About Toops Consulting
Our purpose is to help businesses eliminate wasted time and effort in achieving sustainable individual and organizational transformations.
We do this with a customizable body of knowledge that includes skills discovery, conscious leadership, appreciative inquiry, proprietary transition frameworks, and program design, facilitation, and training.
Meet Your Consultants
David and Emma Toops are lifelong learners and professional educators. They are both originally from the Midwest (Iowa and Illinois), went to school on scholarships (Wrestling and ROTC), are part of Generation X, are Geminis (one day apart; 9 years age difference), are nerdy-STEM types who like computer games and solving problems, but also like people and culture, particularly travel, food, drink, and history museums.
Professionally, they are subject-matter experts who support students, adults, and organizations with academic, leader, military transition, or corporate training using a strengths-focused approach for a more efficient and intentional process.
David Toops
30+ years of experience in the IT industry.
David is an IT professional with 30+ years of experience in various skills: software development, data management, information security, database, and other system reporting, and IT management.
David supported Emma’s military career as a military spouse for nearly 18 years. Since Emma’s military retirement in 2013, he has worked alongside her in entrepreneurship and community service endeavors.
Emma Toops
An ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate and Army Veteran with 17.5 years of active-duty experience.
Emma is a retired Army Major who served in the U.S.A., South Korea, and Germany; had two company commands; and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Emma’s military expertise with training, education, environmental risk identification and mitigation, and organizational leadership led her to entrepreneurship and community service after retiring from the Army in 2013.
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Emma is the author of Wait, What?!, a nonfiction hybrid of instruction and memoir. Another book will come in time, but in the meantime, she writes our weekly company blog, which is cross-published to Substack. Subscribe to get it as a weekly email.