Lori Tompos

Lori Tompos, Founder & CEO, M.Ed., MBA, has experience, know-how, and passion for developing leaders and teams to skillfully navigate civil discourse and conflict resolution, leading to high performance and positive impact by focusing on a customized approach, strategic insights, and innovative solutions. Lori is a West Point graduate, within the first decade of women, and a Combat Veteran in the Gulf War. Lori served in Air Defense Artillery by leading a team of men to set up and later run a PATRIOT Missile System in Desert Storm in extreme conditions. Lori has 25+ years of experience successfully developing leaders and teams to optimal levels in the US Army, Higher Education, and Corporate America.

Lori’s career began in the US Army, where she embraced a personal mission to develop and pursue positive and impactful leadership, particularly for women.  Lori was then a Change Management Consultant and then a Process/Learning Coach and “Permanent Faculty” for Accenture’s Strategy Courses, and the premier goal-based learning Manager’s Course called:  Delivering Client Value.  Following that, Lori continued her path teaching in Higher Education, where she taught Leadership, Leading Change, and Managing Organizations for a cutting-edge on-line MBA program using the experiential goal-based learning pedagogy for 15+ years.

Lori has been working with undergraduate and graduate students for 20+ years. She has a Master of Education (M.Ed.) in College Student Personnel and Educational Leadership (all coursework).  She also has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Elmhurst University, where she is an Adjunct Professor, teaching Corporate Communications for the Master of Project Management Program (MPM) and Global HR Issues for Supply Chain Managers for a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management, as well as Career Development courses. Lori is certified in Effective College Instruction & Effective Teaching Practices by the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) and American Council on Education (ACE). Lori has also worked with Elgin Community College, partnering with their Workforce Development Office, teaching Effective Communications Courses for Apprenticeship Programs and delivering Communication Skills workshops for local manufacturing companies.  She has worked with corporate senior leadership teams in several industries, not-for-profit sectors, and technology consulting companies to design and deliver communication workshops to help people be more engaged, feel seen, heard, and respected, get along better, have more productive discussions that lead to successful outcomes by helping people communicate clearly, set expectations, establish quality standards, deliver constructive feedback, and have shared meaning and shared understanding of the vision, mission, purpose, and goals.

Her purpose is to empower, motivate, and inspire leaders through programs tailored to each organization’s unique needs, with the objective of increasing the value of individual contributions, thus empowering teams, organizations, and circles of influence.  Lori currently leverages her diverse experience to motivate and inspire leaders and teams with workshops, coaching, and consulting on Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue, Crucial Conversations for Accountability, Crucial Influencer, Crucial Teams, Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the DiSC, Emotional Intelligence (EQ 2.0), Team Clock, Big 5 of Strategy, and the Work of Leaders.  Avail Consulting, LLC is Woman-owned and certified: WBENC, SDVOSB, WOSB, and VOSB.