Experienced Leaders. Trusted Partners.
Meet Our Team
At AchieveNEXT, our work is only as strong as the people behind it. Our team is made up of experienced practitioners, published authors, coaches, and facilitators who have spent their careers working with leaders in real-world environments, not just classrooms or boardrooms.
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Founder & Chairman
Nick Araco
Nick Araco Jr. is the Founder and Chairman of AchieveNEXT, where he built a relationship-driven platform dedicated to developing leaders and strengthening organizations. With a career spanning executive leadership, advisory, and community-building, Nick is passionate about creating environments where trust, accountability, and performance intersect.
Founder
Greg Wood
Greg Wood is a Founder of AchieveNEXT and a catalyst for meaningful connection among senior leaders. With deep expertise in organizational change and strategy, Greg helps leaders turn insight into action by leveraging peer relationships to drive growth, alignment, and lasting impact.
Managing Director
Ed Wallace
Ed Wallace is a recognized authority on relationship-based leadership and trust in business. As an author, advisor, and speaker, Ed helps leaders elevate performance by strengthening how they connect, communicate, and collaborate across organizations. Ed is the author of Fares to Friends, Creating Relational Capital, Business Relationships That Last, and his most recent #1 Bestseller The Relationship Engine
Director, Human Capital
Milton Corsey
Milton Corsey brings decades of executive and advisory experience to his work developing inclusive, high-performing leaders. Known for his thoughtful, human-centered approach, Milton helps organizations unlock leadership potential while navigating growth and change.
Managing Director
Eric Herrenkohl
Eric Herrenkohl coaches A-Player leaders. Previously, he founded and led a retained executive search firm. His book "How to Hire A-Players" is an Amazon bestseller, and he has been featured in Business Week, Fox News Business, Inc.com, LinkedIn, and other media sites.
Inside Sales
Grant Wallace
Grant Wallace focuses on developing emerging leaders through experiential learning and relationship-driven growth. As an Inside Sales Specialist at AchieveNEXT, he builds trusted relationships with current and future customers, helping them connect to the right communities, resources, and opportunities to grow as leaders.
Keynote Speaker
Michael Barkann
Michael Barkann is one of Philadelphia’s best known sports media personalities. Since 1997, he has been host of myriad shows for Comcast SportsNet, now NBC Sports Philadelphia. He has been honored as Pennsylvania’s Sportscaster of the Year seven times besides winning numerous Emmy Awards including: Outstanding Individual Achievement for a Sports Reporter; Outstanding Sports Feature; Outstanding Individual Achievement Host/Talk Program; and Outstanding Talk Program.
Michael also covered 18 US Open Tennis Championships for USA Network; three Olympic Winter Games, The Final Four and NCAA Football Championship for CBS Sports.
Director of Learning & Analytics
Misty Law Flurry
Managing Director
Corey Crapella
Mid Market Operating Partner
Scott Barsky
Executive Coach
Mitch Wienick
Mitch Wienick is a former CEO and current executive coach. His work with leaders includes:
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Board management and relationships
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Business strategy
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Onboarding and assimilation
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Interpersonal relationships
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Organizational structure and dynamics
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Team building and development
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Mitch is the former President/CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CDI Corporation, a multinational provider of customized outsourcing, staffing, and search services based in Philadelphia.
Career Coach
Jim Miller
Executive Coach
Marci Wilf
Lynn DiBonaventura
Executive Coach
Beth Bunting
Beth Bunting is an executive coach and organizational design and development leader who brings the skills she built in the Fortune 30 corporate arena to a wide range of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. She builds momentum for leaders by complementing their existing skill sets and developing action-oriented plans. Beth approaches her clients with both humility and confidence, working side by side with them from the creation of a mission-driven strategy through implementation.
Executive Coach
William J. Frye
Bill Frye is an ICF Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) with 1,000+ coaching hours and 35 years of senior operations leadership experience. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a career leading 1,800+ employees across global operations, Bill understands the real-world pressures leaders face because he has successfully navigated them himself.
Executive Coach
Rebecca Fetter
Rebecca Feder has coached hundreds of executives and teams helping them understand how motivation and different management styles can positively impact performance. She flexes her approach to match the client’s style and situation allowing her to be consistently recognized for delivering innovative solutions, alignment and results.
Her experience includes consulting and in-
house HR, plus operations and business development line management positions. She has worked across many industries including pharmaceutical, financial, consumer products, media, industrial, supply chain, academic and non-profit.
