Chair

E. Michael Shays CMC FIMC – EMS Network International
www.emsnetwork.com

EMS Network is an affiliation of independent, senior consultants from around the world established in 1987 to bring the right expertise together in teams to solve client problems. Services include transition management, conflict resolution, breakthrough thinking, scenario planning, mediation, mergers and acquisitions and more.
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 – The Transitional Career Center
www.transitionalcareer.com

Dick Pinsker is Managing Director and Founder of The Transitional Career Center. His career spans decades of working with corporations and individuals in their pursuit of making the best hiring decisions. He provides one-on-one coaching and workshops for professionals considering transitional careers, and recruits transitional talent for organizations. He is the author of Seven Steps to a Rewarding Transitional Career . . . Getting Work in a Tough Economy. 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