Jim Altfeld

1403 West Magnolia Blvd
Burbank, CA 91506
Tel: 818-953-4054
Fax: 818-953-4037
jaltfeld@altfeldinc.com

Presentations:

• Doing Business in an Alice in Wonderland World.
• How to create a customer focused, horizontally integrated, interdependent infrastructure.
• The Need for Grading and Evaluating Your Customers.
• A Ten Step Program for Managing Your Territory

Jim Altfeld has spent 30 years in business, primarily in B2B marketing, sales, and strategic planning. He has owned and operated three small businesses. Jim spent six years at G.E., three of which were at NORYL, known as “the house that Jack Welch built.”

Jennifer Beever CMC

New Incite Marketing Analysis & Design
6433 Topanga Canyon Blvd., # 433
Woodland Hills, CA 91303
Tel: 818-347-4248, Fax: 818-475-1613
jenb@newincite.com
http://www.newincite.com

Presentations: 

• Marketing Metrics: How to Track Return on Your Marketing Investment
• Marketing Plan for Customer Retention
• How To Make Your Website Generate Results
• Market Your Skills Using 'Emotional Intelligence'.
  Marketing Matters

Jennifer Beever is a Marketing Consultant who specializes in providing outsource marketing direction and practical marketing solutions for growing businesses. Jennifer has provided a variety of custom presentations for her clients and various associations, including the American Electronics Association, the Institute of Management Accountants, The Institute of Management Consultants, Renaissance Executive Forum and The Business and Professional Women’s Group of Verdugo Hills, CA. Prior consulting, Jennifer spent 14 years in sales and marketing management for software. She is a Certified Management Consultant, a Certified Virtual CEO Consultant, has an MBA (1990) from Pepperdine University and a B.A. (1983) from Colby College.

Bill Birnbaum CMC

1798 Oriole Drive
P.O. Box 2216
Costa Mesa, CA 92628
Tel: 714-549-2990
Fax: 714-435-1157
bill@birnbaumassociates.com
http://www.birnbaumassociates.com

Presentation:

• Thinking and Managing Strategically
• Strategy 21™ -- a Reinvention of the Strategic Planning Process
• Guiding Your Management Team to Think Strategically
• Building Knowledge in Your Organization
• Setting Meaningful Objectives - Tracking What Matters Most

Bill Birnbaum, CMC, helps client organizations develop and implement business strategies appropriate to the challenges of the 21st century. He does so by helping client management teams develop a shared strategic vision of the future. Since 1984, he has published and edited Business Strategies Newsletter, a publication containing insights and ideas for strategic-minded leaders. He is also the author of the book, “If Your Strategy is So Terrific, How Come It Doesn’t Work?” (AMACOM, 1990).

Mr. Birnbaum is a speaker for the American Management Association. He has served on the board of directors for three high-growth corporations - all three were acquired per the plan he helped them develop. He’s a Certified Management Consultant by the Institute of Management Consultants, has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.

Peter Crosby CMC

Principal, Supply Chain Practice
CGR Management Consultants
1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1900
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Tel: (310) 553-6837
Fax (310) 553-6410
petecrosby@cgrmc.com
http://www.cgrmc.com

Presentations:

• Supply Chain Strategy and Management
• Strategic Planning and Use of Models
• Process Improvement Methodologies
• Decision Support Systems and Tools
• Common Body of Consulting Knowledge
• Consulting Practice Development
• Branding
• Networking
• Pricing & Billing

Peter Crosby is a Principal of CGR Management Consultants, an operations management improvement and supply chain strategy firm. His strength is to apply practical operational experience to solve business problems of profitability, productivity, service, quality and process speed. He is a past president of the Southern California Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and was certified as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) in 1980. He also has been certified by Virtual CEO as a Certified Solution Provider for their strategic and organizational planning assessment tools. He co-founded the Food Consultants Group in 1989.

Mr. Crosby graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from UC Berkeley and received an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University and the Stanford Business School. He also was awarded the special degree of “Engineer” from the Department of Management Science & Engineering and the Stanford GSB, for his dissertation on “Optimal Short Term Financing and Operating Decisions under Uncertainty”. He gained his experience in strategic planning as a member of the Strategy Management Group of Arthur D. Little (ADL). He began his consulting career as the youngest ever management consultant with A.T. Kearney (EDS), a pioneering physical distribution and supply chain management firm.

Marsha Lewin CMC

P.O.Box 641277
Los Angeles, CA 90064-6277
Tel: 310-446-8833
Fax: 310-446-8834
MarshaLewin@acm.org
http://www.marshalewin.com

Presentations:

• Consulting in the Public Sector: Getting the Most from Your Consultants
• Managing Software Projects in Not an Oxymoron
• Successful Consulting (Hitting it Big as a Consultant, Consulting Made Easy)

Ms. Lewin speaks extensively nationwide on consulting more effectively and more profitably, as well as winning strategies for the entrepreneurial consultant. She grew her practice to a million dollar business, and hopes you’ll be able to do the same!

A recipient of the West Coast University Nason Achievement Award for outstanding alumni, Ms. Lewin is also an author and featured instructor on project and related management topics in live seminars, educational video and audiotapes. She is co-author of Software Project Management Step by Step, and author of The Overnight Consultant, chosen by: Book-of-the-Month Club as a main selection in its Money Books Club; as an alternate selection by Newbridge for its Executive Program and PC Users Book Club; and featured by Executive Book Summaries. Her latest book on consulting, The Consultant’s Survival Guide, was published by Wiley in 1997 and was selected by Newbridge and featured by Book of the Month Club, Money Books.

Ms. Lewin holds an AB degree from Barnard College: a Master of Science degree in Computer Science summa cum laude from West Coast University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University’s Presidential/Key Executive program. She is a Certified Computer Professional, Certified Management Consultant, and was the first female awarded the designation of Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants.

Fred Neu CMC

Frederick H. Neu & Associates - Consultants to Management
520 E. Highland Drive
Camarillo, CA 93010-1212
Tel.: 805-987-4707
fhn@fredhneu.com

Presentation:

• How to implement a successful cost reduction program
• Increase profits by improving productivity and cutting costs

Fred Neu has over 25 years of consulting and management experience assisting a variety of organizations in the U.S., Canada and Europe to make significant improvements and be more successful. Fred managed the Profit Improvement/Cost Reduction consulting practice for a Big Five firm and established his own consulting practice in 1987. Fred's productivity improvement and cost cutting projects have saved clients over $33,000,000 in annualized savings. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Industry groups or associations that would benefit from Fred Neu’s expertise are financial executives, company presidents, and distribution managers.