Experience

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  Odyssey Management

  • Denver, Colorado

  • President

    • 1996 - Present
    • Denver, Colorado

    HELPING OTHERS SUCCEEDProvide business advisory services to Boards of Directors, CEOs, and direct reports to CEOs.KEY SERVICE AREAS: Strategy implementation. Marketing. Team building.Customer service. Odyssey Management was also known as (a.k.a.) HRMG of Colorado, for several years.We focus on bu...

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  US Relocation

  • Greater Denver Area

  • President

    • 1990 - 1996
    • Greater Denver Area

    WHAT A DIFFERENCE!Provided relocation services to Fortune 500 companies and their employees. Studied and implemented employee's and their families' transition during the relocation process. Achieved an customer satisfaction score 20% higher than any competitor, over several years. The an...

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  Market Venture Partners

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Managing Partner

    • 1987 - 1990
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    FOCUS ON THE HORIZON, IDENTIFY THE PATH, FOLLOW ITFormed partnership of former CEOs, or the equivalent, to provide strategic planning and implementation, marketing and sales, team development, and leadership development services to clients.Analyzed and evaluated over 200 companies, in the corpora...

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  PHH Corporation

  • Hunt Valley, Maryland

  • Vice President

    • 1985 - 1987
    • Hunt Valley, Maryland

    TREATING INDIVIDUALS DIFFERENTLY CAN SHOW YOU TREAT THEM "EQUALLY"...AND FAIRLYLed the management team that acquired seven different corporate facility firms (plus their subsidiary units) in New York, Philadelphia, Las Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, and Tampa.Consolidated fir...

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  Transamerica

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • President, Transamerica Relocation, a Transamerica subsidiary

    • Oct 1970 - Oct 1986
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    PEOPLE MATTERWhen the company was sold we produced a return of $10MM for every $1K originally invested to form the company.We achieved this outcome by:1. Providing relocation services to Fortune 500 companies and their employees. 2. Transforming this small business unit with stagnant growth to th...

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  HomEquity, PHH Corpany subsidiary

  • Chicago,IL; Dallas, TX; San Mateo, CA, Walnut C...

  • Senior Vice President, Western Region

    • 1985 - 1986
    • Chicago,IL; Dallas, TX; San Mateo, CA, Walnut C...

    CHALLENGE PERCEPTIONS BY MARRYING TWO MAJOR COMPETITORSPHH Corporation (parent of HomEquity) acquired Transamerica Relocation, a smaller competitor.When the consolidated income statement was completed, it showed that the smaller competitor, with 15% of the employees, 30% of the revenue, produced ...

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  Transamerica

  • Salt Lake City, Utah

  • Vice President, Administration, The Foreign Study League

    • 1969 - 1970
    • Salt Lake City, Utah

    DEEP-LEARNING SPEEDS LEARNINGLed the administrative operations of the company, most of the year: by supervising the administrative operations of the company.Developed and administered registration processes for about 15,000 high school students and teachers who learned in travelling "schools...

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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  • New York, New York

  • Management Consultant

    • 1967 - 1968
    • New York, New York

    EXPAND HORIZONS WHILE WORKING WITH EXPERIENCED ASSOCIATESProvided consulting services for clients: United States Catholic Conference; Erie County, New York; Newton, Massachusetts; Department of Transportation, New Jersey; New York State University System; and a prominent Wall Street Investment Ba...

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  Syracuse City School District

  • Syracuse, New York Area

  • Teacher

    • Sep 1966 - May 1967
    • Syracuse, New York Area

    SERIOUS LEARNERS FIND TEACHERSTaught high school-level math to adults in the inner-city, African-American community.Saw eyes weep and faces glow --- when senior adults learned how to write and read their names for the first time and learned how to solve math problems. Seeing this was like watchin...

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  New York State Little Hoover Commission

  • New York, New York

  • Intern, Little Hoover Commission

    • Jan 1967 - Feb 1967
    • New York, New York

    ALL POLITICS ARE LOCALInterviewed key-influencers in the Judiciary Branch of New York State government for the New York State Little Hoover Commission.LESSON LEARNED: Scheduling meetings with influential community leaders is eased, when you have been introduced by politically important leaders, s...

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  Syracuse University

  • Syracuse, New York

  • Student Dormitory, Graduate Advisor

    • Aug 1966 - Jan 1967
    • Syracuse, New York

    FREEDOM FUELS DEVELOPMENTMonitored the living environment for wired-up, freed from parental control, male undergraduate students.Discussed and advised students about appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.LESSON LEARNED: 1. Arbitrary rules have limited impact on high-hormone driven, living alone...

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  Utah State University

  • Logan, Utah

  • Assistant Director of Peace Corps Training

    • Jan 1966 - Jul 1966
    • Logan, Utah

    LEARN TOGETHER; SERVE TOGETHERHelped administer the training and final selection of volunteers sent to Iran.

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  State of Utah

  • Salt Lake City, Utah

  • Intern, Little Hoover Commission

    • Sep 1965 - Jan 1966
    • Salt Lake City, Utah

    "CARPE DIEM"...BEGINS TODAY'S LEARNINGWorked with the Little Hoover Commission, a citizen group, established by the State of Utah to recommend organization structural changes to the Executive Branch. I worked closely with the commission chairman Joe Rosenblatt and the staff provided...

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  Brigham Young University

  • Provo, Utah

  • Graduate Assistant to the Dean of Students

    • 1965 - 1965
    • Provo, Utah

    DIFFERENT UNIVERSITY, DIFFERENT CULTUREWorked as liaison between students hospitalized and the university clinic and their class teachers.Reported to Dean Elliott Cameron, who later became the President of BYU Hawaii.LESSON LEARNED: Passionate learners motivate teachers or learn and teachers will...

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  Utah State University

  • Logan, Utah

  • Student Body President

    • 1964 - 1965
    • Logan, Utah

    LEARN BY LEADINGIdentified as the first student radical at the university, by the Provost, at a public education forum held five years after I graduated.I had now knowledge that I was perceived this way by the university administration. I and the other student leaders simply believed that we shou...