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Organization Development Consulting & Facilitation Expertise
Coaching & Mentoring Expertise
Nonprofit Expertise & Executive Experience (CEO, COO, CAO,
CDO)
Consulting Advisors
Other consultant information provided upon request.
Christina Pitts MA JD
CHRISTINA is a former university administrator, educator, business executive and attorney who combines expertise and experience as a consultant to optimize individual and team talents, wisdom and relationships to sustain excellence and enduring success.
Varied interests and career roles create a colorful mosaic of expertise and experience enabling successful consulting and coaching relationships for 20 years, with a focus on
Leadership & Team Development, Strategic Thinking &
Planning, Change & Transitions, Diversity and
Philanthropy. Twelve years as lawyer and corporate counsel enhance Christina’s consulting expertise with legal perspectives in the areas of Business Operations, Employment-Employee Relations, and Board Governance. Business and consulting experience coupled with a toolkit of assessments and varied work-life experience enable Christina to offer valuable
Coaching and Mentoring to support personal and professional growth.
Clients represent Healthcare, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Banking, Information Technology, Social Service Organizations, Government, Public Service Institutions, and more.
She's been as an Instructor at Oakland University, and a guest lecturer at the Industrial Relations Graduate Schools of Wayne State University and Michigan State University.
Christina has served on nonprofit Boards, and continues to volunteer her service and expertise to many nonprofit service organizations.
She is…
- attaining coaching mastery at The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
- pursuing personal/professional development in the Power of Self – Women’s Leadership Program
- a graduate of Leadership Detroit
- graduate of the Dannemiller-Loup Whole Scale™ Practicum
- MBTI® - Certified/Qualified
- Certified Executive Coach: MRG Leadership Effectiveness
- a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA), Oakland University (MA) and University of Detroit (JD)
- a post-degree student in Guidance & Counseling at Wayne State University
Christina published her first novel in 2007, Brown Paper Bag (Cristina Isaia), a chronicle narrated in stories, letters and poems. She’s written a chapter
(The Phoenix Challenge: Rising to Fulfillment) for Discover Your Inner Strength, an anthology including authors Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Brian Tracy, and is delivering presentations and workshops.
As an organ donor, she coaches potential organ donors and furthers organ donation through various speaking engagements.
Ribbons of Hope... Christina runs marathons to raise awareness and funds for various charities. For 5 years she was the Motivational Trainer for National Association for Children of Alcoholic’s Run for the Children™ . Her marathoning adventures have generated over $50,000 in donations.
Gardening, sailing, biking, tennis, reading nourish her spirit. Nature soothes her soul.
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Lynne Merrill Aldrich
LYNNE has previously served in universities and non-profit organizations in senior staff and administrative leadership positions. She combines her expertise and experience to consult in Strategic Planning, Philanthropy, External Relations, and Board and Leadership Development for various private, nonprofit and public sector organizations.
She has extensive executive level leadership experience in complex organizational settings which enhances her ability to help create practical solutions to organization challenges and development. She is recognized for her ability to lead and motivate diverse individuals and groups to create and achieve goals.
Lynne has consulted with corporate and non-profit clients, including foundations. She has worked with individuals and teams, and has facilitated seminars, retreats, and workshops. She has conducted fundraising feasibility studies and has helped organizations to create strategic plans and to identify, recruit and train leaders.
She is a graduate of West Virginia University, with post degree studies at Wayne State University and the University of Detroit School of Law. She has attended numerous seminars and workshops on leadership development, and fundraising, and also is a graduate of Leadership Detroit VI. She has served in leadership roles on local and national non-profit boards, as well as a national foundation.
Lynne is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Michigan Society of Association Executives.
Lynne is an amateur photographer, who also loves golf, backgammon, kayaking, and reading. She has recently discovered a passion for gardening that enhances her love of nature.
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Kenneth
Andrews, PhD
Consulting Experience: Applies his business management experience to provide directed support to small and mid-sized enterprises in a variety of sectors: manufacturing, service, technology, health care, environmental, and public sector. Interventions are customized for each client and attention given to communications and implementation of new programs and decisions. Facilitation skills are focused on stimulating new thinking and effective decision-making in critical business situations. Ken is most frequently engaged to support in: strategic growth, customer interactions, dispute prevention/resolution, investment prioritization, & process acceleration. Ken was awarded OCRI “Mentor of the Year” in 2004.
Ken has more than 25 years of experience in a wide spectrum of management positions, most recently with GSI Lumonics Inc., including Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Product Development, Strategic Planning, Acquisitions, and General & Corporate Management. He's worked in the high-tech business-to-business (B2B) sector, and is very familiar with the requirements of customers in the following markets: photonics, semiconductor, electronics, automotive, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing.
He has lived, worked and managed organizations in Europe and N. America, and successfully conducted business in S.E. Asia and Japan. I understand the impact of culture on doing business, good communications and personnel motivation.
His professional qualifications include: Bachelor’s and Doctorate degrees, with further development through programs in Strategic Marketing (Oxford University), Technology Marketing
(CalTech), Negotiations (Harvard), and Management (American Society of Training & Development). This combination of technical and business qualifications enables Ken to quickly ‘connect’ with multi-functional groups at all levels.
Ken's Current Focus Areas include:
- Fast-impact Interventions – facilitate practical and permanent solutions
- Effective Communications – optimal connection among Clients/Customers & Partners
- Change Implementation – maximize ROI, minimize disruption, deploy strategies
- Coaching & Mentoring – a confidential, experienced sounding-board
- Leadership Development – Succession Planning
Judith Bryant MS, PhD Candidate
Judith G. Bryant, is a client centered practitioner with over 18 years national experience in organization development, community development, organizational behavior, change theory, leadership development, whole systems theory, and engaging differences through diversity. She has vast experience working with methodologies that target sustainable change based on measurable results from conception to completion. Judy also consults with executive and senior level leadership to identify gaps within organizations that impede success. She has successfully worked with and influenced leaders at all levels within organizations to manage and lead in a way that achieve departmental goals while aligning those goals to the system’s strategic plan and bottom line. In addition, she works with “C” level leadership as a corporate and executive coach.
As an agent of social change, Judy has designed, developed, and implemented strategies to enhance racial/cultural awareness and organizational harmony in public and private sectors. Principles of spirituality and whole-self development bring a holistic perspective to her work. Over 15 years of her work has been dedicated to creating workplaces in which people develop and grow rather than wither and die.
Judy earned a Master of Science Degree specializing in Organization Development (M.S.O.D.), from The American University/NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, in Washington DC She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from William Tyndale College, in Farmington, Michigan. In addition, she has received professional training and/or certifications from the National Training Laboratories Institute (NTL), Arlington, and VA, and Loyola University, Chicago, IL. Currently Judy is a PhD candidate at Union Institute and University, researching identity and
its impact on leadership.
Judy is a member of the Organization Development Network (ODN), and International Leadership Association (ILA).
Clients include for profit as well as, not for profit entities: Judy has worked with government, automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, service industries, community organizations as well as, federal and state agencies.
Colleen Carnell
Business Consultant, Coach, Facilitator and Human Resources professional experienced in various facets of business operations and technology, leadership development and coaching, and global project management.
Colleen’s business background and management experience includes Human Resources Administration, Benefit Administration and Outsourcing, Vendor Management, Strategic Business Planning, Process Improvement, Labor Relations, Communications and Change Management nationally and globally.
Colleen has extensive experience in multiple industries coaching senior level leaders and mid-level managers on leadership behaviors, business models and process improvement, and improving employee performance.
Colleen’s various roles in Human Resources afforded her the experience of recruiting, interviewing and hiring for entry level positions to the most senior positions of a Fortune Fifty company.
Colleen has been involved in and managed the development, critique, facilitation and implementation of numerous classroom and e-Learning training programs and change management initiatives working with entry level to senior executives within the company.
Colleen has been through structured facilitation education enhancing her ability to deliver and apply material to the participant and manage group dynamics. Certified in facilitation of FranklinCovey material such as The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and The Four Roles of Leadership, Colleen has extensive experience in facilitating concepts in a participatory manner ensuring participants engagement and understanding of the material.
Sharlan Douglas, APR
Sharlan Douglas has helped businesses and not-for-profit organizations understand and respond to the constant and inevitable changes of markets, cultures and leadership.
She is the president of Douglas Communications Group and an affiliate of PITTS-ALDRICH ASSOCIATES, joining with PAA to provide clients with her vast expertise in all components of communications and marketing. Sharlan is a past president/CEO of the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce, the founding executive director of the Eight Mile Boulevard Association and spent five years in account management with the public relations counseling firm of PR Associates.
In those and other positions Douglas has served employers and clients in association and non-profit management, economic- and real estate development, urban planning, broadcasting, food service, travel & tourism, e-commerce and retail. Her skill set includes marketing, community relations, media relations, publications design and editing, speech writing, website planning, E-communications, speaker coaching, grant writing and fundraising.
She has overseen public relations services on behalf of clients including Winebuys.com, the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce, Carlisle/Wortman Associates, Pride Source Media Group, Inforum, the Women’s Caring Program, the Michigan Technology Education Center at Henry Ford Community College, the National Association for Industrial Technology, and Leaders Without Borders.
For the Eight Mile Boulevard Association, Douglas forged consensus among the leaders of 17 local and county governments and state agencies, raised nearly $4 million and remade the image of Eight Mile Road in the eyes of the news media and regional residents.
At the Dearborn Chamber, Douglas updated every communications tool. She created a weekly e-newsletter targeting employees of local businesses that met first-year revenue goals, tripled traffic on the chamber website and won a 2005 Diamond Award from the Michigan Society of Association Executives. In 2004, the redesigned website won an American Chamber of Commerce Executives Award of Excellence and an MSAE Diamond Award Honorable Mention.
While at PR Associates, Douglas supervised the Cobo Hall account, in which legislation to fund Cobo’s expansion was approved and the project gained strong support from key publics. For the Michigan Travel Bureau, tourism in Michigan grew annually over three years, paralleling increases in regional and national media exposure generated by PR Associates. WDIV TV's news broadcasts grew steadily to top ratings, while the station, under out-of-town management, became identified as a uniquely Detroit institution.
Douglas received a BA in journalism from Michigan State University and has completed the course work for a master’s degree in urban planning at Wayne State University. She and her husband live in Royal Oak, where she serves on the city planning commission. She is a member of the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Society of Association Executives, Urban Land Institute, the Michigan Association of Planning and Inforum and is a graduate and life member of Leadership Detroit.
Steve Horn
Steve is a former IBM executive and long-term volunteer with a unique mix of business and non-profit experience. During Steve’s 30 year IBM career he worked in the areas of administrative leadership, governmental affairs, philanthropy, special events and corporate diversity initiatives.
He’s added to his portfolio of executive experience as the Chief Operating Officer of both the Detroit Zoological Society and the Michigan Humane Society. Both entities gained much from his ability to look at challenges and opportunities from a business results perspective, as well as through the lens of mission.
Steve excels in being able to quickly assess the inner workings of an organization to root out areas for improvement. Understanding the importance of walking the fine line between mission and margin is essential to continued existence and growth.
Since 1983, he has been involved in a wide variety of non-profits serving as a Board member and in many instances as Board Chair. Steve has chaired the Boards of The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Mosaic Youth Theatre, Affirmations Gay and Lesbian Center, the Birmingham Bloomfield Arts Center, Business Volunteers for the Arts, Detroit Regional Chamber Business Contributions Committee. Inforum appointed Steve as the first male Board member in its 45-year history.
While at IBM Steve was responsible for the dissemination of millions of dollars of IBM’s philanthropy throughout a wide swath of the United States. Through this work he gained a strong knowledge of the non-profit world and what is needed to be successful. From funding major Museum exhibits to the partnership with Detroit Schools, he represented the IBM Corporation to a wide variety of constituents.
Leadership initiatives and programs continue to serve as a launching pad for Steve’s work with non-profits. From his stint on the IBM Corporate Diversity Staff, to his lengthy work with Leadership Detroit, he carries out the plans and programs that enable both profit and non-profit organizations to lead and exceed.
Richard Gibson, PhD
Richard Gibson is committed to helping associations and non-profits create short- and long-term mission, program, and financial success. In close partnership with clients, Richard brings both breadth and depth to his results-producing change management consulting services.
Using his broad background in business, non-profit, and association management, Richard offers clients best practices in a range of areas critical to non-profit and association success. These critical areas include but are not limited to: strategic thinking and planning; board development and performance; human resource performance, training and development; communications and marketing; collaborative relationships and partnership building; and strategies and tactics for successful change efforts (culture change, leadership change, structural change, system change, and downsizing).
Richard has a diverse and distinguished career in non-profits and associations as CEO and other leadership positions. He is an executive coach, and he holds a Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Maryland specializing in adult education, change management consulting, and governance.
His colleagues and clients regard him as an insightful, compassionate, and results-oriented.
Stacey L. Kaplan, CCP
Stacey Kaplan specializes in total rewards, performance management, and general human resources consulting. She has over 25 years of diversified human resources management and consulting experience in compensation, benefits, performance management, and organization effectiveness. Stacey assists clients in linking their business strategy with people strategy and rewards.
Stacey is the Managing Director of Diamond Consulting Group LLC, an independent human resources consulting practice in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Prior to launching her own firm, Stacey served as a Director and Regional Practice Leader for Deloitte Consulting’s compensation and performance management practice. Additionally she has worked in several industries, including retail, financial services, and telecommunications. She served as Divisional Vice President, Compensation and Human Resources for a major national retailer and Group Vice President, Human Resources for a large regional financial institution.
During her career, Stacey has consulted to a variety of public and private sector companies across industries such as manufacturing, retail, energy, higher education, and pharmaceuticals, as well as not-for-profit organizations. This experience includes:
- Designing, implementing, and communicating executive and broad-based compensation and benefits programs
- Working with Boards, Compensation Committees, and senior management to develop compensation and total rewards strategies
- Designing incentive compensation and performance management programs aligned with business objectives
- Providing litigation support as an compensation expert witness
- Designing and conducting custom compensation and benefits surveys
- Developing attraction and retention strategies
Stacey holds a Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a Master’s from Central Michigan University as well as a Certified Compensation Professional designation from WorldatWork’s Society of Certified Professionals. She serves on the faculty of the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans. She is a graduate of Leadership Detroit XXIII and a Board Member of the Anti-Defamation League.
Stacey has published on various aspects of human resources including total rewards, compensation, and attraction and retention strategies. Her article “Business Strategy, People Strategy and Total Rewards” was published in the International Foundation’s
Benefits and Compensation Digest.
Lorri Johnson
LORRI is a senior consultant in organizational development and community transformation. Her practice entails strategic planning and deployment, leadership development and coaching, process and organization design and culture change. Ms. Johnson’s consulting approach is based on the principles and theories of whole systems thinking. She has extensive experience in designing and facilitating highly interactive methods of engagement that enable her clients to better understand their internal and external environments, set strategic priorities, and manage their change initiatives more effectively. She has consulted in many diverse settings including corporate, nonprofits, public sector, government, and community-based initiatives.
Lorri brings fourteen years of corporate human resources, sales and marketing experience to her consulting practice. She is a senior partner with Dannemiller Tyson Associates and an affiliate of PITTS-ALDRICH ASSOCIATES, often joining with Christina Pitts and other colleagues who share her passion for engaging people in ways that evoke and combine their knowledge, wisdom, and heart. She is a member of the BEST consulting consortium, established by the Funders Collaborative of Flint, MI to increase the sustainability and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector in Genesee County. Lorri is currently working with several agencies in the areas of board development, and strategic planning and deployment, while facilitating more effective collaborations within the nonprofit sector to address the rapidly increasing demand for services.
Lorri is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA). She is a member of the National Organization Development Network, the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, and the National Urban League. She is co-author of the books
Whole-Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations and Whole-Scale Change Toolkit (Berrett-Koehler 2000) and has written numerous articles on managing and leading change. Lorri is a literacy coach for at-risk youths and volunteers with several community-based organizations serving the homeless population and victims of domestic violence. She is an avid sports enthusiast, and enjoys listening to jazz and reading when time permits!
Roland Loup, PhD
Roland Loup, PhD Roland holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University.
Over the past twenty-five years Dr. Loup has been engaged around the world in consultation and training in systemic change and transformation leadership with leadership teams, organizational development consultants and organizations.
He has also served as a senior executive in Knowledge Leadership in a global manufacturing organization. He is a principal in his own firm and Partner Emeritus in Dannemiller Tyson Associates. Roland is a chapter contributor to Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Consultants (Pfeiffer 1995) and co-author of
Real-Time Strategic Change: A Consultant Guide to Large-Scale Meetings; Whole-Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations; and
Whole-Scale Change Toolkit (Berrett-Koehler 2000).
His clients have included organizations in manufacturing, academia, service industries, health care, high tech companies and the coal industry, as well as local, state and Federal governments.
Peter Norlin MS, MA, PhD
Peter Norlin has spent over 25 years in the human systems development professions, as both an internal and external consultant, working in partnership with individuals, groups, and whole systems to help them to embody leadership; to move values into action; and to create mindful, spirited, flourishing workplaces.
Through the years he has served a wide variety of customers, in corporate, government, and not-for-profit settings; from two-person partnerships to Fortune 100 companies; and in manufacturing, health care, education, retail, hospitality, legal, financial services, entertainment, and professional services sectors. These have included Public Broadcasting Service, Eastman Kodak, Pfizer, General Mills, Procter & Gamble, S.C.Johnson Wax, Clairol, The Louisiana State Office of Mental Health, The State of Vermont Agency for Human Services, AARP, and the U.S. Department of Education.
He has a M.S. from Johns Hopkins University in Organization Development, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Communication Sciences, and his teaching experience includes faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he is also a professional member of the NTL Institute, a member of the Editorial Review Board for the
OD Practitioner, and a principal of GreenLeaf Associates.
Tom Nugent
Tom Nugent has 32 years of experience leading individuals and teams to deliver great results, overcome obstacles, accomplish their personal and career goals, and develop to their fullest potential in Fortune 500 retail companies. Since 2002, as an independent coach and consultant, Tom has been focused on developing leaders to improve results and to lead organizational change by developing their skills, sharing their values and changing their behavior.
Tom has worked with leaders in the business community at the director and executive vice president levels, in the educational community at the school principal and superintendent levels, and with a broad range of independent professionals and business owners.
He uses leadership development tools and models, including 360 feedback and leadership coaching, to help leaders develop relationships, build trust and lead change. Tom's focus is on providing leaders the tools to change themselves and to change the culture of the organizations they lead within a broad context of improving organizational results.
Tom is qualified to administer and interpret the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and is certified in Appreciative Coaching through Fielding Graduate University.
Jennifer Stouse MA
Jennifer Stouse is a Professional Educator/Trainer with demonstrated proficiency in facilitating, instruction, tutoring, curriculum development, and program development within academic and business environments. Her background encompasses universities, community colleges, private schools, public organizations and non-profit agencies.
Her specialty is cross-cultural and language training, and she has conducted workshops for clients such as Colgate-Palmolive, Aerospace Corp. and the Los Angeles Water & Power Dept. She has also lived, trained and taught overseas at the University of St. Petersburg, Russia and in Sakata, Japan.
Jennifer has a B.A. in Linguistics from Eastern Michigan University and an M.A. in Intercultural Studies from BIOLA University in California. She has an in-depth knowledge of the English language and American culture, is competent in German and has worked extensively with Arab, Asian, South American, European and African cultures.
Jennifer enjoys travel, learning new languages, photography, cooking, reading and tennis.
Kathleen Walgren
Kathleen Walgren has extensive leadership experience in the development, growth and management of not for profit organizations as CEO, Executive Director, founder, Board member and officer. She has led organizations from start-ups to well established groups. She led, directed, developed and managed a statewide program, The Heat and Warmth Fund (THAW) for more than 18 years. This included fund development, donor relations and stewardship, program administration and evaluation, long range and strategic planning, human resources and talent management, technology implementation, finance and budgeting, communications, marketing, public and community relations and collaborations, advocacy and public affairs, and policy development. She launched many new programs, doubled its donor base and increased funds raised from $250,000 to $6.5 million.
Kathleen provides services as a certified interim chief executive for nonprofits undergoing leadership transition. In both her career and her volunteer positions, Kathleen has demonstrated expertise in building effective coalitions and collaborations and in establishing solid corporate and community partnerships. Walgren has received special training and certification in strategic restructuring for non-profit organizations, including administrative consolidation, joint programming, joint venture, partnership and merger.
Walgren is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Communication Arts. Recent consulting engagements include Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, National Fuel Fund Network and Flagstar Bank.
Kathleen has a lifelong commitment and devotion to volunteerism and community involvement, primarily in human services, leadership development and the arts. Some of her current and past affiliations and involvements include: Common Ground Board of Directors; the City of Birmingham Public Arts Board; the Cultural Council of Birmingham/Bloomfield; National Fuel Funds Network; Coalition to Keep Michigan Warm. She is a graduate and member of Leadership Detroit, Leadership Michigan, Inforum, and Menttium.
She loves to spend time in her garden and enjoys reading and attending theater.
Michael Wild
Michael brings a wealth of experience to the task of helping organizations identify and solicit fundraising prospects. As an AAA Michigan executive, he directed the organization’s public and community relations programs and served as chair of the Corporate Contributions Committee, overseeing distribution of funds to qualified charities and civic organizations statewide. While overseeing the organization’s Quality Assurance Program, Michael learned to apply the principles of total quality management to the identification and resolution of operational and service improvement challenges.
Michael’s fundraising experience is direct and practical. As Manager of Corporate and Foundation Relations for Focus: HOPE, Michael played a lead role in the development and implementation of a major fundraising effort on behalf of this major Detroit human and civil rights organization. At Focus: HOPE and later, at Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit, Michael gained direct experience in the identification and evaluation of major corporate and foundation prospects, supporting executive volunteers through the solicitation process and managing relationships with donors. This experience serves as a valuable resource for clients seeking real fundraising support.
Michael is a graduate of Wayne State University and has completed “Achieving Breakthrough Service,” an intensive, nine-day program at the Harvard Business School, using the case study method to explore the tools and techniques of total quality management.
Martha Young MBA, JD
Martha Young specializes in executive coaching and organizational effectiveness consulting. She designs and facilitates integrated programs for individuals and organizations to achieve their visions.
Her work includes individual coaching, communications and multicultural training, meeting and conference design and facilitation, strategic and program planning, and teambuilding.
She especially likes to focus her training and coaching in the areas of coach approach to management, communication skills and multicultural understanding. She has worked with clients including automotive suppliers, healthcare organizations, law firms, political campaign organizations and nonprofits located in the United States and abroad.
Prior to her work in organization development, Martha was active in international development work and international law. She led democracy training seminars in Russia and practiced corporate and securities law in Moscow, Russia with Clifford Chance and in Ann Arbor, Michigan with Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC.
Martha holds a Bachelor’s degree in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Michigan. She has a Masters of Business Administration Degree from the University of Michigan Business School and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
Martha has a certificate in Whole Scale Change and received coach training from Coach U. She is certified in the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. and has completed more than 45 days of training in Nonviolent
CommunicationSM. She is fluent in Russian and has worked in the United States, Germany, U.K., Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland and Romania.
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