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I'm a builder. CEO’s hire me to build growth, businesses, brands, sales, marketing, and leadership teams. For 30+ years, I've created and led high performance growth teams in the roles of CEO, President, COO, CMO, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Sales Officer, and Group Account Director in intensely competitive categories including: restaurant, hardware, electronics, prof. services, telecommunications, analytics, automotive, beverage, toys, fashion, jewelry, golf, CPG, grocery, QSR, apparel, higher education, software, e-commerce, B2B, pet, tech, retail, real estate, and sports. Leadership brands where I’ve made an impact: McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Leo Burnett, Kraft, General Motors, Miller Lite, JWT, Sprint, Kellogg, Kroger, LG Electronics, Citgo, ToysRUs, Applebee's, Payless, Burger King, Interpublic, KFC, Ace Hardware, Bridgestone-Firestone, Polo Custom Products, and Boehringer-Ingelheim. My approach: Assess marketing, sales, business development, customer engagement, customer journey, and operations to see “the matrix” of what’s needed to achieve smarter marketing and more effective sales. Develop and implement action plans that accelerate growth through purposeful marketing. Evenings, I teach future builders of marketing, business strategy, and entrepreneurship in the MBA programs at the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas I've founded/ co-founded 5 companies: a marketing consultancy: High Performance Marketing (hprmg.com), a CEO marketing training firm High Performance Marketing Bootcamp (highperformancemarketingbootcamp.com), a marketing services network: bizHive, a start up incubator WaveMaker Labs, and a digital field marketing platform: LocalWave. Currently a partner in WizeWebz, a strategy consulting firm. Specialties: Brand strategy, business strategy, marketing strategy, retail marketing strategy, business development, sales, complex sales, sales management, sales strategy, advertising, promotion, direct, data base, CRM, public relations, corporate communication, POP, POS, media strategy, digital strategy, social media, shopper marketing, web strategy, sales promotion, B2B, B2C, FMCG, consumer packaged goods, new product introductions