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The team that makes TWF work.

Our greatest asset isn’t a methodology, a framework, or a playbook. It’s the people who built all three - and who show up to deliver for every client, every engagement, every time.

SCAN.BUILD.STAY™
Our Team

The people behind the firm.

Named, accountable, and personally invested. Three attorneys, licensed clinicians, and the visionary who built it all from scratch.

Leadership
Daryan Wilkinson Daryan Wilkinson
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
Leadership
Built TWF from the field. Sets strategy across HR Advisory, hospitality staffing, and government contracting, and publishes the market data the firm operates on.
StrategyWorkforce DataFounder
George Harrington
George Harrington
Chief Business and Strategy Officer
Leadership
Dynamic executive with 30+ years building and leading sales, marketing, and service organizations through start-up, turnaround, and rapid-growth phases. Drives strategy, business development, and positioning across the firm.
StrategyBusiness DevelopmentGrowth
Briana Beatty
Briana Beatty, SHRM-CP
Chief Human Resources Officer, HR Advisory & PHES
Founding Partner
Runs HR Advisory delivery end to end: client engagements, recruitment, and the people systems behind every SCAN, BUILD, and STAY phase.
HR AdvisoryDeliveryRecruiting
Cuabeya Woods
Cuabeya Woods, SHRM-CP, PHR
Chief Human Resources Officer and Government Contracting Division Co-Lead
Founding Partner
Leads the GovCon build: entity registration, federal readiness, and the compliance backbone for workforce delivery to primes and agencies.
GovConFederalHR Operations
James "Matt" Lewis James "Matt" Lewis, Esq.
Chief Legal Officer, Senior Counsel and Government Contracting Division Co-Lead
Leadership
Former Administrative Law Judge at the EEOC and the North Carolina Employment Security Commission. TWF's Chief Legal Officer across every division.
Employment LawEEOCLitigation
Compliance and HR Authority

Every HR consulting engagement we run has three pieces: a principal HR consultant, an HR employment attorney, and one or more clinical consultants. The attorneys and clinicians below are part of the compliance and HR authority behind that work.

HR Employment Attorneys
Dion Beatty
Dion Beatty, JD, MBA
HR Employment Attorney
Compliance and HR Authority
Thinks like a lawyer, runs the math like an operator. Advises on worker classification, termination sequencing, PIP structure, and multi-state compliance within TWF's HR consulting engagements.
JDMBAWorkforce Risk
Michael Berger
Michael Berger
HR Employment Attorney
Compliance and HR Authority
Spent about 32 years as Senior Counsel at Nissan U.S. Manufacturing (1991 to 2008) and Nissan North America (2008 to 2024), advising HR and operations management on labor, employment, and benefits for roughly 20,000 U.S. employees. Former National Labor Relations Board field attorney.
Labor & EmploymentEmployee BenefitsRule 31 Mediator
Clinical Consultants
Beverly King
Beverly King, LCMHCS
NC Clinical Consultant
Compliance and HR Authority
Former UnitedHealth Group. Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor. Advises on clinical team design, credentialing, and the burnout patterns behind direct care turnover.
LCMHCSClinical DesignPayer Systems
Amy Ford
Amy Ford, LCMHC
NC Clinical Consultant
Compliance and HR Authority
Licensed clinician who spent years inside the Medicaid system. Supports program delivery for clients navigating documentation, credentialing, and payer compliance.
LCMHCMedicaidCompliance
Community and Media
Annise Bradley Annise Bradley
Director of Community Partnerships
Delivery & Ops
Built the Workforce Partnership Exchange™ from scratch. Runs the peer network, partnership programs, and connects HHS leaders so nobody solves every problem alone.
WPECommunityPartnerships
Damion Rowe
Podcast Producer
Media & Content
Production lead for TWF's media operation. First reviewer on every clip and the producer behind the firm's interview series.
PodcastProduction
Lawrence Furing
Short-Form Video Creator
Media & Content
Creates the short-form video that carries TWF's workforce commentary across platforms.
VideoShort-Form
Zain Sheikh
Short-Form Video Creator
Media & Content
Edits and packages TWF's clips and social video from the firm's media pipeline.
VideoEditing
Juni
Podcast Clipper
Media & Content
Turns long-form TWF conversations into the moments worth sharing.
ClipsPodcast

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By the numbers

Three figures describe the sector. Five describe what we build toward. We separate them on purpose.

37.1%
Direct support professional turnover, nationally
Weighted mean, 2024. Range across states 16.7% to 53.7%.
9.7%
Average full-time DSP vacancy rate
2024. Range across states 5.9% to 17.2%.
26.6%
Agencies that turned away referrals over staffing
Stopped or declined new service referrals in 2024 because of DSP staffing.
150+
HHS organizations served
Team career total across our advisory and consulting bench.
28%
Target client turnover rate
What we build engagements to reach, against a national mean of 37.1%.
94%
Target compliance score
Internal audit standard applied to client documentation sets.
32 days
Target time to fill
Direct hire, clinical and direct care roles.
Zero
Target CARF deficiencies
For clients on an audit-ready documentation set.

Sector figures: National Core Indicators, State of the Workforce in IDD, 2024 Survey Report, NASDDDS and HSRI, published December 2025. Figures labeled target are TWF engagement objectives, not reported results.

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