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Featured Faculty
Mark Amtower - Business-Government Connection / Thought Leadership with Co-Host Bob Prosen
Mark Boersma - Crack The Code
Patrick Coan - ActionCoach
Larry and Laura Colin - Family Inc.
Alanna Galiano - How to Get The Most Out of ACT!
Barb Giamanco - Tap Your Potential
Kathryn Gibbs - Getting The Most Out of QuickBooks
Rob Hill - Advisor Talk
Ruth King - CEO and Founder
Brent Leary - Tech Talk
Richard Martin - Referral Fire Tips
Raleigh Pinskey - 101 Ways to Promote Yourself
Carrie Podber- Social Networking
Bob Prosen - Thought Leadership with Co-Host Mark Amtower
Ellen Rohr - Financial Management
Martin Wales - Customer Catcher
Janet Walsh - Human Capital
Mark Amtower
Business-Government Connection
Thought Leadership with Co-Host Bob Prosen
According to Guy Timberlake, CEO of The American Small Business Coalition, Mark Amtower is the "Godfather of government marketing." Government marketing veteran Bob Gosselin of EMC called Amtower "the best of the best of government marketing gurus."
Author, consultant, speaker and radio host Mark Amtower has focused on one market – Global One - doing business with government - for twenty-five years. Known in Washington, DC for his all-black attire with no tie, Mark is by far the most influential and candid voice in business-to-government marketing, quoted in hundreds of articles, doing interviews on business-talk radio around the country, speaking at multiple conferences and seminars each year (including the now infamous Amtower's Laws of Survival and Success speech), and writing over 50 articles a year. He has been profiled in Federal Computer Week (October, 2005) and Entrepreneur magazine (July 2006), and was on the cover of Network World in 2002.
Amtower's reputation in the government and business-to-business market is predicated on his knowledge, candor, honesty and ability to simply say "I don't know." Over the years this has led to his having a large, loyal following. With the July, 2005 debut of Amtower's Laws of Survival and Success at the Merit Direct annual client conference, people got the first public insight into the ethics he strives to live by. The speech, according to one attendee, was "like Steve Covey's ideas being presented by Conan the Barbarian – this is a no-nonsense, 'better listen to me' kind of guy." The audience loved it.
Why Epiphanies Never Occur to Couch Potatoes evolved from the 2005 speech to become Amtower's public statement on the benefits and rewards of living the good life- defined in your own terms, told in his patented no-hold-barred, simple and direct style. As Olga Grkavac, Vice President of the Information Technology Association of America says, "Amtower is a true original."
The man in black shares his candor in his articles, radio interviews, presentations, keynotes, on the phone, on trains, planes and in automobiles. Mark resides in Highland, Maryland with his wife and two children.
Mark can be reached through his web sites:
www.FederalDirect.com
www.EpiphanyBook.com
or by calling 301 924 0058 or emailing amtower@erols.com
Mark Boersma
Crack The Code
Mark Boersma, international author, speaker, and President of Synergy Solutions, graduated with three Bachelor's degrees: finance, management, and marketing. Upon graduating, Mark chose a 100% straight commission position with a tiny company that had only been in business for a year. Mark received two days of training, and then was pushed out into the field to sell. He was forced to develop the tools, including personality tools, and training that ultimately made him successful as a salesman, a regional manager, and a marketing manager, then a Vice President with an equity stake in the company. His company grew from one of the smallest in Illinois to one of the largest in the Midwest. This meteoric rise was accomplished in 3.5 years.
Mark also had the opportunity to serve on a number of corporate boards. Due to his international vision of making a difference in the lives of billions, Mark started Synergy Solutions in 1990. Synergy provides solutions to professionals in different industries throughout the country, and Mark speaks all over the world regarding entrepreneurial development, team building, and personality assessments. Mark has also been published in hundreds of industry publications and media worldwide. He wrote a three book series entitled How to Get Your Business to Make a Profit Without You. Mark volunteers significant amounts of his time for non-profit and community-based organizations.
To schedule Mark, his wife and/or anyone of his seven children, who also speak professional around the world, call toll free: 888.230.2300.
Patrick Coan,
ActionCoach
Pat Coan is the master licensee of ActionCOACH in Georgia. Pat's philosophy is that successful clients, business owners that are mentored by ActionCOACH coaches – create raving fans. The Real Deal highlights some of the business issues that these owners and coaches have faced together as well as the resolutions to those situations.
Pat brings vast senior management experience in Procter and Gamble (P&G). At P&G he specialized in purchasing, logistics, manufacturing, and customer service. He started up and re-engineered organizations in different locations across the US and the world. He was responsible for Strategic Planning, Supplied Development, IT purchasing, and Global Sourcing. Even though P&G is a Fortune 25 company, he had responsibility for starting and managing small business units under the corporate umbrella.
Pat also spent seven years in the US Air Force as an Air Rescue Helicopter Aircraft Commander. The military assigned him in areas of Strategic War Planning and Supply Chain Management.
He enjoys golf, reading historical fiction, and collecting artifacts from around the world. He is a proud family man – a wonderful father, grandfather and husband.
Larry and Laura Colin
Family Inc.
Larry Colin is a 37-year veteran of the 92-year-old family business, Colin Service Systems, Inc. From an entry-level position in his grandfather's small window-cleaning company, he became president, CEO, and ultimately, chairman, of the facilities support services company. Larry helped build the company into two multi-state enterprises, including Effective Security Systems, with 10,000 employees and sales approaching $200 million. On December 22, 2004, Colin Services was sold to a large publicly traded competitor.
Larry and the family business have been featured on CNBC and in Crain's New York. Quoted in the best-seller 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, Larry has been a guest speaker at trade associations on a variety of business topics including mergers and acquisitions, customer service, and business development.
Laura Colin graduated from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business. After completing the program, she moved to New York City to work as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers and in economic development in North Africa. Laura subsequently worked in Larry's family business, both part-time and later full-time. As vice president of finance, she played a major role in selling the company in 2004.
Larry & Laura Colin are co-authors of the book – FAMILY INC.
Alanna Galiano
How to Get The Most Out of ACT!
Alanna is a seasoned Relationship Marketing Consultant with more than twenty years in Sales, Marketing, Management and building relationships that last. As a consultant, Alanna has collaborated with diverse firms in strategizing, planning and implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. She has worked with such industry leading technology providers such as Polycom, Accord Networks, and PBS, as well as other firms in financial services, healthcare and high-technology industries. Alanna has held positions encompassing sales force management business development, corporate communications, and project management.
Alanna is a key executive at Profiling Solutions, a software integration consulting firm, which enables companies to attract, maintain and retain clients utilizing software tools to gain a competitive advantage. Alanna is also the founder and President of Emerging Healthcare Technologies, Inc. Alanna has been an ACT! Certified Consultant and Trainer for ten years. Her roles involve simple, easy to understand models to complex project management to help her clients focus and get results. Consequently, Alanna is able to assemble and manage teams to act quickly to meet the scope of the work on time and within budget.
During Alanna's tenure at Polycom Network Systems, she was Responsible for defining, positioning, pricing and promotion of products along with managing the market adoption and product life cycle of multiple software products. Her Role was both strategic and highly tactical to drive all aspects of a typical core sales/marketing and product management role: understanding customers needs, developing research and models to forecast the business growth and trends, analyzing competitor's strategies and actions, defining the overall go to market strategy.
As Business Development Manager at PBS, Alanna was responsible for client relationship management, lead generation and project management for communication and the organization's merger and transitional activities.
Earlier in her career, Alanna served as a general manager of a three to four million dollar profit center for Applebee's International which proved to be the #1 unit in sales in the region. Alanna utilized her strong leadership and project management skill to facilitate coordination among her staff of five managers and sixty employees. In addition, she is a leader who created and launched a start-up marketing department for an academic extension division. She utilized strong project management skills to manage timelines and worked with numerous vendors with the university. As the marketing coordinator, Alanna was successful in building awareness for the Center for Entrepreneurship and was a key player in winning economic development grants up to half a million dollars.
Alanna co-authored Implications of Gender Bias in Family Business, published in the Family Business Review, and was a conference presenter at 1993 Family Business Educators Conference and at the Inaugural Conference of the National Family Business Program Association. Alanna holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Tulane University and a Master of International Business Administration.
Alanna's passion is to help her clients to better understand who their customer is, what they are looking for and how to achieve the best results.
Barb Giamanco
Tap Your Potential
Talent Builders, Inc. is a leading provider of people development products and programs. CEO and Chief Talent Officer, Barbara Giamanco, spent more than 20 years in sales, customer service, marketing and management with such industry-leading technology providers as Ingram Micro, Egghead Software, Aldus Corporation and Microsoft Corporation before starting her own company, Talent Builders in 2002. She is also the co-founder of the Women's Mentor Network.
A well known keynote speaker and professional with over 25 years of business experience, Barb is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute - accredited by the International Coach Federation. She is an Inscape Certified DiSC® Trainer and maintains her people expertise through memberships in the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), American Society of Training & Development, Technology Association of Georgia, Women in Technology, Microsoft Alumni Network, International Coach Federation, and the Georgia Coach Association.
Barbara resides in Metro Atlanta. An active member of her community, in 2008 Barb will serve on the board of directors for the Georgia Coach Association (GCA) and the Workplace Learning Society for the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). In 2006-2007, she served as the Advisory Council Chairman for Congressman Tom Price, M.D. In 2005, Barb served as Business and Economy Chair for Congressman Price.
Kathryn Gibbs
Getting The Most Out of QuickBooks
Kathryn is the president and founder of Accountware Solutions Inc., a bookkeeping firm that serves as a full-service resource to QuickBooks® users in the Metro Atlanta area.
She has been a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor® since 2003, but has been using the software since it was introduced. Recently, Kathryn became one of only 30 ProAdvisors in Georgia to achieve Intuit's highest level of certification – Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor®.
Before starting her own business, Kathryn worked in public accounting for seven years for a CPA firm in Decatur, GA. The firm's broad base of clients has given her extensive experience with numerous industries and non-profit organizations. It was there that she began using the Intuit family of products and before long, was in charge of training their clients on how to use it as well as providing technical support via phone and email.
By combining her love for bookkeeping and for teaching, she founded her business, in 2003 – with the vision of working with business owners on how to get the most of out of their QuickBooks® software.
Kathryn is a member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers and the National Association of Certified Public Bookkeepers. She is preparing to become a Certified Public Bookkeeper and hopes to achieve that designation this year. Kathryn is also a member of Atlanta Women in Business and serves on the Board of Directors for Music Time Learning Center, Inc. – a non-profit music school in Gwinnett County.
Rob Hill
Advisor Talk
Rob Hill is currently a commercial mortgage banker and licensed Georgia Realtor with a broad range of business experience. In addition to commercial real estate and finance, Rob has a background in investment banking and consulting as well as executive education, in which he served as Vice President and Program Director of the Yale School of Management's Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
Rob also has direct entrepreneurial experience. In the early 1990s, at the age of 28, he left an insurance practice with Northwestern Mutual and successfully raised investor capital to launch and pilot his own business which functioned as a broker/dealer and consultant in historically significant documents and artifacts to museums and private collectors out of 3 Atlanta locations.
Having been both an entrepreneur and an advisor to businesses large and small, Rob understands business from the businessperson's perspective, and has a deep appreciation for the value that professional advisors can bring to an organization – especially small to mid-sized businesses.
As host of Advisor Talk, Rob will interview industry experts from a vast field of endeavor on current issues that have a real impact on these businesses. From law, accounting, and governmental programs to insurance, payroll, and finance, Advisor Talk gives its viewers free, on-demand access to consultations on a host of topics with the best advisors in the business.
Rob has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Mercer University in Macon, GA.
Rob can be reached at:
robhill85@bellsouth.net
http://www.robhill-atlanta-realestate.com/
Ruth King
CEO and Founder
Ruth King is founder and CEO of ProfitabilityChannel.com. In 1981 she started an SBDC branch in Decatur, Georgia. After leaving the SBDC she began her first business, Business Ventures Corporation where she travels throughout the United States coaching, training, and helping small businesses achieve the business goals they want to achieve.
She is especially proud of one company she helped climb out of a big hole. He started with a negative $400,000 net worth 15 years ago and is still in business today...profitably and with a positive net worth.
After twelve years on the road, doing 200 flights per year, she knew there had to be a better way to reach business people who wanted to build their businesses and train their employees. She began training on the Internet in 1998 and began the first television like broadcasting in 2002. ProfitabilityChannel.com (formerly businesstvchannel.com) began operations in January, 2005. Ribbon, the first online broadcasting network, was born.
Ribbon (www.ontheribbon.com) is one of four companies that Ruth currently is an owner/partner in. She has been involved with many different businesses over the years with a wide range of interests including music, video graphic production, healthy house products, and t-shirts.
Ruth is passionate about helping adults learn to read, photography, and marathon races. She helped start an adult literacy organization in 1986 that currently serves over 1,000 adults per year and ran the Boston Marathon in April, 2004 and April, 2005.
Ruth holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and University of Pennsylvania, respectively. She also holds an MBA in finance from Georgia State University.
She was the 2006 USA Best Books National Winner for Entrepreneurship and a finalist for the Independent Publisher Awards (IPPY) for her first book, The Ugly Truth About Small Business: 50 "I Never Saw It Coming" Things that Can Go Wrong and What You Can Do About It (SourceBooks). Her second book, The Ugly Truth about Managing People, was a finalist for the 2007 USA Best Books Award for Leadership and management.
Ruth has spoken for national and state association meetings, national and local trade shows, manufacturers, distributors, and others in 49 of 50 states. (She is looking for a reason to go to North Dakota). Ruth is a down to earth, thought provoking speaker who will provide audiences with ideas that will inspire them and help them earn more profits. She is available for Radio and TV interviews, in store book signings, discussions, lectures and seminars. She is available world wide depending on her schedule.
Contact Ruth ruthking@BusinessTVChannel.com
Brent Leary
Tech Talk
BRENT LEARY IS Co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta based CRM consulting/advisory firm focused on assisting companies of all sizes effectively utilize Web 2.0 tools and services to improve business relationships. He has over 16 years of IT and management consulting experience working on projects for Microsoft, Research In Motion and the state of Georgia's Department of Economic Development. Leary received CRM Magazine's 2004 Most Influential Leader Award along with his business partner Michael Thomas. He serves on the national board of the Customer Relationship Management Association as Vice President of Technology, CRM subject matter expert for the Small Business Technology Task Force and participant in Newsweek magazine's Driving Innovation expert roundtable. His articles have been featured in Direct Marketing News and CRM magazine, in addition to his regular business columns for various publications, including The Network Journal and the Atlanta Tribune. Leary writes "Reality Tech", a weekly online column for Black Enterprise, the nation's leading minority business publication with 3.7 million monthly readers. He also hosts and produces the Technology For Business $ake radio program heard weekly on Business Radio 1160am WCFO Atlanta and on www.BusinessTechnologyRadio.com. His popular blog can be found at www.brentleary.com.
Contact Brent www.brentleary.com
Richard Martin
Referral Fire Tips
Richard Martin is the VP of Training and Development for Referrals4Life, LLC. He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs achieve success all over North America. He began his career in the United States Army where he served in the 7th Special Forces Group and developed a reputation for mission accomplishment and operational excellence. Immediately after leaving the military he founded a consulting firm specializing in entrepreneurial business and management.
Rich discovered word-of-mouth marketing early in his business life, and has been working since that time to develop his techniques. After becoming associated with BNI, he built his consulting practice exclusively through referrals.
Rich is the developer and producer of the Referral Success Program and the Referral Fire Newsletter, a weekly referral tip. He is currently working on his first book, Intensity, a Business Leadership Course. His fast paced, results driven seminars have built him a reputation as a trainer that maximizes what everyone takes away.
Rich's goal is to help entrepreneurs and business professionals "to spend more time with clients and friends while surpassing their business goals"
Raleigh Pinskey
101 Ways to Promote Yourself
Raleigh R. Pinskey smiles from the inside out, because she specializes in making people, places and ideas visible. Her days, and those of her clients are filled with those aha moments that "Maximize their Biz-Ability with Viz-Ability."
Raleigh follows in the footsteps of her hero and business model, circus impresario P.T. Barnum who said, "Without promotion a terrible thing happens, nothing."
Raleigh embraces PR, branding, publicity, and marketing platforms that bring the appropriate attention to satisfy the needs of her clients. It doesn't matter if it is online or traditional strategies, whatever it takes to achieve the ultimate "aha results."
Raleigh performed a make over on a middle of the line Marilyn Monroe doll and created a $5,000 Marilyn Monroe doll. A limited edition available for one day only, orders accepted by fax, and only one to a customer. She publicized it internationally. It sold out in 3 hours.
Raleigh raised the attendance when she redesigned a plain ole everyday snake and catapulted him to international prominence by renaming him The Bronx Zoo's A Great Snake Named Jake.
She jazzed up the definition of fast food take out when she and her staff fed food samples to Grand Central Station rush hour railroad commuters to promote the Gourmet To Go book.
From horses and stagecoaches parading through mid-town Manhattan at peak lunch time to create a buzz for a Country and Western concert, to introducing the concept of coupling ASPCA stars with Soap Opera stars to make hospital patients smile, Raleigh's mission is to create that aha moment that allows her clients to "promote and prosper."
CEO of The Raleigh Group Communications, Raleigh Pinskey is the author of the Harper Collins international best selling book 101 Ways to Promote Yourself, with a quarter of a million copies in print, and available in nine countries. Her 56 information products on how to Maximize Your Biz-Ability thru Visibility Marketing is balanced by her inspirational and motivational books and CD's The Forgiveness Factor and Did You Have a Good Day Dear.
The Raleigh Group client history is filled with entrepreneurs, books and musicians—including Sting, KISS, Paul McCartney and Blondie—the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book, Harvey Diamond's Fit For Life Solution, the internationally respected QLink Electro Magnetic Field protective pendant, Callan Pinkney's Callanetics fitness regime, the original singing telegram company Music Box, thousands of small businesses, cult movies, magazines, soap opera daytime players, and jingle writers, to name a few.
Raleigh Pinskey walks her PR, branding, self-promotion talk. She is a former radio talk show host for Clear Channel, and the John Adams Show, and Arizona TV's No Limits. She is an expert faculty for Mentor U, KeyboardCulture.com and the Association of Web Entrepreneurs (AWE), and Heidi Richards' Wecai Women's Media Summit.
Raleigh R. Pinskey created, produced and hosted the successful airline In-Flight business audio program Pipeline For Profits® for America West and Mid West airlines. Raleigh is a frequent guest on radio and TV, and has been interviewed by Entrepreneur Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Cox Syndicate, EOnline!, International Business Woman, Kuwait Times and countless media outlets internationally.
Invited to speak on the seminar platforms of marketing experts Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, Ted Thomas, Robert Allen, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, T.Harv Ecker, Randy Gage, Ted Ciuba, Fred Gleek and internationally for hundreds of associations and organizations, Raleigh Pinskey has affected the bottom line of hundreds of thousands of visibility seekers with her seminars, books and information products on Leadership, Attitude, PR, Branding, publicity, and Business Best Practices.
www.PromoteYourself.com / www.RaleighPinskey.com
So raise your arms, divide your fingers and affirm to the world and beyond...Promote & Prosper!
Carrie Podber
Social Networking
Carrie is the Founder of echain communities with experience in building operational foundations at start-up to expansion stage companies with a relevant background in the commercialization of e-commerce and software-related products. She founded Flying Outsourcer, a comprehensive provider of outsourced business services to both pre and post-IPO companies and helped launch the Atlanta market for financial community events for both the private and public market. Her expertise is in educating, reviewing and preparing material for investment/marketing and discovering strategic, synergistic and revenue relationships. She has been involved with several companies in a variety of industries and stages.
In 2006 I Co-Founded eChainReaction, Inc., as an online collaboration and business networking platform for my existing network and client base within the start-up to expansion community. In 2007 Carrie branched off from eChainReaction and founded echain communities, llc. echain utilizes the online platform for facilitating introductions and connecting people in the business community. In addition to echain business community, they are launching, echain's national and international relocation community and echain fun farm.
The platform is also combined with a Business Building class for Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals seeking to start or expand their business. In addition to the business class, Carrie is hosting a Social Business Networking show airing in April 2008. She encourages everyone to watch the series and learn how to benefit from the Social Networking phenomenon. If you don't have a profile up you are late to the game and need to catch up.
Carrie graduated with a BA in Communications from the University of Albany in New York and has been in Atlanta since 1994.
Carrie can be reached at cpods@echaincommunity.com echaincommunity.com
Bob Prosen
Thought Leadership with Co-Host Mark Amtower
Bob is president and CEO of The Prosen Center for Business Advancement, where he shows business leaders how to rapidly increase performance and profits.
Bob teaches his proven business execution tools, tactics and programs across all industry sectors - from financial services to technology to retail, healthcare, manufacturing not-forprofit, education and professional services. His speaking, workshops and problem-solving engagements take him around the world and into companies that are committed to achieving exceptional operating results.
Bob is the bestselling author of - Kiss Theory Good Bye, which gives leaders the tools and step-by-step directions to achieve extraordinary operating and financial results.
He is recognized as the business expert who helped such companies as AT&T, NCR, Hitachi Data Systems, Sabre and achieve unprecedented financial and operational success. He has held posts ranging from Senior Vice President and Managing Partner to Chief Operating Officer.
Bob earned his BS from Texas Tech University, an MBA from Georgia State University and holds post-graduate certifications from MIT, Duke University and The Wharton School. He has received numerous awards for professional excellence and serves on the University of North Texas School of Marketing Advisory Board and is listed in The International Who's Who of Entrepreneurs. In addition to his management training programs, speaks nationally and internationally to a wide range of companies, organizations including, VISTAGE, Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and professional associations.
Bob can be reached at 972.899.2180 or www.bobprosen.com
Ellen Rohr
Financial Management
Ellen Rohr, president and founder of Bare Bones Biz, a business training and consulting company, teaches you how to turn your big ideas into a successful business. Ellen teaches the basics, the few things that make all the difference to your success...bare bones business basics.
Her passion for business literacy began when she nearly sunk her own family's business. Through the help of wonderful mentors, she learned how to keep track of the money and make more of it. In turn, she has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs start, fix, and grow their companies.
For more than 10 years, she has been a columnist for Plumbing & Mechanical Magazine, providing "in the trenches" insight that business owners can relate to. Her consulting work led to a position as president of Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, a home service plumbing franchise company. On her watch, the company grew from zero to $40 million in sales, becoming the 18th fastest growing franchise in 2003.
Ellen is also the author of three business basics books. She has sold over 30,000 copies of "Where Did the Money Go? - Accounting Basics for the Business Owner Who Hates Numbers, and How Much Should I Charge?- Pricing Basics for Making Money Doing What You Love". Her latest endeavor is called "The Bare Bones Biz Fitness Plan". Currently available as an E-book, "The Bare Bones Biz Fitness Plan" is a simple, easy-to-implement program for crafting your vision and turning it into a successful business.
Contact Ellen ellen@barebonesbiz.com www.BareBonesBiz.com
Martin Wales
Customer Catcher
If you've been looking to attract more traffic and increase your income using the most effective and affordable strategies and tactics today, then you have to meet Martin Wales.
You're sure to benefit from his powerful combination of marketing and media communications to elevate your credibility and increase your revenues - both online and off.
Win immediate and impressive profits, whether your have a traditional offline business or a pure online presence, when you harness the power of Web 2.0 strategies and online media. Using the right approach, you're guaranteed to get the income and lifestyle you seek today!
Martin's company, Customer Catcher Communications, was selected as a Bull Marketer by Seth Godin, well-known author of Permission Marketing, recognizing providers of unique and outstanding marketing for their clients. Martin's media & publicity expertise is featured in The Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars, a #1 Best Seller on Amazon. You'll also find him in Walking With The Wise Entrepreneur along with coauthors Suze Orman, Robert Kiyosaki, T Harv Eker, Harvey Mackay and Donald Trump.
He's a respected author, columnist, talk-radio and TV personality. He's the Executive Producer of PayPal Radio and hosts Microsoft's Your Business. He's an original host of the Entrepreneur Magazine E-Biz Show too. His expertise has also been featured in Business Break and Catching Customers on network television.
Martin's not just a media personality - he's well versed in sales and business development and continues his work as a corporate advisor and consultant. Starting as a salesman, he quickly became VP Marketing of a $26 million communications technology firm within four short years. Since then, through his private consulting and coaching practice, he has handled and succeeded with budgets both large and small.
Martin has helped thousands of entrepreneurs, business owners, internet marketers and independent professionals like you. His expertise is published internationally and in MBA programs. Media from national newspapers to leading business magazines seek his insights on today's hottest topics.
Janet Walsh
Human Capital
Janet Walsh is the President of Birchtree-HR, LLC, an independent, global HR consulting firm focused on improving the financial performance of businesses through human resources programs. She and the Birchtree team work with a wide variety of businesses including Fortune 100, technology, manufacturing, finance and non-profits. Her experience in developing high performance, business-focused HR activities has led her to work in more than 50 countries on 6 continents.
Janet has previously worked for Fortune 100 and large multinational companies leading the human resources functions in the US and overseas.
Janet is the author of "The Global 20 ©", a global template to help HR operations expand internationally and, "SSSHR ©" a program methodology for helping businesses diagnose ineffective HR practices and replace them with profitable, strategy focused metrics.
She is a senior professor at Keller Graduate School of Management where she authored the national capstone course for Human Resource MBA candidates and their Global Human Resources Management Course. In addition, she provides regular speaking engagements at SHRM, ASTD, WAW and IHRM.
She holds a BA degree in Economics with a concentration in Japanese from Bucknell University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Loyola College.
Contact Janet Walsh@birchtreehr.com
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