Our people

Kent Gregoire

Co-Founder and CEO

Kent is the founder of Symphony Advantage and the architect of E-BOS, the regenerative operating system the firm builds with founder-led mid-market CEOs. He is one of the first Certified Conscious Capitalism Consultants in the world and has been providing strategic counsel to founder-CEOs for more than thirty-five years.

Kent has founded or co-founded more than fifteen companies across manufacturing, software, financial services, healthcare benefits, branding, executive services, commercial playground equipment, and accounting. He has raised over $250 million in capital and negotiated successful exits across his own companies and those of his clients. The pattern of building, scaling, and exiting companies is what gave him the practitioner credibility for the work that defines Symphony Advantage today: helping CEOs build companies where every interaction strengthens the organization rather than draining it.

Kent is a published author in the Harvard Business Review, a contributor to Inc. and Forbes, and a speaker who has shared his work at the United Nations, the Entrepreneurs' Organization, FintechSouth, and other venues around the world. He is known to many of his peers as "The CEO to CEOs"™, the person who sits beside them in the hard conversations, the turning points, and the reinventions.

Kent splits time between Back Bay, Boston, and Corinth, Vermont.

Steve Cornwell

Co-Founder and President

Steve is a human resources professional and entrepreneur. Over more than twenty years he has served as founder, president, and CEO of several startups and growing companies, and has directed the selection, hiring, and personal and professional development of thousands of employees. The combination of operating experience and people-systems expertise is what makes his Birkman work and his recruiting work distinct from most consulting in either space.

Steve is a highly skilled certified consultant in The Birkman Method® and holds additional certifications in Living in the Now®, Responsibility Centered Management, DISC, PIAV, TriMetrix, and MBTI®. He has coached executives and senior managers across Fortune 500 firms and privately held enterprises, including past corporate roles at Dollar General Corporation and Hollywood Entertainment, where he managed human resources professionals across a thirty-state area.

Steve leads the Accelerate Team Performance practice at Symphony Advantage, where he supports leadership teams and hiring decisions for companies serious about getting both right. Always putting people first, Steve is a proponent of the stakeholder economy, in which leaders and employees support one another and thrive together.