Professional writer / editor – Business Plane Development – Organizational Development – New Business Development – Marketing/Sales – Team Building – Training – Coaching Negotiation – Author – Public Speaker
Management Executive with 19 Years’ experience working with start-ups, Fortune 500 Companies and everything in between. Developed strategic business plans for 13 start-up enterprises, Built the Mark Michaels Agency, a boutique advertising and marketing firm from $0 to over $4 Million in annual billings within 2 years. Authored numerous articles on inspiration vs motivation, sales and success and has been published in the following publications: The International Association of Financial Planners Magazine, This Week in Laguna, Washington State Bar news, the Oregon State Bar News, the Software Association of Oregon Magazine, Creative Training Newsletter, Broker Agent Magazine, CEO Refresher Newsletter and weLead Inc. for presidents & CEO’s.
Strengths:
Leadership – Turned around and reorganized InterComex, a national oil and gas partnership and increased monthly revenues from $3 Million to $5.5 Million in 3.5 months - 2002.
Team Working / Mastermind Groups – Originally developed for First Consumers National Bank in order to maintain their $42 Million dollar a month cash flow while they were going through turbulent times with Spiegel who bought the Credit Card Bank. Since then, The A-TEAMS MasterMind program has been used in Century 21 Real Estate Offices, RE MAX Real Estate Offices, Pitney Bowes Offices Systems and most recently (2008) with a group of independent business men and consultants for a period of 20 weeks.
Entrepreneur/Innovator – Founded Safeguard, Inc. (2003-2008). Wrote the business plan, presented to investors, re-engineered old patent and received new 20 year patent on new design. Hired the management team, conducted focus groups, developed an infomercial and created all the marketing and sales materials (see website and infomercial at www.safeguardventures.com).
Trainer / Developer – In addition to numerous sales and management training courses, developed a leading edge Continuing Legal Education Training Course entitled Empowering your Practice Without Stress for the Oregon State Bar Association 2008.
Speaker / Author – As an independent consultant through Michael R Shenker Associates (1992 – 2003), conducted public speaking engagements and workshops on how to build and manage successful companies. 2008 – 2009, Wrote the book, emPowerment: Creating Lives, Families and Organizations That ROCK! Through the book the reader is introduced to a new paradigm and exposed to concepts that make life a lot less stressful, much more enjoyable, and abundantly more plentiful. Edited the 1910 classic The Science of Getting Rich and brought it up to contemporary standards.
