Meet the Specialists
As you read the bios of our current Growth Curve Specialists, you’ll see a distinct pattern emerging: These are highly experienced, highly qualified successful business owners. Becoming a Growth Curve Specialist has a distinct competitive advantage in the very crowded industry of the business consultant.
Their experience in running and managing their own successful company for 5 + years, their experience in working with high level executive leaders in companies up to 500 + employees and their ability to engage a team of leaders and work through tough and challenging issues, combine to keep this community of certified Growth Curve Specialists selective, effective and competitive.
Here is the current roster of experienced, capable Growth Curve Specialists. Any of our Growth Curve Specialists would be happy to talk to you about the advantages they have received from becoming certified. Please feel free to email them with questions.
Murray Janewski, BComm, MBA
A Certified Growth Curve Specialist since 2009
Murray is a partner in ACT One International Corp. which he founded with his wife, Kim, in 2002, and is a Certified Growth Curve Specialist. With over 18 years of training, consulting and executive coaching experience, Murray has worked with hundreds of organizations across North America to increase productivity. Prior to the consulting and training business, he had a long and varied career in the oil and gas business with Amoco Canada.
His primary focus today is with helping leaders meet their challenges head-on, to grow their companies. From strategy to leadership competency to sales development, Murray has a keen insight to helping others.
Murray is a strong visionary and strategic thinker, a proven leader in business and the community, and a seasoned facilitator, speaker and author. His first book “Leadership Eh? How to Lead, Laugh & Win in the Game of Business & Life” has just been published in 2009. He has also been featured on CBC Radio, in the Calgary Herald, and has been published for articles on strategic alliances, sales leadership, and managing change.
Murray and Kim now reside in Calgary, Alberta, and have three grown children. Murray’s personal passions are camping, golfing, curling, music and writing.
murrayj@aoic.ca
ACT One International
murrayj@aoic.ca
Phone: 403-248-4599
Cell: 403-542-7056
Fax: 866-606-4705
www.aoic.ca
Rick Holbrook
Certifed Growth Curve Specialist since 2007
Richard (Rick) Holbrook started Renaissance EXECUTIVE FORUMS of Alberta in November 2004 and has established forum groups of business owners, entrepreneurs and top executives in the Calgary area. His forum groups serve businesses from diverse industry segments including manufacturing, consulting, construction, custom fabrication, service and financial services. Member companies range from 20 to 250 employees and include partnerships, private and public companies.
Members participate in either Top Executive or Management Team memberships, and have utilized the Renaissance EXECUTIVE FORUMS Performance Insights program to benchmark their performance against other top performing companies.
Rick has over 25 years industry experience in the contracting and capital equipment industry both with multi-national and Calgary founded, entrepreneurial led, businesses. He progressed to senior management and leadership roles with Toromont Process Systems and Enerflex Systems, two Calgary based companies which achieved high growth and success in his areas of responsibility. During his career Rick has had responsibility for sales, engineering, marketing and international business development. He has done business in more than 25 countries and has experienced first hand the challenges and opportunities faced by entrepreneurs and business owners as they grow and move their companies forward.
Rick lives in Calgary with his wife Jane and their three children. He is an avid sports fan and enjoys skiing and golf. He’s a keen student of business and enjoys travel and learning International cultures.
Renaissance Executive Forums of Alberta
rholbrook@executiveforumsAB.com
Phone: 403-255-3613
Cell: 403-620-6949
Fax: 403-249-6561
www.executiveforums.com
Sue Hansen
Certified Growth Curve Specialist since 2007
Sue Hansen is a national speaker, trainer and consultant, specializing in helping people become better people-it’s her mission and her passion. With an undergraduate degree in Psychology, post graduate work in business, certification as a behavioral analyst, a growth curve specialist and her many years experience in business ownership Sue’s clients have access to a broad and fresh perspective on issues facing the workforce and its’ leaders.
Sue’s consulting contracts put her in touch with leaders in a variety of industry sectors experiencing business challenges within their organizations that fall into 3 categories: people, profits and processes. Often, one of these gates of focus will cause chaos if not properly addressed. Successful executives must be able to balance the technical knowledge necessary to run a business with the emotional side of leadership that inspires and motivates others. Leaders may need to shift their focus-depending on the maturity of their company. Sue helps executives navigate these dynamics to position themselves as successful leaders running successful companies.
Sue and her husband are living their dream. Years ago, they decided that they would like to be in a position to care for their aging parents. In 1996 Sue and her husband purchased land in Colorado with enough space for both sets of parents. Sue lives her personal mission statement of “give more than you get every day” by giving to her family, volunteering and serving her community.
As a board member of the Black Canyon Foundation, Montrose Area Merchants Association and past board member of Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame and Black Canyon Boys and Girls Club, Sue believes in giving back to her community in a meaningful way. Other than her work-which she loves, Sue spends her time with her husband skiing, hiking, camping and hunting in the mountains of Colorado. She has 2 step-kids and 3 grand kids, all of whom make her life the best ever!
Sue is a member of the American Society of Training and Development and the National Speakers Association.
Sue Hansen Speaks
sue@suehansenspeaks.com
Phone: 888-673-1717
www.suehansenspeaks.com
Doug Wilkinson
Certified Growth Curve Specialist since 2008
Doug Wilkinson is the President of HR Systematics LLC. He is a certified Growth Curve Specialist and Business Psychologist with degrees in Electronics and Occupational Psychology. These disciplines have come together with the development of The Leadership Advantage and other on line assessment products.
During the past 30 years Doug has worked with a series of major multinational clients including BP, Ford, Glaxo Smith Kline, Kimberly Clark and the London Business School.
Doug has since moved on to develop management teams in business growth and merger situations and to provide executive coaching services. He continues to ‘punch above his weight’ in terms of client size, adding Hitachi, Marsh and Marriott to his portfolio.
Doug enjoys working with business owners and their management teams sharing many of the processes and disciplines that have helped his larger clients.
He has been a pioneer in the use of on line assessments in business growth and executive coaching situations and has developed and delivered several executive and talent management programmes.
Doug is fully accredited by the British Psychological Society to provide psychological assessment to senior managers.
Cell: 011 44 (0)7716 398 095
Phone: 011 44 (0)208 392 9221
Skype: Douglas.Wilkinson
Email: dougw@hrsystematics.com
Website: www.hrsystematics.com
Location: Richmond, London, United Kingdom
Tom Krekel
Certified Growth Curve Specialist since 2009
Tom Krekel’s business and leadership skills grew from more than 30 years as a top executive and business owner in the newspaper industry. He started his own company that published weekly newspapers in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The companies Tom ran ranged in employment from as few as seven to as many as 200.
In 2007, he left the newspaper industry to return to New Mexico, retiring as President of an Advance Publications company in New Jersey which published 20 newspapers with over 300,000 circulation.
For ten years, Tom participated as a CEO member in a peer advisory board in Milwaukee. That experience plus his special interest in small business development led to his interest in building Executive Forums in New Mexico.
He has been selected to leadership in state and national associations having been President of the Wisconsin Free Community Papers, and First Vice President of the national Association of Free Community Papers (AFCP). He was President of the 100 member Waukesha Rotary Club during his fifteen year tenure with that organization. He’s a past board member of both the Wisconsin and New Jersey State Press Associations.
The Wisconsin native earned a BA in journalism at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Tom received his MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
His interests include fitness, golf, and reading. He is a member of the Del Norte Rotary Club, The New Mexico Angels, Albuquerque Economic Development and The Executive Association of Greater Albuquerque.
Executive Forums on New Mexico
tkrekel@executiveforums.com
Phone: 505-858-2520
Fax: 505-213-0468
www.executiveforums.com
