2012 Learning Center Schedule - Speaker Bios
| William Freedman | Pete Luongo | |
| Dave Homan | Mike Suttman | |
| Pete Kunk | Lance Tyson - Prospex Team |
Kristi Dinsmore is the Consulting & Coaching Practice Leader for Workforce Development at 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. She has experience working in the retail, consumer products, construction, financial services and technology industries with both global and national companies. 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.
Kristi offers organizations and individuals her strengths in understanding key business issues and market conditions and developing solutions to address organizational effectiveness in a changing environment. 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.
Bob is well recognized for his counseling and defense of businesses having employment-related issues, including federal and state court litigation, NLRB, EEOC and OSHA proceedings, wage-hour compliance, collective bargaining, wrongful discharge defense, and regulatory compliance. He is highly responsive to his clients’ needs and has developed a broad-based clientele by understanding his clients’ business operations and aggressively protecting their managements’ rights.
Previous experience as labor counsel for a multi-national, Fortune 200 corporation gives Bob insight into the needs and concerns of business clients – and the most effective ways to serve them. For more than three decades, he has aggressively represented businesses of all sizes and industries and has served as general counsel to numerous trade associations and business groups.
Bob is a member of the American, Ohio State, and Dayton Bar Associations, actively participating on the Labor and Employment Law Committees of each. He is an Ohio State Bar Association Board Certified Specialist in Labor and Employment Law and in 2009 and 2010 was recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer. Bob has also been recognized by Montclair Who’s Who Among Law Professionals. He has served as chairman of the Dayton Bar Association’s Labor Law Committee and previously served as the regional coordinator of the Ohio Bar’s Employment Law Speakers’ Bureau. He also is a Master of the Bench of the Carl D. Kessler Inn of Court. The author of numerous employment-related articles, Bob is a popular speaker among business organizations and frequently conducts seminars for professional and business groups. He is also a member of the ABA’s Forum Committee on Construction Law.
Bob received his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and his law degree from the University of Cincinnati School of Law. Bob also has completed advanced labor studies at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
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Consultant, advisor, mentor and "thought organizer" are how clients and friends describe Ed Eppley. A life-long entrepreneur, Eppley has started an advertising agency and a manufacturer's rep firm selling to the industrial and construction markets before joining his partner to create Tyson Eppley Management and Prospex. Operating these businesses has given him exposure to literally every conceivable type and size of business, which gives him a perspective rare in the business consulting world. In addition, he is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts in management, sales performance, process improvement, and performance management deployment. He deals with a "Who's Who" of business category leaders that include BMW Financial Services, STERIS, Telesphere, Sara Lee, HLS MedFreight, Freshway Foods, Columbus Blue Jackets, McGohan Brabender and others. Clients have come to realize he brings an unusual ability to help C and senior-level managers establish clear priorities and identify root causes as opposed to the symptoms they too often attack. As a result his clients achieve their strategic objectives in less time and use fewer resources doing so. In addition, clients often involve him in key meetings because of his unusual talent of helping groups see the things most needing their attention. Eppley, a graduate of Franklin University, has been an Adjunct Professor at Wright State University and is a Guest Presenter at the University of Dayton. He resides near London, Ohio with his wife Fran. He gives back to his community as Lector at Prince for Peace Lutheran Church. Free time goes to golf and finding excuses to take Fran dancing
Bill Freedman is a Partner in the Corporate Department. Bill's employee benefits practice serves a diverse client base with respect to the design, preparation and implementation of pension and welfare benefit plans and their ERISA-related issues, including the effect of laws such as ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, COBRA requirements, and HIPAA health care coverage.
Bill's tax and estate planning practice involves advice to individuals and businesses, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. His experience includes federal individual, partnership, and corporate tax planning; disputes with the Internal Revenue Service; and planning for deferred compensation, qualified retirement, and IRA/403(b) plan distributions.
Bill's health care practice involves the business aspects of health care law, including the structure, design, and operation of hospital and health care provider relationships, representation of physician practices, and representation of health care delivery organizations. He represents and has designed managed health care delivery systems, including health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, independent physician associations, physician-hospital organizations and hospital/physician joint ventures. He represents hospitals, physicians and companies that manufacture and distribute medical equipment and supply health care services. His health care practice focuses on regulatory compliance steps unique to the health care industry, including anti-kickback and anti-referral statutes and regulations; privacy requirements in state laws and HIPAA; and health care incident reporting and disclosure obligations.
Check out his website at www.dinsmore.com.
Pete Kunk is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the former president of Columbus Cello-Polly Corporation, a $15 million flexible packaging printing company. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Franklin University, is a member of the Dale Carnegie Instructional Staff, and has taught, facilitated, and coached thousands of men and women in business ranging from Fourtune 500 companies to startups. He has built a successful coaching practice called Coach 4 Change before joining forces with BUILT to LEAD in 2004.
Pete's goal is to transform people's lives through encouragement and coaching. He LOVES to lift people up.
Check out his website at: www.buildtolead.com
Prior to the publication of his book 10 Truths About Leadership...It's not Just About Winning, Pete was President/CEO of the Berry Company, a 1.5 billion dollar yellow page advertising agency. Since retirement Pete has devoted himself to giving back through is book, speaking engagements, board memberships, and by serving as an Executive Director of the Center for Leardership and Executive Development at the University of Dayton where he also serves as an adjunct professor teaching leadership at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Pete has been fortunate to work with 200 companies, collegiate athletic programs and numerous other organizations sharing his behavior driven model "The Leadership Pledge," developed while he was at Berry. The model focuses on people, support, expectations, feedback, and accountability. The ten truths are life's lessons that help each of us understand that our lives will be valued by our willingness to make a difference in other people's lives. Coaching and inspiring leadership at all organizational levels is Pete's passion: his message will move and inspire you.
Check out his website at: www.petespeaks.com
Mike Suttman is President of McGohan Brabender, one of the nation's largest independent brokerage and consulting agencies. As President, Mike’s central functions focus on the internal operations of the company, making sure that everything is running efficiently and smoothly so that McGohan Brabender maintains the resources to grow, both internally and externally. Ultimately, as technology, the economy, the trends in benefits change, Mike ensures that McGohan Brabender not only stays ahead of that change, but actually leads it.
Mike attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he obtained his bachelor's degree in marketing. He has over 25 years in the employee benefits industry.
Lance Tyson - The Prospex Team
Lance Tyson, the Vice President of Sales for McGohan Brabender, is a facilitator, trainer & conductor of over one hundred workshops annually in areas such as performance management, leadership, sales, sales management, customer service and team building. A native, of Pennsylvania, Tyson put himself through Penn State while waiting on tables and working for Bechtel Corporation. Realizing that he preferred working for himself, he formed an import/export business soon after his days in State College were over. After the success of building his own company, he realized he had a gift for sales, public speaking and training. His energy, work ethic and drive made him one of the most successful trainers and sales representatives in a world renowned training organization. Lance successfully led the Philadelphia region in sales and business operations. Looking for a new challenge, Tyson moved to Ohio in 2002 and partnered with Ed Eppley to create Tyson Eppley Management (TEM). TEM was designed to provide training and business consulting services to a number of clients in a variety of fields: performance management, sales, sales management and leadership. They partnered with well known assessment and training firms to develop organizational development. Over the course of the next 8 years, TEM transitioned from trainer, to partner, to key business advisor for such clients as Steris, Cleveland Cavaliers, Columbus Blue Jackets, BMW Financial Services and McGohan Brabender. Lance was offered the unique opportunity to work directly with the McGohan Brabender team as their Vice President of Sales in 2010. Tyson’s goal is to serve McGohan Brabender by affecting professional behaviors and attitudes and sharpening selling skills to take the sales team to the next level. Tyson lives in the Columbus area with his wife of 14 years, Lisa, and their three sons. Tyson is actively involved in Columbus Youth Hockey and volunteers regularly for his sons' school activities. Tyson is also actively involved in his Church and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Columbus.