Phil’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Over 25 years of consulting experience
• Client Industries: All industries including the world’s leading corporations such as IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, Ericsson, Dow Chemical, Ingersoll-Rand, American Express, Colgate-Palmolive and many more
• Levels of Service: All leadership levels
• Expertise: Customized training programs in business acumen (finance, strategy and marketing)

Phil Young is a leading global corporate education consultant based in New York. With over 25 years of consulting experience, Phil has designed and delivered customized training programs in business acumen (e.g., finance, strategy, and marketing) for the world’s leading corporations in over 30 countries in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Nordic Region, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific Region. Among his current and previous clients are IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, ST Microelectronics, AT&T, BT (British Telecom), Ericsson, Booz&Co., MasterCard International, American Express, Dow Chemical, Heidelberg Cement, Ingersoll-Rand, Colgate-Palmolive and Reckitt Benckiser.

He is the co-author of THE PORTABLE MBA IN ECONOMICS, which has been translated into Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin (John Wiley & Sons) and MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: ECONOMIC TOOLS FOR TODAY’S DECISION MAKERS (Prentice Hall, 2009, 6th edition and 7th edition forthcoming in 2012). He is the cofounder and creator of Learning Burst Academy, which produces self-directed, mobile educational courses in business acumen, marketing, business innovation and leadership.

He was a professor of economics in the MBA program of Pace University (New York) for a number of years. During this time, he was appointed as the first visiting professor to the IBM International Finance and Planning School in New York and Brussels. He was also the Director of the Executive MBA and Corporate Education programs for the University. He consistently received “best teacher” awards during his tenure at Pace.

Currently, he is an active member of the global faculty network of Duke Corporate Education, the International School of Management (Paris), and Frost & Sullivan. Duke CE is ranked #1 in customized corporate education by the Financial Times. He has also been an instructor in corporate education programs sponsored by Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Phil received a B.A. from the University of Hawaii, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.

Laurie’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Over 30 years coaching, consulting, speaking and educating
• Client Industries: All industries
• Levels of Service: All leadership levels
• Expertise: Create better measurement systems that help organizations create sustainable, profitable, and enlightened management of their people

Laurie Bassi is a leader in using behavioral economics to improve organizational performance. She works with clients—from start-ups to Fortune 100s—to help them unleash human capability within their organizations.

In the earlier years of her career, Laurie served as vice president for research at ASTD, the director of research at Saba Software, the director of two U.S. government commissions, and a tenured professor of economics and public policy at Georgetown University. She is a licensed investment advisor who, for over a decade now, has been generating above-market returns by investing in companies with superior human capital management.

As an HR analytics expert and thought leader, Laurie is a sought-after speaker and has spoken on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. As a still-recovering academic, she is also a prolific author, with over 90 published papers and books. Her most recent books are THE HR ANALYTICS HANDBOOK and GOOD COMPANY: BUSINESS SUCCESS IN THE WORTHINESS ERA (the winner of 2012 Nautilus Gold Award, for the best business/leadership book of the year).

Laurie holds a B.S. in mathematics from Illinois State University, a M.S. in Industrial Relations from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Larry’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: 30 years
• Client Industries: Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Insurance, and many others
• Levels of Service: All leadership levels
• Expertise: Leadership strategy and communications (mission, purpose, vision), corporate branding, employee engagement, identity research, and analysis, strategic positioning ... Self-leadership, personal branding, career planning

Larry Ackerman is a leading authority on organizational and personal identity. For nearly 30 years Larry has been a personal advisor to senior executives and a consultant to their institutions. He has helped those organizations flourish by addressing complex brand challenges as they strive to distinguish themselves in their fields. As a personal coach to senior executives, as well as consultant to their organizations, his insights have helped many leaders discover the keys not just to survive, but to thrive.

Marcia’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Over 20 years as a Training Director, Executive Coach and Leadership Development Specialist
• Client Industries: All industries including technical, pharmaceutical, financial, finance and many others
• Levels of Service: Executive teams and individuals of all leadership levels
• Expertise: Organization effectiveness and change management

Marcia Reynolds, PsyD amuses, inspires and fascinates her audiences as she translates the latest discoveries of how the brain works into workable strategies for dealing with life’s challenges. Participants come to understand what makes communication so difficult and life so complicated. Whether they are leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs or parents, Dr. Reynolds then provides practical formulas and techniques they can use both at work and at home.

In addition to speaking and training around the world, Dr. Reynolds coaches both individuals and executive teams. Her clients come from technical, pharmaceutical, financial, shipping and banking corporations and both governmental and quasi-governmental organizations.

Prior to her starting her own business, Marcia’s greatest success story came as a result of designing the programs for a semiconductor manufacturing company facing bankruptcy. Working with the executive staff, she designed the organizational change program that helped the company become the #1 stock market success in the United States when they went public in 1993. Marcia’s focus on increasing communication across organizational lines and empowering cross-functional teams to create were credited as a major part of the turnaround.

Marcia’s doctoral degree is in organizational psychology. She has published two books, OUTSMART YOUR BRAIN and WANDER WOMAN: HOW HIGH-ACHIEVING WOMEN FIND CONTENTMENT AND DIRECTION. Excerpts from her books have appeared in many places including Harvard Communications Newsletter, U.S. Business Review, Forbes.com, CNN.com, Psychology Today and The New York Times and she has appeared on ABC World News.

Marcia is also a pioneer in the coaching profession and was the 5th president of the International Coach Federation. She was one of the first 25 people in the world to earn the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC). She is also a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).

Jennifer’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: 15 years as a Business Consultant and Executive Coach
• Client Industries: All industries including organizations such as Turner
• Broadcasting, NASA, Pfizer, GE, Hewlett-Packard, Cox Enterprises and
• Emory University
• Levels of Service: All management levels
• Expertise: Developing and coaching introverted leaders

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D. is an International Speaker, Executive Coach and Author who specializes in developing and coaching introverted leaders. Her book, THE INTROVERTED LEADER: BUILDING ON YOUR QUIET STRENGTH (Berrett-Koehler, 2009) has sold over 20,000 copies and has been translated into 6 languages, including Chinese and Spanish. It was also named a top 20 leadership book on Amazon and a “Staff Pick” by CIO Magazine.

Jennifer has been an entrepreneur and internal consultant in organizations such as GE, AT&T, Turner Broadcasting, and NASA. Her most fun gig has been as a featured work-life expert on the TBS show, Movie and a Makeover and she is very proud of earning the highest honor from the National Career Development Association. She has written for the WSJ, Bloomberg Business Week and Forbes and has written columns for AARP, SHRM and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Her dynamic presentations powerfully demonstrate how: 1) Organizations can capture the talent of introverts, 2) Introverts and Extroverts can work together in more productive ways, and 3) Introverts can build on their quiet strength to work with, not against who they are.

She is a member of the Global Speakers Federation, the National Speakers Association and Community Relations Director and board member of NSA-GA. She is also a Board Certified Coach.

Dave’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Over 27 years as a senior executive and leadership advisor
• Client Industries: Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Consumer Products, Technology, 
Manufacturing and many others
• Levels of Service: Typically VP+ with direct or matrix global responsibilities, also 
Directors being groomed to become VP and officer
• Expertise: Teaching leaders how to coach; helping leaders move from tactical to 
strategic tasks, figuring out the 2-3 areas that if addressed “propel” my client’s careers, and helping leaders understand the written and unwritten rules for being a senior leader and officer

As Executive Leadership Advisor and founder of Corporate Performance Strategies, Dave Brookmire brings C-level leaders to the next level. His change management process helps executives avoid common derailers, fix their blind spots, significantly improve their leadership skills and impact, and increase their leadership brand value. Brookmire brings an exceptional wealth of experience and valuable perspective to his clients and he combines his extensive training in psychology with hands-on experience as a corporate officer to help his clients succeed. He is uniquely positioned to guide leaders, teams, and companies of all sizes and industries to become more efficient and productive, increase employee engagement and retention, and groom the next generation of strong, successful leaders.

Stewart’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Over 40 years as a leader, instructor, coach, executive and lawyer
• Client Industries: All industries
• Levels of Service: All levels of service, individuals and teams, small and large organizations
• Expertise: Conversational models that create “Agreements for Results”, improves productivity and increases collaboration

Stewart Levine is a creative problem solver widely recognized for creating agreement and empowerment in the most challenging circumstances. He improves productivity while saving the enormous cost of conflict through his innovative work with “Agreements for Results” and unique “Resolutionary” conversational models.

As a practicing lawyer he realized fighting was an ineffective way to resolve problems and when he was a marketing executive for AT&T, he saw the reason collaborations fall apart is that people do not spend time at the beginning of new working relationships to create clarity about what they want to accomplish together and how they will get there. This is true for employment relationships, teams, joint ventures and all members of any virtual team. As a result of his observations, he designed conversational models that create “Agreements for Results” and a quick return to productivity when those working relationships break down. He uses his approach to form teams and joint ventures in a variety of situations and works with individuals, couples, partners, small and large organizations of all kinds.

Levine has worked for 3M, American Express, Chevron, Con-Agra, EDS, General Motors, Oracle, Safeco, University of San Francisco, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Navy.

He is the author of GETTING TO RESOLUTION: TURNING CONFLICT INTO COLLABORATION. It was named one of the 30 Best Business Books of 1998, and called “a marvelous book” by Dr. Stephen Covey. He also wrote THE BOOK OF AGREEMENT which has been called “more practical” than the classic GETTING TO YES and named one of the best books of 2003 by CEO Refresher.

Stewart earned his BA in Economics from Syracuse University and his J.D. with honors from Rutgers University School of Law where he served on the Law Review. He teaches communication and conflict management skills for The American Management Association, CEO Space and the International Partnering Institute. He is a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley Law School and the MBA program at Dominican University of California. Stewart was recently inducted into the College of Law Practice Management.

Terry’s Key Qualifications:

• Experience: Over 25 years of experience inspiring leaders through consulting, coaching, speaking and leading workshops
• Client Industries: All industries both for-profit and non-profit
• Levels of Service: Organizations and leaders of all levels
• Expertise: Helping organizations activate the science of inspiration in four areas: Change, Leadership, Brand, and Collaboration

Terry Barber is America’s Chief Inspiration Officer. Over the last 25 years, he has delivered more than 1,000 keynote presentations and seminars to total audiences of over one million people. His mission is to equip and empower leaders, companies, and nonprofit organizations to be intentional about becoming inspiring from the inside out. His seven proven principles of inspiration have been published in his latest book, THE INSPIRATION FACTOR, Greenleaf Publishing, and have received praise from leaders throughout the U.S., the U.K. and Australia.

Terry specializes in assisting organizations activate the science of inspiration in four areas: Change, Leadership, Brand, Collaboration by using experiential workshops as a catalyst to start the journey of engaging employees and energizing customers. Anyone can learn how to incorporate and practice the seven drivers of inspiration to ignite passion, innovation, and quantifiable business results within their sphere of influence.

He has served as a consultant to organizations such as Emory University, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Duke University, AARP Foundation and World Vision. He continues to consult with the ALS Association, National Parkinson Foundation and Operation Blessing on how to integrate the seven principles of inspiration into everything from employee engagement, to fundraising and branding.

Terry’s articles on the subject of inspiration as a new metric for business have been published in Forbes, HR.com, American Business Management, Leadership Excellence, and literally hundreds of other publications around the world and in multiple languages.