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Biographies
Richard Galbreath
James Grubb
Jeff Davies
Shad Sleeth
Jack Fowler
Ken Klotz
Wendy Bado
Ryan Dalton
Lieschen Eller Grussing
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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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Shad Sleeth, currently serves as the Executive Director of Bradley University’s Technology Commercialization Centers and the Peoria NEXT Innovation Center. In this role, Shad assists researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and early stage companies with the development and growth of their business. In his most recent role, Shad was the Western Regional Vice President for Cendant (Realogy) the world’s largest franchisor of real estate representing the brands of Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, Better Homes and Gardens, and Sotheby’s. While at Cendant (Realogy) Shad was responsible for franchise sales and franchisee growth through mergers and acquisitions, improvement of operating systems, sales and marketing strategies, branding, and cost savings strategies. Shad was exposed to a diverse environment of businesses and business owners within his 14 state territory. Shad has created sales processes and training methodologies for several organizations ranging from small to medium enterprises to Fortune 100 organizations. His unique experience of successfully fulfilling every sales role from sales person to sales trainer to sales manager qualify him to assist virtually any organization. Shad is trained in Question Based Selling, SPIN selling, and he is Six Sigma White Belt Certified. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in interpersonal and organizational communication from Illinois State University.
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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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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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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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