Episode 90
April 10, 2025
Unlocking Peak Performance: Rethinking Consulting Talent Development w/ Angela Navarro
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In this episode of The Professional Services Pursuit, Brent is joined by Angela Navarro, CEO of Kinavic Leadership Acceleration, to explore how consulting firms can unlock the full potential of their partner and Managing Director (MD) talent. Angela shares her firm’s unique methodology and why performance acceleration—not just leadership development—is key to success at the partner level.
What you’ll learn:
- Why partners and MDs are essential drivers of growth and revenue
- Alarming failure rates of direct-admit partners—and how to prevent them
- How shorter ramp-up times and lateral hiring are reshaping partner careers
- Tactical ways to support and accelerate new partner performance using data-driven strategies
Learn more about Kinavic Leadership Acceleration and access more insights at kinavic.com/insights
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Banoo Behboodi
Vice President, Success Engineering
Banoo Behboodi is a 20+ year software and services leader with extensive experience executing change initiatives with oversight of Customer Success, Professional Services and Delivery and Consulting functions. Banoo’s earlier experiences with AT&T Mobility, Coca-Cola Company and Ernst & Young leading key transformational and compliance projects, provided the foundation needed to be an effective leader and a change agent with a customer first mindset. Banoo is passionate about driving continuous improvement through sharing best practices and empowering resources through technology and analytics to optimize performance and job satisfaction while driving business outcomes.
Brent Trimble
Vice President, Value Engineering
Brent brings more than 15+ year’s of leadership experience in Management Consulting, Strategic Delivery, Marketing services and product development firms to his technology role at Kantata. As the VP of Value Engineering and the Managing Director of Marketing Service & Agency Vertical, he specializes in identifying process improvement potential, business optimization and key health metrics for alignment and orientation.
With deep business understanding through an operator lens - Brent works with Kantata partner firms to refine intrinsic and extrinsic value drivers - giving firm principals the focus required for adoption, mobilization, value realization and ultimately - success.
Prior to joining Kantata, Brent was a client of the platform and held positions at Interpublic Group, Accenture, WPP, and independent marketing consulting firms.
