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Leadership Workshops
These workshops provide practical leadership skills that our participants can readily apply in their career and personal life. Our experts come from the most well recognized organizations in the area of leadership development.Clark Merrill
Clark Merrill has been a Dale Carnegie Trainer since 1990. He is currently certified to deliver 11 Dale Carnegie programs, including The Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Leadership and Communication, Leadership Training for Managers, High Impact Presentations, World Class Customer Service and The Sales Advantage. Clark is a Master Trainer in the High Impact Presentations Course, Leadership Training For Managers, Dale Carnegie Seminars and the Dale Carnegie Course. As a Master Trainer, Clark works with new trainers from around the world, developing their skills so that they can deliver these programs in their home territories.
Clark's corporate clients include Concord Communications, Boston Scientific, SigArms, Stop and Shop and Partners Healthcare.
Prior to his role as a trainer and Master trainer for Dale Carnegie Clark held senior management positions in sales and the food service industry with responsibilities that included franchise development, training and operations for retail and restaurant chains in New England and Florida. His travels included consulting for an investment companies seeking to build restaurants in the former Soviet Union.
Clark's current role places him in a consulting and executive coaching role with senior management in companies and organizations. These organizations are seeking to tap their team's human potential to become more competitive in today's market place that requires us to do more, faster, better with less.
David Thomas
As a Senior Client Partner and Regional Director with FranklinCovey for over 12 years, David Thomas has partnered successfully with a wide variety of leading edge Fortune 1000 companies in their efforts to increase organizational effectiveness and human capital performance. His work includes assessment, design and strategic implementation of business solutions in such areas as leadership development, strategic execution, productivity, communications, and sales performance.
David's list of clients includes Panasonic USA, Novartis, Pfizer, KPMG, Fidelity, EMC, Marriott International, Boston Properties, Oxford Health Plans, and the Boston Celtics.
Prior to joining FranklinCovey, David was a principal and Managing Editor of The Asian Century: Business Report, a successful monthly periodical of expert articles and business intelligence focused on the Asian Pacific Rim. He also spent a total of four years in Japan, primarily working with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in their international exchange efforts.
Marshall Goldsmith
Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.
Recently, the American Management Association named Marshall as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. His work has been featured in a Harvard Business Review interview, Business Strategy Review cover story (from the London Business School) and New Yorker profile. He has appeared in: The Wall Street Journal - as one of the top ten executive educators, Forbes - as one of five most-respected executive coaches, the Economist - as one of the most credible consultants in the new era of business, The Business Times (of Asia) - as one of 16 major thought leaders in his field and Fast Company - as America's preeminent executive coach. His work has received national recognition from almost every professional organization in his field.
Dr. Goldsmith is one of the few consultants who have been asked to work with over 70 major CEOs and their management teams. He conducts workshops for executives, high-potential leaders and HR professionals. His Ph.D. is from UCLA. He is on the faculty of executive education programs at Dartmouth and Michigan.
Marshall is a founding partner of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, which (in partnership with Hewitt Associates) is providing coaching for leaders around the world. He served as a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. Aside from his corporate work, Marshall donates substantial time to non-profit organizations, such as the International and American Red Cross - where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.
Marshall's eighteen books include: The Leader of the Future (a Business Week best-seller) and Coaching for Leadership. The Organization of the Future is a Library Journal Best Business Book award winner and The Leadership Investment won a Choice award as an Outstanding Academic Business Book. Two of his newest books are: Global Leadership: The Next Generation and Human Resources in the 21st Century. Amazon.com has ranked six of his books as "most popular" in their field. Harvard Business School has chosen five of his books to be their Working Knowledge recommended books.
Tim Fitzsimons
Tim Fitzsimons is Regional VP and Principal Consultant at Linkage, Inc. Tim is a leadership development practitioner, seasoned communicator and consultant, and a business leader with over twenty years of experience. A cardiologist and former pharmaceutical executive, he collaborates with clients to design and deliver global, executive leadership and team-based development services and executive coaching. Tim's clients include Allmerica Financial, ADP, Astra Zeneca, Millennium, Northrup Grumman, Oxford Health Plans, Pfizer, Serono, Schering-Plough, Tufts Health Plan, and Wyeth.