For 20-plus years, Jack Pachuta has been a consultant, trainer, and speaker, working with clients on three continents. As the field director of the first interactive use of cable television in North America, he helped change the way mass media is perceived. As a vice president of a corporation named one of Forbes' Magazine's "200 Best Small Companies," he headed its training, communications, and project management functions.

Holding masters degrees from both the University of Southern California and Michigan State University, Jack is on the adjunct faculty of Cardinal Stritch University, and is a senior faculty member of the Keller Graduate School of Management. 

His clients have included Jockey International, ShopKo Stores, Maytag, Satellite Industries, Kaytee Products, Andersen Consulting, Thomson Audio Hong Kong, the Asia Pacific Institute for Management Development in Singapore,  Economotechnical Multi-Finance in Athens, Greece, and Connex of Bucharest, Romania. Jack is a member of the National Speakers Association, and a past president of the Wisconsin Professional Speakers Association.

Barry Eigen is the founder, and former President and CEO of HealthCall Corporation, a nationwide distributor of medical equipment and franchiser of medical retail stores. During his nearly 25-year tenure at his company's helm, it grew from a single location to outlets in 385 cities, in 45 states, from Maine to California, and from Alaska to the Virgin Islands.

Since selling his company to a multi-national corporation in 1985, Barry wrote the award-winning employee motivation book: "How To Think Like A Boss And Get Ahead At Work," first published in hard cover by Lyle Stuart/Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY; on audio cassette by Audio Renaissance, Los Angeles, CA; and in paperback by Avon Books, NYC. Now published in five languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and English, Barry's book has been condensed in Reader's Digest, excerpted in Cosmopolitan, and Glamour, and featured in Boardroom Reports, Bottom Line-Personal, Executive Book Summaries and newspapers across the country.

He is a member of the National Speaker's Association, and both its Wisconsin and Illinois chapters, and is the recipient of numerous awards including Chapter Member of the Year:1993-94 and the Speaking Star Award: 1998.

In the past 30 years as a professional speaker, Dennis E. Mannering, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) has provided more than 3,300 presentations positively influencing the lives of thousands of people through his simple, direct method of getting to the heart of quality living and working. He not only has a dynamic presentation style, but also the practical experience to speak with credibility.

As a successful entrepreneur and business consultant, he shares the secrets of his success with business and association audiences through his books, audio and video learning systems and speaking engagements. Dennis was also an insurance salesperson, a teacher in the inner city of Milwaukee and a vocational administrator. 

He has received the DECA Outstanding Service Award for his years of dedication to marketing education. Dennis earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Southwest Missouri State and his Masters degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has spoken on the same program with notables such as Paul Harvey, Art Linkletter, Bob Richards, Ed Asner, Willard Scott, Bill Bennett and Astronaut James Lovell.

The MSI Team adds new members to address the expanding needs of organizations around the world that require cutting-edge perspectives for success in the 21st century. 

Charles Leahy, Ph.D., is the former Vice President of Training and Education for Payco American Corporation where he was responsible for the learning development of 3,000 line staff as well as middle and senior management. He provided core and advanced curriculum for management; developed a CEO's speakers' forum; and played a key role in advancing the concept of a learning organization. Prior to this position, he headed an external consultancy and training group which specialized in work flow analysis, organizational design, customer service and line staff and management training.

Dr. Leahy holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina and master's degrees from the University of California - Berkeley and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He earned his doctorate at Berkeley and taught at the University Extension before beginning his career in private industry.

Dr. Leahy's consulting and training clients have included Federal Express, Merrill Lynch, Purolator Courier (Canada), Nationwide Insurance, AT&T, Conrail, CSX Transportation, Bell South and many others. He is also on the faculty of Asia Pacific Institute for Management Development and MasterCard University. Dr. Leahy has presented seminars worldwide, in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Canada, South Africa and, most recently, Romania.

Joe Guertin helps sales teams become streetfighters. He also helps management teams become leaders.

After 12 years of outside advertising sales in the broadcast industry, Joe was encouraged by several of his customers to train and coach their salespeople, using his uncanny blend of humor and no-nonsense approach to success. In 1993, he launched Joseph Guertin & Associates, a speaking, training and consulting firm, to provide Streetfighting on a full time basis. Guertin's leadership and selling acumen did not come easy. As he explains, "I was Mr. Mediocre" for several years before discovering "The Joys of Streetfighting," which he describes as "a powerful combination of partnership thinking with a proclivity toward out thinking and out maneuvering the competition."

Today, his fully-customized, hands-on, workshops on "Selling in Turbulent Times" are always right on target. His high-energy Keynotes come packed with step-by-step strategies for growing people…and their careers.

In addition to a busy speaking and training schedule, Guertin is also a part-time staff trainer with the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Center for Career Development, and a member of the National Speakers Association. His sales columns have appeared in numerous business and trade publications nationwide.

Emmy nominee, entrepreneur, author, television personality and winner of six national marketing awards, Debra Schmidt is one of the nation's most versatile speakers.  She teaches and motivates audiences through her energy, enthusiasm and personal stories.  Debra's highly interactive programs are loaded with solid content and humor.  She has inspired audiences throughout the United States and consistently delivers profit-boosting results to her clients.

With a master's degree and over 20 years of business management experience, Debra is an expert in customer retention and personal productivity.  She is a member of the National Speakers Association, an accredited member (APR) of the Public Relations Society of America and past president of the Association for Women In Communications, Inc.

For the past six years, Joseph Geck, Jr. has been president and CEO of a training and consulting firm working in globalization, cross-cultural competence, process improvement and negotiation. As acting CEO for one of his clients, Joe negotiated a 13% contract increase from one of the big three automakers at a time when the standard was 5% decrease. He did this by using a strategy that combined Japanese and Western negotiating techniques and by introducing the concept of a strategic supplier using technology to eventually drive down costs for both sides.

Joe has 20 years of engineering and marketing management experience at GE Medical Systems. He had a three faceted reputation at GE Medical: as a leader of high profile problem solving teams, as an expert in Japanese business culture and as a turn around manager for troubled units in engineering. At GE Medical he had not only received many management awards but had received the largest ever cash award for leading a skunk works team that removed five million dollars of annual material cost from the CT product.

Joe received his BEE summa cum laude from the University of Detroit and received a full scholarship for his MSEE from Stanford University. He spent time with Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard Medical Systems and Corometrics Medical Systems prior to joining GE Medical.

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