W. Craig Gilliam

Founder & Owner

Achiever | Learner | Adaptability | Maximizer | Relator

Dr. W. Craig Gilliam is the founder and owner of Gilliam & Associates, LLC and resides in Shreveport, LA. Professionally, he works in the field of I/O psychology and is an organizational consultant and coach. He is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, Certified in Barrett’s Cultural Values Assessment and Master trainer and coach on The Predictive Index. Moreover, he is a facilitator, speaker, educator and works in areas of leadership development, change management, conflict transformation (both training and interventions), employee motivation and engagement, and assists organizations in creating strengths-based, engaged workplace cultures for higher performance and success. His clients have included individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations, government agencies, boards, health-care systems, institutions of higher education, community organizations, and religious communities.

With over 25+ years’ experience in leadership coaching and organizational consulting, he has served in various capacities. Some include faculty at a counseling and training center in New Orleans; adjunct instructor at SMU for 14+ years; director of a center for pastoral/leadership excellence for the LA Conference, UMC; on staff as a consultant for a mediation and conflict transformation center in Washington, D.C., and as a senior consultant and conflict resolution specialist for an organization in Utah. To broaden and deepen the quality and quantity of resources they can offer their clients, G&A began a partnership with Wi2Co-Lab located in Phoenix, Arizona, a team of I/O psychologists, SHR Specialists, and Educators and is part of the HumanLytics Team in Atlanta, Georgia. Craig’s dissertation was on leadership and the effects of anxiety and conflict in organizational and congregational life. 

Craig’s passions/hobbies are family, poetry, and karate. He is a 5th-degree black belt (Godan) in traditional Japanese Karate (Shotokan).

“We at Gilliam & Associates are committed to helping our clients in their workplace and/or personal lives to be at their best and to invite the best out in those with whom they work, live, or play.”

PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL ORGANIZATIONS/AFFILIATIONS INCLUDE

• PSI CHI The International Honor Society in Psychology

• Society for Individual and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)

• SHRM: Better Workplaces, Better World

• Association of Talent Development (ATD), Board Member at Large

• International Leadership Association, (ILA)

• American Corporate Mentoring Partnership Program (ACP) for Veterans

• Japanese Karate Association, (JKA)

• Louisiana Karate Association, (LKA)

To live fully is our call.

On this grand adventure,

our mere being here

says that we are invited...

(The Invitation by w. craig gilliam)

Betty Johnson

Associate

Intellection | Connectedness  | Learner  | Input  | Empathy

“Working with Gilliam and Associates allows me to utilize my strengths and experience to assist organizations and individuals in living more fully into their potential.”

With over thirty years’ experience and training in leadership and management, focused primarily in the healthcare arena, Betty Johnson provides insight and depth when working with G&A clients. Her work experiences include process analysis and management, conflict resolution/transformation, mentoring, and employee engagement. As a former Chief Operations Officer, she understands the dynamics of human interaction in the work place and the complex process of moving forward through change, conflict, and resource limitations. 

Her strengths include identification and nurturing of individual talent and skill, empowerment of individuals within a community or work group, cultivating healthy ownership in the workplace, and effective problem solving.

Work experience with non-profits equips Betty with a deeper understanding of social issues and the unique challenges of engaging volunteers. She is a trained facilitator and has worked with both corporate and religious organizations/congregations.

Her areas of greatest demand include: mentoring and staff development and engagement; organizational assessment and strategic planning/visioning; facilitating courageous conversations; grant writing and reporting; and walking with congregations/organizations through conflict and organizational restructuring. 

Roy James

ASSOCIATE

Achiever | Strategic | Connectedness | Individualization | Ideation

“It is great to be on the Gilliam and Associates, LLC team and help clients live into their vision and potential.”

The Rev. Dr. Roy James served 37 years as an active ordained United Methodist Elder in small, mid-size, and larger churches and as a District Superintendent. In retirement, he has been an Intentional Interim Minister, a Trained Life Coach, and a Coach with the Vibrant Church Initiative at the Texas Annual Conference.

Dr. James is a Trained Coach of the WCF technique and is a trained Intentional Interim Pastor. He has been schooled in Conflict Transformation and facilitation under Dr. Craig W. Gilliam for over twenty years. Roy walks with congregations and their leaders to help them identify and maximize their opportunities and address their challenges as they align their inner values and outer calling. He assists congregations and teams to use their best practices and selves to develop a fruitful, productive future. Dr. James did advanced studies using a systems lens to help the client develop their vision, mission, and values.

Gilliam & Associates, LLC.,
Strategic Collaborative Partners

Dr. James B. Smith

Strategic | Learner | Intellection | Connectedness | Restorative

For twenty-seven years, Dr. James B. Smith has demonstrated progressive, successful leadership and program development of non-profit organizations and private-public partnerships. Dr. Smith has a tremendous passion for business and administrative functions of non-profit organizations with keen, proven analytical and administrative acumen. One of his greatest strengths is his ability to revise systems to increase efficiency and program effectiveness.

Driven by making the world a better place for all of us to live, thrive, and grow, Dr. Smith founded Pneuma Consulting, LLC. Our job is to breathe new energy into existing systems in order to stimulate strategic thinking, to foster growth, and to achieve desired outcomes. Chester Barnard, a pioneering public administration theorist, believed that an organization’s success is directly connected to those who manage and engage the internal systems. In other words, human beings drive organizational success.

Dr. Smith’s focus is not just to understand the complexity of operational systems and the challenges of change. In our engagement with your company, our first goal is to understand the problem and those who drive change within the system. Our business philosophy is framed upon the notion that growth and success require innovative thinking and an appreciation for humanity in the workplace. No solution, no strategy, nor innovative idea can work without the consideration of human capital.

Dr. Chris Sopa

Learner | Achiever | Connectedness | Input | Intellection

Dr. Chris Sopa is an industrial organizational psychologist, speaker, and researcher who has spent the last 20 years studying human potential, self-awareness, and ‘selective mind theory™, (the ability to select the thoughts that will drive the behaviors we seek). After experiencing several tragic and challenging life events, Dr. Sopa became a student of her own life and is compelled by the belief that when self-aware, we can extract the lessons from our life experiences and use them to guide us.

Dr. Sopa’s passion can be found at the juncture of the mind (logic) and the heart (intuition), both working together as channels that guide us on our own unique path as individuals and organizations. She uses the idea of tapping into the whole person (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual) to help people overcome seemingly impossible obstacles, personal and professional life changes, loss of power (self-worth), and illness.  While part of the Team as a Strategic Collaborative Partner with G&A, she also has a practice helping individuals and organizations release their hidden potential. 

Dr. Sopa’s services include numerous organizational assessments to access the where, how, and why needed to navigate through challenges and attaining the next level of success; advise and coach leadership through organizational change, situational opportunities, and cultural challenges; assess, interview, and assist in selecting potential talent, and others.

Dr. W. Craig Gilliam and Gilliam and Associates, LLC, are now part of a collaborative partnership with the Wi2Co-Lab Team located in Phoenix, Arizona, to broaden and deepen the quality and quantity of resources and services both groups can provide clients. Wi2Co-Lab is a collaboration of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, Human Resource Professionals, and Educators.

This collaboration brings a variety of resources, expertise, and connections to start-up, existing businesses, community, and religious organizations. Our team customizes each experience to your unique strengths, opportunities, challenges, needs, and vision.

We help you build business solutions and capabilities that will improve, change, and possibly even revolutionize the way your business is conducted today and in the future. Our purpose is to help you, your team, and your organization be at their best and to invite the best out in those with whom you work.