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Platinum Authors |
Michael Reining - Click Here To Read Michael's Articles - Prior to MindValley Media, Mike was the
Head of New Ventures Strategy at eBay
where he conceived of the strategies that
led to the investment in Craigslist, the
launch of Kijiji.com and the acquisition
of Skype. Mike has an MBA from Stanford
and previously worked for the Boston
Consulting Group. He is also a certified
Google AdWords Professional.
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Madhavan T Gopalachary (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Madhavan's Articles - Madhavan Gopalachary, nick name "madgopes"
(g pronounced as in go) given by IIT
classmates, is a Mechanical Engineer and
an alumnus of Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras having passed out
specializing in IC Engines &
Thermodynamics.
He has 36 years of experience in the
Corporate World. He started off as a
trainee and handled sales, marketing,
manufacturing, product management, profit
center management, strategic planning and
corporate development including R & D in
various organizations and at various
levels before becoming a CEO. His last two
professional assignments were at CEO level
before embarking to start management
consultancy business on January 01, 1998.
He has worked for British, Swedish MNCs as
well as very large Indian business houses.
He has spent a large portion of his time
from June 1998 in East African Countries
practicing as an independent Management
Consultant and now based in Chennai,
India.
More details can be obtained at the
following web site:
www.mmgin
dia.com/
Madhavan's articles can be accessed at www.mmg
communications.info
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Atul Uchil (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Atul's Articles - Dr. Atul Uchil is an entrepreneur,
business-owner and author embodying over
23 years of management experience. Prior
to founding Uchil, LLC, he spent over
eighteen years in a variety of senior
management roles at several large
consulting organizations. In addition to
his PhD, Dr. Uchil also holds an MBA and a
BSEE. Dr. Uchil's doctoral degree is
apostilled by US Secretary of State,
General (Ret.) Colin L. Powell and bears
his signature and seal.
Dr. Uchil is a lifetime member of the
Chartered Institute of Professional
Management (CIPM), a lifetime member of
Armed Forces Communications Electronics
Association (AFCEA), a lifetime member of
National Defense Industrial Association
(NDIA), and a member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE). Dr. Uchil also serves as a Senior
Staff Officer in the US Coast Guard
Auxiliary.
In addition to several research papers,
Dr. Uchil has published several books that
are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
Ingram, Borders, etc.
- Relationship Selling: ISBN - 1432715003
- The Corporate America Survival Handbook:
ISBN - 1598000942
- Consulting: A Job or A Lifestyle: ISBN -
1598000640
- I Opted Out: ISBN - 1598000713
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Larry Mandelberg - Click Here To Read Larry's Articles - Larry Mandelberg is one of the principals
of Beyond Point B, LLC. He has 30+ years
experiences as CEO having launched 4
start-ups, led a merger, headed a
successful turn-around, and currently
serves as Board Chair for Innovative
Education Management, a Charter school
management firm with over 3,000 students.
Having consulted for many diverse
industries from broadcasting to scientific
research, Larry has a reputation for
asking the tough questions and finding
solutions. He specializes in working with
senior management and their Boards to
create group consensus, improve
effectiveness and oversight, develop
professionalism and strong teams.
Mandelberg has spoken at business events
throughout the west and has a regular
column in the Sacramento Business
Journal.
Larry can be reached by email at larry
@beyondpointb.com or by phone at (916)
798-0600
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Gold Authors |
Eric Garner - Click Here To Read Eric's Articles - Eric Garner is Managing Director of
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Rob Rush - Click Here To Read Rob's Articles - Rob Rush is founder and CEO of LRA
Worldwide, Inc., a Horsham, Pa.-based
consulting
firm specializing in Customer Experience
Management or CEM. LRA helps clients
such as Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Hard
Rock, First Niagara Financial Group, the
PGA TOUR and the NBA design and deliver
the optimal customer experience across all
key touch points and channels.
Rob is a regular contributor to a variety
of marketing, branding, and trade
publications,
including Brandweek, Casino Journal, Hotel
Business, CRM Weekly, Golf Business and
Resort & Recreation. Rob also serves on
the National Hotel Executive Hospitality
Forum
Editorial Board and is active in the
National Institute of Golf Management
(NIGM). Rob
is a frequent spokesperson on customer
experience, loyalty, internal branding,
and
strategy, and has presented and/or
delivered keynotes at numerous industry
conferences
and corporate annual meetings. Rob
received his B.S. degree from Cornell
University and
is a member of the Cornell Real Estate
Council. You can reach Rob at
ro
b.rush@lraworldwide.com.
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Michael Shays (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Michael's Articles - Michael Shays is a senior management
consultant, public speaker, facilitator
and mediator. He has coached executives in
24 countries in six continents to resolve
conflict, manage transitions, and develop
breakthrough solutions to tough problems.
He has helped over 500 clients, including
AT&T, IBM, KPMG and, Hewlett-Packard, and
the CEOs of smaller companies.
After seven years with the operations
improvement firm, Bruce Payne &
Associates, he passed examination as a
Certified Management Consultant and was
recruited by Coopers & Lybrand as a direct
entry Partner. BDO Seidman recruited
Michael 14 years later to be the National
Director of Management Consulting and
Chairman of BDO’s International Management
Consulting Committee. He left BDO in 1990
to open his own firm, EMS Network
International, with strategic partners in
four continents. See www.emsnetwork
.com.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Management Consultants USA and a recipient
of their Lifetime Achievement Award. He
has served as Chairman of IMC USA, the
International Council of Management
Consulting Institutes, and the Journal of
Management Consulting. He an active member
of the Center for Breakthrough Thinking.
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MIchael Otto - Click Here To Read MIchael's Articles - I have been a business analyst and
management consultant for over 30 years.
My website has information for business
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Dave Griffiths - Click Here To Read Dave's Articles - Dave Griffiths is a free-lance writer and
editor who travels widely to do business
writing training and media relations and
presentation skills training for clients
ranging from the U.S. Coast Guard to the
Red Cross to the Department of Homeland
Security to the Veterans Administration to
senior executives at a variety of federal
agencies to businesses that need help with
technical writing and written sales
proposals.
His professional background is
journalism, having reported for the Kansas
City Star and covered national security
for several publications, including
Business Week magazine. After leaving
Washington, Dave was a member of the Penn
State journalism faculty for six years. He
has a degree in English from the
University of Virginia and a masters in
journalism from the University of
Missouri. Dave served as a U.S. Army field
artillery officer in Germany and Vietnam.
He lives with his wife and two sons in a
small town in Maine, where he publishes a
municipal newsletter. Dave also chairs a
school board. His website is www.davegriffithscommunications.com
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Silver Authors |
Roxanne Emmerich - Click Here To Read Roxanne's Articles - Roxanne Emmerich is renowned for her
ability to transform "ho hum" workplaces
into massive results-oriented
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Clive Hook - Click Here To Read Clive's Articles - Clive Hook of www.clearworth.
com has trained and advised at the
highest levels in some of the best known
and largest organisations for the last 20
years. Clive is trusted by other
consultancies and institutions to work
alongside them or to take responsibility
for large-scale design and delivery
projects. As well as fitting well with
senior managers, directors and leaders he
is often used as a mentor for future
leaders or young directors on fast track
development programmes. Clive has worked
extensively in Oil, Energy,
Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals,
Publishing, Banking, Finance and
Hospitality.
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Dr. Paurav Shukla - Click Here To Read Dr. Paurav's Articles - Dr. Paurav Shukla is a management thinker,
educator, researcher, consultant and an
entrepreneur based in the UK. He is a
senior lecturer at the Brighton Business
School, University of Brighton, UK. He
possesses wide range of industry and
academic experience from middle to senior
level in healthcare and media industries.
He has been delivering corporate training
and consulting assignments for
organizations across Europe, Asia and
North Africa. He has also been involved
with academic institutions and corporate
organizations including not for profit
organizations in the capacity of advisor
and board of directors.
He has been involved with various EU
funded research projects involving nations
across EU and Asia. He has written in the
area of customer expectations and
consumption experiences, international
marketing and SME management in
international level conferences and
journals. He has also been involved as a
guest editor for the Asia Pacific Journal
of Marketing and Logistics. He is on the
editorial and review boards of several
internationally refereed conferences and
journals.
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Alexander Aginsky - Click Here To Read Alexander's Articles - Aginsky Consulting Group is an
internationally recognized, boutique
consulting company, headquartered in the
Pacific Northwest, focused on providing a
range of management consulting services to
medium-sized companies worldwide. However,
we are not your typical consulting firm
providing the same set of proven
techniques and methodologies for success.
We are a constantly growing and evolving
team of experts in every imaginable field
who become your partners in your business
and help you rediscover your firm’s true
potential and spot new, previously
unimaginable opportunities. We can be
there with you at every step of the way of
your organization’s journey, from its
inception and early development – by
helping you to implement your ideas and
make them a reality; to the latest stages
of its lifecycle – by bringing newfound
opportunities and assisting you in
reinvigorating the enterprise. We are
unique in many ways, from our
international and highly educated and
experienced staff to our approach to
problem solving.
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Sandra Bekhor (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Sandra's Articles - Sandra Bekhor is President of Bekhor
Management, a Toronto-based consulting
firm that provides marketing and strategic planning
services to professional practices and
small to mid-sized businesses. A senior
marketing professional since 1992, Sandra
has guided leading Canadian-based
businesses to a new level in the global
marketplace with business planning,
strategic marketing and the enhancement of
organizational structure and process.
Sandra speaks, teaches and writes for
various Canadian professional associations
on strategic planning, business planning,
marketing, brand management and public
relations. Sandra Bekhor received a
Masters in Business Administration from
the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of
Science (Honours) in Physiology from
McGill University and a second Bachelor of
Science in Architecture from McGill
University.
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Zachary Conen - Click Here To Read Zachary's Articles - Zach is the Vice President of Marketing
for LRA Worldwide, Inc. a Horsham,
Pa.-based
consulting firm specializing in Customer Experience
Management or CEM. LRA helps
clients such as Starwood Hotels & Resorts,
Hard Rock, First Niagara Financial Group,
the PGA TOUR and the NBA design and
deliver the optimal customer experience
across
all key touch points and channels.
Zach is charged with coordinating the
firm’s marketing, public relations and
sales efforts.
He has written and placed articles about
Customer Experience in CRM Weekly,
Training
Magazine, National Hotel Executive,
Brandweek and Hotel & Motel Management,
among others. Prior to joining LRA, Zach
worked in the sports industry in various
sales, marketing and public relations
capacities.
Zach earned his undergraduate degree from
the University of Pennsylvania, and his
MBA
in marketing from Temple University. He is
currently an adjunct instructor in the
Sports
Leadership program at Northeastern
University. You can reach Zach at
zach.conen@lraworldwide.com.
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Joanne Black - Click Here To Read Joanne's Articles - America's leading authority on referral
selling and founder of No More Cold
Calling, Joanne Black, helps salespeople,
sales teams, and business owners get more
referrals and attract more business fast
without increasing costs. Discover how to
turn prospects into clients more than 50
percent of the time, even during a down
economy, with her Recession-Proof Your
Business Emergency Kit at: www.nomorecoldcalling.com/pro
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Jim Kayalar - Click Here To Read Jim's Articles - Jim Kayalar is a Certified Management
Consultant(CMC) and political analyst with
20 plus years of international experience.
He holds an MBA, has been published by
Harvard Business Publishing, Ivey
Publishing, European Case Clearance House
and National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
Jim is also a sought after book reviewer.
See amazon.com (Management, marketing,
strategy).
Jim mentors high tech companies for the
National Science Foundation (NSF) product
commercialization program.
Every year Jim mentors numerous companies
and individuals on a pro bono basis
through the Peace Corps Micromentor
program.
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Bronze Authors |
Murray Goldsmith (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Murray's Articles - Murray Goldsmith is truly a man of many
talents. He has entertained audiences
throughout North America for over 30 years
with his stimulating and humorous talks on
the “Power of Your Belief System”, Stress
Management and Motivation. He is a man
with a great sense of wit and knowledge in
all aspects of life. This combination is
automatically entertaining wherever he
goes.
www.motivatio
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Kenneth C. Halkin - Click Here To Read Kenneth's Articles - Ken Halkin graduated from the SUNY at
Stony Brook and received an MBA from
Cornell University’s Graduate School of
Business. Ken has served as a CAO, CFO,
COO and CEO in a variety of organizations
for a combined 27 years of consulting and
executive level management experience in
the public and private sectors. He has
been responsible for major financial
turnarounds, both as a consultant and as a
CEO, and has assisted organizations in
growing by as much as 800%.
Ken has taught seminars, workshops and
other professional development courses on:
Financial Management; Budget Development
and Management; Project Management; Time
Management; Labor Relations; Human
Resources Policy Development and
Implementation; Employee Performance
Evaluation; Exit and Succession Planning;
and Strategic Planning.
Coming from a family background of small
business owners, Ken maintains a sincere
interest in the success of small
businesses. As an Accredited Executive
Associate of the Institute for Independent
Business (IIB), Ken is part of a worldwide
network of nearly 4,000 senior business
executives who commit their expertise to
advising small and medium size business
enterprises.
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Michele Silence - Click Here To Read Michele's Articles - Michele Silence, MA, is a 23-year fitness
professional, trainer, educator, writer
and CEC provider. She is the president of
Aerobic Fitness Consultants, Inc. and the
creator of KID-FIT, physical education
classes for preschoolers. Her licensed
KID-FIT program has been piloted
nationwide, featured in the Los Angeles
Times, on numerous television news shows
and is listed by Action for Healthy Kids
as a program that works. KID-FIT has been
taught in more than 11 countries. To
contact Michele directly, email her at michele@
kid-fit.com or through www.kid-fi
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GL Hoffman - Click Here To Read GL's Articles - G.L. Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and
venture
investor/operator/incubator/mentor. Two of
his companies have traveled the entire
success path from the garage to IPO. He
has been featured in Forbes, Wall Street
Journal and other local business
publications and newspapers.
Currently, he is Chairman of JobDig, an
employment-focused media company that
delivers multi-channel recruitment
advertising solutions to employers of all
sizes in all industries. JobDig publishes
a free weekly jobs newspaper in markets
throughout the U.S., operates the popular
website jobDig.com, and partners with
network and cable TV stations and radio
stations in each of its markets to allow
companies to leverage broadcast media in
their recruitment advertising. The company
also owns and operates LinkUp.com, a site
that aggregates and publishes only jobs
listed on corporate web sites from over
10,000 companies around the U.S.
His daily blog can be found at www.whatw
oulddadsay.com, JobDig.com, and now as
a weekly guest writer at US News and World
Report.
He can be followed on twitter at www.twit
ter.com/glhoffman
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Waldo Waldman - Click Here To Read Waldo's Articles - Lt Col Waldo Waldman, The Wingman, builds
team unity within organizations as a
high-energy leadership and inspirational
speaker. A former combat-decorated fighter
pilot with corporate sales experience,
Waldo brings an exciting and valuable
message to organizations by using fighter
pilot strategies as building blocks for
peak performance, teamwork, leadership and
trust. His clients include AFLAC,
Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, BG Products, NY
Life, and Home Depot and his book Never
Fly Solo (McGraw-Hill) will be released in
Dec 2009.
To download Waldo's Top Gun Motivation
mission briefing, visit www.Yo
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Mike Robbins - Click Here To Read Mike's Articles - Mike Robbins is a best-selling author and
personal growth expert who empowers people
just like you with more freedom and
confidence in their work, in their
relationships and in life. Now you can get
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Brent Sampson - Click Here To Read Brent's Articles - Brent Sampson, bestselling self-published
author of "Sell Your Book on Amazon" and
"Self-Publishing Simplified," has helped
thousands of authors realize their dreams
of publishing and distributing their books
worldwide fast with Outskirts Press. Now
when you go to www.outskirtspress.com/ebook you can
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David Greer - Click Here To Read David's Articles - With a professional background in software
engineering, David Greer has many business
successes to his credit. He built up and
ran a highly profitable multi-million
dollar software company with a global
industry presence and Fortune 500
customers. He has also been active in the
Vancouver, Canada angel investment
community, and instrumental in launching
and growing several emerging companies.
David provides tailored, senior-level
support to companies needing to accelerate
areas of their operation that have
plateaued, or to capitalize on
high-potential, but as yet untapped,
product or market opportunities. His key
areas of focus are Sales and Revenue
Generation, New Business Development,
Product Performance, and Industry
Relationship Management.
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Tony Massaro - Click Here To Read Tony's Articles - Tony Massaro, CPA and Partner of Porte
Brown LLC, helps small to medium sized
business owners evaluate their business
and improve their bottom lines even in a
slowing economy. To discover how you can
remain profitable simply by reviewing your
business processes and analyzing how you
can manage a more effective and efficient
business go to: www.port
ebrown.com
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Lorriane Ball - Click Here To Read Lorriane's Articles - An award winning marketing professional,
Lorraine and the team at Roundpeg help
small business owners become big business
owners.
Active in the local Indianapolis business
community, she serves as the President of
Rainmakers, Indy's fastest growing
business association.
She frequently shares her expertise in
public seminars, and presentations around
the country. In addition, her articles on
marketing planning and business
development have been featured in numerous
including Contracting Business, The New
York Forum, The Indianapolis Business
Journal, and Carmel Business Leader.
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Harvey Orens - Click Here To Read Harvey's Articles - Mr. Harvey K. Orens, Managing Director of
Structured Management, Inc., has in excess
of thirty-five years experience as a
consultant to privately owned businesses
and over 15 years experience as an
instructor and mentor to CPA’s and
business advisors. Working with a wide
variety of companies he has served clients
ranging in size from a $1.5 million health
food store to a $150 million, multi unit
chain of truck stops. Mr. Orens utilizes
his broad background in business
operations to increase employee and system
efficiency in order to optimize
profitability by reducing both fixed and
variable costs. Activities also included
the development and implementation of
marketing plans and programs to build
revenues to grow and expand the business.
Mr. Orens is the author and principal
instructor for the “Operational Management
Seminar Series”. These seminars are a
comprehensive, detailed training program
designed to provide an in depth
understanding of both the underlying
principles of operational management and
the specific techniques and procedures
utilized to design and implement custom
operational management control systems.
Mr. Orens may be reached at H
korens@smi-consulting.com.
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Tony Restell - Click Here To Read Tony's Articles - A former strategy consultant and graduate
of Cambridge University, in 2000 I
co-founded the management consultancy
website Top-Consultant.com.
www.Top-Consultant.com is now the leading
global careers website for Management
Consultants and as testimony to this was
acquired by newspaper group DMGT in 2005.
The site attracts ~1/4million readers each
month and our recruiter client base
includes most of the world's leading
consulting businesses including Accenture,
Capgemini, Deloitte, Ernst & Young...
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