Your Talent Advantage

Meet Lynda-Ross and Gary

and the Team that will help you claim

Your Talent Advantage

Gary Jordan, Ph.D., has over 32 years of experience in clinical psychology, behavioral assessment, individual development, and coaching. He earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology – Berkeley in 1980. 

Gary's an expert at helping people to understand themselves and discover meaning and satisfaction in their lives. "Building your life on the foundation of your natural skills and strengths brings more joy and far more success than any other approach. Tapping into your potential is exhilarating and rewarding." 

Gary  spent 18 years in  private  practice. His experience there led to his desire to bring strength based coaching into the business world. Always an entrepreneur at heart, he and Lynda-Ross formed their company in 1996 and set out to make a difference in the world of business and life coaching.   

Gary is a black belt in Shaolin Kenpo and he teaches at a local recreation center. He’s also an avid reader and a film buff and a dedicated hockey fan. He’s also a native Texan. In his spare time, Gary and his wife Sarah, an artist and author, are building (not just supervising, but doing all the work themselves) a “weekend getaway” home in the Texas hill country.

Lynda-Ross Vega is an accomplished business executive and management consultant with 25 years of Fortune 500 senior management experience and 16 years of experience as a business owner/entrepreneur with a focus on human and technical systems. She's an authority on identifying and focusing the right talent on the right tasks at hand. 

Lynda-Ross is an expert at helping people to successfully integrate their talents into all aspects of their lives. "The greatest enjoyment and satisfaction in life occur when your actions are grounded in your unique talents and you appreciate the differences in those around you."

Lynda-Ross bega researching and applying styles theory tools early in her career. Her passion for identifying and focusing the right talent on the right task led to her collaboration with Dr. Gary Jordan, beginning in 1983, and their development of Perceptual Style Theory.  

With a first name like Lynda-Ross you’d think she hailed from the south, but in truth Lynda-Ross migrated from Washington State to Texas in 1982. Lynda-Ross and her husband Ricardo enjoy playing (co-ed indoor leagues) and watching soccer. Lynda-Ross is an avid reader and enjoys travel and the fun of exploring interesting and well prepared food (hence the need the play soccer).  She and Ricardo are fortunate to enjoy the close proximity of their adult children and grandchildren.

Ricardo Vega – brings 40 years of experience in the business world, 25 of them with IBM.  His experiences as a Systems Engineer, Team lead, Project Manager, Development Manager, CIO and consultant have proven invaluable in the fine tuning of our products. As a fluent speaker of Spanish and English, Ricardo is in charge of the development of the Your Talent Advantage assessments and action guides in Spanish due out later this year. He is the Project and Development Manager for all of our initiatives. 

Ricardo is also a lifelong coach. From under 5 thru adult recreation leagues and high school competitive leagues, Ricardo has led teams to victory thru skills development and guidance.   

He believes that the principles behind Your Talent Advantage were instrumental in his leading a High School girls soccer team to two consecutive Texas Private School State championships. Ricardo applies those same principles in his work as a business coach, where he focuses on team communications and leadership. 

Ricardo is responsible for his wife’s (Lynd-Ross) introduction to the game of soccer and he enjoys playing (indoor leagues with his son and grandson) as well as watching professional and amateur games. In his spare time Ricardo likes traveling, keeping up with technology, and teaching Spanish to the grandkids.

Alicia Blake is an expert at designing and implementing processes and procedures that marry people and methods. Alicia is our resident logistics guru for product content and service delivery. With over 20 years of practical experience as a Call Center Manager, Business Analyst, Testing Lead and Client Services Manager, she’s been part of our team for 14 years.  

During our development cycles, Alicia leads all testing, Quality Assurance and documentation of our programs.  Alicia is also responsible for all of our event planning. You will come in contact with her as you sign up for seminars, order our products and attend our live events. 

Alicia is an avid sports fan and especially enjoys following and watching professional basketball and football. She stays quite active with workouts and jogging with her beautiful brindle boxer, Arabella. Alicia is also a gourmet cook and loves experimenting with tastes and recipes (she’s our resident bread and dessert chef!).

Originally from the Northeast, Alicia moved to Texas in 2000 to be closer to all of us, but mostly because she actually loves the Texas heat (go figure)!

Steve Boice is the go-to guy when you have questions about how – from signing on to take an assessment to interacting in our forums. Steve manages our Helpdesk and designs all of our automated help features and tutorials. With over 35 years of experience in technology (working with Lynda-Ross for 30 of those!), he has the answers when you need them.

As an experienced systems architect it is up to Steve to help ensure our systems are working together they way they should be. He also participates in all of our Quality Assurance activities. As a hands-on manager, you may come in contact with him if you use our Helpdesk or any of our private member forums.    

Steve is an avid sports fan and film buff (he has a personal library of over 5,000 films so we don’t really need those film rental services). He and his wife Vicki enjoy family gatherings  with their kids and grandkids who all live close by.  

We're passionate about helping you discover that you have choices and which choices make the most sense for you right now. And we can show you how your unique strengths will help you flourish!