SkillTree Consultants

SkillTree retains the best small to medium enterprise consultants available. We look for professionals who have been small to medium sized business professional, learning managers, and business/performance coaches with 10 or more years of direct experience producing results for our clients. These professionals come from diverse industries, but share a common goal: Serving small to medium enterprises with low cost, high quality deliverables that are measurable and leave the business better than when we found it.

Johnathan E. St. John, MBA, PHR
Chief Executive and Consultant, SkillTree, Inc.
  • Fortune 500 regional and marketplace manager turned small to medium organization performance zealot
  • 20+ years human resources, training, and performance development experience
  • Gubernatorial Appointee: State of California Employment Training Panel responsible for funding training plans of businesses facing Out of State competition or other barriers to developing their staff, which are constrained by lack of funding or limited funding
  • Regularly speaks and facilitates training sessions for company, industry, and association gatherings on training and performance management topics
  • Expertise in analyzing, developing, delivering, and measuring training and development programs that convert training knowledge into business and results
  • Orchestrates several small, medium, government, or not-for-profit leadership and/or employee training programs, events, or conferences annually

Desiree Aragon Nielson, MHROD
Practice Leader - Performance Coaching and Development
  • Fortune 500 training and development professional with national and international experience delivering virtual learning around the world
  • 10+ years experience as a training and performance development expert
  • Served as regional expert on clinical and leadership performance
  • Served as system-wide resource for leadership performance across 27 disparate organizations. Oversee program development, logistics and implementation.
  • Certified Facilitator, Blended Learning, Balance Learning, Boston Massachusetts, Certified Facilitator, Crucial Conversations
  • Trained-the-Trainers to deliver workshops worldwide onsite and online
  • Shared expertise on adult learning theories and online learning applications to Managers across over 120 organizations
  • Extensive experience establishing processes to improve internal communication and increase employee retention through coaching.
  • Former small business owner and consultant