepner Tregoe (problem solving/decision making process). He has developed curricula and trained thousands of people in topics such as data analysis, problem solving, and risk management.