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 Judith
E. Glaser
Expert in Leadership,
Management Development & Coaching
Judith E. Glaser is one of the most innovative
and pioneering change agents and executive
coaches in the consulting industry. She
considers herself an Organizational Anthropologist,
working with clients at the intersection
of culture, leadership and brand. In 1980
she founded Benchmark Communications,
Inc., a firm that works with CEOs and
their teams helping them focus on competitive
challenges in a world of moving targets
with a direct line of site to the customer.
Her two books Creating WE: Change
I-Thinking to We-Thinking & Build
a Healthy Thriving Organization and
The DNA of Leadership (Platinum
Press, an imprint of Adams Media), made
Amazon Business Book Best Seller Lists
in 2005 and 2006, and were also selected
by both Forbes and Business Book Review
as two of the top business books of 2005
and 2006. Creating WE has been translated
into Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Russian.
She has appeared on the NBC Today Show,
ABC World News, Fox News Channel, News
12 Connecticut, NY 1, Martha Stewart Show
and the Family Network talking about We-Centric
Leadership, Bully Bosses and Culture Transformation.
She has been quoted many times in the
NY Times, WSJ, Crain's, Newsday, Star
Ledger, Harvard Management Review, AMA
World and other print media talking about
her Revolutionary Workplace Approaches.
She is contributing Editor of Executive
Excellence Magazine and is listed in the
Excellence 100 Consultants.
Working with her team, leaders learn to
partner with each other and with customers
to set and achieve new benchmarks for
success. Through a wide range of services
and innovative technologies including
enterprise and executive coaching, strategic
consulting, and interactive workshops
leaders also learn to reshape their company's
genetic code, by "grafting"
new practices into their patterns of engagement
- resulting in higher levels of profitability,
expanded market share, engaged leadership
and a renewed vision for the future. Our
innovative processes lead to breakthroughs,
enabling leaders to redefine challenges,
rethink strategies, reinvent new products
and services, leverage mergers and acquisitions
and create new business models that drive
profitability and growth.
Benchmark's clients span a wide variety
of industries including pharmaceuticals,
fashion, retail, consumer goods, finance,
technology, communication, consulting,
entertainment and manufacturing. These
include clients such as: Clairol, Inc.,
Reed Elsevier, Merrill Lynch, Siemens,
Pfizer, Coach, Inc., Liz Claiborne, Lipton,
VeriSign, Thomson, Novartis, Verizon,
Citibank, Donna Karan International, Champion
International and Exide Technologies.
She earned a B.A. from Temple University
in Interdisciplinary Studies, and an M.S.
in Human Behavior & Development from
Drexel University, where she was a Research
Fellow. She has earned credits from Harvard
University's Bales School of Social Relations,
with a focus on Organizational Studies.
She later received a Master's Certificate
in Corporate and Political Communications
from Fairfield University.
Judith is a principle Faculty Member and
Board Member of The Liminal Group. She
served as an Adjunct Professor at Wharton,
visiting guest speaker at Kellogg, Loyola,
University of Chicago, NYU, IIT and others.
She was awarded the Benno Curtis Entrepreneur
of the Year and Quality Consultant Award.
She is currently on the boards of The
We Are Family Foundation, WITH (Woman
in Transition Helping and Healing), and
was a founding member of The Executive
Woman's Business Forum. She was awarded
Business Woman of the Year in New York
City in 2004, and in 2006 she was inducted
into the Temple University Gallery of
Success.
 Dr.
George Labovitz
Expert in Organizational
Dynamics
Dr. Labovitz is the Founder and CEO of
Organizational Dynamics, Inc. (ODI). He
counsels corporate executives on organizational
alignment and integration strategies and
quality management.
He is also professor of
management and organizational behavior
at Boston University's School of Management.
He has published or contributed to management
articles in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal,
Quality Progress, and Quality Management
in Healthcare. He is also co-author of
Making Quality Work (HarperBusiness,
1993) and The Power of Alignment
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997).
Dr. Labovitz has presented keynote addresses
to diverse audiences throughout the world,
from world congresses on quality in Singapore
and Euro-Disney to national meetings of
the American Hospital Association, the
American College of Healthcare Executive
and The Healthcare Forum. He has delivered
numerous presentations to the annual meetings
of ODI's international customer base,
which includes 12 of Fortune's 20 top
companies. He has twice been the plenary
speaker at the annual meeting of the Federal
Quality Institute, and has made presentations
to the command structure of the United
States Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard,
as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
ODI was twice named to Inc. magazine's
list of the 500 fastest growing privately
held U.S. companies. SKF, Volkswagen,
British Airways, Philips, Electrolux,
AirTouch, AT&T, Federal Express, Procter
& Gamble and Union Carbide are among
the leading corporations served by ODI.
Government clients include the U.S. Navy,
U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Protection
Agency, U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Postal
Service. ODI was chosen by the United
States Postal Service as the Quality Supplier
Award Winner in the small service company
category from among 60,000 suppliers.
ODI's healthcare division provides Total
Quality Management services to over 240
medical centers in the U.S. and Europe.
Dr. Labovitz received Boston University's
highest teaching award, the Metcalf Cup
and Prize, which is awarded to the outstanding
teacher from among the 2500 member faculty.
He has been a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer
at the Naval, Air Force and Army War Colleges.
He holds a BS from Boston University,
an MBA from Boston College, and a Ph.D.
from Ohio State University. Prior to his
graduate studies, Dr. Labovitz served
in the U.S. Air Force with the rank of
captain, and was a pilot and aircraft
commander.
 Barbara
Annis
Gender and Diversity
Expert
Barbara is an outstanding leading edge
thinker who has designed breakthrough
workshops and interventions since 1979.
She has been studying transformational
learning with many exceptional thinkers,
including Dr. Flores, Ph.D. Program Director
of Linguistics, University of Berkeley.
Her programs include workshops for men
and women, youth, and couples, as well
as her highly acclaimed corporate initiatives.
Barbara is recognized throughout Canada
and the United States as the authority
on Gender Awareness. Her recently published
book on the subject titled "Same
Words, Different Language" is
certain to become required reading for
both women and men striving to achieve
excellence in the workplace of the future.
BARBARA ANNIS & ASSOCIATES INC. are
the recognized leading experts in Transformational
Leadership Coaching, Gender & Diversity
in North America. Our Mission is to create
leadership styles and workplace cultures,
which acknowledges, values and optimizes
the unique capabilities each individual
can contribute in working together towards
inclusiveness and breakthrough results.
Barbara Annis & Associates have facilitated
over 2000 corporate workshops to North
America's business leaders and executives.
Business is changing at an unsettling
speed, three forces are converging: a
new generation of business leaders, a
new value system, a new client mindset.
The winners will be those who are able
to achieve competitive advantage by ensuring
that every man and woman in the organization
has the opportunity and encouragement
to excel. The services provided by Barbara
Annis & Associates act as a lever
to make this process positive and effective.
Our commitment is to bring the latest
research and thinking on gender differences
into the workplace so that organizations
can turn diversity into a powerful technology
of successAs a leading gender specialist,
she offers a fascinating and practical
guide to how gender differences at work
lead to misunderstandings - and what you
can do about it.
Barbara Annis has discovered that men
and women often misinterpret each other
or speak in ways that mislead the other.
She reveals the top five 'challenges'
men and women experiences with the opposite
sex at work, the blind spots and different
communication styles men and women have,
and gives strategies for improving communication
between the sexes. Barbara Annis also
covers topics such as conflict resolution,
harassment in the workplace, and uses
real-lifescenarios and practical techniques
to turn communication into win-win relationships.
She has facilitated over 2000 workshops
in North America & Europe
 Mike
Jay: Executive & Master Business Coach
Expert in
Performance Change and Transformation
Mike Jay has been a professional
business coach, consultant and successful
entrepreneur for more than 35 years. As
a business leader for much of his life,
he has experienced first-hand what it
means to deal with difficult management
issues. As an active entrepreneur he has
participated in his share of "successful
failures." Mike's broad business
background adds a depth of real-world
knowledge to his ability to connect with
clients, audiences and organizations.
As an award winning U.S. Marine, Mike
parlayed his military leadership experience
into cutting-edge agribusiness and was
a nationally featured agribusiness innovator.
He received his Bachelor degree from Texas
A&M University, where he also won
the highest award for senior athletes,
the "Aggie Heart Award" leading
the 1975 Aggies to a Southwest Conference
Football Championship as a quarterback.
Mike's experience in leadership led to
management success in medicine, hospitality
and business services. He went back to
graduate school at the age of 40 to study
Business & Organizational Behavior.
After coaching managers in a business
and corporate environment for over 15
years, Mike founded a premiere business
& executive coach training system
www.b-coach.com, when he realized the
way leaders communicate and develop was
key to leadership success.
Through more than 10,000 hours of coaching
sessions, Mike and his global organization
has served business leaders in more than
twenty-seven countries in such companies
as Aditya Birla Group, Avery Dennison,
Banswara Fabrics, Bharat Petroleum, Blow
Plast, Cadence Design Systems, Carat,
Central Bank of Indonesia, Coca-Cola,
DLine, Duraline, EDS, Eureka Forbes, Exxon,
Ford, General Dynamics, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals,
Godfrey Philips, Godrej, Grey India, GroupM,
GSK Consumer Healthcare, Hewlett Packard,
Hindalco, Hi Tech Carbon, ICICI Prudential,
Ispat Group, JK Tyres, Lupin, Marico Industries,
Mediaedge, Novartis, Pantaloon, Pepsi,
Rediffusion DY&R, Reserve Bank of
India, Telekom Malaysia, Vodaphone, UGS.
 Tim
Maroney
Expert in Consumer
Behavior
Tim is CEO of Lifestyles Online, Inc.
and has developed and managed many high
profile consumer marketing programs including
the launches of the Lexus automobile line
for Toyota U.S.A., and Nintendo Power
magazine for Nintendo, which won the Direct
Marketing Association's highest creative
award, the Diamond Echo. The consumer
profiling methodology he created for the
Lexus launch became the technological
basis for "targeted marketing' throughout
the 90's. In 2004, he managed Sen. John
Kerry's online fundraising campaign leading
up to the Democratic national convention.
He also managed an international database
marketing company for nine years and directed
client engagements for the largest global
interactive advertising agency whose clients
included, Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca,
ING, Principal Financial Group, Alcoa,
Wasa and Dannon. Lifestyles Online, Inc.
advises clients on how to use Web-based
technologies and New Media best practices
to improve customer relations, measure
and influence brand loyalty, and quantify
purchase intent. Current clients include
Armani Exchange and Novartis. Tim holds
a B.A. from Marietta College, Marietta,
OH where he serves on the Board of Trustees,
and an M.B. A. from Western New England
College.
 Stan
Labovitz: Inventor of Infotool
Expert In individual,
team & organizational diagnostic tools
Stanley Labovitz, JD.,CEO
of the Infotool Technologies, was a practicing
Corporate Attorney for 20 years and Vice
President, Organizational Dynamics, Inc.
for 10 years before designing and incorporating,
Infotool., Inc.
Labovitz recognized that
breakthrough organizational success begins
and ends with diagnostic tools that allow
a corporation to instantly view each pocket
of an organization for both its strengths
and weaknesses. Rapid social and economic
changes are requiring agile business leadership,
organizational nimbleness, flexibility
and rapid responses to changes - that
traditional tools and thinking no longer
met these needs. In response, Labovitz
built a highly successful tool that instantly
measures root causes and shows a company
where they need to focus their efforts.
His company has built an
impressive clientele list that includes
Liberty Mutual Insurance, John Hancock
Insurance, Baylor HeathCare Systems, Staples,
Yale, Harvard, Dannon, Nextel, The Cotton
Industry, CSC Consulting, Perot Systems,
Inc., Bentley College and many others.
Infotool engages 10 team
members, including two PhDs, a Certification/Training
group and our new Benchmarking Division.
The IT team members are SDR Engineering
and RSD Software Engineering. A team of
organizational research consultants is
involved in the tool's ongoing upgrades.
The team needed a web-based application
that was dynamic, interactive and intuitive
enough to empower clients to analyze the
root cause needs of their employees and
their customer's perceptions, as well
flexible enough to meet the changing requirements
of the marketplace.
Along with his impressive
experience, he received a Bachelor of
Science and Business Administration degree
from Babson College and his JD from Suffolk
University.
To round out his diverse
background, Labovitz has been:
Lecturer at Benjamin Franklin
University in Economics and Bentley College;
Keynote speaker at the Leadership Conclave,
Mumbai, India; The Graduate School at
the University of West Indies; and guest
speaker before various business groups
regarding assessments, organizational
alignment, "Managing from the Middle"
and Leadership; The SHRM Regional meeting
in April 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 Richard
Kimball
Expert in Execution of Turnaround Business
Strategies
Dick spent 7 years as senior economist
and project leader with Checchi &
Company a Washington DC based economic
development consulting and leadership
training firm. Projects led include training
managers and host country counterparts
at the Liberian Development Bank, Bangladesh
Industries Group, and the National Economic
Development Fund of Vietnam. Most projects
sponsored by USAID and the World Bank.
He was a founder and spent 25 years with
The Bigelow Company, a New England based
investment banking firm specializing in
designing developing and executing strategies
to assist entrepreneurs to create and
realize enterprise value in their organizations.
10 years as Director, Chief Operating
Officer, and Chief Strategic Officer of
the Rock of Ages Corporation, the world's
largest firm engaged in quarrying and
fabrication of stone for commercial and
industrial applications. Directorships
of private and public corporations include
Hollis Automation, ASI Systems, Rock of
Ages and Merchants National Bank.
Not for profit Directorships and Trusteeships
include Babson College, The American Management
Association, and Federated Arts Association.
and the Boston Lyric Opera.
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