Dr. Thurman E. Webb, Jr.Executive Leadership Advisor · I-O Psychologist
The advisor, the methodology, and the conviction behind Centered Person.
Dr. Thurman E. Webb, Jr. is an executive leadership advisor and industrial-organizational psychologist who helps CEOs, founders, and executive teams lead with deeper awareness. He is the founder of Centered Person and the creator of Leadership Awareness Transformation™ — a proprietary four-phase methodology for expanding leadership capacity from the inside out.
“Behavior reflects internal patterns — and leadership transformation begins with awareness.”
— Dr. Thurman E. Webb, Jr.
For more than twenty years, Dr. Webb has advised senior executives and their organizations — guiding strategic planning, facilitating executive learning, and serving as a confidential thinking partner to leaders navigating their most consequential decisions. Across that work, one conviction has held: behavior reflects internal patterns, and leadership transformation begins with awareness.
Most leaders don’t plateau for lack of intelligence, information, or effort. They plateau when the patterns that built their success quietly begin to limit it — and those patterns are nearly impossible to see from the inside. Leadership Awareness Transformation™ is his response: a disciplined method for making a leader’s internal patterns visible, aligning them with intention, applying them in real decisions, and embedding the change in the leader, the team, and the enterprise.
As an industrial-organizational psychologist, Dr. Webb brings the science of people at work — motivation, judgment, behavior, and performance — to the realities of the executive chair. His counsel is confidential, individualized, and unhurried. He advises a select number of CEOs, founders, and executive teams across higher education, healthcare, financial services, sports, and family enterprises, works virtually and in person, and speaks to leadership audiences on awareness, decision quality, and the inner work of leading well.
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I have spent my career at the intersection of psychology and leadership, and everything I’ve seen points to the same conclusion: leaders don’t struggle because they lack intelligence, information, or will. They struggle because behavior reflects internal patterns — and most have never had a rigorous, confidential way to examine their own. That conviction became a methodology, and the methodology became this firm.
My clients don’t get a program. They get a partner — one trained to notice patterns, name them without judgment, and stay with the work until the change holds.
Dr. Thurman E. Webb, Jr.Founder · Executive Leadership AdvisorDirector of Culture, Curriculum & Educational Outreach
Adam leads culture, curriculum, and educational outreach at Centered Person — shaping how the firm’s work is translated into learning experiences for clients, teams, and the communities the firm serves. He partners closely with Dr. Webb on the design and delivery of executive learning across engagements.
Chief Information Officer
With more than 20 years of experience spanning business operations, finance, technology, and process improvement, she is responsible for driving operational excellence, overseeing organizational systems and information management, coordinating executive initiatives, and ensuring the seamless execution of client engagements.
Executive Coach
Valecia Colvin is an Executive Coach with Centered Person who is passionate about helping leaders grow with greater self-awareness, authenticity, and intention. Drawing from her background in Psychology, Counseling, and organizational leadership, she partners with executives and emerging leaders to strengthen communication, navigate complex workplace dynamics, and build high-performing, people-centered teams.
Executive Coach
Dr. Jennifer Hutton helps leaders strengthen their influence by understanding not only how they lead, but the systems, relationships, and culture that shape leadership. With a background in healthcare, organizational culture, and leadership development, she helps executives recognize the patterns influencing their leadership, strengthen relationships, and cultivate cultures rooted in trust, accountability, and psychological safety. She believes lasting leadership is developed through self-awareness, strong relationships, and a deep understanding of organizational culture.
Executive Leadership Advisor
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
Centered Person — boutique executive advisory
Creator of Leadership Awareness Transformation™
20+ years advising senior executives
(615) 496-6309 · info@centeredperson.com