Counsel from leaders
who've built and led.

Tom Shandy is a published leadership author and Director of Organizational Development at Solutions 21, the Pittsburgh-based firm whose flagship Next Leader Now program has equipped thousands of emerging leaders across corporate America. He is the co-author of Retain-ability: Retaining Talent in a Complex Workplace (Percheron Publishing, 2025), written with Dr. Jeff Belsky — a practitioner’s playbook for retaining Gen Y and Gen Z talent in modern organizations — and publishes regularly on leader development, rising stars, and organizational culture. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Connectability, Inc.

Across more than 22 years developing leaders, Tom has consulted with mid-market, privately held firms nationwide — partnering with owners, executives, and HR leaders to design solutions to complex organizational challenges and to coach high-performing teams. Before his consulting practice, he led in strikingly different arenas: as a songwriter and performer originally from Nashville, as program director and operator of a martial arts business scaled to national recognition, and as a U.S. Army infantry officer and Ranger. He is a 2020 graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

His military leadership spanned company command and higher-headquarters staff roles, where he learned that the most effective leaders are rarely the loudest — they build trust, demand clarity, and develop the people around them. That hard-earned perspective informs how he advises Service Alliance on building a Veteran-led culture that scales.

Zachary “Zak” Tyminski serves as Chief Commercial Lending Officer for Members 1st Federal Credit Union, one of the largest credit unions in Pennsylvania — serving members across the full spectrum of personal and commercial financial needs.

Zak brings deep regional banking experience from previous leadership roles including Regional President at LINKBANK and prior positions at Truist, M&T Bank, and Fulton Financial Corporation. His perspective grounds Service Alliance’s financial strategy and its approach to building durable partnerships with the Veteran-serving and small-business communities.

Stacey Toy is Chief Operating Officer of TwentyFiveEight Studios, where her team has earned 13 American Advertising Awards and produces work spanning Super Bowl commercials for Toyota to broadcast production for the Paralympic Games. She previously served as COO of NFT Drop, LLC, a celebrity-driven digital collectibles company she co-launched, and is co-host and co-executive producer of “FanRoom Live” with Cedric the Entertainer.

Her producing credits include “OpenArms Haiti,” co-produced with Academy Award–winning filmmaker Robert May, which raised nearly $2 million within twenty minutes of its debut. Stacey was honored at the House of Lords in London in 2018, named Most Distinguished Alumni by Elizabethtown College, and recognized in “Who’s Who in America.” She has filmed, broadcast, or produced media in nearly 50 countries.

Blair Tolbard is a highly accomplished senior executive with more than 35 years of success within the enterprise software space, spanning both on-premise and SaaS-based solutions. Most recently he served as SVP of Sales and North America Country Manager for Basware, a SaaS-based eProcurement and AP automation software company — leading large solution-sales teams delivering technology, ERP, procurement, and analytics into the higher-education, public sector, manufacturing, life sciences, healthcare, and distribution verticals.

Earlier in his career, Blair was Group VP of Sales at JAGGAER, a co-founding partner of MiCORE Solutions, and held senior sales, sales-management, executive, and general-management roles at Oracle Corporation and IBM. That breadth of experience — from founding a services firm to leading revenue organizations inside the largest enterprise-software companies in the world — is exactly the business and sales perspective Service Alliance needs as it scales from launch into a national Veteran-serving platform.

Blair is a U.S. Navy Veteran who comes from a long line of military service, and he previously served on the Board of Directors of Tin Can Sailors, Inc. — the National Association of Destroyer Veterans. That personal connection to the fleet and to the Veteran community makes him not only a business and sales advisor to Service Alliance, but a fellow traveler who understands firsthand what the platform is built to do.