Summit Learning Overview

Professional Background
Prior to founding Summit Learning and establishing a partnership with Linkage, Carmen served as President and founding partner of Summit
Media Partners, LLC, which provides strategic and operational consulting services to newspapers. From 1992 to 1996, Carmen was a partner
in Langford Partners, A.G., a Swiss firm consulting to automotive clients in lean manufacturing and value chain management. In her early
career she led product management organizations in the computer business, and held positions in international marketing and technical sales
support.
For the past nine years, Carmen has served as a faculty member at Linkage, Inc.’s Global Institute for Leadership Development (GILD). She
holds an MBA from the University of Colorado and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Carmen is a volunteer firefighter. She
works pro-bono with Friendship Bridge, raising capital for micro-credit loans that help Mayan women develop entrepreneurial businesses in
Guatemala.
Clients
Carmen’s clients include The TriZetto Group, Association for Corporate Growth, GMAC Commercial Holdings, Boys' and Girls' Clubs of America,
The St. Petersburg Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Ford Motor Company of Europe and Latin America, Landmark Communications, and
Al Medina Newspaper of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. At GILD, she has coached executives from numerous healthcare, real estate, energy,
biotech, pharma, insurance, non-profit, and IT organizations.

Summit Learning Partners and Linkage, Inc. Overview
Summit Learning Partners was formed, in partnership with Linkage, to develop and deliver solutions that blend
Linkage’s expertise in OD and Leadership Development with Summit’s emphasis on competitive strategy. With broad
experience in competitive strategy consulting, leadership development, and business process improvement, Summit
provides the critical link between achievement of business goals and leadership development.
Linkage, Inc. is a global organizational development company that specializes in leadership development. Serving
the public and private sectors, the Company provides clients around the globe with customized leadership
development and strategic change solutions that include and integrate consulting, training, assessment, coaching,
and benchmark research. With a relentless commitment to learning, Linkage also offers a full range of conferences,
institutes, summits, public workshops, and distance learning programs on leading-edge topics in leadership,
management, HR, and OD. More than 100,000 leaders and managers have attended such a Linkage program since
the Company's founding in 1988.

Summit Learning Leadership
Carmen Lamar is President and CEO of Summit Learning Partners, with over 15 years’ experience in consulting
engagement management, competitive strategy, leadership development, executive coaching, business process
improvement, and strategic change. Her leadership of large-scale, complex organizational transformations has
resulted in outstanding year-over-year results for her clients. Some of Carmen’s accomplishments include:

• Design and delivery of "Leadership 20", a leadership development program for emerging leaders in professional services firms,
sponsored by the Association for Corporate Growth and developed in collaboration with Linkage, University of Denver, University
of Colorado, and Linda Kennedy and Associates
• An organizational redesign that transformed client sales, production, and finance operations and led to 75% reduction in costs
of poor quality, and created a customer-focused, team-based, and process-driven organization. Client gained internal expertise
in coaching, change leadership, facilitation, team leadership, and business process improvement.
• Coaching of executive team and senior leadership members to enable ongoing change efforts at a major metro newspaper.
• Design and delivery of automotive industry consulting programs contributing to client material cost savings of over $500MM,
and resulting in streamlined supply chain management.
• Design and delivery of organizational and strategic assessment for a media group with properties throughout the U.S.