People

Academic and Staff Assistance Program (ASAP) Team

Organizational Development Team

Tiffani Francis, CPC

  • Senior Organizational Development Consultant, UC Davis Health
  • Learning & Organizational Development
Tiffani Francis, CPC, has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare management and leadership field. With her experience as an organizational development and leadership coach, Tiffani can relate to the complexities that healthcare leaders navigate while making their vision a reality. Tiffani’s professional interests include developing high-performing teams, leadership effectiveness, performance acceleration, stakeholder engagement, work culture strategy, relationship-centered communication, and change management.

Maryam Ghadiri, PhD, ACC

  • Senior Organizational Development Consultant, UC Davis
  • Learning & Organizational Development
Dr. Maryam Ghadiri is a Senior Organizational Development Consultant with Organizational Excellence. Her work over the past decade has focused on learning and development, coaching, and curriculum design focused on applications in higher education, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. Maryam is passionate about leadership development, team performance, and strategic planning. She brings extensive experience and expertise to address organizational challenges by applying research-based and people-centric methodologies. She partners with leaders, teams, and organizations to identify barriers to engagement, develop leadership skills, increase innovation, improve effective communication, and create supportive workplace cultures.

Gayle Guest-Brown, MBA, PCC

  • Senior Organizational Development Consultant, UC Davis
  • Learning & Organizational Development
Gayle is an accomplished Equity Leadership Strategist, Executive Leadership Coach, and leadership development professional. She brings 30 years of successful leadership experience across five sectors of business: corporate, technology, non-profit, ministry, and entrepreneurship with a passion for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging leadership work.

Keven Brahim Kaddi, MFA, CLDP, ACC

  • Senior Organizational Development Consultant, UC Davis Health
  • Learning & Organizational Development
Keven Brahim is a Senior Organizational Development Consultant. Over the past decade of his career, he has served as a learning and development architect, designer, and facilitator of talent development programs across individual contributor, manager, and leadership levels throughout the employee lifecycle. Keven Brahim has experience across a diverse array of industries including entertainment, financial markets, professional services, non-profit disaster response, and academia. He is motivated by a desire to address organizational challenges at their sources via practical, scalable, people-centric designs that, when implemented effectively, yield sustainable improvements over time.