Our Team

Barb Minkel-Dusek, MA/SPHR/CPBA

Management Consultant | Leadership Coach

Barb has a long history of creating stronger organizations by enhancing the performance effectiveness of leaders and management teams – a key component to creating greater organizational strength. Blending personal work experiences in corporate management and human resources, with her Masters degree in counseling psychology, you will find Barb strategically and operationally effective.

Barb's background includes services to small and mid-size Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries including information technology, advertising, banking, utility, manufacturing, professional services, healthcare and non-profit.

Barb's personal core strength to develop and maximize the potential in others has given way to her specialty in working with organization leaders to develop their relationship and managerial effectiveness so they, in turn, can positively impact their workforce.

Barb has accomplished expertise in leadership education, management team development; employee performance management; employee relations; personal and professional development. Barb is well received as a presenter, trainer, meeting facilitator and tremendously enjoys her leadership coaching work.

Barb holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Mankato State University and earned her Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology from the Adler Graduate School. Barb also holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification, is a certified professional behavioral analyst (CPBA) and carries several assessment certifications.

Barb and her husband enjoy travel, outdoor activities, and spending time with their children's family, which include three wonderful grandchildren.

Mary Kay DuChene, CPBA

Management Consultant | Leadership Coach

Mary Kay is committed to developing leadership excellence in individuals and teams. Her passion of helping people identify and embrace their authentic leadership gifts, in combination with her experience in management, marketing and sales, small business leadership, and coaching, enables her to help her clients become better leaders and more successful leadership teams.

Mary Kay received her Bachelor of Science degree in Technical Communication with an emphasis in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Managing software engineers in high tech companies throughout the '80s and '90s, Mary Kay learned that leading and empowering people was a gift. Mary Kay also sat on the management team of a small software company where she led marketing and business development efforts. Mary Kay received her coach training from Coach U, Inc., and has run her own business coaching practice, and successfully started, ran, and sold a marketing and events company.

In conjunction with other coaches and consultants, Mary Kay developed a leadership effectiveness program that addresses core issues Mary Kay has observed over her 25-year career. Now a set of leadership development services called Relevant Movement, www.relevantmovement.com, this training is offered through AssetHR.

In addition to working with AssetHR clients, Mary Kay is on staff at Easter Lutheran Church in Eagan, MN. In her role at this large ELCA congregation, Mary Kay cares for the strategic alignment of all ministries to the vision and goals of the organization. 

Being an introvert at heart, rejuvenation is a priority in Mary Kay's life. When not working or in the throws of life's duties, she loves to spend time with her husband and 4 teenagers, read, and commune with nature in the Twin Cities or at her retreat near the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Dave Cornell

Leadership Coach

Dave believes that when people understand themselves it makes them better personally but also better and more productive in the workplace. That passionate belief has been present for Dave during his twenty-five years experience in corporate sales, sales management and sales training.

Along with his natural strength in sales, this passion to see people develop toward success awarded him the Sales Manager of the Year for Lifetouch Church Directories in 2005. Dave has been involved in the creation and development of consultative sales tools and training programs for new and veteran sales people.

Dave earned a degree in Education from North Dakota State University. He is also certified as a coach through Lifeforming Leadership and is a certified facilitator/trainer in the DISC personality assessment.

In addition to his work with Relevant Movement, Dave consults as a Business Coach/Trainer with Horsager Leadership Consulting, a trusted partner to Relevant Movement. Dave also enjoys his speaking business where he is known as “The Big, Bald Guy with the Big, Bold Message.” Dave’s powerful presentation, focused on fear and how it affects individuals and organizations, is well received by many audiences and has been a launching pad for performance development and personal improvement.

Dave and his wife, Amy, have been married for 29 years. They immensely enjoy time with their two grown daughters.

Leadership Assessment and Development | Executive Selection | Leadership Coach

Mark views self-awareness as the key to effective leadership. With over twenty years as a psychologist and ten years in the field of executive assessment and selection, he works with specific, research-based criteria to raise awareness in individuals and organizations about what contributes to high potential leaders. He enjoys identifying and developing the hallmarks of excellence in others.

For executive selection, Mark works closely with organizations to determine the benchmarks for success in particular positions. He then tailors an assessment and selection process that draws upon the best of psychological research to inform the practicalities of day-to-day business. Topics typically assessed and discussed include self-management, management of others, motivational level, decision-making ability, conflict management, leadership capacity, and interpersonal skills.

For leadership development, Mark begins with psychological assessment to establish a baseline for coaching. By combining assessment results with the goals of the individual and organization, he and the executive or employee collaborate to establish strategies for growth. His approach is holistic, strengths-based, and developmental.

In addition to being a psychologist, Mark is an ordained United Methodist minister in the Wisconsin Conference, and serves as executive director of North Central Ministry Development Center in New Brighton, MN. He has his B.A. from St. Olaf College, M.Div. from the University of Chicago, and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Mark and his wife are celebrating twenty-five years of marriage this year, and they have two teenage sons. For fun, he spends time with family, cooks, cross country skis, and bicycles. He recently rode his bicycle across Iowa and proudly notes that he pedaled every inch of the RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa)!