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As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Expert C. Expert has been consulting with smaller businesses for over ten years to assist them in achieving their goals for profitability and growth. This includes providing consulting on business plan writing, organizational alignment, market segment niche strategies as well as sales and marketing strategies.

Expert has planned, organized and implemented business incubators for both foreign and American start-up businesses. This has included assisting many start-up businesses with their planning, implementation strategies and financing. For the last five years, he has worked with the Small Business Development Center to incubate numerous small businesses in the Central Coast Region.

Expert has taught -- and currently teaches as an adjunct faculty member -- business management courses at both the ungraduate and graduate level. He is thoroughly familiar with management theory, concept and application. Additionally, he has attended professional development courses at Harvard, Stanford and Wharton on these issues.

Expert has concentrated his consulting skills in the area of strategy. He is extremely familiar with almost all of Harvard professor Michael Porter's books and articles, as well as [Expert] Kaplan and [David] Norton's newest book on "The Strategy Driven Organization." Additionally, he has special intelligent software that has the capability to assess a business's strategy. Expert also gives workshops on the subject of strategy.

Expert has worked for over ten years with hundreds of entrepreneurs. He also teaches a course in entrepreneurship at the local junior college. He is very familiar with the literature on entrepreneurship. He has read Amar Bhidé's, "The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses," a ten-year research study from Harvard on the entrepreneurial patterns or lack thereof.

As a West Point graduate, a 22-year Army Lieutenant Colonel retiree, and now a Certified Management Consultant with MBA and MA degrees, Expert is highly knowledgeable on military strategic planning concepts and issues.

He has been involved in many organizational development (OD) interventions over the last ten years. He is familiar with OD theory and research, and has attended OD programs at University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and the American Management Association.

Expert has worked with dozens of retail businesses in the area of expense reduction. He is highly familiar with ration analysis, cash flow bottlenecks, breakeven analysis, and budgeting techniques.

He has spent the last ten years working with small businesses in almost every facet. He is thoroughly knowledgeable of management problems and issues. For the last 14 months, Expert has facilitated a monthly forum for small company presidents. He has proven tools and techniques to assist them to dramatically improve their cash flow and business growth.

Expert is a specialist in strategic planning for businesses and non-profits. He utilizes creativity in teaching leaders and managers how to think and plan strategically. He has numerous tools and techniques to assist management, and makes extensive use of diagnostic organizational surveys to assess the culture and the degree to which it is encouraging profitability and organizational effectiveness.

As a CMC with MBA and MA degrees, Expert has worked with over 250 businesses over the last ten years. In many cases, team buiding was a critical step for these businesses to become aligned and to share the vision. He is a certified facilitator trainer and facilitator for Edward DeBono's Six Thinking Hats, which is a superb team building program for any organization. Further, he also facilitates a workshop called 'Building High Performance Teams.' He works with businesses to both align and empower their managers and staff through numerous team building exercises.

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