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Charles Page, President and Senior Consultant

• People are any company's most valuable asset.
• Practice makes perfect? No, practice is everything.
• It's not our job to show you how smart we are, but to help you learn how smart you are.

John Berkley, Senior Team Leader/Facilitator
John has been sharpening people’s Competitive Edge in the business field as a consultant, facilitator, and coach since 1984. Through his work with over 100 groups each year, John has collected and developed hundreds of simple, effective, and easy to use tools and models to help people with leadership, communication, decision making, problem solving, team dynamics, and personal development.

John has planned and facilitated customized trainings with organizations including: Bank of America, Wachovia, BB&T, Bell South, AT&T, Sara Lee, GMAC, Ingersoll-Rand, and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. John is a graduate of Rice University, with a BS in mechanical engineering and is currently completing a coaching certificate program through Duke University.

Core Beliefs:

• A thousand-mile journey begins with the first step, so let's go for a walk!
• A healthy sense of adventure is necessary to truly live.
• "Moderation is for monks. Take big bites out of life." -Robert Heinlein

Tom Haselden, Senior Team Leader/Facilitator

• "All of us are getting a Ph.D. in life, and must realize we will never graduate."
• "Winning is now defined as: doing your best with all you have."
• "I cannot fail, I can only learn and grow."
                                    —from Play To Win

Dev Pathik, Senior Consultant
Dev has led and designed training programs for more than 100,000 corporate professionals and government employees. Widely regarded as a leader in the field of experiential training, Dev works with Cool Spring Center as a Senior Consultant.

Dev has designed and facilitated programs for Campbell's Soup, GE, Procter and Gamble, ARCO Chemical, and numerous other Fortune 1000 companies. He has been a guest speaker and advisor to The American Advertising Federation, Experiential Based Trainers and Developers, The International Association for Experiential Education, John Brown University, Center for Public Management at The University of Oklahoma, and dozens of other organizational development specialists.

Core Beliefs:

• Our potential far exceeds our current reality.
• Everything great requires action.
• Dreaming big is the only thing that has ever produced greatness.

Catherine Tait, Senior Facilitator
Catherine is dedicated to incorporating experiential education, team building and organizational development in her training work with people to help them enhance all aspects of life. With a master's degree in community counseling from the University of Oklahoma, she has developed and conducted numerous facilitator training programs.

She has teamed up with Jim Wall as life partner, and in the successful management and operation of Cornerstone Designs, Inc., designers and builders of challenge course facilities. For the past six years she worked at Georgia College & State University and is currently completing her doctorate in Human Resource Organizational Development (HROD). Catherine holds the rank of Major in the Army National Guard where she continually puts leadership and educational concepts to the test. She is an avid traveler and an active outdoors woman, enjoying hiking, backpacking, canoeing and sea kayaking.

Core Beliefs:

• All genuine education comes from experience.
• Progress always involves risk.
• "Failing forward" is definitely a part of learning—give everything a try!

Jim Wall, Senior Facilitator
Jim is nationally recognized as a leader in ropes course design and outdoor adventure education. With over 29 years experience and a master's degree in recreation resources administration from North Carolina State University, Jim has served on the faculty of the North Carolina State University School of Sports Management. He spent eight years as assistant professor of Outdoor Education at Georgia College & State University, where he created the Southeast's only Outdoor Education Administration graduate program.

In addition, Jim has been a small business owner for over twelve years, currently heading Cornerstone Designs, Inc. with Catherine Tait, his life partner. Jim's dedication to innovation, safety and quality in outdoor experiential education is apparent in all of his work with the many people he has trained and taught.

Core Beliefs:

• If I never try anything, I never learn anything.
• Your bag of tricks can never be too big.
• Safety isn't optional.

Kristie Darling, Program Director

• We are students and teachers to each other.
• Giving and receiving are the same.
• There's a time and place for spontaneity.

Marsha Treacy, Marketing Director

"What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you're saying."
                                                              —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bandit the Wonder Dog

"Never try to teach a dog to sing, it only wastes your time... and annoys the dog."