LearnWell

• 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

Leading the Renaissance of Thinking | Founder of The Models Method | Speaker, Advisor & Author | Host of "The Wisdom Of..." Podcast

Hello - Simon Bowen here, Creator of the Genius Model®, Founder of the Models Method, International Keynote Speaker and the World’s #1 Authority on Visual Models That Sell.  

I work with business owners to create powerful, million-dollar, visual models that drive their revenue and growth as well as create authentic connection, effortless conversion and make a greater impact.

Whether you’re communicating a new strategy to the Board, driving a critical project, or converting a customer to a purchase in your sales process, I believe that clear communication is the key … and so I created a proven method to get the results ... The Models Method.

And the question I get asked a lot is ... why are visual models so powerful?

Well, a great visual model is really a million-dollar map of someone’s thinking!

They simplify the complex and make it tangible as well as providing a transformational approach that will shape the thinking of your team and your customers towards your big idea.

If you move from verbal (just talking about what you do) to visual (SHOWING people what you do), you speed up the process with a deeper understanding, a much higher level of conversion, and an ability to show a much more tangible level of outcome.  And it’s that tangibility that people like and understand.

I have a background in electrics and electronics, teaching, university lecturing, executive management, corporate consulting and peak performance coaching.  From all that, I’ve been exposed to an extraordinary blend of perspectives which has resulted in me creating a truly unique framework of thinking and influence that is changing the way business leaders, consultants and sales people unpack complex concepts and influence others towards agreement with their ideas.

This framework of using visual models to accelerate thinking and elevate influence has spread to over 20 countries and is used in more than 8 different languages.  Our flagship model, The Genius Model® has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and has changed the game of selling forever.

If you’d like to see more about the models, I'd love you to click the blue “Connect” button above so we can stay in touch.


Simon Bowen

Mountains and icebergs share something in common.

You can’t fully appreciate the clarity and perspective from the summit while standing in the Grey Zone at the base of the mountain.

And you can’t grasp the size and true power of an iceberg while floating in the Grey Zone at the surface.

Both Grey Zones offer an incomplete or shallow understanding.

The challenge is, it feels like you’re seeing it all from there - until you climb higher or dive deeper and realise how much you’ve been missing.

The marketing challenge for those who bring something truly unique to any market is this:
You’re seeing your customers’ problem from the clarity and contextual perspective that only exists at the top of the mountain, and
You’re solving it with a level of profound genius that only exists at the base of the iceberg.
But your prospects want to make their buying decision from the Grey Zone because from there, it feels safer and easier.

And that’s the key, it’s your responsibility to elevate their perspective and deepen their understanding of value, not theirs.

Imagine offering three dining experiences for a single meal ... one at the summit (but they have to climb first), one in the Grey Zone (right where they are), and one at the base of the iceberg in a subsea capsule (but they have to dive first).

Which would most people choose?

Now imagine you build a sealed, safe elevator that can take them to the top or the bottom, effortlessly and in just minutes.

Which would they choose then?

If you offered it, they might even enjoy a course in each location.

It’s not your prospect’s job to climb to the top or dive to the bottom. It’s your job to build the elevator.

Visual models - and especially your Genius Model - are that elevator.

They create safety for both you and your prospects, they elevate their context to where the true value lives and they take them deep into your original genius, where real certainty resides.

Are you giving your prospects an elevator to ride in?

Codifying Your Unique Genius Into Powerful Visual Models | Founder of The Models Method | Speaker, Advisor & Author | Host of "The Wisdom Of..." Podcast

AI won’t replace your mind, but it might replace your unexpressed genius.

Recently,  I watched a TedTalk where Advait Sarkar explain that AI shouldn’t just do our thinking … it should strengthen it.

In a world obsessed with speed, answers, and automation, the real advantage isn’t working faster... it’s thinking deeper.

AI can draft, design, and generate.

But it can’t read the tension behind a client’s hesitation, sense the unspoken problem, or elevate a conversation through wisdom.

That’s your Human AI. The intelligence machines can’t imitate authentic insight, applied imagination or intuitive interpretation.

The entrepreneurs who win next won’t out-produce AI ... they’ll out-think it.

They’ll make their genius visible, structured, and impossible to ignore.

So here’s the question ...

What part of your intelligence do you believe AI will never be able to replicate?

NEW EPISODE ALERT: The myth of the self-made entrepreneur is one of business's most dangerous lies. Bryan Adams knows this intimately.

The man who built Integrity from his house into one of America's largest insurance and wealth firms, grew up in a small-town, Texas funeral home. Population: 1,500. His education came from watching his parents serve families on the hardest days of their lives.

His father taught him service. "If someone didn't have money to pay for a funeral, we would give it to them. It had to happen."

His mother taught him survival. "We need to run a business as well. Otherwise, the town doesn't have a funeral parlour."

That tension between service and sustainability? That's where companies either scale with integrity or collapse under the weight of their own contradictions.

Nine days before his father passed, Bryan recorded his parents' story. He didn't realise then what that moment would reveal about legacy. Not legacy as aspiration, but legacy as something operational, something built every single day through the principles you refuse to compromise.

My latest conversation on The Wisdom Of ... Show with Bryan W. Adams from Integrity explores what happens when small-town values meet billion-dollar operations. 

Some of the things we discussed  …

- The power of naming your company after the standard you'll be held to

- Why AI represents the greatest opportunity for human connection, not its replacement

- How technology serves its highest purpose when it enables care at scale

- The framework for transferring context, not just concepts, across large organisations

During our conversation, I build a visual model that captures Bryan's approach to human-centred leadership in an age obsessed with automation.

Watch the complete conversation.

NEW EPISODE ALERT: Dr. Isaac Balbin believes we're living in the greatest time to be alive in history. He also sees unnecessary suffering everywhere that technology could eliminate, but hasn't yet.

My latest conversation on The Wisdom of…Show explores how this technologist, entrepreneur, and educational visionary bridges the gap between what's possible and what's actually happening.

Isaac is the founder of GLIDE, a revolutionary educational model where students learn while moving, combining physical movement with curiosity and historical context. He also serves as Executive Director of Green Gold Trading, applying rigorous science to advance evidence-based healthcare.

"Technology doesn't replace humanity. It expands what's possible when we use it to reduce suffering and make sure that no one is left behind."

On my latest episode of The Wisdom Of... Show, we explore what happens when technology and humanity stop competing and start collaborating.

Insights you'll gain: 

→ Why collective intelligence matters more than individual genius in solving humanity's biggest challenges 

→ How teaching students to stand on the shoulders of giants transforms their relationship with knowledge itself 

→ The "How do you know?" question that teaches critical thinking in a post-truth world

Isaac is one of those rare thinkers who can explain quantum theory one moment and speak with deep compassion about human suffering the next. He reminds us that technology becomes wisdom only when it serves people.

I also build a visual model during our conversation that captures his educational transformation framework - applicable far beyond traditional classrooms.

Don't miss this insightful conversation with Dr Isaac Balbin.

I'm curious to know if complexity is killing positioning and sales.

Recently, I sat down with a founder who has many years of hard-won expertise.

Her team believes in her, clients praise her work - yet proposals kept drifting into “Let’s circle back next quarter”.

Nothing had changed in the market - what changed was the distance her message had to travel without her. Her message, the uniqueness and power of it, was being diluted by distance!

When she is in front of the client, she is electric. When her team are in front of the client, they're paraphrasing with enthusiasm. When the proposal is in front of the client, it is easy for a Board to reduce her story to bullet points.

The idea survives, but the uniqueness and power of it don't.

Familiarity replaces difference, comparison replaces conviction and price takes the lead.

We didn’t add more slides, proof points, or catchy phrases. We drew a single visual model on a whiteboard that showed the compelling context, her unique concept and the promise that allows her to make with confidence.

That allowed her operations manager (not a natural presenter) to use that model with a new prospect. The decision-maker didn’t ask for “more information”, instead they just said, “That makes sense.”

The point I'm making is that it isn’t art ... it’s transfer.

A Visual Model makes your advantage portable. It gives your team language they can use tomorrow and your buyer a lens they can defend internally. That’s how belief compounds in rooms you’ll never enter. Not through louder claims, but through demonstrating the clarity that counts.

Many founders carry rare genius but if your value can’t be seen and repeated without you, you don’t really own it.

Ownership is not having the idea - ownership is having the visual model that carries the idea intact. When that happens, sales cycles shorten, risk recedes, and your work earns the right to be chosen on merit not price.

So my question to you, is complexity killing your positioning and sales?

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