Austin, Texas, United States
"Some see things as they are & say why; I dream things that never were & say why not" RF Kennedy 👉 Speaker❖Lecturer❖Writer⪢Online-Print-Broadcast✦Corp/Industry/Civic/Edu 👉 Futurist❖Thought-Leader⪢Bio-Living Careers◈Systemax Optimization◈Success Epigenetics 👉 Executive│Biz Adviser⪢built firms from scratch, made unknown into Known, turned failure into success ✔SMEy 25✔Biz Owner by 27✔Industry Leader by 35 ❖Career Development❖Talent Management❖HR PIP Success System⪢Brain-Brick Inventory⪢Knowledge Library⪢IP-MindMap ✔Invented 1st InfoGraphic Resume (PIP-CV™) 10yrs before others ✔Free Agentry™pub'97: Economic Evolution of Work fuels Collective vs. Individual Power-shift (Asset Theory/Labor Value/Knowledge Capital/Property Law) ✔Polaris Theorem™Architect Optimal-self➧Map End-Game➧Reverse Engineer Future-Then to Present-Now ✔U-Ology™ Thought-Leadership's pantheon Robinology/Coveyology/Zigology→what's your Language of Success? R&D Projects➧Success Factor Science 👉Career⚔Wars: Disambiguation & Myths of Success 101 👉Career Darwinism: Cultural Necessity of Work & Talent Dynamics within Human Evolution 👉Lumière: KPIs of Performance Chemistry+Employment Labor-Analytics 👉Wildfire: Nth-Success Orders of Momentum, a Systemax Framework Morphology 👉Double Helix: Career Co-Physiology & the Biology of Success Genetics 👉Physics of Convergence Webbing: Networking falls to 4th Order Logic Schema Invisible Limits: ❖Isn't Out-of-Box Thinking still Box-bound? ❖If the Sky is the Limit➜why are footprints on the Moon? ❖Why reinvent the wheel if you can fly? Believe the Impossible: "Nothing is Impossible, the word itself says➜I'm possible" Audrey Hepburn Specialties: Philosophy of Success, Career Development, Job Search, Coaching, Recruiting, Training, Organizational Development, B2B/B2C/C2B Contact Management, Channel/Alliances Networking/Leads Brokering 🙏Dad said "my youngest is different he walks👣in places none know exist" (hope I made him♡proud)
✮Human Capital Consultant: Aid to build effective Business & make people happy (Biz-101) ✮Coach-At-Large: Leadership/MGMT insights for Executives/Managers/Staff (People-101) ✮Recruiter-under-Duress (self-explanatory) ✮Board Member/Advisor/Consultant: Affintus, Campus2Careers, Flagship Mfg, Internship Builder, TalentOnCampus/IC2 Institute/UT Global Commercialization Group, Active Vendors, ZillionHires, SP3 Group, StaffMOMS, etc. ✮Strategic & Tactical Marketing, Biz Dev, Sales, Client/Channel/Vendor Relations, Product Dev ✮Industry Committees: Transion2Position-AHRMA/Workforce Readiness/Veteran's Admin, AHRMA Online Career Center ♆Birthed (since high-school) in the Human Capital Field♆ ☛Cognitive Thinker⬄Imagination Seeker: since I was 8 had a nose 👃 for Science, so Physics (outer🚀space) & Biosciences (inner☯space) was the path (Philosophy/Cognitive Science as hobbies) ∛𝜋Science-to-Hollywood 🎬 flip, pulled a 180 graduating BSc🎓RTF (right-brain pulled-rank) ☛While Career Dev🔷HR🔷Talent MGMT where my visible (prof) jobs, beneath lurked Science↔Philosophy and Creative↔Artistic peeking out 👀 to perform an Esoteric Duet, a Learning-Tango on...well, just about everything! ☛Contrarian Cuisinart: pour all that history (visible⬄invisible) into a Possibility Blender, what comes out? Personality-Pâté? Naw, tasty but too easy! Rather a saucy Contrarian of Human Evolution as expressed in Labor/Occupation DNA forming a Living Career (laborè ut máchina hōminis ēvolūtiō aka: Career Darwinism™) ♐Highlights on Human Capital Industry Leadership across Public/Private/B2B/NPO arenas: ✓See PUBLICATIONS for Speaker❒Writer❒Lecturer❒Panelist❒Guest❒Subject Matter Expert ✓See PROJECTS for Success Factor Specialist | Researcher | Cognitive Scientist | Writer 🔔"People of character do the right thing⟡not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." ✨Michael Josephson (Dad’s fav quote)
♚Chief Thinking Officer-Career Architecture⎮Success Factor Science 🌏WORLD→Changed post-90s: Internet birthed a World-of-Everything, Dot-mare redefined unemployment, 9/11 lead to a vertical inbred, insular, monochromatic Hiring Paradigm 🔵CAREERS→No change 👣1-foot stuck in 1990s♻1-foot mired in 1970s, Career☠Necronomicon's gift (1970 What Color is Your Parachute) coupling 1940-60s practices⧸1920-30s IO-Psychometrics, codifying careers trapped in amber ✓See Project Section: Modern Cutting-edge of Yesterday 🔵JOB SEARCH→No change: Hidden Jobs Rhetoric, Networking Evangelism as Job Cure All-1990s Success-turned-Failure 🆘 ✓See Project Section: Death of Networking│Polynomial Convergent Networking (Webbing) 🔵RESUMES→No change: 1 Format for all Humanity for Eternity, 4-6% ROI held-static for 85yr wow, impressive👇(not) ✓See Project Section: P.I.P.│History of Resumes 📣What you hear from experts' social-flatulence pulpits •Original Sin⇾Job-Seeker failure=Depression+Anger •Satan⇾"Broken System" cause of Seeker-malediction •Salvation⇾Tired-abused Networking & Dusty-crusty Resume 👎Seeker-Victimization: entitlement is proselytized by self-appointed career prophets pontificating snake🐍oil Good vs Evil Career-Fascism, squawk of Hidden Jobs as magic💊pills, chanting "Networking" secrets, placebos masking as a panacea💉for seekers' ennui •Reality⇾System Works✔ •Cause⇾Hidden Jobs Fallacy❎ •Effect⇾Career Anachronism👴 •Solution⇾Individual Change🔃Empowerment💪 ⚔LET’S GO TO WAR⚔ ⇒Change isn’t resume tweaking or connecting🔌to the Human Genome ⇒Transformation isn’t lipstick💄on bacon🐷 ⇒History shows relying on past success will fail “Madness is repeating the same expecting different results”→so stop☒insanity start☑changing! What in #ELL is PIP? ✓See Project Section: PIP Career System│Knowledge Capital Library 🔔"HUMOR is the great thing, the saving thing⟡The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place" ✨Mark Twain
☞Pull from a sabbatical (again, no rest for the weary...) ☑Began as Advisor/Consultant to re-engineering firm from mom-n-pop to a real company ☑Hired as Senior Vice President 9/02 and promoted to EVP 1/03 ☛The Job: be SP3's "Face♫Voice"→The Goal: establish Market♔Leadership ☛As early-stage Executive pivotal in ideation, crafting & roll-out of new Corporate Brand ♦Develop 3 business units Human Resources❒Training-Organizational Development❒Recruiting ♦Created multiple product lines & service offerings ♦Hired and oversaw Management Team ♦Recruited and managed Production & Sales Staff⎮Local & other States (virtual) ✶Start-Up⇔Soup-2-Nuts: Managed strategic tasks, tactical Business⫽Industry⫽Community Relations, Product Marketing, Lead Generation, Sales, Customer Relationship Management, Talent Acquisition➾you name it, did the work 👷 titles don't produce results ♦Designed or led development of Marketing/POS, PowerPoints, reports, forms, RFPs, presentations, letters, templates...I did start my career as a Writer ✍ →Hands-On☞Managed, as needed, Recruiting Division operations and production team →Hands-On☞Baby👼sat Accounts, averted⤤crisis, solved problems☈, made people 💑 happy →Hands-On☞Direct Search/Placement⧱even Executives, at times, have to eat🍴what-they-kill ★Transformed a unknown, moth-balled, at-home moonlighting biz into a full-service HR Consulting Leader ★Formed an Advisory Board of HR & Business Experts ★Established multiple Partnerships, Channels and Strategic Alliances ★Secured relationships with SMBs to Fortune 50 Corps & Project Partners such as: Dell, City of Austin/CapMetro, AMD, BP, Emerson, IBM, Avocent, Omniture, Sony, Catapult, Avenue A/Razorfish, GSDM, Cirrus Logic, SiteStuff, ARM, Newsstand, Kaleidcare, Seilevel, St. Edwards University/PEC, Symtx, Samsung, RP-BUS, PointServe, State of Texas, etc 🔔“Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved⟡Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds” ✨General Colin Powell
☞Pulled from sabbatical (hadn't had a vacation for 5 yrs) when recruited by CEO to expand into Austin →Managed site selection, leasing, purchase of desks/furnishings to the kitchen sink (ok no sink but refrigerator & coffeemaker) this for both executive suites 1st yr to formal offices 2nd yr (HQ handled IT/Hardware'/Software) →Oversaw daily-to-day management from 1st to arrive-turning on💡lights, answer phones☎ (it WAS a start-up, necessity goes before pride!), Staff Wrangling & clerical to last to turn lights↓off →Interfacing with Corporate HQ on Financials, milestones, and Strategic planning to include assisting with Branding🔷Website🔷Marketing🔷Public Relations (directly handled local branch needs) →Hired⇔Directed Recruiting team up to 7 direct reports, 6-10 dotting-line-reports (Recruiters, Account Managers, Sourcers, Admin staff, not including Technical Field & Onsite Consultants) →Provided direct, or if assigned staff, indirect management with customers →"Rain-Maker"☛Lead all Sales, Business Development & Account Management to include, but not limited to: Lead Origination, Sales Presentations, Negotiations/closed deals-HQ handled invoicing-collections...someone had to be bad cop 👺, I was the good face 😇 ★Established accounts with: Dell, AMD, IBM, Emerson, Builder Homesite, Motive Communication, Globset, Qlogic, Living.com, Deja, Quickarrow, Newgistics, Smart Technologies/I2, Human Code, and, literally, some 35+ other large and small accounts ★Participated in corporate development of major project implementation/software outsourcing relationships to include BMC, HEB, Bank of Indonesia and Region 13 Education Center ★Contributed to a nearly ↑300% revenue growth with a final run-rate (prior to dot.com bust and 9/11) of $1.6 million with 2/3rd in recruiting and 1/3rd in project management and staff augmentation 🔔"I know God would never give me something I couldn't handle, I just wish he didn't trust me so much" ✨ Mother Teresa
♔President/Principal⇨People Leader, Career Architect, Public Speaker/Trainer ♘General Manager⇨Sr Consultant, Resume Master, Managing Partner ♙Assistant Manager⇨Lead Sales, Journeyman Writer, Junior Associate ♖Assistant to GM⇨Apprentice Writer, Clerical & Customer Service ♙Office Boy⇨Gopher (Intern-Jr High School) ☑Re-engineered 5x: Assisted 1↑up1↓down⇾Lead (post-acquisition) 1↓down 2↑up ☑Post-acquisition, downsized ops, reduced offerings, focused high💰lines balancing cost⚖revenue ☑Installed systems (manual/computerized) improving Workflow, Data Management & Productivity Drove for High Quality | Expert Credentials with LPC🎓Ph.D staff ★Grew Consulting Staff ⇧225%＋Associate Pool⇧300%＋Client Base⇧500+% ⟐Re-Conceptualized Brand║Transformed products (generic⇉1-of-a-kind)║First-to-Market new Resume Designs and Life Coaching❒Success Training Programs ⟐Created Premium💎Executive services (Retail⧸Corporate) enabling increase of per client revenue by ♐360+% ⟐Developed Full-Service Enterprise Suite as State-Licensed Career Center & Life Transformation firm ✰Built (from↑scratch) B2B Services: Training❒Outplacement❒Relocation Assistance❒Success Coaching❒Recruiting ✰Formed Partnerships⬌Channels to gain 1st foothold in B2B Corporate Services ✑Negotiated relationships with Public║Private Industry ➺the small🐟fry to Fortune🐳500 Motorola, IBM, Applied Materials, MicroTouch, XeTel, Tadpole Tech, Texas Medical, Butler MFG, Carroll Touch, Rolm Systems, Veeco, Bergstrum AFB, TWC, UT-Austin, City of Austin, literally scores more 📢As Spokesperson, frequent Event Speaker❒Radio Guest❒Media SME❒Writer ✔1992-Founder⫸Capital Area Job Club👍Austin's 1st citywide support👫group ★Recognized as Central TX Biz♚Leader│Expert♞Witness│Trend🌟Setter ★Created 1st Public Relations⟚Outreach Programs→Community⎮Education⎮☛can't be a Leader sitting💺behind a desk⇾Get out🏂Make an Impact! 🔔"Always remember that your own resolution to success is more important than any one thing" ✨ Abraham Lincoln