Jack Showalter Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize business leaders. We offer the most effective approach to achieve better results, grow your company faster and maximize your impact as a leader. For more than 60 years, Vistage has helped CEOs, business owners and key executives reach new levels of success.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Executive coaching and facilitation. Client industries include Hospitality, Construction, Manufacturing, Retail, Professional Services, Food Processing, and Distribution.

Greater Seattle Area

Selected as COO December 2011; promoted to CEO May 2012.“We are storytellers, and we help companies tell their stories.Companies need stories to achieve three primary outcomes: train their employees, educate their customers and build their brand.Stories can be in the form of a short how-to paragraph or wizard, a multiple-page case study, and instructional video or an eLearning course.Why stories?Ask yourself—why do people go to a YouTube video about how… Show more Selected as COO December 2011; promoted to CEO May 2012.“We are storytellers, and we help companies tell their stories.Companies need stories to achieve three primary outcomes: train their employees, educate their customers and build their brand.Stories can be in the form of a short how-to paragraph or wizard, a multiple-page case study, and instructional video or an eLearning course.Why stories?Ask yourself—why do people go to a YouTube video about how to use an esoteric function of their phone, rather than consult the user manual? Why will they go to an internet forum to solve a software problem, rather than the company website? Because they want simple, real-world, experience-based information that they can remember. People like stories, and stories are effective. It’s been that way for thousands of years.Starting with the outcome your company wants, our skilled writers, editors and instructional designers use the knowledge of subject matter experts to craft stories that are accurate, relevant, and easy to understand.”Mission: We improve people's lives through knowledge. Show less

Redmond, Wa

Hopelink serves homeless and low income families, individuals, children, seniors and people with disabilities. Hopelink services include food, shelter, housing and homelessness prevention, family development, employment services, transportation, ESL programs, as well as adult literacy and education. Hopelink’s mission is to promote self-sufficiency for all members of our community; we help people make lasting change.

Redmond, Wa | Fairfield, Nj | Copenhagen, Denmark

Following successful merger of Imacon and Hasselblad, was chosen to assume full P&L responsibility for all Hasselblad activity in the North and South America, including Distribution, Sales, Marketing, Service and Support. Products included digital and analog cameras, digital scanners, and image processing/manipulation software.

Redmond, Wa | Copenhagen, Denmark

Full P&L responsibility for all Imacon activity in the North America, including Distribution, Sales, Marketing, Service and Support. Products included digital film scanners and digital camera backs. Merged with Hasselblad in August 2004.

Redmond, Wa | Atlanta Ga

Nidi Technologies was a wholesale distributor of computer peripherals and software founded to bridge the gap between new, innovative, underexposed technologies and the United States Dealer channel. We helped manufacturers bring new products and technologies to market utilizing our national network of Dealers and leveraging our expertise in related technologies. Our specific area of expertise was computer graphics, with emphasis on large format output devices, and input devices ranging from… Show more Nidi Technologies was a wholesale distributor of computer peripherals and software founded to bridge the gap between new, innovative, underexposed technologies and the United States Dealer channel. We helped manufacturers bring new products and technologies to market utilizing our national network of Dealers and leveraging our expertise in related technologies. Our specific area of expertise was computer graphics, with emphasis on large format output devices, and input devices ranging from digitizers to scanners to high end digital cameras.Also founded supporting companies Showalter Systems Inc. (systems integrator), and Hardware Services Northwest Inc. (computer hardware service and maintenance).Nidi Technologies sold to Imacon A/S (Denmark) in 2001. Show less