Barbara has over thirty-four years of experience as an instructor, consultant, and project and program manager in information technology working with many industries. She has extensive skills in the management and delivery of leadership and management training, the deployment of learning interventions and a facilitator in team development and conflict resolution. As an Executive Project Manager and Manager of the Project Manager Leadership Curriculum for IBM, Barbara managed and led the delivery of leadership courses for project managers worldwide. This program exceeded quality and satisfaction rating while enabling thousands of project managers to achieve the skills needed to lead project teams that assist clients in optimizing business results. She was responsible for course quality, instructor qualification, course currency and alignment of course content with strategic business initiatives and delivery of Project Management Certification curriculum courses to audiences worldwide.
Marjorie is a coach to countless corporations and individuals. She’s a published author and keynote speaker. Marj Busse is also a wife of 30 years and a mother of 3 twenty-something children. Everything Marj undertakes in life is pursued with passion, boundless energy and steadfast commitment. Marj offers her clients an expansive breadth of knowledge complemented by impressive qualifications. In fact, she’s achieved the highest possible designation in her field as a Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coach Federation. She is a certified facilitator for various high profile coaching programs, has been on national and regional boards and is a full member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches. Her company, Essential Impact, is a Partner company with Personal Strengths Canada, and as a Personal Strengths Associate herself, Marj seamlessly weaves the SDI into her Executive Coaching.
Keith is a performance development facilitator with over 10 years of training and sales experience. He has demonstrated a proven track record in training program design, development, delivery and management. A highly motivated, knowledgeable educator, Keith supports a variety of functional areas. With an extensive knowledge of the adult experiential learning theory, he has delivered results within Sales, Technical Operations, Customer Service, Finance, Human Resources, Legal and Information Technology departments. He is adept at developing, managing and maintaining company needs analysis. Keith’s specialty is mobilizing and leveraging employees to deliver programs through train-the-trainer initiatives. Keith earned his Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University. He is certified and licensed in Personal Strengths’ complete suite of products and services. He has written numerous training programs and has held diverse positions throughout his career including: President, Director, National Leadership Training Manager, Leadership Trainer, National Sales Trainer, Dealer Manager and Account Executive. Keith resides in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife, Andrea and their two sons. (
Dawn Groves is a management consultant specializing in workflow management, energy management and stress reduction. For Einblau & Associates, she provides communications, energy management, stress reduction and SDI seminars, as well as leadership coaching. She has written several books including Stress Reduction for Busy People: Finding Peace in an Anxious World (New World Library), The Author's Guide to the Internet (Franklin Beedle Associates), and The Web Page Workbook (Franklin, Beedle Associates). Her work is quoted in Professional Excellence, Success, Bottom Line Personal, Prevention and other publications. Ms. Groves has consulted with the government, industry and educational institutions for over 20 years and is a popular presenter and radio personality. (
Judy brings over 25 years of progressive and varied experience in industry, government and consulting environments, and is an accomplished Facilitator, Trainer and Coach in the areas of Leadership Development, Team Building, Change Leadership, Performance Management, and Conflict Resolution strategies. Judy's corporate experience includes a series of progressively senior Human Resource management positions within the Federal Government, Publishing, Petrochemical and Hospitality industries. In a senior HR role with the Canadian head office of a major international hotel chain, Judy held sole responsibility for management of the Employment, Training and Organization Development functions for 10,000 employees across Canada. In previous roles, she held varied positions with responsibility for Corporate Recruitment, Management Training, Organization Effectiveness, and performance-based Coaching. As an independent Consultant, Judy worked for nine years as Principal of her own consulting practice, where she provided performance-based training and coaching services to diverse client companies at all organizational levels, from shop floor to Executive. Later, in her role as a Senior Consultant with a major Human Capital consulting firm, she built her strengths in assessment, training and coaching of leaders, in both public and private sectors, to help them achieve optimum people performance. (
Laura brings over 25 years of consulting experience with a broad range of organizations. Since establishing The Jennings Group over 20 years ago, she has worked
on projects for a broad range of companies and organizations including
engineers, consultants, specialty contractors, laboratories, and
others. She has participated in customer surveys for engineering and
environmental firms, market and business studies in bioremediation,
underground storage tanks, lead abatement, emergency spill response,
and other environmental markets. Other studies have included leadership
development programs in technical services companies, acquisition
practices, and service improvement programs (TQM). She has participated
in the creation of training programs and brings an understanding of
people and organizational interaction to training. Laura Jennings has owned and managed her own executive search firm,
Professional Abatement Recruiters, which specialized in a segment of
the environmental services industry. Her experience prior to The
Jennings Group includes Vice President of Charles H. Bentz Associates,
a national consulting company. Her responsibilities there included
feasibility and strategy studies, organization planning and
development, planning for boards of directors, trouble shooting
projects, and recruiting. She brings special sensitivities and insights
on the people side of successful business organization, strategies, and
growth.
Since establishing The
Jennings Group in 1986, Olin has consulted with a broad range of
companies including engineering firms, environmental services firms,
contractors, training organizations, laboratories, distributors,
manufacturers, and others. As Chairman of The Jennings Group, he has
consulted with well over 100 companies in the engineering and
environmental industries, provided management development and
leadership training to executives from over 250 companies, and provided
market research reports to hundreds of companies. He has published
reports on strategic issues facing these businesses including
weaknesses in implementing strategic plans, leadership development
programs and creating a leadership culture, quality improvement
programs, and other subjects. Other studies included market and
business studies in a wide range of technical service markets. Mr. Jennings brings prior experience as President of a national
environmental services and specialty contracting company and ten years
of business consulting experience with Booz, Allen & Hamilton and
Touche Ross & Co. (Deloitte & Touche), in addition to over 20
years at The Jennings Group. In total, he has consulted with well over
250 companies. In addition, he worked in line and staff positions in
several large, national and international, multi-divisional
corporations with revenues ranging from $125 million to $800 million as
Vice President of Corporate Development, Vice President of Marketing,
and Corporate Director of Market Planning.
Eric Kaufmann draws on over 4000 hours of facilitating
senior executives and teams in established companies to become better
leaders who make better decisions and achieve better results. Eric engages with driven, courageous, and open minded
leaders to enhance their leadership excellence: being strategic and
focused, while maximizing profitability, building community, enhancing
execution, and establishing accountability. Typical client engagements include leadership transition, refocusing
personal and professional strategy, CEO development, succession
management, and interpersonal savvy. During his work, Eric and his clients focus on resolving leadership
uncertainty and ambiguity, navigating the shifting landscape of
workplace politics, and establishing personal and organizational
accountability.
Eric is a Group Chairman for Vistage, the world's leading chief executive organization. He draws on two decades of successful experience in sales and management at 3M/Lanier and Corning Clinical Laboratories. Eric teaches leadership and coaching programs at San Diego State University and Cal State San Marcos. Eric holds a BA in International Business and graduate education in Clinical Psychology. He is an Executive Coach, Certified Management Consultant, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Scuba Diving Instructor. A native of Israel, Eric studied and worked in South Africa before settling in the USA. He brings an insightful, diverse, and global approach to his work; a work which is influenced by 22 years of meditation practice. (Leadership as a Hero’s Journey )
Ray Linder’s mission is helping build winning teams with proven training, consulting, coaching, and counseling programs centered on celebrating individual differences. Ray’s insightful knowledge of personality combined with a passion for people, results in a unique skill to help organizations, teams, and individuals attain the excellence they were designed to achieve. Ray is a Master Facilitator and Account Relationship Manager for Personal Strengths North America, LLC. His work in the area of personality and finance is internationally recognized and he has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies such as the Office of Personnel Management and the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Army and Air Force, the District of Columbia, and major universities. He is author of three books; including What Will I Do With My Money? How Your Personality Affects Your Financial Behavior. Ray has been featured on CNBC and he is a frequent guest on national and regional radio programs. Ray has also appeared in many publications, including USA Today, the Washington Post, Leadership, Focus on the Family, the Boston Herald, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Mutual Funds Magazine, and the Bulletin of Psychological Type. Ray has over 25 years of business experience including corporate finance, investment management, fundraising and development, consulting, sales, pastoral ministry, and small business management. Ray, his wife Christine, and children Diandra and Cassandra, live in Sterling, Virginia. (
Janice has more than 15 years experience with MNEs in computer operations, programming/systems analysis, project management, quality management & training and 8 years experience in facilitating organisation-wide change management, business process re-engineering, project management, quality management, team building, creativity and innovation for government agencies in Singapore. She has several years of experience in supporting a national-scale project involving cross-cultural interactions. She is a Certified Behavioural Consultant for DISC, 7-Habits Facilitator, Qualified SDI Facilitator and an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator. (
Chuck has worked in the chemical industry in various technical, sales and management positions (NL Industries, Freeport-McMoran, and National Starch). In 1986 he joined United Catalysts which was renamed Süd-Chemie in 1997 where he worked as Divisional Manager and then Global Business Unit Manager. In 1997 he moved as an ex-patriot to Süd-Chemie AG - Munich, Germany for six years; he returned to Louisville in 2003 as Group Vice President and in 2005 he became President of Süd-Chemie Inc. and member of the Board of Directors.
In addition to her role with Personal Strengths, USA, Tina provides performance coaching, and is a presenter at international conferences including ASTD and ISPI. Tina has been in the performance development industry for 17 years. She is a Master Trainer of Personal Strengths Publishing’s Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), certified in DISC, and is certified in Situation Management Systems' Positive Power and Influence (PPI) program. During 2008-2009, she was selected as a Mentor Coach to Accomplishment Coaching's year-long Coach Training Program, an ICF-accredited Coaching Program. Tina's training and coaching experience includes: DIESEL, Verizon, Sanyo North America, Solar Turbines, Qualcomm, PECO Energy, The Dial Corp., Taco Bell Corporation, Atlanta Medical Center, and Medtronic. She also facilitates the SDI Qualification Workshops.
Prabu's 19 years of MNE experience (1980-1999) with Philips, AT&T and Compaq spanned diverse functions in Engineering, Materials, Project Management, TQM, HRD, Managing Change and Supply Chain Re-Engineering - these set the foundation for his current ten years of training, facilitation and consulting work in organisational development. He has designed and delivered numerous OD interventions for MNCs, SMEs, Government departments & not-for-profit organisations in Singapore and regionally for MNEs & SMEs. He is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator. (
Cliff is a partner with Associates in Process Improvement (API). API develops methods and provides consulting, education and training to help organizations improve the value of their products and services. He is also an Improvement Advisor with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). With more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing and quality, Cliff began his career at Norris Industries and McDonnell Douglas Corporation. From 1979 – 1986, he facilitated the effort to implement quality improvement throughout Otis Engineering, a division of Halliburton. While at Otis, he served as a manager in manufacturing and held several positions in the quality organization. In 1986, Cliff joined Philip Crosby Associates, where he led the effort to introduce SPC and Statistical Thinking to their educational offering. In 1988, Cliff joined API and moved to Austin, Texas. 
Jane has been the President of Profound Knowledge Products, Inc. since 2001. PKP collaborates with Associates in Process Improvement (API) to develop eLearning courses from private and public published written materials of API. The Learning Management Site can be found at www.pkplearn.com. Using API methods & materials, she provides consulting, education and training world-wide to help organizations improve the value of their products and services. With 30 years of experience in Quality Improvement (manufacturing, food, distribution and healthcare), Jane has been an apprentice and practitioner of API methods since 1989. She began her career at Caterpillar Tractor Inc., a $36 B construction company, with a Natural Science degree from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Starting as a Machinist Apprentice, she held several jobs in Quality Control and later became the Quality Coordinator and Training Manager for two plants. The Davenport Plant won the Worldwide Corporate Quality Award in 1985, 1986 & 1987. In 1987, Jane joined Philip Crosby Associates consulting company and later became the Director of Statistical Methods. In 1990, Jane received her MBA from Rollins College, in Orlando and joined ConAgra, Inc. a $38 B food conglomerate in Arkansas as Director of Statistical Process Control. Jane left ConAgra in 1995 as the Vice President of Quality Management and moved to Texas to join the Conrad Company, a $27 M distributor of DuPont Solid Surfaces as the Vice President of Operations. 
Michael has 19 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. During his career, he has played a number of key roles in sales, marketing, sales management, and training and development. Presently, he is a director of leadership development at Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, a position that allows him to focus on developing the leadership and communication skills of field-based managers. Prior to entering the private sector, Mike was an Army officer serving assignments in West Germany, Arizona, and Indiana.
Betsy
N. Riley works for organizations that wish to tap into their talent
potential as a path toward optimizing their organizational performance
and wishing to stay at the leading edge of their industry. She
collaborates with executives and professionals in designing customized
programs that ensure highly talented men and women focus their
development efforts where it is most crucial, so as to optimize their
effectiveness in achieving their performance goals. Betsy is currently
an Organizational Development Specialist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), where she has worked closely with managers in
designing and implementing a wide range of team interventions,
organizational climate surveys, 360 degree feedback program, and
leadership assessment tools like MBTI, DISC, and SDI. Betsy is also the
project manager for JPL’s Succession Planning program, a strategic
management tool focused on providing targeted individuals with the
necessary guidance and development that ensures they are ready to take
on key assignments critical to the success of the Laboratory. As an
internal organizational coach, she has coached promising managers in
accelerating their leadership performance and getting a competitive
advantage through their talent. Betsy’s responsibilities also include
designing and delivering leadership training for employees of all
levels of which include courses like Time Management and Organizational Skills, Introduction to Management, and Delegation Skills for Managers.
Ram is an experienced product development leader whose experience spans
several industries including machine tools, automotive,
instrumentation, data storage, semiconductor, photo finishing and
inkjet printing. He currently manages the North America Supply Chain
Operations for a line of enterprise inkjet printers and leads several
division-wide transformational improvement programs that deliver
significant business results. As a member of the HP lean sigma core
team, he is actively involved in the development of the HP lean sigma
curriculum and in training and mentoring green and black belts.
Tim
is a frequent speaker at international conferences, chapter events and
workshops on topics such as Feedback Systems, Motivation, Teambuilding,
Leadership, Project Management, Change Management, and Conflict
Management. He works with clients and international distributors to
implement global performance solutions. As a consultant, he specializes
in helping training organizations exceed performance goals and maintain
financial health.
The primary focus of Ron Smedley is to provide businesses with the highest quality learning and growth within the areas of Human Resource Management, Administration & People Development. Ron focuses on the following content areas, looking to instill a harmonious, forward moving work environment, motivating employees and minimizing potential for labor litigation: Human Resource Analysis & Restructuring, Handbook, Policy & Procedure Writing, Labor Law Interpretation, Leadership & Character Growth, Management Education, Learning & Development, Work Groups to Teams, Relationship Awareness, and Conflict Resolution & Problem Solving.
As the Chief Operating Officer for CG Industrial Specialties, Lisa Woods has supported this company’s growth since she started in the early 90’s. Her climb through this organization that was founded in 1980 in Vancouver, BC, Canada has been an asset to all. Her exemplary communication, problem solving and project management skills have all been supported and enhanced by the Executive Coaching process and sustained by the SDI. The original business model had CGIS supplying manual valves, filters and gaskets to the Pulp and Paper industry. They later developed expertise in the Mining, Smelting, Refining, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing industries to become the supplier of the world’s best valves.