Skills and Tools
- Coached & trained more than 15,000 people using the CliftonStrengths.
- An expert in building high-performing teams and resolving conflict.
- Keynote speaker for more than 200 events starting in 2005
- Facilitator and coach for several hundred teams
- A recognized expert in Integrated Project Delivery and pre-fabricated architectural products.
- Created the Genius Process, a proprietary tool to help people identify their strengths and achieve optimal performance
- Coached a Hall of Fame tennis player, hall of fame golfer, and the U.S. Olympic pole vault team.
Accomplishments
- Written eight books, six with Wiley & Sons Publishing
- Won the CoreNet Global Innovator Award and the Industry Excellence Award
- Won IFMA's Distinguished Author award
- Earned a Master's Degree in Strategic Foresight (futurist)
- Named a TX A&M Business Fellow in 2018
- Member of the Association for Professional Futurists
- Trained in Improv Comedy
- Certified in CoreClarity, Strengths training, DiSC, and the 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
Notable Clients and Projects
- Google, Facebook & GoDaddy
- DPR, Balfour Beatty, MWH, and Turner Construction
- Atrium, Methodist, Jackson Memorial, Henderson, and UHS
- FAA, USACE, GSA, FRB, Battalion, Treasury
- Haworth, OFS, and HNI
History:
- In 1978 I became a Project Manager in the Architecture and Construction Division for AT&T
- In 1982 I achieved my USPTA Tennis professional certification and kept it current.
- I have been a Sales Manager and VP of Sales for three contract furniture distributors.
- I was an executive for two Fortune 500 companies increasing sales and improving distribution.
- In 2007 I began tackling significant industry challenges and published six books with Wiley Brothers Publishing.
- In 2008 I received my Master's in Strategic Foresight
- In 2009 I became a Senior Partner for an organizational consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.
- In 2013 I launched my consulting firm, MindShift
- In 2022 I opened the River Rose leadership and retreat ranch in Glen Rose, TX.