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2008 Learning Center Speakers
Lance Tyson, President and CEO, Dale Carnegie Training of Ohio® The Ohio Dale Carnegie clients contributing to the success of Lance Tyson include STERIS Corporation, Diebold, Inc., Progressive Insurance, Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Thompson Hine and KeyBank. As for the success of his Dale Carnegie career, Tyson quotes Dale Carnegie: “If you consistently mix enthusiasm with achievement you can accomplish anything.” Tyson’s goal is to serve the business community by affecting professional behaviors and attitudes and sharpening selling skills to take the companies and/or individuals to the next level. Tyson lives in the Columbus area with his wife of 8 years, Lisa, and their three sons. Tyson is actively involved in the Columbus Hockey League and he volunteers regularly for his son’s school activities. Tyson is actively involved in his church, and also serves on the Cleveland City Year Board.
Robert T. Dunlevey, Senior Partner, Dunlevey, Mahan & Furry
Maureen Blandford, The MindTime® Group Endorsement from Rick Sidorowicz editor of CEO Refresher:
Peter A. Kunk, President of the Executive Coaching Firm, Coach 4 Change Pete has 30 years of sales, marketing, operations and management experience. Throughout his career, Pete has been recognized as a leader and has been sought out by business associates and co-workers to help them take steps to maximize their leadership and personal potential. Prior to coaching and leadership development, Pete served 12 years as the president of the Columbus Cello Poly Corporation, a $15 million fl exible packaging printing company. Pete began pursuing his passion of coaching and leadership development after building a solid team and ensuring the company’s sustained performance. Pete has been a member of the instructional faculty for Dale Carnegie and Associates and has taught courses focusing on interpersonal communication skills, management training and leadership development for over 20 years. He has also served on the faculty of Franklin University in the College of Business. He has worked with and been taught by such nationally known business leaders as Ram Charan, Stephen Covey, and Laura Whitworth a founder of “The Coaches Training Institute”. Pete has worked extensively with the Kouzes and Posner “Leadership Challenge” methodology, Goleman Emotional Intelligence Appraisals and numerous assessment instruments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, DISC Profi le, and various leading 360° appraisals processes. Pete is providing clients, particularly senior executives, with solutions in such areas as corporate culture, organizational alignment, succession planning, leading change initiatives, coaching, leadership development and specifi c performance issues. Pete holds a B.A. from the University of Kentucky and The Ohio State University College of Business, Executive Development Program. Pete has received the following certifi cations: Leadership Training for Managers, Crucial Conversations, The Leader in You, and Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He has also completed the Coach’s Training Institute Curriculum for Coaches.
Rosalie M. Catalano (MBA, SPHR) Founder and President of Keystone HR Consulting, LLC Rosalie has a broad background in business with work experience in sales and marketing, general management, corporate communications, branding and identity, and human resources. She has held several executive level management positions in both large and small, as well as public and private, companies. Her basic tenet for her consulting business is that effective employees and communication are the central supporting elements (i.e., ‘keystone’) of any organization.
Kristi Dinsmore, Director of Client Professional Services for Sinclair Community College Prior to joining Sinclair, Kristi was Vice President, Consulting Services for Right Management Consultants where she focused on leadership development, specifically coaching senior executives and high-potential talent. From 1999 through 2003, she was Director of the University of Dayton’s Center for Leadership & Executive Development where she created custom-designed development offerings for Fortune 1000 senior executives. She has experience working in the retail, consumer products and technology industries with both global and national companies. Kristi has worked extensively with such nationally known business thought leaders as Ram Charan, Jim Kouzes, Brad Smart and Robert Goldberg. Since joining Sinclair, she has focused on leveraging her corporate and leadership development experience to meet client management and consulting needs in the area of individual and organizational effectiveness. She is a qualified interpreter of numerous assessment instruments including the Chally selection, development and strengths assessments, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Teleometrics’ Models of Management, The Birkman, the Life Styles Inventory and Organizational Culture Inventory (Human Synergistics), and various leading 360º appraisal processes including CCL’s “Benchmarks” 360° assessment. Kristi offers client companies her strengths in understanding key business issues and market conditions and developing solutions to address organizational effectiveness in a changing environment. Her business expertise is used to meet the unique and challenging needs of top executives as well as high-potential individuals whose organizations provide them with advice and support to improve performance and enhance career potential. Kristi’s background includes providing clients, particularly CEO’s and other senior leaders, with solutions in such areas as corporate strategy, corporate culture, organizational alignment, succession planning, talent selection, leadership development coaching, and change management. Her focus as an executive coach has been with senior leaders and “high potential” leaders, providing leadership development and targeted feedback to broaden leadership capabilities and address specific performance issues. Her focus is on aligning the individual’s strengths, motivators and behaviors to maximize their ability to provide value to the organization. Kristi holds a B.A. from Miami University and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Karen Roberts, CPA, CFE, Director of Forensic & Fraud Services, Battelle & Battelle Karen has performed numerous fraud investigations and prepared reports for use by employers, law enforcement offi cials, insurance carriers, and the courts. She has provided grand jury and trial testimony. Her clients have included the Inspector General’s Offi ce for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Education, as well as municipalities, businesses, and individuals. Projects included cooperative investigations with IRS and bank offi cials. Karen also has performed many operational studies and internal control evaluations and provided recommendations for improvements. In addition she has performed compliance audits for various state and federal organizations. Karen has also been an active speaker on the topics of fraud detection and prevention. Groups have included Government Finance Offi cer Organizations, business owners and college classes. She is a member of both the AICPA and the ACFE (Association of Certifi ed Fraud Examiners.) While living in Massachusetts, Karen served as Treasurer of Friends of the Forest, a non-profi t organization dedicated to promoting responsible use of the local state forest. In addition, she was secretary and member of the executive board for her local neighborhood organization.
Bill earned his B.S. in Computer Information Systems (Summa Cum Laude) from Park University, has a B.A. in Management (concentrating in Industrial and Organizational Psychology) from the University of Maryland and went on to complete his M.A. in Managerial Economics from the University of Oklahoma. He joined Battelle & Battelle LLP in 2007, with over 14 years specifically developing and evaluating technology risks and information technology (IT) controls for compliance in a variety of business environments and networked system implementations. Bill’s areas of expertise include IT governance, IT controls, systems analysis & design, business continuity & disaster response planning and system security engineering across the system development life cycle. Prior to joining Battelle & Battelle LLP, he was the Executive Director for Risk Analysis at ManTech International and a Technical Director at Aegis Research Corporation. Bill is also a retired Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) where his duties included critical infrastructure protection and felony investigations, including fraud. Bill holds specialized Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) certificates in HIPAA Security (GHSC) and Payment Card Industry Digital Security Standards (GPCI), and is an InfoSec Institute Certified Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Security Architect (SSCA). He is a member of ISACA, IIA, Software Engineering Institute, ISC2, IEEE Computer Society, and the FBI Infragard – Dayton Chapter. Bill served as a subject matter expert for the Computing Technology Industry Association's (COMPTIA) Security Certification. He has also authored a number of articles for the Competitive Intelligence Journal, Competitive Intelligence Magazine and other professional organizations.
Ed Eppley, Dale Carnegie Training® The list of Carnegie client’s contributing to Eppley’s Worldwide ranking reads like a “Who’s Who” of business category leaders. Included are BMW Financial Services, UUNET, Applied Innovation, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Huntington Bank and EBS Assets to name a few. Eppley has been lauded for years by colleagues, clients and students alike as a skilled instructor. He represents the core values of Dale Carnegie Training - serving the business community by helping people in corporations sharpen interpersonal, leadership, communication and selling skills. Ultimately, he helps develop behavior-based solutions for each student that work in the real world resulting in improved professional performance. Eppley’s success is, in part, a by-product of his belief in Carnegie’s philosophy that people, “The Human Asset,” are the most powerful source of a corporate competitive advantage. Eppley, an Adjunct Professor at Wright State University and Guest Presenter at the University of Dayton, resides in London, Ohio with his wife and two children. He gives back to his community as Lector at Prince for Peace Lutheran Church and as a member of the Jonathan Alder High School Athletics Boosters. He also serves on the Board at the Springfi eld Country Club.
Laura has worked with companies of all sizes including Ford, General Motors, Invacare, Henkel Consumer Adhesives, R.W. Beckett and BMW Financial Services. She consistently achieves high scores in customer satisfaction. As Director of Training and Development for Dale Carnegie Training of Ohio and Indiana, Nortz states, “we witness clients accomplish growth in their personal and professional life they never thought possible”.
Heather Bailey, Client Wellness Coordinator - McGohan Brabender Heather enjoys a unique position within McGohan Brabender, as it is her job to identify and address company-wide needs-- and then produce results! Since joining MB in 2004, she has laid the groundwork to establish MB’s Human Resources Department, created an internal performance- based bonus program, and formalized a Her most recent challenge has been to develop a wellness program that can be carried out to clients. Modeling the program after McGohan Brabender’s own successful CLIMB (Changing Lifestyles Inside McGohan Brabender) wellness program, she steers companies to harness employee volunteers to own and carry the message of “wellness” to their fellow employees. This product has been branded as “eMBrace Wellness,” a customized solution for clients of all sizes to use when establishing in-house wellness programs. In 2007, she was a workshop presenter at the state-wide Healthy Ohio conference and also became certified through WELCOA (Wellness Council of America). Heather brings 22 years of professional experience to McGohan Brabender. Before joining MB, Heather held the position of Vice President of Grants and Programs at The Dayton Foundation. Through this nonprofit work, she developed the skills to work with volunteer leadership who strive to bring good to the community. This skill serves her well as she pulls together volunteers to create cultures of wellness in their own companies. Heather is a graduate of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where she earned two Bachelor’s degrees: a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Business Management. Frank Calderone, Human Resource Development Frank has long consulted and trained with manufacturing organizations, cities, not for profit organizations, on strategic planning, organizational development, improved decision making, continuous improvement, management development, quality system development at the executive management level. He is a certified trainer and directs a management assessment and training organization. Frank has trained and developed over 5,000 employees, supervisors, managers, and executive managers. Frank has authored and customized training courses on management performance, team building, and analytical problem solving. He has led training sessions for change management, conflict management, critical thinking, assertive leadership, stress management and executive management development. He has authored articles on risk management in the workforce, techniques for effective training, management development in Ohio cities, and is co-author of “The Fifth Dimension of Training” published in the Alliance for Innovation’s former IGNewsletter in May of 2007. He has extensive experience as a senior executive. He has be responsible for training development programs. Frank has provided training and consulting to organizations for more than fifteen years and has trained and consulted to local governments. He has been an executive manager in private sector organizations. Frank graduated from the University of Akron in Management. Frank is certified as a trainer and facilitator by Organizational Dynamics, Interact Performance Systems, and Plexus Training Systems.
Allen C. Koski, CEBS - Regional Sales Manager, CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits Allen has over 20 years of international experience, and has been actively involved in developing and supporting international healthcare, dental, disability and travel medical plans for multinational employers ranging from the Fortune 100 to emerging multinationals. He has assisted international assignees, traveling executives and key local nationals through his travels to locations including Kuwait, China, United Kingdom and Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Drew University and has attained Fellow status from ISCEBS. He has written various articles, notably "Culture, Infrastructure and International Health Benefits Delivery" in Benefits Quarterly; and "Expatriate Benefits for a Changing Global Economy" in Benefits & Compensation Solutions. David has been with CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits since 2005. He is located in the Cleveland regional offices, with primary responsibility for international sales in Ohio and Michigan. He has been in the healthcare benefits field for more than 15 years and speaks regularly to business and employer groups on the topic of international benefits issues and trends. David graduated from Bryant University in Smithfield, RI, with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration.
Janetta Ross is Director of Marketing & Training at Simplesoft Solutions Janetta is a 1987 graduate of Marshall University in Huntington, WV and started her career for NCR Corporate in Charlotte, NC as a sales consultant soon after graduation. After a 15 year career at NCR, Janetta joined Simplesoft Solutions in 2002 where she functions as both a training specialist and marketing director. She is one of only three certified trainers for SageCRM software in the state of OH. Simplesoft Solutions is a customer relationship management consulting firm and a business partner for Sage Software in the Ohio, WV, and KY areas.
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