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• Advances executive and team leadership development programs, incorporating change management methodologies, achieving an 87% improvement in client operational effectiveness.
• Drives company growth and technology strategy, with a focus on developing initiatives and deploying tools to accelerate growth for our client and student participants.
• Develops budget forecasts, manages P/L, and leads profitable growth. 
• Recruits and leads hybrid teams composed of marketing, operations, and customer service professionals. These teams focus on digital transformation, QA, and technology innovation.
• Negotiates contracts and manages vendors to optimize service models.
• Develops and delivers leadership development and technical training, including: AI prompt engineering, management systems adoption, and change management at the speed of AI.
• Collaborates with client business unit leaders to establish KPIs, OKRs, and SOPs.

>> Change Management & Innovation toolkit: Active listening; ADDIE; ADKAR; RACI; AGES; SEEDS; Adult learning theory, LXD, work simulations; Kotter Change model; microlearning development, and content management. Alignment conversations; skills taxonomies. Gallup Strengths Finder; Predictive Index; MBTI; DISC.

>> Tech Stack: ChatGPT, Poe bots/agents/chatbots, Make.com workflows. WordPress; Drupal; Joomla; Hubspot; Workday; wikis. LMS: 360Learning, Adobe, Docebo, Cornerstone LMS, Moodle, Saba Cloud, TalentLMS; SCORM admin. Custom Notion, SmartSheets, Mural, Python, and AI-integrated solutions.

Managing Director, Innovation and Leadership Development

• Managed Agile project teams, applying Scrum and hybrid SDLC methodologies, with a focus on delivering educational technology projects, portals, and programs.
• Supported the successful delivery of software projects through technical program management for SaaS collaboration in IT, healthcare, education, and clean energy industries using Atlassian suite for cloud-based management and QA.
• Provided OD and Exec Coaching to strengthen client strategic alignment and team leadership.
• Advanced adoption efforts for managerial and leadership development with success in more than 96% (53/55) of initiatives.

>> Project Management tech stack: Atlassian Suite (Asana, Trello, Jira, etc.). SmartSheets, BaseCamp, Monday.com. Discrete AI/ML Models, SharePoint, MS Project.

>> Presentation tech stack: Canva, Figma, Visio. Google Analytics, Google Suite; Descript; Tableau, Zoho; Microsoft Office 365.

Strategic Execution Team Leader

• Developed and executed digital marketing strategies to increase audience engagement. 
• Created content marketing strategy for lead gen; improved TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU conversions. 
• Initiated and oversaw paid campaigns ($30-50K annually), both directly and via vendor relationship 
management.
• Designed and tracked advanced funnel solutions including workflow automations.

>> Primary Tech Stack: ClickFunnels, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Analytics, Facebook Ad Manager, Trello. Recorded and livestream webinars. Microsoft Office.

Fractional CMO - Digital Marketing

Wharton Executive Education

• Collaborated on strategic initiatives for program development, contributing to the ExecEd program's reputation and market leadership.
• Launched SEO initiatives, resulting in ExecEd programs moving from the back pages to the top 5 listings for selected programs on Google Search.
• Enhanced the Advanced Management Program and the Wharton certification programs through market research and data analysis insights.

Marketing and Program Developer

Drexel University

Developed and taught undergraduate, graduate, and on-site degree program courses in the College of Information Sciences and the College of Business.

Adjunct Faculty Instructor

StarComm Development

• Oversaw strategy, operations, and technology project management, focusing on delivering client projects with advanced web and database functionalities. 
• Grew gross revenue 2.5x.
• Clients included: DuPont, Apple Computer, Pitney Bowes, Gallup, GE, Discover Financial, Federal DoD, Federal IRS.
• Responsible for over 100 new/revised web site projects. Provided executive briefings on technology. Built web hosting and eMarketing center.

Managing Director

StarComm Development, Inc.

• Responsible for strategy execution, operations, account management, and delivery in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial company. 
• Created more than 35 specialized learning and intranet portals in 3 years. 
• Led dev and delivery for 48 commercial web development projects. 
• Provided executive briefings on technology. Built an Internet hosting hub and eMarketing center.
• Recruited, hired, and led engineering and design teams. 
• Established development project management for client work projects. Led teams of technical developers to create Internet- and intranet-based business solutions involving eCollaboration, eLearning, and eMarketing. Used structured project management, SOPs, and similar metrics to streamline processes and produce quality results consistently. 
• Provided a range of ISP services to hundreds of business customers.

Apple Computer

• Developed corporate strategy and program rollout for using Internet technology to drive support for worldwide salesforce and channel partnerships.
• Wrote and delivered corporate briefings and cross-industry presentations at conferences and executive briefings nationally and overseas.
• Initiated the "Learn and Earn" incentive program, which positively impacted retail store sales and staff capabilities worldwide. Still in use and responsible for educating more than 2,500 field sales and distributed sales channel representatives on new products and upgraded features sets each year.
• Led development and delivery project with $500K+ budgets and multi-city stops.
• Participated in the product teams for Apple Internet Connection Kit and Apple Internet Server Solution.
• Won awards and recognition for advancing the training function and making our key accounts more successful through application of technology insights. Served as a senior technical trainer for Internet technologies across the Americas.

Internet Program Manager for Worldwide Training

As a business growth strategist, author, and former Apple exec, I facilitate a 90 day process that transforms overwhelmed managers into admired leaders who are eager to grow the business and develop their team/dept/division.

What’s Going On
😖  Have you noticed that the regular tempo of productivity you rely on has taken unexpected dips and dives?

😖  Are you under pressure to produce growth while you’re barely getting by each week, performing heroic saves, yet unable to get to the longer-range planning & strategic steps?

😖  Are you surprised at all that your direct reports have not stepped up to claim more responsibility? Are you wondering who is interviewing for other opportunities?

💥  Senior managers – especially in the high tech, privately held firms that I work with –  want to see improvements in the business operations, processes, and relationships improve, not just suffer and endure.

💥  Business leaders are struggling to right the ship. Without an approach that addresses the underlying causes, behavior change initiatives fail more than 70%. 

💥  Half-hearted efforts produce not just poor results, but perhaps backlash from your people. It doesn’t have to be that way. 


When We Work Together
📈   You get the levels of engagement that are good for morale and measurable via market growth, reduced costs, improved profit margins, and lower turnover.

💪 You can see results for yourself in 2-weeks. 

👊  Stop settling for results that are below what you know your people are capable of producing.

👊  Escape the trap of solving your manager's problems and give them the support to become more effective.

What Other Senior Leaders Say
💬  "I highly recommend Bill for any company who is looking for a talented person to help them with things such as marketing strategies, product positioning, company presentations, and overall good judgment regarding personnel and the organization.”
Bret Dunlap, CEO/President • Advanced Mobile Solutions

💬   “Whenever I was stuck, I knew Bill would be able to listen, ask a few questions, and come up with insights that really made a difference, whether it was with a strategy decision, go-to-market opportunity, or de-risking a new venture. Bill is an invaluable asset to any technology leader.”
Nitin Khanna, CEO • Archer Insights
 
Connect with Me 
👉  Attend a live monthly event for senior managers who want more alignment and better execution. 
https://learnwell.com/reserve-30-min-workshop-seat

👉 If you'd rather talk directly, find 15 min. with me here:
https://learnwell.com/book-discovery-call

Bill Ringle

Elman IP

Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and federal Trade Secret Law

Patent and Intellectual Property Attorney

Biotechnology Law Report

For 32 years, supervised publication by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., of this journal for lawyers and regulatory affairs professionals on issues relating to biotechnology.

Visit http://liebertpub.com/blr for some featured articles in our 30th Anniversary Issue.

Founding Editor

Elman Technology Law, P.C.

Our motto: STRATEGIC LAWYERING. CULTIVATING INNOVATION.

At Elman Technology Law: SCIENCE FICTION MEETS LEGAL VISION

President

Quick-Med Technologies, Inc.

Managed strategy for intellectual property portfolio and provided legal support for technology licensing program.

Outside Patent and Trademark Counsel

University of Phoenix Online Campus

Taught the first online courses on Intellectual Property Management at the University of Phoenix Online.

Faculty Member

U.S. Department of Justice

Participated in antitrust litigation for the federal government including trial of companies accused of conspiracy to enforce an allegedly fraudulently obtained drug patent; participated in grand jury investigations of possible antitrust violations; performed pre-merger investigations under Hart-Scott Rodino Act.

Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division

Pennsylvania Dept. of Justice

Chief of Antitrust Unit and member of Litigation Section of Penna. Dept. of Justice.   State Public Utility Commission regulatory proceedings; civil antitrust litigation in federal courts; investigation of anticompetitive behavior in gasoline industry. Successfully defended Governor in state court proceedings from trial level to Supreme Court appeal.

Deputy Attorney General

Rohm and Haas Company

Preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications; generation of license agreements; and general intellectual property advice for health products and enzymes groups and MicroMedic Systems joint venture with Battelle.  Rohm and Haas is now part of DowDuPont.

Patent and Trademark Attorney

With 54 years of varied experience as a practicing attorney, he is also a widely published author on technology and the law. He was one of the first attorneys to work with computers and online information technology and has long been an evangelist for cybersecurity. He is listed in the SuperLawyers Pennsylvania directory for IP law, and in The Best Lawyers in America© for Technology Law and he has achieved the highest rating, AV Preeminent, in the peer-reviewed Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and 10.0/10 Superb on Avvo.com.

As a Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he conducted litigation on behalf of the Commonwealth, primarily involving antitrust or utility regulation. Later, as trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, he participated in civil and criminal investigations and complex litigation, including a trial of 5 pharmaceutical companies accused of fraud on the U.S. Patent Office.

He returned to private practice in 1982. At the beginning of that year, Gerry founded the legal journal Biotechnology Law Report along with publisher Mary Ann Liebert and continues to serve as its Founding Editor.
 
Since the early days of 1982, Gerry has been an avid advocate of computer-mediated communication. Via computer, he has taught intellectual property management on the University of Phoenix online campus. From 1994 to 1999 he served as the sysop for intellectual property/legal matters in the Ideas, Inventions & Innovations Forum, on CompuServe.

Gerry now practices as Elman IP in Denton, Texas.

Expertise: patents, trademarks, copyrights, intellectual property, antitrust, Internet law, cyberlaw, biotechnology law, computer law, dispute resolution, expert witness, intellectual property, cyber-security,HIPAA compliance, cyber war, mediation, intellectual property arbitration, trade secrets

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