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Transform your company through principle-​based leadership, empowering management, agile business process innovation, and life-changing training. Get amazing teamwork, motivation, initiative, and results.

Background In Brief

Innovative executive coach, business process consultant, and interim executive. Specializes in rapid executive/team development and executive/business transformation in small-to-midsized firms.

Business experience spans many industries from high tech to finance. Five-time entrepreneur, telecommuting pioneer, and business process ninja who readily balances business requirements, human factors, and practical technology. Emphasizes shared-responsibility management and principle-based leadership to meet objectives while developing new leaders. Integrative decision-making style, but adapts quickly to other styles as needed. Twenty-plus year track record of resourceful, people-oriented, customer-driven solutions in both traditional and virtual environments.

Business Expertise

Eleven-plus years of high-tech business experience as founder, president, COO, and CEO of five businesses, from start-up to 80 employees. Additional experience with medium/large corporate issues as a trusted executive coach, key employee, and corporate committee member. Experienced in nearly all administrative, financial, legal, governance, and operational aspects of small and medium-sized business management.

• Priacta, Inc., CEO, Executive Coach, & Contract Executive 2006–Present.
  As CEO, founded Priacta with a mission “to organize and expedite the world’s work.” Priacta is leveraging its life-changing time management training, executive/leadership coaching, and Donedesk social productivity platform to revolutionize the way the world works.
  
  As an Executive Coach, empowered executives and business owners to reach objectives and resolve difficult problems in diverse industries worldwide. Created rapid-adoption management and training methods that merge best practices from proven systems (Five Dysfunctions, Switch, Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, Arbinger, InsideOut Development, Covey, GTD, others, proprietary).
  

  “... an exceptionally talented and experienced business consultant who can help you gain control of your business AND your life.”
  —Kathleen Rhodes, Business Owner

  “... an excellent executive/productivity coach.... He carefully listened ... his recommendations were tailored to my specific needs.... he loves his work and seeing others succeed—his enthusiasm toward helping me accomplish my goals was evident in all our interactions.”
  —Gwendolyn Giblin, Attorney

  (See more recommendations in LinkedIn profile.)

• Thomas Wirig Doll, COO (Contract Executive) & Executive Coach 2010–2012.
  Thomas Wirig Doll is California's premiere wealth management, tax, accounting, and pension firm for doctors and dentists. Responsible for transforming and transitioning TWD to its permanent management structure.
  

  “I first hired Kevin as a business coach for me personally. The results were so profound that my partners were asking what happened to me. Then we hired Kevin as a facilitator for our firm's retreat. We were so happy with the results that we hired him as our contract COO.”
  —Steve Leininger, Managing Partner, Thomas Wirig Doll

• Base Two Development, President 7/1988–11/1993.
  Created and marketed Spontaneous Assembly programming software. 20,000+ units sold from 1990 to 1993.
• Outbound Express, President 3/1991–11/1993.
  Provided fulfillment services including software duplication, inventory management, and shipping. A subsidiary of Base Two Development.
• WordPerfect Corporation, Corporate Committee Member 1984-1988.
  Key employee and member of the 13-member Corporate Committee that advised management on matters of corporate policy and strategic direction.
• Popular Demand, Inc., President 1/1985–12/1986.
  Developed and marketed the Repeat Performance keyboard accelerator, sold to WordPerfect Corp. in 1986.

Executive/Coaching, Management, Leadership, Business Process Analysis

Thirteen years of rapid results in executive management, business process analysis, technical project management, product management, and team management, including interim management. Six years as an executive/leadership coach empowering leaders from Fortune 100 firms to startups. Twenty-seven years of leadership, management, and teaching/training experience in non-profit organizations. Relies on a principle-based, shared-responsibility management approach that builds self-improving, motivated teams while training new leaders. Experienced in developing, training, inspiring, intervening, reforming, hiring, and disciplining employees and volunteers.

• CEO, Executive Coach, & Contract Executive, Priacta, Inc. 2006-Present.
  Established a new virtual company, oversaw software development efforts, assembled and trained new employees, and instigated systems, processes, and products to fulfill the company’s mission "to expedite the world’s work." Personally created measurable, life-changing change for thousands of clients worldwide through 1-1 coaching, training, and seminars. (Telecommuting.)

  “Exceptionally service oriented, Kevin took the time to ensure I got the results that were promised.”
  —Craig Kennedy, Manager

  “Kevin is an organization and time management Tsunami.”
  —Ed Wunder, IT Expert

• COO (Contract Executive), Thomas Wirig Doll 2010–2012.
  Created and trained an empowered, agile, and unified executive team, facilitated the full alignment of 9 partners, and transformed the organization into a process-oriented firm with a clear, inspiring Vision that accomplishes the company's strategic objectives. (80 employees, 22 hours/week, 3/4 telecommuting.)
  

  “The transformation has been magnificent.”
  —Steve Leininger, Managing Partner, Thomas Wirig Doll

• Senior Business Analyst (Senior Systems Analyst), EDS 10/2003–9/2006.
  In a leadership role with no formal authority and four competing supervisors, re-engineered business and technical processes in a large organization with outdated information systems. Established clear channels of communication, overcame resistance, and built consensus to implement major new changes in under five months. Used best principles from Theory of Constraints, TQM, and other proven methods. Responsible for all project management and requirements analysis.
  

  “Kevin defines what we look for in a team player, freely sharing his knowledge and teaching/guiding those who seek that same knowledge.... always thinking out of the box and infusing changes that benefit all the stakeholders.”
  —James T., Manager, Inventory Management

  “The volume of work that flows from his desk is extraordinary.... Through his leadership, the world of inventory control, requisitioning, and distribution has changed drastically for the users of the IT system.”
  —Joyce D., Development Team Lead

  “I've seen more change in the short time you've been here than in all the years before that.”
  —Kevin B., Senior Manager, Inventory Management

• Volunteer Leadership, LDS Church 9/1977–Present.
  Continuous volunteer service as president, counselor (equivalent to vice-president), clerk, executive secretary, and instructor in many organizations and church units. Fulfilled public speaking assignments, often with little advance notice. Trained and inspired new leaders and members to establish and meet goals in support of the church’s mission statement. Several newly-trained leaders moved on in a short time to fill positions of greater responsibility.
• Director of Development, NuAspect.com 7/1999–12/1999.
  Led a highly-effective, 100% telecommuting development team to create a database-intensive Web site in a short time, on a limited budget. Used distance interviewing and hiring to quickly recruit talent nationwide at minimal cost. (Telecommuting.)
• President, Base Two Development 7/1988–11/1993.
  Directed this software business from start-up to 32 employees, establishing teams in development, sales and marketing, operations, and accounting. Acted as product manager for Spontaneous Assembly, coordinating all marketing and development to create a cohesive product and marketing strategy.
• Director, OS/2 Development, WordPerfect Corp. 3/1988–7/1988.
  Selected by company management to establish and direct the first graphics-based word processing development effort at WordPerfect Corporation. (Resigned 7/1988 to create Base Two Development.)
• Manager, Printing Development, WordPerfect Corp. 1/1986–6/1988.
  Assembled and managed the team of ten programmers that pioneered the re-engineering of WordPerfect 4.1 to create WordPerfect 5.0.
  

  “The person most responsible for the way WordPerfect 5.0 turned out.”
  —Pete Peterson, Executive VP, WordPerfect Corp.

• Supervisor, WordPerfect Thesaurus, WordPerfect Corp. 4/1985–12/1985.
  Assembled and supervised a team of college students and professors to compile the WordPerfect Thesaurus, saving the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties.