CHI Coaching Organization
Hiring a coach is one of the most powerful ways to accelerate the growth of any company. A study published in Personnel Public Management revealed that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%; while training combined with coaching increased productivity by 88%.
The Chet Holmes International Coaching Organization is a committed, experienced group of business coaches who create the context with their clients to achieve dramatic results for their business. We would like to introduce you to our team:
STEPHANIE VAUGHAN President of Executive Coaching
Stephanie Vaughan serves as VP of the Breakthrough Consulting Division here at BBI for both Anthony Robbins and Chet Holmes. In partnership with CEO, Marty Sanders, Stephanie's role is to create an un-stoppable team of consultants that will engage the needs of larger businesses to explode their growth and increase their profits.
Stephanie Vaughan also serves as President of Business Mastery Coaching for BBI. Through Stephanie's direction the number of certified coaches has grown 15 times over and revenues have grown by more than 4000% and she is just getting started. As a business coach, Stephanie has successfully coached hundreds of companies in countless industries with a sole focus on achieving results from doubling revenues, successful integrations of Core Story, to step by step plays on implementing powerful marketing campaigns using Chet's and Tony's methods. As President of Coaching, Stephanie's mission is to seek out, manage and further develop already top talented; business minded, skilled and highly experienced coaches to help clients succeed and achieve their goals utilizing tested and proven concepts that teach businesses how to explode their revenue and increase their profits. Stephanie's mission in coaching is to create RAVING FANS of our team, our company and our proven concepts by generating dramatic results with our clients.
Stephanie is accomplished in sales and sales training. As a trainer, Stephanie served as a strategic player in helping to develop world class sales organizations on a global level for a variety of companies. She has developed, managed and facilitated sales programs for the internal sales and partner organizations for technology companies including EMC, Legato Systems, Aspect Communications, and many others. In addition to sales training Stephanie was a top producer in her 11 year sales career with companies such as AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Estee Lauder, and several other technology companies. She was a top producer in all her sales positions, consistently achieving over 400% of her quota.
Stephanie's additional passion and focus right now is to work with Chet and Tony to create programs exclusively targeted to help women-owned businesses succeed. Women-owned businesses have surpassed the number of men-owned businesses and there is a great opportunity to further assist and develop these entrepreneurs. In addition,
Stephanie serves as a Certified Master Coach through the prestigious Behavioral Coaching Institute, is a Certified Presentation Skills trainer and Training Generalist through Langevin. Stephanie is an ardent learner and frequently attends seminars, reads business books, and consistently emerges herself training programs to further develop her skills so she can offer the best to her colleagues, clients and the market.
STACEY HYLEN
Stacey Hylen is the principal and co-founder of HYLEN SUCCESS COACHING. Before she came to coaching, Stacey enjoyed a stellar sales career. For several years, she consistently ranked among the top performers, selling group insurance plans for Colonial Life and later on top of the line tanning equipment. She soon realized that businesses needed more than just excellent products and superior customer service, which, of course, she happily provided. They needed guidance and support to grow and improve their businesses. And she got hooked helping them. Before she ever heard of the word "coaching", she was already doing it. In 2000, Stacey enrolled in a premier training program at Coach University.
Stacey was chosen by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen as a speaker on the promotional tour for their book, . A contributing author to , Stacey is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and served as Vice President of the Montreal Coach Federation.
Today Stacey lives in Montreal and specializes in working with high achievers around the world (Australia, Canada, England, Norway, Switzerland and United States,) who are ready to go to the next level of success. The range of professionals she has coached runs the gamut: from entrepreneurs, artists, real estate salespeople, marketing consultants to journalists, web designers, medical professionals, financial advisors, etc.
Stacey continues her education with training with top world business leaders such as Jay Abraham in marketing. She has studied with Yannick Silver and Stephen Pierce in internet marketing and has developed numerous online businesses both for herself and for her clients.
VALERIE HYLEN
Valerie Hylen has built and sold 3 successful businesses, co-authored 2 books, worked live on QVC, hosted live segments on television, and bought, managed and sold investment properties. She is the co-founder of a successful coaching company, and has been a motivational speaker and a leader of workshops, seminars and teleclasses that have helped hundreds of clients achieve amazing levels of success previously thought to be impossible!
She knows that with the right mindset, right tools and right action steps any business can experience significant growth.
For the past 8 years she has helped business owners to dream bigger, become more focused and most importantly to take targeted action steps. She motivates (and sometimes pushes) clients to do the things they may not want to do, think they are too busy to do or fear doing, in order for them to get the results they want. She is passionate about helping her clients get RESULTS.
Her clients have experienced huge increases in both sales and profits ranging from 10% to over 400%. They are working smarter not harder. She is committed to the success of her clients (from entrepreneurs to CEO's of multi-million dollar businesses) and knows that taking the time to work ON your business and to implement proven growth strategies will take your business to the next level.
She received her coach training and certification and sales coach certification through Comprehensive Coach University. She previously worked for Chet Holmes International as a coach for the APB Elite program helping chiropractors build their businesses.
Valerie has also trained with Anthony Robbins, Jay Abraham, Stephen Pierce and T Harv Ecker and Coach University. She is a life long learner and continues to sharpen her saw in order to help her clients succeed.
SEAN OLIVER
Sean Oliver is an experienced Leadership Coach, Trainer and Speaker who challenges and equips leaders to rethink the way they do business. Sean's collaborative strategies have helped hundreds of leaders become more influential and effective. "If you could get to the next level by yourself. you'd already be there!" is a Sean Oliver mantra. He knows that great leadership and communication can not be achieved by yourself or for your own gain.
Born with a passion to equip leaders, Sean brings enthusiasm and knowledge to those who desire to become better leaders and communicators. As a young man Sean found himself in leadership roles as a black belt instructor and later on as a husband, father, organizational leader and entrepreneur. Now with over 17 years of experience in leadership and communication roles, Sean has coached and equipped hundreds of business owners and employees as well as international nonprofit and Fortune 500 executives.
Sean is a member of the International Coaching Federation, Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce, Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce, the Corona Chamber of Commerce and Toastmasters International. He also serves the leadership of several non profits. Sean is recognized as a professional trainer and facilitator by organizations such as The Maximum Impact Group. The MI Group is committed to developing professionals in business and life through world class training based on Dr. John C. Maxwell and Todd Duncan, which Sean helps facilitate.
ELLEN CAHILL
Ellen Cahill, M.A., is a Certified Comprehensive Coach. She is one of the organization's Senior Coaches and leading Implementation Expert for over five years. She coaches and supports hundreds of entrepreneurs in growing their businesses. Amongst her strengths are helping business people stay focused; develop effective policies and procedures; create strategic marketing plans; establish employee training programs; and foster better relationships with customers, vendors, and employees, thus substantially improving a company's ability to achieve its goals.
Prior to joining the organization, Ellen garnered more than 20 years' experience as a professional in the health care industry. She held positions as a Speech Pathologist, Program Manager for Rehabilitation, and District Manager of Rehab, among others. She earned a master's degree in Speech and Language Pathology, is an accomplished writer, and has been a public speaker for more than 10 years.
Ellen's clients' praise her as an integral partner in helping them get the most benefit from the powerful tools described in the training program and beyond. As a testament to her ability to help companies boost profits, many of her clients have been with her for years. Now, Ellen stands ready to help you make a big difference in your business and your bottom line. Let her show you how working with a business growth expert can transform your business and your life!
JIM SYMCOX
Jim Symcox is a business coach, copywriter and self-styled marketing evangelist. He is the author of How To Leap Ahead of Your Competitors and contributes articles to magazines both on the internet and in more traditional magazines too.
Jim has consulted with many large companies as well as smaller enterprises. These companies range from blue chips such as Phoneix Mecano, through company groups such as Bodyease to smaller SME companies such as Cut 'N' Copy Media and The Ultimate Sauna Company.
Jim has been successfully coaching companies on Chet's behalf for 2 years.
CHRISTIE SCOTT
As a Business Coach, Christie Scott combines her love for Marketing and Management with a driving passion to help others succeed.
Christie is a Certified Business Coach with much specialized training. She holds Advanced Certification as a Human Behavior Consultant and her presentations have led many to describe her as "electric", "passionate" and "dedicated". She uses this Advanced Certification to help clients create Extremely Productive Employee Teams in order to create more time for the business owner to work ON their business and even have more time for themselves and their families. Her favorite recommendations and plans are for creating passive income streams and systemizing the business to the point of true freedom and success.
Because Christie is a wife and mother of two as well as being an owner of a multi-million dollar business, she understands the daily stress that all of us face in balancing the needs of our personal life with the demands of our professional life.
Christie has used her talents as a successful business coach to impact hundreds of attendees at conferences and specialized Education Programs for business owners. Her newest addition to her offerings is Customized Employee Training Programs in the areas of Communication, Time and Project Management, and Productivity.
In addition to helping enhance the lives and businesses of her clients, Christie enjoys worldwide travel, singing and the "laugh medicine" her family provides her in her hometown of Houma, Louisiana.
CYNTHIA PHIFER
By focusing on prioritizing opportunities and relentless focus, Cynthia's clients have doubled their sales, freed up their time, implemented processes, improved bottom line and increased national visibility. Cynthia coaches business owners through the Business Mastery System, enabling them to drive their businesses forward.
Cynthia has launched two successful small businesses of her own, and has worked with hundreds of businesses, helping them grow sales, increase profitability, and soar past their competition. Her expertise in marketing and strategic planning combined with her unrelenting focus on execution empower her clients to reach higher levels of success.
Within the corporate world, Cynthia was a senior executive for a $10 billion company, overseeing an ecommerce start-up that grew to $175 million. She has hands-on experience with retail buying, store management, new business development, strategy development and marketing.
Cynthia has an MBA and is a Certified Professional Direct Marketer and a Certified Shared Services Professional. She has attended executive intensives at Yale, MIT, Brookings Institution, Texas A&M, and Santa Clara Retail Institute.
PANDORA PANG
For over two decades, Pandora has helped thousands of business leaders in hundreds of industries with a plethora of enterprise models in attaining successful strategic turnarounds and accelerated business growth. Sparked by her childhood dream of helping her entrepreneurial father grow his business smarter, faster and easier, Pandora started her business career to fulfill her life-long passion of maximizing the potential of people and businesses and their contributions to each other.
She was known for her "1,000 in 3" repeated track record, realizing return on direct invested capital 1,000% (ten times) in three years. Notable success corporate turnaround and growth stories include the Telemundo Group, Vail Associates, WebMD Corporation, Bally's Manufacturing and its then subsidiary Life Fitness, and United International Holdings.
Skilled in alliance and consensus building with a keen eye for undervalued business and people assets, Pandora is an expert in putting companies on a high growth path by realizing values in non-performing assets, finding hidden assets and leveraging performing assets into new arenas. She focuses on sustainable business growth, lending resources and balancing the need for revenue and profits gain at all times.
Pandora has been a co-owner of a national distribution company with her husband in the high-end audio components industry during the last decade, helping music-lovers maximize their enjoyment of live music performances in the comfort of their homes. Pandora holds an MBA from University of Southern California and received her Bachelors in Business Administration from University of Wisconsin, Madison. She holds a Fellow Associate standing in a renowned international accreditation body for business advisors and coaches worldwide and is a Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach.
Pandora is a life-time learner and has studied under some of the top business trainers and coaches in the world. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Pandora speaks and writes fluent Cantonese and Mandarin.
DOUG BROWN
Doug Brown has built over 20 businesses in his lifetime, creating unique and diverse learning experiences. He has spent most of his life in entrepreneurial ventures, starting at age three in his father's motor repair business. From fifth grade on he applied and qualified for work study through his school, so that he could attend school for half the day and for the remainder continue to gain added knowledge in his father's company. Doug would go on to create and build his own businesses, including a landscaping and cleanout business, Christmas tree retailing, a fishing and lobster wholesale and retail business, a multilevel marketing business, real estate investment, an entertainment business, a telecommunications auditing and consulting company, a telecom agency and a dry cleaning venture, just to name a few.
Doug also was employed for multimillion dollar companies and earned Top Sales Professional Awards for his sales performances.
Doug has worked in his own consulting and coaching businesses with small mom and pop organizations to large Fortune 500 companies such as Proctor and Gamble. Doug has always been interested in guiding and supporting others.
Never one to shy away from a challenge, Doug has utilized every experience whether a success or failure as a stepping stone to bigger and better endeavors.
Doug has worked on himself and worked on serving others.
Doug possesses two college degrees (one in General Studies with an emphasis in business and biology, and one in Nuclear Medicine). Doug served eleven years in the military reserves including during the Gulf War.
His studies include business studies, sales, Neuro Linguistic Programming, copywriting, online and offline lead generation, and he is certified as a Guerilla Marketer. In addition, he has studied with some of the top business coaches in the world.
CLAUDIA BROWN
Claudia Brown has learned early on about the value of the customer and the dedication needed to reach one's goals in the business world when she worked for five years with her father's at-home marketing research business, servicing companies such as Heineken and Ocean Spray.
After obtaining her undergraduate degree, Claudia traveled to Germany and studied at a German university. She now speaks fluent German as a result of this experience.
Claudia then earned an MBA and began to hone her business acumen. She freelanced for a major marketing research project with a Fortune 500 company and worked for some of the top direct marketing companies such as Lillian Vernon and J. Jill, as well as a few start-up catalog companies.
As an entrepreneur who now co-owns four businesses: two telecommunications agencies, a telecommunications auditing company and an internet marketing company, Claudia has continued to grow and develop her positive, creative life. After the birth of her children and her desire to work at home, she started an MLM business where she educated herself on the sales aspect of commerce. With a venture in entertainment, she learned preparation, workflow, and personal interaction with customers, thereby creating a seamless, professional experience for clients and her company. Some of her clients included companies such as McDonalds Corporation, Poland Springs, and Edwards and Kelcey. Through her businesses, successful or not, she has used each experience as a stepping stone to bigger and better ventures.
Claudia has studied and developed skills in online and offline marketing, Guerilla Marketing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and has studied with some of the top business coaches in the world.
Claudia is now taking her business acumen to the next level, providing coaching services for Chet Holmes International and helping, training and coaching companies from start-up to multi-million dollar levels to take their businesses to higher levels.
ROBERT CORNISH
Robert Cornish, CPCC, MCC, "The Winner's Coach" and Master Activator of Positive Thinking
You'll find yourself stepping into the 'Winners Circle' with your business when you coach with Master Coach Robert Cornish.
Robert earned the label "The Winner's Coach" when he was a top level amateur racecar driver. He earned the invitation for and competed 11 times to win a National Champion title. He did not reach this goal (he never used a coach). However, his clients did after he started coaching other racecar drivers. His clients have won 14 National Championships and one FIA world title, including one year when 3 client drivers in the same category Robert raced in finished First, Second, and Third!
Today the successes of Robert's business clients carry on that Winners tradition. Some of the business wins his clients have achieved include:
- In just over 2 years, the owner of a relatively new Chiropractic office takes it from generating some $100k/yr. income, into a C-level position in a growing chiropractic franchise business paying him over $2.1m/year.
- Before coaching, a successful auto repair business owner didn't dare leave for even a few days, he transformed the effectiveness of his employees to where he can now take vacations with no worries and no problems to resolve when he returns --And best of all he's achieving record income and profits.
- Department heads and PMs at major software companies (BMC, Apple) turned around their departments by building teams that now complete projects on time and under budget.
- Motorsports business achieves back to back record profit years during this recession.
Robert has found that drivers of racecars and 'drivers of business' who are already Winners more often seek coaching services than those who are less successful. It is those who are, or those who intend to be the top performers in sales, management, and decision maker roles, who more readily hire Robert than those who are less successful. The kind of coaching Robert does is a necessity rather than a nicety at this level of performance and results. It's a performance advantage that never ends, as evidenced by the average of 5 years that Robert's clients stay with him -- with one still coaching after 12 years.
Robert coaches with the same level of passion and intention to innovate at the cutting edge of the coaching profession, just as he did when he was a winner in auto racing. He has over 20 years experience coaching clients, in business clients who range from solopreneurs, small business owners, project leaders, C-level executives, to 9 figure annual revenue sales superstars. Robert says "If you aren't going to run your business with the intent and attitude of a winner, why bother?"
It's not only Robert's expert knowledge of business that makes his coaching so effective; it's that he knows how to coach keeping the brain in mind. You'll engage in such a way that you think differently and better about what's important, you'll learn faster, rapidly overcome existing habits and subconscious beliefs that otherwise sabotage implementing any new idea, strategy, or program to realize the new results you want. With Robert's help you'll also know how to get better results from the people who work for you.
"Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation." Peter Drucker
Chet Holmes' Business Breakthroughs programs contain the best knowledge for Marketing and business growth available, if you could only successfully implement them. Robert is an expert at generating innovation, having you create and implement new ideas, strategies, and programs. A perfect combination for you!
KIP GIENAU
Kip Gienau has been in the advertising industry for over fourteen years. Working with his advertising clients, Kip identified their need for learning how to be more competitive in their market. He began coaching them and discovered a great sense of satisfaction from being able to help his clients move their business forward, by adding value beyond traditional advertising services.
Kip joined the coaching division of Chet Holmes International as a result of working with the Business Growth Masters Series in his own business, and experiencing the value of the program fist hand. Working with CHI gives him the opportunity to work with a diverse cross section of businesses, which he finds exciting and fulfilling. One of Kip's favorite moments when working with clients is that AH-HAH moment when he knows that something he has contributed creates an opportunity for change in someone's life and business. Confident with a sense of humor and positive outlook, Kip has the ability to quickly put people at ease.
Kip was recently selected to collaborate in writing a chapter in Jay Conrad Levinson's new book "Guerilla Marketing on the Front Lines" which was a #1 best seller the first day on Amazon.
Based in Connecticut, Kip also has a home in Costa Rica, where he takes the opportunity to enjoy life with his wife and grandkids.
"I spent over 200 hours working on my business developing strategic planning and implementation strategies the results were profitable. In a declining economy, the worst recession I've ever seen; we were able to maintain our 7 figure + gross income and expand in several markets where we previously did not exist." Jay Perniciaro
During my first coaching session, he taught me some time management techniques that re-shaped my life. In less than one week, I literally became more productive and in control - both in my business life and personal life - than I have ever been before. And I'd been to all the time management seminars put on by the big names. Jason Channell, SRI Construction
CHRISTINE SPENCER
Christine Spencer is an experienced business coach, trainer and motivational speaker. She specialises in leadership development and communications skills using NLP based techniques.
Christine challenges business owners and managers to rethink the way they communicate and interact with their clients, suppliers, employees, peers and themselves. The true art of communication is not about the words you use but the way in which you use them; through coaching Christine helps clients ensure that their intended message is well received every time no matter who their audience is, enabling them to achieve the results they desire.
Christine's passion for improving communication in business stems from 20 years working in senior management roles within the aviation and supply chain industries where effective communication is critical to success.
Christine is a certified Master NLP Practitioner and Performance Improvement Coach and is an Accredited Associate of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB) which specializes in providing practical hands on advice and support for business owners.
Christine has successfully coached numerous business owners and managers, helping them take their own performance to the next level.
VICTORIA ZEPPI
Victoria Zeppi has over 20 years of experience in business development, working with clients ranging from start-up companies to large organizations such as Proctor & Gamble, General Electric, EDS, HP, and Honeywell. While working in sales and sales management, she was consistently a top producer, increasing one company's revenue by 400% in just over a year. This success led to national expansion of the consulting firm, with Victoria leading and managing the process. Her experience includes operations management for outsourcing organizations, with P&L responsibilities for 40M +. She was also the founder and managing partner of a successful staffing and consulting organization.
Victoria's passion is helping people realize their potential, and working with them to achieve their goals. She is a certified Strategic Planning Facilitator, and has worked with many business leaders over the last 12 years providing strategic business planning facilitation, creating a "road map" to success. From the initial business plan, to quarterly strategic planning, Victoria has been a key to successful planning for a number of companies in various industries. She has also helped organizations revise or develop their policies & procedures, and can provide high level documentation assistance.
In addition to Strategic Planning, Victoria is also a dynamic sales trainer, and works with business development leaders to develop and implement a successful sales training plan. She has helped many achieve their sales goals, with a focus on value-add account management, long-term relationship development, and high levels of ROI. Her approach includes working with her clients to define and target "best buyers".
Victoria looks forward to helping many more clients develop and refine their road maps to success!
TERRI CORNISH
Before coaching became a calling:
- Terri Cornish traveled the world to 31 countries, including living in 5 of them
- Partner, Admin. Mgr. & Advisor of a mining consulting company for 12 years for numerous international companies of annual revenues of $5million to $1billion
- Launched & successfully ran four travel agencies & a bus company
- Advertising Account Manager of three newspaper publishing companies, including the distinction of quadrupling advertising & readership of one in seven months
- Office Manager of an automobile dealership
- Chamber of Commerce Director
- As Volunteer Director for the March of Dimes raised five times more than ever before, by stressing fun
Coaching full time since 1999,Terri Cornish is is an internationally recognized "intuition in business" authority and has helped hundreds of her coaching clients attain astounding business results by combining cutting edge business success strategies and the best skills of intuition (you know, that gut feeling that drives so many business decisions to huge successes.) Her clients seek her out from all over the world.
Some of her clients' results include:
- A real-estate investing business repositioned existing assets & made them productive, and as a result increased their cash flow 1900% - YES 1900%
- A naturopath doctor who exponentially increased all three of her income (300% in one year and 800% in 2 years) her profits, and her satisfaction with both her business and her life.
- The head of an accounting firm who not only doubled his firm's income but reduced his time at work from 80 hours per week to 30. (he's still coaching with her ten years later)
- A physician who was able to write and publish two hugely successful books and also move from a solo practice to a national workshop presenter thus reaching tens of thousands every year, and later to her training other physicians how to add her unique methods of increasing their office profits.
- Terri has an MBA from the University of South Florida, with a specialization in international marketing
- She is a CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach) from the Coaches Training Institute and also graduated from their intensive year long Co-Active Leadership program.
- She has trained with Harv Eker, Mark Victor Hansen, Jay Abraham, Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy, Deepak Chopra, Alexander Everett (founder of the human potential movement) and many more.
- She also is trained in Psych-K thru the advanced level.
SEAN CASEY LECLAIRE
Sean Casey LeClaire is a strategic business coach, consultant, speaker and author. He is a thought-leader who is changing how individuals and organizations engage contemplative action and compassion, in order to enhance relationships, creativity and optimal performance.
As a former international airline executive and the founding partner and CEO of an advertising agency, Sean brings a diverse set of business skills to his coaching and leadership development clients. He has worked directly in 30+ industry sectors, and intimately understands the challenges facing small business. He is fluid and comfortable with cross-cultural communication and subtleties of international business relationships. Sean is a professionally certified coach who has worked personally with over 350 individual clients, and taught/facilitated hundreds of groups and teams. The association with Chet Holmes International gives Sean an opportunity to bring his diverse experience and competencies to a high-performance culture serving small cap business owners.
In 1990, after selling his shares in the agency, Sean took a three-year sabbatical from active work and began an intense and ongoing course of study with leading pioneers in the fields of formative psychology, systems theory, and yogic science providing the ground from which to create and evolve proprietary leadership development methodologies, and a unique coaching approach based on timeless wisdom practice and holistic science. His passion is to ignite and support an ethical, servant-leader culture worldwide. As such, along with four other coaches he has started The Arjuna Conference for men, and is in the process of launching "the slow-down coaches" a social entrepreneur/ human potential company.
Sean is an accomplished athlete in two sports (one professionally), a widely-published poet and student of physical theatre. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts with his eight-year old son Beau.
JIM DELLA VOLPE
Jim Della Volpe is an achievement oriented, dynamic, Business Advisor with a solid record of accomplishments within established international companies and high growth entrepreneurial environments, and as owner of his own small business. His successful career with a worldwide industry leader includes Field Sales, where he was recognized with five high achiever awards; Corporate Training, conducting training for senior sales staff and managers; and National Account Manager, winning a $5 million dollar contract. Jim has successfully served as a branch manager, Region Director, and VP of Sales. He is also the author of $elling Strategies for NON Sales Professionals.
Jim has been described as a "hands-on, feet on the street" Executive who has just the right amount of Corporate Headquarters experience...! He has built sales teams, been responsible for managing seven Regional Managers and 60 sales representatives, managed multiple offices, and for 10 years, during his tenure at several leading niche providers in the staffing industry, has achieved phenomenal results with his mentoring techniques and entrepreneurial style, running the most profitable region with the lowest turnover of personnel. He participated in the hyper-growth of a company, over a 4 ½ year period, from 13 offices and $13 million, to 33 offices and $125 million, to IPO and change to public company. Jim develops the skills of his clients.
Jim is a 30 year veteran of the business development process. Through his association with the Institute for Independent Business (IIB), he is well positioned to assess and advise in many areas of business growth and in management practices for small and medium businesses. In 1997 Jim co-founded a family business, The Growing Tree School, Hingham, MA. The business grew from start up to full capacity within 15 months.
Testimonials include: "Jim takes time to understand his clients, helps them to assess things. He adds value to help business owners achieve their goals, creates instant rapport, and has a sense of humor too. He is what he seems, an experienced Coach and Mentor." M.S., Owner, IT staffing firm
"Jim can Coach and Advise on many areas of importance to business owners. Start-ups, struggling companies, smaller companies, etc. Jim knows how to mentor entrepreneurs, what to do, and what not to do. He is a good speaker, very natural. He is also a professional who can "Let the Magic Out" for achievement oriented business owners. J.S., Titleist Golf
Jim is certified by Wilson Learning in Counselor Selling and Managing Growth Resources, and by Psychological Associates in Dimensional Sales Management and Dimensional Management, a grid-based behavioral training program. He is a licensee of Get Sales NOW! and is certified in Brian Tracy's programs, Advanced Selling Techniques and Personal Success. Jim has studied with several of the leading Coaching organizations. He is an Accredited Associate of the Institute for Independent Business; a U.K. based non-profit which provides support for small to medium sized businesses.
DR. TODD ELLER
For 15 years, Dr. Todd Eller has been dedicated to the effectiveness of people within organizations. Todd's specialties include executive coaching, organization strategy, operational effectiveness, career counseling, human resources and communication in the workplace.
Todd has been an advisor and trainer across numerous industries, types, and sizes of organizations. While working at the countries largest career center, Todd trained Fortune 500 companies, Universities, Institutions, healthcare industries, entertainment industries, law firms, small businesses and MBA graduates. Todd has conducted workshops across the country in the area of best practices and organizational change. He also has written and developed online training tools in the area of diversity and human resources.
Todd's coaching and career development experience includes working with senior management, middle management and entry level employees. He has successfully undertaken a wide variety of coaching assignments spanning a broad breadth of industries. Corporations to which Todd has provided consulting and coaching services include: Castle and Cooke International, The California Endowment, BabyFirstTV, ERA Real Estate, American Association of Administrators, JW Investments, Forever Young Medicine, The Human Rights Group, The Stupski Foundation, National Center for Evaluation and many more. His multidimensional experience helps to apply a practical and effective approach to advising clients in a variety of areas.
Another specialty of Todd's is the area of presentation. Todd has appeared on national television, conducted workshops to hundreds of participants, written speeches and teaches effective communication.
Dr. Todd Eller received his Ph. D. in psychological studies from UCLA with an emphasis on industrial psychology and career counseling. He also holds a masters degree and is finishing his book entitled American Business.
Dr. Eller's program of success creates amazing improvement. - Steven Smith, MD and CEO of Forever Young Medicine
JIM CASTIGLIA
Jim Castiglia has spent 32 years in the training industry as a Senior Trainer and coach. He's a business growth mastery coach with Business Breakthroughs International, Inc. and specializes in cash flow, revenue, and profit growth for small businesses with sales revenues under $300 million.
In 1977, he joined a group of dedicated entrepreneurs and built a $12 million California statewide training company, eventually employing more than 110 people and 560 volunteers. He led over 3,000 trainings with 128,000 attendees over 13 years, and also served in a management capacity, turning around under-performing centers and supervising the centers' staff.
From April 1993 to April 1995, he was an instructor for an international management consulting company, training executives at Fortune 500 companies in presentation skills, business writing skills, and sales curriculums.
Jim's been an invited lecturer at the University of Southern California (USC) Graduate School of Engineering, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and San Diego State University (SDSU).
He's a native of Washington, D.C., currently living in southern California. He grew up in a large family of nine siblings as the only son of a NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Colts, and Washington Redskins) and Major League Baseball catcher (Philadelphia Athletics). Jim and his lovely wife Marcella were married in Venice, Italy and they have two children and an adopted ex-racing greyhound. He's a student of the French and Italian languages, holds a black belt in Okinawan karate and has studied Aikido, Eagle Claw Kung Fu, and T'ai Chi.
STEVE ANDRUZZI
Steve Andruzzi is a seasoned, highly sought after Business Professional with over 20 years experience with high-end retailers such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Macy's, Ann Taylor, Belk and Jordan Marsh. Steve has spent the last seven years with The Grand America Hotel; Salt Lake City's only 5 Diamond hotel. He has a proven track record in Business Management and Consulting, Training and Personal Development, Employee Retention, Visual and Interior Design, Buying, Revenue Management, Payroll and Inventory Control.
As the original Director of Retail for The Grand America Hotel, Steve designed and planned the opening of seven high-end Boutiques setting a standard of quality in purchasing and merchandising which helped achieve the hotel's coveted 5 Diamond rating as well as win Best of State Awards three years in a row. He was responsible for all the buying, design and layout of the stores, as well as the specialty decorating for the hotels restaurants, Presidential Suites and their world-famous Christmas decor. While working closely with the Holding family, he was frequently used as a consultant for the companies sister properties in Sun Valley Resort, Little America Hotels, Snow Basin and The Westgate in San Diego.
Steve is also a professional actor with commercial and film credits including: Disney's Halloweentown, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Bone Yard, NuSkin, LDS Church and just recently completed three episodes of a new Sci-Fi TV series which just premiered at the New York and Los Angeles Television Festivals.
SARAH BRYANT
Sarah Bryant is a Professional Certified Coach and MBA business consultant dedicated to the idea that success is simple, but not always obvious. Driving "the desire for more" and following a prescriptive process of working on the business with dogged determination, Sarah supports businesses in achieving unprecedented results.
Starting her career in Sales, Sarah quickly established herself as a top performer in the financial services industry. Soon she was leading and training award-winning sales teams and doubling revenue in a mature industry. Seeing opportunity everywhere, Sarah sculpted new initiatives, created fresh lines of business and streamlined every aspect of the business: reducing employee turnover, launching joint ventures and reshaping incentive programs. As VP of Sales, Sarah's innovative strategies resulted in highly profitable organizational change and business development programs for revitalization during industry recession.
Career experience also includes: directing the business growth of (3) entrepreneurial start-ups and piloting a leadership coaching program for a European International Financial Services Conglomerate before making her own entrepreneurial leap. Since then, Sarah has worked with executives across various industries to invent revenue streams during growth, stabilize organizational culture during management transition, create high-performance sales teams, and execute 1800 turnarounds in failing organizations. She has actively coached and consulted in the corporate setting since 1999 with specialties in Workforce Engagement, Business Development and Organizational Change Management.
- Graduate of iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching), an ICF-accredited program with coaching certification (CPC).
- Received the esteemed PCC (Professional Certified Coach) credential through the International Coach Federation.
- Distinguished as an ELI-MP (Energy Leadership Index- Master Practitioner).
- Undergraduate degree in Organizational Psychology from Bradley University and continues study in the areas of business and human performance. Sarah is certified to deliver and debrief various personality and leadership inventories (MBTI, 16PF, ELI, etc.).
- MBA in Leadership from Argosy University.
Alongside the traditional tools, Sarah uses her great sense of humor and adventure as a catalyst for transformational breakthrough. Passionate about "paying it forward" in her own community, Sarah serves as a motivational coach for community education, a Laughter Yoga Leader and an officer of Toastmasters International.
KIM SNYDER
Kim Snyder is a successful business coach, and entrepreneur guiding businesses to better organization and management to build sales and realize higher profits. Having worked for many years in accounting and tax, Kim brings a strong financial knowledge and ability to forecast the financial impact of poor systems and people management to businesses.
Using the principles in the Business Mastery System, combined with coaching, Kim's clients begin to develop much needed systems to better manage sales and marketing strategies, and provide consistent training to the sales teams and other employees. Kim's focus is to work with business owners with the vision to develop their business to run without them.
Kim has owned several businesses in her career and has truly found her passion in working with and teaching and guiding others. Raising her son on her own, and owning a business at the same time she came to understand early on the real need for balance in life and work.
Kim is also a writer and motivational speaker and lives in Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada.
"The market has changed so fast. Without your help I wouldn't be in business today. You are truly positioning me for future explosive growth. Richard Riley, CEO"
LOU ANDRUZZI
Lou Andruzzi is a highly successful and accomplished business executive whose expertise includes 25 years of multi-unit management at the District, Regional & Divisional levels with some of the largest companies in the world including The Home Depot, Lowe's Home Improvement and Sears Holdings Corporation as well as General Cinema and Cinema National. Lou's personal responsibility has included the leadership of more than 200 locations with sales approaching $1 billion.
With a proven track record of growing sales & profits, reducing employee turn-over and developing top leaders, Lou is an expert in all phases of operations including: sales, inventory control, marketing, loss prevention, safety, recruiting, hiring, training, budgeting process, forecasting, profit & loss analysis, warehouse operations, product purchasing & merchandising. Lou is also experienced in new market growth and expansion including new project construction and development, staffing, training, marketing and merchandising new locations to open on time and budget.
As President of the Retail Breakthrough Division for Chet Holmes International, Lou is a highly trained CHI expert and CEO Coach & Consultant. Lou has a proven history of helping CEO's of small and large companies grow and develop their leadership abilities. Lou has mentored company executives on the successful implementation of Chet's ultimate sales growth strategies including Dream 100 campaigns, Core Story, Best Neighborhood Strategy, Seven Musts of Marketing, Superstar Hiring, time management, radio, print & television ad copy, sales scripts and many more.
Lou is a professional public speaker and trainer.
Lou is also a licensed Real Estate Broker with experience in sales techniques, listing & buyer presentations, marketing and negotiations.
Lou has more than a decade of experience giving back to communities while working with Habitat for Humanity. Building homes and coordinating community events, he has worked with many elected officials including state and local officials, members of the U.S. Congress, Governors and a former President of the United States.
Lou is an experienced aviator who flies for the United States Civil Air Patrol as well as Angel Flight of America.
Lou Andruzzi is an incredible thinker. He has a knack for flushing through complex organizational issues and rendering a workable solution to otherwise unsolvable challenges. He has helped me with time management, organization and designing and implementing management structure needed for growth. I have enjoyed my discussions with Lou and gain extreme clarity after our sessions. I would venture to guess that there are not many executive coaches out there with this talent...and even fewer that really care about your business.
John DePaola President and CEO, Long Fence and Home LLLP
LIZ CROWDER
Liz Crowder brings her extensive expertise to business and executive coaching from a background as varied as the businesses and industries with whom she has worked. Some of her most successful clients range from medical/veterinary/naturopathic fields, IT consultants and technicians, marketing and sales experts, financial services and planners, numerous areas of real estate, and variety of trade businesses to name a few.
Years of studies, achievements and experience in personal growth, mental health counseling/psychotherapy, and business growth and development combined with an entrepreneurial spirit of her own creating personal businesses in interior design, design and draft of plans for residential homes, executive image consulting, real estate investments, including an exceptional sales career where she was consistently among the top producers as well as both private and public practices in psychotherapy contribute a unique depth of understanding and enhanced effectiveness in helping her clients achieve their goals and dreams.
She has a no-nonsense approach to coaching that helps her clients increase revenues and profits using strategies and tactics that are implemented-not just talked about. (One of her most recent clients, a founder of a local networking group-similar to BNI-quadrupled her income in 12 months and has begun licensing her business nationally through simple implementation of specific systems, strategies, tactics and marketing). She further empowers clients helping them discover their unlimited potential using the power of the subconscious mind and our amazing brain, thus optimizing successful RESULTS. Consequently, not only do her clients experience ultimate business success, but also positive growth, improved communications, leadership acumen, and better relationships in both their business and personal lives.
She is highly qualified and excels in skills that identify breakdown areas (challenges and problems) and breakthrough areas (opportunities and possibilities); then, she systematically helps the owner determine and put into operation the best solutions and systems for success.
Liz enjoys working with all levels of businesses and individuals who are 100% committed to growing their business. As a coach, she helps facilitate clients' successful accomplishments and achievements through support, accountability, and most importantly-ACTION; because knowledge without ACTION is meaningless. Knowledge alone has no value to create change.
Her education includes several degrees:
Master of Science -- Psychology and Mental Health Counseling (4.0 GPA)
Bachelor of Arts -- Psychology (Cum Laude)
Associate of Arts -- General Education
Associate of Arts -- Interior Design (Presidents Highest Honor)
Forever a student, a sponge for learning with a constant pursuit for excellence and professionalism, she continues her educational endeavors with International Coach Academy, an ICF approved curriculum, for formal certification in coaching with a focus on executive and business coaching.
SCOTT BADGER
Scott Badger is a business coach having vast experience consulting with local, state and federal government operations as well as several small to large sized private sector companies throughout the country. Scott has enjoyed a rewarding career in software development, project management, business development and sales for Information Technology companies.
Scott realized several years ago that his primary desire is to serve in a consultative and coaching role for businesses with proven products or service offerings. Scott is drawn to serve and help business owners who recognize it is time to "jump-start" their business into gear.
Scott is high energy and ready to coach business owners into change that will expand their market presence and create new sales! His utilization and emphasis of the Business Growth Masters series helps him come alongside leaders and guide them into the development of best practice sales and strategic marketing concepts. He has successfully helped companies exceed the $1-3 million dollar annual sales barrier many times over.
Having decades of hands-on business experience at various levels within organizations, Scott now finds it rewarding and practical to serve fellow CEOs and business owners. Scott enjoys coaching his clients into true accountability; educating them to understand their marketplace; helping convert customers to clients for life; developing straightforward workshops that will alter company overall effectiveness; focusing on "stand-out" marketing initiatives; creating time executives never realized existed; and finally creating better and smarter corporate operations by helping executives with planning, procedures and policies.
BECKY CASTRO
Becky Castro, CPCC, PCC, draws on her 23 years of business and entrepreneurial experience to help individuals and businesses reach new levels of effectiveness, based on measurable outcomes because we all are making decisions every moment of the day that either 1) bring our business additional revenue or 2) end up costing our business more money. Becky's guidance is aimed at sharpening both clarity and direction, helping businesses create a context in which employees at all levels of the organization can tap into internal motivators that naturally drive performance, engagement, creativity, and results.
In her work with individuals and businesses, Becky's goal is to get you into action but her bottom line is to create in you, permanent, sustained change. Her coaching is aimed at strengthening your decision making, allowing you to leverage your time, focus, and efforts and to put them to the service of your deepest values. She refuses to allow clients to think small.
Becky has been certified by the Coaches Training Institute since 2001 and was awarded the second highest level of coaching certification from the International Coach Federation in 2006. She is specifically trained in coaching businesses and organizations, and enjoys developing innovative and customized approaches for each business she works with. She actively participates in several organizations and has sat on many boards, including The Northampton Chamber of Commerce, The Women Business Owners Alliance, Business and Professional Women, Western Mass Coaching Alliance, Toastmasters, and The International Coach Federation.
JANET MOELLER
Janet Moeller is a successful business executive with 20 years experience in growing businesses. Her expertise includes: sales, leadership development, interpersonal communications, recruiting and hiring.
Known as an accomplished Sales Trainer, Public Speaker, Seminar Leader and VP of Sales for national companies, Janet has owned and sold her own multi-million dollar corporation.
Janet is a one-of-a-kind Business Coach who is dedicated to the success and enrichment of her clients. Practicing a Total Organizational Approach (TOA) she mentors entrepreneurs, executives and teams utilizing Chet's ultimate sales growth strategies. She teaches master-level excellence in these programs: Dream 100 campaigns, Core Story implementation, Seven Musts of Marketing, Superstar Hiring, Time Management, Superstar Recruiting and Sales Systems.
Janet earned a Bachelor's degree in business and management. She is also a licensed Realtor and C.S.P. with extensive experience in sales presentations, marketing methods, and negotiations.
Committed to helping others, Janet has been a mentor for the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, the Community Crisis Center and is also the past president and board member of ESYF, a charity that assists children that are emotionally and physically disabled.
Janet's leadership skills, history of achievement and contagious enthusiasm for continual improvement has made her a decorated Business Coach, Strategy Consultant, Public Speaker and Trainer.
SCOTT WILSON
Scott Wilson is an innovative, creative and experienced leader, coach, trainer, public speaker and entrepreneur. His passion and enthusiasm coupled with his insight into how to apply breakthrough strategies lend themselves well as a Strategic Business Coach with Chet Holmes International. Scott's top talents are training and motivating your sales staff, creating a profound and strategic marketing focus with results, landing your ideal clients and recruiting top talent. His specific core Chet Holmes strengths also include: Core Story Implementation; Best Buyer/Dream 100 Strategizing; Script creation and deployment; Sales Training and Management; Solutions; Team Building; Group Facilitation and more.
As a certified Outcome Facilitator who has coached top level executives including such clients as Best Western Worldwide, Scott believes every problem is brought about by its solution. He has worked with clients one-on-one and in groups as large as several hundred and is comfortable in any setting. Since the beginning he's a natural at seeing a problem and its solution simultaneously, so what you consider a mountain of a challenge in your business occurs to him as just another upgrade about to happen.
Scott has served with Chet Holmes International since 2006 and has applied his expertise in several divisions within the company - each time creating great value and results. Other past positions include: CEO, President, VP of Sales and Marketing, Marketing Director and top producing salesman again and again and again. Along with being one of CHI's Strategic Business Coaches, he also serves as our Director of Recruitment Services, helping our clients recruit top-producing sales talent. While he is very easy to get along with, his main focus as your coach is to get results even if he has to conscientiously push you outside your comfort zone to do so.
Jason Garey
Jason began his journey in the profession of sales selling new cars. Jason credits selling cars to being a great foundation for learning the art of selling. He was well recognized as one of the top salesman in the country and was ultimately asked to become a sales trainer for Honda. Wanting to always explore other possibilities he moved into executive recruiting. Focusing on business development and recruiting engineers, Jason quickly distinguished himself as the top producer by consistently outperforming his coworkers and competition 4-5 times industry standard. Jason then went on to become a national sales trainer for a recruiting firm focused on finding employment for recently discharged military personnel. Jason then went on to do motivational speaking with his most notable client being Home Depot speaking in front of over 1200 audience members. In all Jason has trained thousands of sales managers, salespeople and employees on sound strategies that build profits and how to improve the overall quality of the workplace.
Risk Taker and Athlete
A very accomplished tennis player, Jason decided to take a break from selling and became a tennis pro at 2 local clubs teaching tennis, running programs and coaching youth tennis for the United States Tennis Association. Just as in sports, competitive spirit in business is the engine that propels growth. This experience was Jason's first introduction as to what joy and rewarding feelings coaching and teaching bestowed upon him.
Entrepreneur
From there Jason decided that although it was fun to take a break and do what he loved, tennis was not paying the bills so he decided to start a real estate investment firm focused on buying properties and land contracting them out to perspective tenants. From there Jason leveraged his success and started the Tumblebus (a school bus refurbished to have gymnastic equipment on it) which went to daycare's and preschools where children would participate in exercise curriculum designed to promote healthy lifestyles for children. He also owned an executive recruiting firm as well as a decorative concrete curbing business.
Environmentalist
Always wanting to push the envelope, Jason developed a passion for the environment and sustainability and began working as a consultant for GreenSwitch and Wisuite. At Wisuite he quickly established himself as a leader and took on the role as VP of Operations. Wisuite is an international wireless energy management company operating in over 7 countries. While at Wisuite Jason was masterful at understanding the market constraints in a down economy while always capitalizing on sound strategic partnerships and intelligent channel marketing efforts. Through these relationships he developed a knack for the art of a barter and how creativity and intuitive can often take the place of traditional forms of business development.
Coach
Not feeling completely content, Jason felt that he had so many fruitful real life experiences and wanted to share these with others. Someone introduced him to Chet Holmes International and suggested he should look into coaching. He is quite excited about working with Chet Holmes and is inspired to help others grow their business.
Husband, Father and Pet Owner *Most Important
Jason is married to his wife Michelle and has two children Kaleb and Kiley. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing with his 3 dogs and taking the time to enjoy life.
Student and Airman
Jason attended the Owens Community College and The University of Toledo majoring in Business Administration. Jason served his country by joining the United States Air Force in 1991. He was a decorated airman who won 2 certificates of appreciation as well as a meritorious service medal.
Jenny Rawlings
Jenny Rawlings is a graduate of the prestigious Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and has been successfully coaching business owners for nearly four years.
At Chet Holmes International, she specializes in assisting business owners to clarify their strategic vision and goals and focus on initiatives that will have the most impact to their bottom line. She expertly guides business owners in improving time management practices and systematizing policies, processes and procedures so the business is no longer taking over their lives. Additionally, she can assist with training sales staff, coordinating strategic marketing endeavors, hiring superstars, and implementing a Dream 100 marketing campaign.
Jenny grew up in a family business that was started when she was quite young and grew to a multi-million dollar company. She has also successfully owned or co-owned four businesses - a real estate investment company, a construction and remodeling company, a network marketing company, and a coaching company.
In addition to business coaching, Jenny has consistently proven her deep commitment to helping others-from serving in the Peace Corps in the Philippines to working with chronically ill and impoverished elderly individuals to improve their access to health care in the inner city.
Jenny earned a Bachelor's degree in International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently lives in the peaceful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with her son and husband.
Lisa Riley
Lisa Riley has been an entrepreneur, executive leader and business growth expert for over twenty years. Beginning her career by building a successful multi-million dollar transportation company while still a teenager, Lisa went on to award-winning achievement in corporate America as a top performing sales and marketing leader and growth consultant for mid-sized to Fortune 75 companies. Lisa's experience and accomplishments in a wide array of industries, including transportation, high tech products and services, manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, staffing, retail, construction and energy solutions gives her a keen understanding of the varied challenges of small, mid-sized and large companies. Lisa has used her expertise to help companies double and triple their size with minimal growing pains through strategic planning, improving sales and marketing, hiring superstar performers at all levels and architecting performance and growth strategies that build a cohesive organization with high employee retention.
In addition to her business success, Lisa strongly believes in using her talents to help non-profit organizations that serve families with special needs children. She has been a consultant for the Building Bridges program (funded by the Blue Cross Foundation) which designed and executed multiple community delivery models that brought together hospitals, doctors, educators, community leaders and families to assist in better supporting special needs children. She has been a speaker and fund raiser for The Children's Friend and she is a certified Parent Advocate, assisting parents to design education plans that help their children succeed.
Ian Platt
Ian is a seasoned business growth specialist helping organizations rapidly increase sales and profitability.
In the last 14 years, Ian has consulted mentored, trained and coached over 10,000 C-Level Executives, Sales VP's, Sales Managers and Sales People in 20+ countries for substantially improved business results.
Following a successful sales career in the telecommunications industry from rooky Salesperson to Sales VP, Ian founded a water and air treatment company that had operations in the UK, Netherlands, France and Italy. After selling this business, he joined Mercuri International the world's largest sales development consultancy where he worked internationally as a Management Consultant for five years. This role involved working with large blue chip organizations such as Oracle and Philips Medical Systems at country CEO level in some 20+ countries developing and implementing business growth solutions largely focused on guiding sales strategy and developing the sales division for increased sales and profitability. Working with InterContinental Hotel Group he assisted them in doubling their worldwide sales within the first year of working together.
He specializes in developing practical, usable strategies and tactics to improve business results quickly. One of his favorite questions to business leaders being "Is your sales strategy leading and deciding your sales results or are your sales results deciding your strategy?" Ian develops solutions for those who want strategy to lead sales.
He is an avid student of human potential having studied with Dr Richard Bandler, Dr Tad James, Dr Paul McKenna and becoming a licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming by 'The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming' and certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistics by the 'American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming' and an instructor of Hypnotherapy, certified and approved by the 'American Board of Hypnotherapy'
Ian has designed and implementing Sales Competency Frameworks and Balanced Score Card methodologies for companies such as Shell Oil and Philips Medical systems globally. He is a recognized expert in the successful implementation of these tools. Ian sits on advisory panels for the American Society for Training & Development (Sales Competency Advisory Panel) and The Sales and Marketing Trainers Association-SMT (Sales Leadership Expert). He is an active member of both professional bodies.
As part of consulting projects, Ian enjoys facilitating leadership and sales workshops. He is well known for his innovative accelerated learning techniques, involving all the participants in an active and fun way. He excels in taking academic ideas and transforming them into practical examples and explaining complex ideas in a straightforward way that all delegates understand.
Ian Platt's consulting clients include:
- Philips, Medical Systems, Lighting, DAP,
- Shell Oil, Aviation, lubricants, Global Solutions, LPG, Risk Management
- TACA Airlines
- Mercedes
- Nokia
- Oracle
- Hempel Paints
- Standard Chartered Bank
- Carrier Air Conditioning
- Abn-Amro Bank
- Zurich Life
David Muraco
David Muraco, CPCC is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from The Coaches Training Institute, Professional Speaker writer and Radio Show Host. He has also received additional training from Landmark Education Forum, Jack Canfield Success Coaching, and Peak Performance Expert Anthony Robbins.
In 2004, David created In The Zone - Personal & Professional Coaching Solutions to inspire others to live their lives to the fullest each and every day; giving them greater fulfillment, balance and effectiveness in their personal and professional life. I have learned first hand that "change can happen in an instant, but it takes time and dedication to make it possible." In Business Coaching, my goal is to inspire individual and organizations to perform at their peak, developing their skills. Armed with Chet & Tony's Business Mastery System, David is an Expert in the following areas: Core Story (Becoming a Master Marketer), Ultimate Competitive advantage, Seven Musts of Marketing, and Professional Presenting. "With a positive reinforcement and highly effective coaching framework, I routinely get long lasting results my clients are looking for."
Prior to starting his own business, David spent 16 years in a Corporate America specializing in the areas of Management, Sales, Team Building and Leadership. David's Commitment to excellence was proven time and time again as he was a Top Producer with 3 different organizations over that 15 year period. David was also a key component in Training and Development in each organization that he worked in, training thousands of employees while maintaining a less then 5% turnover rate. As a lifelong learner, David is committed to ongoing education in all aspects of coaching, leadership, business development and personal growth. "I feel it is of the utmost importance to continue to learn and grow daily, both as a person and a coach."
David lives in New York with his loving wife Jennifer and two amazing children Andrew and Allison. In addition to his treasured time with his family, David also enjoys coaching high school baseball, running, writing, reading and connecting with amazing people.
Bill Sifflard
Bill Sifflard brings over 25 years of dynamic leadership and effective management experience as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, business consultant and executive coach to the Business Breakthrough Coaching Team. He is a true agent for innovation and transformation for any company looking to set themselves apart within their industry.
Whether closing a $10 million sale to a Fortune 100 company, or hiring, training and leading a record breaking sales organizations, Bill has a proven track record of marketing and sales excellence at all levels. For the last 15 years Bill has been on the cutting edge of sales and marketing innovation as companies have embraced new communication technology and the power of the internet to position themselves for success within their industry.
As a Success Coach, Bill is a master at integrating the traditional proven strengths of an organization, with the power of the Chet Holmes Business Breakthrough strategies and systems. Together with business owners and executives, Bill works to facilitate the development and implementation of the effective strategies, education based marketing and dynamic sales systems that will drive a company to achieve their full potential.
Bill's diverse executive, operational, marketing and sales experience across a variety of industries enables him to quickly identify and effectively adapt to an organization's unique challenges and strategic opportunities. His market and industry experience includes:
- Energy Saving Products and Services - Green and ESCO Industry
- Retail Supermarket and C-Store - Marketing, Merchandising and Operations
- Retail - Brick and Mortar - Operation, Merchandising, Marketing and Sales
- Real Estate / Insurance / Mortgager and Financial Services
- Web Based Businesses - Virtual Products, E-Commerce and Web Presence
- CRM, MRP and ERP marketing, sales and implementation
- Manufacturing Industry - Engineering, Production, Distribution, Marketing and Sales
- Electronics Industry - Energy Efficient Lighting Products and Components
- Foodservice Industry - Wholesale, Retail, Distribution, Restaurant
When not working with Business Owners and CEO's, Bill has been heavily involved with serving his community on Cape Cod for the last twenty years by organizing, expanding and coaching youth and high school sports. During this time he has mentored the lives of hundreds of young men and women, teaching skills and strategies that not only work on the sports fields, but have had a positive impact on their personal lives and future careers.
Neal Tricarico
Neal Tricarico, an accomplished and highly successful business growth expert offers his proven and verifiable track record of growing businesses in the areas of sales, profits, marketing, sales leadership, recruiting, hiring and training.
Neal's broad range of business successes includes his experience as Director of Sales for Deepak Chopra's Center for Wellbeing, where he broke every sales record possible. He was responsible for a 900% increase in sales and more than quadrupled attendance at the live events. He excelled in the development of sales and in managing, training and coaching sales personnel, increasing the average revenue per sales rep by 26%. Neal also became an accomplished speaker, presenter and closer from stage, as well as a Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor.
As Senior Vice President of the Breakthrough Consulting Division for Business Breakthroughs International (a Tony Robbins & Chet Holmes Company), Neal is a highly trained expert and Consultant. Neal has a proven history of helping small and large companies grow and develop through the implementation of Chet's ultimate sales growth strategies. These successful strategies include Dream 100 campaigns, Core Story, Seven Musts of Marketing, Superstar Hiring, time management, sales systems and scripts and many more.
Neal also holds a license as a Real Estate Broker, with experience arranging and structuring investment deals, real estate projects, financing, capital structuring, and property acquisitions and sales for investors. He raised $1 million in equity in ten weeks for a new construction project in Hollywood, among other successful deals.
Neal's success in consulting and selling spans the industries of personal growth, wellness, software, technology, manufacturing, real estate and online. He continues to raise the bar on all his endeavors.
Mark Gittler
Mark Gittler is an accomplished Senior Training, Coaching, Marketing, Operations, and Merchandising Executive with a solid and successful 35 year history of leading and growing successful and profitable ventures, companies, divisions, regions, and multiple location organizations.
Recruited as a Business Mastery Coach by Chet Holmes International, Mark has demonstrated his expertise in formulating, strategizing and executing numerous bottoms up and tops down business strategies, achieving great success through hard results oriented work at every level, working with and for CEOs, Presidents, and Owners of major public and private organizations. Mark is entrepreneurial and both sales and process driven, building on the culture, directives and needs of a single individual, or sales teams of 1000 or more, leading $1M companies or producing over $500M.
During his esteemed Corporate career within the Retail, Marketing, and Executive Search industries, holding high level positions including Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Merchandising Officer, Executive Director of Stores, Executive Consultant, Executive Partner and more, for such stalwart institutions such as A&S, Macy*s, Lifetime Brands, Century 21 Department Stores and Allen Austin Executive Search, Mark has expanded his responsibilities to include all areas of marketing, training, coaching, consulting, mentoring, operations, and merchandising.
Mark continuously develops innovative, customer focused internal processes and standards producing incremental double digit year-over-year increases in Sales to budget and LY, improved customer servicing standards, and substantially reduced operational costs.
Well-versed in, and a long time skilled practitioner of the sure-fire methods and disciplines of Chet Holmes, Mark has utilized these masterly effective Core Strategies to the great success of numerous individuals and organizations through expertly communicating, synergizing and developing strategic plans that WORK, while generating incremental revenue, controlled expenses and inventory, building loyal client bases and improving teamwork.
Master of a concentric circle communication strategy, hundreds of selling, and support associates and executives trained by Mark through the years can and do quote his most famous maxim when asked even years later:
"Bad Execution of a Great Idea is a Bad Idea."
A published poet and songwriter, Mark can be found when not building businesses, engaged in numerous creative pursuits, be it fronting a band, shooting hoops, painting, studying the stock market, managing talent, and bringing new ideas and concepts to market.
Mark is the proud father of the three most evolved, talented, and loving kids on the planet.
A true affirmation believer, Mark believes there is nothing we can't accomplish if we apply, in Chet Holmes words, a focused pig-headed determination and discipline.
John Oda
Dr. John Oda is recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs worldwide. He was featured in "Meeting the Giants," working with renowned speakers such as Anthony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Jack Canfield, and Les Brown. He is also regarded as a business expert on the Evan Carmichael website. His writings appear alongside other greats like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Timothy Ferriss, and Donald Trump. Dr. Oda has been featured as a guest on "Oprah in Friends," ABC television, and served as a radio host on PBS' online radio with his own personal development show.
In 1995, Dr. Oda met and teamed up with bestselling author and peak performance expert, Joseph McClendon III, a head trainer for the Anthony Robbins organization. His educational background includes a Doctorate in Philosophy (with an emphasis in Psychology) and certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Sport Performance (NLP) Specializing in phobia and emotional challenges twenty years practicing (NLP) Specializing in wellness and nutrition ten years practicing. (NLP)
Because of Dr. Oda's special skills and experience, he is frequently called upon to provide corporate training, workshops and seminars for many companies worldwide. He is an expert in executive business coaching, time management, leadership, sales and business professionals in overcoming the behaviors and obstacles that may impede their sales results and affect their bottom line.
Dr. John's Oda's work provides new insight and solutions to current business issues, working as an executive business coach for 15 years and helping to increase a company's sales from 25% - 3,000% annually. His strategies and tools for change can prove valuable for persons of any age.
Dr. Oda has a remarkable ability to go straight to the core of a person's challenges and effect rapid change, making him a valuable commodity as a turn around specialist in the business and private arenas. He does this with his unique brand of leadership, presentation style, humor and passion for living. His ability to inspire others to take action and to achieve greater results are principles of living that he upholds.
Dr. John consulting clients include:
- Hideki Electronics
- State Farm
- Bethlehem Steel
- Keller Williams
- H2O Waste Management
- Power House Gym
- Century 21
- Blue Chip Casino
- Portland Community College
- Primerica
- Tri-Met
- Kelley Services
- The Olympia
- Nielsen Dealership
- HBW Financial Services
- Coffey Labs
Here is what people are saying:
"With a style all his own and vigor that inspires others to take action, John is a true crusader for assisting others in making a positive change in their lives. The lives of those they love. I'm proud to call him a friend. My wish for you is that you too will come to work with him, and know him as well. Dr. Oda will add ten times the value. I guarantee it!" - Joseph McClendon III, co-author with Anthony Robbins on two bestselling books and a UCLA instructor
"This program changed my team forever... Dr. John coaching has empowered our company with the skills and mindset to become a true team. It has given us tools to better communicate with one another and learn how to effectively relate with different styles and personalities. This program WORKS!" - Jim Boyle, President of Hideki Electronics
"Outstanding tools, strategies, and results. John coaching and presentation skills are extremely effective and powerful .John Oda is a MUST!!" - Mike Niloff, President H20 Waste Management Services Inc.
John Tessier
Is an Executive and Business Coach and a former executive of IBM International, operating in and/or living in a dozen countries in the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. His assignments included, President of a group of SE Asian subsidiaries; setting up and managing subsidiaries In Africa; several headquarters Marketing and Public Affairs positions; and Assistant Secretary of IBM's External Latin American Board.
John founded "Executives on the Cutting Edge" in 1996 offering a variety of coaching and consulting services including
- Coaching corporate executives, business professionals and owners of small-to-medium businesses committed to achieving business, professional and personal growth
- Working with CEOs and their executive teams on strategic issues, developing business plans, and team building,
- Chairing a Master-mind Group (advisory board) consisting of the owners/CEOs and managing partners of a variety of small-to-medium-sized non-competing businesses.
- Setting-up and participating in Boards of Directors
- Setting-up and facilitating management development forums for business executives
- Working with Fortune 500 professional and technical executives assigned to work in foreign subsidiaries and affiliates to provide them with an understanding of 'Doing Business Internationally.'
- Providing people assessment and consulting services to support hiring and employee development.
In 1999, Tessier partnered with the Westchester County Chamber of Commerce and Community College to provide an annual four-month workshop to improve business owners' success rate. In 2003 he was invited by the Westchester Community College to provide a series of workshops for the CEOs of the Westchester IT cluster group. In 2005 he was invited to be an adjunct faculty member of Pace University's Leadership program.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries (London); a former Co-Chair of the Trade and Investment Committee of the Brazil-U.S. Business Council, and a member of Coach U's Advisory Board.
He majored in Accounting and Economics for a B. Commerce degree; is a certified Corporate Secretary (ACIS, London), a graduate of Coach U, a graduate of Landmark Education, a certified Behavioral and Values Assessment Analyst, and a Certified One-Page Business Planning and Performance Consultant.
Linda McNair
For the last 20 years, Linda has developed and led worldwide marketing and communications plans, product launches and corporate initiatives for the technology, education, sustainable agriculture and organic industries. She has worked with a range of non-profits, start-ups, and Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, IBM, Oracle and Phillips Electronics to effectively reach consumer and business customers. Since 2003, Linda has been helping companies weave social responsibility initiatives into their business practices.
Linda is experienced in providing strategic counsel to executive management and team leaders at all levels of an organization. She is excited to integrate BBI's twelve core strategies and help clients realize profound results.
Linda is seasoned in building relationships and handling interactions with high profile individuals, and managing affiliate partnerships and grassroots community programs. She has honed an expertise of developing creative approaches to every aspect of the marketing mix, always connecting them to business objectives and demonstrating ROI. Some of her campaigns have garnered industry awards. These include the Direct Marketing Association ECHO Award which honors campaigns that have excelled in direct response strategy, creativity and results and several Webby awards - the leading international award honoring excellence on the Web.
Linda started her career in public relations and has deep experience on both the corporate and agency sides. She helped start and grow a Silicon Valley office for a Boston-based PR agency back in the early 90s, and then built Adobe's corporate and worldwide PR organization. Her years in PR has resulted in coverage in hundreds of trade publications and social media outlets, as well as top-tier business and consumer venues like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, CNN, CNBC and The Today Show.
A Silicon Valley native, Linda graduated from Santa Clara University with a bachelors degree in marketing and a minor in communications/journalism. While at Adobe, she graduated from the Women Unlimited Leadership Education and Development program, a nomination-based executive track granted to only five women leaders per year.
Social responsibility work goes beyond Linda's professional world; it is also a personal cause. She is the founder of a company that helps families and schools teach young kids how to grow, and increase their consumption of, fruits and vegetables. To supplement this effort, she co-wrote and self-published a childrens' book, How a Garden Saves the Earth, to teach the importance of local, sustainable food choices for the health of our bodies, our communities and our planet.
Jon Sarver
Dr. Jon Sarver is a highly successful entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience of leadership ranging from non profits to internet based businesses with many having faith based overtones. Jon has the unique ability to claim successful businesses in small rural towns and large cities alike. He has a track record of laying the groundwork for growth and vitality as several of his businesses have lasted far beyond the average and many exist today; decades after they were founded.
He has also enjoyed a fundamental role in developing leadership education and cutting edge mentoring in several institutions of higher education. In fact, in several cases he was called in to develop a program that was relevant to the "real" needs of the "learning" leader. All of these programs have become known for their practical application to theory and Dr. Sarver's role was to hold each leader's feet to the fire to produce results it what was typically a nonprofit environment.
Jon has been teaching and coaching the "spirit" of the 12 core business strategies for years. He is proud to be part of the BBI team and get the opportunity to mesh what he has learned over the years with the proven growth strategies of Business Breakthroughs International.
His expertise lies in coaching the client to the successful implementation of Chet's ultimate sales growth strategies including Dream 100 campaigns, Core Story, Best Neighborhood Strategy, Seven Musts of Marketing, Superstar Hiring, time management, radio, print & television ad copy, sales scripts and much more.
Jon is a long time speaker and trainer in a wide variety of environments in an even wider variety of cultures. He has coached leaders worldwide in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Dominican Republic and Mexico in leadership and business principles many times in harmony with Chet Holmes 12 core strategies.
Jon is an accomplished triathlete with a half ironman finish to his credit. He has also completed 21 marathons.
Stefan Bielski
Stefan Bielski practices and advocates "empathetic entrepreneurship". Simply put, by being your own first customer you can understand, anticipate, and meet clients' concerns, needs, and expectations.
He's done this successfully with some of the most demanding clients, in the toughest situations, locations, and industries. On Wall Street, Stefan guided clients of Citicorp's Emerging Markets/e-Business division to implement (and help their own clients implement) stringent U.S. Treasury "Know Your Customer" guidelines. In a remote Guatemalan highland village, a five-hour round trip from the nearest internet connection, he directed and advised an indigenous staff selling artisan products, hospitality and education services. By implementing procedures to meet the demands of first-world customers, he increased revenues by over 300%. Later, Stefan assisted Danish diplomats--in other words, bureaucrats--sell their trade advisory and research services, cutting their business consulting cycle from 12 to 9 months.
Most comprehensively, he's turned frustration and, at times, failure into successful operational startups in developing markets. The first was an English-language magazine (Warsaw Insider) for the expatriate community in and business travelers to Poland. This venture leveraged both his insider understanding of his readers as an expat himself and his knowledge gained as a business journalist of the advertising clientele's needs. In 2001, after finishing his own MBA, Stefan launched a consultancy (2Bschool) helping applicants to business and other grad school programs gain acceptance, find a great fit, and ensure a high ROI in one of the both riskiest and most important career decisions a person can make. The coaching and consulting hybrid he developed, he adapted (Toolbox Coaching + Consulting) to help new entrepreneurs in foreign markets grow their businesses.
Along with coaching, Stefan enjoys the challenge of teaching and training both eager and reluctant individuals. As a writing professor, he has taught powerful communication techniques to journalists, teachers, translators and other communications professionals. As a sailing instructor in his hometown Annapolis, MD, he taught newbies (some afraid of the water) the basics to navigation, usually in a single weekend.
Stefan knows business--and through the whole life cycle: He joined his first start up two weeks after graduating high school through into its merger. As a licensed real estate agent for his region's largest (and the US's largest private) Realtor, he saw the power of processes, procedures and planning. He covered many industries as a journalist for a chain of business weeklies, which taught him the power of listening and asking the right questions. He believes the right questions are what make a good coach, and the right answers make a good consultant, while the right experience makes a good mentor. Stefan brings together all three.
Trisha Ahlman
Trisha Ahlman has 18 years' marketing and sales experience. Ms. Ahlman has an MBA in Global Business and BS in Business Management/ Marketing. She owned two successful companies before the age of 30. Ms. Ahlman is a leading provider in training, consulting, and marketing services for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Her passion is to educate small and minority businesses and is currently lecturing on entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy, and communication at Jesse H. Jones School of Business at TSU. She recently spearheaded the development at Texas Southern University to build a low-tech, service Incubator with great success where she continues to sit on the Board of Advisors. Her client list spans across various industries to include prestigious organizations such as Process Software, Anheuser-Busch, Occidental Permian LTD, Texas Medical Center, and ExxonMobil as well as start-up ventures. Trisha sits on several strategic planning boards including a multi-million dollar "green" development and several non-profit organizations. Her knowledge and experience in the dynamics of entrepreneurship offers new and emerging businesses the insight they need to succeed. Her focus is on research, emerging global business, branding, marketing, sales and organizational strategy for a holistic approach to grow companies. Many describe her as one of the most dedicated organized and creative consultants they have ever worked with. She's known mostly for being a team player and producing results.
"She is very professional, highly focused, and a great communicator with a strong attention to details, open to suggestions, and a very positive disposition to the number of tasks and challenges that inevitably arise." - Rebecca, ExxonMobil.
Alex Nottingham
Alex Nottingham, J.D., M.B.A. is a business consultant, executive coach, attorney, & author. He consults and coaches many clients, from dental organizations to Jazz performers. With the implementation of powerful marketing strategies, upgrading and training of staff members, and executive coaching, his clients have witnessed breakthrough success in the millions.
Alex will be co-authoring a best selling book with Brian Tracy (International Motivational Speaker) & Nick Nanton (Celebrity Attorney). The title will be Counterattack: Business Strategies For Explosive Growth In The New Economy.
Alex is the former CEO of inVIZION Media, LLC, an international digital signage marketing company whose client list included Avianca Airlines. In less than four months, he helped the company raise investor startup capital and develop relationships with business entities in Mexico, Peru, and Columbia.
Alex is involved in many projects that benefit both his clients and the community. Alex created Ultimate Makeovers. This project is a collection of the finest doctors and health practitioners in South Florida that perform makeovers for less fortunate members of the community and raise money for charity.
Alex received his Juris Doctor (JD) and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Florida International University. He was featured in the FIU Business Magazine as the first joint JD/MBA degree from FIU. Alex received his bachelor's degree is in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Central Florida where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.