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Date: 11/19/2008
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Biographies
Richard Galbreath
James Grubb
Jeff Davies
Jack Fowler
Patricia Greer
Ken Klotz
Wendy Bado
Todd Lowder
Ryan Dalton
Todd Nelson
Ambika Prasad
Anita Deoskar
Uday Deoskar
Lieschen Eller Grussing
Richard McClintick
Carol Heideman
Performance Growth Partners Inc. has other associates. We have listed partners and senior associates only. If you do not see the particular skill set you are seeking, please call or email us.
Richard (Rick) Galbreath, SPHR, is a nationally published author, public speaker, trainer, consultant and founder of Performance Growth Partners Inc. Rick has over 25 years of business management and human resources management experience. He can best be described as a hands-on business partner focused on providing practical, real world solutions that help companies markedly improve their bottom line.
Rick is president of Performance Growth Partners Inc. and practice leader of PGPi’s organizational development, HR consulting, corporate outplacement, employee survey, customer service and performance training divisions. Rick has extensive experience in employee retention, turnover reduction, performance improvement, employee opinion surveys, executive coaching, outplacement, meeting facilitation, public speaking, strategic planning, teambuilding, and process improvement.
He offers many services in HR consulting, such as benefit plan design and cost reduction initiatives, employee handbooks, human resources audits, compensation surveys and plans, incentive plans, on-call advisory services and performance management. Training programs Rick conducts include interviewing, train-the-trainer, teambuilding, employee motivation, coaching, and many other supervisory and leadership topics.
He also provides customer service assessments, customer surveys, secret shopper surveys and employee customer service training.
Rick is an engaging and motivational speaker who connects well with diverse audiences of all sizes. His subject matter expertise and an earthy, humorous presentation style combine to provide audiences with both a highly enjoyable and meaningful learning experience. Rick speaks on many of today’s important business and motivational themes. Rick provides keynote, capnote, after dinner and conference session presentations.
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James M. (Jim) Grubb, is highly experienced in both turnarounds (rapid improvement) and in continuous improvement. He has been responsible for manufacturing, distribution, engineering and strategic planning and in a wide range of industries including consumer products, industrial products, food packaging, and pharmaceutical supply. Jim brings 30 years of manufacturing experience in his role as leader of PGPi’s Operational Excellence division.
Jim was trained in engineering, attained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, and was promoted into manufacturing management early in his career. As a contributor to growth and profitability, he has held the positions of electrical and hydraulic engineer, plant electrical engineer, superintendent of finished products, manufacturing manager, corporate management trainer, engineering manager, plant manager, director of operations, and vice president of operations. In each of these roles, he has increased output and reduced millions of dollars in expenses to the benefit of his employers. Jim believes that staffing the company with excellent management, then coaching, motivating, and training them aggressively is a key to success. His favorite way to cut costs is to eliminate waste in the operation.
He has been trained in Lean Manufacturing, Six-Sigma, statistical process control, TPM (total productive maintenance), kaizen, and other world-class techniques. An articulate speaker and motivator, his is equally comfortable with large groups and with single individuals. He can train a company’s management to recognize, plan, and act to remove wastes of labor, materials, inventory, and inefficiency.
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Jeff Davies, specializes in recruiting, customer service solutions, human resources and outplacement. He has a wide range of experience in staffing, training, project management and customer service.
Jeff has been employed for 25 years in broadcasting, printing, direct mail, software, publishing, distribution, staffing, and recruiting industries. He has a wealth of experience and success with recruiting, customer service improvement and project management.
Jeff has a special interest in diagnosing his customers’ business health and wellness, with an eye for improving their processes or prescribing alternate solutions for improving customer service and sales productivity.
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Jack Fowler, M.Ed. in Guidance and Counseling, has had extensive experience working in both college and university career planning and placement and corporate human resources. Jack managed the Employment Department for a major insurance carrier for 24 years. As manager, Jack was responsible for all recruiting activities for this 3500 employee organization, college relations, corporate relocation, outplacement, temporary employee program, outplacement, EEO and career counseling.
Though Jack has a human resources generalist background, his specialty is recruiting. One executive who Jack worked with said, “When it comes to recruiting, there is no one who does it like Jack”. Jack is Vice President and Practice Leader for our retained recruiting practice area.
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Patricia Greer, specializes in team building training, and is also proficient in customer service training, conflict management training, motivation, cultural diversity instruction, low ropes training, and personality assessments. She is a certified instructor for Low Ropes Training, and is also certified to administer personality assessment instruments. In addition to her training skills, Patti has a strong marketing and graphic design background and is a freelance graphic design artist.
Patti earned both her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Eastern Illinois University. Her future plans include obtaining her Ph.D. in training and development.
Patti has a special interest in helping teams and coworkers learn how to get along and function productively.
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Ken Klotz, has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Illinois State University, as well as a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law. He practiced law in Houston, Texas for 13 years, primarily in the areas of bankruptcy, business and commercial law, and acquisitions. He authored a 325-page manual entitled “The Complete Texas Construction Lien System.”
Ken chose to leave the practice of law to work with a management consulting company. In October of 1998, Ken joined Bradley University’s Small Business Development Center, a counseling and training program for both start-up ventures and existing companies. While at Bradley, he has assisted companies with business plan preparation, financial statement analysis, business start-up, eBusiness, business taxation and marketing. He regularly teaches business management courses for Bradley’s Foster College of Business Administration, including “Family Business Management” and “Small Business Management.” Ken serves as a board member of several organizations, including Business Resource Services, Inc., Peoria Designated Zone Organization, and the Illinois Small Business Development Center Association.
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Wendy H. Bado, CPA, has a background in both the public and private accounting sectors. Wendy graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, which she earned with honors. After working in public accounting for Deloitte & Touche, Wendy became a budget analyst for the medical industry, and then the retail industry.
Her current areas of expertise include account analysis and reconciliation, file organization, accounting procedure documentation, efficiency reviews and recommendations.
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Todd Lowder, president and head fitness coach of Fitness Quest Personal Training, has performed thousands of workouts with a diverse population. His clients, who range in age from 11 to 8o, have improved their fitness levels while dealing with medical issues including arthritis, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, lower back problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and more.
A graduate of Christopher Newport University, Todd holds a degree in exercise science. He accumulated extensive practical experience working for a hospital-based fitness facility in Hampton, Virginia. While his specialty is focused on the overall fitness of men and women past the age of 40, Coach Todd has coached numerous high school and college athletes. He is also very involved in corporate programs to help businesses improve the health of their employees.
Todd is a passionate entrepreneur, speaker, coach and consultant. He works with professionals, corporations and organizations, teaching them how to incorporate fitness into their lifestyles. Todd’s programs affect both the waistlines of attendees and the bottom lines of the companies for which they work.
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Ryan Dalton is a specialist in HIPAA regulations and compliance. He has extensive experience in the medical field, in both clinical practice management and operations. He is available for HIPAA compliance audits, policy development and staff training.
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Todd Nelson is an experienced CFO, including specialized experience in medical practices. He has expertise in accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll. Todd can perform account audits and advise clients on ways to streamline their accounting practice to achieve better efficiency and to acquire receivables completely and quickly.
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Ambika Prasad, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from University of North Texas (UNT). She specializes in diversity in organizations, which includes employee training seminars and advising leadership on organizational diversity issues.
Ambika has expertise in successful virtual teaming–enhancing the capability and cooperation of geographically separated teams–including successful virtual meetings. She also has a focus on analysis of HR data for effective business decisions and organizational outcomes. She has an interest in job descriptions and job analysis, and employee surveys (development, administration, interpretation and communication of results).
While at UNT, she was involved with various projects at the respected Center of Collaborative Organizations (formerly Center for the Study of Work Teams). She is a founding member of the Virtual Collaboration Research Group at UNT.
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Anita Deoskar, MS, ACSM CEQ, has devoted her life to helping people with their fitness and nutrition needs. Achieving undergraduate degrees in food and nutrition and a master’s degree in exercise physiology from Illinois Benedictine University, Anita specializes in wellness promotion through exercise, fitness, and education, with a special interest in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Anita has held a variety of positions in the health and fitness field. She worked in cardiac rehabilitation and spent time in the Dean Ornish Program for the Reversal of Heart Disease. From a fitness instructor to a kitchen manager to a nutritionist, Anita has worked with individuals with the goal of overall physical and mental fitness.
Anita holds certifications as both a Health/Fitness Instructor from the American College of Sports Medicine and a Tai-Chi Instructor from the Arthritis Foundation. As the lead fitness and nutritional expert at the Successful Aging Center, Anita is eager to help businesses set up wellness initiatives for employees.
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Dr. Uday Deoskar is an internal medicine and geriatric specialist, devoting the last 20 years of his life to caring for seniors. He has seen illness and dependency that could have been avoided through successful aging techniques, and is motivated to arm individuals with this information so they can live healthier and longer lives.
An expert in the field of aging, Dr. Deoskar achieved his medical degree in Baroda, India. After a long-term position held in Chicago, Dr. Deoskar came to Bloomington-Normal in 1993 to practice. His firsthand care of seniors has led him to be very motivated in helping individuals learn how to live better, healthier lives. His own personal experience with heart disease has added valuable insight into the practical problems one faces with changing lifestyles.
When his expertise and motivation was combined with that of his wife Anita’s, a seasoned health and fitness expert, it was inevitable that they join to form the Successful Aging Center. Today, clients can take advantage of Dr. Deoskar’s 40+ years of experience. He is available to work with businesses to improve their workforce health, or to provide conference workshops and keynotes on such topics as “Live Well, Live Long.”
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Lieschen Eller Grussing, LPGA Teaching Professional, is from Centralia, Illinois, and played collegiate golf for Southern Illinois University. While there, she earned all-conference honors in 1994-1995 as well as academic all-American honors from 1991-1995. She won two collegiate events and held the school’s 54-hole scoring record.
Lieschen was a member of the Futures Golf Tour for six years. In 2000, she was medalist at the US Women’s Open qualifier and played in the US Women’s Open in Chicago. In 2001, she won the LPGA Southeast Section Teaching and Club Professional Division Championship, which earned her an exemption into the LPGA McDonald’s Championship.
She turned professional in 1996 and is a Class A LPGA Teaching Professional, and instructed for nine seasons in the Naples area. In 1999, she was named Director of Robert Kramer’s Golf Academy and worked there until joining Tom Patri Golf School in 2002. She has been teaching golf for three years in the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois area. In 2007, Lieschen was certified by the Titleist Performance Institute as a golf fitness instructor. She does personal training for golfers at Fitness Quest in Bloomington, Illinois.
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Richard (Rick) McClintick, Richard (Rick) McClintick is a certified sales and customer service trainer who brings a wealth of selling and customer service experiences to help businesses exceed their sales goals.
A graduate of University of Illinois Springfield, Rick had a 20-year career with Hewlett Packard Co. He has experience working with large enterprise clients, as well as small businesses. His primary focus has been the financial services, heavy equipment, insurance and telecommunications industries. Some of the different selling courses he has experienced and uses with his clients are Integrity Systems Selling (certified facilitator status), Integrity Systems Customer Service (certified facilitator status), Target Marketing Competitive Selling Process, Sandler Sales Institute, BayGroup Sales Negotiations, and Rhein & Associates Building Customer Relationships. He demonstrates and instructs the art of listening to client needs, desires, and requirements to specifically uncover selling opportunities. He also clearly understands the value of client relationships, and can show sales professionals how this focus can explode their long term sales results. Rick believes that sales and marketing business efforts should support one another, and has helped sales people in the insurance and the real estate development industries with their marketing initiatives.
Rick demonstrates a zeal for a friendly, professional, and customer-focused method of selling. His passion is to help business executives and sales people understand and put into practice the ‘right’ selling methods and attitudes that drive more sales wins and create loyal customers.
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Carol Heideman, specializes in medical recruiting. She is highly experienced in staffing and recruitment in a medical setting.
Carol has served as an employment manager and has directed recruiting, interviewing, employee relations and employee benefit programs. She has a special interest in the areas of physical and occupational therapy recruitment and placement, working with both new graduates and experienced therapists to locate the most favorable opportunities for their personal interests and advancement.
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