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Strategic business consultant in the "green" and sustainability space offering strategic & tactical business planning, professional coaching, workshops, and speaking engagements.Combined 30 years of business and planning experience with Professional Coaching certifications and "Green" credentials as LEED AP and NAHB CGP, "Green Consultant" from the Green Business League, "Green Auditor" and Master CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer) class graduate. Also Adjunct Professor in Green and Sustainable Business at Suffolk University's Sawyer School of Business Master's entrepreneurial program and the Green Building Program at UMass, Amherst.OUR MISSION at GP&C is to help clients build compelling business plans for growth and profitability that include the cost savings, carbon reductions and competitive advantage of 'green' and sustainable strategies and positioning.FOR BUSINESSES: We facilitate and deliver growth plans,sustainability plans and "pitch decks" for entrepreneurial start ups. The product of our work enables clients to confidently deliver a compelling message about their future business that can energize their team and educate and entice board members, bankers, investors or others. FOR INDIVIDUALS: We provide one-on-one professional career coaching, executive coaching and retirement career coaching. The product of our work is a clearer path for career growth, particularly for mid-level professionals who have lost their careers in the recent financial meltdown. Those clients often see the "green" economy as a sector of unique growth, opportunity and hope. We help instill discipline in their thinking and confidence in a tough transition, focused on converting their experience and skill sets into tangible value that they can bring to their new careers.

Built the strategic plan and the team to increase sales and position the company for acquisition. In 2005 Profile was purchased by Comergent Technologies an enterprise software company headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA. Continued to work for Comergent until 2006 as the primary interface with the Department of Defense (the dominant, multi-million dollar account of Profile Systems) and as Key Account Manager for Comergent, developing strategic growth plans for marquis companies, the most notable being Best Buy.

Territory Manager (Outside Sales position) in 12 Northeastern states for 7 years ("Rookie Of The Year" 1984, and Salesman Of The Year in 1985 and 1988). Then Sales Manager for the Northeast (highest sales volume and most profitable region in North America for my entire tenure) and New England Territories. Followed by Marketing Manager position building the strategic plan and team to introduce a new Engineered Lumber Material (TimberStrand®) located in Minneapolis MN. In 3 years achieved $10,000,000 in annual sales of this new "green" (more resource efficient) structural lumber material. Sales included 13 different market segments throughout the US and Canada. Promoted in 1995 to Division Manager of the Northeastern US and all of Canada for Residential and Industrial products, a $150,000,000 responsibility.

Strategic Planning Analyst for newly formed Wood Products Group of IP, (a Fortune 500 Company) located at their corporate HQ in Manhattan, NY. Spent 3 years in strategic planning developing a wood products strategy to utilize the second largest timberland resource in North America, extract the greatest value and provide secured access to the wood fiber required to run the core manufacturing businesses of paper and cardboard. Relocated to Mobile AL and then Dallas, TX in 1978 as Marketing Manager for Specialty Wood Products. Built the plans and the teams to successfully introduce new wood products (MSR - Machine Stress Rated lumber and Scaffold Plank).with higher value than commodity lumber products.