Don Blohowiak Clarifier. Catalyst. Coach.

Don is an ICF-certified coach who coaches individuals (especially executives, fast-rising managers and knowledge professionals) to help them:

Experience

· Don has held executive management posts in Southern California, Milwaukee, Denver, Detroit, and New York City. His management experience spans Fortune-500 companies, high-tech startups, and not-for-profits. As an executive in the most profitable unit of a Fortune-500 company, Don participated in planning, managing, and coping with the aftermath of multiple waves of restructuring. His company reduced its full-time employee count by 50% (yes, half!) in two years—while improving both customer satisfaction and employee morale.

· He assists a wide variety of organizations to develop their leaders.

· Don has served as an officer and board member of not-for-profit organizations.

Expertise

· Don is the author of six management books distributed around the world, and a contributor to others. Honors include being named “One of the Top 10 Management Books of the Year” by Industry Week, numerous executive endorsements, and translations into Chinese, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew.

	Don contributed the Best Practices in Leadership Development chapter in this internationally renowned business reference.

· Don was selected as one of 150 world-renowned business thought leaders (along with Daniel Goleman, Charles Handy, Warren Bennis, Philip Kotler, and Jim Collins) commissioned to provide essays for the landmark reference book on business and management, BUSINESS: The Ultimate Resource, with editions released in 2002 and 2006 by Perseus/Bloomsbury.

Don’s “best practices” essay focused on how to implement effective leadership development. The editors of this widely praised landmark work named Don's chapter as one of the best in the 2,000+ page work.

· His Special Report, Strategy: Simplified and Clarified, was an Amazon.com editor's pick and has been rated five-stars by Amazon.com readers.

· Don holds a graduate certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. He is an ICF-credentialed coach by the International Coach Federation, and he is at work on his Ph.D. in behavioral science.

· Don is a subject matter expert for the American Management Association on managerial trust, managerial coaching, and formal mentoring programs. Don also serves on AMA's faculty.

· Don is the award-winning leadership blogger for BNET.com. His writing on personal development appears on the Self-Development Network.

· Don's been the featured leadership columnist for the Manager's Edge newsletter published by the Briefings Group and was the founder and editor of The Productive Leader newsletter published by The Economics Press. Don also founded The Leader’s Letter, an electric newsletter on leadership and management productivity, and participated on The Panel of Experts for First-Rate Customer Service.

· Frequently quoted by the news media regarding employee motivation, productivity, and marketing success strategies, Don's media credits are quite extensive. They include Fox News Channel, USA Today, CNN, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, ABC Radio, Associated Press, Reuters, UPI, ABC Radio, Voice of America, National Productivity Review, Entrepreneur, Business Marketing, Incentive magazine, as well as other newspapers, broadcast stations, newsletters, professional and trade journals worldwide.

To get a broad sense of Don's thinking on the state of the business world, read the transcript of his interview with Reuters magazine for an article published in November 2002.

Extraordinary

· Exceptional Clients including: Johnson & Johnson, Honda, FedEx, AT&T, Motorola, United States Marine Corps, American Society of Association Executives, Publishers Clearing House, Thrifty Rental Car, Unilever, American Management Association, Inova Health System, Construction Financial Management Assn., Fleet Bank, Ameritech, Federal Life Insurance, Mail Advertising Services Assn., American Financial Services Assn., CUNA Mutual Insurance, Management Development Institute, Meeting Professionals International (U.S. & Europe), Consortium of Universities for International Business Studies, State of New Jersey, State of Delaware, US Customs Service, United Airlines, Cisco Systems, and many, many others.