Professional Background

Brian’s extensive leadership and management background helps employees contribute to the profitability of their organization. He re-engages an organization’s best people and prepares them for the next level of leadership. Brian enables all types of organizations to translate key objectives and issues into measurable outcomes through leadership and team building training that equips leaders and supervisors with the tools they need to effectively facilitate continuous improvement.

Experience

Brian has 30 years of senior level sales, marketing and service management experience with Hallmark Cards, Inc. Brian’s vast experience includes leading and motivating cross-functional teams in a complex work environment. Brian also specializes in negotiating large complex contracts. His Emotional Intelligence programs have achieved great acclaims with the Wounded Warriors and their spouses at Fort Riley, Kansas, 1st National Bank of Olathe and in various public seminars.

With top-level experience in leadership and management, Brian has a vast background and experience in working with complex human resource and compliance issues. Brian has used this experience to develop and deliver highly interactive training on workplace civility, diversity and workplace harassment. His training expertise has been utilized by organizations throughout the United States.   

Throughout his career, Brian has trained and developed individuals and groups with his dynamic, interpersonal communication skills and rich, collaborative coaching style.

Brian has an enormous capacity to facilitate group learning. Brian consistently earns the highest evaluation scores for his subject matter knowledge, using relevant examples, responding effectively to questions and involving the audience. 

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Education

Bachelor of Science, Journalism – Radio/TV, University of Kansas
Reinventing Leadership: A Breakthrough Approach, Kellogg Executive Education, Northwestern University 
Management of Managers, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan