
Shelly Beaver
Senior Consultant
Shelly joined LAK Group with more than 20 years of experience providing diverse, extensive, and progressive Human Resources consulting services.
As a Human Resources expert, Shelly brings a business perspective to her outplacement coaching practice. She has a detailed understanding of the inner workings of talent acquisition and interviewing processes used by organizations.
As an innovative and influential Human Resources Executive Partner and Business Strategist, she builds agile and resilient people-empowered organizations. Her background includes corporate, field, and consulting roles engaged in the entire Employee Life Cycle. Strong areas of expertise include Leadership Coaching, Talent Development, Performance Management, Talent Acquisition and Retention, Culture Transformation, Change Leadership, and Workforce Engagement.
Shelly excels at building meaningful relationships, is rooted in positivity, and thrives when in services to her customers and clients.
Shelly has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. She is an active member of the National Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM). Shelly is a Certified Facilitator of “Fierce Conversations,” a leadership development program, based on Susan Scott’s book of the same name. Shelly is a certified Coach, holding a certification through MRA.

Mike Milsted
PRESIDENT, MANAGING PARTNER

MICHAEL GRUBICH
PRESIDENT, MANAGING PARTNER

SHELLEY SMITH
Managing Director, Leadership Practice & Executive Coach

AIMEE LOUW
DIRECTOR, CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS

ANDY HILLIG
Director, Customer Solutions and Executive Coach

CHERI THOMKA
OFFICE MANAGER

COLETTE M. LUCKIE
MA, BCC

CORY COLTON
PCC, BCC

DONNA KARTZ
CLIENT SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR

GREG ZISSER
DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS

IVAN BENSON
PHR, ACC, BCC

JOAN H. EVANS
BS PT, MBA

JOHN D. RICE

KATHY OSWALD

KRISTA R. MORRISSEY
MAE-OD, PCC

LAURA K. DOLNIK
MA, PCC

LAURA PARRINO
SENIOR EXECUTIVE CAREER CONSULTANT

LAURIE KOEL
M.S., PCC

LORI LUTZE
MS

MARCELLA DE LA TORRE
EdD, ACC

MIKE TOUHEY
MBA, ACC

SHELLY Beaver
Senior Consultant

VERONICA ROLLANDI
ACC

YENGYEE LOR
MA, PCC