The Pelorus

A Pelorus is a navigation instrument used to take bearings and to find speed and distance from offshore. A pelorus has a fore sight and a rear sight allowing the navigator to find the best course from where one has been to where one is going.

 

About Pelorus Leadership Group

Setting a Course with Organizations, Teams and Individuals

The Pelorus Leadership Group, Inc., like its namesake navigation instrument the Pelorus, helps find bearings and set the course. 

Through presentations, team building, training and general human resources consulting Pelorus Leadership Group, Inc. helps organizations, teams and individuals develop the strategies, the workforce readiness processes, the relationships  and the influence, communications and supervisory skills  needed to efficiently and effectively traverse today’s workforce challenges.

 

 

Kathy Davanzo

 

Kathy Davanzo, SPHR
President & Senior Consultant

 

Kathy is a speaker and trainer with over twenty five years of training, human resource management and leadership experiences having worked in university, corporate and nonprofit environments and having served a broad spectrum of clients. 

As a speaker, trainer and workforce readiness consultant Kathy focuses on workforce readiness issues from the employer perspective and communications and  influence skills for employees at all levels.

Kathy holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Communications Education from Miami University and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Miami. 

Kathy is a national member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the National Speaker’s Association and American Society for Training and Development (ASTD); a member of the Suncoast chapter of ASTD, the Senior Human Resources Development (HRD) Forum,  the Suncoast Human Resources Management Association and the Nature’s Coast Human Resource Society.

Kathy served over three years as the Workforce Readiness Chair for the HR Florida State Council.  She was a member of the Society for Human Resource Management’s Katrina Disaster Response Volunteer Panel.  She received the  HR Florida President’s award three times in recognition of volunteer service to the HR profession, the Florida workforce and employers. 

Kathy is also the President of CODA Partners, Inc.  an organization that provides long term leadership and team development programs. 

Kathy is an avid sailor, and when not sailing, she resides in Gulfport, Florida with her husband, Charlie.