Team
The People Behind The Translator’s Way
At Translator’s Consulting Group, we don’t just deliver services.
We partner in the real work of how people experience leadership, strategy, rhythm, and execution.
Our team brings depth of experience across sectors — but more importantly, we bring a shared commitment to dignity, clarity, consistency, and courage in how work happens.
This is not about personalities.
It’s about partnership.
Tim Terrentine
FOUNDER & CHIEF TRANSLATOR
Tim founded Translator’s Consulting Group on a simple belief: how people experience leadership shapes everything that follows.
He is known for helping leaders see what is really happening beneath the surface — and then equipping them with practical ways to move forward. His work centers on translating complexity into language and systems people can actually use.
Across corporate, nonprofit, healthcare, government, K–12, higher education, and economic development environments, Tim has helped organizations:
Strengthen leadership intent
Clarify direction and decision-making
Establish rhythms that build accountability
Turn belief into behavior
Tim’s presence is steady and direct. He challenges leaders with dignity, calls teams into courage, and builds structures that hold under pressure.
He is a trusted executive coach, facilitator, and architect of The Translator Moves and the Momentum Loop — the systems behind our work.
Education & Credentials:
Master of Arts, Intercultural/Interpersonal Communication - Western Michigan University
Bachelor of Arts, Family Studies in Education/Minor: Communication - Western Michigan University
Executive Coaching Certification - Case Western Reserve University
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Certification - Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Certificate in 21st Century Leadership - Harvard University
Leadership Certificate Program - Center for Creative Leadership
Developing an Outward Mindset Facilitator - Arbinger Institute
Strengths Performance Coach - Gallup®
Tim’s work is grounded in experience, sharpened by reflection, and designed for results that hold.
Heather Baker
BRAND TRANSLATOR
Heather ensures that what we build internally is reflected externally with integrity and coherence.
As Brand Translator, she helps translate complex ideas into language, structure, and systems that feel aligned, human, and clear. She brings both creative precision and operational discipline to the work.
Heather’s expertise spans brand development, communications strategy, culture alignment, and project execution. She ensures that Translator’s Consulting Group’s messaging reflects the depth of its methodology — not slogans, but systems.
Her work strengthens:
Brand clarity and cohesion
Strategic communication
Experience design
Alignment between identity and action
Heather believes that brand is not what you say — it is what people consistently experience. Her role is to help ensure those two things match.
Education & Credentials
Bachelor of Arts in History – Yale University
CCL Assessment Certification – Center for Creative Leadership
Certificate in Becoming a Reflective Coach Practitioner - Northwestern University
Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace – University of South Florida
We are not a transactional provider. We are partners in building organizations where people feel like somebody and work flows accordingly.
You can expect:
Conversations with dignity.
Tools with clarity.
Structures with consistency.
Coaching with courage.
Forward motion you can feel.
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO WORK WITH US
Ready to explore what that somebodiness could like in your organization?
You don’t need another presentation.
You need a partner who understands how work actually happens.