Helping clients improve their profitability and relationships is what gets me out of bed every day! For more than 25 years, I have consistently delivered positive, profitable results for clients regularly exceeding their expectations by realizing their goals on time and on budget. My goal for each client is to realize optimum results for their domestic and foreign businesses. As a catalyst, I help establish successful new business, deliver conferences and memorable corporate events, create marketing strategies, build better community relations, initiate public and media outreach programs, highlight branding, and launch promotions. I actively participate in national, regional, and local business organizations in the rail and maritime sectors.Some of my recent, high-profile activities include:* Delivered 10 sold-out, annual Summits since 2011.* Provide an annual forum where more than $750,000,000 in deals have been initiated.* Act as a catalyst to help keep initiated deals moving to completion. * Produced the 2014 W.C.O.E. Conference.* Contributed as a Tri-State Territorial Review Delegate to the O.E.C.D. in Paris.* Served as a core member of the OECD Tri-State Territorial Review responsible for Logistic/Transportation and Indiana.* Represented Chicago and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce as a Member of Mayor Daley’s delegation to Shanghai.* Traveled to China as a communications professional representing Northwest Indiana on an official delegation to China.. Author and ProducerAs a writer and journalist, I authored 4 books; published more than a thousand trade and consumer articles on travel, food, wine, and tourism; wrote weekly and monthly business and consumer columns; created, produced, and aired 20 international and national, ½ hr. travel TV programs.Specialties: Business Development, Conferences, Corporate Events, Marketing, Branding,