"Achieving maximum effectiveness and quantum growth is about inspiring clarity, power, passion and peace at all levels of your life and business."
Tom Guzzardo is all about creating synergy and integration of your life, your business and your support team. He understands all the pieces of your financial services business puzzle and help you align the stray pieces that limit your success.
Tom helps hundreds of Financial Advisors and General Managers to breakthrough to the next level of excellence. Influenced by his father who was a general agent with Met Life, he's worked more than 15 years partnering within the Insurance and Financial Service Industry. He knows that if you are really going to change, you have to integrate both new thinking and skills into what is already a busy career, life and family. As a result Tom created one of the most unique and fully-integrated sales coaching programs for Financial Advisors, General Agents, Regional Vice Presidents and Home Offices.
Tom delivers dynamic and educational workshops, group coaching and personalized one-on-one training programs. His clients have included AT&T, Delta Airlines, Bank of America (NationsBank), Northwestern Mutual, American Express, New York Life, Principal Financial, New England Financial and MetLife.
As a trained psychotherapist and ordained minister, with a degree in Counselling, Tom prefers to work with "the whole person concept". Tom's coaching compels deeper results by creating clarity, focus and power in both your business and personal life. He often works with faith-based, values oriented companies.
 Recognized by CNN News and Fortune Magazine for innovating leadership and
sales coaching.
Member of the National Speakers Association and American Society of Training and Development
Creator of the acclaimed business development audio program "Grow Your Business or Go Out of Business"
Co-author "Wholehearted Success" and "Success is a Team Effort"
Featured alongside the world's top trainers and motivators like Stephen Covey, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Bruce Jenner and Wally "Famous" Amos in an edition of the "Mission Possible!" series of great American success stories.
Regardless of the size of your firm, Tom Guzzardo gets results. He preaches the unique and practical strategies for quantum business growth through integration of a high performance leadership team.
As the record holder for screw-ups on the ROTC campus, the young Lieutenant was advised "Find the most experienced Sergeant that you can find and allow him to coach you, otherwise you won't make it." Having followed this advice, twenty years later, he retired a Colonel and achieved an honours B.A., M.A. and LL.D. in counselling and organizational management through three different universities.
A certified coach and trainer in Personal Dynamics, Leader Effectiveness, Human Synergistics International Graphoanalysis and Reality Therapy, Bob conceived and spearheaded a leadership program which taught leaders how to coach and mentor subordinates. This unique program which was implemented by organizations internationally, was highlighted in Time magazine and a twenty-minute news special on CBS Worldwide News. Major corporate clients in manufacturing, banking, and air transport, include Mitsubishi, Control Data, Panama Canal Commission, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Defense and Motta Corporation. Financial service clients include: New York Life, MetLife, NMFN, Lincoln Financial and Principal Financial.
Now, Retired Colonel Hotzclaw not only encourages and coaches corporate level executives to develop effective mid-level managers, but he demands effectiveness and personal responsibility. He'll lead by example to discipline and train effective teams that propel to higher levels of production.
Whether it's multi-million dollar enterprises or small business owners, Peggy is all about helping her clients maximize their human effectiveness. She combines extensive experience in interpersonal communications, marketing and public relations to help her clients create peak performance in team building, communications, customer service and sales.
As president of Peak Performance Corp., Peggy is known for creating unprecedented growth and profitability through team work. Peggy specializes in helping clients straight talk and tell it like it is. She creates team focus to bring out the best in individuals, aligning commitment and inspiring a sense of pride and achievement that propels them forward.
Ms. Dean has devoted over 10 years to conducting training and research in human performance and development. She holds an Executive MBA Degree from Southern Methodist University and is a Certified Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Peggy brings a background of diverse experience in managing corporate affairs, public relations and advertising programs and directing educational programs of national impact for a number of corporations. She is also the author of numerous articles on human performance and the book, Mind/Body Approach to Peak Performance.
Peggy's coaching skills have provided an invaluable resource a multitude of companies including: M Banks (Texas), Merrill Lynch, New Jersey Bankers Association, ReMax Real Estate (Georgia), SMH Swiss Corporation (Hamilton, SWATCH, Omega), Smith Kline Beecham, University of Maryland, University of Miami Medical School. Partial client list in insurance: Colonial Penn Insurance, Insurance of North America, Metropolitan Life, Dempsey & Associates (brokers), Bob Bensman (Allmerica), general agents and agents of Minnesota Mutual, Northwestern Mutual, Lutheran Brotherhood, New England Financial, Principal Mutual, AXA, and New York Life.
Dennis Hooper spent thirty years in a “real job”, helping hundreds of managers and technicians within the Procter & Gamble Company and the Weyerhaeuser Company build their leadership skills. Dennis held line and staff assignments over thirty years at five manufacturing locations, often serving other facilities based on his growing reputation.
Now, as a certified personal coach focused on leadership development, he’s helping leaders identify their strengths and limitations, then enhance their skills and intentionally improve their organizations.
Dennis has a file folder filled with testimonials of individuals who have experienced his caring yet demanding standards. Thousands witness his teaching and writing skills through his weekly newspaper column focused on building leaders and organizations of excellence. He records a daily radio program encouraging leaders to serve as role models and teachers of younger men and women. (The newspaper columns have appeared for three years; the radio programs have aired for one year.)
Dennis shares his knowledge and experience unselfishly. Yet his greatest strengths are revealed when working with leadership teams, teaching them to serve their organizations and build future leaders. Skilled in applying academic theories and empirical formulas to the practical needs of the real world of work, he serves alongside his clients, helping them articulate, build, and accomplish their visions. His penetrating questions cause leaders to think deeply, often making new meaning of familiar situations.
With clients from Florida to Maryland demanding his attention, Dennis misses every night he’s away from central Georgia and Donna, his loving wife of nineteen years.
Dennis Hooper has always loved learning and growing. Having worked in manufacturing for 23 years with Procter & Gamble and 7 years with Weyerhaeuser, he became skilled in applying academic theories and empirical formulas to the real world.
His bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration cause him to have a very practical view of the world. After accepting an early retirement from the formal world of work five years ago, he became certified through the FranklinCovey Leadership Institute as a personal coach, and his emphasis is in the area of leadership development.
Now Dennis is using his gifts of teaching and encouragement to build leaders and organizations of excellence. Dennis is a good listener, asks thought-provoking questions, and causes people to think deeply, making new meaning of familiar situations. He shares information unselfishly, having written a weekly column on leadership development for the past three years. Additionally, a year ago he started a daily radio broadcast encouraging existing leaders to build future leaders.
Please welcome Dennis Hooper.
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