Meet Our Team
Prior to PeopleProductive®, Frank was a Chief Information Officer at three different companies, most recently at Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, as well as the President of GroupIntelligence.com during the .com era.
Early on, he developed a knack for transforming organizations and spent many years turning around failing divisions across corporations. He discovered failure had a consistent root cause: cultures where the leaders knew everything about products, processes, and technology, but nothing about the human factors that drive workforce productivity and innovation.
This awareness led him to write a book for Wiley Publishing, titled Transforming IT Culture: How to Use Social Intelligence, Human Factors and Collaboration to Create an IT Department that Outperforms. This book is the missing operator’s manual for the human infrastructure.
Frank was deeply moved by this knowledge gap and founded PeopleProductive® so companies could outperform without burning people out.
As a biology major who was always intensely interested in the human side of business, Wander witnessed how powerful human understanding was when methodically applied to improve business outcomes.
Today, Wander is helping companies become top performers by leveraging the power of people, not technology.
He is a visionary executive dedicated to helping organizations flourish by mastering the human side of business. He is a servant leader who delivers value through a profound understanding of strategic execution and value creation via high performance culture.
A seasoned executive helping Fortune 100 firms and United States Federal Government agencies successfully navigate business transformation programs for four decades. He possesses a rare blend of business acumen, program life-cycle management, business capability enablement, stakeholder engagement, and organization adoption experience.
Steve was formerly director of professional development for the Business Relationship Management Institute, an organization dedicated to maximizing the benefits of the business relationship management discipline around the globe. He has been a significant contributor to the institute’s body of knowledge (BRMBOK) and certifications: Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP) and Certified Business Relationship Manager (CBRM), and continues to be a recognized thought leader and mentor in the global Business Relationship Management (BRM) Community.
He lives in Reston, VA just west of Washington DC and when he breaks free of his passion helping organizations flourish by mastering the human side of their business, he enjoys landscaping, gardening and time with family just unwinding!
His main strengths include extensive experience generating value, managing P&L, and conducting the turnaround of low-performance business units in the organization, as well as financial, regulatory, legal, and labor issues.
Dan Novais has a solid commercial background and proven experience in high-performance team building and leadership, sales management, customer prospection/retention, new-market development, and channel architecture.
He's developed a deep understanding of North American Markets (USA & Canada) and Emerging Markets, including Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Colombia. This understanding is aligned with strategic thinking skills in delegating tasks and monitoring solutions. He is resilient, a clear communicator, legitimate, and capable of dealing with ambiguity and high-pressure environments.
He's managed well-known companies and business units for American and European multinational high-tech companies.
Dan Novais has extensive international experience, having lived in the USA and Brazil. He has also traveled extensively within Latin America and Europe and is abreast of the markets/industries in these regions.
He collaborates closely with other executive leaders working in partnership with product, sales, and marketing teams to align technical expertise with client requirements, ensuring successful implementation and customer satisfaction. He demonstrates the company’s solutions to partners and customers in Brazil, showcasing the value and benefits of our offerings, addressing any questions or concerns, providing in-depth knowledge and insights to ensure clients fully understand how PeopleProductive’s solutions can meet their needs.
Fabiano holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Pace University and a Master of Science in Technology Management from Columbia University, where he focused his studies on behavioral challenges in organizations. It was at Columbia that he met Frank Wander, who mentored him during the Technology Management program. Their shared interests in leadership and cultural transformation brought them together in 2014.
A Certified Professional Coach by IPEC - New York, Fabiano has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Fabiano is a passionate Muay Thai instructor and a former world-class elite athlete in Taekwondo. He splits his time between Brooklyn, NY, and São Paulo, Brazil, and enjoys playing percussion and guitar.
Responsible for implementing and monitoring effective strategies, Caroline aims to optimize the perception of People Productive in the market, ensuring that the company's values and mission are clearly communicated in all interactions. Her experience in UI/UX design enriches the creation of more intuitive and impactful experiences.
Caroline brings valuable perspective to the team, valuing inclusion and diversity in all projects. Her commitment to excellence and continuous improvement makes her a strategic leader within the organization.
Outside of work, Caroline dedicates herself to music, exploring new forms of artistic expression.
He has worked in all phases of software development, with the last 20 years in a Project Manager role, successfully leading the development and implementation of a wide range of applications including Financial systems,
Manufacturing floor control and automation systems, supply chain management systems, and most recently mobile applications supporting Sales Force automation.
While leading projects, he had a clear focus on the human factors involved in running a winning team, and saw first hand the positive impact on productivity and team synergy of such things as showing respect and compassion for team members, having open communication from the leadership community, and building trust amongst team members and leadership.
Fred is PMI and IBM project manager certified.
The customer experience is the most important driver of sustainable success for PeopleProductive. Therefore, as a human capital productivity solution provider to companies of all sizes, it is of paramount importance that we not only provide powerful and highly usable solutions, but that we protect the reliability, confidentiality and integrity of our software and data.
Ben has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry in areas ranging from Network Administration, Network Design, Application Security and Development to Quality Assurance. He received achievements and Master certifications in Software testing from Villanova University and is a Certified Scrum Master. Ben's accomplishments in the field led him to be invited to lecture on the advancements of application performance, automation and testing the true end user experience.
Before joining PeopleProductive, Ben was Head of Specialty Testing for Guardian Life where he provided powerful and highly usable solutions to test and guarantee the quality, reliability, and integrity of the company's application software and data.
Ben is a seasoned professional who is passionate about identifying and managing enterprise risk and optimizing the end user experience. He believes that enterprise security and risk management is an ongoing, evolving practice and is at the forefront of state of the art innovations in Cyber Security.
In his spare time Ben enjoys photography, composing music and spending time with his family. He is a published songwriter, composer and recording studio owner.
With a career spanning 32 years Dave worked at ADP, Beneficial Finance, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield and also as a consultant at a Bell Labs data center.
Dave oversaw large scale projects that brought new products to market and significant new functionality to existing products. Projects spanned several months to years, had challenging deadlines and required the coordination of a large team, with many at remote locations.
Dave and his team established a project development methodology and standards that clearly defined roles, processes, deliverables and developed metrics that allowed them execute large-scale projects. He established a track record of delivering projects on schedule and of high quality while maintaining a strong team of business analysts, programmers, quality assurance analysts, customer support specialists and documentation developers.
Dave has a great deal of experience in the human side of business and always strove to put people first, believing that if you treated people well, they would achieve a high performance ethic. The products he oversaw received the high customer satisfaction ratings for the company and his team members reported high levels of employee satisfaction under Dave's management.
With this depth of experience Dave has been coordinating the development of a significant wealth of content to bring knowledge of this critical mission to life and to help organizations flourish through the learning and empowerment of its leaders.
He has worked in all phases of software development, with the last 20 years in a Project Manager role, successfully leading the development and implementation of a wide range of applications including Financial systems,
Manufacturing floor control and automation systems, supply chain management systems, and most recently mobile applications supporting Sales Force automation.
While leading projects, he had a clear focus on the human factors involved in running a winning team, and saw first hand the positive impact on productivity and team synergy of such things as showing respect and compassion for team members, having open communication from the leadership community, and building trust amongst team members and leadership.
Fred is PMI and IBM project manager certified.
