Our Team
Dusty Staub
CEO/Lead Consultant
Dusty has worked for over 30 years with executives, families, and communities as well as with private and public companies. He has trained and coached executives and teams in creating high performance outcomes. Dusty has been a pioneer in the process of creating systemic accountability by aligning leadership and group behaviors with strategy to produce bottom-line results.
He has worked and traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. He is the author of The Heart of Leadership: Twelve Practices of Courageous Leaders, released in an updated, revised edition in paperback and The 7 Acts of Courage: Bold Leadership for a Wholehearted Life. He has written over two hundred articles on topics such as leadership, team-based creativity, personal mastery, team effectiveness, personal effectiveness and business strategy and writes a bi-weekly column for the Triad Business Journal.
Dusty is a fellow in the School of Engineering at Virginia Tech, and received his Masters in Clinical Social Work in Marital and Family Therapy and Systems Management from UNC Chapel Hill. He currently lives in Kernersville, NC with his wife Christine, a family physician. Dusty is the proud father of three young adults.
Cary Root
Vice President
Marketing and Public Relations
Cary Ann Root has been involved in the Human Systems development field for over 34 years. As Vice-President of Marketing and Public Relations, she does much more than “pitch a product”. Cary is dedicated to our clients' unique needs and brings forward innovative ideas to serve them. Clients find her passionate about her work and she makes it easy for them to be open and honest about themselves, their organization, and their plans for moving forward. In addition, Cary extends herself in the area of client relations, striving to make all our clients feel heard and cared for.
Cary was Vice President of Sales at Farr Associates for 29 years. She is delighted to represent Dusty Staub, whom she has known since 1980, and whose work she endorses wholeheartedly. In addition, she is thrilled by our great team of trusted adjunct consultants, who are all long-standing partners in the leadership training industry.
During her years at Radford University, Cary was active in community theatre and did volunteer work at the local hospital. Cary gives back to her community now through her involvement with United Way, Urban Ministry, and the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Organization. She lives in Greensboro where she enjoys swimming, walking, and being outside.
OUR VALUED PARTNERS
Wayne Gerber
Adjunct Consultant
Wayne Gerber has been an independent organizational consultant since 1994, most recently as President of Sungate Advisors. Prior to that he spent ten years as a market researcher and six years as an epidemiologist in Public Health. This combination of experience serves to ensure Wayne’s multifaceted approach to client service.He understands how to conduct effective research-based assessments of a client's situation, facilitate leadership development and organizational change, and coach individuals and teams to higher levels of performance.
Wayne earned a Masters of Science in Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He lives in Greensboro, NC, with his wife Debra, an independent physical therapist, and with his two young adult sons. Wayne is an avid photographer and enjoys hiking and travel.
Hope Hills, Ph.D.
Adjunct Consultant
Hope Hills, Ph.D., has coached and consulted with Senior Executives, high potential leaders, and their teams since 1991. Executives value the ROI that results from Hope's pragmatic and insightful approach. It enhances their self-reliance and the courage to face recurring problems and patterns, increasing strategic self and organizational awareness. She utilizes her signature Leadership Lifeline Process, integrated with leading assessments, to quickly and accurately pinpoint key leadership challenges. Using leaders' everyday business experiences, she helps them to develop new approaches that result in successful leadership and business outcomes.The organizational context, especially when a leader's team is included, provides an environment where powerful and lasting change can materialize.
She has developed the Interpersonal Flexibility Inventory©, which can be used by individuals, teams and organizations to increase strategic self-awareness, creating expanded leadership impact and business results. Her clients have included Wells Fargo, NatWest, Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Trinity Health Care System, Bon Secours: St. Francis Health System, John Deere, Quality Stores, the North Carolina Symphony, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle and many other organizations from Fortune 500 to the boards and executives of mid-size for-profit and local non-profit organizations.
Hope has led non-profit and government organizations, and has been a faculty member in Marquette University's MBA Program and three Graduate Counseling Psychology Programs. She founded the University of Missouri's Multicultural Counseling Program and International Students Organization to train psychologists to more effectively support clients from national and global perspectives. She and her husband are active in the classical music community and enjoy their dog and cat.
Gail Nottenburg, Ph.D.
Adjunct Consultant
Gail Nottenburg holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration and a M.A. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Throughout her 25-year career, her focus has been on using the lessons of psychology to address real-world issues facing American companies. She specializes in helping businesses select and develop top-performing executives who will excel at meeting the challenges they face. Her clients include Abbott Laboratories, Aon Corporation, private equity firms, and numerous middle market companies from across the country.Robert Lambeth 
Sales and Marketing
Senior Associate
Bob is a native of North Carolina and has been involved in sales and marketing for over thirty-five years. After earning a B.S. from Guilford College in 1967, Bob did graduate work at UNC-Greensboro. He served as an NCO in The Marine Corps Reserve from 1963 to 1971.
Additionally, Bob worked with The Babcock Graduate School of Business at Wake Forest University in the field of leadership development programs for corporate executives. He also taught CPA Continuing Education classes for Consolidated Consultants, Inc. of Charlotte. Bob has worked closely with Health Care Disease Management companies, Reinsurance Companies and medical Stop-Loss Carriers.
His mission is to make a difference for his clients and companies he works closely with as he represents Staub Leadership International in the Western area of North Carolina, South Carolina and other states. He always drives to build a foundation of solid relationships built on trust and helping the customer understand the difference Staub can make in the workplace.
Bob works and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina where he enjoys golf, the arts and going to plays.
