Alignment Works helps organizations solve complex challenges by aligning people, partnerships, and systems. Through strategic facilitation, stakeholder engagement, leadership development, and systems design, we create practical strategies that transform vision into sustainable action.
Meet The Team
Dr. Kimberly Vissotski
Founder & CEO, Alignment Works
Dr. Kimberly Vissotski is a strategist, facilitator, leadership developer, and community connector with more than 26 years of experience helping organizations and communities turn ambitious ideas into actionable strategies.
Her career has spanned executive educational leadership, workforce and talent development, employer and community engagement, organizational transformation, and cross-sector partnership development.
Known for bringing the right people to the table and helping groups move from complexity to clarity, Kimberly specializes in creating environments where diverse perspectives become shared priorities—and shared priorities become action.
Her work has supported school systems, employers, workforce and economic development organizations, chambers, community partners, and leaders seeking to create meaningful and sustainable change.
Donna Gilley
Consultant
Donna Gilley is a strategic facilitator, leadership coach, and cross-sector collaboration expert with more than 30 years of experience spanning education, business and industry, workforce development, and community engagement. She specializes in bringing diverse leaders together to build shared vision, develop strategy, strengthen leadership capacity, and move complex initiatives from ideas to implementation.
Donna currently serves as a Ford Next Generation Learning Community Coach, supporting communities across the country and internationally. Previously, as Director of the Academies of Nashville and Career and Technical Education for Metro Nashville Public Schools, she led large-scale transformation efforts while building extensive partnerships among education, employers, chambers, postsecondary institutions, nonprofits, and community organizations.
Her areas of expertise include strategic facilitation, leadership development, cross-sector partnership building, organizational alignment, strategic planning, and implementation of complex change initiatives. Donna holds a bachelor’s degree in Business and an MBA from Belmont University.
Dr. Catherine Sherrard
Consultant
Dr. Catherine Sherrard comes to the Alignment Works team following more than 25 years of extensive experience in higher education, half of which was spent serving on a senior leadership team. Throughout her distinguished career in education, she has spearheaded and contributed to a wide array of community initiatives specifically designed to enhance student success, strengthen workforce alignment, and increase credential completion rates. Her expertise encompasses core skills such as strategic planning, root cause analysis, curriculum alignment, and leadership development. Additionally, she serves as an Executive Function Coach with Effective Students in Louisville, Kentucky, where she leverages her vast expertise to empower students from middle school through college to develop essential academic management, task tracking, and self-advocacy skills.
Dr. Sherrard’s academic foundation is deeply rooted in social sciences and educational leadership. Her formal education includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in the fields of criminal justice and justice administration, and she earned her Doctor of Education in leadership education. This rigorous training equips her with a comprehensive understanding of organizational structure, student development, and effective leadership methodologies that inform her coaching and consulting work.
Catherine and her husband reside in Louisville, Kentucky, where they own and operate a local business dedicated to senior living. In her free time, she thoroughly enjoys traveling and creating meaningful memories with her family and close friends.
Shelly Kennedy
Consultant
Shelly Kennedy is an educator, instructional coach, and behavior consultant with more than 30 years of experience helping students, teachers, families, and school teams turn data and good intentions into plans that work.
Her career has covered classroom teaching from elementary through middle school, district instructional coaching, teacher training, adult education, and university teacher preparation. She is known for building relationships and trust with the people closest to the work. Her specialty is helping teams move from "what's not working" to clear, doable next steps.
Shelly currently serves as a Consultant. She partners with families and support teams across Indiana, using data to design support plans that lead to real change. Before that, she spent three decades with multiple school districts. She used data to personalize instruction and drive student growth. She served as Educational Innovation Coach, advocating for data-guided change and continuous improvement across the district. She is published with NSTA Press.
Her areas of expertise include instructional coaching, data-informed decision making, behavior support planning, professional learning design, project-based learning, technology and building strong partnerships between schools and families. Shelly is also Dare to Lead certified, Covey’s 7 Habits Signature Trained and certified and trained in CliftonStrengths.
Shelly lives in Auburn, Indiana, where she is active in her church. She is a new grandmother and is enjoying this stage of life.