Carole and I are retired avid cruisers with 19 cruises in 2022. So we became travel agents/owners. We have been out there doing the "hard" work gaining knowledge and now offer our expertise and experiences to clients seeking knowledgable guidance when cruising. Off we go!

Launch Media is an award-winning, full-service visual communications company, primarily video production. We are a team of strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers who specialize in developing and producing customized multimedia communication tools that address your workforce, brand, or consumer.My area of focus is our VCP, Visual Communications Platform, for leaders needed to get impactful messaging for their workforce. There are projects and safety. Each bring a level of… Show more Launch Media is an award-winning, full-service visual communications company, primarily video production. We are a team of strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers who specialize in developing and producing customized multimedia communication tools that address your workforce, brand, or consumer.My area of focus is our VCP, Visual Communications Platform, for leaders needed to get impactful messaging for their workforce. There are projects and safety. Each bring a level of passion and/or fear. Messages need to get to the workforce in a way that makes them stick. Our tag line is "We can talk to your workforce like you can't". Our clients share their passions and/or concerns with us and we create messaging that gets to craft and sticks. We affirm passion and address fear. We drive the behavior you want. Show less

• Direct all aspects of the business from marketing and sales to production, post-production, administration, financials and operations. • Secure, service and produce video and marketing engagements for individuals, small and large companies, nonprofits and governmental entities; projects range from ongoing corporate video services from local companies (banks, law firms, retail) to participation in projects that have included a safety video for Shell Oil (in Canada) and Albemarle… Show more • Direct all aspects of the business from marketing and sales to production, post-production, administration, financials and operations. • Secure, service and produce video and marketing engagements for individuals, small and large companies, nonprofits and governmental entities; projects range from ongoing corporate video services from local companies (banks, law firms, retail) to participation in projects that have included a safety video for Shell Oil (in Canada) and Albemarle Corporation. Show less

Owner/CEO level: I primarily engage companies that have been growing and need to move from an entrepreneurial management practice style to a professional management style. That is the hardest transition to make and often difficult attempting to do that from the inside. I bring the knowledge, experience and facilitation to accomplish it well. Organizational level: I also bring expertise to organizations in terms of management alignment, strategy, planning and mission.Sales: I… Show more Owner/CEO level: I primarily engage companies that have been growing and need to move from an entrepreneurial management practice style to a professional management style. That is the hardest transition to make and often difficult attempting to do that from the inside. I bring the knowledge, experience and facilitation to accomplish it well. Organizational level: I also bring expertise to organizations in terms of management alignment, strategy, planning and mission.Sales: I bring a strong resource to sales managers in terms of assessing and developing their sales teams. Show less

• Maintained availability for clients as needed on a retainer or project basis. • Utilized skill set to drive, coach, manage, or lead initiatives to fulfill client goals.• Heart of Brevard, Inc.: Spearheaded a 6-month project to assess and deliver a roadmap that revitalized this downtown Main Street program in Brevard, NC into a significant economic development engine.• Launch Media: Employed experience in leadership development, strategy, and business development to grow this video… Show more • Maintained availability for clients as needed on a retainer or project basis. • Utilized skill set to drive, coach, manage, or lead initiatives to fulfill client goals.• Heart of Brevard, Inc.: Spearheaded a 6-month project to assess and deliver a roadmap that revitalized this downtown Main Street program in Brevard, NC into a significant economic development engine.• Launch Media: Employed experience in leadership development, strategy, and business development to grow this video production company from sales of $250,000 to over $1 million.• Allied Security Insurance Agency, LLC: Functioned as equity partner to initiate and grow this marine insurance agency to over $6 million in gross-written premium (I sold my interest in Summer 2013).• G & M Marine, Inc.: Acted as partner and CEO of this marine insurance MGA (Managing General Agency). Gross-written premium at start was $3 million; highest gross-written premium has been $18 million. Hurricane Katrina compressed the market to current $8 million. (I sold my interest in Summer 2013).• Films In Motion, Inc.: Negotiated hundreds of thousands of dollars in film production movie tax credits to clients.• Various: Delivered business coaching, alignment, and strategy consulting; marketing and messaging development; video production; team participant.• Imagine Brevard: Initiated and founded this community group initiative to bring Brevard, Transylvania County, North Carolina to foster a more participative economic development environment. Show less

Wright and Percy Insurance (over $100 million and 130 employees) is a division of BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc.,, wholly-owned by BancorpSouth (BXS). Wright and Percy Insurance is Louisiana's oldest and largest agency. As COO, my role is responsible for all operational, planning, and growth initiatives for the agency and as a contributor for the entire division.

Solo North is a C-level business/organizational development/consulting firm. We work with executives and their senior teams only. Organizations must be aligned and "together" to get the results they desire. Leaders know when something isn't right. That's when we come in. We are brief, frank, clear and focused to flush out the issues for a leader and the team and then re-aligning the organization to results. We do a lot of diagnosing consults. We quickly come in, assess, and report our findings.… Show more Solo North is a C-level business/organizational development/consulting firm. We work with executives and their senior teams only. Organizations must be aligned and "together" to get the results they desire. Leaders know when something isn't right. That's when we come in. We are brief, frank, clear and focused to flush out the issues for a leader and the team and then re-aligning the organization to results. We do a lot of diagnosing consults. We quickly come in, assess, and report our findings. Some can fix themselves, some can't. We also do BOD facilitation and YEO, YPO forums. Show less

• Collected and raised funds to start, operate and grow the company, as well as attracted institutional investment as an adept company co-founder. • Finalized the contract to power Home Depot’s online mover portal personally. • Cooperated in catalyzing company acquisition by www.whitefence.com.

• Opened and led the new Houston office to generate positive cash flow from the start, assisting in raising premium written from $3.2 million in 1999 to over $12 million in 2001. • Championed acquisition and growth using my skills in leadership, analysis, finance, marketing, and organizational development. • Steered the acquisition of G & M’s largest retail agency as it prepared to sell to a potential competitor; created a package that curtailed the competitive offer, secured… Show more • Opened and led the new Houston office to generate positive cash flow from the start, assisting in raising premium written from $3.2 million in 1999 to over $12 million in 2001. • Championed acquisition and growth using my skills in leadership, analysis, finance, marketing, and organizational development. • Steered the acquisition of G & M’s largest retail agency as it prepared to sell to a potential competitor; created a package that curtailed the competitive offer, secured acquisition funding and completed the transaction.• Directed the merger of a like-size same business in Houston, TX that effectively doubled our gross written premium with very favorable terms. Show less

• Oversaw the Baton Rouge market (#80 MSA) to deliver results in the areas of strategy, design, development, marketing, distribution, planning and implementation, financial and legal. • Analyzed the organization intensively, changed the structure through reengineering and strong leadership, shifted old paradigms to meet new competition, and implemented process-focused work to produce efficient and high-quality services. • Represented the market to the corporate owners and the community… Show more • Oversaw the Baton Rouge market (#80 MSA) to deliver results in the areas of strategy, design, development, marketing, distribution, planning and implementation, financial and legal. • Analyzed the organization intensively, changed the structure through reengineering and strong leadership, shifted old paradigms to meet new competition, and implemented process-focused work to produce efficient and high-quality services. • Represented the market to the corporate owners and the community against our largest and then only competitor, BellSouth Mobility, which had superior technical infrastructure; designed strategy to beat them on service by handing BellSouth the corporate business (with lower margin per unit) and saturating the market with high touch service and community participation and engagement; the retail market successfully supported us due to our extraordinary community engagement.• Administered over 130 employees with full P & L responsibility exceeding $20 million and surpassed 28% profitability. Show less

Photography, live shots, editing, sound

Photography, live shots, editing, sound

Photography, live shots, editing, sound