Mickey Brown
Mickey has over 25 years experience in the organization development field in management and consulting for Fortune 500 corporations, not-for-profit hospital corporations, voluntary boards and executive search firms. As the organization development officer of a large corporation, she was responsible for executive recruitment, performance and development planning, management and skills training, meeting and event facilitation, corporate travel and flight, the design and management of two corporate conference centers, and executive coaching.
She is the principal of MBBrown & Associates which is a network of consultants with many different areas of expertise including marketing, public relations, finance and organization development.
Mickey holds Economics and Management degrees and an MBA from the University of Louisville. She is certified in Human Resources Consulting and the Training of Trainers and has completed the Organization Development Consulting track of the National Training Labs.
Her voluntary leadership experience and fundraising background is extensive. She is currently the Board Chair, Vision Council Chair and Education Council Chair of the United Way of Elgin. She is also a past president and current Board Member of the Barrington Newcomers and Neighbors Club. She is the immediate past president of the oldest charitable organization in Elgin, The Fideliter Club. Previously, in Louisville, she was the president of the high school board, the Chair of the board of the national Kidney Foundation of Kentucky, the Board Chair of the Louisville metropolitan area's emergency shelter for children and the state's only pediatric convalescent home, Home of the Innocents, and served on many fundraising event committees.
Availability: Conducts the Interview Workshop on Monday afternoons.
Thomas E. Cusick
Tom received his BS in Business Administration at Loyola University and his Juris Doctor of Laws at DePaul University. Tom’s early experience as an attorney included employment with the Cook County State’s Attorney in the felony trial division. He subsequently was employed as a staff attorney with both an insurance company and with the predecessor company to Exxon Mobil. During the last 30 years, Tom has been in private practice, handling Civil and Criminal litigation, Corporate, Family, Real Estate and Business Law matters. In addition, he currently serves as a chair qualified Arbitrator with both the Cook and Lake County Illinois Mandatory Arbitration Programs, which require that all civil cases at issue which are under $50,000 must be first subjected to the arbitration process for settlement purposes.
AVAILABILITY: Thursday afternoons in February and March.
Richard M. Holden
Rick has been a chief human resources executive for over 25 years in the manufacturing, distribution and service industries with companies ranging in size from $50m to $1.2b. As an independent consultant for the last ten years, Rick specializes in areas impacting employee and leadership performance as well as interim management for turnaround situations. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Carthage College.
Specifically, Rick has been trained in, developed and taught several programs and processes having practical applications to the job search process: targeted selection interviewing, behavioral interviewing, the Drake Beam Morin outplacement process, leadership, performance management, compensation, change & culture, workforce alignment, team development, communication, employee development stages, career directions, personality styles and high-valued employee retention.
Rick has interviewed thousands of applicants up to and including company officers. He developed and delivered in-house outplacement at two companies to help transition employees from discontinued operations. Rick has personally counseled many individuals in his role as CHRO and personally.
AVAILABILITY: Thursday mornings
Herb Lawrence
Herb has over 35 years experience in the fields of accounting, finance and information systems. He retired from UOP, a billion dollar of Allied Signal and Union Carbide, as its Chief Financial Officer. He has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a CPA. (Specialty Area: counting/Finance)
AVAILABILTY: Thursday afternoons, except February thru April
Annette Nelson
Annette is an experienced marketing executive, having held senior positions with national associations in the professional, trade, and policy arenas, including the American Bar Association (serving the legal profession), the National Conference of State Legislatures (serving the state legislative policymakers and staff), and the American Water Works Association (serving the clean water supply industry). Currently Principal of Annette Nelson Consulting (An Affiliate of the Chatfield Group), her key areas of expertise include enhancement of dues and non-dues sources of revenues, improving customer service, managing organizational change, increasing operational efficiencies, and strategic planning. Annette holds a B.A. in Public Relations from Purdue University and an M.A. in Advertising from Michigan State University, and is a Juran Institute trained facilitator in organizational change initiatives. (Specialty Areas: Nonprofit Marketing and Management, Change Management, Strategic Planning).
AVAILABILITY: Monday evenings
Philip Roussel
Philip is a management consultant and spent most of his career as a Principal with A.T. Kearney and Partner with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). His areas of consulting expertise include market analysis and business strategy development; sales and distribution channel effectiveness; business transformation and organization design; international development and globalization; and acquisition due diligence and post merger integration. His clients include companies in the general industrial, construction equipment, food, pharmaceutical, retail, marketing services, health and beauty, railroad, and tourism industries. Although based in Chicago for 30 years, he has consulted throughout the U.S. and Europe, as well as, in Mexico, South America, Asia and the Middle East. Philip has a M.A. from Cambridge University in England.
AVAILABILITY: Monday Mornings
Frank Sevilla
Frank has 35 years of international, senior management experience. He has held the positions of Group Treasurer for international, multi-billion dollar conglomerates involved in the business of finance, agriculture, manufacturing, refining and property development as well as Assistant Regional Treasurer Asia Pacific for a major British bank. He has been a member of the Executive, Risk Management and Credit Committees in various firms. Currently he is a Financial Advisor for a major brokerage firm helping his clients preserve and grow their net worth utilizing a four step approach of goal identification, plan creation, plan implementation and plan monitoring. In 1992, he joined the Holy Family Job Support Group when he was downsized and has been an active mentor of the group since then. AVAILABILITY - Wednesday afternoons
Rob Strickland - Rob has over 23 years experience in management and business development having served as a General Manager/Corporate Executive of several international businesses before launching his own consulting company in 1996. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.S. in Economics and Business. His goals are to assist people in achieving their dreams of self reliance and business ownership as an alternative to traditional corporate employment. He currently serves as a coach with The Entrepreneur's Source. Exclusively for members interested in starting their own business.
AVAILALBILITY: Friday mornings, every other week
Alan Teraji
Alan was formerly Senior Executive Vice President and Manager of the Wealth Management Group at First American Bank. Alan has over 28 years of broad management experience in the bank, wealth management, trust and investment management business. Alan has a BA from the University of Illinois and his JD and LLM in Taxation from DePaul University.
AVAILABILITY: Monday Evenings
Frank Todd
Frank was formerly Vice-President/General Manager at Motorola for a distribution division that designed, sold, and serviced Land Mobile Products systems, such as the $187M statewide police communications system to the State of Michigan. He has served as an employment supervisor for Hammermill Paper Co., a personnel psychologist in the US Army, and has held various sales and product management positions for Motorola during his 34-year career. (Specialty Areas: Sales, Marketing, Management)
AVAILABILITY: Monday Afternoons, except February and March
Ana M. Trbojevich, MSOD
Ana is a bilingual learning and development professional with a talent management background. Born in Argentina has lived in the United States for the past 32 years and trains in both English and Spanish. She has conducted needs assessment and leadership training for managers in the United States, Central America, Caribbean, and South America. Ana brings a multicultural perspective to her training and development and has over 23 years of human resources generalist (supporting a staff of 500 employees), staffing and learning and development experience, most of which was built at American Hospital Supply and Baxter Healthcare Corporation. She has held both corporate and divisional assignments where worked on HR initiatives building Baxter’s staffing pipeline across multiple functions.
Ana’s client list is comprised of companies across multiple industries including: Hausner Hard Chrome, Metaldyne, Echo International, Deerfield Bakery, Old Second Bank, Akzo Nobel Aerospace, Serta, Sysco, Harper College for Business, and CLC, among others.
Certification: Achieve Global™, Langevin Instructional Design, DDI Development Dimensions International™, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People®, Career Coaching Institute (certification in progress)
Education: Master of Science in Organization Development
Bachelor of Business Administration from Loyola University Chicago
Affiliation: Active member of ASTD Workplace Learning and Performance, NAWBO National Association of Women Business Owners and SHRM Society of Human Resources Management.
Practice Areas: Managing Others More Effectively, New Supervisor Training, Employees On-Boarding, Workforce Development, Leadership Development, and Spanish language for professionals focusing on job-specific settings.
AVAILABILITY: Every other Friday morning starting September 17, 2010.
Jim Zalesky
Jim has over 35 years of broad management experience in the securities, futures and options industry. He has served as the president of an international futures firm, COO of a software firm, and retired as an Executive Vice President of The Options Clearing Corporation. Over the years, he has been involved in career planning and mentoring of many individuals, helping them identify and prioritize long-term goals and objectives.
AVAILABILITY: Conducts the Interview Workshop on Monday afternoons.
Bill Zeplin
Following a career in consumer products, Bill has for the past 13 years been associated with the Career Center as a job advisor and board member. His experience is heavily weighted in the executive sales and marketing management arena. For 20 years, he managed a $225-$275 million sales division spanning the entire United States with over 200 full and part-time employees. His most current senior management experience involved training and development department, strategic resource products, information systems development, TQM projects, “WORKOUT”-corporate employee efficiency and productivity plan, and cross functional work team development plan. (Specialty Areas: Sales, Marketing, and Management)
AVAILABILITY: Tuesday afternoons
