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Results-oriented Executive with extensive experience as a key leader in global knowledge transfers and boundary-less integration. Expertise in integration, partnership, consultative coaching, energizing globally diverse teams, developing strategic business relationships, execution of tactical planning, and indentification of needs for business-to-business and improvement. Since accepting an early retirement from GE, I spent four years as a global consultant for GE and other multinational companies. For the past seven years, I have been involved as a consultant and now employee for a unique and innovative profession-based learning model for juniors and seniors in high school. My goal is to help transform K-12 education to a model that encourages involvement by the business community in the education process. Teachers need to transition from teaching for the test to a model that fast forwards the students to life after college in a real world environment. Companies/organizations need to be involved in education providing mentors, speakers, guest instructors and curriculum help. The students need to do real-life projects for real companies. The goal of a K-12 program should not only be preparing the students for college, but for the rest of their life. This includes professional skill development and workforce selection process. We need to move from a stand and deliver education model to one where students can learn the soft skills in addtion to the techical expertise in a career they want to enter. The way we learn has not changed since the beginning of the Industrial Age. We listen to lectures, read chapters, take quizes/tests and go to the next grade. "If it's not broken, break it." Specialties: change agent, visionary, great listener, mentor, connector, competitive, likes the hunt more than the stage, helping youth prepare for life, entrepreneurial spirit, new business generation and looking to disrupt education.