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==Mission Statement==
== Diversity/Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==
 
 
 
=== Mission Statement ===
 
  
 
The Diversity/VoD bootboard's mission is helping one another get through the Valley of Death.  Diversity is a good thing, but we use it, rather than focus on it.
 
The Diversity/VoD bootboard's mission is helping one another get through the Valley of Death.  Diversity is a good thing, but we use it, rather than focus on it.
  
; Next meeting:
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== Facilitator ==
* August 4, 2006 from 2-5 PM
 
 
 
Please note that we have settled the current group. Other Boot Boards may form using the same processes and principles. We're happy to advise.
 
 
 
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== Facilitators ==
 
  
=== Michelle Ewalt ===
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Jeff Hotz
  
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition
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==Meetings==
  
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com
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==Members==
 
 
; Phone: 512.762.8568
 
; Company Size: 1 person
 
; Stage: Growth
 
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state
 
; Interested Categories:
 
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.
 
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.
 
# Transformational change
 
 
 
; Other Information:
 
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.
 
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change.
 
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.
 
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.
 
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer
 
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.
 
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.
 
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin
 
 
 
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=== Stan Tyler ===
 
=== Stan Tyler ===
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Revision as of 14:55, 11 May 2007

Mission Statement

The Diversity/VoD bootboard's mission is helping one another get through the Valley of Death. Diversity is a good thing, but we use it, rather than focus on it.

Facilitator

Jeff Hotz

Meetings

Members

Stan Tyler

Company
Champions Edge
Email
stan@champions-edge.com
Phone
512-289-0604
Company Size
2 founders
Stage
(Valley of Death)
Location
Lake Travis
Interested Categories
  1. Retention and referral development
  2. Web business development and operations assistance
  3. Contract relationship design and management - associates
Other Information
  • Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf
  • Learning from our granddaughters
  • Rowing
  • Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years


Members

[Sorted alphabetically by last name]

Chris Garrigues

Company
Trinsic Solutions
Email
cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com
Phone
512-322-0180
Company Size
Myself and a few contractors
Stage
Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)
Location
Central Austin (14th and West)
Interested Categories
  • B2B Marketing
  • Customer Satisfaction & Retention
  • Managing growth
  • Relationship-based businesses
Other Information
  • Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995
  • Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.
  • Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.
  • I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.

Ash Maurya

Company
WiredReach
Email
ash@wiredreach.com
Phone
214.914.8658
Company Size
5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]
Stage
Late Valley of Death
Location
Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas
Interested Categories
  • User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software
  • Collaboration Technology
  • Starting Up
Other Information

Mike O'Krent

Company
LifeStories Alive
Email
[1]
Phone
512-431-8166
Company Size
1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)
Stage
Valley of Death
Location
Round Rock
Interested Categories
  • Baby boomer target marketing
  • Personal Historian
  • Starting up

Tonja O'Neill

Company
Soverex
Email
tonja@soverex.com
Phone
512-257-2185
Company Size
Small
Stage
Valley of Death
Location
Northwest Austin
Interested Categories
  • Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business
  • Software / High-Tech Industry
  • Crisis Management

Nancy Schill

Company
Executive Intelligent Coaching
Email
[2]
Blog
[3]http://eicoachingblog.blogspot.com
Phone
512-947-5447
Company Size
1 person
Stage
Valley of Death
Location
Austin
Interested Categories
  • B2B marketing
  • sales techniques
  • sole proprietership business support
  • valley of death strategies


Other Information
  • Founder and Executive Coach
  • B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)
  • extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.
  • working with professionals and executives on:
    • professional growth strategy
    • strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices
    • emotional intelligence skills improvement
    • strengths development
    • organization and client communication
    • prioritizing demands for greater productivity
    • balancing priorities of work and personal life
    • improving team functioning

Dave Pinckney

Company
Egeria Design
Email
Egeria Design mailbox
Phone
512-833-8634
Company Size
Small
Stage
Valley of Death
Location
North Austin
Interested Categories
  • Managing virtual staff
  • Non-standard business models
  • Structures of financial transactions
Other Information

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