Strategic leadership and organizational development consultant and coach, business growth strategist, former executive and Founder, The Empowered BusinessTM, I specialize in transforming growth seeking companies into world class leadership teams, organizations and cultures.
 By utilizing a unique blend of cutting edge neuro-related disciplines and other peak performance approaches, I help you rise to the top of your game and achieve world-class results. As a result, you and your organization learn how to become destiny shapers and creators. You learn how to achieve more, by expanding the game you were meant to play… and win. We achieve client success on a leadership, organization and culture level with the following array of leadership and organizational development programs.GAME-CHANGING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & TRANSFORMATION SERVICES• The Unfair Leadership Edge: Mastering Your Inner & Outer Game of Leadership • Developing Leaders of Growth: A One of a Kind Program for Driving Double/Triple Digit Growth ... By Design• Transformational Leadership Coaching and Consulting• Leadership, Team & Culture Assessment• Advanced Communications, Engagement & Leadership Presence • Influence and Motivational Mastery• Leadership Team Acceleration• Executive Off-Sites and Transformational RetreatsORGANIZATIONAL & CULTURE DEVELOPMENT & TRANSFORMATION SERVICES • In-Visioning: Creating Game-Changing Success by Creating a New Future Story• Strategic Organizational Alignment• Culture Development, Change and Management• Culture Assessment• Building a Strong Accountability Culture

NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming) is the study of excellence and a powerful brain technology for change and achievement. As the name implies, it encompasses 3 core components: * "Neuro" -- how your brain/mind processes, filters and distorts sensory information to create your unconscious neurological pathways and "map" of the world that drive behavior and results* "Linguistic" -- your verbal and non-verbal communications; the way you use language to reflect your inner "map" of the world and influence others* "Programming" -- your conditioned internal programming that drives behavior, actions and ideas ... and ultimately expected and unexpected results.For decades, The Empowered Business (tm) has been using Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) tools and technologies to provide a wide variety of business benefits and performance breakthroughs in such areas as - coaching and mentoring, motivation, decision making, influencing, personal communication, meeting skills, planning, strategy formulation, sales and marketing, managing conflict, negotiation, team building, transformational leadership and organization development, creativity and problem solving.

Asia provides capital, connections and guidance that fuel the growth of highly innovative, women led ventures around the globe. I have been an advisor with Astia since its early days, offering my expertise in an advisory capacity to help these emerging women led businesses succeed.I currently offer my expertise by evaluating the business plans of new women led ventures to help Astia determine which enterprises to support and fund.

THE MOTIVATION EDGE™: Driving Peak Performance by Unlocking Your Motivation CodeAt The Empowered Business™, we specialize in what drives motivation, why people do what they do and what are the cause factors that drive behaviors, actions and performance.We are one of a few U.S. consultants utilizing a unique online assessment tool — called Inventory of Workplace Attitudes and Motivations (IWAM) – that maps 48 distinct attitudinal and motivational drivers to create a unique blueprint of someone’s motivation at work.These motivational drivers are a strong predictor of behavior patterns, communication styles, thinking and decision making preferences and ultimately performance. These motivational maps unlock the unique code for driving sustained motivation in your workplace, as well as increased productivity, engagement and performance. They unlock the success mindset for a given role and a map for replicating that mindset across under-performing employees.Research has found that an individual’s motivational drivers can explain 40-70% of an employee’s performance.For this reason, the IWAM is a powerful tool for: * Recruitment & Selection for "A" players* Training & Development * Performance Management * Team Development * Conflict Resolution * Leadership, Team and Organizational Coaching * Leadership Development * Succession Planning * Organizational Culture Assessment * Organizational Communication * "A" Performance & Excellence ModelingIWAM assessments have accelerated the leadership and organizational performance for many of our clients, including: fast growth, emerging companies; Inc. 500; Best Companies to Work for.For more info., go to the Game-Changing Organizations Solution section of our website (www.EmpoweredBusiness.com) and click on the program called The Motivation Edge. Or schedule a complimentary Leadership Strategy Session to find out how this powerful tool can help you and your organization achieve peak performance.

Helped multi-billion dollar, high tech companies in critical strategic leadership goals and issues including such areas as: identify and analyze new business, market and service opportunities for growth, profitability and market share ... formulate company's distinctive competitive advantage and positioning strategies to minimize threats, increase revenues and strengthen industry position ... facilitate leadership team's long term strategic planning process aligned with company goals, vision and values.Examples of results included: 1.) increased revenues and profitability through new pricing strategies vs. that of their competitors; 2.) uncovering new, highly attractive niche markets for new technologies and products; 3. increased customer service excellence rating through in-depth market research, focus groups and interviews.

During the 5+ years I was at Sprint, the company experienced massive hyper-growth -- going from under $100 million to $1.5 billion in only 5 years. My leadership and management experience at Sprint was invaluable in learning first-hand the trials and tribulations of rapid company growth while, at the same time, navigating an industry going through massive turbulence of deregulation, technology disruption and an increasing competitive landscape.During this time, Sprint brought in a new, veteran CEO with extensive leadership experience to drive Sprint's growth while maintaining healthy profitability. My role and team members orchestrated and oversaw various aspects of Sprint's first company-wide strategic planning process ... assessed the quickly expanding competitive telecom landscape and positioning opportunities for Sprint ... was responsible for identifying and analyzing a variety of new business venture opportunities that would allow Sprint to diversify its market and service offerings ... and led the company's strategic management and critical success factors processes to drive company goals, vision and strategies.