Andrew G. Bromberg

Andy Bromberg opened his training and marketing consultancy in October, 2000. Formerly, he was a Senior Consultant and Director of Electronic Training Solutions with a Boston-based training consulting firm.

He specializes in helping organizations improve strategic performance through the design and development of technical, sales and management training. He has consulted with leading global companies in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. His clients include Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Cigna Healthcare, Fidelity Investments, Rational Software, Janus Funds, Scudder Investments, and Digital Corp.—now Hewlett-Packard Company.

Mr. Bromberg is the published author of a series of children's books and a former publisher of two newsstand magazines.

He received a BA from Harpur College and completed the MA program in Art History at SUNY Binghamton, where he also served on the faculty. He is a Certified Facilitator in Integrity Selling™.

Mr. Bromberg lives and works in Hollis, New Hampshire.

Michael D. Maginn, Ed.D.

Michael D. Maginn is the president of Singularity Group, Inc., a Massachusetts-based management consulting firm founded in 1983. Dr. Maginn helps senior teams implement strategic plans. Complexity and the speed of change have made strategic implementation an important factor in the long-term success of organizations. To respond to that need, Singularity Group has developed expertise in creating successful performers as individuals and on teams. Singularity Group services and programs include Executive Communications and Team Planning, Skill Building, Development and Training, and Climate Measurement, Diagnostic Surveys and 360s.

Dr. Maginn has over 20 years of experience as a management consultant assisting organizations achieve sustainable strategic outcomes and improving performance. Dr. Maginn is the author of Effective Teamwork, a book directed to the role and skills of team members. He has written many management and sales articles identifying high-performer competencies as well as commercially available video-based training programs. As past Vice President, Research and Development for the Forum Corporation, he designed and developed Influence, a multi-million dollar success story in the training industry that teaches cross-functional, team-oriented skills.

He has recently delivered consulting services for companies including Liberty Mutual, CIGNA, CNA, State Street Bank, J.P. Morgan, Coca-Cola, IBM, Digital Equipment Corp., MBNA America, Continental Insurance, MCI, Chase Manhattan Bank, Sears, Keystone Investor Resource Center, Time, Inc., Fidelity Investments, Prudential Securities, Marriott, Bank Indonesia, Pitney Bowes, Pepsi-Cola, BayBanks, Institute of Certified Travel Agents, Toronto Dominion Bank, Matsushita Electronics Corporation of America, GRE Insurance and others.

Dr. Maginn has an AB in English and Journalism and MS in Education from Syracuse University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California in Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology. After completing his doctorate, he spent a year in Asia teaching in USC's Overseas Master's Program.

Dr. Maginn has extensive international consulting experience, including extended assignments in Asia, Europe, and North America. He lives with his wife and two children in Hamilton, MA., and enjoys sailing, cross-country skiing, cycling and playing the guitar.

Paul A. Jarvie

Mr. Jarvie is a Principal at Jarvie & Alexander, and specializes in management and organizational development, training and education. Mr. Jarvie has helped a number of organizations improve managerial performance, including Deutsche Bank, J. P. Morgan Chase, Fidelity Investments, PepsiCo, VISA International, CNA, the CIT Group, Metropolitan Life, Prudential Insurance, Citicorp, MBNA, Becton Dickinson and Company and Johnson & Johnson Medical. For multinational clients, Mr. Jarvie has delivered training programs and consulting services designed to improve the effectiveness of managers and senior executives in Europe, Asia and Latin America as well as in North America.

Earlier, Mr. Jarvie was Vice President of The Forum Corporation and was responsible for the design, development and delivery of management and supervisory seminars and services. As a consultant for Harbridge House, he designed and implemented management development programs for a variety of companies. In addition, Mr. Jarvie has considerable experience in the area of business communications. He co-authored Casebook Rhetoric, a textbook for business and engineering students, with David Tedlock, and is the author of a case series on the Chase Manhattan Bank published by Harvard Business School.

Mr. Jarvie received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.A. from Tufts University. He has served on the faculties of Tufts University, Boston University, and Harvard Business School. He is qualified to deliver the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and is certified in the delivery and use of the ACUMEN and ACUMEN WORKSTYLES survey instruments.

Robert C. Cabot

Robert Cabot is a consultant and learning professional who has been active with more than 100 clients over the last 20 years. Known as a team-builder, he offers professional expertise in corporate-wide strategy development and implementation.
His skills are in data collection, strategy formulation and strategy implementation via sales and management training. He is proficient in employing classroom study, executive coaching and 360-degree feedback to achieve beneficial corporate change.

For 17 years prior, he owned a group of community newspapers in the Boston, Massachusetts, suburbs. This experience allowed him to build a wide-ranging capability in designing classroom learning events, creating lesson-plans for seminars and writing case studies and other seminar materials.

Mr. Cabot was educated at Harvard (BA cum laude), Pembroke College, Oxford, England (MA) and the Sorbonne (Paris). After his education he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps and was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant, E-5. He is married. He has two children.

Bob Smeaton is the Managing Director of Signals Ltd, a leading-edge digital communications agency providing high-class CD-ROM, web and innovative presentation, sales and marketing solutions for UK and global clients.

Mr Smeaton founded Signals in 1991, after 10 years as a Director of a leading UK conference and audio-visual agency. Prior to this, throughout the 1970s he was employed by Honeywell Information Systems, pioneering the use of audio-visual techniques in their education and marketing communications.

He ensures that Signals bring innovation, creativity, flair and first-class customer care to all their projects. They have produced innovative and ingenious digital solutions for blue-chip, global and national clients across a variety of sectors from IT to Pharmaceuticals to Finance to Telecommunications.

Projects include on-line promotions with sophisticated data capture and management tools for Xerox, CD-ROM based educational tools for Johnson and Johnson and presentation support for the Chief Executive of Vodafone.

Key to success in the European marketplace is the ability to deliver in multiple languages and Mr Smeaton has been instrumental in delivering this expertise to Signals' clients.

Signals are based in the delightful surroundings of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England; close to London's Heathrow airport and ideally placed to service their UK and European client base.

Vantage Point Associates LLC

Vantage Point Associates helps organizations design and execute market-focused business strategy to improve competitive position and grow revenue profitably.

Their robust process, proven in many hundreds of client situations, leads management teams responsible for planning and producing results through an in-depth examination of their current situation—business environment, competitors, customers—to reach insightful conclusions about their opportunities and challenges. From this foundation, teams move on to formulate strategy that focuses their efforts on building differentiated offerings to preferred customer segments.

Co-founders Jefferson Freeman and Hastings Read and their 12 associates have helped many of the world's leading companies meet strategy and marketing challenges. Clients they have served include A&E Television Networks, AT&T, Avon Products, Bausch & Lomb, Bayer Diagnostics, Bell Atlantic / NYNEX, BellSouth, Cargill, Champion International, Ciba-Geigy, Corning, Dun & Bradstreet, The Dexter Corporation, DuPont Dow Elastomers, Ford, GEON, BFGoodrich, GTE, James River Corporation, Katz Media Corporation, MasterCard International, McGraw Hill, Motorola, National Starch and Chemical Company, Northeast Utilities, Pfizer, Public Service Electric & Gas, Premark, Rank-Xerox, Rhône-Poulenc, Sandoz, SmithKline Beecham, Specialty Minerals, Sun Oil Company, Visteon, S. D. Warren, and Xerox Corporation.

Vantage Point Associates is headquartered an hour north of New York City in Bedford Hills, New York.

Mary Kornblum

Mary Kornblum is Principal of New York graphic and web design firm, CMYK Design, Inc. (http://cmykdesigninc.com).

Her work as a creative problem-solver for over 20 years includes book design and illustration, advertising, direct mail, marketing collateral, and architectural design.

CMYK's clients include MasterCard International, McGraw-Hill; Testwell Laboratories, Inc.; The Bermuda, Portugal, and Belgium Departments of Tourism; Forte Meridien Hotels; Hilton International; and The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy.

Ms. Kornblum has studied at Franconia College, New York University, and The School of Visual Arts.

She resides with husband John, horses Punch, Elska,and Winnie and Lizzie the irascible Scottie, at Winter Dreams Farm in Katonah, New York.

Tara Framer

Tara Framer is a senior creative professional with extensive design, teaching and technical production experience.

She is a lead creator of websites, identity programs, promotions, sales support materials, book interiors, magazine editorial, packaging and presentations.

Ms. Framer specializes in information architecture and interface design. She has put her skills to work for Reader's Digest, ValueMax, Home & Garden Rewards, Leisure Advantage, Yahoo!, Kodak, StarMedia, Pacific Bell, Working Assets, Realtor.com, CMP Media , EZWheels™, EZVenture™, EZSpree™, White Pine Software, Permission Marketing, The Gap, Old Navy, and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Ms. Framer received her BA degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and has done graduate studies at The New School for Social Research and Long Island University. She has worked as an Adjunct Professor at The New School (NYC), The School of Visual Arts (NYC), and at Westchester Community College.