Alan Weiss's
Private Roster Mentors

Chad Barr *

email: chad@cbsoftware.com

web site: http://www.cbsoftware.com/

Languages: English, Hebrew

Chad Barr is a unique individual who successfully helps his clients leverage technology to dramatically transform their business and create irresistible attraction. His firms, CB Software Systems and The Chad Barr Group, have attracted organizations that span the globe and include clients in Italy, Germany, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US.

Born in Israel, Chad grew up during a period of tremendous change, growth and innovation for his country. He served in the Israeli Defense Force and then immigrated to the US at the age of 22. Raised in a county of constant international immigration, combined with his US experience, has given Chad a unique worldwide perspective on leveraging the Internet as the great enabler for his global clients. 

Chad devotes much of his time writing, coaching, consulting, speaking, heading his company and pursuing its vision. He has published over 60 articles and is the co-author of the new upcoming book, Web Dreams, with Dr. Alan Weiss.

In 2007 he was one of the first of 20 world-class consultants to be inducted into Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting Hall of Fame. As a business strategist and mentor to others, Chad provides guidance and expertise to business professionals who want to accelerate their path to success.

Chad leverages the Internet and helps create the finest professional communities in the world. His firm, The Chad Barr Group, is recognized as one of the leading Internet development organizations in the world.  

CB Software Systems, Inc.
Tower East
20600 Chagrin Boulevard, Suite 1110
Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122

Tel: 216-991-2277 x 112

Site: www.cbsoftware.com
Blog: www.ChadBarr.com

Robbie Baxter *

email: rbaxter@peninsulastrategies.com

web site: http://peninsulastrategies.com/

Robbie Kellman Baxter is passionate about helping independent consultants dramatically increase their revenues while staying true to their personal objectives.
 
A lifelong resident of Silicon Valley, CA, Robbie has helped dozens of professional services providers including MBAs, Lawyers and Physicians establish thriving consultancies that enjoy consistent growth and profitability.  Robbie’s clients say she has a unique and powerful ability to reframe complex, ambiguous situations and to simplify the decision-making process.  Like Robbie, many of her mentoring clients have advanced degrees from top schools and are used to professional success. They find themselves for the first time off the beaten career path, and come to Robbie for mentoring because of Robbie’s own success in building a prominent and successful consulting practice (http://www.peninsulastrategies.com).  Robbie’s expertise in strategic marketing helps consultants to quickly build a robust client pipeline and strengthen loyalty among existing clients.

Here’s what people are saying about her:

CONTACT INFO:
rbaxter@peninsulastrategies.com
650-322-5655
website: http://www.peninsulastrategies.com
twitter: http://twitter.com/robbiebax
blog:  http://blog.peninsulastrategies.com

Garry Beavis *

email: gbeavis@beavisco.com.au

web site: www.beavisconsultinggroup.com

Garry Beavis is the CEO and owner of Beavis Consulting Group. The business was established by Garry in 1994 and as a solo practitioner he has achieved remarkable growth results over that time.

Garry has over 30 years experience in the Accounting, Taxation and Financial services industries in Australia, in particular the sector of privately owned small to medium sized enterprises. He is a Registered Tax Agent with the Tax Practitioners Board in Australia and is a Fellow Member of the Taxation Institute of Australia. Garry holds a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Western Australia and a Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning).

Garry’s’ focus is not on dealing with historical information for clients but looking and planning ahead to ‘make the future’ for clients. This means he helps business owners and professionals to create, build, direct and drive their businesses. He also works with his clients on the structuring, growing, protecting and maturing their businesses with the ultimate aim of financial independence, security and wealth.

When working with clients Garry is able to accelerate their success by focusing on topics such as value recognition; brand building; client selection; marketing; pricing; proposal creation; product & intellectual property creation and development; time management; business documentation; office processes and systems; building business alliances, creating better life balance, to name just a few.

Garry graduated from the Million Dollar Consulting® College conducted by Dr. Alan Weiss and is one of less than 150 graduates of this College worldwide. Garry is also a Master Mentor, one of less than 30 people globally who have been qualified to this role by Dr. Weiss.

Out of Garry’s involvement with Dr. Weiss he initiated and established an Australian Mastermind Group in 2010 with colleagues involved in the community in Australia. The essence of this group is to explore best practices and innovative ideas and implement them with clients. The group is also a sounding board and accountability partner to fellow solo consultants to assist in the growth and development of their individual businesses.

In addition to this domestic network, which includes colleagues in each state in Australia, Garry is part of a powerful global network with colleagues in England, Ireland, Canada, United States of America and New Zealand.

Garry resides in Perth, Western Australia and has a keen interest in sports, basketball and Australian Rules football in particular, and has a passion for travel.

Shawn Casemore

email: shawn@casemoreandco.com

web site: www.casemoreandco.com

Known as the Operational Optimizer, Shawn has spent nearly twenty years in the corporate world managing teams and advising leaders in global organizations including Magna International, N.C.R, and Bruce Power. In 2010 Shawn launched his solo consulting practice under the guidance of Alan Weiss. In the time since, Shawn has helped over a dozen clients and experienced dramatic business growth.

Shawn recognized the value of building his practice appropriately from the ground up, and after reading Million Dollar Consulting®, began working with Alan in 2010, first as a mentoree within his community, then transitioning to working directly with Alan following graduation from the Million Dollar Consulting® college.

“Transitioning from working with Fortune 500 companies to my solo practice has allowed me to work directly with business owners and advisors, helping them to take their businesses and those of their clients to new levels,” Casemore notes.

With a diverse background in business, an ability to build strong and lasting relationships, and the knowledge and support of Alan and his community, Shawn is uniquely positioned to help those transitioning into consulting with preparing and launching their business; as well as bringing a fresh perspective to those who are seeking new and exponential growth.

Shawn Casemore, President, Casemore and Co, Ontario, Canada.
www.casemoreandco.com
(519) 470-7697

Bill Corbett *

email: bill@corbettbusinessconsulting.com

web site: www.corbettbusinessconsulting.com

Bill Corbett is the Thought Leader in the alcohol and drug treatment field, a Master Mentor, a trusted advisor, consultant, coach, business turnaround expert, and serial entrepreneur.

He has over 40 years of business experience including:

Partnering with successful addiction treatment centers, reducing their scholarships and discounts from 20% of gross revenues to under 5%, dramatically increased the conversion rate of admission calls, rapidly reduced A-typical discharges, completely changed the companies from people dependent to system dependent, and created Inside-Champions that allowed the businesses to practically run themselves. He helps create dramatic increases in revenue and earned income to help more alcoholic/addict clients.

He is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC) and was awarded board approval as a “Trusted Advisor to CEOs and Top Executives in the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Industry” for outstanding performance in improving the organizations revenue, retention, referrals and best practices, resulting in a much improved client recovery rate.

He is a member of the Association for Addiction Professionals, and a member of the National Association of Treatment providers (NAATP). He has graduated from Alan Weiss’s Million-Dollar Consulting College®, a rare achievement in the consulting profession. He is one of fewer than 150 graduates globally. Admission to and graduation from the college is difficult and widely sought, he was inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame in January 2010, in which there are only 30 Hall of Fame members worldwide.

He is a Master Mentor, chosen and trained by Dr. Alan Weiss, the global leading authority in consulting. There are less than three dozen Master Mentors globally.

His three year stint in the United States Marine Corps and 13 months in Viet Nam contributes to his “can-do” attitude and his gratitude for a life well lived – with a little time out for bad behavior.

He says that he got his undergraduate degree in “Life 101” through his experience as a practicing alcoholic. Of the hundreds of men and women with whom Bill has had the honor of working, 80 – 85% have recovered from their alcohol or drug dependencies by reconstructing their lives in powerful ways. He was a volunteer facilitator at an alcohol and drug outpatient treatment center, facilitating men's groups and couples groups.

He loves boxing but never learned to love the getting hit part, so he doesn’t spar anymore. He took up boxing at age 58. His boxing coach said he thought Bill could be champ in “The Fossil Division.” Bill decided not to pursue that opportunity.

Contact information
Corbett Business Consulting, LLC. Direct dial: 970-481-5976
Office number: 970-667-7876
E-mail: bill@corbettbusinessconsulting.com
Web site: www.corbettbusinessconsulting.com
Fax: 970-284-8075
Mailing address: 325 E. 7th St., Suite H, Loveland, Colorado 80537

Stuart Cross *

email: stuart@morgancross.co.uk

web site: http://www.morgancross.co.uk/

When I started my consulting business in 2006 I was looking forward to helping UK businesses dramatically accelerate their profit growth. Following three months without any sales I quickly realised, however, that the consulting business really is the marketing business!

Consequently, Alan Weiss has been my mentor since 2007 and has helped me transform and continuously improve my marketing approach, my ability to work constructively with clients and my capacity to work a lot smarter (rather than harder).

My consulting, coaching and speaking clients now include some of the world's leading companies such as Avon Cosmetics, PricewaterhouseCoopers and GroupeAeroplan, major UK corporations including Alliance Boots and Dunelm Group plc, and ambitious, successful and growing medium-sized businesses.

Here’s what a couple of clients have said about me:

"If you really want to get some breakthrough thinking into your business then Stuart's the guy to contact." Simon McCandlish, Director of Pharmacy and Healthcare, Boots the Chemists

"It's great to work with a consultant who not only understands and meets our business needs, but who can also tailor their approach to the dynamics of a particular team and organisation." Ian Filby, CEO, GroupeAeroplan Europe

Having been inducted into Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting Hall Of Fame in 2008 and approved as a Master Mentor in 2010, I now want to help other consultantsimprove both their business and their life. In particular, I look forward to providing you with pragmatic and constructive support to:

• Attract high quality clients;
• Grow top-line sales;
• Become a recognised leader in your field;
• Work more effectively and efficiently; and
• Enjoy your life more.

Before launching my consulting career I led the strategy team at Boots the Chemists, the leading UK retailer. I am also a chartered accountant – although I don’t usually disclose this on a 'first date' – and have an MBA from Warwick Business School.

I have worked in large corporate organisations and understand the personal changes required to make an independent consulting business successful. I know that by signing up to this program you will see a great return on your investment, both directly with your mentor and by your introduction to the thriving, dynamic and mutually-reinforcing community of other independent consultants and entrepreneurs that is led by Alan Weiss.

Mark Faust

email: Faust@EchelonManagement.com

web site: www.echelonmanagement.com

Mark Faust - growth and turnaround consultant, syndicated writer, professional speaker and executive coach to owners and CEO’s. Author of Growth or Bust! Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow Your Business. 

Since 1990 has run Echelon Management International a growth and turnaround consultancy which works with both leaders of successfully growing companies who want to raise the bar as well as companies in turnaround. 

Mark has worked with many Fortune 500 CEO’s and turn around CEOs. His client companies have included P&G, IBM, Monsanto, Apple, Syngenta, Bayer, John Deere as well as many smaller closely held organizations, government agencies and even non profits. 

Mark has been an adjunct COO and has sat on many company boards. Mark has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio University and speaks around the world on how leaders can accelerate growth.

513.621.8000
8044 Montgomery Road
The Centennial Suite 260
Cincinnati, Ohio 45236

David Fields *

email: david.fields@ascendantconsulting.com

web site: http://ascendantconsulting.com/indexbottle.htm

language: English

My passion is helping other independent professionals grow, either by teaching them to close more projects for higher fees or by selling projects for them. In fact, because I run a consortium of almost 30 small consultancies, my business is selling other consultants’ services. Every day I'm on the phone with CEOs, Chairmen, and company Presidents closing major consulting contracts for small consulting groups like yours.

Now, many of the consultants who have sat by my side for years while I closed millions of dollars of projects for them have signed up to be mentored by me. Here is the type of feedback they give:

Mark Frobose

email: mfrobose@cs.com

web site: http://www.frobose.com/

Mark Frobose is the bestselling foreign language author of over 60 titles including the internationally acclaimed 'Behind the Wheel®' language series which he created and authored. Mark is the nation's only living creator of a successful major language method and major language audio line which is now owned and published by Macmillan Audio of New York.

Mark appears regularly in national media as a language expert and was recently interviewed by Dennis Miller on the 'Dennis Miller Show' before and audience of over a million and a half listeners. An article about Mark's amazing rags-to-riches success story was just featured in Entrepreneur Magazine. Mark was also recently quoted as an international language and culture expert by MSNBC's ''The Well Mannered Traveler'.

In addition to the above, Mark has also appeared live as the USA’s Number #1 language expert with Linn Brown on Fox 5 TV’s ‘Good Day New York’ .

Last and certainly not least, Mark's popular and innovative 'Behind the Wheel®' language method was given rave reviews in Men’s Health Magazine who rated Mark’s approach and language programs a ‘great value’ when compared to Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur!

Lynn Garbers

email: lynnga01@gmail.com

web site: http://www.eagleachievements.com/

Lynn Garbers, president of Eagle Achievements knows how to get the best out of people. According to her clients, Lynn’s creative and supportive approach yields amazing results.  Anyone who works with her experiences positive change that surpasses their own expectations. Her presence invites individuals and groups to challenge their thinking and behavior creating long-lasting results. Whether you are a leader, a senior manager, or a group who wants to be a team, working with Lynn will be transformational.

Linda Henman

email: Ldhenman@aol.com

web site: http://www.henmanperformancegroup.com/

For more than 30 years, Linda Henman has helped executives in military organizations, small businesses, and Fortune 500 Companies define their direction and select the best people to put their strategies in motion. She has helped clients in the retail, financial services, food, medical, hospitality, manufacturing, and technology industries. Some of her major clients include Tyson Foods, Emerson Electric, Kraft Foods, Boeing Aircraft, Estee Lauder, and Merrill Lynch. She was one of eight experts chosen to work directly with John Tyson on his succession plan after his company’s acquisition of International Beef Products. Through thousands of hours of coaching with hundreds of corporate clients, Linda has observed what it takes to move from middle manager to magnetic executive.

Dr. Henman holds a Ph.D. in organizational systems, two Master of Arts degrees in both interpersonal communication and organization development, and a Bachelor of Science degree in communication. By combining her experience as an organizational consultant with her education in business, she offers her clients selection, coaching, and consulting solutions that are pragmatic in their approach and sound in their foundation.

Betsy Jordyn *

email: betsy@acceleraconsultinggroup.com

web site: http://www.acceleraconsultinggroup.com/

With over a decade of success in igniting the potential of organizations and leaders, Betsy Jordyn joins an elite team of a select few people worldwide who are certified by Alan Weiss to provide Mentor Mastery SM services.  This program showcases Betsy’s strongest value-added attributes. 

Throughout her career, growth-oriented senior leaders and entrepreneurs have considered her the ultimate think partner – she is known for her ability to draw out the hidden potential in leaders and organizations and catalyze strengths for maximum performance.  Betsy’s expertise in leadership, strategy, organization redesign, inter-departmental coordination, and executive team development has helped numerous organizations create environments where there is alignment between desired and actualized results.

Betsy founded Accelera Consulting Group in 2006 after working as an internal consultant for Walt Disney World.  In that role, Betsy was instrumental in the success of significant business growth projects, such as a total redefinition the guest/cast experience worldwide and a refocus of Disney Animal Kingdom towards becoming a more traditional Disney theme park and “not a zoo.”   The experience and wisdom she gained from initiating and managing change in such a large and diverse organization with multiple business units and objectives ensures that Betsy’s recommendations are tailored, focused, practical, and implementable.

As an independent consultant, Betsy has helped accelerate results of numerous organizations in a variety of industries including nonprofits, local government, manufacturing, supply chain and publishing.  As a coach and mentor, Betsy has improved the effectiveness and personal satisfaction of dozens of some of the most amazing leaders and entrepreneurs. 

Betsy’s formal education and ongoing professional development augments her expertise and ability to coach and mentor.  She received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Indiana University as well as a Master’s degree in Human Resources/Organization Development from Rollins College.  She holds a certification in coaching from the American Association of Christian Counselors.  In addition, she is a graduate of Alan Weiss’ Million Dollar Consulting® College

One of Betsy’s main goals in starting Accelera Consulting Group was to create an organization that fosters her values for living an integrated life that encompasses her family, a rich network of friends, time for personal and spiritual development, and opportunities to give back to the Orlando community where she lives.

 (407) 376-8522
betsy@acceleraconsultinggroup.com

Seth Kahan *

email: seth@sethkahan.com

web site: http://www.visionaryleadership.com/

Seth's specialties are working with leaders, change management, communications, and marketing.  After 13 years at the World Bank, he went independent in 2002. He has worked one-on-one with the president of the World Bank, director of the Peace Corps, director of the National Institute on Aging, senior managers at Royal Dutch Shell, Prudential, Project Management Institute, over 20 other CEOs, and several executive assemblies. He regularly puts on CEO-only education events in his home town of Washington, DC.  He also presents keynotes at 15-30 conferences per year.

Seth is a member of Alan Weiss' Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame and has been named a Thought-leader and Exemplar in Change Leadership by the Society for Advancement of Consulting®.

Seth writes for Fast Company (SethFast.com) and the Washington Post (SethPost.com). He publishes FreelanceFortune.com to help independent consultants succeed in the marketplace.  His most recent book is Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out. His website is VisionaryLeadership.com.

Kathy Kingston

email: kathy@kingstonauction.com

web site: kingstonauction.com

Kathy is the Thought Leader in fundraising and charity auctions. She has raised millions of dollars for non-profit organizations across the country for over 25 years.

A hallmark of Kathy’s work is her cutting-edge consulting, mentoring programs and innovative seminars, empowering her clients to catapult fundraising and to ignite generosity among supporters. As a professional auctioneer and consultant, she consistently empowers her clients to exceed their fundraising goals and offers a wealth of practical strategies for revenue enhancement.

She is a Master Mentor, chosen and trained by Dr. Alan Weiss, the global leading authority in consulting. There are less than three dozen Master Mentors globally. As a strategist and performance coach, she consults with nonprofit executives, boards of directors, entrepreneurs, and auctioneers and conducts innovative seminars, tele-seminars and custom workshops throughout the country.

Ms. Kingston is featured in a one-hour television documentary about Benefit Auctions on the Auction Network. Over more than three decades, Kathy has captivated audiences - whether raising money, delivering motivational presentations, creating marketing campaigns or performing as an emcee or professional benefit auctioneer. She is the author of “Record-Breaking Fundraising Auctions Tips” and writes and speaks extensively on how to achieve breakthrough success in any economy.

The following accolades highlighted how well regarded Kathy is in her field. She has won many awards including being named “Woman of the Year” at St. Louis University, where she earned her Masters Degree in Eduction. In 2006, Ms. Kingston won the prestigious Rose Award, given by the National Auctioneers Association. Kathy has served as member of the Public Relations Committee and President’s Advisory Council Think Tank of the National Auctioneers Association. Kathy chairs the National Auctioneers Association Benefit Auction Allied Partners Committee that focuses on building relationships between the NAA and related organizations who serve non profits. Ms. Kingston served on the National Board of Directors for the United States Association for Blind Athletes (USABA) from 1986-1988. She also was the Executive Director and host of the USABA National Games in 1986 at St. Louis University, where she was awarded the Helen Copeland Leadership Award.

By consulting on a wealth of practical strategies, Ms. Kingston not only maximizes your fundraising and business growth efforts, she helps build upon prior success for years to come. Her unique professional experience in business, entertainment, university volleyball coaching, public service administration, nonprofits and education has shaped the way she consults with clients, inspires audiences, and achieves breakthrough results time and time again.

Kathy loves sea kayaking, wilderness travel and is a watercolor artist.

Here’s what a few clients had to say:

Contact information
Kathy Kingston Direct dial: 603-235-1196
Office number: 603-926-1919
E-mail: kathy@kingstonauction.com
Web site: http://www.kingstonauction.com
Fax: 603-926-4488
Mailing address: 27 Hampton Towne Estates, Hampton, NH 03842

Bill Lee

email: bill@customerstrategygroup.com

web site: customerstrategygroup.com

Bill Lee helps clients reinvent customer relationships and achieve dramatic growth through the creation of engaged, passionate customer communities. He has pioneered the concept that customer relationships constitute the most important off balance sheet assets in companies large and small, public and private.

For the last six years, Bill has himself built vibrant communities of customer engagement professionals. His community efforts include industry leading conferences on customer engagement, such as the Summit on Customer Engagement, Customer Reference Forum, Summit on Customer Communities, and CAB Exchange Summit. These conferences attract many of the world’s leading global firms, such as Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Dell, EMC, SAP, Red Hat, Wells Fargo, salesforce.com, SAS Institute, AmericourceBergen ($70b health services), AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, and many others.

In addition to its widely respected conferences, Customer Strategy Group provides workshops, consulting, research and other educational and community building services to clients.

Bill is the author of the forthcoming book, The Hidden Wealth of Customers (Harvard Business School Press).He is also author of Mavericks in the Workplace: Harnessing the Genius of American Workers (Oxford University Press), of which Training Magazine said, “Just when you think that management books have grown hopelessly stale and repetitious, along comes a guy like Bill Lee to restore your faith.”

A former teaching fellow at Stanford University, Bill was a law clerk for a Federal judge in Washington, DC, worked with a team that formulated presidential campaign positions on sensitive legal and policy issues, and as an official in the Department of Defense, gained insight into what it takes to move the largest, most complex organization in the world. He has also served as a vice president of a prominent Dallas-based construction firm and controller at a major recreational boat manufacturer. Bill has written for a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Executive Excellence and others.

Pat Lynch *

email: pat@businessalignmentstrategies.com

web site: http://businessalignmentstrategies.com/

Dr. Pat Lynch helps clients optimize business results by aligning people, programs, and processes with organizational goals. She is President of Business Alignment Strategies, Inc., a management consulting firm in Long Beach, California. Her specialties include productivity improvement, strategy, and employee relations. Pat has a special affinity for public sector organizations, though her clients include those in the private and non-profit sectors as well.

As the second of five kids and the one in charge of creating order from chaos, Pat got an early start in applying practical and effective management skills. Hours spent piecing together jigsaw puzzles taught her the key to success in any endeavor: knowing in advance what the final picture is supposed to look like. From her grandfather’s involvement in union organizing and her father’s negotiating experience on behalf of management, she learned there are at least two sides to every story – and that the story tellers really can get along personally even when they disagree professionally.

Pat’s persuasion, influencing, and negotiating skills were honed during the years she engaged in her avocation as a community organizer. She also learned how to hold people accountable, measure progress toward goals, and use confrontation as a way to effect positive change. Concurrently, her “paying job” in the Finance and Treasury divisions of FedEx enmeshed her in a culture where the slogan “People, Service, Profit” accurately described how the company did business, leading her to conclude that all companies focus on their employees. The fact that they do not is why her consulting business continues to flourish.

As a social worker in Memphis, Pat learned that although bureaucracy can crush dreams and lower expectations, the human spirit still can rise above assumptions that somehow people are damaged. A New Englander transplanted to the South, she grew to appreciate differences between cultures, realizing that we’re all human beings, whether it takes us one syllable or two to say “ma’am.”

Pat’s work as an arbitrator and a mediator highlight the need for fairness and sharpen her communication skills. Her experience in state and local politics taught her how to forge consensus when total agreement is not possible, to listen closely to people’s stories, and that one or a few people truly can make a difference.

As a university professor, Pat discovered that people of all ages fail to reach their potential because they don’t understand they are capable of enormous achievements. That realization has fueled her passion for helping people recognize and step into their greatness.

Pat earned a B.A. in Sociology, an MBA in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Personnel and Employment Relations (human resources, labor relations, organizational behavior). A graduate of Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting® College and the Million Dollar Consulting® Graduate School, Pat was inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame in 2009.

One little-known fact about Pat is that as of 2010 she has walked seven marathons to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Click here to contact Pat.

Nancy MacKay

email: nancy@mackayandassociates.ca

web site: http://mackayandassociates.ca/

Dr. Nancy MacKay is President and co-founder of MacKay & Associates. For over 15 years, she has been helping organizations improve individual and organizational performance.

Nancy coaches and facilitates 8 CEO networks comprised of 100 CEOs. In addition, she operates forums for Senior Executives involving 50 executives.

Nancy is the co-author of the book “The Talent Advantage” by Wiley Publishing and continues to be an invited speaker to many groups and conferences. She has addressed thousands of people across Canada, the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom and throughout Australasia.

She has been a professor and taught in the business faculty of several universities including the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Waterloo and Lincoln University in New Zealand. She has lectured to hundreds of MBA and Executive MBA students.

Nancy is a certified executive coach and has coached CEOs and senior executives in companies around the world. Her firm has attracted clients such as Finning International, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Business Objects, Teekay Shipping, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, RBC Royal Bank, Winners and many other leading organizations. She has received numerous awards, including being named a World Class Consultant by an international group of her peers. In 2008, she was named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Nancy also serves on the Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University.

Nancy is a well known member of the Vancouver business community and is a member of the prestigious Vancouver Club. She holds a masters degree in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D in Business from Canterbury University in New Zealand. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles that have been published in international research journals as well as being featured in many popular business publications.

Nancy MacKay PhD  Consultant, CEO coach, speaker
MacKay&Associates
#319-1641 Lonsdale Ave  North Vancouver  BC  Canada  V7M 2J5
TEL 604 329 4998 FAX 604 904 9802 WEB mackayandassociates.ca
nancy@mackayandassociates.ca
www.mackayandassociates.ca
Co-author of The Talent Advantage by Wiley (with Dr. Alan Weiss)

Wayne McKinnon*

email: Wayne@waynemckinnon.com

web site: http://www.waynemckinnon.com/

language: English

In 1981, Wayne worked assembling particle detectors used in nuclear physics research to discover the first evidence of Quarks.

In 1985, Wayne had moved up the technology ladder to designing data acquisition systems for automotive alternate resource fuel studies, and then on to designing computer networks and rolling out infrastructure, and other IT services for organizations such as United Parcel Service, Pacific Bell, the National Institutes of Health, Transport Canada, the US Navy, Canadian Department of National Defense, RBC Dominion Securities, Fastlane Technologies, and Nortel Networks, as well as other organizations in Canada, the US, and Europe.

By 1994, he had managed the consulting branch of a system integration company, was one of the two founding members of a software startup company that developed the first database-driven web server services, coined the term, “ITcoach,” and had launched ITcoach.com, a firm specializing in providing a synthesis between technology and business outcomes. He has authored two books in three languages.

Wayne has trademarked the term, “You Can’t Think with Your Tool Belt On℠ ,” and publishes a fantastic newsletter of the same name. Over the last 15 years, Wayne has coached technologists and mentored technical teams to move to work of exceedingly higher value.

Drawing from his equal time in the technical trenches and around the board room table, Wayne consults with organizations whose people are too close to the technology, as well as with individuals who recognize that their close up view of their technical expertise is holding them back, and recognize that Wayne can help them move forward quickly.

It is one thing to have naturally-aspirated power driving your business, but who would not want the added turbo boost that a mentor can provide? In 2000, Wayne jumped on the opportunity to hire Alan Weiss as his own personal turbo charger to supplement his personal experience.

In 2010, Alan recognizes Wayne as one of the best mentors for boosting the business of other technical consultants.

Rob Nixon

email: rob@robnixon.com

web site: http://robnixon.com/

In 1987 Rob Nixon subscribed to his first ‘Business Development’ program and read his first ‘Personal Development’ book “Think & Grow Rich”. Since then, he has read over 300 business and personal development books. He has also absorbed countless articles, tapes, CDs, DVDs, manuals and seminars. And his journey is far from over.

As his current coachingclub™ clients, 10X entrepreneurs and accountants will tell you, Nixon is very action-oriented and fiercely committed to anything he does including ensuring that all his clients produce outstanding business results. 

In 1993 (after a number of sales and marketing roles) Nixon started presenting seminars where he discovered accountants and his passion for the ‘Products of the Mind’ industry (aka Intellectual Property). Since then he has immersed himself in assisting the Accounting profession.

He has extensively researched how accountants run their businesses in five countries. He has developed and co-developed software and training products and programs for the profession. He has been heavily involved in three businesses, most notably ‘Results Accountants Systems’, that provided business development products and training to accounting firms on three continents, and ‘Business Fitness’ a software provider for the industry co-founded by Nixon in 2001, now serving some 400 accounting firms across Australia and New Zealand. He even spent nine months in an accounting firm to see how it worked – or did not!

As a General Manager, he personally turned around a service-based business from a $340,000 loss to a $2.5 million profit in 15 months (doubling revenues at the same time).

Nixon is also the original creator of ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Accounting Profession Report’, a report outlining the state of play and benchmarking of firms within the Australian and New Zealand accounting profession. This body of work which, is now owned by Business Fitness, gave Nixon first-hand knowledge of the opportunities and challenges faced by accounting firms. 

Since selling his interest in Business Fitness in 2005, Nixon has developed  the robnixon™ coachingclub™ model and now, with a team of Coaches on-board, is making a significant impact on the profitability and growth of over 140 accounting firms (and growing), their business clients and entire communities. 

Nixon sees the accounting profession as the primary ‘trusted adviser’ to the business community and has a personal mission to help accountants be more proactive with their clients. 

It has been Nixon’s own success in offering the coachingclub™ program in his business that has been the inspiration for 10X Limited and the leverage Nixon’s model offers accounting firms. 

Nixon sees 10X as the fulfilment of a vision: to provide a vehicle for accountants to better leverage their time, increase profitability and make a difference in their local business community so they once again are returned to the status of ‘trusted adviser’. He is also the creator of the 10XCoaching Club™ - the core business offering of 10X Limited.

David Nour *

email: dnour@nourgroup.com

web site: http://www.relationshipeconomics.net/

David Nour – CEO, The Nour Group, Inc.
Senior Management Advisor | International Speaker | Best Selling Author

David Nour is the thought leader on Relationship Economics® - the quantifiable value of business relationships.  In a global economy that is becoming increasingly disconnected, The Nour Group, Inc. has attracted consulting clients such as KPMG, Siemens, Disney, Alvarez & Marsal, Assurant, HP, and over 100 marquee organizations in driving unprecedented growth through unique return on their strategic relationships.  David has pioneered the phenomenon that relationships are the greatest off balance sheet asset any organizations possesses, large and small, public and private.

He annually delivers 50 keynotes at leading industry association conferences, corporate, and academic forums.  He is often a guest lecturer at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and Georgia Tech’s College of Management. He is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), American Management Association (AMA), Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF).

David’s unique perspective and independent insights on Relationship Economics® have been featured in a variety of prominent blogs and publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Association Now, Entrepreneur and Success magazine.  He is the author of several books including the best selling Relationship Economics (Wiley), ConnectAbility (McGraw-Hill), The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Raising Capital (Praeger) and the Social Networking Technology Best Practices Series.  He is a contributor to The Social Media Bible (Wiley) and is currently writing his forthcoming book Listen Louder – the power & promise of a socially enabled enterprise.

An Eagle Scout himself, David is passionate about youth with his foundation’s support of the Centennial Scouting movement, Junior Achievement, One Voice – aiming to create peace in the Middle East, and the High Tech Ministries.

A native of Iran, David came to the U.S. with a suitcase, $100, limited family ties and no fluency in English!  He earned an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and a BA degree in Management from Georgia State University. 

Ed Poll

email: edpoll@lawbiz.com

web site: http://lawbiz.com/

Edward Poll, J.D., M.B.A., CMC, has dedicated his career to helping others win. With over four decades of professional experience, Ed’s extensive background in business and law have made him one of the nation’s most sought-after experts in law practice management. Ed regularly shares his insights with attorneys across the United States by coaching, consulting, presenting popular workshops, creating practical DVDs and CDs and by contributing to several legal publications throughout the country.

A native of Chicago, IL, Ed attended UCLA School of Law, graduating in 1965. Upon graduation, he served as V.P. and General Counsel for the family business, Fairfax Food Corporation, where he was responsible for a growth rate in excess of 10% per year and rearranging its bank credit line that enabled the company to double its farm produce intake. He went to USC in 1971 for his M.B.A. Ed practiced law for 25 years as in-house counsel, government prosecutor, sole practitioner, and partner in a small law firm. He was also the chief operating office for a mid-size law firm in the greater Los Angeles region.

Since 1990, Ed has owned and operated LawBiz® Management, a Venice, CA-based firm that collaborates with lawyers to increase their revenue and net profits, and reduce their stress. He coaches and consults attorneys throughout the country in the areas of starting and operating a law practice, strategic planning, profitability analysis, and practice development.

He has been called as an expert witness in law firm management in the Trial Court of the State Bar of California, and appointed as a Trustee of law firms convicted of disciplinary violations. He currently facilitates Managing Partners Roundtables consisting of some of the largest law firms in the country.

Apart from maintaining his popular blog, www.LawBizBlog.com and creating www.lawbizforum.com, Ed is a syndicated columnist and regular contributor for Lawyers Weekly, Law Practice Today (ABA), Canadian Bar Association, California Lawyer, The Bottom Line (State Bar of California), and other renowned publications.

Ed has authored and produced an entire catalogue of books and practical guides concerning The Business of Law®. His most recent book, Growing Your Practice in Tough Times (West Pub. Co. 2010), responds to the concerns lawyers face following the financial crisis of 2008-2010. His other books include The Profitable Law Office Handbook (1996), Attorney & Law Firm Guide to The Business of Law, 2nd ed. (ABA 2002), Collecting Your Fee: Getting Paid from Intake to Invoice (ABA 2003), and Business Competency for Lawyers (2006).

Ed is a Fellow, College of Law Practice Management®, Board Certified Coach to the Legal Profession, SAC®, and a charter member of the Million Dollar Consulting® Hall of Fame. He and his wife Paula reside in Venice, CA. In their spare time, they like to travel in their restored Airstream trailer. Ed is also an avid cyclist and enjoys riding alongside Bandit, his rescued Boxer.

Contact information:
Edward Poll, J.D., M.B.A., CMC
Principal, LawBiz Management Co.
421 Howland Canal
Venice, CA 90291
T: 800.837.5880
F: 310.578.1769

Linda Popky

email: linda@popky.com

web site: http://www.leverage2market.com/

Linda Popky is passionate about working with individuals and organizations to produce powerful marketing results that transform their businesses.

As the president of SiliconValley-based Leverage2Market Associates, Linda has used her ability to deliver outstanding performance from marketing investments to guide a wide variety of clients—from consultants, small businesses and non-profit associations, to mid-sized companies and large Fortune 500 enterprises.

Throughout her career as a corporate executive and a consultant, Linda has been called on to coach and mentor others.

During her tenure as president of Women in Consulting (WIC), a collaborative community of nearly 500 consultants, the organization launched a mentoring program that paired consultants looking for direction with more senior consultants in a safe but dynamic environment. Linda has also advised numerous small business owners and entrepreneurs, and has worked with both the Astia business incubator and Clean Tech Open.

Linda coaches and mentors clients on general issues relating to starting, growing, or re-launching a consulting business, She’s also worked with mentorees on specific marketing-related issues and opportunities, role-played client situations with consultants, and helped consultants determine which new markets to go after and how to address them.

Her dedication to developing marketing professionals is reflected in her role as program advisor and educator at San Francisco State University’s College of Extended Learning, and the University of California Santa Cruz Extension in Silicon Valley. She is also an adjunct instructor in West Virginia University’s online Master’s in Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) program.

In recognition of her leadership in the consulting profession, in 2009 Linda was named one of the top women of influence in Silicon Valley and inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant ® Hall of Fame. She was the first marketing expert to be certified in the Private RosterTM Mentor program.  

In demand as a speaker for presentations and workshops for corporate, non-profit and professional associations, Linda’s been quoted in Business Week, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, and other publications. She’s the author of workbooks on Marketing Your Career and Promoting Your Non-Profit,  the host of the Marketing Thought Leadership podcast series, as well as founder and host of the Northern CA BMA’s Marketing Strategy Roundtable series. She’s currently writing the book Marketing Above the Fray: Dynamic Strategies to Propel Your Business to Market Leadership in Today’s Crowded World.

Linda interest in performance is not limited to marketing: She has a long standing passion for playing piano, particularly classical music. For the last 20 years, she and her family have shared their San Francisco Bay Area home with a small pack of Siberian Huskies.

Guido Quelle *

email: guido.quelle@mandat.de

web site: http://mandat.de

Dr. Guido Quelle, “The Growth Driver,” is one of the rare people worldwide who focuses on creating profitable and sustainable growth as an entrepreneur, consultant, author and speaker for more than 20 years. His clients are active CEOs, general managers, senior executives, and entrepreneurs who are committed to consistent growth. With his consulting firm, Mandat GmbH of Dortmund, Germany, he successfully conducted more than 300 projects with 100+ renowned private and listed companies. His client list includes multinationals such as British-American Tobacco, Deutsche Post World Net, European Dental Partners, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, and Erasmus University at Rotterdam as well as medium-sized companies. More than 5,000 people were involved just in those projects that he himself managed. Dr. Quelle is always in demand when companies are seeking the support that will enable them to continue on a course of sustained profitable growth.

Dr. Quelle is the author and co-author of more than 70 professional articles, six partly European studies, two university course texts and three books. His latest book “Plan Lead Grow – Systematic Approaches to Success” was internationally published in November 2009. Dr. Quelle brought the interview series “To the Point” into being: In the interviews he serves as moderator while two opponents discuss an economically relevant topic. Numerous interviews with Dr. Quelle and reports on Mandat projects and studies provide information about the results of the work performed by Mandat.

Dr. Quelle has a master’s degree in information science and received his doctor’s degree in engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund with a thesis on market segment strategies in commercial enterprises. The University for Logistics and Business Administration at Hamm, Germany, has appointed Quelle as a lecturer for the subjects of Self Management and Leadership.

Dr. Quelle serves as a member and member of the Board in several associations. Through his work on the board of management and as president, Dr. Quelle was instrumental in shaping the skills of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Dortmund for a period of five years, which earned him the Golden Juniors Pin of the German Junior Chamber. The educational initiative known as “JOBfit,” which still gives more than 3,000 prospective young trainees the basic training needed to prepare them for the future each year, was launched under his direction. In his honorary post as a commercial judge, Dr. Quelle uses the opportunity to support society over and above his professional career.

Dr. Quelle was awarded the internationally acclaimed title of “Certified Management Consul­tant,” which is associated with high standards and which is granted to just a very small percentage of all international management consultants in the name of the International Council of Management Consultants Institute (ICMCI). He is member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany (AmCham) and member of the German Speakers Association. As the first European member, Dr. Quelle was appointed to the “Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame” by internationally renowned consultant Dr. Alan Weiss in 2008. Dr. Quelle is founding member of “The Strategy Masterminds,” a small but choice international network of independent strategy consultants and he is the only European member of the Million Dollar Club, a network of some of the most successful consultants worldwide.

Dr. Quelle’s consulting activities have contributed greatly to the fact that Andreae-Noris Zahn AG, one of the TOP 100 German and TOP 500 European companies was awarded both the German and the European Logistics Award in a single year, which was a significant milestone also for Mandat.

His travels, consulting work, studies, speeches and lectures have so far taken Dr. Quelle to 21 other countries. He lives in Dortmund together with his wife and their two Leonberger dogs.

Contact information:
Dr. Guido Quelle Phone: +49 231 97 42 392
Managing Partner Fax: +49 231 97 42 389
Mandat Consulting Group (Mandat GmbH)
Emil-Figge-Strasse 80 guido.quelle@mandat-group.com
D-44227 Dortmund http://www.mandat-group.com

Michelle Randall

email: michelle@enrichingleadership.com

web site:enrichingleadership.com/

A management consultant, speaker, and author, Michelle Randall is a leading expert on culturally agile leadership. Michelle’s clients include executives and their teams at Global Fortune 500, high-potential companies, and non-profits, as well as members of the U.S. House of Representatives and other legislative leaders throughout the United States.

Go-to Expert

Michelle is the author of the upcoming book, Culturally Agile Leadership: Cultural Agility as the Key Leadership Dimension. She is regularly quoted in major business publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report and is one of the most-read expert bloggers for Fast Company Magazine. She is the co-author of two books, Visionary Women Inspiring the World: 12 Paths to Personal Power and Leading Without Compromising Yourself: Unleashing Personal and Professional Mastery in the Political Arena. She has contributed a chapter to the book, One Minute Teams which is being released in Late Spring 2011.

Her next book is Cultural Profit: Leveraging cultural agility for profitable growth.

International experience

Michelle’s global approach comes from a lifetime of international experience. In her early twenties she drank black market vodka with young leaders of change in the Soviet Union and backpacked through Southeast Asia. In her professional career she has led global teams spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. She has also hosted C-level delegations from around the world while working at the Bonn headquarters of Deutsche Telekom, the third largest telecommunications company in the world.

Currently based in Silicon Valley, California, Michelle spends several months each year speaking, training, and consulting in Germany and China.

Executive experience

Organizational leaders rely on Michelle as an ally because she understands their world. She has worked at a senior level in the high-tech, telecommunications, and construction industries. In these roles, she was personally responsible for multimillion-dollar revenues, pioneered green business practices, and launched a tablet device ten years before Apple introduced the iPad.

Education

Michelle graduated with academic and leadership honors from the University of California at San Diego. She received her Master of Business Administration, with honors, from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school of Middlebury College. Michelle also pursued business classes at Georg August Universität in Germany and has the highest possible business German-language certification from the Goethe Institute.

Service

Michelle serves on the board of the Community Health Education Training Center. Since 2007 she has been an adviser to the Global Social Venture Competition at the Haas School of Business. The team she mentored in 2010 won first place out of over 100 competitors from around the world.

Kelli Richards

email: kelli@allaccessgroup.com

web site:http://www.allaccessgroup.com

Kelli Richards is a high level business consultant, coach, mentor and thought leader as an executive in digital music and entertainment for over two decades.

For the past 12 years, she's led The All Access Group as President & CEO, advising and coaching dynamic, innovative companies involved with the digital distribution of music and entertainment content.  A connector, bridge-builder, and trusted navigator in digital media, Kelli devises creative out-of-the-box strategies -- and then facilitates opportunities for her clients when they may not otherwise have access to the most sought-after influencers, decisionmakers, & celebrities in entertainment and technology.   The alliances she forges for and with her clients enable them to accelerate their traction in the marketplace harnessing the magic of Hollywood content for greater exposure with consumers.

Prior to launching her company, The All Access Group, Kelli launched and ran music and entertainment initiatives at Apple during her 10-year tenure there.  Before that she was an Artist Relations exec at EMI Music, one of the big four record labels.

Kelli has also been a talent producer on a range of award shows, concerts, and celebrity fundraiser events over the past 25 years.   Kelli is a published author and holds an MBA, as well as a Certification in Coaching through Debbie Ford’s Institute for Integrative Coaching.  She’s a regular speaker at leading  industry conferences focused on the digital distribution of content.  She is actively mentored both by best-selling author & coach Alan Cohen, and by Alan Weiss (“The Million Dollar Consultant”).  

Joseph Riggio, Ph.D. Business Administration, Concentration: Strategy *

email: jsriggio@josephriggio.com

web site: http://www.josephriggio.com/

There are three primary reasons why you'd choose to work with me as your mentor:

1. You want to establish a new practice or significantly grow an existing practice built around delivering training, facilitation, coaching and/or mentoring


2. You want to develop a significant passive income stream beyond the live delivery of services, possibly including certification/licensing of your intellectual property
   


3. You need to develop your skills as a speaker, trainer, coach and/or mentor, including your ability to translate these skills into the development of products for sale

As simply put as I can I want to work with you so that you become a recognized thought leader and the outstanding expert for your chosen client constituency, while building the most profitable and sustainable practice model possible.

I take on a limited number of private mentoring clients each year and while my professional experience and practice is wide ranging, I limit my work as a Master Mentor to working very closely with clients who are focused on growing their practice in one or more of these three primary reasons. My focus as your mentor will be on helping you develop the knowledge, skills and experience you need to significantly grow and expand your own practice in the shortest possible time.

I've worked with many international Fortune 500 companies, major private and family-held international corporate clients, and many smaller local clients globally. My particular focus with these clients has been on developing and implementing their sales and marketing strategies, including the development and delivery of proprietary training programs, often for several hundred to several thousand employees worldwide.
My primary client is typically the senior most executive in the organization, e.g.: Chairman, CEO, President, Owner …, for whom I typically also provide one-to-one, or senior team based mentoring. Given this professional background I am thoroughly familiar and comfortable with the strategy for accessing and working with these types of clients - and very often this becomes a major topic of the work I do with my mentoring clients.

Here's short list of the six practice areas we're most likely to work on together at some point during your mentoring experience with me: 1) Developing a clear focus and vision for your practice, 2) Developing the primary positioning you'll use to promote your practice, 3 Designing your marketing and promotional strategy and materials, 4) Designing your on-line and off-line lead generation and conversion strategy, 5) Refining your sales presentation, especially in regard to developing key accounts, and 6) Refining your skills as an expert advisor with a focus on working with senior execs.

Additional topics or areas that I often assist my professional mentoring clients with as well include: a) Developing your intellectual property, b) Designing and delivering proprietary training, c) Creating and implementing a passive income strategy, and d) Developing a certification and licensing strategy for you I.P.

My primary business is Applied Behavioral Technology, Inc. established in 1990 now operates under the trade name Joseph Riggio International (http://www.josephriggio.com). Joseph Riggio International focuses on the delivery of public training, working with individual private clients and developing audio, video, written and on-line products.
In 1995 co-founded, JS Riggio International, Inc., which dissolved and became the JS Riggio Institute (www.jsri.com) in 2007. The JS Riggio Institute delivers training internationally for major corporate clients under the primary brands Satisfaction Cycle®, Persuasion Technology® and Negotiation Technology®. The JS Riggio Institue also houses our R&D activities developing new I.P, which we release in white papers, articles and speaking engagements as well as turning into additional products and services we offer to our clients.

I also developed the "MythoSelf®" brand that we use for the the delivery of proprietary training leading to certification and licensing to a cadre of worldwide professionals (www.mythoself.com). Our licensees are represented in over a dozen countries and have generated millions of dollars in revenues using materials based on our licensed I.P.

Contact Information:
Email: jsriggio@josephriggio.com,
Website: http://www.josephriggio.com,
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephriggio,
Tel.: +1/609-933-2006,
Princeton, NJ, USA

Amanda Setili

email: amanda@setili.com

web site: http://setili.com/

Amanda Setili has been described as having “the perfect combination of experience, industry knowledge, best practice theory and practical implementation" (Mike Keough, CEO, Caraustar Industries).

Since founding Setili & Associates in 1998, her approach to improving client performance has been proven with large global clients like The Home Depot, Delta Air Lines, The Coca-Cola Company, LG (Lucky Goldstar), Wal-Mart, Cox Communications, Fiserv and Wachovia, as well as smaller, high-growth companies.

Using an efficient and fact-based approach, Amanda creates lasting results by building commitment, skills and alignment, from top executives to the frontline.

With 20-plus years of experience in strategy, operations, engineering, and marketing, Amanda gives clients powerful new perspectives for profitable growth. Her work has taken her throughout North America and Asia, including four years Malaysia, where she helped plant the seeds that grew into McKinsey’s Kuala Lumpur office.

Prior to founding Setili & Associates, Amanda was a senior executive in two successful high-tech start ups and served as a manager with McKinsey & Company. As an engineer with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, she led the start up of a new production process and commercialized new components in 20 consumer and industrial products.

Amanda earned her MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, cum laude. She is past President and current Board Chair of the Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta.

Scott Simmonds

email: scott@scottsimmonds.com

web site: http://www.scottsimmonds.com/index.php

Scott Simmonds has worked with thousands of business owners and leaders in his 30 year business career.

His writing and comments have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Money, Inc. Magazine, the New York Times, Boston Globe, Investors Business Daily, Kiplinger's, the Los Angeles Times, and countless local and trade publications.

Simmonds’ knowledge, efforts, and ideas makes him a thought-leader in personal productivity, risk mitigation, and problem solving.

Scott’s work has involved companies in a wide range of industries; public and private, profit and nonprofit. He is a graduate of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Scott is a member of the Society for Advancement of Consulting, an organization accepting only the top 1% of consultants nationwide. In 2009, Dr. Alan Weiss inducted Scott into the Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame to recognize his world-class consulting achievements.

Simmonds lives in Saco, Maine, with his family. He enjoys reading, hiking, snowshoeing, and bird watching. He is a past president of the trade association the Maine Association Of Professional Consultants, and of the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club. He is also active in many trade associations,and serves on the adjunct faculty at the York County Community College in Wells, Maine. He also serves on the faculty of the Academy of Insurance, and is the author of the monthly column, “TimeWise,” in the Insurance Journal.

Andrew Sobel *

email: andrew@andrewsobel.com

web site: http://andrewsobel.com/

Andrew Sobel is a leading authority on client relationships and the skills and strategies required to earn lifelong client loyalty. He has written three acclaimed books on business relationships: All for One: 10 Strategies for Building Trusted Client Partnerships (Wiley), Clients for Life: Evolving from an Expert for Hire to an Extraordinary Advisor (Simon & Schuster) and Making Rain: The Secrets of Building Lifelong Client Loyalty (Wiley). He has also published over 100 articles and contributed chapters to four books on leadership, strategy, and marketing. All for One was recently voted one of the top 10 sales and marketing books of the decade by a major marketing publication.

For the first 15 years of his career, Andrew worked at Gemini Consulting, a $1 billion general management consulting firm (now Cap Gemini Ernst & Young). He was a Senior Vice President, Country Managing Director, and member of the European Executive Committee. Since 1996 he has led his own consulting practice, Andrew Sobel Advisors, which has grown steadily in revenue since its inception. Andrew first worked with Alan Weiss as a mentee in 2001, and he is a member of Alan’s Million Dollar Club and the Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame.

Andrew’s corporate clients consist of many of the world’s leading services firms. These include established public companies such as Citigroup, WPP, Xerox, Cognizant, and Lloyds Banking Group; and also many privately held professional service firms, including Booz Allen Hamilton, Towers Watson, Bain & Company, Ernst & Young, Fulbright & Jaworski, Deloitte, and many others.

His articles and work have been featured in a variety of national magazines and media, including USA Today, The New York Times, Business Week, Strategy+Business, Advertising Age, Business Law Today, and the Harvard Business Review, and he has appeared on numerous national television programs such as ABC’s World News This Morning and the Fox Strategy Room.

Andrew mentors a wide variety of professionals and entrepreneurs in consulting, accounting, law, financial services, and many other professional services markets. He works with individuals on virtually all aspects of developing and growing a professional practice, including expanding existing clients and winning new ones, establishing a vibrant professional network, creating a personal brand, developing proprietary intellectual capital, and managing a practice.

Andrew graduated from Middlebury College with honors and earned his MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School. He is President of Andrew Sobel Advisors and Executive Director of the Client Leadership Forum, a best practices consortium of major services firms. Andrew has been married for 28 years and has three children. He speaks fluent Italian and conversational Spanish and French.

Contact information: Email: andrew@andrewsobel.com. Web site: http://andrewsobel.com. Tel: 212.706.1297. Mailing Address: 229 W. 60th St., Apt. 16P, New York, NY 10023.

Phil Symchych*

email: Phil@symcoandco.com

web site: symcoandco.com

This is what our clients say about our results:

Phil Symchych is an expert in business growth. He is the founder and president Symco & Co. He has over 19 years experience helping successful business leaders and professionals to:

• Dramatically grow their businesses
• Enhance their leadership
• Maximize financing
• Increase top line and bottom line growth
• Strengthen management
• Create and protect business wealth
• Implement succession and transition plans
• Achieve freedom and life balance

Phil helps both successful entrepreneurs and business advisors who serve the SME market to transition themselves and their businesses to the next level.

“I’m very pleased to offer Alan Weiss’s Mentor Mastery program to business owners, entrepreneurs and advisors serving the SME market. You will likely benefit greatly from working with a mentor if you like to learn, are willing to try new things or old things differently, and have had some success and momentum in the past. Leveraging your momentum is critical.

My clients are enjoying their leadership roles, growing their businesses, taking more vacations, creating wealth and positioning their businesses for growth and sale because of the mentoring and consulting work I’ve done with them,” says Symchych.

Phil consults, coaches, and speaks on business growth and is the author of an upcoming book along with Alan Weiss called “Outrageous Growth:  how to grow your business in any economy and live to tell about it.”

Phil holds the Bachelor of Commerce and M.B.A. degrees and the Chartered Accountant and Certified Management Consultant designations. Phil was inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant(R) Hall of Fame. Phil is the only consultant in the world to hold the Society for Advancement in Consulting board approval in the three areas of: strategy; profitable growth; and succession planning (link). Phil has been published in the Financial Post and Western Producer and been quoted in other trade publications.

Phil won the timed slalom at BMW Driving School. He lives in Regina, Canada with his wife, two almost teenaged daughters, and Lola, their chief morale officer. His hobbies include sports, photography, traveling and taking cars for test drives.

“Working with a mentor is a fantastic process to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. Thank you for being an entrepreneur and driving the economy. I look forward to your future success!”

Contact Information: Email: phil@symcoandco.com web site www.symcoandco.com, phone 1.306.569.9111 or 1.866.537.9111 toll free.

Libby Wagner *

email: libby@libbywagner.com

web site: http://libbywagner.com/

Libby Wagner, president of Libby Wagner & Associates, is one of the only poets regularly welcomed into the boardroom. Often called the The Influencing Coach™ by her clients, Libby's expertise in leadership, strategy, management, and executive team development helps organizations create environments where clarity and increased trust lead to unrivaled results. Libby's work has shaped the cultures of numerous Fortune 500 clients, including The Boeing Company, Nike, Philips, ST Microelectronics, Diageo and Costco.

Libby's contributions to the consulting profession garnered international acclaim in her 2008 induction into the prestigious Million Dollar Consulting® Hall of Fame. Libby's seminars and webinars attract an international audience of participants, and her commitment to ethics coupled with her pragmatic engaging style lead to sold-out audiences and standing-room-only events. She has been quoted in the New York Times, is the author of over 50 nationally run professional articles and a collection of poems, and the forthcoming title: The Influencing Option: Rebuilding Trust, Restoring Loyalty and Creating Commitment Cultures that Last from Global Press. An inspiring speaker and presenter, Libby is sought-after by corporations and organizations for events, keynotes and leadership seminars. She is the leader of Influencing Options®, an internationally known company offering transformational programs with over 25 years of proven world-class success. Thousands of participants from all corners of the globe have benefited from the impact of Influencing Options®.

Libby helps companies revolutionize their culture and transform in record time by focusing energy to achieve astonishing results—creating commitment cultures that can endure any economic environment.

Dan Weedin

email: dan@danweedin.com

web site: http://danweedin.com/

Dan Weedin, an experienced entrepreneur, leader and speaker, has a passion for coaching and mentoring other entrepreneurs and business professionals.    He has the unique ability to translate his success in the insurance industry, public speaking, non-profit world, and athletic coaching into applicable and transferable principles that dramatically improve the effectiveness of those he mentors.

Dan started his consulting firm, Toro Consulting, in 2005 after eighteen years in the insurance industry as an underwriter and commercial lines producer.    Dan has consulted to countless leaders in quality companies such as:  State Farm Insurance, the Seattle Sonics, the Seattle Storm, KPS Health Plans, the Washington State Coaches Association, and the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce.  He also has helped drive performance improvements in numerous small to medium sized businesses and professional service specialists around the country.  Dan now mentors and consults business leaders to help them improve presentation and communication skills, marketing and branding strategies, sales excellence, team building skills, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills.

Dan has been recognized for his expertise through the achievement of various awards.  He has published numerous articles and executive briefs and has been quoted in publications such as Best Review, the Insurance Journal, Independent Agent Magazine, American Express OPEN Forum, Toastmasters Magazine, and the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM). He was named Bell-Anderson Insurance Commercial Agent of the Year in 1992.  In addition, he earned the Federated Mutual Insurance Company Big Hitter Award four times and was named to their Leadership Council for independent agents an unprecedented four years running for excellence in sales and client retention.  In 2007, Dan reached the semi-finals of the Toastmasters International Speech competition, which ranked him in the top 100 Toastmasters in the world. 

Dan’s educational background includes formal education, certifications and ongoing professional development.  He is a 1987 graduate of the University of Washington where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Dan earned his Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation in 1996 and is currently in the Certified Risk Manager (CRM) program.  Dan has been a member of the Alan Weiss mentor community since 2008. He is a graduate of the Million Dollar Consulting® College.

In Dan, you have a coach and mentor who truly walks the talk.  He doesn’t challenge others to where he isn’t willing to go himself.  

Dan resides in Poulsbo, WA with his wife of 24 years, and two daughters. He is an active member of his community where he is a past president of the Poulsbo-North Kitsap Rotary Club and is currently serving on the school board of directors for the North Kitsap School District. He is also active in Toastmasters International, the Miss America Organization (where he serves as a judge), and his church.  He enjoys playing golf, reading, and being walked by his two faithful canine companions Captain Jack and Bella.

Scott Wintrip*

email: scott@ScottWintrip.com

web site: http://wintripconsultinggroup.com/

What happens when you combine a brilliant consultant, an engaging speaker, and a renowned executive coach? You get Scott Wintrip of the Wintrip Consulting Group (WCG) and StaffingU. Since 1999, WCG has attracted national and international clients, such as Proctor & Gamble, Wells Fargo Bank, Manpower, Discover Financial Services, American Red Cross, and Boeing.

Scott’s diverse background as a business owner, corporate executive, and recovering salesman provides him with the ability to deliver practical insights based on real-world experience. His tenure prior to forming WCG includes public and private sector companies in both national and international markets.

Scott’s speaking calendar typically includes dozens of keynotes and workshops at conferences each year along with webinars and TeleClasses for audiences across the globe. He is regularly rated the top speaker, with comments ranging from “excellent speaker,” “powerful information,” “practical for my business,” and “Scott Wintrip’s program was #1.” His global audience has included Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia, with his live speeches being translated on numerous occasions in Chinese, French, and Spanish.

Scott is often quoted and featured in the media and his articles and blog posts are featured on dozens of sites each week. He has authored more than 1000 articles and programs, including the Simply Series: Simply Profitable, Simply Effective Leadership, Simply Responsive, and Simply Balanced.

Scott has served as an adjunct professional at St. Petersburg College and has been credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. During the past decade he was named to Recruiter Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful and influential executives under 40 years of age, and was a recipient of the prestigious Golden Rule Award. In October of 2011, Scott was named to The Staffing 100, a list of the top 100 stars and most noteworthy people serving the staffing industry.

Scott’s rich and colorful background also includes being a former tuba player, performing standup and improvisational comedy, serving as an ordained interfaith minister, creating culinary masterpieces as an amateur chef, and landing a role in a zombie movie.

* These are people qualified in all three programs.

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