Building Capability That Lasts

Clayton brings more than two decades of leadership experience across complex operations, organizational transformation, executive governance, strategy, and leadership education. His career has included leading large organizations responsible for high-value assets, workforce development, readiness, and sustained operational performance.

His work focuses on how leaders build judgment, strengthen organizational systems, develop people, and create the conditions for sustained performance. His research in organizational leadership and experience teaching leadership and strategy within Air University reinforce an emphasis on building organizations that can perform, learn, and adapt over time.

Erica brings experience in business leadership, operational turnaround, national policy advocacy, strategic partnerships, and coalition building. Her work spans the private, nonprofit, and public-policy sectors, including leading national initiatives that bring together families, policymakers, government leaders, researchers, and industry experts to address complex organizational and systemic challenges.

Her perspective is shaped by more than two decades of military family life and a career spent navigating organizations from both inside and outside the system. She focuses on how leadership decisions, organizational culture, and policy translate from strategy into the lived experience of the people they are intended to serve.