Chair
E. Michael Shays CMC FIMC – Turbocharge Your Consulting
www.emsnetwork.com
Michael Shays coaches successful people and those who flunked retirement who want to get started in management consulting or need to turbocharge their consulting practice
IMC Chapter: Pacific Northwest
Committee Members
Joan L. Beavin CMC – Jewels by Joan
www.jewelsbyjoan.com
Joan Beavin has served on the Confab committee for many years in a variety of roles, including finance and marketing. Recently Joan left consulting to pursue her artistic talents in jewelry making. Prior to starting her new endeavor, Joan ran a successful consulting practice with an emphasis on business process improvement, customer service, systems, operations, and marketing.
IMC Chapter: Northern California
Jennifer Beever CMC – New Incite
www.newincite.com
Jennifer Beever is a “CMO for hire” for growing technology companies and manufacturers, providing strategic marketing analysis and planning, assistance in implementing key marketing activities, tracking marketing return on investment, and marketing staffing.
IMC Chapter: Southern California
Jane Black – Senn Delaney Leadership
www.senndelaney.com
Senn-Delaney Leadership is a global consulting firm in the field of organizational culture shaping. Their mission is to create healthy, high-performance organizational cultures through leadership, to help organizations consistently achieve better business results.
Norman Eckstein CMC FIMC - Eckstein Management Consulting
Eckstein Management Consulting uses a non-traditional management consulting approach to help clients grow profitably and improve operations and management practices, including Strategic Planning and Problem Solving using Client Teams as Consultants. Norm has served as Confab Conference Chair twice.
IMC Chapter: Chicagoland
Alice Heiman – Alice Heiman LLC
www.aliceheiman.com
Alice Heiman helps companies grow by working with CEOs and senior sales executives. She delivers results by using a unique combination of experience in sales, sales management, marketing, process implementation and facilitation to provide the strategy and tactics for companies to increase their sales.
IMC Chapter: Northern California
John Harrison Newman CMC
www.newmanturnaround.com
John specializes in the turnaround of troubled mid-sized companies with 100 to 5000 employees. He works as a hands-on advisor or as interim CEO and has eighteen years experience in a wide variety of industries. About half of John’s clients are cooperatives.
IMC Chapter: Member at Large
Richard J. Pinsker CMC FIMC – Pinsker and Company
www.pinskerandco.com
Dick Pinsker is President of Pinsker and company, a retained executive search firm. His career spans decades of working with corporations and individuals in their pursuit of making the best hiring decisions. He coaches executives in all aspects of recruitment and employee selection to ensure they hire people who exceed expectations. His “Hire for Results” workshops are based on two of his books: “Hiring Winners,” a Business Week Book Club Main Selection; and “Seven Rules for Hiring Extraordinary Talent, A Business Story.” Dick was one of the original founders of Confab, served as Chairman for over a decade, and has been on the committee every year.
IMC Chapter: Northern California
Don Scellato CMC – Scellato Consulting Services
Don provides consulting services in Project Management, Total Quality Management, Process Management and Process Design to clients in transportation, distribution, software development, and Logistics Management Companies.
IMC Chapter: Northern California
Cherryll Sevy CMC – Cypress Ridge Solutions
www.cypressridgesolutions.com
A past Confab Conference Chair, Cherryll consults with her clients to create powerful human resource strategies, design effective compensation and incentive plans, and implement successful Executive Compensation and insurance programs.
IMC Chapter: Northern California
Doug Zogby – Got Game Consulting
www.gotgameconsulting.com
Turning competitive corners into cooperative curves.
IMC Chapter: Arizona
