A United States Marine turned business professional is the author of Building GREAT Teams: Charting the Path of Organizational Politics, Building GREAT Teams: The Monograph (Book Surge Publishing, 2007), the co-author of Business WARFIGHTING For GREAT Teams (Book Surge Publishing, 2008) and the Founder and Chairman of the Bison Group Corporation, a management consulting and executive education training firm. He has also authored The Process of LeaderShaping, a cultural transformation program and university course of study that includes 12 modules and 45 lectures and hands-on exercises using classic film. He has consulted or presented to numerous leading U.S. and foreign corporations, helping them to realize increased integrated talent management strategies, team building maneuvers, and decision-making skills to compete in today’s highly uncertain business environments. He has also authored several other publications with his most successful title, The Art of Detachment: Breakthrough Principles to Transformational Leadership (Kendall Hunt, 2007) and about 18 articles published online and in several national publications. His works allowed him to be chosen as the technical, military and development specialists by the U.S. film industry to the feature film “Stateside” that released in theaters in May 2004 where he trained and acted onscreen with “A-List” talents Val Kilmer and Jonathan Tucker along with 75 -other actors, teaching them the principles of leadership, team development, and influence for the production. He is now teaching his programs at Temple University.
Business is a Battlefield. We Know Both.
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CEO, The Bison Group Inc
Public, 21-50 employees, Consulting industryThe “intellectual and emotional thought space” for value creation... The Bison Group, a team of U.S. Marines turned business professionals, is a leader in military-style executive education and learning services for business, education, government, faith-based organizations and higher learning institutions. Bison’s consultancy boutique works to improve the clients’ business performance by redesigning how they behave, think, and train their associates using strategies from the U.S. Marine Corps. It is the goal of Bison’s teams to implement the rigor and discipline from its training designs, instruct the global marketplace how-to increase their HumanSigma, and increase performance and integrated talent management’s “best practices” to exceed the outcomes within the Future Picture that lie waiting around the immediate corner. The Bison Group is dedicated to increasing the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of executive education programming for everyone, everywhere. Bison delivers the next generation Emotional Intelligence platform for both customer and employee-facing applications – and its platform boasts unmatched scalability, high-performance, reliability and security that achieves’ personal and professional mastery. The proven leadership, organizational behavior, strategic-execution, and team building maneuver capabilities and highly collaborative program development architecture provides the needed resources and tools for organizations in any industry to win on every competitive battlefield they engage.
