Brian Alvo

Founder & Facilitator

Brian realized early on in his professional journey that there is more than one way to find “success.” As a young professional, he navigated career moves and challenging work situations primarily with his internal compass and found that the transitions from contributor to manager to leader were often harder than they needed to be. It was through these experiences that Brian recognized a huge opportunity for organizations to support and invest in emerging leaders. These realizations were the seeds for what would become NextGen Center.

Brian has over ten years of diverse professional experience spanning multiple industries, and he earned his MBA from Duke University. With a wide array of experiences domestically and abroad, he developed an innovative understanding of professional development and an ability to recognize and cultivate potential in others.

Throughout his journey Brian has always made it his mission to pay it forward, using his experience to help others achieve their goals. He founded NextGen Center with a similar mindset – to help individuals and teams develop and get clear on who they are, provide a resource for organizations to manage transformation, and to ultimately improve performance and experiences.

Joe Lebouef

Facilitator & Advisor

Joe LeBoeuf is a professor of the practice emeritus of management at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Professor LeBoeuf retired as a colonel, US Army, after thirty-four years of uniformed service. His last military assignment was as a Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was the Deputy Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership and Director of the graduate degree-granting program, the Eisenhower Fellowship, a partnership with Columbia University. His expertise is in leadership education, leader development and organizational culture and change and he has been intimately involved in building the leadership and leader development programs at USMA and throughout the Army.  

Upon retirement from the Army in 2004, LeBoeuf joined The Fuqua School of Business to teach leadership and management in the Daytime and Executive MBA programs, work in the Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE), and serve as faculty advisor to the COLE Leadership Fellows program. His teaching includes courses in Facilitation, Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership, and Leading and Managing Human Capital and Organizational Change. He also teaches in Fuqua’s Educative MBA programs, and in Duke’s Advanced Management Program.  LeBoeuf also runs a 4-day leader development experience, Consequential Leadership 2 (C-LEAD 2) for 400+ second-year MBAs in Fuqua’s daytime program. From 2006-2010 he taught an undergraduate course in Military Leadership in the Hart Leadership Program, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke. He was promoted to Full Professor of the Practice of Management in the spring, 2006.

Peggy Richmond

Coach

Peggy Richmond has enjoyed a rich and fulfilling career as an educational researcher, program evaluation consultant, business owner, and employer. In 1979, she founded Research and Evaluation Associates, Inc., a consulting firm with the mission of “improving the human condition through research.” She led the firm for 24 years, beginning with herself as the only worker and growing it to more than 100 employees with offices in Washington, DC and Chapel Hill, NC. Peggy was grateful for the opportunity to sell the company at the end of 2003 to McNeil Technologies, Inc., of Springfield, VA (later acquired by AECOM) when annual sales exceeded $7 million.

Through her work as an evaluator and her role as an employer, Peggy realized how much she enjoys fostering growth. She finds joy in placing a tiny seed into soil, adding water and fertilizer regularly, and seeing the emergence of a thriving plant. Likewise, she delights in helping an individual find his or her passion and watching the individual flourish and prosper; she enjoys facilitating the development of teams within an organization and witnessing the emergence of leaders; and she relishes fostering organizational conditions that result in improved overall performance.

Peggy seeks to use her skills and experiences to help nourish the growth of individuals, teams, and organizations. Coaching and consulting are the means she chooses to use. Already a licensed psychologist, holding a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill, she added certification in personal development coaching from the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute in Atlanta in 2016 and certification in business coaching from North Carolina State University in 2017. As an International Coach Federation certified professional coach at the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) level, Peggy loves working with emerging leaders and established leaders in the for-profit, not-for-profit, and government sectors.

Her favorite leisure activities are gardening, reading, attending grandchildren’s extracurricular activities, and having lively conversations with family and friends.