I love helping businesses succeed, business owners thrive, and leaders excel. With 3 decades of progressive experience in for-profit and non-profit sectors, covering start-ups, small-businesses, medium-sized regional organizations, and global large companies, including roles in sales and business development, training, leadership, and professional development, process design and technology implementation, and coaching, I've developed skills that help companies get along and get results. Business founder and owner of The Betz Group (formerly Resource Development Solutions), since 2002, which helps develop human and financial resources through training, professional development, management/leadership development, consulting, coaching, systems / process design, web design, and marketing.Faculty and former Board Member of the Glasser Institute for Choice Theory, Lead Management and Reality Therapy Certified, train others in Choice Theory, Reality Therapy, and Lead Management. Certified Therapeutic Crisis Intervention instructor. 120+ hours of Brief Strategic Family Therapy and 80+ hours of Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC). Certified HealthRhythms facilitator, providing teambuilding, wellness and corporate events, retreats, and classes using rhythm, movement, and creative expression to enhance self- and team-awareness, cohesion, and communication.Specialties: Training Design, Development and Evaluation - Master of Arts in Communications and Training, Instructional Design, and Human Performance Technology - workshops, presentations, master of ceremonies, webinars, and keynotes reaching thousands throughout the United States.Grant Writing - 60% success rate on federal, state, county, foundation, and corporate grant proposals, with more than 70 grants written, and $13 million in grant funding received.Former president of the DuPage Township Youth Task Force, a 501c3-incorporated consortium of non-profits, social services, health services, law enforcement, and educaional organizations in Bolingbrook and Romeoville, Illinois, which I helped found in 2005. Vision was to create America's premier community for youth.