EQUINE SPECIALIST
The Equine Specialist helps to maintain physical safety for participants and horses, works with the Mental Health Professional to structure sessions, offers observations of horse behavior, and keeps notes documenting horse behaviors in session.
MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
The Mental Health Professional focuses on the emotional safety of the participants and ensures ethical practice.  The Mental Health Professional also helps to build on the horse behaviors by creating a metaphorical bridge for the client from what is happening in the arena, to what is transpiring back at work.

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OD CONSULTANT
The Organizational Development Consultant has a deep knowledge of team dynamics in the workplace, helps teams face the normal challenges of everyday work-life, and focuses on translating awareness achieved in the arena into action in the office.   

Meet Our Team

Kristen de Marco

Kristen de Marco is an Equine Specialist with a lifetime of experience riding and training horses. She gained her EAGALA® Certification in 2011, and was educated at Villanova University in Communication Arts & Psychology.  Kristen has combined her connection with horses and her desire to help others into this experiential modality.  In addition to her duties at WorkHorse, she is the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization, Gateway HorseWorks, which offers transformative Equine Assisted Psychotherapy services to children, adults, and families in a healing, farm-based environment.  www.gatewayhorseworks.org

Melissa Anderson, Psy.D.

Melissa Anderson is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been working with children and adolescents, as well as their families, in both schools and private practice for the past 20 years. She has served as a School Psychologist at both The Hill Top Prepatory School in Rosemont and at The Agnes Irwin School in Villanova. She has been a consultant for Philadelphia Futures and Project Home to partner in designing and implementing trauma-informed services with the client at the center of the decision making. Beyond those individual schools, she has lead workshops and training for school teachers, directors, and their families, and presented on such topics as intergenerational trauma and parenting, moral and conscience development in children and adolescents, eating disorders, leadership in girls, and balancing technology and family. She has a passion for honest dialogue around identity and leads Courageous Conversations.

Haley Tammany, LSW

Haley Tammany is a licensed social worker with experience working with children, adolescents and adults in a community mental health practice. Haley currently works at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she provides social work services to patients admitted to General Medicine and to the Cardiac Intermediate Care Unit. Haley received her Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science and Biology from the University of Delaware. She then earned her Master of Social Work Degree from West Chester University. Haley has a lifelong passion for animals and a desire for helping people in her own community. She is an advocate for the healing power of horses and therefore received her EAGALA Certification in 2016 as a Mental Health Professional. 

Judy Geriot
President, Corporate Dimensions

 Judy Geriot is a 25 year veteran of the meetings and events industry having worked in virtually every facet of the industry.  
She has a diversified background in theater having worked for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and Pittsburgh Playhouse as a stage manager, lighting technician, audio engineer, scenic stagehand and performer for several years.  Judy was elected by her peers and served as President of the International Special Events Society for the Philadelphia Region in 1999.
 She worked closely with key event professionals in designing the first ever CoreStates Bike Race for the City of Philadelphia and has worked with the McDonald’s LPGA in designing Sponsorship packages and orchestrating high level events.
Judy worked as Executive Vice President for 10 years at Homer Associates; one of the premier event strategy and event management firms nationally, producing large scale events, meetings, product launches and trade shows. She established Corporate Dimensions in 1999 and has provided her expertise to a wide range of clients including: Fidelity Investments, First Union, Wachovia, SmithKline Beecham (now Glaxo SmithKline), Pharmacia and Upjohn, (now Pharmacia), Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (now Aventis), KPMG LLP, Qlik, Inc., Software AG, SKF, Sprint, AT&T, Rich’s Foods, and many others that are currently served by Corporate Dimensions.
A percentage of all fees are donated to Gateway HorseWorks, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, offering transformative Equine Assisted Psychotherapy services to children, adults, and families in a healing, farm-based environment.  To learn more, visitwww.gatewayhorseworks.org.